Excerpt from A Memorial of Edward Everett: A Discourse Preached in the First Church, Dorchester, Sunday, Jan, 22, 1865 "For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the honorable Man And The Counsellor, And The Eloquent Orator." - Isa. iii. 3. I Shall not soon forget the feelings with which I heard, on leaving my pulpit last Sunday morning, that Edward Everett was dead. The tidings, I confess - whether worthily so or not - were peculiarly depressing to me; the day wore thenceforth a cloud, above whose shadows I could not rise. And since, throughout the week, the event has been almost continually in mind, the commanding point of thought and reflection. I would speak of him here; well assured that I am addressing those who have felt with me the shock of the event, and with whom it has also been the weeks absorbing theme, - as where, indeed, has it not been? as, from point to point, the tidings have flown through the Great Republic that claimed him as its son; claimed a common ownership in his fame, as it had enjoyed a common benefit from his labors. 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.