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Excerpt from Reminiscences of the Right Rev. William Meade, D.D., Bishop of the Prot. Epis. Church in Virginia: From August 19th, 1829, to March 14th, 1862 <p>Great examples of good are great public treasures, and like other riches are often laid up where they yield no increase, instead of being turned over to the profit of the owner and the good of others. <p>As a hard worker, with the hand, at his plough, or with the head, at his books, - as a patriot who loved his own people and his native land, - as a Christian man and Bishop whose life was one act of devotion to his Master, and who served well his generation and the Church, - Bishop Meade was and is an example worthy to be remembered. <p>The number of those who knew him is gradually getting smaller, and whatever knowledge of him they have, which might benefit their kind, (and there is much besides that contained in Bishop Johns' valuable had far better be made over to the public, than buried in their graves. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>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.