Excerpt from Memoirs of the Life of David Ferris In his early minority David Ferris was favored with a remarkable Divine visitation, under which he was made willing to renounce all the ensnaring allurements incident to that period of life. Whilst he was careful to live in a state of watchfulness and prayer, the knowledge of divine things was unfolded to his understanding, and, by dwelling under the cross of Christ, his yoke became easy and his bur den light; childish vanities were distasteful to him to use his own language the world and the things thereof lost all their lustre, in his sight. 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.