Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1883 — A Knowing Child. [ARTICLE]

A Knowing Child.

A girl of 4 years, who said she didn’t remember much about her birth, but did know she was born in heaven, for she did ’member of walking in the golden streets, and didn’t walk very well because she was so little, not only shews the best memory on record, but evidence of her heavenly origin in her elucidation of the subject of forgive-, ness. She had been punished by her mother, and confided her troubles to her father when he came home, who told her that God is not pleased with naughty little girls. “But, she argued, “he likes little girls who will forgive, don’t he? And I am ready to forgive mamma.”— “Editor’s Drawer* in Harper’s.