Excerpt from Reminiscences The sale of the biographies of certain distinguished divines whom I happened to know somewhat inti mately would be much enlarged by the introduction of a few marginal notes here and there, relieving the somewhat over-rounded symmetry and grace of the saintly figure delineated in the memoir. No one would care to expose the weaknesses Of those whom he loved and revered, and yet out of these very weaknesses they may have been made strong, and their grandest achievements may have come of the fiery passion which, if it had been allowed to range without restraint, might have desolated the soil in stead of making it fruitful. Some men are counted good simply on the ground that they have never said or done any imprudent things, but they are not the kind of people whose lives are likely to attract at tention. It is the man who has had battles to fight that the world knows not of who achieves the noblest triumphs on the great public field of strife, and his name is not one of those which are writ in water. 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.