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2. umn article devoted to him, will you kindly bear with mO while I submit the results of my mights meditation? First my
father was a strict disciplinarian; so deeply moued with the wisdom of Solomemn's Conclusions as to the training of a child
that he spared not the rod when in his opinion the exigencies of the case required its application. While as children we differed
with him as to the Need. I am unable from the standpoint of the present to recall a singel instance in which,(so far as I
am concerned) he erred in judgment. So imperative were his needs that he was compelled from childhood to the most arduous
toil. To him life had ever been a battle. Rough, tolling uncultured men had been his associates. He had never crossed the
threshold of a school room, knew nothing of children, their natures and their needs and was seemingly Incapable entering into
our thoughts and feeling and adapting himself to the requirement a and cravings of our childish natures. As a result we did
not cherish for him that affection children should bestow upon a parent. To us, however, it was apparent( and tended to mitigate
and soften his asperity) that he was the incarnation of truthfulness. We never know him to misrepre-