Excerpt from Pulpit Sketches, Sermons, and Devotional Fragments To furnish a token of friendship, a gift of affection, a book of devotional sketches for the vestry and the social evening meeting - to extend and perpetuate his ministerial labors among a people dearly beloved, - have been the author's motives that gave birth to this book; and it is fearlessly as Well as affection ately committed to the keeping of those who know how to make deductions for the imper fections of any human production. 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.