Excerpt from Hearthside Sketches After this came Mr. Darrow. He was everything that could be asked - eloquent, gracefully uniting theory and practice in a fine subtle way that offended no one's prejudices, but somebody awoke to the fact that this same subtlety of graceful generalizing was undermining the foundation of their faith, and heads were shaken, wisely, and 'twon't do 1 was said more and more em phatically, and - well, Mr. Darrow had a call from some where about that time - and it was accepted! The church determined to be cautious in the selection of Mr. Darrow's successor, and each member generally, and the leading members particularly, had a nicely prepared code of qualifications - including theoretical, practical, intellectual, social and domestic qualities - they had severally resolved he must come up to, in order to ob tain their suffrage. Strangely enough, their ideas on these matters didn't perfectly agree, and it was perhaps stranger still how many faults and imperfections the clergy were possessed of. 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.