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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: VI A111 pat;.- - the fullest exercise of it .- -- family. His church aiu : - of his activity, and tii. -.. gi ther throughout hi-- ---' thought which made '.-r: and of his love. He was married wii.1 his studies at college, t'ui t and alie to all the infliu .1- - man of purpose and am -.: at Llangynidr he took lii; . I'n-.'i The many qualities, social, intellectual, and temperamental, which made the public life of my father one of achievement and success, were no less abundantly displayed in his own home and at the family fireside. Gifted by nature with a warm and sympathetic disposition, he found the fullest exercise of it among the members of his family. His church and his home were the centers of his activity, and these were closely bound together throughout his career by the dominating thought which made them the object of his work and of his love. He was married while very young, fresh from his studies at college, full of enthusiasm and energy, and alive to all the influences which inspire a young man of purpose and ambition. To his first charge at Llangynidrhe took his young bride, Miss FrancesWilliams, a daughter of John Williams, Esq., of Brecknockshire, a substantial citizen, of sturdy stock, and a member of an old and respected family of that county. The young wife brought no less of zeal and enthusiasm to the work which was opening up before the young couple, and throughout a period of over thirty years her devotion never faltered through the changes which three decades were destined to bring, until the pathetic close of a career, which began so auspiciously, developed so amply, and terminated in all the pathos of a seemingly uncompleted life. Never in all the years, and in all that he ever undertook, was he without the aid, companionship, and...
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