JS56.] The Tallow- Chandler's Son. 



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the rope, stretches, reels and coils it ready for market. All other 

 modes of rope-making must be superseded by this, which deserves 

 the warm encomiums it has received from many eastern papers. 



From an Address by the Hon. Josiali Quincy, Jr. 



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'' There are, in agricultural life, great opportunities of individual 

 usefulness. The effects of example and precept extend forther than 

 we can imagine. When you throw wheat into the ground, you know 

 what will be the product; but when you exemplify or inculcate a 

 moral truth, eternity alone can develop the extent of the blessing. 



About a hundred years ago there lived in Boston a tallow-chandler. 

 He was too ignorant to give, and too poor to pay for his children's 

 instruction ; but he was a wise and an honest man, and there was 

 one book upon whose precepts he relied, as being able to instruct 

 his children how to live prosperously in this world, as well as to 

 prepare them for another. 



We are told he daily repeated to them the proverb : ' seest thou 

 the man diligent in business? He shall stand before kings.' In 

 process of time this tallow-chandler died and was forgotten. But 

 the good seed had fallen upon good ground. One of his little boys 

 obeyed his father's instruction ; he was diligent in his business and 

 he did stand before kings, the first representative of his native land! 

 He lived as a philosopher, to snatch the lightning from heaven ; as 

 a statesman, to wrest the scepter from tyrants. And when he died, 

 he confessed it was the moral teachings of his father, added to a lit- 

 tle learning he picked up in a town school in Boston, to which he 

 owed his success, his happiness and his reputation. He did what he 

 could to testify how sensible he was of these obligations. He be- 

 queathed liberally to his native city, the means of inducing the 

 young to improve their advantages, and to enable the industrious 

 to succeed in their callings. And he erected a monument over his 

 father, to tell his virtues to another age. Bat the glory of the father 

 was in the child. His son's character was his noblest monument. 

 The example that son set, of industry, perseverance and economy, 

 have excited, and are exciting many to imitate them. And thou- 

 sands yet unborn, may owe their success and happiness to the man- 

 ner in which a text was enforced, by a poor tallow-chandler upon 

 BENJA3IIN Franklin." 



