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Christian and temperance sentiment, the author holding that the growth in a child of a true and healthy religious and physical life was greatly to be desired and sought after, not only for its own sake, but for the general well-being of society. On the various practical questions coming under treatment, the views set forth were characterized as sound and sensible.
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169:(W.C.T.U.), and traveling throughout the state, the knowledge West gained of the inner life of thousands of homes, together with her intimate studies of children in the schoolroom, efficiently supplemented her natural bias for the task of writing her book for mothers,
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