Excerpt from Passing Thoughts, for the Older Pupils Or, perhaps, there was a dear friend - one with whom we spoke Often, and freely Of our earthly plans, Of our daily joys, and sorrows, and hopes; one whose hand was often clasped fondly in ours, and to whom we breathed forth the sweetest Words of tenderness and love; and yet that friend was impenitent, and we spoke not to him Of Jesus or of heaven. We said nothing Of the blessed hopes we cherished in Our hearts, nothing Of our fears for his soul's future destiny, nothing to persuade him to seek eternal life. We meant to Speak of these things at some time; we hoped to rise above the feelings Of timidity and delicacy which restrained us then, and to be frank and honest. But days and weeks and months. 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.