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pedagogues, are by reason of their office, angel guardians. Behold then the vast array of visible and invisible forces God has marshalled in the cause of righteousness and our soul's salvation! How happens it, you ask, that, notwithstanding, many souls are lost? Ah, the devil has his angels too, and he hath given them charge over us, to drag us down, if possible, into sin and hell. Angels of darkness invisible and visible too, for every foul blasphemer and perverter of mankind is Satan's accredited agent, even though he believes and tries to prove that devils do not exist. God in His wisdom permits such things to be to prove us and enhance our heavenly reward. But while He merely tolerates the devil and his works, the whole activity of the guardian angels is by God's express command. Not but that the angels are right eager for the work, for loving God, they love God's images, our souls, for whom He died, and ardently desiring our salvation, they closely guard us in all our ways. Along the steep and rocky path of life, by awful precipices and over yawning chasms, up the narrow way of virtue, they lead us heavenward. Ah, how many times we have stumbled, aye, and fallen! How often had our fall been final were not God's sweet angel there to lend a helping hand! The way of life is hard, and for the most part tiresome, but for the just man doubly so. The wicked ship their oars and give themselves to carousal and debauch while drifting toward the cataract, but the virtuous must pull up-stream and strain incessantly. There is no pause or break in our life's