. Echoes from the pulpit and platform : or, Living truths for head and heart ; illustrated by upwards of five hundred thrilling anecdotes and incidents, personal experiences, touching home scenes, and stories of tender pathos drawn from the bright and shady sides of life. v demonstrable influencetipon his character. This stern and resolute woman was lefta widow with a brood of growing children by her husbandsdeath in 1841. Her neighbors advised her to distribute themamong her friends; but she planted herself firmly on the slopeof a rugged New England hill and resolutely decided to keepthem tog
. Echoes from the pulpit and platform : or, Living truths for head and heart ; illustrated by upwards of five hundred thrilling anecdotes and incidents, personal experiences, touching home scenes, and stories of tender pathos drawn from the bright and shady sides of life. v demonstrable influencetipon his character. This stern and resolute woman was lefta widow with a brood of growing children by her husbandsdeath in 1841. Her neighbors advised her to distribute themamong her friends; but she planted herself firmly on the slopeof a rugged New England hill and resolutely decided to keepthem together. The farm was heavily mortgaged and shewas excessively poor, but nothing could shake her purpose and3 (33) 34 LIFK OF L MOODY. she triumphed nobly. That the chilthen liad to bear theirshare of tlie burdens goes witliout saying, and Dwight (Uttlefellow that he was) took his turn with the others. The Con-necticut \alley, in which Xorthfield is located, is surpassinglybeautiful, and, although Mr. Moody seldom indulged in de-scriptions of scenery, he was a passionate lover of nature,and no doubt formed this taste in that almost paradisaicalspot. In the small and straggling village opportunities forculture were rare. There was a Unitarian church which his. WHERE IX M(JODV WAS HORN. Tin. ), family attended, and a village school to which he was sent agocjd deal oftener than he went! Hear him descril^e it! Inthe little red schoolhouse which stood nearly opposite thehouse where I lived there were some bad boys who ran things,and I was one of the worst. We had a man teacher, who usedthe rattan on us a good deal, and took us by the ears and spunus around when we tried to do as we pleased. There was agreat deal of excitement in our end of the town over the pun-ishment of the boys. One faction said that love would do forthe bovs what the rattan failed to do. The other faction LIFK OF UWIGIIT L. .MOODY. 35 thoii,s:ht that the rattan was the only proper
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