Excerpt from Doctor Johns: Being a Narrative of Certain Events in the Life of an Orthodox Minister of Connecticut He never interfered with the severe home course of religious instruction entered upon by the mother. On the contrary, he said, The boy will need it all as an offset to the bedevil ments that will overtake him in our profes sion. The Major had a very considerable country practice, and had been twice a member of the Legislature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.