Excerpt from Grace King, or Recollections of Events in the Life and Death of a Pious Youth: With Extracts From Her Diary There is somethmg deeply affecting in the death of the young it looks like the falling of unripe fruit: or like the blasting of the promis ing blossom by a late and untimely frost. But if they die like the subject of our recollections, in the full hope of the life to come, we feel bet ter reconciled to their exit. Though We lament the early fall of Grace King, and have often wished that she had been spared, yet there was every thing in thesimprovement of her mind ln knowledge, and in the advancement of her heart in goodness, as, the extracts from her diarywillshow, that is calculated to reconcile us to the providence 'which rem'oved therfrom earth so young. 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.