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Entertainers Roy and Dale Evans Rogers were thrilled when their little daughter Robin was born. But their excitement turned to concern when they were informed that Robin was born with Down's Syndrome and advised to "put her away." The Rogers ignored such talk and instead kept Robin, and she graced their home for two and a half years. Though Robin's time on earth was short, she changed her parents' lives and even made life better for other children born with special needs in the years to come. Angel Unaware is Robin's account of her life as she looks down from heaven. As she speaks to God about the mission of love she just completed on earth, the reader sees how she brought her parents closer to God and encouraged them to help other children in need. This book, which changed the way America treated children with special needs, is now available to a new generation. It is the perfect gift for parents of special needs children, parents grieving the death of a child, or anyone whose life has been touched by a special child.

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Publié par	Baker Publishing Group
Date de parution	01 février 2004
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781585581351
Langue	English

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© 1953, 1981 by Dale Evans Rogers
Published by Revell a division of Baker Publishing Group P.O. Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516-6287 www.revellbooks.com
Fiftieth Anniversary Edition published in 2004
Ebook edition created 2013
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means for example, electronic, photocopy, recording without the prior written permission of the publisher. The only exception is brief quotations in printed reviews.
ISBN 978-1-58558-135-1
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on file at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture is taken from the King James Version of the Bible.
The song “There’ll Be Peace in the Valley” is copyright © 1939 by Hill & Range Songs, Inc. Copyright Renewed, assigned to Unichappell Music, Inc. (Rightsong Music, Publisher). International Copyright Secured. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Foreword
Preface
Angel Unaware
Foreword
By Norman Vincent Peale
My daughter Elizabeth and I had been all-out fans of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans long before we knew them as personal friends. We loved their movie and TV adventures, but that wasn’t all; we sensed something fine and wholesome in what they said and did, in their dynamic personalities, in the radiant joy and lovable humility that is so much a part of them.
Then they started coming to New York for their rodeo in Madison Square Garden, and every Sunday morning I saw them in my congregation at Marble Collegiate Church. We returned the compliment by attending the rodeo. We were thrilled as they raced about the arena and as Roy sang “Peace in the Valley” a song that is half ballad and half hymn. But we were moved deeply when he said to the youngsters in his “congregation,” “I hear some kid says it is sissy stuff to go to Sunday school. Don’t you believe him. Sunday school is for he-men.” The awe with which the children accepted this convinced me that cowboys are often more effective preachers than the preachers themselves.
Their business is entertainment; their purpose is to speak for God in their daily work. By their words, their kindliness, their uprightness, and their love of people, they turn the minds of everyone they meet to God a rare and beautiful accomplishment in our kind of world!
Dale Evans does just that in this little book. She is a mother who has won great victory over great sorrow. When she first told me the story you will read here, I realized that I was hearing of an amazing experience and standing in the presence of a great soul. I saw at once that Robin, her baby, had not lived and died in vain. Where most babies die and leave the mother crushed, Robin put on immortality and her mother found the very joy of God in what might otherwise have been an overwhelming tragedy.
The sweetness, the touching humor, and spiritual understanding with which little Robin Rogers talks with God in this book will comfort and strengthen all who read it, as they did me when I read the manuscript through misty eyes.
This is one book I’ll never forget.
Norman Vincent Peale, 1953
Preface

When I was in high school I dreamed of being a writer, as English, Grammar, and Composition were my favorite subjects. Little did I realize that my writing career would be forged in the crucible of tragedy.
On August 26, 1950, my husband, Roy Rogers, and I became the parents of a baby girl, Robin Elizabeth, who was called “Little Angel” by her daddy. Had we not been committed Christians when told she had Down’s syndrome and would be mentally handicapped, the news would have totally destroyed us, since we are quite vulnerable to the needs of children.
When advised to put our Robin in a foster home, one that understood the plight of the Down’s syndrome child, Roy said, “We are taking our baby home. God has a purpose for allowing this, and if we put her away, we will never know it.” As for myself, I could not imagine putting away any child of mine.
Romans 8:28 declares, “All things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.”
How I thank our God for the two years he let us minister to our little angel, for she really was the “cementer” of our Christian commitment.
In the ensuing years since this little epistle of love was published, Robin has spread her wings in an amazing way. Prior to the advent of her little book, children with Down’s syndrome were seldom, if ever, seen in public by curious eyes. Six months after Fleming H. Revell published Angel Unaware , these little children, by the score, were brought to theaters where we appeared to see us. We saw them in the crowds of parade spectators, in stores in many public places. Churches began Sunday school classes for these special little ones, who have been called “those nearest to the heart of God.” Grants were made for college and university scholarships in special education. Public schools were permitted to have special classrooms for those considered educable. Medical science has taken a fresh look at options for treating these children at birth, to help them get a better start. Then along came the Special Olympics a beautiful blessing for these children and their parents. Indeed, we appreciate the confidence God placed in us, to send Robin our way. Every time I see a Down’s syndrome child at work in school, sheltered workshops, or in routine jobs offered in many organizations, I can almost see Robin’s beautiful, beautiful smile….
My heartfelt appreciation to the late, beloved Dr. Frank S. Mead for his superb editing of material that tumbled onto notebooks, newspaper margins, the backs of radio scripts from the very full heart of a loving, grieving mother. This book was started just two days after Robin’s funeral by the urgent prodding of God….
My thanks to Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, who was kind enough to write the original foreword, and to the Fleming H. Revell Company, which dared to take on a subject no other publisher would touch with a ten-foot pole. Over a million copies have been sold since the spring of 1952, and I pray it will go on and on as long as the “angels unaware” visit this vale of tears.
Sincerely,
Dale Evans Rogers , 1981

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