This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 Excerpt: ...mother, as I am going oS to-morrow." After conversing on many things he paused and said: "Mother, you recollect when we were in I wanted to play in the streets in the evening, and you would not allow it. You said then if I lived till I was twentyone years old I should come and thank you for keeping me in. I feel that I ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 Excerpt: ...mother, as I am going oS to-morrow." After conversing on many things he paused and said: "Mother, you recollect when we were in I wanted to play in the streets in the evening, and you would not allow it. You said then if I lived till I was twentyone years old I should come and thank you for keeping me in. I feel that I cannot wait till that time; I want to thank you now, for if I had gone with those boys as I wanted to, who knows where I should have been now! I did not see the evil tendency of the course then, I do now." My young readers, your only safe way is to obey your parents, whether you can always see and appreciate the reasons for their orders or not. Keep out of the streets at night if you would avoid a "street education," and its bitter fruits of profanity, erime, disgrace, and ruin. The next morning, after bidding the family " Good-by," he left' home and went to North Hampton, and became a member of the family of the excellent and useful Christian citizen after whom he was named. The same evening he passed an examination before the School Committee, and the following day he entered the High School under the instruction of Mr. George B. Manley. Here new duties and new associates awaited him, which called into exercise all his powers and very fully occupied his time. His efforts to serve and please were faithfully made, and gave satisfaction to his new friends, and he rapidly grew into their favor. He took a place in the Sunday-school and in the Church, and was not ashamed to be known as a Christian. It is an old maxim that "a new broom sweeps clean," and it often happens that a boy begins well in a new situation, and after a few weeks, when he gets better acquainted, he grows remiss, neglects his duties...
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