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Excerpt from Memorials of the Rev. Charles Wicksteed
This volume has been prepared in answer to a request urged upon me bv many of my father's friends. And it is now published by them though the entire responsibility for its form and substance rests with myself. In the Biographical Sketch, I have made no attempt to define the place which belongs to my father in the history of the Church for which he laboured during the best years of his life, or the nature and extent of the services be rendered it and had I felt disposed to do so, I should have been rebuked by a letter of gentle expostulation which he once wrote to a friend who felt hurt and injured by the omission of a loved and honoured name from a record in which it might naturally have been looked for. The world has no time, he urges, to attend very closely to the details both of the past and the present, to keep a minute register of its obligations both to the living and to the dead, to do its own work and keep in memory the exact proportions of the work of others. The past, even our own past if we live long, is obliterated by the very forces that sustain the present and reach out to the future. And it is well that it should be so. 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.
