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WHAT HENRY'S FATHER THOUGHT AND DID. 23<br />
could to check the fashionable tendency to self<br />
ishness, and to set a more Christian example.<br />
He knew, indeed, that it would come rather<br />
hard upon his children and family ; but he<br />
thought it would even do them good in the end.<br />
His resolution was therefore taken with regret ;<br />
but then it was taken deliberately and firmly.<br />
This resolution was to seize on every birthday<br />
of his own, and upon some of the more prominent<br />
of the holidays, and make them seasons of giving ;<br />
and, by precept as well as by example, to avail<br />
himself of every possible means of changing the<br />
customs of those around him.<br />
His resolution was no sooner made than it<br />
was carried into execution. But, even after he<br />
began to make the change, his wife, and chil<br />
dren, and neighbors only rallied him as engaged
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