Biography of Deacon James Allen (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Biography of Deacon James Allen<br><br>It is highly proper, as well as natural, that a special veneration for the place of our nativity should be cherished. The scenes of our childhood; the kindly faces and cheerful words of those elderly people who greeted us when we were among the little school-children; the very land itself, its roads and by-paths, its woods and fields, its rocks and rills, and the greens upon which we gambolled may well be among our choice memories.<br><br>There, too, in some one or more of its sacred enclosures we visit and revisit in memory at least, the graves of parents, brothers, sisters, and perhaps of husband, wife or child, and looking around on either hand we read the names of associates and friends of our youth or riper years, making these places seem to us even as hallowed ground. We also feel and gratefully acknowledge a personal indebtedness to the place of our birth and childhood.<br><br>It is good for us to remember the virtues of parents and grandparents, and to realize the moulding influence which not only they, but other good men and women exerted upon us, directing us into paths of virtue and giving to us impulses towards right doing and noble endeavor.<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.