Fifty Years An Itinerant Preacher

Author : John Scott
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330786529
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (865 download)

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Download or read book Recollections of Fifty Years in the Ministry written by John Scott and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Recollections of Fifty Years in the Ministry: With Numerous Character Sketches The observance of the fiftieth anniversary of my licensure to preach the gospel recalled to my mind so vividly many of the scenes and occurrences of the past, and many of the friends of former years, that I have thought it might be of interest to my family, and perhaps to others, to place on record some of my recollections of former times, showing, as they do, the changes which have taken place in one short lifetime. The great mass of the people belong to the industrial classes, who possess good common sense and such education as qualifies them for the ordinary pursuits and enjoyments of life, but who make no pretensions to literary culture and scientific knowledge. A man who can write an instructive and entertaining book about common things, level to the capacity of this class, has an opportunity of doing greater good than the man who can produce a learned and profound treatise on some abstract scientific subject, which but few persons would be able to understand and appreciate. After all, it is the common, everyday, practical things of life that really concern and interest the great majority of the people, and these are often deemed too trifling to secure attention and be placed on record for their perusal and instruction. This narrative is about a very common life, passed among common scenes, and occupied with common things. It makes no pretensions to elegance of diction or attractiveness of style; but tells in a plain and simple manner the story of a life spent by a common man, among common people, in an attempt to do them good. 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.