Excerpt from The Life of Joseph Barker In the literary idiosyncrasies of Mr. Barker's style he will detect a touching record of the long and hardly-hampered struggle through which a strong mind fought its way from ignorance and poverty up to knowledge and fame. In the grave flaws of cha racter so natvely betrayed in the earlier narrative he will trace the secret causes of subsequent religious disaster; while his recognition of what was good and noble will prepare him for the closing picture, in all its beauty and pathos, of a troubled human heart, through those instincts of truth and love which were its best inheritance, finding its humble and happy way back to faith and h0pe and God. 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.