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 before to speak in a religious meeting, but free-spoken when matters of business were under discussion. To-day, all was different. It was a gathering, too, at a private house. There was no reason why he should not add his testimony. After a moment's pause he rose from his chair and said, "Parents, provoke not your children unto wrath." The elders, sitting in another room, had not seen him rise, and before the last of the few words had been uttered those that faced the little company had shaken hands and the meeting was over.