Excerpt from Consolation in Bereavement: Through Prayers for the Departed, a Plea for the Reasonableness of This Method of Consolation HE first three papers in this little volume. And the greater part of the fourth paper, have already appeared in the pages of The Churchman (march, April, May, June, the concluding portion of the fourth paper, and the whole of the fifth and sixth are new. The genesis of the whole is of some interest; for the first impulse was given, without the writer being at all conscious of it, on the other side of the globe, in the Diocesan Synod of Bathurst, New South Wales, by the Bishop of that See. It was not until some weeks later that I heard of what had taken place. 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.