Excerpt from The Religious Life of Famous Americans Life is ever the greatest teacher. The story of great men is of absorbing interest, not only to youth but to thinking men at every stage of their lives. The political biographer is not likely to make much of the personal religious character of the man the story of Whose political honor and ambitious career he seeks to narrate. SO that it often happens that a public man whose religious life was most de vout and who drew the nourishment for his most splendid deeds from the hidden springs of worship and communion With God, stands in the eye of the multitude as an unknown quantity religiously. It has been the purpose of the author in these Chapters to present in the case of the score of men and women Whose lives are studied the religious side of their career. Such information has been sought from every quarter available, and is presented in a way which it is hoped Will picture the truthful and helpful Christian personality of each character portrayed. 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.