There is an interesting story behind the hymn "Ten Thousand Angels".  "Ray Overholt was at the height of his show-business career when he wrote this song in 1958.  But he felt something was missing.  He told his wife he was going to change.  He tells what happened next:

"I opened the Bible.  I knew a little about it from my Mom.  I began to read how Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane told Peter to put away his sword.  Jesus told Peter that he could ask his Father and he would send twelve legions of angels.  I didn't know at the time that would have been more than 72,000 angels.  (Mathew 26:53)

I thought a good title for a song would be "He Could Have Called Ten Thousand Angels."  The more I read about Jesus, the more I admired him for what He had done.

I was playing in a nightclub in Battle Creek, Michigan, when the Lord impressed me to write the song.  I wrote the first verse and put it in my guitar case.  I then told the club I was quitting."

Ray finished the song and published it.  Sometime later, he was invited to sing in a little church.  After he sang   this song, the preacher  spoke a message that gripped his heart.  He knew he needed Christ.  So he knelt there and accepted the One whom he had been singing and writing about.