Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Vol. 13
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Excerpt from Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Vol. 13: April, 1920 to January, 1921 In the writings of Walter Scott there is a character forever to be remembered. There actually was a man - Robert Paterson - who from pure love of noble lives spent his years in endeavoring to perpetuate their memory. Accompanied by a little white horse, he was wont to visit all the church yards in the Highlands of Scotland, search among the grass until he found the stones that marked the graves of the worthies and then with chisel and hammer clean the stones and cut deeper into them the names of these worthies - men who had lived and perhaps suffered in the cause of pure religion. People called him "Old Mortality", and it was no infrequent sight in traversing a moor to see him, with his pony browsing at his side, hard at work, making some deserted grave stone of the wilds tell again its story of Christian service. Motives of sincere devotion induced him to dedicate many years to perform this tribute to the memory of the deceased warriors of the church. Sir Walter tells us he considered himself as fulfilling a sacred duty while renewing to the eyes of posterity the decaying emblems of the zeal and sufferings of their forefathers, and thereby trimming, as it were, the beacon light which was to inspire future generations to defend their religion even unto blood. In much the same spirit as that of Old Mortality I address myself to the task committed to me - to make live again the men who in the pastorates within the present Synod of Illinois during the past century did splendidly, built permanently and left us a stimulating example. This task is peculiarly agreeable to me. One special utterance of Christ has always been at the center of my heart: "Others have labored and ye are entered into their labors." 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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