Excerpt from Autobiography and Personal Recollections of John Lemiey: Editor of the Golden Censer, With Seven Years' Experience as Editor and Public Speaker But to our purpose. The life about to be sketched has been a struggling one. The boyhood of the subject has been spent in the school of adversity. Surrounded by all the comforts and luxuries of his childhood home upon the Rhine, he becomes. By asudden stroke of adversity, the poor German boy in a strange land, surrounded by new circumstances and relations, and a new people, and is forced to go from door to door as a begg ar boy, driven thither by fate and intemperance. Then the bitter struggle through adverse fortunes and sickness for existence' sake then the partially successful efforts in obtaining an edu cation - and the final issue in the establishment of the golden censer. The whole narrative enforces the thought that the young can make more of life than they in their impatience usually suppose, and that even afflictions and adversities may be turned to the Father's glory. It is very true that in the dark days, when there was no one to help - before he learned to trust in God - he now and then sat down in the way of life and wept as if his heart would break yet he never gave up the struggle. Hope always triumphed. From the present standpoint, as he looks over the his tory of the past, it seems almost like a dream. Fifteen years ago, he never expected -to be able to even read the Bible, and declined to receive a copy of the same from the hand of a lady because of the then supposed impossibility. That he has since been able to read it, and appreciate its value, must be evident to every one who has marked the scholarly productions and editorials in the golden censer. 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.