. TK and the great work in America ; a defense of the true and ancient school of spiritual light. ounty, Iowa. But before the time limit of my memory, the familyhad removed from there to a farm, some three milesSouth of the South Skunk River, and about twomiles North East of the town of Martinsburg, sameCounty and State. 56 TK AND THE GREAT WORK IN AMERICA Here it was that the experiences of my life firstimpressed themselves upon my Consciousness withsufficient emphasis to fix them in my memory. It washere that my conscious life began, and memory firstregistered. At the age of four (4) I becam
. TK and the great work in America ; a defense of the true and ancient school of spiritual light. ounty, Iowa. But before the time limit of my memory, the familyhad removed from there to a farm, some three milesSouth of the South Skunk River, and about twomiles North East of the town of Martinsburg, sameCounty and State. 56 TK AND THE GREAT WORK IN AMERICA Here it was that the experiences of my life firstimpressed themselves upon my Consciousness withsufficient emphasis to fix them in my memory. It washere that my conscious life began, and memory firstregistered. At the age of four (4) I became the caretaker ofmy younger brother and it was then, and in that ca-pacity, that I began to realize the meaning of PersonalResponsibility. When seven (7) years old the family removed toa River-Bottom-Land farm between the twoSkunk Rivers and my Father (whose Ministrybrought him no income) had to depend upon otherlines of labor for the living of himself and rapidly as the children became old enough, eachwas fitted into some occupation and became a cogin the family Wheel of Economics. AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF TKS LIFE 57 At seven (7) it fell to my lot to become Sawyerin a little steam saw-mill owned by my Father—chiefly for the accommodation of his neighbors—whobrought their logs from a distance of three to fivemiles in every direction, to have them sawed intolumber of all kinds for the building of houses, barns,buildings of all kinds, and fences, in the heart of apioneer country. For nine (9) years I almost lived in the little four-foot-pen that constituted the station or post ofsawyer and, because of the necessities of the generalsituation, I was depended upon—and was able to—perform the duties of a grown man, and that, too, ina position of responsibility much greater than that ofthe average man of mature intelligence. When I was sixteen (16) years old—the older boysof the family—with but one exception—had eithermarried and assumed the responsibilitie
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