Trials and Triumphs, an Autobiography (Classic Reprint)

By REV. GEORGE W. TRUETT, D.D. It has not been my privilege to read the chapters of this book, for which I am writing this foreword, and yet I count it a privilege, even before reading the book, to give it my most cordial commendation, because of my personal knowledge of its nobly brilliant author, the Rev. William Thomas Tardy. That prince of preachers and teachers. Dr. John A. Broadus, after an interview that he once had with the world-famed inventor, Mr. Thomas A. Edison, said, I was doubly anxious to seeM r. Edison, because the man himself is always greater than anything he can say or do. Such saying may preeminently be applied to the author of this A utobiography. Brilliant and challenging and inspirational as its chapters will be to all who read them, their author was himself far greater than anything he ever said or did. He has been an outstanding man from the early morning of his manhood. His life has been wide-reaching in its inspiration and helpfulness, even from the days of his youth. His range of reading was wide, and his opinions and convictions were always clearly and fearlessly expressed. Vast numbers eagerly awaited his utterances, whether from his pen or tongue, and were greatly profited by them. Both as a speaker and as a writer, he possessed extraordinary gifts. As a minister of the Gospel of Christ and as a citizen of theS tate, his brilliant powers were unreservedly dedicated to the good of his fellows and the glory of his Master. His life and labors take on a still more challenging meaning when it is remembered that for years he was sorely afflicted, so much so that he had to dictate all his writings and to make all his addresses from an invalids
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