Excerpt from Lives of the Leaders of Our Church Universal, From the Days of the Successors of the Apostles to the Present Time, Vol. 3: The Lives by European Writers From the German The title of the book I have translated very freely, preferring the sec ond word by which Isaiah describes the servant of God to the first word in the same verse (isaiah lv. 5, A witness a leader to the and so calling the work the Lives of the Leaders rather than the Lives of the Witnesses, the last word being somewhat worn in English literature. 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.