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No sugar coating things in 1895.

128 pages of mostly sadness. Death of children is too much to take. Hunger and extreme poverty. The last poem almost broke me. From my dear friend Mary T: Yes, I can only imagine. But I guess the point is that God is present even in the most difficult of circumstances. -page 128

I’ll Never Steak Again - If Father Kills Me For It.

Extremely depressing story. Poor boy! He found religion and learned that stealing is bad. Dad beats him because now there is no money at all. Boy dies just before he is rescued. -p113

New Shoes

Little boy want new shoes to wear to the picnic because “all the other chaps wear shoes”. Breaks a jug because his mom said: had gone into that black jug, and that lots of other things had gone into it, too - coats and hats and bread and meat and things- Turns out it was his father’s liquor jug! “I’m sorry I broke your jug, father. ... father rehabilitates and learns the ways...

The Little Swiss Girl, Who died to Save Her Father’s Life

Very sad. She intentionally slipped to her death after making her father promise that if she died, he would follow Jesus.

Does This Railroad Lead to Heaven?

A child, very sick on the train asks the conductor if the train goes to Heaven. Her mother, now dead, used to sing to her about a train to Heaven. Child tells the conductor that she will take a message to his dead daughter. The conductor and his wife want to adopt this sick child. The child died three days later and without any apparent disease. Thought to be an Angel.

The ConvertedI Infidel

The children and mother believe in God. They pray for him. Dad hears their prayers and is so touched that he prays to believe in God. The entire family is saved as Christians.