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Excerpt from Personal Recollections: A Contribution to Baptist History and Biography
The author is well aware that to some, this volume may appear chiefly conspicuous for what it does not contain. To such, be they few or many, he begs leave to say that, from its very scope and purpose, the book could never rise above the level of the partial and the fragmentary, - could never, in any event, reach a stage where finishing touches would be in order. As its title indicates it deals with matters that pertain to only a single life-time; and even of these, it could deal with comparatively few. The line must be drawn some where and just where, was not left very much in the discretion of the author. The adverse and determining factors in the case were, lack of strength and lack of space. To have made a very large book would have been impossible under existing circumstances, and unwise under any circumstances. It is a real grief not to have been able to pay loving tributes to many other names that are dear to the denomination and dear to the heart of the writer. But the conditions were simply prohibitive. Even at the best, it was necessary to solicit aid at the kindly hands of others. The contributions of Doctors Pepper, Hovey, Stearns, King, Mathews, and Spencer, and of the Rev. Messrs. Newcombe, and Crocker.
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