Excerpt from The American National Preacher, 1847, Vol. 21: Original-Monthly, From Living Ministers of the United States Though hunger, and cold, and fear, and sad thoughts about the family circle, and the painfulness of s ending a festival day* amid the perils of a wreck, the Violent win 3 and waves, and finally the falling deck, and the engulphing waters, indicated no regard to the man of God more than to any other; yet his death was an event of interest and importance in the sight of the Most High. 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.