Excerpt from Living for the Master: Sermons<br><br>One day a bishop seized the royal hand and blessed it, saying, May this fair hand, this bounteous hand, never grow old! Soon after this war came and the king was slain in battle. His conqueror gave command to sever his limbs and expose them to View, according to the cruel custom of the time, on poles and stakes. It was done; but that hand which had thus been blessed, and which had wrought so many beautiful deeds of love, when all else had perished in the bleaching sun remained unblemished, unwasted, wondrous white and fair, pointing Still upward toward heaven as if raised in prayer.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.