In his eldest son he saw much ability and also a mind logical and
argumentative, and he had fully resolved that the boy should be
educated and trained for the legal profession. And the farmer
"plodded his weary way homeward" each day buoyed up with the
thought that he was doing his duty towards his family and above
all towards his God.
"But man proposes and God disposes."
Ere the young student had finished his collegiate course the
fond parent was called to his long home, and within a year the
heart-broken mother was re-united in that world where sorrow
never comes; where she awaits a further re-union, when she shall
once more gather to her bosom the loved forms whom she watches
over in anxious solicitude from the portals of her blessed abode. It
was from this time that the noble minded youth was aroused to a
sense of his duty. He must not give up the course of action which
had been laid out for him.
What was to be done?
Sickness and death had told heavily upon the pecuniary resources of
the family. Much of the produce had to go to pay the wages of
labourers, and only by dint of much anxiety and careful management
could the farm be made to cover expenses.
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