Excerpt from Autobiography of the Rev. John H. Mills: A Local Deacon in the Methodist Episcopal Church, With Miscellaneous Thoughts, Consisting of Fugitive Pieces in Prose and Rhyme Believing that the history of the humblest individual, if faithfully written out, would fur nish points of interest, especially to those of the same class and circumstances in life, and particularly that the religious experience of Christians is always interesting and profitable to other Christians, and sometimes even to those destitute of all religion, I have ventured to offer to the public eye the contents of the following pages. The work is of such a character as to render any prefatory remarks almost unnecessary; but on one or two points it may not be amiss to speak. 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.