Are You an Angel?

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jan 21, 1913

Are You an Angel?

ONE day a ragged little fellow, about ten years old, was standing before a shoe store in Broadway, bare-footed, peering through the window and shivering with cold. A lady riding up the street in a beautiful carriage, observed the forlorn little lad, and immediately ordered her driver to stop in front of the store. The lady, richly robed, went to the boy and said:

“Little boy, why are you looking so earnestly in that window?”

“I was just asking God to give me a pair of shoes. Mama told me p’r’aps He would if I asked Him,” was the reply.

The lady took him by the hand and went into the store and asked the proprietor if he would allow one of his clerks to go and buy her a half dozen pairs of stockings. The proprietor cheerfully assented. She then asked him if he could give her a basin of water and a towel, and he replied, “Certainly,” and quickly brought them to her.

She took the little fellow to the back part of the store, and, removing her gloves, washed and rubbed those cold little feet and dried them with the towel.

By this time the young man had returned with the stockings. Placing a pair on the boy’s feet, she purchased and gave him a pair of shoes. Then she tied up the remaining pairs of stockings, handed them to him, and, patting him on the hand, she smiled and said: “Now, my little fellow, you feel more comfortable, I’m sure.”

As she turned to go, the astonished lad caught her hand, and, looking up into her face, eagerly exclaimed, “Are you an angel?”—Christian Herald.

And she was, God’s messenger of mercy to that little lad.