Excerpt from Light in Darkness: Autobiography of Mary A. Niemeyer There is a land of every land the pride, Beloved by Heaven o'er all the world beside. Montgomery. Breathes there a man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! 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.