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Rh Mrs. Eddy has given years of patient labor in gathering materials, which have been woven with rare taste and judgment by Dr. Sims. The vivid picture of this life is not overdrawn, and it will rank with the few biographies that will long edify the living, and all denominations may read it with profit and instruction.—Pittsburgh Telegraph.

Dr. Eddy's high personal qualities, his singleness of heart, the cordial humanity of his nature, his abounding hopefulness, his prompt and unfaltering courage and contagious enthusiasm, exercise their potent influence from the written page. He has been singularly fortunate in his biographer, who clearly, concisely, and vivaciously portrays his subject without ever veiling him behind his own personality. Certainly this book will do great good.—, Rome, Italy.

His biographer has, with admirable delicacy of touch, given us the delineation of his character. The book is written in the spirit of warm, admiring friendship, but with evident candor and just discrimination. It is a capital book for Sunday-school youth, preachers — and every body. Loving hearts have culled wisely, and outlined the book, and Dr. Sims has let the story tell itself.—''Northern Chris. Advocate''.

This is a very handsomely published volume. It is the biography of a man whose life was, with large intelligence, devoted to doing good.—Chicago Inter-Ocean.

The perusal of this biography is very encouraging indeed to a Christian reader of any period of life. — Interior. For more than sixty years I have been reading the lives of English and American ministers. Permit me to say that Dr. Sims' "Life of Eddy" is fully up to my ideal of religious biography.—Rev. , D.D.

The thousands who drew so closely to Dr. Eddy will read this book with a feeling that they are again almost in his presence. Accurate dates, public and private letters, personal incident, and clear portraiture, give the book a keen relish.—North-western Christian Advocate.

It is well done and exceedingly interesting. It is a just tribute to the memory of one whose name will long live in the annals of the Church.—, D.D., ''Miss. Sec''.

The "Life" of this eminent minister, compiled from authentic sources by his early friend, Rev. Dr. C. N. Sims, of Brooklyn, is just