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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

Excerpt from A Voice From the Parsonage, or Life in the Ministry: With an Introductory Chapter Wh'ilst with the ministry of the sacred word in this land of the Pilgrim Fathers are associated all the benefits which make life happy, it is passing strange that the people often suffer themselves to be deprived of any of the in¿uences which this blessed institution of Heaven is designed to impart. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hu...

Excerpt from The Life and Services of Professor B. B. Edwards: A Discourse Delivered in the Chapel of Andover Theological Seminary, June 25, 1852Men will cross the sea in order to view a mountain or a water fall, but there is more grandeur in the 'human spirit, than in all material nature. There is a glory of the sun, another of the moon, and another of the stars, but the glory of one mind excelleth them all. What shall it profit a man, if he ...

Excerpt from Writings of Rev. William Bradford Homer: Late Pastor of the Congregational Church in South Bwerwick, Me, , With an Introductory Essay and a Memoir So numerous were the personal friends of the subject of the following Memoir, and especially of his late honored father, that an edition of twelve hundred and fifty copies of his Writings was soon exhausted, and the volume has been out of print for some years. There has been such a dem...

Excerpt from Memoir of the Life and Character of Samuel Hopkins, D. D A recent number (CXI.) of the Westminster Review contains the following remark: "A fault of the Americans, to which we fear they are becoming more and more addicted, is a certain tendency to decry the abilities and virtues of their most distinguished historical characters." The justness of this remark, is apparent in the disposition of some American authors to depreciate th...

Excerpt from The Life and Character of Leonard Woods, D.D., LL. DThe reasons for these prophecies regarding him were the following He was inured to habits of mental diligence, and his capacious memory retained the large information which he had acquired, he started in his public life at no small distance ahead of his co-equals in age, and there appeared no reason to believe that he would lose the vantage-ground attained by his early discipline...