to the astonishment of all beholders the little fellow was seen running after the train safe and sound.
Q. Were the angels created for any other purpose?
A. The angels were also created to assist before the throne of God and to minister unto Him; they have often been sent as messengers from God to man; and are also appointed our guardians.
The School Children out in a Storm
Children are often favored by the miraculous protection of their guardian angels. In the year 1890 the children of a village school near Keichenberg in Bohemia were taken on an excursion into the woods for a treat. While they were at play a heavy storm came up and the rain came pelting down. A party of children — thirty-one in number — sought shelter under a gigantic fir tree. All at once one of them — a little girl — felt irresistibly urged to leave the shelter of that tree; she ran away, dragging two or three others with her, while the remainder followed of their own accord. They had scarcely got a few feet from the tree when it was struck by lightning, and torn asunder with a terrific crash. Singularly enough, the tree thus struck formed a kind of cross. The parents of the children piously ascribed their rescue from death to the kind protection of their guardian angels, and out of gratitude they erected a cross on the spot where the tree had stood.
(This incident is recorded in the Reichenberger Zeitung of 17th of May, 1890.)
