From these Scriptural statements we infer that all free creatures pass through a period of probation; that probation does not necessarily involve a fall; that there is possible a sinless development of moral beings. Other Scriptures seem to intimate that the revelation of God in Christ is an object of interest and wonder to other orders of intelligence than our own; that they are drawn in Christ more closely to God and to us; in short, that they are confirmed in their integrity by the cross. See _1 Pet. 1:12_—“_which things angels desire to look into_”; _Eph. 3:10_—“_that now unto the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places might be made known through the church the manifold wisdom of God_”; _Col. 1:20_—“_through him to reconcile all things unto himself ... whether things upon the earth, or things in the heavens_”; _Eph. 1:10_—“_to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things upon the earth_”—“the unification of the whole universe in Christ as the divine centre.... The great system is a harp all whose strings are in tune but one, and that one jarring string makes discord throughout the whole. The whole universe shall feel the influence, and shall be reduced to harmony, when that one string, the world in which we live, shall be put in tune by the hand of love and mercy”—freely quoted from Leitch, God’s Glory in the Heavens, 327-330. It is not impossible that God is using this earth as a breeding-ground from which to populate the universe. Mark Hopkins, Life, 317—“While there shall be gathered at last and preserved, as Paul says, a holy church, and every man shall be perfect and the church shall be spotless.... there will be other forms of perfection in other departments of the universe. And when the great day of restitution shall come and God shall vindicate his government, there may be seen to be coming in from other departments of the universe a long procession of angelic forms, great white legions from Sirius, from Arcturus and the chambers of the South, gathering around the throne of God and that centre around which the universe revolves.” 4. As to their employments. A. The employments of good angels. (_a_) They stand in the presence of God and worship him.