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An Outcast, by F. Colburn Adams
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Title: An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith
Author: F. Colburn Adams
Release Date: March 5, 2007 [EBook #20745]
Language: English
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AN OUTCAST;
OR,
VIRTUE AND FAITH.
BY
F. COLBURN ADAMS.
"Be merciful to the erring."
NEW YORK: PUBLISHED BY M. DOOLADY, 49 WALKER STREET. 1861.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1861,
BY M. DOOLADY,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.
PREFACE.
When reason and conscience are a man's true guides to what he undertakes, and he acts strictly in obedience to them, he has little to fear from what the unthinking may say. You cannot, I hold, mistake a man intent only on doing good. You may differ with him on the means he calls to his aid; but having formed a distinct plan, and carried it out in obedience to truth and right, it will be difficult to impugn the sincerity of his motives. For myself, I care not what weapon a man c