Excerpt from The Farewell Message to His Clergy: The Address Delivered at the Funeral, by the Rt. Rev. Stephen Elliott, D. D., Bishop of Georgia; And Obituary Notices of the Rt. Rev. Nicholas Hamner Cobbs, D. D., Late Bishop of Alabama As to my present state of mind; tell them, I heartily thank God for this sickness. I know not yet what is to be the issue. I have no will nor wish in the matter. 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.