Excerpt from The New-England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 43: For the Year 1889 Mr. J udkins spoke of the little things that sometimes turn the tide in the affairs of men. In Mr. Nason's case it was onl the matter of two votes that kept him from going to Boston tin school, where he might have spent his life as an unknown Thus he was saved to the grander work he has accomplished as preacher, hymnologist, lecturer and scientist. 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.