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Excerpt from God's Providence in Accidents: A Sermon, Occasioned by the Deaths of the Rev. John Martin Connell, Mr. John Field Gillespie, and Mrs. Susan Gillespie, Three of the Victims of the Railroad Catastrophe at Burlington, New Jersey, on the 29th Day of August, 1855
Dear sir We beg leave to express to you our hlgh apprema tron of the able and eloquent d1scou1se upon the lecent fearful Iallroad catastrophe, pronounced by you on Sabbath afternoon To us, personally, It has pecullar Interest In the beautlful and truth ful sketch It contalns of the hfe and chalacter of lamentedfrrend, the Rev J M Connell and to the communrty at large, It has great 1nterest In rts farthful Improvement of those solemn lessons whrch the event 1s calculated to teach, alrke for thrs world and for the world to come It has seemed to us that Its publrca tron wrll be useful to the communrty, and, for ourselves, we shall rejorce to possess In more durable form a memorral of our departed frrend If rt be consrstent wrth your feelrngs, we beg you to favor us wrth the manuscrrpt wrth a vrew to Its publrcatron We are, wrth hrgh respect, Yours, very truly. 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.
