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Life in the making: 335 total pages.

its grasp. Year by year, day by day, they are growing. With-out thought or intention on their own part, whether or not we will it, they continue to grow. Without consulting the wishes of parents or friends, without so much as saying, "By your , leave," this strange power, which cannot be resisted, hurries them on through successive periods of life. At a certain social gathering for young people each person present had been requested to bring an old photograph of himself, without a name or other mark upon it to identify it. The pictures were numbered, then passed about the company and an effort made to identify them. The pastor, a man in middle age, brought three pictures of himself- one taken in infancy, another when he first entered school at six years of age, and the third when he was wearing his first pair of long pants. Many of the young people recognized the third photograph as that of their minister, although some did not; but no one in the entire company guessed the identity of the two earlier photographs. Evidently, this minister had passed through at least three distinct

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