The Dealings of God, Man, and the Devil, Vol. 1
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Excerpt from The Dealings of God, Man, and the Devil, Vol. 1: As Exemplified in the Life, Experience, and Travels of Lorenzo Dow, in a Period of Over Half a Century; Together With His Polemic and Miscellaneous Writings, Complete; To Which Is Added the Vicissitudes of Life Those of our readers who have lived long enough to remember the first thirty years of the present century, will easily call to mind a remarkable and eccentric individual, who for nearly the whole of that period, prompted by an inward impulse, devoted himself to a life of singular labor, self-denial and sacrifice. One month he would be heard of laboring for the good of souls, in his own peculiar way, in the neighborhood of his native New England home: the next, perhaps, braving the frost and snow of a Canadian winter; the next, on his way to Ireland or to England, in the prosecution of the same benevolent purpose; and six months afterwards, perhaps, encountering the dangers and hardships of a Georgia or Kentucky wilderness, or fleeing for his life from the tomahawk or the scalping knife of the Indian savage, in the then untrodden wilds of the great valley of the West. That individual was Lorenzo Dow. Pale, sallow, and somewhat consumptive in the appearance of his countenance; dressed in the plainest attire, with his single-breasted coat, often worn thread-bare; and in his later years wearing a long flowing patriarchal beard; his whole appearance was such as to awaken a high degree of curiosity and interest. Then, the suddenness and the promptitude of his advent in a town or village, at the very hour and minute that he had appointed, perhaps some twelve or eighteen months before; the boldness with which he would attack the ruling vices, and denounce wickedness - either in high places or low, - the general adaptation of his dry and caustic rebukes to the sin and follies prevalent in the places he visited, and which he seemed to know almost intuitively; together with the biting sarcasm and strong mother-wit that pervaded his addresses; - all served to invest the approach to any place of the "crazy preacher," (as he was frequently called,) with an air of singular and almost romantic interest. And most extensively has the influence of the labors of this strange and eccentric man been experienced and felt. 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.
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