Excerpt from Practical Discourses<br><br>And from childhood till that time, it can be said Of him without doubt or misgiving, as strongly as of any one, that he led a pure and blameless life. It falls not to a man to be sin less, - but we know of nothing in his whole ca reer which his friends would desire to forget, or need to cover with any mantle of charitable con struction. In very early life he was distinguish ed for his love of truth, for the early develop ment of religious faith, and a moral fortitude.<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.