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Excerpt from The Reverend Talbot Wilson Chambers
The mother, however, brought something more abiding and more valuable than wealth into the home. In the few glimpses we have of her she appears, notwithstanding her son's innate love of learn ing, as a distinct and potent in?uence with him to faithful study, and, better than this, to the faithful performance of the daily duties of personal religion. That she was his much trusted coun selor appears also from the pages of his diary.
The young student's first teachers in the classics were the Rev. Joseph Mahon, the Rev. John M. Krebs, D.D., and John A. Inglis, LL.D. During his college life two in?uences seem to have been predominant over all others in their operation upon him. The lesser of these was a college literary society, into the activities of which he promptly entered and largely shared. A company of brilliant young men destined to eminence in various directions were at that time in the membership of the society. Dr. Cham bers often recurred to his association with them as one of the most happy and helpful experiences of his early days, and doubtless he here laid the foundation of the parliamentary resource, aptitude and effectiveness which gave him somuch of his power and dis tinction in all sorts of assemblies of men.
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