Excerpt from A Memorial of the Life of Samuel Fletcher Drury On reaching the age of fourteen the lad Samuel left his home, henceforth to make his way in the world nu aided, first in a neighboring village, then in the growing city of Worcester, and by and by as clerk in a store in Boston. While in Worcester he first publicly consecrated himself to Christ, uniting with the Baptist Church of that city. 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.