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both of men and women, and he was intensely happy 

 in his home hie. 



Hjs children were a great and increasing interest 

 to him, and he was an ideal father, tender, sym- 

 pathetic, especially as infancy grew into childhood. 

 He shared in all his childi-en's interests, and hved 

 with them on terms of absolute friendship, chaffing 

 and being chafEed, enjojing an interchange of pet 

 names and jokes, and yet exacting obedience and 

 gentle manners, and never permitting them as small 

 children to make themselves troublesome to ^-isitors 

 in anj' way, or to chatter freely at meals when guests 

 were present. 



He had very strong feehngs about the importance 

 of making children f amihar with the Bible. He used 

 to say that as a mere matter of hterary education 

 everj'one ought to be familiar with the Bible from 

 beginning to end. He himself was exceedingly well 

 versed in Holy Scripture. 



He also thought a good classical training very 

 deshable for boys (and girls also), and had no 

 very great behef in science being taught to any great 

 extent during a boy's school career. Memory, he 

 considered, ought to be cultivated in childhood, and 

 he did not think that the reasoning powers ought to 

 be much taxed in early years. He used to say that 

 Euchd could be learnt much more easilj' if it were 

 begun later in boyhood. He also much wished that 

 foreign languages should be taught very early in hfe, 

 and with Httle or no attention to grammar. 



Perhaps a few words of reminiscence from one of 

 his children maj" not be unwelcome. 



MEilOEIES.— G. J. E. 



I remember that when my father was particularly 

 amused at anything, he used a certain gesture, which. 



