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I. GOD HAS ANGELS AT HIS COMMAND.

1. Spiritual existences.

2. Full of vitality.

3. Mighty in power.

4. Rich in knowledge.

5. Countless in number.

6. Vast in variety.Spirits differ from spirits as plant from plant, star from star. They differ in nature, in the kind and measure of faculty. In experience. Some are older and more intelligent than others. In office. From Gabriel, who "stands in the presence of God," down to that spirit next in degree to man. There are principalities and powers amongst them.

II. GOD EMPLOYS HIS ANGELS TO HELP GOOD MEN ON EARTH.

1. Human life has many "ways." There is the way of the boy, the way of the man, the way of the husband, the way of the father, the way of the merchant, the citizen, the statesman.

2. These "ways" are perilous. There are stumbling-stones at every step; temptations to infidelity, insensibility, dishonesty, falsehood, revenge, etc.

3. God sends His angels to help the good in all these "ways." They impart —

(1)  Sustaining power.

(2)  Conquering power.

III. CONCLUSION. If angels are thus engaged in helping good men on earth, the following things may be inferred: —

1. That there must be some method by which they can communicate with man. What is this method? What is that which is the great sustaining and conquering power in man? Thought. Thought makes the man. May not angels have the power of suggesting thoughts — strengthening and all-conquering thoughts?

2. That the spiritual interests of man must be supremely important.

3. That it is consonant with the highest dignity to minister to the lowly.

4. That it is a profound disgrace to man that he should feel so little interest in the spiritual concerns of his brother. If angels are thus concerned for us, should we not be doubly so for ourselves?

5. That the humblest Christians may take courage.

(Homilist.)

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KJV: For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.

WEB: For he will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you in all your ways.