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Excerpt from Patient Continuance in Well-Doing: A Memoir of Elihu W. Baldwin, D.D., First Pastor of the Seventh Presbyterian Church, New-York, and First President of Wabash College
IT is not Of every man, nor even of every distinguished or great or useful man, that the biography should be written and given to the public. Better for the world, better for posterity, if the lives of thousands of the noble, the envied, the illustrious even, were forgotten or unknown - if their names were buried in oblivion. The great reason is, that whatever streaks Of glory or specific excellence adorned them, the evil is greater than the good, their vices predomi nate in the picture, their examples - are at once bewitching and mischievous. If it is the end and use of biography to benefit mankind, to improve the living, and to mould the manners of coming ages, in accordance with the best stand ards and the finest specimens of attainable virtue, then is it Obvious why the lives Of good men, and ordinarily of good men only, ought to be given to their contemporaries and preserved for the imitation Of future generations. And this seems to be the meaning of the inspired sentiment; The memory of the just is blessed, but the name of the wicked shall rot.
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