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parents have found eternal honor by the achievements of their son.

As I pass the Boston City Hall there appears the Franklin statue.

As I face the Old South Church and its ancient neighborhood I am in the
place of the traditions of the birth of Benjamin Franklin and of his
baptism. It may be that I will return by the way of Franklin Street, or
visit the Franklin School, or go to the Mechanics' Building, where I may
see the primitive printing press at which Franklin worked, and which was
buried in the earth at Newport, Rhode Island, at the time of the
Revolutionary War.

If I go to the Public Library, I may find there two original portraits
of Franklin and a Franklin gallery, and a picture of him once owned by
Thomas Jefferson.

If I go to the Memorial Hall at Harvard College, I will there see
another portrait of the philosopher in the grand gallery of noble men.
Or I may go to Boston's wide pleasure ground, the Franklin Park, by an
electric car made possible by the discoveries of Franklin.

Nearly all of Franklin's early efforts were laughed at, but he would not
be laughed down. Time is the friend of every true purpose.

Boys with a purpose, face the future, do good in silence, and trust. You
will find some Uncle Benjamin and sister Jenny to hold you by the hand.
Be in dead earnest, and face the future, and forward march! The captains
of industry and the leaders of every achievement say, "Guide right! Turn
to the right, and advance!"

CHAPTER XIX.

LEAVES BOSTON.

THESE were fine old times, but they were English times; English ideas
ruled Boston town. There was little liberty of opinion or of the press
in those days. The Franklins belonged to a few families who hoped to
find in the province freedom of thought. James Franklin was a testy man,
but he breathed free air, and one day in his paper, the Courant, he
published the following simple sentences, the like of which any one
might print anywhere in the civilized world to-day: "If Almighty God
will have Canada subdued without the assistance of those miserable
Savages, in whom we have too much confidence, we shall be glad that
there will be no sacrifices offered up to the Devil upon the occasion;
God alone will have all the glory."

What had he done? He had protested against the use of Indians in the war
then being waged against Canada.

He was arrested on a charge that the article in which this paragraph
appeared, and some like articles, "c