Excerpt from Memoir of John D. Lockwood: Being Reminiscences of a Son by His Father In the other, dated only a few hours after wards, we are apprized of the fatal termination of the disease, and soothed by expressions of sympathy. Sustained by the grace of God, I had, the day before, concluded to carry out my original plan for the morning of the next Sabbath - to present my sermon Just as I had already prepared it; and, in the afternoon, to give to my hearers some account of the life and character of the deceased. 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.