The Bay-Path

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Excerpt from The Bay-Path: A Tale of New England Colonial Life Fiction, though much abused by those who write it, and persistently traduced by those Who do not comprehend its true mission, has always been a favorite mode of communicating truth, and has, for its support, the highest sanca tions of Christianity. The author of the Chris tian system spake evermore in parables in the illustration of important practical truth. In fact (let it be reverently uttered), the great princi ple in human nature which called Him into the world is identical with that on which the claims and power of legitimate fiction rest. He came to embody abstract truth in human relations, and the naked, incomprehensible idea of God, in the human form. He came to exhibit, in human development, the true nature of the di vine life, and to demonstrate, in human experi ence, under the in¿uence of legitimate humanviii Preface. 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.