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Excerpt from Memories, Counsels, and Reflections The history of what I have here to say is briefly this. Some of your number sent me a nice portfolio, with paper in one of the pockets, designed as a birth day present. What I wrote upon that paper I in tended for them and theirs, as a birthday present in return. It was a sermon which I intended to have ready for them October 11, 1854. During that period, I found that the date would be the beginning, and not the close, of my eightieth year, as I intended it should be, and that a more appropriate discourse for the occasion might be provided, with a different date, and from another text. The text which I have now selected is, I am this day fourscore years old, the words of barzillai to david, 2 Samuel Xix. 35. 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.