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cessantly twisting his body, making comic faces 

 and continually trying to make people laugh. 



I was acquainted with an irreligious family 

 where there was one child who constituted a white 

 sheep in a black flock. The mother during gesta- ^ Desirable 

 tion was induced to attend a revival meeting and 

 was thrown into a fervor of religious excitement. 

 Her child, born some six weeks later, was quite 

 unlike his elder brothers and sisters, showing a 

 marked interest in sacred songs and in religious 

 service. 



A short time previous to the birth of a neigh- , 

 bor's child the evangelist, Bittler, was holding- 

 meetings in St. Paul's Church, of Lincoln, Neb. 

 The revival hymn, "The Lily of the Valley," was 

 much used, so that the family were repeatedly The Lily of 

 singing it at home. This simple hymn became 

 the magic charm to the baby's soul. From his 

 earliest infancy, even during the first month be- 

 fore he t was old* enough to recognize words or 

 songs, or to distinguish one person from another, 

 the singing of this hymn would quiet him at once 

 and put him to sleep like a hypnotic suggestion. 



I had at one time under advisement a lad whose 

 use of profanity was intolerable, even the saloon 

 men made complaint to his parents. His swear- 

 ing was not acquired, but natural. He swore AChiId , 

 from the time he could lisp. His mother told me p ro fanity. 

 that prior to his birth, while she had always been 

 an earnest Christian woman, she had an insatiable 

 desire to swear; that the most fiendish oaths 

 seemed to bubble up for expression. She had no 

 idea of the cause of this condition in herself, but 

 the effects upon the child were painfully apparent. 



