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does not yet know whether to characterize her words and acts as inconsistent or liberal. The puzzle has begun which will haunt him for years, until he, too, has learned that a broad outlook and a fervent faith necessitate each other. School-life soon teaches him to be loyal to truth and honor, in withholding from mean and doubtful ways with such pleasantness that he attracts his fellows into right observance rather than repels them from the circle of his friendship. College and boarding-schools enforce these lessons with a power that each one knows best for himself.

Church life again presents them. Within a hundred years religion in America has burst the shackles that fettered it. After State conventions had ceased to support the church by public tax, creed tests were still retained, belief in which was evidence of eligibility for holding office. Not only must Protestantism be accepted, but, in Delaware, belief in the Trinity; in Pennsylvania, belief

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