"To anoint their eyes with the oil of gladness." Gladness is the heritage of the young - the playfulness of existence - and is the usual accompaniment of innocent childlike natures. Nature, physical nature, is playful because of the very boon of life.

Mirth may be innocent, or it may be the false excitement of overindulgence.

Between the rippling laughter of childhood and youth and the distorted mirth of the debauchee or reveler, is an impassable gulf.

There are, however, those who walk the Earth bearing the "Light of Joy, perfect, untrammeled, yet without noise or loud acclaim, since true Joy is born of perfect victory over Sorrow, is the calmness of perfect triumph over human grief or pain. Such a life may enter the world through a lowly household, or may come into the more sorrowful family in a palace. The mission is always the same: to bring joy, or the atmosphere of its presence, into the lives of those who need its ministration, yet know not what it is.

The home thus blessed becomes imbued with the lightness and brightness of the Embodied Joy, and while there are states of sorrow and sordid bitterness that would rum away in envy and hatred from such a presence, most people would feel the blessing, and blessedness of such a presence in the family, the neighborhood, and in the larger sphere wherever the life might move.

Such lives show that while usually human existence is through the waters of sorrow, the valley of tears, there is finally a state when laughter is no longer stifled with a sigh, and a smile no longer is drowned in tears. Ah, when a sad, lonely life is thus visited even if but for an hour by the ministering one, how the shadows are lifted! how the burdens fall away 1 and something akin to peace rests upon the erstwhile weary heart I

Human beings seeking happiness in the halls of pleasure, - through the senses alone, - even though the love of the beautiful and much of art is included, - will look in vain for this presence, - this Joy-Angel. Halls of revelry and midnight gaiety will not possess this surpassing guest. But one with insight or illumined vision might behold the visitant beside some lone watcher where sickness and the Death-Angel hover; or where some heart robbed of its dearest hopes (seemingly) by falsehood and betrayal, could find no comfort or assuagement of its grief; or when calamity overtaking a town or a nation, seemed to leave no hope for what life might bring, there, with a kindred Angel, Charity, Joy will often be found, kneeling beside Faith and Hope and bringing smiles even amid the tears and pain.

So akin is this Angel to human hearts, so do people long for and pursue "happiness," that this presence is a promise for all the world: Such time as the pursuit for Selfish happiness ends.

The "joy that cometh in the morning" is after the night of sorrow; for it must be borne in mind, as it is in the Spirit, that grief, sorrow, suffering, pain, all human conditions that are born of the earthly estate, are to be overcome; not only by the knowledge that will enable humanity to conquer human ills, but by the triumph of the Spirit from within the Soul over the state that requires or needs pain to bring knowledge. All these things are not known to the average human lives when the Angel of Joy appears embodied in their midst.

Angels Of Love

"A new Commandment I give unto you: that Ye Love one another."

"Love is the fulfilling of the law."

Sympathy - Benevolence - Charity in their truest sense are but Synonyms of Love.

This Divine attribute is the highest in the Ideal Spiritual Kingdom of Life.