Excerpt from Stories and Verses A brief biographical sketch has been contri buted by a dear friend, Mrs. E. W. Thomson, and Mr. E. W. Thomson has kindly allowed me to include two poems from his pen. I desire to thank the publishers of the Scottish American, the Canadian Magazine, the West minster, the Presbyterian, and the Editors of the Presbyterian Sunday School papers, East and West and the K ing's Own, for their kind permis sion to reprint such of the following stories and verses as appeared in their columns. 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.