Angel Ministry

The assurance of angel helpers cooperating in ministry to the sick is no farfetched idea. Workers at one institution, the Shanghai (China) Sanitarium, told of a Chinese woman patient who had been studying the Christian faith with believing heart. She underwent a serious operation, from which it seemed impossible for her to rally. Her life was fluttering out. In the extremity, the staff knelt by her bed in earnest prayer. At once the turn came, the patient revived, and recovery proceeded well.SPIAM 90.5

At the moment of prayer the non-Christian servant of this Chinese lady fled from the room as if in fear. She would not tell what had affrighted her. But later, as this servant was looking at a Christian book, she saw a picture of an angel, with wings outspread.SPIAM 91.1

“There it is,” the servant cried. “That is what I saw when they prayed for my mistress. A being just like this came into the room and touched her as she lay on the bed. That is what frightened me.”SPIAM 91.2

“There is a balm in Gilead,
To make the wounded whole;
There is a balm in Gilead,
To heal the sin-sick soul.”SPIAM 91.3

In this gospel ministry for sin-sick souls and suffering bodies, angels from heaven join in the work. The advent movement came in response to the foretellings of prophecy, and the living God is leading the work.SPIAM 91.4