Excerpt from The Ladies' Repository, Vol. 31: A Monthly Periodical, Devoted to Literature and Religion; January-June, 1871 Suppose the burden had been laid upon you of giving your best years to the care of a crip pled or crazed relative. By God's grace you would make yourself carry it patiently. If the Master has laid this cross of the itinerant upon you, in Heaven's name, I say, bear it cheerfully. 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.