Excerpt from October Leaves From a pile of manuscripts, consisting of addresses, lectures, homilies, and articles for reviews and journals, the following selections are severed from conventional adaptations to occa sions. They have been written in a professional life of more than sixty years, pursued with un ambitious aims, with no zeal for sectarian exten sion, and with few interruptions by annoying superficial activities. An old age of leisure and good health has given prolonged opportunities for studies in sacred letters, which have always been my occupation and delight. As I am now far advanced in the October of my life, I may call these few pages a little bunch of October. 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.