Excerpt from The Light That Did Not Fail Each Christmas Eve he went through his books and selected the bills of the needy, and Christmas morning they received a receipt in full as their Christmas present from the old man. So was it any wonder everyone loved him? Many of those who slept in the country churchyard he had seen from cradle to grave, laughing when they laughed, and trying not to weep when they wept, but drying their tears instead. 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.