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over me, as she used to do, when I had only a headache, and my father with the bible in his hand, out of which he read to us in the evening, before his prayer, but when I have stretched out my hands to say, 'Father, I am no more worthy to be called thy son,' I would awake, and it was all a dream. But there would still be the memory of my disobedience, and how bitterly have I wept to think that the child of so many peaceful precepts had become a man of blood."

His brother hastened to assure him of the perfect forgiveness of his parents, and that daily and nightly he was mentioned in their supplications at the family altar, as their loved, and absent, and erring one.