The Miscellaneous Writings of Miles P. Squier With an Autobiography (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Miscellaneous Writings of Miles P. Squier With an Autobiography<br><br>A few days only before the venerable subject of the ensuing memoir closed so peacefully his mortal career, I was summoned to his bedside to listen to his request that the papers now contained in this volume, besides those on the Being of God and on Moral Government, which will appear in another volume, should come under my editorial charge, and be presented to the public in due order and form.<br><br>The facts detailed in the autobiography, concerning the early settlement and Evangelization of Western New York, cannot fail to be deeply interesting to the residents of that part of the State; while the able papers upon European topics, the result of thoughtful observation upon men and things when abroad, will command, it is believed, both careful and remunerative perusal.<br><br>On the whole, the volume seems to be adapted not only to preserve the memory of an eminently useful servant of Christ, but to stimulate to activity in the cause of Christian education, and also to awaken profound thought upon some of the more difficult problems of theological and philosophical study.<br><br>The Editor feels constrained to offer an apology to all those who have written the kind and excellent letters of sympathy, embraced in the following memoir, for taking the liberty of exposing said letters, or extracts from them, to the public eye, since they were written with no expectation of such use being made of them. He would not have done so, if he had not regarded them as perfectly worthy of the place here assigned them, and of the writers. They also seemed to him to possess the greater value, as free expressions of honest sentiment, from the fact that they were written without reference to future publication.<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.