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 THE SONG OF THE ANGELS. 247 But if you will repent and believe, as Alfred did, and seek the forgiveness of your heavenly Father, then that good and great God will forgive you, and that dear Saviour that died for you, will wash you in his own precious blood, and the Holy Spirit will teach you and lead you in the way of righteousness, and the angels of God will rejoice over you because a sin- ner has repented. They will become ministering spirits to you here below, and, finally, when you come to die, they will stoop and bear your soul on their golden wings, and waft it singing and rejoicing into Digitized by Google