I once heard actor Mickey Rooney tell about an experience he had before he became a Christian. He was enteraining at a hotel in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, and when he went down to breakfast one morning a busboy with long golden hair and wearing a white jacket suddenly walked up to Rooney’s table. Without introducing himself, the young man said: “Mr. Rooney, I want you to know how much Jesus Christ loves you.” With that, the busboy disappeared.
When Rooney went to pay his breakfast check, he inquired of the lady at the cash register about the busboy with the golden hair because, Rooney said, he wanted to talk to the boy. But the cashier said no such person worked there. Mickey Rooney went on to say to millions of people watching by television that he believes it was an angel who appeared to him.
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J. B. Fowler, Jr., “Illustrating Great Words of the New Testament” (Nashville: Broadman Press, 1991), p. 15.