Excerpt from Lives of the Clergy of New York and Brooklyn: Embracing Two Hundred Biographies of Eminent Living Men in All Denominations, Also, the History of Each Sect and Congregation
This volume is respectfully presented to the public as the result of many years of conscientious labor. A collection of the biographical facts relating to the clergy of the cities of New York and Brooklyn, and of the historical information concerning the different sects and churches, when carried to the extent of the present work, necessarily involves a vast amount of research and time. My rule has been, with a few exceptions, to make the acquaintance of each clergyman, and to obtain from himself the facts of his life, and then, by a thorough study of his character and attendance upon his preaching, to prepare myself for writing the personal descriptions and criticisms which are leading features of the book. I have thus taken little second hand information, but used my own original facts, and the opinions formed by personal acquaintance. The plan has also enabled me to make the biographies correct in their stated facts, and more of personal portraitures than is possible where the subjects are unknown to the biographer. As the sketches were prepared, they appeared serially in two forms of publication (in one of them weekly for several years), and the popularity they uninterruptedly enjoyed was an assured proof of their fidelity to truth and the character of the individuals. It. also led to their examination by the subjects themselves, and the pointing out of typographical and other errors, so that in their present form they are, probably, as nearly correct, in nil particulars, as is possible. To write the lives of living men is a delicate as well as a responsible task, and I can justly declare that, while I have drawn very close portraits, I have in no measure allowed my pen to be the vehicle of a wound.
Two hundred and sixty-three biographies of the living clergy of New York and Brooklyn have been written.
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