Excerpt from Ministerial Fidelity Exemplified: A Sermon the Funeral of the Rev. Daniel Crosby, Late Pastor of the Winthrop Church, Charlestown, March 3, 1843 To be able to say this honestly and intelligently, is the great preparation for death. Every follower of Christ, and especially every gospel minister, ought so to live and labor, in imitation Of his divine Master and Pattern, that he can make this language his Own. Such should be his distinct aim as he enters the ministry; and by never suffering himself to be in arrears in respect to duty, but by diligence and punctuality, determining that every departing year and every closing day shall see its appropriate work completed, he should, keep this in his eye, as the measure of his attainment, till years and days Of labor shall be past, and he can stand, when God shall call him away from earth, and say, through grace, full Of satisfaction and peace, 'i have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.' 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.