Excerpt from Memorial Discourses No'r dead, but absent, it was no thought of mine to be still speaking to my former congregation of Park Street, or the larger com munity on whose patient audience I have so often trespassed. But some of my brethren in the pulpits of Boston and its vicinity, and not a few of the people to whom I have ministered so many years, and hold fast to my heart by so many ties, desired me to leave behind me, as I migrated to a distant part of the country, something which should be to them a memorial of the labors among them which had thus come to an end. There was no reason why I should not comply with this request except my doubt whether these pages would have any other value to them, or others, than that which their partial friendship should attach to them, and this they overruled. 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.