“For He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.”
ANNIE was a very timid little girl. She did not like to be left alone in a dark room, and sometimes at night, when the wind blew very hard, she would wake up, and feel very much frightened.
One day, after she had asked God to take care of her, her mamma lifted her in bed, and after giving her a good-night kiss, was just leaving the room, when she heard little Annie say, very softly, “Mamma!”
She went back to her little girl’s bedside to see what she wanted. O Mamma!” said little Annie, “I am so afraid! I hear such strange noises, and the windows rattle so.”
“Why, it is the wind blowing down the chimney that you hear,” said her mamma, “and it blows the windows too. I will try and fasten them more tightly.”
Then she put some little wooden wedges in the windows, so they did not rattle any more, and then, sitting down by little Annie’s bed, she said:—
“You don’t feel afraid darling now; when I am with you, do you?”
“Oh! no, Mamma; I do not mind the noise, or feel afraid of anything when you are here.”
“And yet, Annie, your Heavenly Father can take better care of you than I can, and He is with you all the time. I will teach you a beautiful verse from the Bible, for whenever you feel afraid: ‘He shall give His angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up, in their hands, lest, thou dash, thy foot against a stone!’ And now I want my little girl to say the verse once more, that she may remember it as long as she lives.”
Annie repeated it several times, and then she said: “Now, Mamma, you may go downstairs. I shall not be afraid anymore.”
So her mamma kissed her and went away, and little Annie closed her eyes and went to sleep, saying “God’s angels will take care of me.”
“To which of the angels said he at any time. Sit on My right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool?
ML 11/20/1904