Excerpt from The Dark and the Bright Side of the Life In what has been written there has been no attempt to put this intense, strong personality with its mannerisms upon paper. But simply a modest attempt to give a continued narrative of his life and a simple statement of some of his work as he has stated it to the writer. It has been written with a desire and belief that the book will prove a great blessing. That it may encourage those who start in life as he started, at a disadvantage: That it may lead everyone who reads it to see that though a sinner by nature and with this bent to sin strengthened by a hereditary predisposition to evil, and all this increased by years of service in sin, yet he can be fully saved. Saved from condemnation. The force of habit broken. The hereditary taint cured and the body of sin destroyed. And further more that God can take wasted powers and ener gies and can concentrate them under the baptism of the Holy Ghost until His own strength is made perfect in weakness. With a prayer that all this and more may be accomplished through this book, it is written and sent forth. Samuel H. Hann, Methodist Episcopal Parsonage, May 22, 1895. Tuckahoe, New Jersey. 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.