Guardian angel serve as an Hypothesis to salve many doubts, whereof common Philosophy affordeth no solution: By the 19th century, the guardian angel was no longer viewed in Anglophone lands as an intercessory figure, but rather as a force protecting the believer from performing sin. A parody appears in Byron's "Don Juan": "Her guardian angel had given up his garrison" (Canto I, xvii). Clarence Odbody, the guardian angel in the 1946 film "It's a Wonderful Life", "earned his wings" through bringing awareness that life was worth living to the film's protagonist, George Bailey. Guardian angel A guardian angel is an angel that
George S. Benson George S. Benson George Stuart Benson (September 26, 1898, Dewey County, Oklahoma – December 15, 1991, Searcy, Arkansas) was a missionary to China, 1925–36; founder and principal, Canton Bible School, 1933–1936; president, Harding College, 1936–1965; chancellor, Oklahoma Christian University, 1956-1967. Graduated in first class of Harper College, 1923; B.A., Harding College, 1925; B.S., Oklahoma A&M University, 1925; M.A., University of Chicago, 1931. He received several honorary doctorates including those from Harding University, 1932; Knox College (Illinois), 1948; and Oklahoma Christian University, 1968. George S. Benson started his career of religious and political education as a missionary to what is now