. Stories for the household . THE STORY OF MY MY life is a pretty story, as rich as it was fortunate. If, when I wasa boy, and went out poor and alone into the world, a powerful fairy hadappeared to me and said, Choose thy career and thy aim, and then,according as thy mind develops itself, and according to the reasonableprogress of our world, thou shalt be led and protected by me, my fatecould not have been more happily, more cleverly and prosperouslyfulfilled. The story of my life will show to the world the truth it hasrevealed to me: that there is a gracious God who makes all things
. Stories for the household . THE STORY OF MY MY life is a pretty story, as rich as it was fortunate. If, when I wasa boy, and went out poor and alone into the world, a powerful fairy hadappeared to me and said, Choose thy career and thy aim, and then,according as thy mind develops itself, and according to the reasonableprogress of our world, thou shalt be led and protected by me, my fatecould not have been more happily, more cleverly and prosperouslyfulfilled. The story of my life will show to the world the truth it hasrevealed to me: that there is a gracious God who makes all things worktogether for our good. My native land, Denmark, is a poetical country, full of folk-lore andold songs, and with a rich history, interwoven with that of Sweden andNorway. The Danish islands have splendid forests of beech and fieldsof corn and clover; they look like gardens laid out in the grand one of these green islands, Fiiuen, lies my birthplace, Odense, socalled after the heathen god Odin, who, according to th
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