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-====== The Inner Life 1933 ====== +====== The Inner Life ====== 
-A LITTLE CHILD SHALL LEAD THEM+== THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | DECEMBER 1934 == 
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 +<WRAP centeralign>
 +==== A LITTLE CHILD SHALL LEAD THEM ====
 By K. Y. By K. Y.
 +</WRAP>
  
-HERE is a little happening that might interest your readers. +<WRAP justify> 
-It is about a little girl just two months over five years old. +HERE is a little happening that might interest your readers. It is about a little girl just two months over five years old. This is the story.
-This is the story.+
  
-I have been subject to severe headaches for a couple of years, +I have been subject to severe headaches for a couple of years, so severe that each time my family expects me to die; but of course I knew that I would not. In the afternoon I was sitting on the porch trying to forget the headache, when Mary Katherine came across the street to see me.
-so severe that each time my family expects me to die; but of +
-course I knew that I would not. In the afternoon I was sitting +
-on the porch trying to forget the headache, when Mary Katherine +
-came across the street to see me.+
  
-As she came up the steps I said, “Mary Katherine, if you had +As she came up the steps I said, “Mary Katherine, if you had come over sooner, you could have prayed for me and cured my headache.”
-come over sooner, you could have prayed for me and cured my +
-headache.”+
  
-She stood perfectly still and looked at me, and said, “Why +She stood perfectly still and looked at me, and said, “Why you are just like that side-walk and that tree, and you are just the same as this chair.”
-you are just like that side-walk and that tree, and you are just the +
-same as this chair.”+
  
-I understood at once what was happening, and I said, “Do +I understood at once what was happening, and I said, “Do you mean that I am just one with them—that they do not have headaches?” She said “Yes,” then laughed.
-you mean that I am just one with them—that they do not have +
-headaches?” She said “Yes,” then laughed.+
  
-But when I looked in her eyes what I saw there was indescrib- +But when I looked in her eyes what I saw there was indescribable. I knew that I saw her soul—and soul, who elected to teach me a great truth through those childish lips. Naturally my headache took wings and flew away.
-able. I knew that I saw her soul—and soul, who elected to +
-teach me a great truth through those childish lips. Naturally my +
-headache took wings and flew away.+
  
-Now I am going to tell you a wonderful lesson she taught me +Now I am going to tell you a wonderful lesson she taught me on “Forgiveness.”
-on “Forgiveness.”+
  
-Mary Katherine—who is with me a great deal—and myself +Mary Katherine—who is with me a great deal—and myself were in the yard cleaning up leaves and digging. The child had on a grown person’s slippers, as is common with children, and she tripped and fell against me. 
-were in the yard cleaning up leaves and digging. The child had + 
-on a grown person’s slippers, as is common with children, and +She has a habit of blaming the other party when anything happens that she does not like; so I proceeded to give her a lesson on taking her own blame for things such as this, that come to her. She did not like that, and immediately started to strike me. I caught her hand and laughed at her, when I saw her becoming very angry; then I started to run from her, playing I was 
-she tripped and fell against me.+</WRAP>
  
-She has a habit of blaming the other party when anything 
-happens that she does not like; so I proceeded to give her a lesson 
-on taking her own blame for things such as this, that come to her. 
-She did not like that, and immediately started to strike me. 
-I caught her hand and laughed at her, when I saw her becom- 
-ing very angry; then I started to run from her, playing I was 
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-A Little Child shall lead them 
  
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