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A Boy's Prayer

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Parent Issue
Day
11
Month
October
Year
1878
Copyright
Public Domain
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At Holyoke, Mass., two little. boys were rrested for stripping the lcaves from tbo trees in the park. Socm after llu.v had hoen locked lip au officer Ih'üviI tlieir voices and peeped into the cel!. Bofh of the chjldren wcro down on theiv kncos, witb their hands clasped and teara running down their checks. "Oh, Lord, please lot us out of thi.s ' place, and we'll never do it agoin, never, I never," prayed one sobbing culprit, wliilo the othor was repeating the Lord's pvavc!-. "l'r:iy harder," saicl one of tliom, "and speak your words plain, I or God won't understand you." "I try I to, Jimmy, but I'm crying so I can 't," ' said the other, and then both redoubled ! thoir prayere. The office r slipped away, gnt the kev.s and rompounaed tlicir feloriy.

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Old News
Michigan Argus