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attitude toward his trade evidently was not such as to 

 make it interesting in his children's eyes, otherwise 

 they would not only have thought shoes desirable,, but 

 have learned to make them. 



Father's attitude toward his profession has always 

 made it seem to me like the highest expression of 

 the religion of humanity. To do the highest duty 

 amid the scenes in which his life is set frorn lonely 

 farm to the hovels of factory and brick-yard workers 

 in the town, the healer of the body must also at need 

 become the soother and strengthener of the soul. 

 Was it not this revelation of spiritualized humanity 

 that the Master preached and practised when he 

 cleansed the lepers, bade Lazarus come forth, and 

 comforted the dying thief with the positive promise 

 of things beyond ? 



I think also that a certain knowledge of the 

 processes of natural law, so that the facts of it come 

 to one unconsciously and as a matter of course, pre- 

 vents many shocks and jars that would otherwise 

 meet a woman on entering the world that lies out- 

 side of the protecting doors of home. While a 

 knowledge of the evil of breaking these laws as seen 

 by the results, even in one little hospital, must make 

 one's relations to the race more sane and sound. 



Surely the country life is not as wholly com- 



