The Dying Child and his Guardian Angel

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The only child of a poor woman, a little boy of three years old, one day fell into a fire by accident, during his mother’s absence from the cottage, and was so badly burned that he died after a few hours’ suffering. The clergyman of the parish did not hear of the accident until the child was gone; but as soon as he knew of it, he went down to see the mother, who was known to be dotingly fond of the child, in order that he might comfort and console her. To his great surprise, he found her very calm, and patient, and resigned. After a little conversation, she told him how that God had sent her wonderful comfort. She had been weeping bitterly as she knelt beside her child’s cot, when suddenly the boy exclaimed, ‘Mother, don’t you see the beautiful man who is standing there and waiting for me!’ Again and again the child persisted in saying that ‘the beautiful man’ was waiting for him; and seemed ready and even anxious to go to him. And, as a natural consequence, the mother’s heart was strangely cheered. She told her clergyman that she thought it must have been the Lord Jesus Himself; but he reminded her that it was more probably one of His heavenly host, seeing that we have our Blessed Lord’s own warrant for believing that the angels in heaven care for, and wait upon, and minister unto Christ’s little ones below.

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