Excerpt from The Pastor of the Old Stone Church: Mr. Hotchkin's Memorial, Judge Elmer's Eulogy, and Mr. Burt's Address, Commemorative of Rev. Ethan Osborn A stranger, brought for the first time into the company of Father Osborn, would observe an air of general goodness and Christian Simplicity in his speech and deportment; but he might wonder what were the striking traits - the strong salient points of character - which created his high reputation, and preserved it in growing strength through more than two human generations. Closer intimacy would reveal the secret of this wonder. The strength of his character did not lie in individual traits, and this memorial of his life will have little to sav of salient points. In the unity of his excellences lay the hiding of their power. His life, as a whole, was a striking life. All its parts revealed the ever present influence of Divine grace. In the intima cies of home or out among men, in sacred or secular duties, in seasons of festivity or in the chambers of the dying, in the church or in the world, his demeanor was uniformly marked by habitual com munion with God. It is true, there were fine traits in his mental constitution; still we feel our chief indebtedness to the grace of God that was in him, for the precious fragrance of his memory. 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.