Excerpt from Life Reminiscences: Of an Old Lutheran MinisterAN autobiography is not the most popular style of writing, and it has even been said that some men write the history of their own lives because nobody else will do it. This may be true in part, when men are ambitious of notoriety without any merit, but when a man writes for his own amuse ment and that of his immediate friends, it is a whole some recreation from severer studies, and should not offend the delicate sensibility of any one. Men may say what they like, there is no doubt of the fact that most persons prefer reading a candid man's account of himself rather than that furnished by any one else.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.