Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 199, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1920 — TRULY AN AWFUL THOUGHT [ARTICLE]

TRULY AN AWFUL THOUGHT

Small Airi Feared She Had Somewhat Overdone Matter of Praying for Baby Brother. The little girl came home te her mpmma very much disturbed because little Susie, her neighbor, had a new baby brother to play with, while she, herself, was very lonely. Her mother comforted her and told her to ask God to send her a little brother, too. So the child began to pray for a little brother, and occasionally got impatient ; but her mother told her to keep on praying and perhaps her prayer would be answered some day. One day she was called into the mother’s room, and her delight knew no bounds when the nurse took a wee thing up from the mother’s side and laid it In her arms. But a moment later, when the nurse picked up another bit of humanity, the child almost dropped the one she was holding, and a startled expression came Into her face as she said: “Oh, mama I is God agoing to answer all those prayers that I prayfed?”