THE RECORD

OF A

HAPPY LIFE:

BEING MEMORIALS OF

FRANKLIN WHITALL SMITH

A STUDENT OF

PRINCETON COLLEGE.

BY HIS MOTHER,

H. W. S.

ORIGINALLY PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION.

PHILADELPHIA:

J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by

ROBERT PEARSALL SMITH,

in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

Dedication.

For Frank's little brother and sisters, his cousins, and the circle of his loving friends, this book has been compiled, with many earnest prayers that they may learn from its pages the secret of the happy life they so well remember, and that they may make this

secret their own.

It is essentially a boy's book, and must be judged from a boy's standpoint. But if Frank's young life can but tell the "old, old story" in all its precious fulness, let none complain of the youth of the teacher, nor of the youthfulness of his ways.

And may this history of the struggles, the failures and the victories of one whom they so loved, and who so earnestly desired day by day to be found walking in the Highway of Holiness, cheer and aid his young Christian friends, who like him are seeking to live up to the Bible standard, and who long to know that “ victory which overcometh the world," and that "life which is hid with Christ in God!"

H. W. S.

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