Rev. William S. White, and His Times (1800-1873)

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Excerpt from Rev. William S. White, and His Times (1800-1873): An AutobiographyThe fruit of such a labor of love cannot be allowed to moulder in the grave. Our hearts would never bear it.Moreover, we believe our father did a great work for God, that he was a man for his time, and therefore a man for all times, and that the study of the life of such a man will do good, not only to his children, but to all others.His personal acquaintance with many of the most distinguished men of his time, both in church and state, his active participation in some of the most stirring events of the church, and his peculiarly close rela tions to the most prominent institutions of learning, secular and religious, in our commonwealth, give to his memoir a historical significance of singular interest and importance.He was partly induced to write by the urgent en treaty of one of his sons, whose chief object was to get his mind employed upon daily work, and thus retard that decay of mental faculties which comes on so rap idly when an energetic life is suddenly exchanged for one of inactivity. The work grew on his hands until it became a book, which filial honesty must put in print.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.