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My father died when I was seven or
eight years old, and mother had to work
seven days a week to provide for five small
children; She was away all the time, and I
never had a "boss," any one that I had to
obey. Perhaps the reason I had a free hand
in forming my own life lay in the fact that
I hada a studious disposition; I wanted
to go to school; any one would have had
trouble to keep me out but I was never
forced to go to church or Sunday School,
so it was not unitl I was about eighteen
that I got interested in religion. A
classmate died, and it was her funeral that I was in church for the
first time. I knew, of course, that old
people died, but I had paid not attention
to it. I had never thought of it as
happening to the young. I asked one
of my school teachers a question about

My father died when I was seven or eight years old, and mother had to work seven days a week to provide for five small children; She was away all the time, and I never had a "boss," any one that I had to obey. Perhaps the reason I had a free hand in forming my [own?] life lay in the fact that I hada a student's [?]; I wanted to go to school; any one would have had trouble to keep me out but I was never forced to go to church or Sunday School, so it was not unitl I was about eighteen that I got interested in religion. A classmate died, and it was her funeral that I was in church for the first time. I knew, of course, that old people died, but I had paid not attention to it. I had never thought of it as happening to the young. I asked one of my school teachers a question about