Excerpt from Memorial Tributes: A Compend of Funeral Addresses; An Aid for Pastors; A Book of Comfort for the Bereaved There are few more delicate tasks falling to the lot of a minister than the conducting of what are known as funeral services. It does not meet the difficulty to have provided for him a form employed over all, without exception - the best proof of which is that where such a form is in fixed use, occasions are constantly arising in which the clergyman is constrained, by his own sense of the fitness of things, to add words of his own. He thus runs the risk of making invidious distinctions, while the uniform employment of the same language, if it be fit in the case of a decided Christian, is stronger than the Christian consciousness recognizes as fit where no profession of faith has been made. Among the ways in which the minister can prepare himself to discharge this duty is by the prayerful use of such helps as are within reach. 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.