early training who can tell whether Hudson would ever have become the man he was, by the grace of God.  Do we not suffer in these days from too great a tendency to slackness and easy-going?  Even Christian parents seem content if they can keep their children moderately happy and good-tempered.  But with James Taylor this was not the point.  Life has to be lived.  Work must be accomplished.  People may be consecrated, gifted, devoted, and yet of very little use. because undisciplined.  He was a man with a supreme sense of duty.  The thing that ought to be done was the thing that he put first, always.  Ease, pleasure, self-improvement had to take whatever place they could.  He was a man of faith, but faith that went hand in hand with works of the most practical kind.  It was not enough for him that his children were happy and amused, well-cared-for and obedient even.  They must be doing their duty, getting through their daily tasks, acquiring habits that alone could make them dependable men and women in days to come.
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