EARLY OPPORTUNITIES MISSED
One other incident from the life of Stillwell: Joe Stillwell, called Warren by his family, was an active, driving, sharp-willed boy who climbed rooftops, drowned rabbits in the horse trough and exceedingly disliked Sunday services which he was required to attend three times in the day, including church, Sunday school and a sermon at vespers. Writing to his own daughter when he was over sixty, he recalled the “criminal instincts I picked up by being forced to go to Church and Sunday School, and seeing how little real good religion does anybody, I advise passing them all up and using common sense instead.” Stillwell and the American Experience In China, page 11.
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