Excerpt from Helps to ThinkingYou see that I am on a side track or have varied a little f1 om the subject, but my whole heart's desire is to do all the good I can to the laboring people and especially the poor and destitute. Ones. But now back to my own footsteps. I was a hireling until my 13th year, then my mother saw prope1 to marry again which was con trary to my feelings, as I did not want to come under a step -father, though he was a sober, civil and industrious man, and I_ wearied along for about two years then I left my step -father, rather, through by mother's consent, for I loved and feared my mother, but she, seeing that it would be rather unpleasant for me and my step -fath er both, as I was a kind of stubborn boy, consented that I might go and hire out for my living, which I did at the age of fifteen years, without any education or property. I wearied along about two years and gathered a little, but very little.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.