Leaders of the Canadian Church (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Leaders of the Canadian ChurchThe church has lost immeasurably in not hav ing retained for her people the biographies of the saints of all ages and lands. I shall not dispute the wisdom of omitting their names from the Calendar, but I mourn over their disappearance from the reading matter of all but very few. Fountains of inspiration have thus been stopped up with the debris of prejudice and neglect. One may pray with fervency for the rising up ere long of men in the anglo-saxon world, who, with due regard to historical accuracy, will recreate for us the mighty personalities of the saints of God, in days and circumstances which now seem so far away and so strange. Meantime it is our duty to make as life-like as we can the characters of the great men of yesterday - whose memories are not yet quite forgotten.Such is the purpose of this volume. Most of the sketches are written from personal know ledge. To the critics of our efforts let us acknow ledge at once that we turned our hands to this work through no conceit of literary fitness for the task - but only as impelled by a desire to do our best at breaking ground in a much neglected field.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.