Excerpt from A Discourse Commemorative of Rev. Lewis Sabin, D. D: Preached at His Funeral, in Templeton, Mass;, June 11, 1873 But the Bible completely reverses all this. It sets very little value upon personal attractions or intellectual powers, but makes everything of character. It says, Covet earnestly the best gifts; but there is a more excellent way, and that is charity, in other words love, goodness. The first qualification for a minister, or a member of Con gress, or for any other officer, civil or religious, is that he should be a good man and true, a man of integrity and up rightness, a kind, charitable, benevolent man, a true Chris tian, loving his neighbor as himself, and doing to others as he would have others do to him. Then if he is a great man too, thaf is very well. Nay, real, substantial, unchanging, and unswerving goodness is a chief element of greatness. Indeed, it is the only true greatness. The good man is the only great man in the sight of God; and just in proportion as mankind grow better, and come to be more like God, he only will be great in the eyes of men also. 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.