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Angel Food For Jack and Jill Little Talks to Little Folks - Rev Gerald T Brennan · Vegetarianism and Occultism

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  Speaker 1: Chapter one of Angel Food for Jack and Jill Little
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  Speaker 1: Talks to Little Folks. This is a LibriVox recording. All
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information
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  Speaker 1: or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Recording by
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  Speaker 1: Maria Therese Angel Food for Jack and Jill Little Talks
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  Speaker 1: to Little fix Beverend Geraldy Brennan, Chapter one. The Devil
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  Speaker 1: at the door Last Tuesday night, the devil rang my doorbell. Yes, children,
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  Speaker 1: that's true. The devil rang my doorbell. I saw the
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  Speaker 1: devil when I even talked to him. Now, I know
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  Speaker 1: you're surprised. Well, I was surprise too. Let me tell
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  Speaker 1: you what happened. I was reading the evening paper and
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden door bell rang. Well. I hurried
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  Speaker 1: to the front door and opened it, and was I surprised.
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  Speaker 1: There on the front porch stood a little devil, A
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  Speaker 1: devil with horns on his head, a devil with evil
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  Speaker 1: eyes and grinding teeth. The devil wore red coat and
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  Speaker 1: red pants, and he had a long black tail. When
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  Speaker 1: the devil saw me, he growled. I waited for the
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  Speaker 1: devil to speak, but he just growled and moaned. Finally,
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  Speaker 1: I asked a question, what do you want, mister devil?
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  Speaker 1: And I wondered what he was going to say. This
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  Speaker 1: is little Devil's night, he said, in a low voice,
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  Speaker 1: this is Halloween. Tricks or treat. Well. I didn't want
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  Speaker 1: the devil to play any tricks on me, so I
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  Speaker 1: told him that I treat him. I invited the devil
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  Speaker 1: into my office and he sat on a chair. Can
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  Speaker 1: you imagine the devil sitting in my office? What else
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  Speaker 1: could I do? I had to be nice to him.
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  Speaker 1: I treated the devil to a bottle of Coca cola
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  Speaker 1: and a couple of sandwiches. I guess the devil didn't
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  Speaker 1: have any supper because he was certainly hungry, and he
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  Speaker 1: finished the sandwiches and drink in no time. And do
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  Speaker 1: you know, children, the devil never took off his false face.
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  Speaker 1: He raised it a little and I tried to find
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  Speaker 1: out just who he was, But the devil was foxy.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't want me to know, and he was very
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  Speaker 1: careful to keep his face covered. The devil was pleased
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  Speaker 1: with this treat, but I wanted to make sure, so
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  Speaker 1: I filled a bag with apples, oranges, walnuts, bananas, and
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  Speaker 1: a few candy bars. He was certainly a polite devil,
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  Speaker 1: because he thanked me and started for the door. Who
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  Speaker 1: are you anyway, I asked the devil before he left.
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  Speaker 1: What's your name? Guess? He answered very quickly. Well, I
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  Speaker 1: guessed and guessed while the devil shook his head. I
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  Speaker 1: mentioned the names of several boys in our school, but
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  Speaker 1: every time I was wrong. Maybe the devil was a girl.
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  Speaker 1: How could I tell? No, Sir, I couldn't guess the
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  Speaker 1: devil's name, and he wouldn't tell me. Thanks father for
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  Speaker 1: a swell treat, said the devil as he walked down
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  Speaker 1: the steps. I must ring more doorbells before it gets
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  Speaker 1: too late, And the devil disappeared in the darkness. When
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  Speaker 1: I went back to my room last Tuesday night, I
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  Speaker 1: thought about the devil for a long time. Who was
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  Speaker 1: that devil? What was his name? What boy or girl
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  Speaker 1: pretended that he or she was the devil? I wondered
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  Speaker 1: and wondered, And I wondered too, about all the other
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  Speaker 1: boys and girls who were pretending that night, Boys and
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  Speaker 1: girls who were wearing false faces. Some are pretending that
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  Speaker 1: they were cowboys, robbers, witches, and ghosts. Others were pretending
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  Speaker 1: that they were nurses and old ladies. Halloween is a
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  Speaker 1: great night, you know, for pretenders, A night when boys
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  Speaker 1: and girls pretend to be what they are not, a
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  Speaker 1: night when boys and girls wear false faces. When Halloween
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  Speaker 1: is over, off come the false faces. That little devil,
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  Speaker 1: whoever he was, certainly kept his secret. He didn't want
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  Speaker 1: me to know, and I didn't find out who he was.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know yet who rang my door bell, and
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  Speaker 1: I don't suppose they'll ever know the new of that devil.
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  Speaker 1: But there is one person from whom that devil didn't
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  Speaker 1: keep his secret, and that person is God. The devil
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  Speaker 1: fooled me, but he didn't fool God, because God sees
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  Speaker 1: everything and he knows everything. Why God looked right under
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  Speaker 1: the devil's false face, and he knew the child's name.
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  Speaker 1: That devil pretended and fold a good many people last
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  Speaker 1: Tuesday night, but he didn't fool God. And God knew
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  Speaker 1: the names of all the other boys and girl to
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  Speaker 1: pretend it on Halloween, because God knows everything. God sees
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  Speaker 1: everything children. There are many boys and girls who don't
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  Speaker 1: wait until Halloween to pretend. They wear false faces. Every
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  Speaker 1: day when these children are in school, they pretend to
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  Speaker 1: be very good, but when they are home or with
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  Speaker 1: other children, they are sometimes bad. Disobey at home and
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  Speaker 1: talk back to their parents. Sometimes they even lie to
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  Speaker 1: their fathers and mothers. When they are with other children,
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  Speaker 1: they steal, cheat, and say bad words. These children are pretenders.
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  Speaker 1: They wear false vaces. These children full the priests and
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  Speaker 1: sisters and even their parents. But they don't fool God. No, sir,
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  Speaker 1: God is watching them every minute. God sees everything they do.
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  Speaker 1: It's a good thing. You remember that God is always
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  Speaker 1: on the job and that he never misses anything. When
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  Speaker 1: you do something good, you know that God sees it
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  Speaker 1: and that He will reward you. When you're tempted to
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  Speaker 1: do wrong, just remember that God has his eye on you,
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  Speaker 1: and that thought will help you to keep away from sin.
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  Speaker 1: Boys and girls, you know what is right and what
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  Speaker 1: is wrong. Do the right thing every time because God
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  Speaker 1: sees you. Don't be pretender. Don't wear a false face.
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  Speaker 1: End of chapter one, Chapter two of Angel Food for
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  Speaker 1: Jack and Jill, Little Talks to Little Folks by Reverend
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  Speaker 1: Gerald to Brennan. The LibriVox recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: Recording by Maria Teres. Chapter two three Farms There was
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  Speaker 1: once a great king who was very kind. This king
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  Speaker 1: loved his people and he was very good to them.
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  Speaker 1: He loved especially the poor. The king built hospitals, skulls,
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  Speaker 1: and playgrounds for the poor. He even visited their homes
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  Speaker 1: and tried to make them happy. Now, one day, the
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  Speaker 1: king had an unusual idea. He ordered twenty of his
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  Speaker 1: soldiers to search the kingdom. He wanted the soldiers to
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  Speaker 1: find three men, three men who were very poor, three
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  Speaker 1: men whose families were suffering. When the soldiers found the
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  Speaker 1: three men, they were to bring them to the king.
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  Speaker 1: The soldiers obeyed orders and began their search. For months
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  Speaker 1: and months, they visited every city in town. They visited
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  Speaker 1: the homes of the poor and talk with the men,
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  Speaker 1: women and children. They wrote in their books what they
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  Speaker 1: saw and heard, and finally the soldiers finished their work. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: after months of searching, the soldiers found three men who
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  Speaker 1: were very poor, three men whose families were suffering. So
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  Speaker 1: the soldier brought the three men to the king. My friends,
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  Speaker 1: said the kind King. I have brought you here today
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  Speaker 1: because I want to help you. I'm going to give
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  Speaker 1: each of you a new start in life. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to give each of you a house and a farm.
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  Speaker 1: If you work hard on your farm, some day you'll
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  Speaker 1: be rich and happy. Of course, the three men were
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  Speaker 1: surprised and delighted. They thanked the king for his great kindness,
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  Speaker 1: and each man promised that he would work hard. Each
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  Speaker 1: man wanted to show the king that he was grateful.
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  Speaker 1: Many people, you know, make promises, and some people keep
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  Speaker 1: their promises. Do the three men work hard and keep
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  Speaker 1: the promises they made to the king? Well? The king
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  Speaker 1: often wondered about the three men and their farms, but
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  Speaker 1: he never asked any questions. Finally, after sixty years, the
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  Speaker 1: king decied that he would find out whether the men
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  Speaker 1: kept their promises. The king decired to visit the three farms.
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  Speaker 1: The king went to the first farm, and what do
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  Speaker 1: you think he found? He found that the man on
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  Speaker 1: the first farm had done no work at all. The
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  Speaker 1: man hadn't plowed or planted, and the grass and weeds
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  Speaker 1: were growing high. The man hadn't taken care of the trees,
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  Speaker 1: so there was no fruit. The barn was not painted
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  Speaker 1: and the fences were broken. Even the house had been neglected.
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  Speaker 1: The house needed paint, The roof leaked, and some of
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  Speaker 1: the windows were broken. When the king saw the first farm,
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  Speaker 1: he was sad and disappointed. When the King visited the
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  Speaker 1: second farm, he was disappointed again. The second farm was
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  Speaker 1: almost as bad as the first one. The man on
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  Speaker 1: the second farm had worked the first year, then he
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  Speaker 1: tired and he didn't work anymore. The man forgot about
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  Speaker 1: his promise to the king, and when the man didn't work,
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  Speaker 1: his farm suffered. I suppose you were wondering what the
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  Speaker 1: king found on the third farm. Well, on the third farm,
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  Speaker 1: the king had a pleasant surprise. He found vegetables growing
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  Speaker 1: in the garden, and he saw fields of oats, wheat,
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  Speaker 1: and hay. The king found trees lided with apples, pears, peaches,
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  Speaker 1: and plums. He saw horses, cows, pigs, and chickens. And
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  Speaker 1: the king smiled when he saw the beautiful home and
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  Speaker 1: the well kept barn. You can be sure that the
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  Speaker 1: King didn't have to ask any questions. The king knew
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  Speaker 1: that the man on the third farm had worked hard.
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  Speaker 1: He knew that the man was making money, and that
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  Speaker 1: he was happy the man on the third farm had
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  Speaker 1: kept his promise. Now that isn't the end of the story.
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  Speaker 1: Each year, on the first day of March, the man
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  Speaker 1: on the third farm receives a mysterious box. Sometimes there
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  Speaker 1: was gold in the box, other times there was silver.
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  Speaker 1: Once there was a diamond. And the man on the
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  Speaker 1: third farm never knew who set the mysterious box. But
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  Speaker 1: I know that the mysterious box came from the king
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  Speaker 1: as a reward to a man who had done his
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  Speaker 1: job well. Children, God is our king, in a very
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  Speaker 1: kind king too. He loves every one of us, and
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  Speaker 1: he wants us to be happy forever. Like the king
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  Speaker 1: in the story, God has given each one of us
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  Speaker 1: a gift. He has given us a soul. God wants
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  Speaker 1: us to take good care of that soul. He wants
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  Speaker 1: us to work for that soul every day. God wants
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  Speaker 1: us to pray and to receive the sacraments. He wants
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  Speaker 1: us to keep his laws. If we neglect our soul,
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  Speaker 1: we will never be happy. If we take care of
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  Speaker 1: our soul, God will reward us. There are many people
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  Speaker 1: in this world to day who act like the man
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  Speaker 1: on the first farm. They do nothing for their souls.
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  Speaker 1: They never pray, they never go to confession and receive
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  Speaker 1: Holy communion. They never go to mass. Yes, they even
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  Speaker 1: break God's laws. Surely these people can't expect God to
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  Speaker 1: reward them. Other people act like the male on the
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  Speaker 1: second farm. They work for their souls for a while,
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  Speaker 1: then they get tired and quit. They forget all about
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  Speaker 1: God and their souls. Do you think that God will
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  Speaker 1: reward them? I don't think so. Boys and girls, I
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  Speaker 1: hope you are like the man on the third farm.
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  Speaker 1: I hope you work for your soul every day by
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  Speaker 1: saying your prayers, keeping God's laws, and receiving the sacraments.
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  Speaker 1: As long as you live. You must never stop doing
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  Speaker 1: these things. If you take good care of your soul,
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  Speaker 1: God will keep his eye on you. He will bless
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  Speaker 1: you with happiness and success. God will reward you not
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  Speaker 1: once a year, but forever. Your reward will not be
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  Speaker 1: diamonds or silver or gold. Your reward will be better
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  Speaker 1: than all these things. God will give you heaven. End
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  Speaker 1: of chapter two. Chapter three of Angel Food for Jack
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  Speaker 1: and Jill, Little Talks to Little Folks by Reverend Gerald T. Brennan.
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  Speaker 1: The slipprivox recording is in the public domain recording by
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  Speaker 1: Maria Therese. Chapter three Football, Johnny. If I were to
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  Speaker 1: ask you what you are going to be when you
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  Speaker 1: grow up, you would all give me a different answer.
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  Speaker 1: You would tell me that you want to be a priest,
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  Speaker 1: or a doctor or a lawyer. Perhaps you want to
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  Speaker 1: be a plumber or a policeman. Maybe a girl wants
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  Speaker 1: to be a nurse or a teacher. Oh, you would
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  Speaker 1: all have different answers. Every child feels that he knows
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  Speaker 1: right now just what he is going to be when
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  Speaker 1: he grows up. Well, that's the way it was with
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  Speaker 1: Johnny Clark. When Johnny was a boy, he wanted to
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  Speaker 1: be a football player. Not an ordinary football player, but
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  Speaker 1: a great football player. Johnny wanted to be a star.
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  Speaker 1: Johnny liked all kinds of sports, but his favorite game
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  Speaker 1: was football. Why Johnny even had a football of his own.
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  Speaker 1: During the summer, when other boys played baseball, Johnny played football.
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  Speaker 1: That's what his friends called him, football Johnny. When Johnny
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  Speaker 1: went to high school, he didn't have much time for
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  Speaker 1: football because he had to study hard. Of course, he
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  Speaker 1: played some football, but not as much as he wished.
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  Speaker 1: He tried out for the team, but he didn't make it,
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  Speaker 1: so Johnny had to watch the football games from the grandstand.
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  Speaker 1: Then Johnny went to college. He worked hard at his studies,
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  Speaker 1: and he worked hard at his football too. Every afternoon
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  Speaker 1: Johnny was out on the football field. He practiced and
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  Speaker 1: practiced and practiced. And what do you think Johnny made
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  Speaker 1: the team. Every day he worked hard at practice and
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  Speaker 1: followed the coach's orders. Johnny wanted to be a good player.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, he wanted to be the best player on
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  Speaker 1: the team. Johnny, however, was not the best player on
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  Speaker 1: the football team. So any boys who could play better
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  Speaker 1: than Johnny. And every Saturday afternoon it was the same story.
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  Speaker 1: The coach wouldn't let Johnny play, and every Saturday Johnny
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  Speaker 1: sat on the bench. Johnny just wasn't good enough to
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  Speaker 1: play against a strong team. That's what the coach thought.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have to tell you that Johnny felt pretty
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  Speaker 1: bad about it. Johnny tried not to show his feelings.
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  Speaker 1: He was heartbroken and all that he wanted was a
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  Speaker 1: chance to play, a chance to prove that he could
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  Speaker 1: play well. The coach, however, never gave Johnny that chance.
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  Speaker 1: It was the last game of the season, and an
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  Speaker 1: important game too. Before the game, Johnny went to the coach, Please, coach,
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  Speaker 1: he begged, let me play in this game. The coach
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  Speaker 1: shook his head. No, Johnny, he answered I can't take
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  Speaker 1: any chances. I want to win this game. Please, please,
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  Speaker 1: begged Johnny again, I've got to play in this game.
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  Speaker 1: Give me a chance. The coach thought for a moment,
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  Speaker 1: all right, he said, I'll let you play for the
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  Speaker 1: first three minutes, but no longer. I must win this game.
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  Speaker 1: Johnny was delighted and his heart pounded within him. At last,
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  Speaker 1: at last, he was going to play. He was going
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  Speaker 1: to play in a big game, even though it would
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  Speaker 1: only be for three minutes. Now, this will surprise you.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know that Johnny played so well during those
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  Speaker 1: three minutes that the coach left him in the game.
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  Speaker 1: Why Johnny played so well that the coach couldn't believe
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  Speaker 1: his eyes. Johnny was all over the field. He blocked
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  Speaker 1: and he tackled, He threw the ball and caught forward passes.
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  Speaker 1: And what do you think Johnny even made a field goal.
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  Speaker 1: Johnny Clark certainly surprised everybody. He played better than any
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  Speaker 1: man on his team, and after Johnny's team won the game,
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  Speaker 1: the other players carried Johnny on their shoulders. Johnny was
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  Speaker 1: a hero, the hero of the day, the star of
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  Speaker 1: the game. When the coach met Johnny in the club, house.
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  Speaker 1: He shook the boy's hand. Johnny said the coach, you
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  Speaker 1: were wonderful. You played a great game. How did you
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  Speaker 1: do it, coach answered the young hero. My father was
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  Speaker 1: in the grand stand today and it was the first
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  Speaker 1: time he ever saw me play. I knew my father
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  Speaker 1: was watching me, so I just had to be good children.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know that you are very much like Johnny Clerk?
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  Speaker 1: You too are in a contest, a contest that takes
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  Speaker 1: place every single day. You are trying to get your
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  Speaker 1: soul into heaven, and the devil was playing against you
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  Speaker 1: every day. You must try to do something good, even
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  Speaker 1: though the devil tries to knock you down. If you
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  Speaker 1: want to win heaven, you must fight hard, and you
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  Speaker 1: must fight the devil. No one ever wins a game
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  Speaker 1: by taking it easy, and you won't win heaven unless
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  Speaker 1: you work. Why did Johnny Clerk play so well because
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  Speaker 1: his father was watching him. God, your father is watching
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  Speaker 1: you too. He sees everything you do, He hears every
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  Speaker 1: word you speak. Wherever you go, God is with you.
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  Speaker 1: That's why you should make good use of every minute.
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  Speaker 1: God is watching you, and he is keeping score every
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  Speaker 1: good play you make, every temptation you fight God sees,
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  Speaker 1: and God gives you credit for everything. That's a good
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  Speaker 1: thing to know and a good thing to remember. You
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  Speaker 1: are never alone because God is always with you. Shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: that thought make you work harder and harder for heaven? Well,
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  Speaker 1: it certainly should. When boys and girls forget that God
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  Speaker 1: is watching, then they do wrong. Children, God wants you
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  Speaker 1: to play a good game in life. He wants you
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  Speaker 1: to come out on top and save your soul. Remember
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  Speaker 1: God is on your side. He is watching every play.
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  Speaker 1: God wants you to be a winner. End of chapter three.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter four of Angel Foo for Jack and Jill. Little
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  Speaker 1: talks to little Folks, revering Gerald to Brennan. The Slipper
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  Speaker 1: Fox recording is in the Public domein recording by Maria Therese.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter four, The Dog that didn't want a vacation. Eddie
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  Speaker 1: Kramer had a dog whose name was Shag. Like all
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  Speaker 1: boys who owned a dog, Eddie was very fond of Shag.
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  Speaker 1: The boy taught the little calling many tricks, and the
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  Speaker 1: dog liked to perform for Eddie and his friends. Naturally,
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  Speaker 1: Eddie was very proud of his little friend. Every day,
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  Speaker 1: Shagg followed Eddie to school. Of course, the dog couldn't
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  Speaker 1: go into the school with his master, but Shag waited
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  Speaker 1: outside on the school steps. When school was over, Shag
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  Speaker 1: was always on the steps waiting for his friend Eddie.
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  Speaker 1: The dog even followed the boy to church on Sundays.
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  Speaker 1: He would wait outside the church and after Mass, the
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  Speaker 1: two friends would walk home together. So you can see
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  Speaker 1: that Eddie and Shagg were pretty good friends. Last summer,
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  Speaker 1: when Eddie's father announced that he was going to drive
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  Speaker 1: the family to California for a vacation, there was plenty
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  Speaker 1: of excitement. Eddie liked the idea of writing from Albany
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  Speaker 1: to California, but his first thoughts were about the dog.
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  Speaker 1: What about Shagg? Would he have to stay home? Who
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  Speaker 1: would feed him? Who would give him a drink? The
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  Speaker 1: dog certainly couldn't stay home alone. Eddie begged his father
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  Speaker 1: to let Shagg make the trip, but his father wouldn't listen.
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  Speaker 1: The father felt that the trip would be too much
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  Speaker 1: for the dog. He felt the dog would need too
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  Speaker 1: much care, but that wasn't the way Eddie felt about Shag.
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  Speaker 1: Eddie begged and teased his father to let the dog go,
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  Speaker 1: and finally the father gave in. Eddie was happy because
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  Speaker 1: Shagg was going to California with him. At first, Shagg
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  Speaker 1: seemed to enjoy the trip. He was full of life
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  Speaker 1: and very playful. But after a few days the dog
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  Speaker 1: seemed to lose his pep. He was tired of traveling
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  Speaker 1: and wanted to go home. Most of the time, Shagg
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  Speaker 1: slept on the floor of a car refused to eat.
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  Speaker 1: There was something wrong with Shag, and Eddie began to worry.
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  Speaker 1: The Cramers were traveling through Colorado when they decided to
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  Speaker 1: spend the night in a house by the side of
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  Speaker 1: the road. Again, Shagg refused to eat any supper, so
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  Speaker 1: Eddie fixed the blanket for a bed and the dog
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  Speaker 1: went to sleep on the side porch of the house.
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  Speaker 1: When Eddie awoke in the morning, his first thought was
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  Speaker 1: about Shag. He dressed and ran down to the porch,
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  Speaker 1: and what do you think Shag wasn't there. The dog
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  Speaker 1: was gone. Well, Eddie called the dog and searched everywhere,
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  Speaker 1: but there was no Shag. The dog had disappeared. Eddie
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  Speaker 1: Kramer's heart was broken and he didn't enjoy the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the trip. Eddie had lost his best friend and
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  Speaker 1: he found it hard to be happy. Even though the
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  Speaker 1: Cramers did have an exciting time in California. Eddie's good
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  Speaker 1: time was spoiled. Eddie had lost his dog. Shag was gone.
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  Speaker 1: It was a hard blow to little Eddie. After spending
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  Speaker 1: six weeks in California, the Cramer started for whom there
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  Speaker 1: was a long trip across the country, a lonesome trip
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  Speaker 1: for Eddie. Time and time again, the boy thought about
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  Speaker 1: his dog and wondered what had happened to him. Eddie
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  Speaker 1: knew that he would never see Shag again. The Cramers
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  Speaker 1: were home about two months and Eddie was back at school.
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  Speaker 1: One afternoon, Eddie marched out of school with the other children,
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  Speaker 1: and what do you think? There on the school steps
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  Speaker 1: sat a dog. Eddie could hardly believe his eyes. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: the dog was Shag. Eddie's dog was alive and safe.
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  Speaker 1: Shagg had walked all the way home from Colorado. Eddie
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  Speaker 1: lifted the dog from the step, held him in his arms,
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  Speaker 1: and hurried home. Even though Shagg had run away, Eddie
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  Speaker 1: forgave him. Of course, Shag was very tired, very thin,
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  Speaker 1: and very hungry. Eddie, however, took care of everything, and
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  Speaker 1: that night Shag had the best meal that he had
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  Speaker 1: had in weeks, and that isn't all. The dog went
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  Speaker 1: to bed on a soft, clean blanket and slept soundly.
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  Speaker 1: Now I don't have to tell you that Eddie Kramer
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  Speaker 1: was happy. I'm pretty sure that Shag was happy too.
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  Speaker 1: Shagg got into lots of trouble and suffered a great
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  Speaker 1: deal during all those weeks, but he learned a lesson.
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  Speaker 1: Never again was Shag run away from his master. Sometimes
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: boys and girls run away from their master. They run
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  Speaker 1: away from God, and they stay away from God for
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: a long time. They don't say their prayers, they don't
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  Speaker 1: go to confession and receive fully convenion. They even missed
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  Speaker 1: mass and fall into mortal sin. Like Shag, these boys
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  Speaker 1: and girls get into trouble and are not happy. Boys
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  Speaker 1: and girls can't be happy when they are away from God.
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  Speaker 1: If you should ever run away from God, don't stay
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  Speaker 1: away too long. If you should ever fall into mortal sin,
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  Speaker 1: go back to God as soon as you can. No
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  Speaker 1: matter how many times you run away from God, He
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  Speaker 1: is always ready to take you back. God is always
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  Speaker 1: ready to forgive you. He is always patient and very kind.
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  Speaker 1: God never shuts the door on anybody. He hates sin,
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  Speaker 1: but he loves sinners, especially when they come back to him.
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  Speaker 1: God knows that little children need him, That's why He
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  Speaker 1: is always so kind to them. Children, If you ever
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  Speaker 1: make the mistake of running away from God, go back
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  Speaker 1: to him quickly. How can you go back to God?
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  Speaker 1: Go to confession. End of chapter four. Chapter five of
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Angel food for Shack and Jill Little talks to Little
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  Speaker 1: Figs Paving gerald Ty Brennan. This librifox recording is in
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  Speaker 1: the public domain. Recording by Maria Therese, Chapter five, one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and twenty three thousand, four hundred and fifty six mosquitoes.
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  Speaker 1: Many children have a hobby, something they do during their
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  Speaker 1: spare time, and some of these hobbies are very interesting.
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  Speaker 1: Some children save stamps, buttons, coins or bottles, toy elephants
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  Speaker 1: and toy dogs. Others make things during their spare time.
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  Speaker 1: They build dollhouses, boots and bridges, and of course some
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  Speaker 1: girls sew, knit and baked cakes. The other day, children,
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  Speaker 1: I heard about a man who had a very strange hobby.
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  Speaker 1: Now you'll laugh when you hear about this man's hobby,
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  Speaker 1: because this man collected mosquitoes. Yes, the man was a
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  Speaker 1: famous doctor and during his spare time the doctor collected mosquitoes. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I can't tell you just how the doctor caught the mosquitoes,
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  Speaker 1: but he caught them just the same, and he caught
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  Speaker 1: them alive. What did a doctor do with the mosquitos, Well,
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  Speaker 1: he put them in a box. It was a very
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  Speaker 1: large box, and the box was lined with cotton. The doctor,
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  Speaker 1: you know, wanted his mosquitoes to be comfortable, and he
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  Speaker 1: wanted them to have a soft bed at night. He
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  Speaker 1: felt that if he was kind to the mosquitos, the
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  Speaker 1: mosquitoes would be kind too, and they wouldn't sing people
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  Speaker 1: any more. Every day, the doctor fed the mosquitos plenty
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  Speaker 1: of syrup and rich milk. He kept the mosquitoes cold
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  Speaker 1: in the summer with an electric fan, and on cold
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  Speaker 1: winter nights he kept them warm by covering the box
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  Speaker 1: of the blanket. Of course, the mosquitos liked their home.
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  Speaker 1: They liked the syrup, the rich milk, the electric fan,
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  Speaker 1: the warm blanket, and the grand cotton bed where they
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  Speaker 1: slept at night. The doctor collected mosquitoes for seven long years,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: and during that time he collected one hundred twenty three thousand,
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  Speaker 1: four hundred and fifty six mosquitoes. Yes, there were one
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: hundred and twenty three thousand, four hundred and fifty six
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  Speaker 1: mosquitos in the big box, and they were all alive.
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  Speaker 1: Every day, one hundred and twenty three thousand, four hundred
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  Speaker 1: and fifty six mosquitoes feasted on syrup and rich milk,
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  Speaker 1: and every night one hundred and twenty three thousand, four
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  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty six mosquitoes went to sleep on a
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  Speaker 1: soft cotton bed. One day, the doctor invited some famous
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  Speaker 1: people to come to his home. He invited kings, presidents, soldiers, doctors, lawyers,
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  Speaker 1: and bankers, and these famous men came from all parts
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  Speaker 1: of the world. Of course, no one knew how the
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  Speaker 1: doctor had invited them. Gentlemen, said the doctor, as he
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  Speaker 1: stood before his famous guests. I have in this box
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty three thousand, four hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: six mosquitoes. I have been kind to these mosquitos for
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  Speaker 1: seven long years. I have fed them syrup and rich
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  Speaker 1: milk every day, and I put them to sleep at
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  Speaker 1: night on a grand bed of soft cotton. These mosquitos
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  Speaker 1: are friendly mosquitos, and they won't sting. When the doctor finished,
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  Speaker 1: he opened the large box and out came one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and twenty three thousand, four hundred and fifty six mosquitoes.
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  Speaker 1: Don't be afraid, smiled the doctor. The mosquitoes are friendly
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  Speaker 1: and they won't harm you. But those one hundred twenty
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  Speaker 1: three thousand, four hundred fifty six mosquitos didn't spend much
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  Speaker 1: time flying around that room. Those mosquitoes didn't want to fly.
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  Speaker 1: They wanted to sit. And where do you think The
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  Speaker 1: mosquitos sat Right on the heads, necks and hands of
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  Speaker 1: the famous men. Of course, the member nervous, but they
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  Speaker 1: tried to sit still. But they only sat still for
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  Speaker 1: a few moments. Suddenly there was a terrible commotion. Out
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  Speaker 1: cried the famous men at the top of their voices,
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  Speaker 1: as one hundred twenty three thousand, four hundred and fifty
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: six mosquitos began to bite and sting. The men slapped
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  Speaker 1: their heads, they slapped their necks, they waved their hands,
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  Speaker 1: and they ran from the room. I suppose you are
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  Speaker 1: wondering about the doctor who had been so kind to
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  Speaker 1: the mosquitoes. Did the mosquitoes bother the doctor? Well, the
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  Speaker 1: mosquito certainly did bother the doctor. The mosquitoes stung the doctor,
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  Speaker 1: just as they stung the famous men. And that day
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  Speaker 1: the doctor and his famous guests learned a very important lesson.
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  Speaker 1: Never trust a mosquito. Mosquitoes are very small insects. Why
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  Speaker 1: they're so small that sometimes you can't even see them.
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  Speaker 1: You don't even know that the mosquitoes are around until
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  Speaker 1: they bite or sting. Then it's too late to do anything.
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  Speaker 1: After a mosquito bites, you just have to suffer. Don't
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  Speaker 1: ever get the idea that mosquitos are friendly, even though
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  Speaker 1: they had been brought up on syrup and rich milk.
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  Speaker 1: They'll sting you every time, So never trust a mosquito.
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  Speaker 1: Boys and girls, there is someone else whom you should
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  Speaker 1: never trust, and that's the devil. Like the mosquito, you'll
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  Speaker 1: never see the devil and you'll never know that he
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  Speaker 1: is around, but he is around you just the same.
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  Speaker 1: The devil follows you wherever you go, and he is
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  Speaker 1: always waiting for a chance to sing you, to lead
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  Speaker 1: you into sin, to make you suffer. And don't think
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  Speaker 1: that you can be friendly with the devil, because he
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  Speaker 1: will harm you every time he gets a chance. That's
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  Speaker 1: the way the devil works. He doesn't like you, and
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  Speaker 1: you shouldn't like him. When the devil tempts you, run
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  Speaker 1: away from him, just as you run away from a
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  Speaker 1: tiny mosquito. If you don't run away from the devil,
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  Speaker 1: you'll fall into sin. The devil is a foxy fellow,
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  Speaker 1: a bad fellow, and he has lots of tricks. He
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  Speaker 1: wants you to lose your soul. He wants your soul
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  Speaker 1: for himself. He wants your soul to go to hell.
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  Speaker 1: That's why he tempts you. That's why he tries to
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  Speaker 1: lead you into sin. Remember he is fighting for your
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  Speaker 1: soul every minute. When the devil bothers you, chase him
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  Speaker 1: away by saying a prayer. A pair will chase the
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  Speaker 1: t every time. Children, be on your guard. Never trust
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  Speaker 1: the devil, and never trust a mosquito. End of chapter five.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter six of Angel Food for Jack and Jill, Little
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  Speaker 1: Talks to Little Folks by Reverend Gerald T. Brennan. This
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Recording by Maria Therese,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter six, Peanuts and Watermelon. Chitchet was a monkey, a
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  Speaker 1: little brown monkey that lived in a cage. Of course,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: Chitchi had a very good home with plenty to eat,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: but just the same little monkey was not happy Chitchy
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  Speaker 1: didn't like to live in a cage like all monkeys.
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  Speaker 1: He wanted to be free. But there was nothing that
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  Speaker 1: Chitchi could do about it. Chichi was a prisoner, a
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  Speaker 1: prisoner in a cage with a big lock on the door.
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  Speaker 1: One day, however, Chitchee's master forgot to lock the door
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  Speaker 1: of the cage. That was just what the little monkey wanted.
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  Speaker 1: When no one was looking, chit Chee opened the door
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  Speaker 1: of the cage and ran down the street as fast
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  Speaker 1: as he could. Boy was that monkey happy. Chitchee was free.
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  Speaker 1: He was a prisoner no longer. At last, the monkey
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  Speaker 1: could do just as he pleased. Chechee ran only a
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  Speaker 1: short distance when he saw an open window. He jumped
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  Speaker 1: through the window and climbed into bed with twelve year
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  Speaker 1: old Dicky Cohen. Dicky screamed, and Jitchy dashed through the house,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: knocking a roy lamp and ran to the garage. There,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: he turned on the water faucet, spilled a bucket of paint,
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: and ate a bunch of grapes that he found in
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  Speaker 1: a basket. After eating the grapes, Chitchee once again ran
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  Speaker 1: down the street, and he certainly caused plenty of excitement.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Children laughed and clapped when they saw the monkey, but
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: women screamed and called for help. Several boys tried to
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  Speaker 1: catch the little fellow, but Chechee was too smart for them.
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  Speaker 1: A police policemen tried to coax him, but chit Chee
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  Speaker 1: climbed up a pole and refused to come down. Oh how,
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: the monkey laughed and chattered to himself. No policeman was
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  Speaker 1: going to catch Chechee, no sir, not if he could
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  Speaker 1: help it. When the policeman went away, chit Chye came
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  Speaker 1: down the pole. I think I'll find a good hiding place,
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  Speaker 1: he said to himself. As he hurried down the street.
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  Speaker 1: Che Chee was very careful because he didn't want to
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  Speaker 1: get caught. When he saw any one coming toward him,
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: he ran into a yard and hid. Then, when the
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  Speaker 1: stranger passed, the monkey left his hiding place and moved along. Finally,
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  Speaker 1: chit Chee came to the end of the street, and
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  Speaker 1: there he found just what he wanted, a great, big
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  Speaker 1: yard with a large tree at the end of the yard.
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  Speaker 1: Then and there, Jitchy decided to spend the night in
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  Speaker 1: the tree. He was sure that no one would see
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  Speaker 1: him there. Che Chee was wrong. Some one did see
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  Speaker 1: the little monkey. The next morning, when mister ko Koran
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  Speaker 1: went to his tod, he saw the monkey up in
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  Speaker 1: the tree. That monkey would make a fine pet for
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  Speaker 1: my little boy, said the man to himself, and he
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  Speaker 1: began to think. Now, mister Corkoran didn't know very much
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  Speaker 1: about catching monkeys, and he wondered just how he would
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  Speaker 1: go about it. He thought and thought for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: Then he had an idea. We'll never guess what mister
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  Speaker 1: Corkoran decided to do. He put a plate of peanuts
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  Speaker 1: and watermelon right under the tree and then went into
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  Speaker 1: the house. Well, when che Chee sell the peanuts and watermelon,
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  Speaker 1: his eyes almost popped out of his head. He hurried
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  Speaker 1: down from his hiding place. And did he have a feast? Why?
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  Speaker 1: That monkey was a champion eater of peanuts and watermelon.
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  Speaker 1: And in no time the peanuts and watermelon were gone.
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  Speaker 1: When the party was over, Chitchy went back to his
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  Speaker 1: place in the tree, and soon he was fast asleep.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: The next day Jechy found more peanuts and more watermelon,
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: and of course he had another feast. This went on
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: for several days, each morning, the monkey found more peanuts
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: and watermelon waiting for him, and each morning the monkey
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: had a feast. Now there was one thing that Chechee
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  Speaker 1: didn't know. He didn't notice that each day the peanuts
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  Speaker 1: and watermelon were placed just a little closer to the
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  Speaker 1: door of the toll shed. Finally, one day, mister Krekorran
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: put the peanuts and watermelon just inside the door of
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  Speaker 1: the shed. Then he tied a long string to the
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: screen door, and, hiding behind a tree, he held the
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  Speaker 1: end of the string tightly. As long as mister Corkoran
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: held the string tightly, the door remained open. When che
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  Speaker 1: che hurried through the door for his morning meal, mister
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: Corkorant loosened the string, the door slammed, and once again
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: Cheitchy was a prisoner, a prisoner in the toll shed.
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  Speaker 1: The monkey was caught. Che Chee had walked right into
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  Speaker 1: the trap, and he found out too late that the
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  Speaker 1: peanuts and watermelon were only bait. That's just the way
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: the devil works. He sets traps for little boys and girls.
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  Speaker 1: The devil pretends that he is your friend, and sometimes
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  Speaker 1: he pretends for a long long time. He tempts you
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  Speaker 1: and makes you think that sin is something nice. Then
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the devil catches you in his
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  Speaker 1: trap and you fall into sin. The devil wants you,
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: He wants every one of you, and he wants to
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  Speaker 1: steal you away from God. The devil knows that sin
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  Speaker 1: is the only thing that will take you away from God.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: That's why he tries so hard to get you to
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: fall into sin. The devil is a sly fellow and
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: he uses some very clever tricks. So you have to
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: be on guard at all times. When temptations come, fight
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: hard against them. If you pray, you won't fall into sin. Remember,
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: temptations are traps. If you pray when you are tempted,
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: you won't get caught. Remember too, that the devil never
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: gets tired and he never gives up. He keeps right
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: after you because he wants your soul. Don't be full
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: by the devil. Don't get caught in his trap. End
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  Speaker 1: of chapter six. Chapter seven of Angel Food for Jack
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  Speaker 1: and Jill. Little talks to Little Folks by refriend gerald
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  Speaker 1: Ty Brennan. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: Recording by Maria Therese. Chapter seven, The Brightest Star. Do
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  Speaker 1: you know that there are millions of stars in the sky. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: there are. Some stars are very large and shine brightly.
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: Other stars are very small and can't be seen at all. Now,
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: this morning, I want to tell you a story about
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: a star, a star that was once the brightest star
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  Speaker 1: in the sky. It seems that when God made the stars,
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: he made one star larger and brighter than all the rest,
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  Speaker 1: and he gave that star the first place in the sky.
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  Speaker 1: God put that brightest star right in the center of
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  Speaker 1: the sky. Of course, the brightest star knew that it
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  Speaker 1: was very important. In fact, the star used to smile
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  Speaker 1: when other stars tried to shine it. The brightest star
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  Speaker 1: knew that it was God's favorite, and no other star
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  Speaker 1: could take that honor from it. Night after night, the
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  Speaker 1: brightest star could be seen by people on this earth. Farmers, doctors, lawyers,
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: sailors at sea, and little children looked up at the
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: sky and admired the star. It was always there, The
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  Speaker 1: star was always shining brightly. I suppose you know that
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: on the night Jesus was born, all the stars tried
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: to shine brighter than usual, but none of the stars
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: beat the brightest star. Why on that first Christmas night,
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: the brightest star shone like a searchlight in the sky.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: It even lighted up the cave of Bethlehem for Jesus,
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: Mary and Joseph. Of course, God was pleased with the
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: bright star that night, and the star was happy because
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: as it please God. After that first Christmas night, however,
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: the brightest star did something that did not please God.
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: The star became very proud. The star knew that it
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  Speaker 1: was the best star in the sky, and it looked
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  Speaker 1: down on all the other stars. The brightest star wouldn't
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: play with the other stars or even notice them. The
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: smaller stars tried to be friendly, but the brightest star
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: paid no attention to them. Now God knows everything, aunt
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: he knew what his favorite star he was doing. God
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: wanted all of his stars to be friendly, but the
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: brightest star spoiled everything. Well, God thought about the brightest
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: star for a long long time, and then he decided
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  Speaker 1: to act. Do you know what God did to the
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  Speaker 1: brightest star. He punished it. First of all, God changed
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  Speaker 1: the brightest star into a very small star. Then he
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  Speaker 1: moved the star from the center and placed it away
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  Speaker 1: over in the corner of the sky. For hundreds of years,
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  Speaker 1: that tiny star has remained in the corner of the
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  Speaker 1: sky after night. It has tried to shine brightly, but
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  Speaker 1: it is only a tiny speck in the sky, and
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  Speaker 1: most of the time it cannot be seen. The star
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  Speaker 1: knows now that it made a terrible mistake. It will
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  Speaker 1: still be the brightest star in the sky. But pride
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  Speaker 1: spoiled everything. That star must remain as it is. Why
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  Speaker 1: because the star was too proud. Almighty God has a
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  Speaker 1: place in this world for each one of you children.
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  Speaker 1: He has given each one of you certain gifts, and
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  Speaker 1: to some he has given more gifts than to others.
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  Speaker 1: Everything you have has come from God. Never forget that now.
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  Speaker 1: God wants you to use your gifts for his honor
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  Speaker 1: and glory. He doesn't want you to be proud if
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  Speaker 1: you have more gifts and talents than other boys and girls.
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  Speaker 1: God wants you to be humble, and he wants you
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  Speaker 1: to use your gifts in the right way. God doesn't
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  Speaker 1: want you to be a show off. Very often you
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  Speaker 1: will meet some boys and girls who act just like
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  Speaker 1: the brightest star. God has given them extra gifts, and
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  Speaker 1: they feel it they are better than other boys and girls.
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  Speaker 1: If some boys or girls learn easily or get high
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  Speaker 1: marks in school or become the star of the class.
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  Speaker 1: What happens to them They become proud and hold their
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  Speaker 1: heads up high. Now that's a sin. It's a sin
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  Speaker 1: of pride. Don't forget that God doesn't like proud people.
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  Speaker 1: God punished Satan because he was proud. God punish the
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  Speaker 1: rightest star because it was proud. If you are proud,
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  Speaker 1: God may punish you too. Don't ever get the idea
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  Speaker 1: that you are better than any of your companions. If
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  Speaker 1: you have a better home or refiner clothes than your friends,
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  Speaker 1: you should thank God for being so good to you.
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  Speaker 1: If you can do things better or quicker than other children,
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  Speaker 1: it's because God has blessed you. Don't ever look down
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  Speaker 1: on your companions. Don't be proud. A proud child never
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  Speaker 1: has many friends. Remember God likes each star just as
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  Speaker 1: he made it, and God likes you just as He
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  Speaker 1: made you. The next time you are out at night,
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  Speaker 1: look up at the sky and see the beautiful stars.
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  Speaker 1: But don't try to look for that tiny star in
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  Speaker 1: the corner of the sky because you won't be able
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  Speaker 1: to find it. Let that tiny star teach you a lesson.
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  Speaker 1: Don't be proud. End of chapter seven. Chapter eight of
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  Speaker 1: Angel Food for Jack and Jill, Little Talks to Little
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  Speaker 1: Figs by Reverend gerald Ty Brennan. The slipprivox recording is
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  Speaker 1: in the public domain recording by Maria Therese. Chapter eight.
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  Speaker 1: The angel was silver wings. It was Christmas Eve in heaven.
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  Speaker 1: The angels had just finished preparing for the King's birthday,
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  Speaker 1: and they were waiting for the great feast, waiting for
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  Speaker 1: the time when they would play their music and sing
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  Speaker 1: their songs. Now an angel with silver wings stood close
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  Speaker 1: to the throne of God. I wonder what Christmas means
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  Speaker 1: to the people on earth, said the angel to some
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  Speaker 1: of his friends. Almighty God heard the angel and called
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  Speaker 1: the angel aside. You were wondering what Christmas means to
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  Speaker 1: the people on earth, said God to the angel with
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  Speaker 1: silver wings. Christmas means many things to the people on earth.
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  Speaker 1: Many people have forgotten the real meaning of Christmas. The
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  Speaker 1: angel was surprised, and God knew that the angel was disturbed.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to go down to earth, said God
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  Speaker 1: to the angel. I want you to find something for me.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, the angel didn't like the idea of leaving
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  Speaker 1: Heaven on Christmas Eve, but he agreed to go, and
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  Speaker 1: what do you think God wanted the Angel to do.
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  Speaker 1: God wanted the Angel to find one person on earth
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  Speaker 1: who knew the real meaning of Christmas. It was a
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  Speaker 1: cold night to leave heaven, but the Angel with silver
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  Speaker 1: wings flew quickly, and in a short time he was
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  Speaker 1: down on earth. He went directly to the city of Chicago,
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  Speaker 1: because the angel felt that there he would find someone
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  Speaker 1: who knew the meaning of Christmas. Of course, no one
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  Speaker 1: says all the angel. But as he hurried along, the
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  Speaker 1: Angel saw many people. Some looked tired, and others looked
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  Speaker 1: very happy. Merry Christmas. They called to one another, and
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  Speaker 1: the Angel smiled. The Angel stopped to listen to children
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  Speaker 1: playing in the streets. He went to their homes. He
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  Speaker 1: felt that some child might know the meaning of Christmas. Finally,
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  Speaker 1: the Angel found a boy, a boy by the name
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  Speaker 1: of Frank Murphy. Frank was happy because he had received
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  Speaker 1: so many fine presents, a bicycle, an electric train, a football, money,
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  Speaker 1: and some books. The wonder Frank was happy and excited.
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  Speaker 1: In the midst of his excitement, the Angel heard Frank say,
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  Speaker 1: I like Christmas because Christmas means lots of presents. The
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  Speaker 1: Angel was disappointed. He wrote in his little book the
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  Speaker 1: name of Frank Murphy, and what Christmas meant to the
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  Speaker 1: little boy. To Frank Murphy, Christmas meant lots of presents.
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  Speaker 1: Then the angel went to a large store. The store
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  Speaker 1: was closed and the clerks had gone home. But the
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  Speaker 1: angel found the owner of the store sitting in his office.
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  Speaker 1: And what do you suppose the owner of the store
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  Speaker 1: was doing. He was counting his money. The owner smiled
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  Speaker 1: as he counted thousands of dollars, and when he finished,
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  Speaker 1: the owner spoke aloud. Business was good this year. I
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  Speaker 1: made more money this Christmas than I did last year.
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  Speaker 1: The angel heard the man, and he wrote the man's
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  Speaker 1: name in his little book. To the owner of the store,
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  Speaker 1: Christmas meant money, lots of money. Once again, the angel
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  Speaker 1: was disappointed. But the angel didn't give up his search.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, he was determined to find someone who knew
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  Speaker 1: the real meaning of Christmas. And what do you think?
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  Speaker 1: The angel met a little girl carrying a basket. So
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: the angel followed the child up a narrow stairs, down
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  Speaker 1: a long hall, and into a room. A blind lady
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  Speaker 1: sat in the corner. Here are some cookie paes, said
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  Speaker 1: the girl to the blind lady. Mother said that I
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  Speaker 1: must be kind at Christmas. The Angel didn't wait to
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  Speaker 1: hear any more. To the girl with the basket, Christmas
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  Speaker 1: meant being kind to others. It was almost midnight, and
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: the angel's silver wings hadn't yet found any one who
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  Speaker 1: knew the real meaning of Christmas. The angel was tired
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  Speaker 1: and sad. Should he give up his search and go
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  Speaker 1: back to heaven. No, the Angel decided to remain on earth.
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  Speaker 1: He felt sure that he would meet some one who
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  Speaker 1: knew the real meaning of Christmas. The angel hurried along,
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  Speaker 1: and finally he came to a church. He entered the
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  Speaker 1: church and found a seat near the door. Oh, the
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  Speaker 1: church was beautiful with its flowers and lights. It was
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  Speaker 1: almost like Heaven. Now the angel was happy. He was
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  Speaker 1: happy because he was in God's house once again. The
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  Speaker 1: Angel was close to God. The mass began and the
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  Speaker 1: choir sang. Then the priest turned to speak to the people.
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  Speaker 1: And what did the priest say? In simple words? The
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  Speaker 1: priest told the world's greatest love story, the story of
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  Speaker 1: how Christ was born, the story of Bethlehem. The priest
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  Speaker 1: told how Jesus left his home in heaven and was
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  Speaker 1: born in a stable. He told about the shepherds who
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  Speaker 1: visited Jesus, and he told about the three Kings. God
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  Speaker 1: be came in on that first Christmas night, said the priest.
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  Speaker 1: Because he loves us. God came on earth to be
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  Speaker 1: near us, to show us the way to heaven. God
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  Speaker 1: came to teach us how to suffer. God came to
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  Speaker 1: die for us. When the Angel heard the priest's words,
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  Speaker 1: he smiled. At last, the Angel had found some one
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  Speaker 1: who knew the real meaning of Christmas. And when Mass
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  Speaker 1: was over, the Angel hurried from the church and flew
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  Speaker 1: back to Heaven. The Angel with silver wings told God
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  Speaker 1: everything that happened. He told God about Frank Murphy. He
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  Speaker 1: told about the man in the store. He told about
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  Speaker 1: the girl with the basket. When the Angel told God
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  Speaker 1: about the priest, do you know what God did? God
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  Speaker 1: wrote the name of that priest with letters of gold
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  Speaker 1: in his great Big book. The priest knew the real
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  Speaker 1: meaning of Christmas. Children, I think that by now you
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  Speaker 1: too know the real meaning of Christmas. God left heaven
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  Speaker 1: and making men. On Christmas Day. He was worn in
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  Speaker 1: a stable. His foster father was Joseph, and his mother
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  Speaker 1: was Merry. God came on earth to suffer to die
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  Speaker 1: on a cross to open for us the case of
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  Speaker 1: Heaven that children is the real meaning of Christmas. End
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  Speaker 1: of chapter eight. Chapter nine of Angel Food for Jack
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  Speaker 1: and Jill, Little Talks to Little Folks by Reverend Geraldy Brennan.
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: The slipprivox recording is in the public domain. Recording by
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  Speaker 1: Maria Therese. Chapter nine, A Mother for Easter. Carl Thompson
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  Speaker 1: was a little sad eyed boy. Karl not only had
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  Speaker 1: sad eyes, but he was sad insighed. The boy was
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  Speaker 1: sad because he wanted something, and he wanted that something
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  Speaker 1: more than anything else in the world. Most of you
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  Speaker 1: boys and girls have what Karl wanted, and I can
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  Speaker 1: understand why the ten year old boy was always sad.
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  Speaker 1: Listen to his story. Karl lived in a neat five
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  Speaker 1: room house with his grandfather and grandmother. Both grandparents were
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  Speaker 1: very old, and besides, his grandmother was very sick. The
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  Speaker 1: old people were good to the boy, but they were
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  Speaker 1: poor and they couldn't give him very much. But that
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  Speaker 1: really didn't bother Carl. But the boy wanted most of
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  Speaker 1: all was something that money cannot buy. Karl wanted his mother.
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  Speaker 1: All the other children had mothers, mothers who lived with them,
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  Speaker 1: played with them, went to church with them, Mothers who
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  Speaker 1: loved them, mothers whom they loved very much. Karl wished
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  Speaker 1: that he were like other children who knew that life
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  Speaker 1: would be doe fend if he only had his mother.
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  Speaker 1: Many times a little boy thought about his mother. He
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  Speaker 1: had never seen his mother, and he wondered about her.
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  Speaker 1: Was his mother tall or short? Was she kind and pleasant?
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  Speaker 1: Could she sing? Could his mother tell stories? Could she
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  Speaker 1: make apple pie and chocolate cake? Why did his mother
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  Speaker 1: stay away? Why didn't she ever come to visit him?
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: These and many more questions bothered the little boy and
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  Speaker 1: made him very unhappy. Oh how he wished that things
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  Speaker 1: would change. Carl Thompson wanted his mother. Well. One day,
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: Karl had an idea. It was a week before Easter,
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: and Karl decided to do something. Now you'll never guess
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  Speaker 1: what the little boy did, so I'll tell you. Carl
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  Speaker 1: wrote a letter. Yes, he wrote a letter to the newspaper.
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  Speaker 1: And here's what the little boy said. Dear mister, I
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: am a little boy ten years old and my name
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  Speaker 1: is Carl Thompson. I am sending you my picture and
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  Speaker 1: I want you to put it in the paper. Every
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  Speaker 1: one who has a mother has good luck. And I
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  Speaker 1: want my mother because my grandma is old and sick.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe my mother will see my picture in the paper
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  Speaker 1: and will come home for Easter. Please help me, mister,
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  Speaker 1: your little friend Carl Thompson. Yes, the newspaper man put
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  Speaker 1: Karl's picture in the paper, and thousands of people saw
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  Speaker 1: the picture and read about Karl. I suppose you are
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: wondering whether Karl's mother saw the picture. Well, here's what happened.
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: While Karl was eating his breakfast on Easter Sunday, the
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  Speaker 1: door opened and a very beautiful woman entered the room.
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  Speaker 1: Now I don't think that I have to tell you
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the story. Yes, the beautiful woman was
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  Speaker 1: the boy's mother, and Carl Thompson had his mother for Easter.
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: And that isn't all. Carl still has his mother, and
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  Speaker 1: to day, that little boy is the happiest in this world.
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  Speaker 1: Carl Thompson is happy because he has his mother. Boys
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  Speaker 1: and girls, we all have a mother, a very beautiful mother,
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  Speaker 1: the best mother in the world. The blessed Virgin Mary.
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  Speaker 1: The blessed Virgin belongs to each of us because Jesus
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  Speaker 1: gave her to us to be our mother. Mary loves us,
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  Speaker 1: she wants to be near us. She wants to help
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  Speaker 1: us save our souls. Mary is always around to help us. Mary,
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  Speaker 1: you know, never leaves us. But once in a while,
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  Speaker 1: some boys and girls leave Mary. They run away from
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  Speaker 1: their mother because they think they can get along without her. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: boys and girls run away from Mary when they don't
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  Speaker 1: pray to her. Of course, when boys and girls act
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  Speaker 1: that way, Mary worries because she knows that children need her.
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: Every mother worries about her children, and Mary doesn't want
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  Speaker 1: any of her children to get into trouble. So don't
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  Speaker 1: you ever make the mistake of running away from Mary.
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  Speaker 1: Children are always happy when they are with their mother.
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  Speaker 1: If you love Mary and keep close to her, you'll
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  Speaker 1: learn to hate sin, and you'll be the happiest boys
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  Speaker 1: and girls in this world. You can't love Mary and
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  Speaker 1: like sin too. That's why Jesus wants you to keep
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  Speaker 1: close to Mary. He knows that if you hate sin,
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  Speaker 1: you will save your soul. Boys and girls, pray to
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  Speaker 1: Mary every day. Ask Mary to be a real mother
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  Speaker 1: to you. Ask her to watch over you and protect
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  Speaker 1: you and keep you from sin. Remember, Mary is your
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  Speaker 1: best friend, and she will take you to Jesus, and
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  Speaker 1: that's what you want. It's a terrible thing to be
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  Speaker 1: without a mother, and it will be terrible for you
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: if you don't keep Mary for your mother. Mary, the
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: best mother in the world, want you to keep close
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  Speaker 1: to her. Keep close to Mary by praying to her often.
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: End of chapter nine. Chapter ten of Angel Food for
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: Jack and Jill, Little Talks to Little Folks by Reverend
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  Speaker 1: Gerald Brennan. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: Recording by Maria Therese. Chapter ten a box of Hail Mary's.
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  Speaker 1: A little old lady climbed up the steps of heaven.
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  Speaker 1: She was a tired old lady because she had spent
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  Speaker 1: seventy eight years on earth and had worked hard. She
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: had raised a family and had suffered much. Yes, she
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: was a tired old lady because she had just finished
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: a long journey. The old lady rang the bell, and
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: slowly the gates of heaven opened. An angel came to
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: meet her. We have been looking for you, smiled the angel.
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  Speaker 1: Come in and be happy forever. The woman passed through
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  Speaker 1: the gates of heaven and stopped to look, and while
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: she surprised, she had never seen anything like heaven. Everything
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: was so beautiful, everyone was so happy. Many times the
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: old lady had thought about heaven and wondered what it
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: is like. Now she knew now she was in heaven,
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: she could hardly believe it. The old lady walked a
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  Speaker 1: short distance, and then she stopped to ask the angel
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  Speaker 1: some questions. Why are all the other angels carrying packages?
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  Speaker 1: Where are they going? The angel smiled. You have come
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  Speaker 1: to Heaven on our lady's birthday, he answered, and the
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: angels are bringing gifts to Mary. Oh I can't stay,
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  Speaker 1: said the woman as she turned to leave. My clothes
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: are not very good, and I have no present for Mary.
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: The angel begged her to stay, but the woman shook
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: her head. But just then a very beautiful woman came
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  Speaker 1: toward them. Yes, the beautiful woman was Mary, and the
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: blessed Virgin was very kind to the old lady. Of course,
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: the little old lady wished Mary a happy birthday. She
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: told Mary that she was sorry that she didn't have
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: better clothes. If she had known that it was Mary's birthday,
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: she was certainly he had brought a gift. Oh, but
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: you did bring a gift, said the blessed Virgin Mary,
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  Speaker 1: your gift came to heaven before you arrived. The woman
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: was puzzled. She didn't understand Mary's words. The woman didn't
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: know anything about a gift, but she was sure that
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  Speaker 1: she had heard Mary say that a gift had arrived.
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: After some time, the angel gave the woman a beautiful robe.
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: She put on the robe, and I don't have to
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: tell you that the little old lady was happy. Yes,
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: she was very happy. But what do you think happened? Then?
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: The angel looked little old lady to Mary's throne, and
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: Mary placed a crown of gold on the lady's head,
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: a crown that hill diamonds and precious stones. And that
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: isn't all. Mary gave the little old lady a seat
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: of honor clothes to her throne. The old lady enjoyed
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: the music, and she liked the singing by the angel choirs.
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: She was anxious, however, to see Mary's gifts. Oh, there
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: were so many packages, so many birthday kifts. Why there
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: was a present from every one in heaven. Now, Mary
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: didn't try to open all the presents right away. But
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: there was one gift that Mary did open. It was
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: a golden box that had been carried by four angels
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: and placed at Mary's feet. No one knew what was
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: in the box, and all the angels wondered. I suppose
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: you too are wondering what was in that box. When
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: the Blessed Virgin opened the box, she smiled. Then she
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: closed the box and smiled again. Mary knew that all
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: her friends in heaven were wondering what was in the box,
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: so she raised her hand, and the music stopped. For
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: a moment, there was silence in heaven. Then Mary began
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: to speak. A little old lady said Mary, Yes, come
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: into heaven. This woman has brought a most beautiful gift,
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: a box of Hail Mary's. Every morning and night for
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: seventy years, this woman has said three Hail Mary's, and
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: all the Hail Mary's are in this box. While on earth,
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: this woman proved that she loved me. Now she has
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  Speaker 1: a place of honor in heaven. The little old lady
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: was certainly pleased with her first thing in heaven. Yes,
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: Mary's words were true. The woman had loved Mary on earth.
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  Speaker 1: Now she would be close to Mary forever. I wish
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: that you boys and girls would take that little old
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: lady's story and make it your story. You too should
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: love a blessed virgin Mary, and you should pray to
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: Mary every day. Remember, Mary is your mother, and every
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: child should love his mother. You should not only tell
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: Mary that you love her, but you should show Mary
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: that you love her. Show Mary that you love her
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: by keeping away from sin, because Mary hates sin. Show
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: Mary that you love her by praying to her every
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: single day. Let me make a suggestion. Why don't you
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: do what the little old lady did, say three Hail
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: Mary's to the blessed Virgin every morning and night. I
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  Speaker 1: know several people who do that, and they ask Mary
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  Speaker 1: to watch over them. They ask Mary to keep them
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  Speaker 1: from sin. They ask her to help them to save
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  Speaker 1: their souls. It doesn't take much time to say three
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  Speaker 1: Hail Mary's, but those three hill Marys will tell the
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  Speaker 1: blessed Virgin that you love her. Those three hill Mary's
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  Speaker 1: may help you to get into heaven. You know Mary
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  Speaker 1: takes care of her friends, but if you say those
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  Speaker 1: three hill Marys every morning and night, Mary will take
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  Speaker 1: care of you. Now, don't wait until tomorrow. Start to
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  Speaker 1: day and say those Hail Mary's every day. You may
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  Speaker 1: not go to heaven on Mary's birthday. But when you
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  Speaker 1: do go, I hope Mary will be as anxious to
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  Speaker 1: see you as she was to see the little old lady.
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  Speaker 1: Mary will be waiting for you in heaven if you
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  Speaker 1: send ahead a box of hail Mary's end of chapter ten.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter eleven of Angel Foo for Jack and Jill, Little
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  Speaker 1: Talks to Little Folks by Reverend Gerald T. Brennan. This
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Recording by Maria Therese,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter eleven, Two Bags of Peanuts. The other afternoon, I
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  Speaker 1: drove to Webster Park. I go there every year during
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: the month of October. At this time of the year,
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  Speaker 1: it's always quiet and peaceful in the park, and it's
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  Speaker 1: a grand place to spend an hour. First of all,
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: I parked my car and went for a short walk.
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  Speaker 1: Then I bought two bags of peanuts. Now, don't get
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  Speaker 1: the idea that I bought the peanuts for myself. Oh No,
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  Speaker 1: I bought the peanuts for well, you'll never guess. I
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  Speaker 1: found a bench and sat down to rest. I was
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  Speaker 1: all alone, that is, I was alone for a short time.
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  Speaker 1: Then I had company. A couple of squirrels played in
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  Speaker 1: the grass. Before me, and little by little they came
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  Speaker 1: closer and closer. When the squirrels were a few feet
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  Speaker 1: away from me, they sat down and watched me. Say, father,
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  Speaker 1: They seemed to ask, haven't you got anything good for us?
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  Speaker 1: I certainly did have something good for my two little friends,
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  Speaker 1: didn't I have two bags of peanuts? Well? I opened
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  Speaker 1: one of the bags and threw some peanuts to the squirrels.
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  Speaker 1: Then what happened? Squirrels came running from all directions, little
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  Speaker 1: gray squirrels and big gray squirrels, Mamma squirrels and Papa squirrels,
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  Speaker 1: long tailed squirrels and short tail squirrels, young squirrels and
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  Speaker 1: old squirrels, and then all stopped in front of me.
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  Speaker 1: What did the squirrels want? The squirrels wanted peanuts. For
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: a few minutes, I had a lot of fun. Every
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  Speaker 1: time I threw some peanuts to the squirrels, there was
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  Speaker 1: a wild scramble. Those squirrels certainly did like peanuts. But
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: do you know what I noticed? The squirrels looked carefully
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  Speaker 1: at each peanut, and they ate only the peanuts with
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: holes or cracks. Whenever a squirrel found a peanut without
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: holes or cracks. He kept that peanut and hurried away
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: to hide it. Each squirrel had its own hiding place.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: When a squirrel hit his peanut, he came back for more. Finally,
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: my peanuts were gone. The bags were empty, and the
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: squirrels seemed very sad. They watched me for a long time,
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  Speaker 1: but I had no more peanuts. The fun was over,
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  Speaker 1: and I am sure that the squirrels were disappointed. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I think that those squirrels were very wise. They knew
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  Speaker 1: that the peanuts with holes or cracks would not keep,
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  Speaker 1: so they ate them. But the squirrels stowed away the
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: good peanuts, the peanuts with no holes nor cracks. They
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  Speaker 1: knew the good peanuts would keep during the winter. You know,
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: squirrels have many chances to collect food, so squirrels have
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  Speaker 1: to store away food enough to last them all winter.
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  Speaker 1: That's why my little friends in the park hid their
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  Speaker 1: good peanuts. They were looking ahead. They were thinking about
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  Speaker 1: the long winter. The squirrels are storing up for the future.
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  Speaker 1: Don't you think that you boys and girls can learn
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  Speaker 1: a very good lesson from the squirrels in the park.
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  Speaker 1: I think you can. Every time you do something good,
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  Speaker 1: you are storing up for the future. You know, God
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  Speaker 1: pays you for being good. God pays you for doing good.
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  Speaker 1: Every prayer you say, every mass you hear, every communion
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  Speaker 1: you receive, stores up grace for you. Every time you obey,
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  Speaker 1: every time you are honest, every time you speak the truth,
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  Speaker 1: you store up grace for your soul. After you die, children,
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  Speaker 1: you will have no more chances to earn grace for
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  Speaker 1: your soul. You must earn grace now. Each day the
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  Speaker 1: squirrels in the park prepare for winter, and each day
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  Speaker 1: you must prepare for heaven. You can't afford to lose
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  Speaker 1: any time. Don't get the idea that you are going
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  Speaker 1: to live for a long time and that you will
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  Speaker 1: have plenty of time to earn grace for your soul.
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  Speaker 1: You don't know how much time God will give you
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  Speaker 1: to save your soul, So don't let a day go
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  Speaker 1: by without doing something good. Earn grace now and store
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  Speaker 1: it away for the future. Wise squirrels look out for
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  Speaker 1: the future, and wise boys and girls look out for
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  Speaker 1: the future too. You want to go to heaven, well,
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: now is the time to prepare for heaven. Now is
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: the time to store up grace. Make every day count,
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  Speaker 1: and that every day, bring you close to the Christ
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: and your home in Heaven. Store up grace every day,
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  Speaker 1: and don't forget the lesson I learned while feeding squirrels
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  Speaker 1: two bags of peanuts end of chapter eleven. Chapter twelve
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  Speaker 1: of Angel Food for Jack and Jill, Little Talks to
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  Speaker 1: Little Folks by Reverend Gerald T. Brinnan. This LibriVox recording
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  Speaker 1: is in the public domain. Recording by Maria Teres, Chapter twelve,
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  Speaker 1: The Penny Man. During the past twenty years, a Cleveland
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: man has been a happy miser. During all that time,
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: this man has never spent a cent. That's right, during
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: the past twenty years, this Cleveland man has never spent
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  Speaker 1: a penny. Most misers you know are very unhappy. They
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: think only about money, how they can make more money,
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: how they can save more money than two. Misers are
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: always worrying about their money because they are afraid that
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: they are going to lose it. That's why most misers
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: are unhappy. But this Cleveland man is a different kind
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: of miser. He's a happy miser in he never spends
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  Speaker 1: a cent. This man saves every penny he gets when
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: he goes to the store, when he buys gasoline, when
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: he goes to the movies. He never spends the pennies
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: he receives and change he saves them. Of course, the
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  Speaker 1: man spends nickels, dimes, quarters, and dollar bills. He buys
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  Speaker 1: whatever he needs, but he never uses pennies. What does
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  Speaker 1: the man do with his pennies. Well, this man has
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  Speaker 1: a large iron bank, and he puts every penny he
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  Speaker 1: gets into the bank. Now the man doesn't save those
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  Speaker 1: pennies for himself, Oh no, the man saves the pennies
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  Speaker 1: for some of his little friends. Once a year, the
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  Speaker 1: poor children of Cleveland have a picnic. The day before
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: the picnic, the man who saves pennies opens his iron
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  Speaker 1: bank and finds hundreds of pennies that he has saved
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: during the year. The next day, the man goes to
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  Speaker 1: the children's picnic, and he carries his pennies in a
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  Speaker 1: wooden box. When the children see their friend, they shout, yell,
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  Speaker 1: here comes the penny man. Here comes the penny Man.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: Then the children run and crowd around the smiling miser
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  Speaker 1: with his famous box of pennies. The man takes the
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: cover off his box and throws pennies in all directions.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, there is a wild scramble. The children shout
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  Speaker 1: and laugh as they try to catch the pennies and
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: pick them off the ground. The penny scramble lasts for
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  Speaker 1: some time until the box is empty, and by that
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  Speaker 1: time every boy and girl has a good number of
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  Speaker 1: precious pennies. Each year, the children watch for the penny Man.
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  Speaker 1: They know that he will always come to their picnic.
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  Speaker 1: They know too that the penny Man will always have
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  Speaker 1: plenty of pennies for all of them. Never once has
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  Speaker 1: the penny Man disappointed the children. He is always on
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  Speaker 1: the job making children happy and making himself happy too
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  Speaker 1: with his box of pennies. Children, do you know that
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  Speaker 1: the penny Man acts very much like God? Oh? I
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  Speaker 1: don't mean that God saves pennies and throws them away
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  Speaker 1: to little boys and girls. But I do mean that
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  Speaker 1: God has saved a lot of grace for each one
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: of you. When God died on the cross on that
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  Speaker 1: first Good Friday, he did something good. In fact, God's
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: death on the cross was the greatest thing that ever happened. Now,
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: God should have received a great amount of grace for
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: dying on the cross, but God didn't need that grace.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: God could get into heaven without that grace. So what
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: did God do? God saved that grace that he earned
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: by dying on the cross, and he saved that grace
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: for you. Anytime you want some of that grace, you
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: can have it. You can have that grace by receiving
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: the sacraments. God gives you grace through the sacraments. Every
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: time you receive one of the sacraments, you receive grace
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  Speaker 1: in your soul. You don't have to wait a whole
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  Speaker 1: year to receive some of God's grace. Oh No. If
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: you receive holy comnion every day, you receive some of
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: God's grace every day. If you go to confession once
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  Speaker 1: a week, you receive grace once a week. Yes, every
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: time you receive one of the sacraments, you receive grace.
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: God made the seven sacraments to help you obtain grace.
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  Speaker 1: Boys and girls, you need grace for your soul, and
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  Speaker 1: you can never have too much grace. God's grace will
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: buy your way into heaven. That's why you should try
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: to receive as much grace as possible. That's why you
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: should go to confession and receive all the communion often.
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  Speaker 1: If you receive these sacraments often, you will find it
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: easy to get to Heaven. The children at the picnic
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: try hard to get the penny man's pennies. You should
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: try hard to get God's grace by receiving the sacraments often.
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  Speaker 1: End of chapter twelve. Chapter thirteen of Angel Food for
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  Speaker 1: Chack and Jill Little Talks to Little Folks by Reverend
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  Speaker 1: Gerald to Brennan. This liprivox recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: Recording by Maria Theres, Chapter thirteen, thirty five cakes. Every
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: boy and girl likes a picnic. A picnic means lots
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: of fun. It's fun to go to a park and
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: be outdoors. It's fun to swim, run races, and play games.
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: But I think the best part of any picnic is
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: the lunch. Children always get very hungry at picnics, and
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: the lunch is a very important part of every picnic.
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  Speaker 1: Last June, the sixth grade of a certain school had
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: a picnic. Before the picnic, the boys and girls had
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: quite a few meetings and made their plans. They planned
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: their games for the great event, and decided what they
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: would do when they went to the park. What about
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: the lunch, asked one little fellow at one of the
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  Speaker 1: meetings that was an important question and had brought all
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: kinds of answers. Some children went at pickles and others
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: went at olives. Some wanted ham sandwiches and others won
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: at cheese. One wanted watermelon and another wanted pie. It
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: seemed as though each child when it's something different, So
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: the children decided that each child should bring something to
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  Speaker 1: eat whatever he wished, and then the food would be
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  Speaker 1: placed on a table and shared by all. Each child
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: went home and told his mother that he had to
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: bring some food for the picnic, and each child left
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: it to his mother to decide just what that would be.
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  Speaker 1: The sixth graders had a grand day for their picnic.
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  Speaker 1: The thirty five boys and girls left school about ten
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  Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning and rode by bus to the park.
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: Each child carried a cardboard box or a basket that
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: had been carefully packed by his mother. The children, judging
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  Speaker 1: the sizes of the different packages, felt pretty sure that
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: they would have plenty to eat at the park. The
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: boys had a ball game and it was certainly exciting.
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: Then they had races for boys and others for girls.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: Some of the children went for a swim a couple
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: of boys even went fishing. The children had a fine
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: time at their picnic, and by one o'clock they were
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: all very hungry. The children sang songs while the sisters
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: opened the lunch boxes and baskets. No one noticed that
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: the sisters looked worried as they went about their work.
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: The sisters opened box after box and basket after basket.
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: Finally they finished and one of the sisters threw up
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: her hands. What's the matter, sister caught up, Freddy Carpenter.
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: Is there something wrong? Sister Helen Roberta was almost in tears.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: She nodded her head. There was something wrong. What do
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: you think? Each child had brought food for the picnic,
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: But there were no pickles, no olives, no ham sandwiches,
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: no cheese sandwiches, no sandwiches of any kind. There were
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: no potato chips, no baked beans, no salad, no bread,
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: no fruit. Well, I suppose you were wondering what the
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: children did bring. Believe it or not, each child brought
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  Speaker 1: the same thing for the picnic. Each child bought a cake,
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: and all there were thirty five cakes. Thirty five cakes chocolate, coconut,
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: banana and vanilla cakes. Plain cakes, frosty cakes, and cakes
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: with nuts on them. Why the picnic table looked like
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: a bakery. Cakes, cakes, cakes, thirty five of them. That's
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: all there was to eat, thirty five cakes for a picnic.
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  Speaker 1: What did the children do? Well, there was only one
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  Speaker 1: thing that the children could do, and they did it.
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: They ate cake. They ate all kinds of cakes. Even
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: the sisters ate cake, and they pretended to like it.
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: Cake and cake alone certainly wasn't the right food for
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: a picnic lunch. But what else could the children and
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: sisters do. They just had to eat cake. Now, every
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: boy and girl likes cake, but too much cake is
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 1: not good. I don't have to tell you that there
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: were a good many stomach aches at the picnic that afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: There were too many stomach aches because there were too
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: many cakes. Sister Helen Roberta should have told each child
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  Speaker 1: just what to bring for the picnic. She should have
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: told Peter to bring a cake. She should have told
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: Mary to bring sandwiches. She should have asked Margaret to
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: bring some salad, and Henry should have brought the pickles.
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  Speaker 1: If Sister Helen Roberta had done that, then the children
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  Speaker 1: would have had a grand picnic lunch, and there would
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  Speaker 1: have been fewer stomach aches. Whether you get up a
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  Speaker 1: picnic lunch, have a scout meeting, or play a game
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: of ball, it's the way you do it that counts.
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  Speaker 1: There must be someone in charge and then things will
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  Speaker 1: run smoothly. There is order in the Catholic Church because
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  Speaker 1: there is someone in charge. The Pope is in charge
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: of the church, and he rolls the church for Christ.
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: When Jesus was on earth, he taught certain things and
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: pointed out certain things that people must do in order
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  Speaker 1: to get to Heaven, and Jesus wants the people who
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: live here now to know just what he taught. So
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  Speaker 1: Jesus has placed the pope in charge of the church,
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: and the pope teaches the people what Jesus taught. Of course,
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: the pope has helpers. He has bishops and priests under him,
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: and they help the Pope to teach. The bishops and
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: priests can't teach just anything they wish. They must teach
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  Speaker 1: what Jesus taught, and the Pope make sure that the
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: bishops and priests teach correctly. The pope takes Christ's place
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  Speaker 1: in the church. And because the pope is in charge.
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: Everything in the church runs smoothly and there are no mistakes.
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 1: The sixth grade picnic was a failure because there was
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: no one in charge of the lunch. There is always
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  Speaker 1: someone in charge of the Catholic Church. The Pope is
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: in charge, and he rules in guise the Catholic Church.
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  Speaker 1: For Christ. The Pope is our leader, our guide. He
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  Speaker 1: shows us the way to heaven. If we follow the
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: Pope's directions, we will make no mistakes and we will
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  Speaker 1: save our souls. End of chapter thirteen fourteen of Angel
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  Speaker 1: Foo for Jack and Jill Little Talks to Little Folks
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  Speaker 1: by Reverend Gerald Ty Brennan. The slipprivox recording is in
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  Speaker 1: the public domain recording by Maria Therese. Chapter fourteen Chippy.
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  Speaker 1: Eddie Cooper wanted a pet for his son, Teddy, who
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  Speaker 1: was seven months old. So Eddie decided to buy a dog.
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: He looked at all kinds of dogs, and finally, one
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  Speaker 1: day he bought a small puppy. Eddie named the dog Chippy.
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  Speaker 1: Now I don't have to tell you that little Teddy
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: Cooper and Chippy became very good friends. The dog and
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 1: the boy were always together. During the day, they played together,
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  Speaker 1: and at night the dog slept under the little boy's bed.
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: When Teddy was old enough to walk, Chippy was always
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: by his side. They were two good friends who grew
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: up together, two friends who loved each other. Chippy always
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: took pretty good care of his little friend. When Chippy
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: thought Teddy was hungry, he brought him an apple. When
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 1: the boy lost one of his toys, Chippy always found
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: it for him. When it was time to get ready
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 1: for bed, Chippy found the boy's slippers and held them
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 1: in his mouth. These things happened day after day. They
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: were the dog's way as showing his friend that he
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 1: loved him. Of course, Teddy was very good to the
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: dog too. He was always kind when he played with
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: the dog. He was never rough, and he never did
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: anything to hurt his pet in any way. Teddy petted
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: the dog often, and he did his very best to
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: make the dog happy. For six long years, Teddy Cooper
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  Speaker 1: and Chippy were friends. Then something terrible happened. Teddy Cooper
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  Speaker 1: became very sick. For seven weeks, Teddy suffered night and day.
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  Speaker 1: The doctors and nurses tried hard to help the little boy,
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  Speaker 1: but God want it. Teddy in heaven and God had
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  Speaker 1: his way, so the dog was left behind. Chippy was
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  Speaker 1: a sad dog without Teddy. For three days, the dog
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  Speaker 1: stayed under the boy's bed and wouldn't eat. Chippy had
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  Speaker 1: lost his best friend and he found it hard to
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  Speaker 1: live without him. Then the dog began to act very strangely.
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  Speaker 1: Each morning, the dog disappeared, but he always came back
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  Speaker 1: at night. No one knew where the dog went, No
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  Speaker 1: one knew where the dog spent his time. One day,
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  Speaker 1: Missus Cooper discovered that some of Teddy's toys and pieces
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  Speaker 1: of clothing were missing. She looked all over the house
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  Speaker 1: but couldn't find them. Finally, she spoke to one of
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  Speaker 1: the neighbors, and what do you think? The neighbor told
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  Speaker 1: missus Cooper that she had seen Chippy going down the
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  Speaker 1: street with a slipper in his mouth. So the next morning,
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  Speaker 1: Missus Cooper watched the dog, and sure enough, she saw
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  Speaker 1: Tippy leave the house with the cap in his mouth.
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  Speaker 1: There was only one thing for missus Cooper to do.
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  Speaker 1: She followed the dog and where do you think the
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  Speaker 1: dog led her? Chippy led her to Teddy's grave and
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  Speaker 1: was Missus Cooper surprised? They are on the grave. The
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  Speaker 1: woman found several toys, a rubber, a slipper, and two socks.
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  Speaker 1: The dog carried all these things to the boy's grave.
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  Speaker 1: Chippy thought his friend needed his toys in clothing. Even
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  Speaker 1: though Teddy was dead, Chippy didn't forget his friend. The
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  Speaker 1: dog was faithful to his friend and tried to help him,
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  Speaker 1: but the graves stopped the kind little animal. When our
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  Speaker 1: friends die, children, the grave doesn't stop us. Oh no,
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  Speaker 1: when our friends die, we can still help them. We
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  Speaker 1: can help them by our prayers. What about your friends
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  Speaker 1: who have died? Have you forgotten them? Do you ever
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  Speaker 1: pray for your friends who have passed away? Your friends
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  Speaker 1: may be suffering in purgatory, and they may need your prayers.
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  Speaker 1: The souls in purgatory cannot pray for themselves, but you
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  Speaker 1: can pray for them. You can help them in their sufferings.
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  Speaker 1: You can shorten their time in purgatory. The dog in
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  Speaker 1: our story thought that he was helping his little friend,
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  Speaker 1: but really he wasn't helping him. That isn't the way
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  Speaker 1: it is with us. We really can't help our dead.
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  Speaker 1: If you know someone who is suffering, wouldn't you help him?
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  Speaker 1: Certainly you would well. The souls in purgatory are suffering,
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  Speaker 1: and they are crying out to you for help. They
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  Speaker 1: want your prayers, lots of prayers, because your prayers will
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  Speaker 1: send them to God. Boys and girls, there are many
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  Speaker 1: souls in purgatory who have no one to pray for them.
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  Speaker 1: They suffer and suffer and suffer. Perhaps a few prayers
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  Speaker 1: from you will get one of those souls into heaven.
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  Speaker 1: Why don't you try to get that soul into Heaven
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  Speaker 1: to day? Say some prayers of the poor souls during
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  Speaker 1: Mass this morning. Remember them in your prayers tonight. Remember
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  Speaker 1: the poor souls every day. Prayer is a wonderful thing. Prayer.
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  Speaker 1: It does wonderful things for people who live on earth,
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  Speaker 1: and it helps the dead too. So get busy with
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  Speaker 1: your prayers. Pray for your own dead first, then pray
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  Speaker 1: for the poor souls in purgatory. The poor souls need
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  Speaker 1: your help. They need your prayers. End of chapter fourteen.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter fifteen of Angel Food for Jack and Jill, Little
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  Speaker 1: Talks to Little Folks by Reverend Gerald T. Brennan. The
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  Speaker 1: Slipper Fox recording is in the public domain. Recording by
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  Speaker 1: Maria Therese. Chapter fifteen Marty's First Mass, Marty Lee a
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  Speaker 1: boy about ten lived in a small town just outside
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  Speaker 1: New York City. Marty was not an altar boy, but
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  Speaker 1: he was studying to be an altar boy. Twice a
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  Speaker 1: week he went to Father Howard's class to learn how
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  Speaker 1: to serve at the altar, and every night the boy
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  Speaker 1: studied the prayers of the Mass. Marty was very anxious
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  Speaker 1: to be an ultar boy, and he could hardly wait
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  Speaker 1: for the day when he would serve his first Mass.
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  Speaker 1: Easter Sunday came and Marty went with his father and
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  Speaker 1: mother to ten o'clock Mass. Now Marty didn't sit in
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  Speaker 1: the pew with his parents. Oh no, the little fellow
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  Speaker 1: sat in one of the first pews with the other children.
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  Speaker 1: He liked to sit up in the front. There he
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  Speaker 1: could watch the boy serving at the altar. The church
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  Speaker 1: bell rang at ten o'clock, but Mass didn't begin at once.
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  Speaker 1: There was a wait of several minutes, and Marty wondered
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  Speaker 1: why Father Howard didn't begin the Mass. Finally, the door
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  Speaker 1: opened and Father Howard walked out alone. The priest didn't
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  Speaker 1: go to the altar as usual, but instead he turned
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  Speaker 1: toward the people. This is Easter Sunday. The priest said,
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  Speaker 1: and no boy has come to serve my mass. Is
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  Speaker 1: there anyone in the church who can serve my mass?
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  Speaker 1: Father Howard waited, and no one offered to serve the mass.
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  Speaker 1: Then the priest looked down at the children in the
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  Speaker 1: front pews, and sure enough he saw Marty Lee. Marty
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  Speaker 1: said the priest softly, come and serve my mass. Marty's
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  Speaker 1: heart jumped and his face turned. He had never served
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  Speaker 1: Mass before, and now Father Howard wanted him to serve
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  Speaker 1: on Easter Sunday. The little fellow left his pew and
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  Speaker 1: hurried into the vestry, where Father Howard helped him to dress. Now,
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  Speaker 1: don't be nervous, Marty smiled the priest as he patted
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  Speaker 1: the boy on the shoulder and both started for the altar.
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  Speaker 1: The Mass began, and little Marty felt that every eye
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  Speaker 1: in the church was on him. Was he nervous? Certainly
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  Speaker 1: he was nervous. He was so nervous that he was
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  Speaker 1: scared and afraid. The little fellow stumbled through the Latin
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  Speaker 1: prayers as best he could, and he tried to remember
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  Speaker 1: everything that Father Howard had taught him. When Marty changed
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  Speaker 1: the book, he tripped and almost fell. But I guess
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  Speaker 1: this guardian angel saved him. Only once did the little
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  Speaker 1: fellow make a mistake. He rang the bell at the
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  Speaker 1: wrong time. Otherwise he did very well. You can bet
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  Speaker 1: that Marty was mighty happy when Mass was over and
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  Speaker 1: he was back in the vestry. Marty, you did very well,
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  Speaker 1: said Father Howard with a smile. Gee, but I was
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  Speaker 1: awful nervous, answered the boy. Maybe I'll do better the
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  Speaker 1: next time. Marty changed his clothes and he was about
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  Speaker 1: to leave for whom when the priest handed him a
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  Speaker 1: white box in an envelope. I had these for my
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  Speaker 1: regular altar boy, the priest said to Marty, but you
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  Speaker 1: certainly deserved them. The boy thanked the priest, and on
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  Speaker 1: his way home, Marty opened the white box and he
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  Speaker 1: found in it a large chocolate egg. Now I suppose
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  Speaker 1: you are wondering what the boy found in the envelope. Well,
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  Speaker 1: when Marty opened the envelope, he could hardly believe his eyes.
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  Speaker 1: He looked a second time to be sure. Yes, he
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  Speaker 1: had made no mistake. Marty found a five dollar bill
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  Speaker 1: in the envelope and a beautiful Easter card. Father Howard
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  Speaker 1: had written on the card these words happy Easter to
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  Speaker 1: a boy who served well. Did Marty Lee have a
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  Speaker 1: happy Easter? Well, he certainly did have a happy Easter.
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  Speaker 1: Marty was the happiest boy in that town, happy because
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  Speaker 1: he has served his first Mass, and he has served
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  Speaker 1: it alone. Not only had Marty served his first Mass,
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  Speaker 1: but Father Howard had rewarded him. He received the large
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  Speaker 1: chocolate egg in a five dollar bill because he served well.
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  Speaker 1: Father Howard, you know, isn't the only one who gives
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  Speaker 1: a reward for serving well. Almighty God does the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: God rewars every one who serves him well. And God's
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  Speaker 1: reward is the best reward of all. God's reward is heaven.
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  Speaker 1: There is only one thing that God asks you to do.
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  Speaker 1: He asks you to serve him well. How do you
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  Speaker 1: serve God well? By keeping his laws, by saying your prayers,
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  Speaker 1: by going to Mass on Sunday, by receiving the sacraments.
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  Speaker 1: God wants you to have lots of fun during your life,
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  Speaker 1: but he doesn't want you to forget him. He wants
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  Speaker 1: you to love him and he wants you to serve him.
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  Speaker 1: Don't forget that. God has promised a reward to those
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  Speaker 1: who serve him well, and that reward is heaven. You
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  Speaker 1: can't buy your way into heaven. You must earn your
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  Speaker 1: way into heaven. You must serve God, not once in
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  Speaker 1: a while, but every single day. If you are faithful
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  Speaker 1: to God in all things, if you'll serve him well,
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  Speaker 1: you're bound to go to heaven. Some day you will
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  Speaker 1: stand before God, and God will judge you for every thought,
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  Speaker 1: word and action of your whole life. I hope that
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  Speaker 1: when you stand before God, he will smile on you
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  Speaker 1: and will reward you with a place in Heaven. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: Heaven is God's reward for boys and girls who serve well.
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  Speaker 1: End of chapter fifteen. Chapter sixteen of Angel Fu for
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  Speaker 1: Jack and Jill Little Talks to Little Folks by Reverend
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 1: Geraldine Brennan. The sliprivox recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: Recording by Maria Therese, Chapter sixteen, the Saturday Mornings. I
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  Speaker 1: suppose many of you boys and girls have a pet.
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  Speaker 1: I know that some of you have a dog and
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  Speaker 1: some have a cat. Maybe you have a canary bird
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  Speaker 1: that sings well. In my house, we have no pets.
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  Speaker 1: I used to have a dog, but I don't have
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  Speaker 1: a dog. Now I don't have a cat, and I
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  Speaker 1: don't have a canary bird. However, I do have a
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  Speaker 1: pet that visits my house every day. Several months ago,
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  Speaker 1: a strange cat came up on my side porch and
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  Speaker 1: began to cry. My housekeeper felt sorry for the cat,
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  Speaker 1: and she gave the cat some milk. The cat drank
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  Speaker 1: the milk and then went away. And next morning the
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 1: cat came back and once again the housekeeper gave him
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  Speaker 1: some milk. After the cat drank the milk, he went away. Now,
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  Speaker 1: don't get the idea that that was the last time
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  Speaker 1: we saw that cat. No, sir. Every morning, that cat
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  Speaker 1: came to the porch, and every morning the housekeeper fed him.
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  Speaker 1: After several days, we found out where the cat lived why.
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  Speaker 1: The cat lived away down on the end of the street,
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  Speaker 1: and his name was Tiger. For several months now, Tiger
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  Speaker 1: had been coming to our house every morning for breakfast,
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 1: and his usual breakfast is a dish of milk. But
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 1: here's something that will make you smile. We always have
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  Speaker 1: fish on Friday, and most of the time there is
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  Speaker 1: some fish left. So when Tiger comes on Saturday morning,
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  Speaker 1: he finds a special treat waiting for him. He finds
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  Speaker 1: not only milk, but he finds fish too. And Tiger
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 1: certainly likes fish. But do you know what Tiger does
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 1: on Saturday morning? First of all, he drinks his milk,
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  Speaker 1: Then the cat disappears. Where does he go? Well, you'll
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 1: be surprised. Tiger has a friend down the street. And
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 1: Tiger's friend likes a fish too, So every Saturday morning,
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  Speaker 1: Tiger goes and calls his friend. Then the two cats
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  Speaker 1: hurry to my side porch and they eat fish together.
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  Speaker 1: Now can't you see why I like Tiger? Yes, Tiger
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  Speaker 1: is an unusual cat. He's not selfish. He likes fish,
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  Speaker 1: but he likes to share his fish with his friend. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I think Tiger can teach you, boys and girls a
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  Speaker 1: very good lesson. Boys and girls, we all like people
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  Speaker 1: who are generous and kind, and you should be generous
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  Speaker 1: and kind. That doesn't mean that you have to give
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  Speaker 1: away everything you own, oh no, But it does mean
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  Speaker 1: that you should share with others. You should let other
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  Speaker 1: children play with your toys, and you should let them
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  Speaker 1: play in your games. You should be generous with your
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  Speaker 1: apples and give others some of your candy. You should
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  Speaker 1: teach children how to skate or ride a bicycle. You
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  Speaker 1: should help your friends with their work. Oh, there are
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  Speaker 1: so many ways by which you can share with others,
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  Speaker 1: so many ways by which you can help others, so
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 1: many ways by which you can be generous and kind. Remember, children,
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  Speaker 1: there are many boys and girls who don't have as
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  Speaker 1: much as you have. If you will share your things
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  Speaker 1: with others, you'll feel a lot better inside. You will
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  Speaker 1: not only make others happy, but you'll make yourself happy too.
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  Speaker 1: If you will share with your friends, your friends will
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  Speaker 1: share with you. Above all, be sure to share with
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  Speaker 1: your brothers and sisters. You love them more than anyone
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  Speaker 1: else in this world. If you will share with your family,
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  Speaker 1: you'll have a happy home. You don't like anyone who
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  Speaker 1: is selfish. You don't like a stingy person. You don't
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  Speaker 1: want to play with a stingy person, or a selfish person.
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  Speaker 1: You keep away from him. Isn't that true? Certainly it
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  Speaker 1: is well. If you are stingy and selfish, other boys
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  Speaker 1: and girls won't like you. They'll keep away from you,
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 1: and you don't want that to happen. You children are
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  Speaker 1: trying to walk on the footsteps of Jesus. Well, Jesus
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  Speaker 1: was always kind. He was kind to everybody. He was
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 1: kind even to those who hated him. Jesus was always
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 1: trying to help others. If you will be kind to others,
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  Speaker 1: you'll be doing just what Jesus did, and Jesus will
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  Speaker 1: bless you for it. The best way to be what
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  Speaker 1: kind is to share with your friends. Don't be thinking
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  Speaker 1: about yourself all the time. Think about others and share.
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  Speaker 1: End of chapter sixteen. Chapter seventeen of Angel Food for
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  Speaker 1: Jack and Jill, Little Talks to Little Folks by Reverend
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 1: Gerald T. Brennan. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: Recording by Maria Teres. Chapter seventeen, The Boy who Saved Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: Eddie Moore believed in Christmas. He knew that Christmas was
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 1: the birthday of Jesus, and he also knew that Santa
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  Speaker 1: Claus visited the homes of children on Christmas Eve and
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 1: left presents. Now, Eddie's mother was too poor to buy
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 1: presents for the boy, but the little fellow was sure
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 1: that Santa Claus would take care of everything. He wanted
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 1: Santa to bring him a sled, a drum, a red auto,
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  Speaker 1: and a box of candy. Eddie felt that those things
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  Speaker 1: would make him very happy. The little boy went to
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  Speaker 1: bed early on Christmas Eve, before he went to bed,
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 1: he hung his stockings from a shelf in the kitchen.
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 1: Then he said his prayers, and soon the boy was
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 1: sound asleep. All through that long night, Eddie dreamed about
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 1: sleds and drums and red attoes and boxes of candy.
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 1: The next morning, Eddie awoke very early. He jumped out
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  Speaker 1: of bed and ran to the kitchen. There the boy
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 1: found his stocking just as he had left it the
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 1: night before, and the stocking was empty. There was no sled,
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 1: no drum, no red atto, no box of candy. Eddie
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 1: was heartbroken, and how he cried. The boy was puzzled.
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 1: He couldn't understand why Santa Claus had forgotten him. Without
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 1: a doubt, Eddie Moore was the saddest boy in this
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 1: whole whole world. After Mass, Eddie met some of his friends.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, they all talked about their presence. Eddie this
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  Speaker 1: but said nothing. He felt worse then than when he
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 1: found the empty stocking. While they were talking, one of
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  Speaker 1: the boys said that Santa Claus would be at the
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 1: Fireman's Club that night, and that he would have more
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 1: toys and presents. Eddie's eyes sparkled and his heart beat faster.
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 1: Eddie wanted to go to the Fireman's Club. He wanted
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 1: to see Santa Claus. Perhaps this time Santa would have
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 1: something for him. The Fireman's Club was near Eddie's home,
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 1: and the boy's mother agreed to let him go to
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 1: the Christmas party. That was good news for Eddie, and
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 1: the boy lived in hope through that long Christmas afternoon.
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 1: Surely he felt Santa Claus will not forget me again.
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 1: That night, Eddie went to the Fireman's Club with a
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 1: shining face and his hair well combed and brushed. His
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 1: heart was light and happy. The boy entered the club
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 1: and sat alone. He listened to the music and singing,
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 1: but kept his eyes fixed on the tall Christmas tree
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 1: that stood in the center of the stage. After some time,
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 1: sleigh bells began to ring. There was silence in the hall,
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  Speaker 1: and then cheers as Santa Claus walked across the stage.
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 1: He carried a large bag filled with toys and presents.
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  Speaker 1: Little Eddie stood up and his heart pounded within him.
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 1: He heard Santa call the names of boys and girls.
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  Speaker 1: Now there was one thing that Eddie didn't know. He
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 1: didn't know that the boys and girls called were all
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 1: children whose fathers were firemen. Eddie saw Santa Claus gives
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 1: gates to Tommy, a doll to Helen, a football to Johnny,
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 1: a drum to Ted. Some boys and girls received more
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 1: than one present. In fact, some received three or four presents,
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 1: and finally Santa's big bag was empty. Eddie Moore was
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 1: the only boy in the hall whose name was not called.
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 1: He was the only boy in the hall without a present.
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 1: Twice in the same day, Eddie had been forgotten, and
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 1: for the second time, Santa Claus had broken the little
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 1: boy's heart. Eddie cried and sobbed and started for the door.
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 1: As Eddie walked down the steps, a strange boy touched
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 1: him on the shoulder. You haven't any present, said the stranger,
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 1: and I have four here. Take this, and he handed
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 1: Eddie a package. Eddie was so excited that he couldn't speak. Quickly,
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 1: he tore off the paper that covered a box of candy.
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 1: When Eddie saw the box, he could hardly believe his eyes.
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  Speaker 1: Candy was one of the things he wanted. Eddie turned
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  Speaker 1: to thank his friend, but the strange boy was gone.
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  Speaker 1: That night. When Eddie knelt down to pray, he said
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  Speaker 1: a prayer for a strange boy whose name he didn't know.
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  Speaker 1: Then Eddie jumped into bed, Andie was very happy. But
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 1: there was another boy who was happy too, the strange
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  Speaker 1: boy who had saved Christmas for Eddie Moore. Children, I
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  Speaker 1: think you understand very well the lesson of this story.
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  Speaker 1: Be kind and general to others. If you want to
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  Speaker 1: be happy, just do a good deed for someone. You
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  Speaker 1: don't have to wait until Christmas to do that good
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  Speaker 1: deed either. You can do a good deed today. Perhaps
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  Speaker 1: your good deed will save this day for some broken
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  Speaker 1: hearted child, just as the kind act of a strange
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  Speaker 1: boy saved Christmas for little Eddie Moore. End of chapter seventeen.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter eighteen of Angel, Food for Jack and Chill, Little
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  Speaker 1: Talks to Little Folks by Reverend Gerald T. Brennan. This
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Recording by Maria Therese,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter eighteen. The Man in the Blue Overalls. Bob Cole's
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  Speaker 1: father was not a rich man. He was a carpenter
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  Speaker 1: and a hard worker, a man who made many sacrifices
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  Speaker 1: for his son. The father wanted his boy to have
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  Speaker 1: a good education, and that's why he sent Bob to college. Now,
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  Speaker 1: it takes lots of money to send the boy to college,
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  Speaker 1: and Bob's father did without a good many things for
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  Speaker 1: the sake of his son. Bob's father never owned an automobile,
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  Speaker 1: he never bought many clothes, he never took a vacation.
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  Speaker 1: The father went without all those things in order to
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  Speaker 1: pay Bob's way through college. Bob was grateful and he
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  Speaker 1: knew that his father was suffering for him. So while
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  Speaker 1: he was in college, Bob worked hard at his studies
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  Speaker 1: and he graduated with honors. After college, Bob went to
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  Speaker 1: work in a bank. At first, of course, Bob didn't
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  Speaker 1: get much pay for his work in the bank, but
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  Speaker 1: every week he gave some of his money to his father.
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  Speaker 1: The son tried to show his father that he was grateful.
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  Speaker 1: Bob tried to pay back all that his father had
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  Speaker 1: given to him. Bob Cole worked hard in the bank,
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  Speaker 1: and he rose higher and higher. Finally, Bob became vice
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  Speaker 1: president of the bank. Now, the vice president of a
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  Speaker 1: bank is a mighty important person, but Bob Cole didn't change, no, sir.
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  Speaker 1: Bob was always good to his father, even though his
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  Speaker 1: father was only a carpenter and didn't wear fine clothes.
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  Speaker 1: Bob was proud of him well. One day, the young
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  Speaker 1: men of the town had a luncheon to honor their fathers.
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  Speaker 1: Each son invited his father to lunch, and all the
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  Speaker 1: important people of the town were present. There were doctors, lawyers, teachers, storekeepers,
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  Speaker 1: and business men at the lunch. Every young man at
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  Speaker 1: the luncheon was proud of his father, and every father
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  Speaker 1: was proud of his son. Some of the men wondered
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  Speaker 1: why Bob Cole and his father were not at the luncheon.
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  Speaker 1: Was the carpenter's son ashamed of his father? No, boys
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  Speaker 1: and girls, Bob Cole was not ashamed of his father.
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  Speaker 1: While the men were eating lunch, the door opened and
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  Speaker 1: Bob Cole and his father entered the room. Bob's father
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  Speaker 1: wore blue overalls that were dirty and patched a blue
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  Speaker 1: handkerchief stuck out of his pocket. His hands were dirty
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  Speaker 1: and his hair was musked. Bob and his father did
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  Speaker 1: not sit down at a table. Instead, they stood in
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  Speaker 1: the center of the large room and Bob raised his hand. Immediately,
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  Speaker 1: there was silence, and every man looked at Bob Cole,
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  Speaker 1: and the man in blue overalls pardon me, gentlemen, spoke
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  Speaker 1: out Bob in a clear voice. I am sorry for
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  Speaker 1: interrupting your party. We can't stay for lunch because my
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  Speaker 1: father has to get back to work. I want you
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  Speaker 1: to meet my dad, Peter Cole, the man who worked
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  Speaker 1: so hard to send me to college. He is a carpenter,
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  Speaker 1: a good carpenter, and I'm mighty proud of him. That's
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  Speaker 1: all Bob said. He and his father turned to leave,
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  Speaker 1: and every man in that room clapped and cheered. Bob
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  Speaker 1: Cole wasn't ashamed of his father. Even though his father
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  Speaker 1: didn't have fine clothes, even though his father wore blue overalls,
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  Speaker 1: Bob Cole felt that his father was the best father
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  Speaker 1: of all. Bob didn't forget what his father had done
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  Speaker 1: for him. He was proud of his father, and he
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  Speaker 1: wanted everyone to know it. That day, Bob taught those
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  Speaker 1: men at the luncheon a lesson. I hope that you'll
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  Speaker 1: learn the same lesson this morning. Almighty God has given
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  Speaker 1: each of you children a father and a mother. Your
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  Speaker 1: parents work hard for you. They give you a home, clothes,
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  Speaker 1: and food. They send you to school. All these things
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  Speaker 1: cost lots of money. Your parents go without things because
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  Speaker 1: they want you to have the best. They do all
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  Speaker 1: these things because they love you, and because they are
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  Speaker 1: mighty proud of you. What do you parents ask in return?
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  Speaker 1: They don't want money from you, oh no, but they
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  Speaker 1: do want your love. They want you to obey them,
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  Speaker 1: They want you to respect them. You will never have
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  Speaker 1: to do as much for your parents as they have
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  Speaker 1: done for you. Remember, your parents take God's place, and
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  Speaker 1: when they ask you to do something, it is just
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  Speaker 1: the same as though God asked you to do it.
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  Speaker 1: When you disobey your parents, you disobey God. Your parents
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  Speaker 1: may not wear fine clothes because they have spent their
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  Speaker 1: money for fine clothes for you. Bob Cole's father wore
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  Speaker 1: dirty overalls, and Bob was proud of him. That's the
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  Speaker 1: way you should feel about your father and mother. Never
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  Speaker 1: mind about your parents' clothes, because their hearts are right.
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  Speaker 1: Your parents love you and you should love them. You
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  Speaker 1: should obey your parents. You should respect them. Children, don't
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  Speaker 1: ever be ashamed of your parents. Remember God gave you
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  Speaker 1: the best father and the best mother in this world.
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  Speaker 1: Respect your parents, obey them, and love them. Like Bob Cole,
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  Speaker 1: you have every reason to be mighty proud of your
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  Speaker 1: father and your Mother end of chapter eighteen. Chapter nineteen
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  Speaker 1: of Angel Food for Jack and Jill. Little Talks to
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  Speaker 1: Little Folks Reverend Gerald Ty Brennan. The Slipper Fox recording
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  Speaker 1: is in the public domain. Recording by Maria Therese, Chapter nineteen,
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  Speaker 1: The Only Key. Tommy Williams was a boy scout. Tommy
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  Speaker 1: liked scouting, and he learned many useful and interesting things.
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  Speaker 1: He liked the scout meetings, and he liked to march
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  Speaker 1: in parades. Every summer too, the scouts went to camp,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what Tommy liked best. He'd liked to live
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  Speaker 1: in the open, hide through the woods, cook his own meals,
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  Speaker 1: and sleep in a tent. At one of the September meetings,
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  Speaker 1: the scout master told the boys that he was going
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  Speaker 1: to take them to Philadelphia during the Easter vacation. When
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  Speaker 1: the boys heard that, they clapped and cheered. That was
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  Speaker 1: certainly good news. There was one thing, however, that the
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  Speaker 1: boys would have to do. They would have to raise
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  Speaker 1: the money for the trip. Tommy and his friends got
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  Speaker 1: busy for several months. They worked on all kinds of
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  Speaker 1: plans to raise money. The boy's cut grass, shoveled snow,
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  Speaker 1: and did jobs. They sold candy and gum to their schoolmates.
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  Speaker 1: They had a show in the school hall and a
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  Speaker 1: pet show in Tommy's yard. The boys worked hard and
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  Speaker 1: they saved the money they made for the Easter trip.
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  Speaker 1: The boys were certainly excited, and they thought Easter Week
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  Speaker 1: would never come. Well, Easter week did come and the
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  Speaker 1: boys went to Philadelphia. Oh. They had a wonderful time.
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  Speaker 1: They toured the city, visited the parks, and saw many
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  Speaker 1: interesting things. But the most interesting place of all was
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  Speaker 1: Independence Hall. The boys could hardly believe that the building
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  Speaker 1: was two hundred years old. Tommy Williams had a special
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  Speaker 1: interest in Independence Hall because he had studied about it
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  Speaker 1: in school. This was the place where the Declaration of
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  Speaker 1: Independence was signed. Here, too, the Constitution was adopted, and
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  Speaker 1: in this building George Washington received the command of the
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  Speaker 1: Continental Army. Independence Hall was a very important place, especially
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  Speaker 1: to Tommy Williams. A guide showed the boys through the
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  Speaker 1: various rooms of Independence Hall and explained everything. The guide
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  Speaker 1: showed the boys the table where the Declaration of Independence
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  Speaker 1: was signed. He showed them the silver inkstand used by
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  Speaker 1: the men who signed the declaration. Finally, the guide showed
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  Speaker 1: them the Liberty bell that rang out for the first
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  Speaker 1: time in seventeen seventy six. Tommy Williams was thrilled at
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  Speaker 1: everything he saw. It was a great day in Tommy's life,
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  Speaker 1: a day that he would never forget. When the Guide
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  Speaker 1: had shown the boys everything, he held up a key.
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  Speaker 1: This key, said the man is the only key in
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  Speaker 1: the world that will open the door of Independence Hall.
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  Speaker 1: The boys admired the key, and then Tommy Williams surprised everybody.
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  Speaker 1: I'll bet I can open the door of Independence Hall,
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  Speaker 1: said Tommy, as he pulled a large key from his pocket.
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  Speaker 1: The guide smiled and he didn't argue. All right, young fellow,
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  Speaker 1: said the guide. If you think you can open the door,
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  Speaker 1: we'll give you a chance. Tommy stepped outside, and the
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  Speaker 1: guide locked the door from the inside. What happened? Everyone
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  Speaker 1: was surprised when Tommy unlocked the door in a few
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  Speaker 1: seconds and walked into the room. Tommy's key was a
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  Speaker 1: skeleton key or a master key, a special key that
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  Speaker 1: will open any door. Would you like to have a
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  Speaker 1: special key that will open the case of heaven for you? Oh?
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  Speaker 1: I suppose you think that Saint Peter has the only
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  Speaker 1: key to the gates of heaven. Well, Saint Peter does
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  Speaker 1: have a key to the gates of heaven. But you
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  Speaker 1: can have a key too, Yes, you can. Your key
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  Speaker 1: to heaven is your soul when it is in the
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  Speaker 1: state of grace. Some day each one of you will die.
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  Speaker 1: If you die with one mortal sin on your soul,
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  Speaker 1: you won't be able to get into heaven. If you
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  Speaker 1: die in the state of grace, and that means that
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  Speaker 1: you have no mortal sins on your soul, you will
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  Speaker 1: certainly get into heaven. Of course, if you have some
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  Speaker 1: small sins on your soul, you will have to spend
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  Speaker 1: some time in purgatory. But after purgatory you will go
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  Speaker 1: to heaven. How does a boy and girl get into
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  Speaker 1: the state of grace by going to confession. Confession takes
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  Speaker 1: away every mortal sin, and after confession you are in
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  Speaker 1: the state of grace. If you never commit another mortal sin,
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  Speaker 1: you remain in the state of grace. Why you can
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  Speaker 1: stay in the state of grace for years and years.
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  Speaker 1: You can live in the state of grace forever. Thousands
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  Speaker 1: and thousands of people never commit a mortal sin. They
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  Speaker 1: are living in the state of grace. There is only
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  Speaker 1: one thing that will keep you out of heaven, and
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 1: that is mortal sin. Don't take any chances. If you
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 1: should fall into mortal sin, go to confession quickly. Always
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  Speaker 1: be in the state of grace. The state of grace
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  Speaker 1: is your key to heaven. End of chapter nineteen. Chapter
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  Speaker 1: twenty of Angel Food for Jack and Jill, Little Talks
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  Speaker 1: to Little Folks by Reverend Gerald T. Brennan. The Slipper
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  Speaker 1: Fox recording is in the public domain. Recording by Maria Teres,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter twenty The City without Walls. Hundreds of years ago,
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  Speaker 1: the cities of old Greece had high walls built around them.
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  Speaker 1: The walls were made of stone and there were iron
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  Speaker 1: gates of the various roads that led into the city.
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  Speaker 1: Soldiers guarded the walls and gates of the city at
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  Speaker 1: all times. I suppose you are wondering why walls are
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  Speaker 1: built around the cities of Greece. The people built walls
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  Speaker 1: around their cities to protect themselves from their enemies. In
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  Speaker 1: those days, there were many wars, and in time of war,
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  Speaker 1: the walls made it hard for enemies to enter the cities.
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  Speaker 1: The walls walk the enemies every time, So a very
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  Speaker 1: high wall around the city was always very important. Here
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  Speaker 1: is something that may surprise you. Do you know that
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  Speaker 1: there was one city in Greece that he had no
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  Speaker 1: walls around it? Yes, that's true. The city of Sparta
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  Speaker 1: had no walls around it. The city of Sparta had
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  Speaker 1: no gates, no soldiers guarding the city. Sparta stood alone,
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  Speaker 1: the only city in Greece without walls. Now, the King
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  Speaker 1: of Sparta was a very fine king. He was neither
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  Speaker 1: proud nor hard, but he was kind and generous, and
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  Speaker 1: his people loved him. The king was good to his
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  Speaker 1: people and he tried to be their friend. He tried
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  Speaker 1: to to be friendly with his neighbors. So what do
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  Speaker 1: you think the king did? One day, the King of
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  Speaker 1: Sparta invited the kings of neighboring cities to come and
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  Speaker 1: visit him. Of course, when the people of Sparta heard
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  Speaker 1: that strange kings were coming to their city, they prepared
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 1: a grand welcome. Yes, there was a parade, a big
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 1: parade with soldiers, flags and music. As the kings rode
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 1: through the city, the people of Sparta waved and cheered.
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  Speaker 1: The visiting kings were quite surprised at the welcome they receive.
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  Speaker 1: When the visiting kings reached the palace. The King of
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  Speaker 1: Sparta was very kind to his guests. He had prepared
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 1: a grand feast, but just before the visiting kings sat
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  Speaker 1: down at table, one of the visitors asked the question
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  Speaker 1: King of Sparta. He asked, why do you have no
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  Speaker 1: walls to protect your city? The King, Asparta, smiled. He
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  Speaker 1: waved his hand and led the visiting kings to a window.
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  Speaker 1: The king pointed to thousands of his people who were
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 1: gathered in the courtyard. These are my walls, said the
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  Speaker 1: King of Sparta. My people are my walls. Yes, the
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  Speaker 1: people of Sparta were the walls of the city. The
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  Speaker 1: people of Sparta loved their king, and every person in
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  Speaker 1: that city was a soldier. Every person was a soldier
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  Speaker 1: ready at any time to defend the city and protect
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  Speaker 1: the king. A soldier ready to fight for his king,
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  Speaker 1: a soldier ready to die for his king. No wonder
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  Speaker 1: that the city of Sparta had no walls. Sparta eat
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  Speaker 1: it no walls. The people were the walls of the city.
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  Speaker 1: Boys and girls, this afternoon, many of you will receive
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  Speaker 1: the sacrament of confirmation. You will receive the Holy ghost.
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  Speaker 1: God will come to you, and you will strengthen you
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  Speaker 1: in your faith. This afternoon you will become members of
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  Speaker 1: Christ's army. This afternoon you will become soldiers of Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 1: As a soldier, you must be loyal to Christ your king.
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  Speaker 1: You must obey him, and you must serve him well.
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  Speaker 1: You must be ready at all times to protect Christ,
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  Speaker 1: to defend Christ from its enemies. You must be ready
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  Speaker 1: to fight for Christ. Yes, die for Christ. Like the
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  Speaker 1: king of Sparta, Christ has no walls. In the future,
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 1: you will be Christ's walls, and Christ will depend upon
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  Speaker 1: you to protect him. When people talk about Christ, you
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 1: must defend him. When people break Christ's laws, you must
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  Speaker 1: correct them by your life and your good example. You
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 1: must show the world that you believe in Christ, that
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  Speaker 1: you love Christ, that you are one of Christ's soldiers. Now,
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 1: don't get the idea that just because you are going
• 1:50:06
  Speaker 1: to be a soldier, you will have to be fighting
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  Speaker 1: all the time. The best way to be a soldier
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  Speaker 1: of Christ is to live well by saying your prayers,
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  Speaker 1: keeping God's laws, and receiving the sacraments. Often. By doing
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  Speaker 1: these things, you will prove to Christ that you are
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 1: loyal to him, that you love him. Of course, there
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 1: will be times when you will have to defend Christ.
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  Speaker 1: You won't have to defend Christ with your fists, Oh no,
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  Speaker 1: very often a kind word or a good deed will
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 1: protect Christ from his enemies. Children, you know what is right.
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  Speaker 1: Don't be afraid to do right at all times. You
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  Speaker 1: know what Christ wants and what he expects you to do.
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 1: At times it may be hard, but a good soldier
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  Speaker 1: never runs away from his duty. It's an honor to
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 1: be a soldier of Christ. Don't ever be a traitor.
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 1: Be a good soldier at all times. Be loyal to Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: Christ Christ. End of chapter twenty Chapter twenty one of
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  Speaker 1: Angel Food for Jack and Jill, Little talks to Little
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  Speaker 1: Fikes of Reverend Gerald to Brennan. This LibriVox recording is
• 1:51:17
  Speaker 1: in the public domain. Recording by Maria Teres. Chapter twenty one,
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  Speaker 1: The girl in the shabby dress, Little Ethel Clark wanted
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 1: to make her first Communion. Every day she studied her
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 1: Catechism and said her prayers, and very often the little
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 1: girl visited Jesus in the church. Ethel longed for the
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 1: day when she would receive Jesus for the first time.
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  Speaker 1: You could imagine how excited Ethel was the day the
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 1: priests called the names of the children for the first
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 1: comedian class. Yes, Ethel's name was called, and she was
• 1:51:51
  Speaker 1: so happy that she ran all the way home to
• 1:51:53
  Speaker 1: tell the good news to her mother. Ethel's mother, however,
• 1:51:57
  Speaker 1: was not so happy. You're only seven, and you're too
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 1: young to make your first comedion, said the mother to
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 1: the little girl. Besides, we haven't money enough to buy
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 1: you new clothes. No, Ethel, you can't make your first
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 1: comedion this year. Ethel's heart was broken. She couldn't make
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 1: her first comnion. Oh how the little girl cried, But
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 1: tears wouldn't make the mother change her mind. She was
• 1:52:25
  Speaker 1: determined that Ethel would not make her first comedion. Of course,
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 1: Ethel was disappointed, and Jesus was disappointed too. Jesus wanted
• 1:52:34
  Speaker 1: to come to Ethel, but the girl's mother said that
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  Speaker 1: Jesus would have to wait. Well, Ethel didn't give up.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, she prayed and prayed and prayed, and Ethel
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  Speaker 1: did something more. Every afternoon she went to the first
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  Speaker 1: comedian class. Even though Ethel wasn't going to make her
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  Speaker 1: first comedion, the girl wanted to learn about Jesus. Now
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  Speaker 1: Ethel never told the priest or the sisters that her
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  Speaker 1: mother didn't want her to make her first communion. So
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  Speaker 1: the day before first Comedion day, when the children went
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  Speaker 1: to confession, Ethel went to confession too. Of course, after confession,
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  Speaker 1: the girl was very happy, but she knew that the
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  Speaker 1: next day she would be very sad. All the other
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  Speaker 1: little girls would wear white dresses and white veils, but
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  Speaker 1: Ethel would have no white dress, no white veil. All
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  Speaker 1: the other children in the class would receive Jesus for
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  Speaker 1: the first time, they would make their first comedion, but
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  Speaker 1: Ethel would have to wait. She would have to wait
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  Speaker 1: until she was older. Then maybe her parents could buy
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  Speaker 1: her a white dress. The next morning, Saint Clement's Church
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  Speaker 1: was crowded with parents and friends who came to see
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  Speaker 1: the children make their first comedion. The first comedian class
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  Speaker 1: sat in the center aisle, the boys wearing white shirts
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  Speaker 1: and white ties, the girls wearing white dresses and white veils.
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  Speaker 1: I said that the first comedian class sat in the
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  Speaker 1: center aisle. Yes, that's right. The children were all there,
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  Speaker 1: all except one little girl, and that little girl was
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  Speaker 1: Ethel Clark. Ethel sat in the side aisle wearing a
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  Speaker 1: shabby blue dress in her sister's hat. Ethel tried to pray,
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  Speaker 1: and she tried to forget about the children in the
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  Speaker 1: center aisle, but it was too hard. Ethel wanted Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: She wanted Jesus so much. Ethel wanted to make her
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  Speaker 1: first communion. Ethel watched the boys as they watched to
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  Speaker 1: the aultar rail. She saw each one of them receive
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  Speaker 1: Jesus for the first time. Then she watched the girls
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  Speaker 1: Rosemary stat Helen Connors, Judy Barker, Mary O'Grady, Susie Dale. Well.
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  Speaker 1: When Ethel saw Susy Dale kneeling at the rail, her
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  Speaker 1: heart pounded within her. Ethel should have been kneeling next
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  Speaker 1: to Susye Dale. When Susy Dale received toly comedion, Ethel
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  Speaker 1: became so excited that she stood up and called, at
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  Speaker 1: the top of her voice, I want little Jesus. I
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  Speaker 1: want Jesus too. The priest was so surprised that he
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  Speaker 1: stopped for a moment. Then he motioned to Ethel to
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  Speaker 1: come up to the rail, and what do you think?
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  Speaker 1: Ethel Clark hurried up to the rail, knelt next to
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  Speaker 1: Susy Dale, and received holy Communion. Yes, Ethel Clark made
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  Speaker 1: her first communion in her shabby blue dress in her
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  Speaker 1: sister's hat. Now, I don't have to tell you that
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  Speaker 1: Ethel was happy that morning. Even though the girl didn't
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  Speaker 1: have a new dress. Jesus loved her jest as much
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  Speaker 1: as the other children in that first comedian class. Ethel's
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  Speaker 1: soul was clean and her heart was filled with love,
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  Speaker 1: and that's all they counted with Jesus. Why. I don't
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  Speaker 1: suppose that Jesus even noticed the shabby blue dress. He
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  Speaker 1: looked at the girl's soul and saw it was right.
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  Speaker 1: That's why Jesus made Ethel so happy. Boys and girls,
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  Speaker 1: I wish that more of you were like Ethel Clark.
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  Speaker 1: You should want Jesus just as much as Ethel did.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is God, you know, and he can do much
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  Speaker 1: for you. That's why you should want him. That's why
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  Speaker 1: you should receive him often in holy comedion. Why if
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  Speaker 1: you have no mortal sins on your soul, you can
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  Speaker 1: receive Jesus every day. I know you all love Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: but why don't you show your love by receiving Jesus often.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus wants you, and you should want him. You need Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: you need his graces. Children, You must save your own soul.
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  Speaker 1: No one else can save your soul for you. You
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  Speaker 1: must do it yourself. Every time you receive Holy coumedion,
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  Speaker 1: you receive Jesus and you receive graces that help you
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  Speaker 1: save your soul. Don't neglect Jesus, and don't neglect his graces.
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  Speaker 1: Receive Holy comnion often. End of chapter twenty one. Chapter
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  Speaker 1: twenty two of Angel Food for Jack and Jill, Little
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  Speaker 1: talks to little Reverend Gerald Brennan. The slipprivox recording is
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  Speaker 1: in the public No Mean recording by Maria Terrees. Chapter
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  Speaker 1: twenty two, A little man in the tree, If Jesus
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  Speaker 1: were to come to our city tomorrow, what would you do? Oh?
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  Speaker 1: I think I know the answer. If Jesus were to
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  Speaker 1: come tomorrow, you would go to him and you would
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  Speaker 1: try to meet him. Well, that's just what the people
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  Speaker 1: did when Jesus lived on this earth. Wherever Jesus went,
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  Speaker 1: large crowds turned out to see him. The people wanted
• 1:57:34
  Speaker 1: to hear Jesus speak, They wanted to see him perform
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  Speaker 1: a miracle. A short time before he died, Jesus went
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  Speaker 1: to the city of Jericho. Of course, that was a
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  Speaker 1: great day for the people of Jericho. They crowded the
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  Speaker 1: road and everyone tried to have a good place. Everyone
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  Speaker 1: wanted to see the Great Jesus. Now, that day in Jericho,
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  Speaker 1: there was one man who had a very hard time.
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  Speaker 1: That man was Zacchius, and he was very short. Zacchius
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  Speaker 1: was so short that I suppose his friends called him Shorty. Naturally,
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  Speaker 1: Zacchius wanted to see Jesus, and he tried very hard
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  Speaker 1: to get a good place. Well, every time Zacchius tried
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  Speaker 1: to push his way through the crowd, the people pushed
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  Speaker 1: him back. Time and time again. He tried to get
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  Speaker 1: to the front row, but every time the people blocked
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  Speaker 1: his way. Poor Zacchius. There he was a little fellow
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  Speaker 1: standing in the back row. He might just as well
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  Speaker 1: have stayed at home, because he could see nothing. The
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  Speaker 1: tall people refused to give Zachius a chance. Zacchius was
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  Speaker 1: worried Jesus would soon be coming. Jesus was soon passed
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  Speaker 1: down the road. Everyone would see Jesus, everyone except Zacchius,
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  Speaker 1: the little man in the back row. All of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: Zacchius had an idea, and it was a good one.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think he did? Zacchius ran as fast
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  Speaker 1: as he could along the edge of the crowd, and
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  Speaker 1: finally he came to a tree. Yes, you guessed it.
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  Speaker 1: Zacchius climbed up the tree and sat on one of
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  Speaker 1: the branches. Now he had a good place, the best
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  Speaker 1: place of all, and he could see everything. Now he
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  Speaker 1: would certainly see Jesus. At last, Jesus came down the road.
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  Speaker 1: The people smiled and cheered, and many of them pointed
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  Speaker 1: to the man in the tree. Yes, Jesus saw Zacchius
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  Speaker 1: all right, and he must have been pleased, because Jesus
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  Speaker 1: did something that surprised the crowd. Jesus stopped, looked at
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  Speaker 1: Zacchius and spoke to him. Zacchius said, Christ, hurry up
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  Speaker 1: and come down, for I must stay in your house today. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it didn't take very long for Zacchius to get out
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  Speaker 1: of that tree. The little man was so excited that
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  Speaker 1: he almost fell out of the tree, and in a
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  Speaker 1: short time Jesus and Zacchius walked down the road together.
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  Speaker 1: That was a great day for the people of Jericho.
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  Speaker 1: They saw Jesus and they were very happy. But the
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  Speaker 1: happiest man in jer Zero was Zacchius. He not only
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  Speaker 1: saw Jesus, but he had Jesus as a guest in
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  Speaker 1: his home. All of the people wanted Jesus in their homes,
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  Speaker 1: but Jesus honored only one man. Jesus honored Zacchius, the
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  Speaker 1: little man he found sitting in a tree. Do you know,
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  Speaker 1: boys and girls, that Jesus wants to visit your home. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus wants to be a guest in your soul. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: wants to come to you, and he wants to come often.
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  Speaker 1: Every time you receive holy communion, Jesus comes to you
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  Speaker 1: and he brings grace for your soul. Wouldn't it have
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  Speaker 1: been terrible if Zacchius refused to let Jesus come to
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  Speaker 1: his house. Yes, that would have been awful. Yet that's
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  Speaker 1: just what you tell Jesus when you don't receive him
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  Speaker 1: in holy communion. You tell Jesus that you don't want him,
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  Speaker 1: that you don't need him. Now, I don't have to
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  Speaker 1: tell you that that's wrong. Jesus wants to come to you,
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  Speaker 1: and many times you refuse to let him come. Zacchius said,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus in his home for just one day. But you
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  Speaker 1: can do better than that if you wish you can
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  Speaker 1: have Jesus every day, at least you should have Jesus
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  Speaker 1: with you every Sunday. You need Jesus and you need
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  Speaker 1: his graces. That's why you should receive Holy Comenion often.
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  Speaker 1: So make it a habit of receiving Holy Comedian every Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: Start off every week in the right way by receiving
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  Speaker 1: Jesus in Holy Comean, Children, Jesus is knocking on the
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  Speaker 1: door of your heart. He wants to come into your soul.
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  Speaker 1: Open that door and keep that door open. Let Jesus
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  Speaker 1: come to you often in Holy Comnion. End of chapter
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  Speaker 1: twenty two. Chapter twenty three of Angel Food for Jack
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  Speaker 1: and Jill. Little talks the little folks by revering gerality Brennan.
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  Speaker 1: The slipprivox recording is in the public domain. Chapter twenty
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  Speaker 1: three The girl who went to calling Last week, There
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  Speaker 1: was plenty of excitement in one of our nearby towns.
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  Speaker 1: What happened well, a little six year old girl cost
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  Speaker 1: all the excitement. Of course, little Elizabeth Brush didn't mean
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  Speaker 1: to do any harm, but she certainly made her parents
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  Speaker 1: and friends suffer. Last Tuesday, while Elizabeth's mother was preparing supper,
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  Speaker 1: the little girl went on to the yard to play.
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  Speaker 1: When supper was ready, missus Brush called the girl, but
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  Speaker 1: the girl didn't answer. The mother went into the yard,
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  Speaker 1: but Elizabeth wasn't there. The mother called and called, but
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  Speaker 1: received no answer. Then the girl's mother and father hurried
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  Speaker 1: to the homes of neighbors, but no one had seen
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  Speaker 1: the little girl. Little Elizabeth Brush had disappeared. You can
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  Speaker 1: imagine how worried the parents were, and they thought some
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  Speaker 1: terrible thoughts. They wondered where Elizabeth had gone, where was she?
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  Speaker 1: Why didn't the little girl come home. Finally, the girl's
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  Speaker 1: father called the police and they promised to help. All
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  Speaker 1: the neighbors said they would help too. So it was
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  Speaker 1: decided that two persons would go down each street and
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  Speaker 1: stop at every house. In this way, every house in
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  Speaker 1: the town would be visited in a short time. If
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  Speaker 1: Elizabeth or in some one's house, she would surely be found.
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  Speaker 1: I might as well tell you now that the searchers
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  Speaker 1: visited every house in the town, but no one had
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  Speaker 1: seen Elizabeth. That was sad news for the girl's parents.
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  Speaker 1: They cried and sobbed and prayed to God to help them.
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  Speaker 1: While mister Brush was talking to friends outside his house.
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  Speaker 1: All of a sudden he heard music. He heard organ music,
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  Speaker 1: and the music was coming from the nearby church. The
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  Speaker 1: father knew that there were no services in the church,
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  Speaker 1: but he ran to the church as fast as he could.
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  Speaker 1: He hurried up the stairs, where he found a man
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  Speaker 1: tuning and fixing the organ. Mister Brush didn't have a
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  Speaker 1: chance to speak before the man at the organ asked
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  Speaker 1: him a question, are you looking for that little girl
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  Speaker 1: who is sitting down in the front seat. The father
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  Speaker 1: turned quickly, and sure enough he saw a little Elizabeth
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  Speaker 1: sitting in the front seat of the church. Mister Brush
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  Speaker 1: hurried down the steps, ran up the aisle, and picked
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  Speaker 1: up the girl in his arms. Elizabeth said the father excitedly.
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  Speaker 1: We've been looking all over for you. We thought you
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  Speaker 1: were lost. What are you doing here? I ain't been lost,
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  Speaker 1: Daddy answered the little girl. I heard the music, and
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  Speaker 1: I came to talk to Jesus. Little Elizabeth should have
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  Speaker 1: told her parents that she was going to the church. However,
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  Speaker 1: I think that all the worry and excitement must have
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  Speaker 1: made Jesus smile. You can be sure that Jesus was
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  Speaker 1: happy to see Elizabeth, because Jesus always likes to have
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  Speaker 1: little children visit him. Children. Jesus is here on our
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  Speaker 1: altar every day, and he is here all through the night.
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  Speaker 1: He waits and waits and wishes that children would come
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  Speaker 1: and visit him. The more off when children come to
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  Speaker 1: the church, the better Jesus likes it. He knows that
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  Speaker 1: children who come are his friends. He knows that children
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  Speaker 1: come because they love him. How often do you visit
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  Speaker 1: a church? How often do you visit Jesus? Oh, there
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  Speaker 1: are so many times when you could stop to see him.
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  Speaker 1: Most of you could stop every day. Yes, you could
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  Speaker 1: stop in the church on your way home from school.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, you come to church every Sunday, but Jesus
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  Speaker 1: wants to see you more often than once a week.
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  Speaker 1: When you visit Jesus, you don't have to stay in
• 2:05:32
  Speaker 1: the church for a long time. If you stay it
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  Speaker 1: for only a few minutes, Jesus will like it. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: knows that you are busy and that you like to play,
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  Speaker 1: but he does want you to give him a little time.
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  Speaker 1: There are so many things that you want for your family,
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  Speaker 1: for your friends, and for yourself. When you visit Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: ask him for all those things. Thank him too for
• 2:05:53
  Speaker 1: being so good to you. Thank him for your parents
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  Speaker 1: and friends. Thank Him for your health and for helping
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  Speaker 1: you with your work in school. Oh remember, Jesus will
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  Speaker 1: hear everything you say. Children. Don't neglect Jesus in the
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  Speaker 1: blessed sacrament. Visit him often. Don't stay away from your
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  Speaker 1: best friend. End of chapter twenty three. Chapter twenty four
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  Speaker 1: of Angel Food for Jack and Jill Little talks to
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  Speaker 1: Little Folks Yer and Gerald Brennan. This LibriVox recording is
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  Speaker 1: in the public domain. Recording by Maria Teres, Chapter twenty four,
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  Speaker 1: The Tablet without a Name. Several years ago, I visited
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  Speaker 1: the United States Military Academy at West Point. The school
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  Speaker 1: at West Point, you know, is where young men are
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  Speaker 1: trained to be officers in the United States Army. I
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  Speaker 1: saw many interesting things at West Point. I saw the
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  Speaker 1: grounds and the buildings. I saw the young men of
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  Speaker 1: their games, and I saw them march and drill. It
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  Speaker 1: was a sight that I shall never forget. I saw
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  Speaker 1: one thing, it was point that certainly made me think.
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  Speaker 1: The walls of one of the halls in this famous
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  Speaker 1: school are covered with tablets or plaques. The name of
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  Speaker 1: an American general is written on each one of the tablets.
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  Speaker 1: So this hall is a hall of honor, a hall
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  Speaker 1: of fame, a hall where the name of every American
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  Speaker 1: general will live forever. But what do you think I
• 2:07:20
  Speaker 1: found one tablet in the hall without a name. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: one tablet was blank. One tablet had no writing. I
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  Speaker 1: wondered about that blank tablet and thought it very strange.
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  Speaker 1: Finally I spoke to my guide, Why is there no
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  Speaker 1: name on that one tablet? I asked. The guide waited
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  Speaker 1: for a moment before he spoke. Father. He said, that
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  Speaker 1: tablet belongs to Benedict Arnold, the trader, the man who
• 2:07:48
  Speaker 1: betrayed his country. That tablet has been left blank to
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  Speaker 1: show the great honor beneath Arnold loss by not serving
• 2:07:54
  Speaker 1: his country. I think, children, that somewhere in heaven, Almighty
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  Speaker 1: God must have a special hall. There are plaques or
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  Speaker 1: tablets on the walls of that hall too. Now what
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  Speaker 1: do you think is written on those tablets in heaven?
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  Speaker 1: The names of christ generals, the names of sisters and
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  Speaker 1: priests who have been loyal to Jesus Christ. You will
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  Speaker 1: find written on the tablets in heaven. The names of
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  Speaker 1: Saint Teresa, Saint Francis, the Sales, the Little Flower, and
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  Speaker 1: thousands of other famous priests and nuns, Every boy and
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  Speaker 1: girl who has been called by God to be a
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  Speaker 1: priest or none, as the tablet set aside in heaven.
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  Speaker 1: Are you one of these boys or girls? Is God
• 2:08:30
  Speaker 1: calling you? Is God asking you to be a general
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  Speaker 1: in His army? If so, then some day your name
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  Speaker 1: will be written in heaven. Of course, God doesn't call
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  Speaker 1: all boys and girls to be generals in his army.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't call all boys and girls to be priests
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  Speaker 1: and sisters. He wants some of you to be fathers
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  Speaker 1: and mothers. He wants some of you to be doctors, lawyers, nurses,
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  Speaker 1: school teachers. Some of you will own your own business,
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  Speaker 1: and others will work in shops and factories. Some of
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  Speaker 1: you will have play plenty of money, and others will
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  Speaker 1: be very poor. God wants some of you, however, to
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  Speaker 1: work for him. He wants some of you to help
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  Speaker 1: him save souls. You know, there are millions of people
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  Speaker 1: who have never heard about God, millions of people who
• 2:09:14
  Speaker 1: have never been baptized. They don't know how to pray,
• 2:09:18
  Speaker 1: they have never gone to confession, and they have never
• 2:09:20
  Speaker 1: received Jesus in holy communion. God wants these millions of
• 2:09:24
  Speaker 1: people to know him, love him, and serve him. It
• 2:09:27
  Speaker 1: will be a big job to teach all these people,
• 2:09:30
  Speaker 1: and God wants some of you to help. Yes, God
• 2:09:33
  Speaker 1: wants some of you to be sisters and priests. The
• 2:09:37
  Speaker 1: life of a priest or sister is not easy, but
• 2:09:40
  Speaker 1: just think of all the good you can do. Why
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  Speaker 1: every day of your life you will have any number
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  Speaker 1: of chances to do good. You will help people to
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  Speaker 1: live well, and you will help people to die well.
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  Speaker 1: Every day you will be helping people to get to heaven.
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  Speaker 1: If you will work for Christ, you will be the
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  Speaker 1: happiest person in this world. You will not only save
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  Speaker 1: your own soul, but you will help hundreds of others
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  Speaker 1: to save their souls. Boys and girls, it is not
• 2:10:06
  Speaker 1: too early to begin thinking about the future. God wants
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  Speaker 1: hundreds and thousands of priests and sisters. Maybe he wants you.
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  Speaker 1: My advice to you is to pray. Pray every day
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  Speaker 1: and ask God to lead you in the right direction.
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  Speaker 1: Ask His blessed mother too to watch over you and
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  Speaker 1: guide you. If you pray for that intention every day,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure that when you reach the eighth grade, you'll
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  Speaker 1: know pretty well just what God wants you to do.
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  Speaker 1: If you feel that God wants you to be a
• 2:10:35
  Speaker 1: priest or a nun, talk about it with the priest
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  Speaker 1: when you go to confession. Don't be afraid to go ahead.
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  Speaker 1: God wants you to be generous. If you are generous
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  Speaker 1: with God and offer you to work for him, God
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  Speaker 1: will give you plenty of help. With God's help, you
• 2:10:50
  Speaker 1: will succeed. If God is calling you to be a
• 2:10:53
  Speaker 1: priest or a nun, he wants to give you some
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  Speaker 1: very special graces. Don't turn God down. Don't refuse this grace.
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  Speaker 1: Remember there may be a tablet in heaven waiting for
• 2:11:04
  Speaker 1: your name. Don't leave your tablet blank. Have your name
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  Speaker 1: written in heaven. End of chapter twenty four. Chapter twenty
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  Speaker 1: five of Angel Food for Jack and Jill, Little Talks
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  Speaker 1: to Little Folks by Reverend Gerald T. Brennan. This LibriVox
• 2:11:25
  Speaker 1: recording is in the public domain. Recording by Maria Teres,
• 2:11:30
  Speaker 1: Chapter twenty five, The Magic Mirror. Georgie Springer had a
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  Speaker 1: strange experience. Something happened to Georgie that doesn't happen to
• 2:11:38
  Speaker 1: many sixth grade boys. It was something that Georgie will
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  Speaker 1: never forget. Right now, I must say that Georgie liked
• 2:11:46
  Speaker 1: to have his own way. He didn't like to obey,
• 2:11:49
  Speaker 1: and that's why Georgie got into trouble. Georgie was a
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  Speaker 1: boy scout, and one day last summer, Georgie's scout troop
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  Speaker 1: went on a hike. Before the boys left on the hike,
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  Speaker 1: the scout master told them to stay together when they
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  Speaker 1: reached the park. The boys could separate into groups at
• 2:12:07
  Speaker 1: all times. Each boy was to have a companion. No
• 2:12:10
  Speaker 1: boy was ever to be alone. When the boys reached
• 2:12:14
  Speaker 1: the park, they made three bonfires and each boy cooked
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  Speaker 1: his own meal. Oh, they had a grand time, and
• 2:12:20
  Speaker 1: they had lots of fun. After the meal, the boys
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  Speaker 1: sang songs and some of them told stories. Then the
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  Speaker 1: scoutmaster ordered the boys to take a rest. Most of
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  Speaker 1: the boys obeyed and soon were sound asleep, but not
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  Speaker 1: Georgie Springer. Georgie pretended for a time that he was resting,
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  Speaker 1: and then he arose and tiptoed away to explore nearby woods.
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  Speaker 1: Georgie walked only a short distance in the woods when
• 2:12:46
  Speaker 1: something terrible happened. A tall man jumped out from behind
• 2:12:50
  Speaker 1: a tree and caught Georgie by the arm for a moment.
• 2:12:55
  Speaker 1: Georgie was stunned, and when he looked up into the
• 2:12:58
  Speaker 1: man's face, he was terrible. Georgie knew the man, and
• 2:13:03
  Speaker 1: no wonder the boy was afraid. The tall man was
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  Speaker 1: the devil. Yes, the devil, dressed in a red suit
• 2:13:10
  Speaker 1: and a long black cloak, held Georgie's arm. The devil
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  Speaker 1: knew that Georgie was afraid, and he laughed and sneered
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  Speaker 1: at the little boy. What do you want, asked Georgie
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  Speaker 1: when he caught his breath. The devil laughed, I want you, Georgie,
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  Speaker 1: he answered, I wanted you for a long time, and
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  Speaker 1: now I've got you. Please let me go, begged the
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  Speaker 1: little boy. The devil shook his head. He refused to
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  Speaker 1: let the boy go, No, sir. The devil held Georgie's
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  Speaker 1: arm tightly because he didn't want the boy to get away.
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  Speaker 1: Georgie pulled and tugged and even kicked the devil, but
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  Speaker 1: it was no use. The boy couldn't break away. Then,
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, Georgie had an idea. I've got
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  Speaker 1: seventeen sense in my pocket, said Georgie. If you'll let
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  Speaker 1: me go, I'll give you all my money. The devil
• 2:14:07
  Speaker 1: refused Georgie's offer. The devil didn't want money. He wanted
• 2:14:11
  Speaker 1: little Georgie. I'll give you my pocket knife too. Please
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  Speaker 1: let me go, pegged the boy. I don't need a
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  Speaker 1: pocket knife, answered the devil. No, I won't let you go.
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  Speaker 1: You're coming with me. The devil forced the boy to
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  Speaker 1: walk through the woods, and Georgie Springer was awfully afraid.
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  Speaker 1: Some terrible thoughts ran through the boy's mind, and he
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  Speaker 1: cried and sobbed, but the devil enjoyed making the boy suffer. Finally,
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  Speaker 1: Georgie made one more request. If I give you my
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  Speaker 1: magic mirror, will you let me go. The devil's eyes
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  Speaker 1: almost popped out of his head. What's a magic mirror,
• 2:14:53
  Speaker 1: he asked. Now Georgie didn't know it, But the devil
• 2:14:57
  Speaker 1: had never seen a mirror. He had never seen a
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  Speaker 1: looking naturally, he was curious. Georgie reached into his pocket
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  Speaker 1: and brought out his mirror. It was just a common,
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  Speaker 1: ordinary mirror, and there was nothing magic about it at all.
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  Speaker 1: The boy held up the mirror so that the devil
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  Speaker 1: could see. When the devil looked into the mirror and
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  Speaker 1: saw that ugly face, he screamed and yelled. Why the
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  Speaker 1: devil was so frightened that he forgot all about Georgie Springer.
• 2:15:25
  Speaker 1: The devil ran through the woods like a streak of
• 2:15:27
  Speaker 1: lightning and made a noise that was heard from miles.
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  Speaker 1: It all happened so quickly that Georgie could hardly believe
• 2:15:33
  Speaker 1: his eyes. Yes, Georgie's mirror saved his life. His mirror
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  Speaker 1: saved him from the devil. Georgie's mirror chased the devil away.
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  Speaker 1: Boys and girls, do you know that you have something
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  Speaker 1: that will chase away the devil. Oh, it's not a
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  Speaker 1: magic mirror, but it works much better than a magic mirror.
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  Speaker 1: What is it? It's holy water. Holy water, you know,
• 2:15:58
  Speaker 1: is water blessed by a priest, and the devil hates
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  Speaker 1: holy water. Holy water will chase away the devil every
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  Speaker 1: time you use it, and you should use it often.
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  Speaker 1: I have told you time and time again that the
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  Speaker 1: devil is always after you. He tempts you, He tries
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  Speaker 1: to get you to fall into sin. I know that
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  Speaker 1: he bothers you many times each day. If you will
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  Speaker 1: use some holy water, you'll get rid of the devil
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  Speaker 1: in a hurry. The next time you come to church.
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  Speaker 1: Bring a little empty bottle with you, and I'll give
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  Speaker 1: you some holy water. Then you'll have your own bottle
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  Speaker 1: of holy water and you can use it whenever you wish.
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  Speaker 1: When should you use holy water? Every time you enter
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  Speaker 1: a church, make the sign of the Cross with holy
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  Speaker 1: water on your fingers. Then the devil won't bother you
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  Speaker 1: while you're in church. Use some more holy water when
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  Speaker 1: you leave the church. Sprinkle it around your room at night,
• 2:16:49
  Speaker 1: and use it in the morning when you say your prayers.
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  Speaker 1: Every time you enter or leave your room, make the
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  Speaker 1: sign of the Cross with holy water. That's the way
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  Speaker 1: to get rid of the devil. Chase him every chance
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  Speaker 1: you get children. You don't need a magic mere to
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  Speaker 1: chase away the devil. Keep the devil away by using
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  Speaker 1: holy water. End of chapter twenty five. Chapter twenty six
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  Speaker 1: of Angel Food for Jack and Jill. Little talks to
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  Speaker 1: Little Fixperger Gerald T. Brennan. This LibriVox recording is in
• 2:17:27
  Speaker 1: the public domain. Recording by Maria Therese, Chapter twenty six,
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  Speaker 1: The Boy who made God Smile. Men who print newspapers
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  Speaker 1: receive many letters. They receive all kinds of letters every day.
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  Speaker 1: Some letters are letters of praise, and others fine fault.
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  Speaker 1: The other day, the man who prints the evening News
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  Speaker 1: received a very strange letter. The letter was from a
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  Speaker 1: little boy. The first time the man read the letter,
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  Speaker 1: he smiled, and he read it again. Yes, the man
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  Speaker 1: read the letter several times. He liked the letter so
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  Speaker 1: much that he wanted to answer it. But how could
• 2:18:09
  Speaker 1: he answer it when the boy didn't sign his full
• 2:18:11
  Speaker 1: name to the letter. The boy didn't even say where
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  Speaker 1: he lived. The newspaper man showed the letter to several
• 2:18:17
  Speaker 1: of his friends, and when they read it, they smiled too.
• 2:18:22
  Speaker 1: All agreed that the letter should be put in the paper. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the newspaper man thought for a long time and then
• 2:18:29
  Speaker 1: decided to print the boy's letters. Thousands of boys read
• 2:18:33
  Speaker 1: the boy's letter in the evening News. I suppose you
• 2:18:36
  Speaker 1: are wondering what was in the boy's letter. Well, here's
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  Speaker 1: what it said. Dear sir, I prayed to God to
• 2:18:44
  Speaker 1: make my mother well and she got better. Please say
• 2:18:48
  Speaker 1: in the paper that I want to thank God. When
• 2:18:50
  Speaker 1: God reads the paper, he will see it from a
• 2:18:53
  Speaker 1: little boy who loves God. Ernie. Now God sees everything,
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  Speaker 1: and when God read that little boy's letter in the
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  Speaker 1: evening news. He smiled. He was very happy too. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: God was pleased to find a boy who was thankful.
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  Speaker 1: Little Ernie prayed for something that he wanted very much.
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  Speaker 1: When God gave the boy just what he wanted, Ernie
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  Speaker 1: was right on the job to say thanks. It's too
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  Speaker 1: bad that there are not more children like little Ernie.
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  Speaker 1: You know, when most of us pray, we are always
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  Speaker 1: asking for something. We are always wanting something from God.
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  Speaker 1: But how many ever, say a prayer of thanks? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I'm afraid that there are not very many. Now, that's
• 2:19:36
  Speaker 1: too bad. When God gives us something, we should be
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  Speaker 1: right on the job to thank him. We ought to
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  Speaker 1: say prayers of thanks just as often as we say
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  Speaker 1: prayers of asking. If we thank God for our blessings,
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  Speaker 1: then the next time we want something, God will certainly
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  Speaker 1: hear our prayers and answer them more quickly. When you
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  Speaker 1: do a favor for someone, or give someone a present,
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  Speaker 1: or share your candy with a friend, you expect to
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  Speaker 1: your friend to be grateful and thank you. Isn't that right? Well,
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  Speaker 1: if your friend doesn't thank you, then you are not
• 2:20:07
  Speaker 1: very anxious to do any more favors for him. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I think that God feels the same way. When little
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  Speaker 1: boys and girls don't thank God, he isn't too anxious
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  Speaker 1: to answer their prayers the next time they call on him.
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  Speaker 1: Remember that, children, you need God and you need his graces.
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  Speaker 1: When God is good to you, don't forget to thank him. Children,
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  Speaker 1: you have so many things for which you should be thankful.
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  Speaker 1: Thank God for your home, your parents, your brothers and sisters,
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  Speaker 1: your friends. Thank God for your strong bodies and for
• 2:20:40
  Speaker 1: keeping you well. Thank Him for the food you eat
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  Speaker 1: and the clothes you wear. Thank God for helping you
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  Speaker 1: with your work in school. Thank Him every time you
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  Speaker 1: go to confession and when you receive Holy communion. Oh.
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  Speaker 1: I could mention so many things for which you should
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  Speaker 1: be thankful, but I think that most of you know
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  Speaker 1: how good God is to you. That God, I know
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  Speaker 1: that you thank Him for everything by saying prayers of
• 2:21:02
  Speaker 1: thanks every day. Too many boys and girls forget to
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  Speaker 1: thank God for their blessings. Little Ernie, however, didn't forget,
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  Speaker 1: and he made God very happy. You too, can make
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  Speaker 1: God happy and show him that you love him by
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  Speaker 1: your prayers of thanks. Children, don't forget to say thanks.
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  Speaker 1: End of Chapter twenty six. Chapter twenty seven of Angel
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  Speaker 1: Food for Jack and Jill Little Talks to Little Folks
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  Speaker 1: by Reverend Gerald T. Brennan. This liprivox recording is in
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  Speaker 1: the public domain. Recording by Maria Therese, Chapter twenty seven.
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  Speaker 1: Johnny's Invention. Johnny Morgan was in the third grade of
• 2:21:49
  Speaker 1: Our Lady of Mercy School. He was only eight years old,
• 2:21:53
  Speaker 1: but he was very serious about his work in school.
• 2:21:56
  Speaker 1: He worked hard, studied hard, and paid good attention to
• 2:21:59
  Speaker 1: his teacher. Whenever Sister Clement wanted the third Great children
• 2:22:02
  Speaker 1: to do something, she always found Johnny Morgan right on
• 2:22:06
  Speaker 1: the job to carry out her wishes. Johnny, you know,
• 2:22:09
  Speaker 1: thought Sister Clement was just about tops. It seems that
• 2:22:13
  Speaker 1: Sister Clement was always telling the children to say their prayers,
• 2:22:17
  Speaker 1: and that was one thing Johnny Morgan found hard to do.
• 2:22:20
  Speaker 1: Johnny wanted to say his prayers every day, but somehow
• 2:22:25
  Speaker 1: he used to forget. He'd forget to pray in the morning,
• 2:22:28
  Speaker 1: and he'd forget to pray at night. Every time Sister
• 2:22:31
  Speaker 1: Clement spoak to the children about saying their prayers, it
• 2:22:34
  Speaker 1: bothered Johnny. The little fellow wanted to do the right thing,
• 2:22:39
  Speaker 1: but he always forgot to pray. Finally, Johnny decided to
• 2:22:43
  Speaker 1: do something about it. One morning recently, Sister Clement was
• 2:22:48
  Speaker 1: talking about prayer, and all of a sudden, Johnny Morgan
• 2:22:52
  Speaker 1: raised his hand. Sister said, Johnny, I don't forget my
• 2:22:57
  Speaker 1: morning and night prayers any more. I made an invent,
• 2:23:02
  Speaker 1: an invention, smiled the sister. That's fine, Johnny. What kind
• 2:23:06
  Speaker 1: of an invention is it? Oh? I just took a
• 2:23:10
  Speaker 1: piece of paper out of my tablet answered the boy,
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  Speaker 1: and pin it up on the post in my bed.
• 2:23:17
  Speaker 1: Just a piece of paper, asked the sister. Of course not,
• 2:23:21
  Speaker 1: Johnny answered, I wrote something on the paper. What did
• 2:23:27
  Speaker 1: you write, Sister Clement asked, very solemnly. The little boy
• 2:23:32
  Speaker 1: seemed pleased, Sister. He said, I wrote, up in the
• 2:23:36
  Speaker 1: left hand corner of the words Jesus Christ, and up
• 2:23:39
  Speaker 1: in the right hand corner, I wrote the Devil. You know, sister,
• 2:23:43
  Speaker 1: I'm having a contest between Jesus and the Devil, and
• 2:23:46
  Speaker 1: I keep score on my paper. Every morning after I
• 2:23:50
  Speaker 1: say my prayers, I mark one point for Jesus, and
• 2:23:53
  Speaker 1: every night after I say my prayers, I mark another
• 2:23:56
  Speaker 1: point for Jesus. If I don't say my prayers, then
• 2:23:59
  Speaker 1: I have to give one point to the devil. Sister
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  Speaker 1: Clement smiled and she was proud of little Johnny. That's
• 2:24:07
  Speaker 1: a fine invention, she said, But tell me who is
• 2:24:11
  Speaker 1: a head in your contest. Jesus is ahead, Johnny answered promptly.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is far ahead. He has got all the points
• 2:24:20
  Speaker 1: and the devil hasn't got any. When I wake up
• 2:24:23
  Speaker 1: in the morning, the first thing I see is my scorecard,
• 2:24:26
  Speaker 1: and I see my prayers. When I get ready for bed,
• 2:24:30
  Speaker 1: I see my scorecard again. My scorecard reminds me that
• 2:24:33
  Speaker 1: I can't let Jesus down, so I say my prayers.
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  Speaker 1: I want Jesus to win. Boys and girls, I think
• 2:24:42
  Speaker 1: Johnny Morgan's invention was a pretty good idea, and I'd
• 2:24:46
  Speaker 1: like to pass along the idea to you this morning.
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  Speaker 1: What would happen if you had a sheet of paper
• 2:24:50
  Speaker 1: before your eyes every morning and night? What would happen
• 2:24:54
  Speaker 1: if you kept score on your prayers? Oh? I know
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  Speaker 1: what would happen. The same thing would happen to me.
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  Speaker 1: You that happened to Johnny Morgan. You wouldn't forget to
• 2:25:03
  Speaker 1: say your prayers. I know that you boys and girls
• 2:25:06
  Speaker 1: want to say your prayers every day. But what happens
• 2:25:09
  Speaker 1: to you. You forget, and you keep on forgetting day
• 2:25:12
  Speaker 1: after day. Maybe you need a piece of paper pin
• 2:25:15
  Speaker 1: to your bed to remind you. I'll bet that piece
• 2:25:18
  Speaker 1: of paper would work, and I'll bet that if you
• 2:25:20
  Speaker 1: would keep score, you would be saying your prayers every day.
• 2:25:24
  Speaker 1: That little invention of Johnny's certainly worked for him, and
• 2:25:28
  Speaker 1: it will work for you. You know, children, Jesus and
• 2:25:32
  Speaker 1: the devil are really in a race. They are both
• 2:25:34
  Speaker 1: trying to win your soul. Every prayer you say puts
• 2:25:38
  Speaker 1: Jesus ahead in the race, and every prayer brings your
• 2:25:41
  Speaker 1: soul closer to Heaven. That's why you should pray often.
• 2:25:45
  Speaker 1: That's why you should pray every day. If you don't pray,
• 2:25:49
  Speaker 1: the devil will win the race and you won't go
• 2:25:51
  Speaker 1: to heaven. You certainly don't want that to happen. Don't
• 2:25:55
  Speaker 1: neglect your prayers. Say your prayers every morning and say them.
• 2:25:59
  Speaker 1: Agin it right. If you keep forgetting your prayers, then
• 2:26:03
  Speaker 1: do what Johnny Morgan did. If necessary, keep score, then
• 2:26:08
  Speaker 1: you'll want to see your prayers every day. Johnny's invention
• 2:26:11
  Speaker 1: is certainly worth trying, isn't it well? I think so.
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  Speaker 1: End of chapter twenty seven, Chapter twenty eight of Angel
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  Speaker 1: Food for Jack and Jill Little Talks to Little Folks
• 2:26:31
  Speaker 1: the Reverend Gerald T. Brennan. This LibriVox recording is in
• 2:26:35
  Speaker 1: the public domain. Recording by Maria Therese, Chapter twenty eight
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  Speaker 1: Denny Denwitt. If I were to ask you which part
• 2:26:44
  Speaker 1: of the newspaper you'd like best, I know what your
• 2:26:47
  Speaker 1: answer would be. You would tell me that you like
• 2:26:50
  Speaker 1: the funnies. I think most people read the funnies. Men,
• 2:26:53
  Speaker 1: women and children read the funnies, and for some people
• 2:26:56
  Speaker 1: the funnies are the best part of the paper. Now,
• 2:27:00
  Speaker 1: don't be surprised when I tell you that I read
• 2:27:02
  Speaker 1: the funnies too. Yes, I do. Of course, I don't
• 2:27:07
  Speaker 1: read all the funnies because some of them are not funny,
• 2:27:10
  Speaker 1: but I do read the good ones. Would you like
• 2:27:13
  Speaker 1: to know which funnies I read well. I read Blondie
• 2:27:16
  Speaker 1: because Blondie and her family are always good for a laugh.
• 2:27:19
  Speaker 1: Then I read Little Henry because he's everybody's favorite. Joe
• 2:27:23
  Speaker 1: Pelucca is on my list too. I read Bringing Up
• 2:27:27
  Speaker 1: Father because I know the man who draws Maggie and
• 2:27:29
  Speaker 1: Jigs and I never miss They'll do it every time. Now,
• 2:27:34
  Speaker 1: there's one funny that I certainly enjoy, and that is
• 2:27:37
  Speaker 1: Winnie Winkle. Do you know why I read Winnie Winkle?
• 2:27:41
  Speaker 1: Because I like the little fellow Denny Dinwit. Little Denny
• 2:27:45
  Speaker 1: Dinwitt is one of my favorites. If you haven't followed
• 2:27:48
  Speaker 1: Little Denny in the past, then you had better get
• 2:27:51
  Speaker 1: busy and meet him. Denny's a grand little fellow and
• 2:27:54
  Speaker 1: you'll like him. Wherever Denny Dinwick goes, a little green
• 2:27:58
  Speaker 1: fellow follows him. The little green fellow is only about
• 2:28:01
  Speaker 1: an inch tall, and most of the time Denny doesn't
• 2:28:05
  Speaker 1: see him, and you don't see him either. When Denny
• 2:28:09
  Speaker 1: Dinwoit is tempted to do wrong, however, the little green
• 2:28:12
  Speaker 1: Fellow appears immediately. When Denny is tempted to cheat, the
• 2:28:16
  Speaker 1: little green Fellow warns him that cheating is wrong. If
• 2:28:19
  Speaker 1: Denny is tempted to lie, the little green Fellow holds
• 2:28:22
  Speaker 1: him back. If Denny gets a job and wastes time,
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  Speaker 1: the little green Fellow tells him that he must work
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  Speaker 1: for his pay. Yes, the little green Fellow is always
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  Speaker 1: on the job, warning Denny Dinwod not to do wrong,
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  Speaker 1: warning him not to give into temptation, Of course, Denny
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  Speaker 1: Dinwitt always listens to the little green Fellow, and Denny
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  Speaker 1: always follows his advice. That's why Denny Dinwood always does
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  Speaker 1: the right thing. Who is the little green fellow who
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  Speaker 1: follows Denny Dinwitt wherever he goes? Who warns Denny and
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  Speaker 1: keeps mouth trouble? Well, you boys and girls who followed
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  Speaker 1: Denny know the answer. The little fellow is Denny's conscience. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Denny Denwitt isn't the only one who has a conscience.
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  Speaker 1: You too have a conscience. Your conscience isn't a little
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  Speaker 1: green fellow because your conscience is inside of you. When
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  Speaker 1: the devil tempts you to do wrong, your conscience is
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  Speaker 1: always on the job. Your conscience warns you and tells
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  Speaker 1: you what is right and what is wrong. If you
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  Speaker 1: will listen and follow the advice of your conscience, you'll
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  Speaker 1: never do wrong. You will always do the right thing.
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  Speaker 1: Why do some boys and girls do wrong? Why do
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  Speaker 1: some boys and girls make sins? Because they stuff their
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  Speaker 1: ears and don't listen to their conscience. That's where they
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  Speaker 1: make a big mistake. Almighty God wants boys and girls
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  Speaker 1: to do the right thing at all times. That's Why
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  Speaker 1: God keep each of you a conscience. The little Green
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  Speaker 1: Fellow is Denny Dinwitt's best friend, and your conscience is
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  Speaker 1: your best friend. Don't be annoyed when your conscience bothers you.
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  Speaker 1: When your conscience bothers you, that's a sign that you
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  Speaker 1: are in Dan. If you will listen to and follow
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  Speaker 1: your conscience, you won't get into trouble and you won't
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  Speaker 1: fall into sin. Little Denny Denwit doesn't look very bright
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  Speaker 1: in the funnies, but I think he is a very
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  Speaker 1: smart fellow. Denny never makes a mistake, he never does wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Denny always listens to and follows the advice of his conscience.
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  Speaker 1: Why don't you follow the example of Little Denny Denwit?
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  Speaker 1: End of Chapter twenty eight, end of Angel Food for
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  Speaker 1: Jack and Jill. Little talks to Little Folkes. A Reverend
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  Speaker 1: Gerald T. Brennan