HIS BOYHOOD. 
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after the Sunday-school teacher and scholar were 
brought into a personal relationship through the 
marriage of the latter to the daughter of the former, 
the Minnie previously mentioned. 
“ When I remember him first,” says Mr. Rickards, 
“ he was about fourteen years of age, — a quiet, 
thoughtful, attentive lad. I believe he was thoroughly 
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earnest then in his resolve to know what it was 
to be a Christian, and his effort to reach to the 
Christian standard. I never had any trouble to get 
him to listen. Indeed, the whole class were good 
listeners. After a time, I found that two or three of 
the most earnest of them were having private prayer- 
meetings, in which they were praying for the class 
