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HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
What further the friend desires me to inform him.
How I treat the children with love that they both love and fear me.
I answer that concerning this point I have nothing to claim for myself in the slightest. I consider it an entirely undeserved mercy of God, if there is anything herein fruitful accomplished between myself and the young, whether in learning or the exercises of piety. In the first place I have to thank the dear Lord heartily that after I
