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The Gilded Age
Part 6.

CHAPTER LIII
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By and by he was elected to the legislature--Then he did everything he could for Sunday Schools.

He got laws passed for them; he got Sunday Schools established wherever he could.
"And by and by the people made him governor--and he said it was all owing to the Sunday School.
"After a while the people elected him a Representative to the Congress of the United States, and he grew very famous .-- Now temptations assailed him on every hand.

People tried to get him to drink wine; to dance, to go to theatres; they even tried to buy his vote; but no, the memory of his Sunday School saved him from all harm; he remembered the fate of the bad little boy who used to try to get him to play on Sunday, and who grew up and became a drunkard and was hanged.

He remembered that, and was glad he never yielded and played on Sunday.
"Well, at last, what do you think happened?
Why the people gave him a towering, illustrious position, a grand, imposing position.

And what do you think it was?
What should you say it was, children?
It was Senator of the United States! That poor little boy that loved his Sunday School became that man.


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