MEMOIRS OF THE Life and Philanthropic Labours OF ANDREW REED, D.D., WITH SELECTIONS FROM HIS JOURNALS. EDITED BY HIS SONS, ANDREW REED, B.A., AND CHARLES REED, F.S.A. "A life-with deeds to crown it." SECOND EDITION. LONDON: STRAHAN & CO., 32, LUDGATE HILL. 1863. [The right of translation reserved.] 200. t. 7. PREFACE. THE chief aim of Biography, it has been said, is not so much to preserve the memory, as to prolong the usefulness, of a valuable life. With this double object in view, the following Memoir has been prepared; in the hope, that, while it gratifies the interest of personal friends, it will, at the same time, present to that much wider circle of readers who only knew Dr. Reed through his philanthropic works, an acceptable portraiture of a public benefactor. It has sometimes been doubted, whether sons can fairly execute the biography of a father. Dr. Johnson says, in his "Life of Addison," that "history may be formed from permanent monuments and records, but lives can only be written from personal knowledge, |