Excerpt from Cyclopedia of Moral and Religious Anecdotes: A Collection of Several Thousand Facts, Incidents, Narratives, Examples, and Testimonies, Embracing the Best of the Kind in Most Former Collections, and Some Hundreds in Addition, Original and Selected The hearers of the gospel, are like poor men coming to be clothed from a public charity. If you give them cloth in the piece, they will dispose of it as they can, and keep their own rags. But if you have it made up, and give them plain, well-fittin garments, they will be likely to put them on and wear them. 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.