Excerpt from The Night Lamp: A Narrative of the Means by Which Spiritual Darkness Was Dispelled From the Death-Bed of Agnes Maxwell MacfarlaneIt so happened that in the course of last summer, the original manuscript returned to him, after an absence of some years. He re-perused it, and was strongly impressed that it was his duty to re-compose it for publication. He decided on doing so, and the present work is the result. His reigning motive has been to do good by this humble instrument to the souls of many, especially of the young and thought less, who, while they have a 'name to live, are in reality dead.' This motive has been powerful enough to overcome his original dislike to publication, though for the same reasons still, he makes the venture with considerable reluctance.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.

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