tailieunhanh - Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, by Orville Dewey1Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, by Orville DeweyThe Project Gutenberg EBook of Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D., by Orville Dewey This eBook is for the use of an

am on the point of revising and considerably altering, for republication in England, an edition of such amongst my writings as it may seem proper deliberately to avow. Not that I have any intention, or consciously any reason, expressly to disown any one thing that I have ever published; but some things have sufficiently accomplished their purpose when they have met the call of that particular transient occasion in which they arose; and others, it may be thought on review, might as well have been suppressed from the very first. Things immoral would of course fall within that category; of these, however, I cannot reproach. | Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey by Orville Dewey 1 Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey by Orville Dewey The Project Gutenberg EBook of Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey . by Orville Dewey This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey . Edited by his Daughter Author Orville Dewey Editor Mary Dewey Release Date July 31 2006 EBook 18956 Language English Character set encoding ASCII START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LETTERS OF ORVILLE DEWEY Produced by Edmund Dejowski AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND LETTERS OF ORVILLE DEWEY . Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey by Orville Dewey Edited by his Daughter Mary Dewey 2 INTRODUCTORY. IT is about twenty-five years since at my earnest desire my father began to write some of the memories of his own life of the friends whom he loved and of the noteworthy people he had known and it is by the help of these autobiographical papers and of selections from his letters that I am enabled to attempt a memoir of him. I should like to remind the elder generation and inform the younger of some things in the life of a man who was once a foremost figure in the world from which he had been so long withdrawn that his death was hardly felt beyond the circle of his personal friends. It was like the fall of an aged tree in the vast forests of his native hills when the deep thunder of the crash is heard afar and a new opening is made towards heaven for those who stand near but when to the general eye there is no change in the rich woodland that clothes the mountain side. But forty years ago when his church in New York was crowded morning and evening and 8 eager multitudes hung upon his lips for the very bread of life and when he entered also with spirit and power into the