A Successful Life: Autobiography of Eliashib Adams (Classic Reprint)

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My Dear Brothers:

At last, silencing if not subduing all doubts, scruples, and terrors of book-making, I have decided to give these precious "Reminiscences" to the printer.

It is true the author had no such plan. Two or three weeks before he left us for his heavenly home, placing in my hand the book in which we had seen him writing, occasionally, during the year, he said, "I have thought of burning this, but conclude on the whole I am willing my children should see it." He did not know what a life he had portrayed; a life not varied by startling incident, nor illustrated by great worldly ambitions and successes, but influenced and controlled by the truth of God-full of the faith and patience of the saints.

Our eyes, which for so many years looked reverently upon the living man, can doubtless see more in these pages than could those of a stranger; yet it seems to me no one, with an earnest mind, could read them without receiving an impulse to throw off the yoke of selfish maxims, and adopt, as the rule of life, the law of God - the old commandment and the new.

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