Excerpt from The Life of Robert Paine, D. D: Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South Let not the reader misunderstand me. I am no Spiritualist, no enthusiast. I Simply mean to say that I became so thoroughly and so entirely absorbed in and with the subject of this biography that in thought and feeling I was constantly with him during the months I was engaged in writing the Life. I SO expressed myself to some of my friends at the time the work was going on. 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.