Part 15 (2/2)
”Of course the devil is an angel,” said Maggie, glad to trip up her big brother, ”but he is a bad one.”
”I say yet that there were angels with our Lord after His forty days'
fast,” insisted James.
”So I say, too,” retorted Maggie; ”but while only one _bad angel_ tempted our Lord, many good angels came to minister unto Him.”
”Very well, indeed,” said Father Kennedy. ”But let's hurry over some other points about the angels. Your turn; Master James, and give only the place and person in each case.”
”Well, let me see; there were Abraham and the three angels who went to Sodom, and the angels who beat the man that wanted to steal money from the temple, and the angel who took Tobias on a long journey.”
”Please, Father Kennedy, wasn't it an _Archangel?_” inquired Maggie, still determined to surpa.s.s her brother.
”Never mind that,” said the priest. ”Go on, James; 'twill be Maggie's turn soon.”
”Well, there was an angel in the Garden of Olives, and angels at the Resurrection of our Lord, and angels at His Ascension.”
Here Maggie exclaimed, ”Please, Father Kennedy, may I have till next Sunday to search out some angels? James has taken all mine.”
”No,” mildly said the delighted clergyman, ”_your _angel is always with you, and James has his, too.”
”Father Kennedy, there's a man dying in the block behind the church,”
said the servant from the half-open parlor door. ”Excuse my coming in without knocking. They're in a great hurry.”
”Good night, children,” said the devoted priest, ”till next Sunday. May your angels watch over you in the meantime.”
ARCHANGEL ([:a]rk [=a]n' j[)e]l), a chief angel.
ARCHBISHOP ([:a]rch bish' [)u]p), a chief bishop.
ARCH, as a prefix, means _chief_, and in nearly every case the _ch_ is soft, as in archbishop. In archangel, architect, and in one or two other words, the _ch = k._
ARCH, as a suffix, is p.r.o.nounced _[:a]rk_, and means _ruler; _ as monarch, a _sole ruler;_ one who _rules alone._
Make a list of all the words of the Lesson that are contractions. Write after each what it is a contraction of.
EARTHWARD = earth + ward (w[~e]rd). _ward_ is here a suffix meaning _course, direction to, motion towards._ Add this SUFFIX to the end of each of the following words, and tell the meaning of each new word formed:
up, sea, back, down, east, west, land, earth.
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