Excerpt from Calvin Durand, Sarah Gould Downs Durand: A Memorial S I stand here, my heart is filled with a sense of sorrow and a sense of triumph. I exceedingly regret that the Reverend Doctor Boyle is not present at this time, as the pastor of this home, to express in his beautiful and touching way his sympathy with this family circle, and his profound faith in the verities of God. I am sure that at this very hour his thoughts are centering with this sorrowing group, and that his prayer is being lifted in intercession in their behalf. This is the first time in all my happy years of blessed fellowship with this home that I have ever been called upon to face a situation of grief within it. Whenever I have come here before it has been upon the occasions of the ordinary household rejoicings, or when the daughters and the son have been celebrating their wedding festivities. 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.