. The Christian annual for the year of our lord ... iW^W)iW^W^W^^^^ r3f&3fg3f^2resT^3f^^&^TC2r^l63^^. 5I Isaac C. Goff was born in Rehoboth, Mass., October 18,si ISOS. His parents were devout members of the Baptist3 Cburcb. His grandfather Goff had been a minister of thati^l Communion, and four other relatives. In his boyhood, heo\ regularly attended the Baptist Church, two miles from his15! home, walking, and remaining for the second or after-dinnerS -ervice, as was the custom of that day. It was all the harderSi on tlie youthful attendant, as there was no means by whichgl to warm theliouse i
. The Christian annual for the year of our lord ... iW^W)iW^W^W^^^^ r3f&3fg3f^2resT^3f^^&^TC2r^l63^^. 5I Isaac C. Goff was born in Rehoboth, Mass., October 18,si ISOS. His parents were devout members of the Baptist3 Cburcb. His grandfather Goff had been a minister of thati^l Communion, and four other relatives. In his boyhood, heo\ regularly attended the Baptist Church, two miles from his15! home, walking, and remaining for the second or after-dinnerS -ervice, as was the custom of that day. It was all the harderSi on tlie youthful attendant, as there was no means by whichgl to warm theliouse in the wintertime. He never engaged insi frames of chance, nor addicted himself to profanity in speech,j! nor would he share the companionship of those who His life in boyhood was one of absolute honesty, and it the3; close of his career he could say that he had never violatednj the wise precepts taught him in his childhood home. Si Until sixteen years 3j of age, he had had si simply the advan- Sl tages of the country n! school, with such Sj help at homo as his S; father, who had been Kl a
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