Excerpt from Memoirs of the Late Rev. Samuel Pearce, A. M: With Extracts From Some of His Most Interesting Letters An observation once made to me helps to support me above water - If you did not plough in your closet, you would not reap in the ulpit. And again I think the Lord dwe eth in Zion, and loveth it more than the dwellings of Jacob. S. P. 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.