The Life of John Read (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Life of John Read My story is told simply, and I fear imperfectly but if this perpetuation of my now sainted husbands memory proves a stimulus to his comrades in the holy warfare, and an incentive to more devoted service, and inspires other readers to more fully consecrate their lives to the Lord, I shall feel that the two purposes which actuated me in attempting to write his biography have been realized. "Biography, " Horace Mann says, "especially of the good, who have risen to positions of usefulness, is an enobling study. Its direct tendency is to reproduce the excellencies it records." My pen has traced no sentence that is intended to convey the impression that John Read reached the acme of perfection. His was a very human life filled with smiles and tears, joys and sorrows, victories and defeats, successes and disappointments. He was not always understood, but he was beloved by a multitude in all ranks. He was naturally very impulsive, and through this trait doubtless sometimes made mistakes, which no one regretted more than himself, but he loved God, and was devoted to the highest interests of humanity. He was fully alive to the privileges of his high calling in Christ Jesus. He had an ideal character to which he ever strove to attain. The standard of right was the rule of his life, and with unswerving fidelity to principle, he fearlessly did his duty to his God and his fellow-men. His life is one more evidence of what determination and ambition consecrated to a noble purpose can accomplish. 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.