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Excerpt from The Mathers Weighed in the Balances Contrast with these assaults the testimony of those who knew them, and who saw their light go out. The funeral honors paid to the shade of Hector were tame and weak compared with those of the Massachusetts Province in remembrance of the elder Mather. A mourning multi tude that could not be numbered followed him to the grave. The ordinary language of eulogy was too weak to express the veneration and love everywhere felt for the patriarch of the clergy and the friend of the people. And they buried him in the city of David, among the kings, be cause he had done good in Israel, both towards God and towards his own house. The son died five years later. Equal if not greater sor row followed him to his rest. 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.
