Excerpt from Memoirs of the Late Rev. Samuel Pearce, A. M., Minister of the Gospel in Birmingham: With Extracts From Some of His Most Interesting Letters When a child, he was very fond of him mind with the principles of religion.' At about eight or nine years of age he came home -to his father with a view of learning his bufinefs. As he advanced in life, his evil propenfities, as he has faid, began to ripen and forming conneaions with feveral vicious fchoolffellows, he became more and more corrupted. So great] was his heart at this time fet in him 'to do evil, that had it not been for, the reitraining goodnefs of God, which fomehow, he knew not how, preferved him in molt in fiahces from carrying his wicked inclinations into prae tice, he'tfuppofed he fhould have been utterly ruined. 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.