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IT’S A BOY!
As a boy of 14, Harry had given a concert in the New York Symphony Hall. He was playing now in weekly youth meetings to large audiences in Times Square, Madison Square Garden, and before 40,000 in Yankee Stadium. • • • Far from New York, in the State of Minnesota, God laid His hand on another life. A little mother sat in her rocker one winter evening. The light of a kerosene lamp cast flickering shadows on her head, bowed in prayer. Minnesota is cold in the wintertime. Tonight the wind was whirling snow across hills and vales. Life was not easy. The work was never done, and there would soon be another little one in the family. Thoughts of the unfulfilled longings of her youth filled her heart. In those days she had wanted to go as a missionary to the dark places of the earth. But times were hard. To go to school one needed shoes and books.
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