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An intimate expression of Barry's Christianity—simple, nontheological, conceived as the daily practice of the golden rule—is recorded in advice and encouragement he wrote to his children. To Joanne, his eldest, he wrote when she was twelve: "Smile, think right, believe in God, your family and country." To Son Barry at 19 he wrote: "There is no foundation like the rock of honesty and fairness, and when you begin to build your life on that rock with the cement of the faith in God that you have, then, brother, you have a real start."