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the window in an unnatural and unaccountable
manner, the like of which in all his experience he
had never seen before, so that the corner in which
the child lay was wholly untouched, although the
very rafters of the fragment of floor on which his
little crib stood w^ere half burnt away. The child
was naturally very much terrified, but the fireman

•distinctly and repeatedly declared that as at great
.risk he made his way towards him he saw a form
like an Angel—here his exact words are given—a
something "all gloriously white andsilvery, bend'

•ing over the bed and smoothing down the counter-
.pane.^ He could not possibly have made any
mistake about it, he said, for it was visible in

•a glare of light for some moments, and in fact,
disappeared only when he was within a few
feet of it.

An.Q^her^ curious feature of thisstory jsihat the
child's mother found herself unable to sleep that
night down at .Colchester, J?u^^^^^^^^ ^ constantly
harassed by a ^tcongrieeliug^^^ was
wrong with her chHd^^^^^^^^^m last she
was compelled to rise and spend some time in
earnest prayer that the little one might be protected
from the danger which she instinctively felt to be
hanging over him^ The intervention was thus
'evidently what a Christian would call an answer to -y
Jprayer;^i Theosophist, putting the same idea in