Excerpt from The Easter Hope, or the Life Immortal The book at first may be said to have had in a sense a private printing, for it came, not from a regular publishing house, but from an individual whose output in the main consists of church-membership cards, baptismal and marriage certificates, and the like. Though thus meant as a kind of personal memorial, it was most favorably noticed by the press and by persons of eminence, and it met with a considerable sale, being in a second edition when a disastrous fire wiped out everything, leaving only a few damaged copies. The thought has occurred that what was intended for a rather restricted use might serve a widerpublic by eliminating the biographical sketch, and the portrait, and the appreciation by President Tucker of Dartmouth, while also other changes and additions, some of them suggested by the tre mendons experiences of men in the world war, have seemed appropriate. 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.