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was about to burst, to retire to his own apartment. 
“ Don’t ask me, Mrs. G.; I can’t stay in my room,” 
was his reply. In vain was he reminded that, ex¬ 
pelled from that institution, he could never enter 
another — that this step might, and probably 
would, shade all his future prospects in life. “ It 
would be glorious to be expelled in such a cause 
— I should never regret it if I were sent home to¬ 
morrow,” said he. The good lady, as a last re¬ 
sort, exclaimed, “ But your sisters, who take so 
much pride and pleasure in your well doing, how 
will they feel at the disgrace of their brother ? ” 
He was silent for some minutes, then, rising, said, 
H You have conquered, madam. I could never 
see sister Julia again. I shall not leave my room 
to-night, happen what will.” And he kept his 
word. That week witnessed the expulsion of 
several of George B.’s most intimate friends ; yet 
he stood firm, and lives an ornament to his coun¬ 
try, to bless God for a sister’s love. 
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Yet it is as an active Christian that the influ¬ 
ence of a sister is most deeply felt. “ Never,” 
said a foreign missionary now in heaven — “ never 
did I feel the reality of religion till I saw it trans¬ 
forming my proud, though kind and affectionate, 
elder sister into a meek and humble Christian. 
Then, indeed, I saw its power, and felt that the 
efficacy was of God.” The parents of this young 
man were active, devoted children of God, and 
they had acted on the principle that their eldest 
