THE LEAST OF THESE
In 1892 the ten Booms had a fifth child (one child died in infancy). To the impoverished family, already burdened with debts, illness, and uncertain living arrangements, the arrival of a weak, premature little creature must have been a blow. Her mother wrote in a diary, “Oh, what a poor little thing she was. Nearly dead, she looked bluish white, and I never saw anything so pitiful. Nobody thought she would live.” Uncle Hendrik, Tante Jans’s husband, saw Corrie and said, “I hope the Lord will quickly take this poor little creature to His home in heaven.” Corrie ten Boom began her existence on earth by amazing people. She never stopped! When she was only six months old, a fussy, weak baby who spent most of her time tied in the apron of her mother’s sister, Tante Anna, the family moved back to Haarlem. Casper was needed to manage the watch shop for his mother. A few years later, Casper…
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