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Excerpt from Memoir of Alfred Bennett: First Pastor of the Baptist Church, Homer, N. Y., And Senior Agent of the American Baptist Missionary Union This volume, prepared in the midst of feeble health and the pressure of pastoral duties, is now with diffidence submitted to the Christian public. The subject of it held no classic pen. He belonged to a generation of men whose chief power was in oral, not written communication. In speech he was richly gifted; but the vivacity, force, and ardor which characterized his discourse, he was never able to transfer to the written page. As his biography must necessarily be made up, to no inconsiderable extent, from his correspondence, the reader will, it is feared, be painfully conscious that the portraiture here given lacks the glow and richness of the living original. The materials were not abundant. Most of his letters have been lost. The account of his conversion and exercises respecting the ministry was given by him only at the urgent request of the church in Homer. 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.