Excerpt from Recollections of Itinerant Life: Including Early Reminiscences As an executive, whether as the Superintendent of a circuit or the President of a conference or a college, doctor brown was always gentle, but firm. Possessing a kind and merciful spirit, he sought to reclaim the erring by Christian counsel, admoni tion, and reproof, and not until he had exhausted, without suc cess, every effort in the spirit of kindness and love to reclaim them was he willing to resort to the exercise of discipline and punish the guilty. But when all other means failed, and it became necessary, he shrunk not from the performance of his duty, but, with a firm and impartial hand, administered justice to the transgressor. Under such circumstances punish ment was rendered doubly severe, because it was felt to be not the result of personal enmity, but of necessity; for no man ever felt that in doctor brown he had an enemy. 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.