Excerpt from Memorial Sermon Delivered by Rev. John W. Sayers, Chaplain, Department of Pennsylvania By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witnesses that he was righteous! God testifying of his gifts and by it he being dead yet speaketh. Heb. XL: 4. Human life is of short duration. Of all our years but few may be devoted to the accomplishment of great purposes. The years of helpless infancy, those required for education and training and those occupied by the weakness of age, even if we outlive our alloted three score and ten, do not leave many for the active and aggressive work which brings to us a name that will not be forgotten after we are gone. Hence few men, of all the earth's millions ever do much that is remembered after them. It is, therefore, not so much what men may accomplish in this life as it is what their work may do for the world after they are dead. "Art is long and life is short," is an old proverb. Art lives long after life has passed away. The living man talks to his day and generation and the living hear him. The dead man if he talks at all, does so to the ages which succeed him and it matters not whether his life was eminently good or notoriously wicked, he still talks. "The evil that men do lives after them: The good is oft interred withtheir bones." 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.