Excerpt from Memorial of Adin Ballou: Containing a Biographical Sketch, Some Account of the Funeral Services, Tributes From Friends, and Condensed Notices of the Public Press, Also a Sermon Written by Himself to Be Read at His Own Funeral And so it might well be. For it was no ordinary man whose life on the earth had at length come to an end, no common human being who had now exchanged the decaying garments of flesh and sense for the shining robes of immortality. Created of the same clay of which we all are composed, he was, to be sure; and possessing only the same native powers of mind and heart and soul which distinguish all classes and conditions of men alike, he yet made such use of his endowments, he so con secrated them all to noble ends and aims, as to become one of the noteworthy men of his age, renowned for his pure and elevated spirit, for his many virtues, for his all-sided, symmetrical character, for his multiform labors for the truth of God and the welfare of mankind. Withdrawn somewhat from public gaze during his recent more ad vanced years, he nevertheless is to be regarded as a prom inent figure in the moral and religious history of New England during the current century, an important fac tor in the development of the higher and better life of the community at large at the present day. 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.