Excerpt from The Life of Ezekiel Boring Kephart: Statesman, Educator, Preacher, and for Twenty-Five Years Bishop of the Church of the United Brethren in ChristTo preserve for earth the blessedness of the life gone from us is the purpose of this book. Its preparation has been a labor of love and a means of grace to the biographer. Many facts, previously unknown to him, notwithstanding the intimate relationship of a son in his household more than sixteen years, have been discovered.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.