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Excerpt from The Preacher and His Place
To their publication, I was strongly tempted to recast them. Their style, as will be seen, is that of direct address, which for those who heard them was perhaps the most appropriate, but for those who may read them, it is not, to say the least, such as I should choose. For this reason, there fore, I was disposed to change, not their substance, but their form. I soon found, however, that the one involved the other, and that it was not easy, if indeed possible, to change the phrasing of the thought without changing also the thought; and that was something which I felt I had no right to do; neither had I. 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.
