Excerpt from The Little Preacher Having for nearly eight years and a half held the endearing relation of father to the beloved subject of the book now before you, knowing that every statement found in these pages is a fact to the very letter, and earnestly desiring both to memorialize and perpetuate the extraordinary incidents of the life and character of the lovely child of which the present volume treats, and to bring souls to Christ and heaven by plainly picturing to them the manner in which he lived, acted, studied and died, I do not think that a generous, intelligent, reasonable and reading public will expect of me any apology for "broadcasting it o'er the land." I confess that in past years of my life I have read histories of unusually mature children with many doubts and criticisms, and have known persons to go to extremes in this direction to which I never have gone. But since he has lived that has lived, and he has moved that has moved, and he has died that has died, of whom I have written, under my own eyes, in my own house, and of my own offspring, I am now fully prepared to say that those may be true; this one is true. 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.