====== The Inner Life ======
== THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | DECEMBER 1936 ==
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==== THE BEAUTIFUL STORY OF LIFE ====
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A GENTLEMAN in one of my meetings arose and said:

“I would like to give my experience with my six-year-old girl and eight-year-old boy. They were attending the kindergarten.

On my return from business one evening I found my wife weeping bitterly. Upon inquiry I learned that our children had been grossly contaminated by what people call a “bad” boy, although we had always been exceedingly careful as to their playmates. I asked my wife what she said to the children, and she replied, “I told them they must not talk about such things.”

Feeling that the moral destiny of our little ones was at stake, and that something must be done to save them to a pure life, I asked wife to send the children to my room in ten minutes. I was not prepared for this duty, but falling on my knees, I told the Heavenly Father of my lack of wisdom, and pleaded for His guidance in this solemn hour. I know my prayer was answered.

When the little ones came in, I took them on my knees and said, “Children, papa has a beautiful and a sacred story to tell you.” I then took a flower, and continued, “Darlings, every thing that lives and grows has a papa and a mamma. The fruit we enjoy, the flowers that are so beautiful, the little chickens and kitties and singing birds—all have a papa and mamma. This is God’s plan, His way of keeping all forms of life in this world.”

I explained the functions of the flower that I held, showing that the stamens are the fathers and the pistils the mothers of the blossoms, and that there is upon the stamens delicate powder or pollen which performed a very important part in this wonderful little mechanism. I opened a pistil and showed them the undeveloped seed germs, explaining that when the pollen or father part of the flower falls from the stamens to the sponge-like end of the pistil or mother part, in a way that God only knows about, the union of these two in flower life will produce another of its kind.

Note the little birds. In the spring time the father bird says to the mother bird in language that they understand, “Now it is getting warm weather, let us build a little nest and have our
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