ANDOVER-HARVARD
THEOLOGICAL LIBRARY

JAN 4 1913

ANDOVER

THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

53358

Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1832, BY PERKINS & MARVIN,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.

PREFACE.

THE death of Addison Pinneo excited so much interest, in all who were acquainted with the circumstances, that it was thought by many, that the knowledge of them ought not to be confined to the immediate vicinity. I was requested to prepare a short Memoir. The facts were collected very soon after his decease, while recollection was fresh, and with a scrupulous regard to accuracy in the most minute particulars. Especial pains were taken to obtain the very words which he used; and they have been given, even when a trifling change would have rendered his language more correct. The style I have endeavored to adapt to the young, and the form of a personal address has been chosen, that more instruction of a practical nature might be mingled with the narrative. It is not expected, that a

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book of this kind will be severely criticised. To those who may find many faults, I would only say that it was written amid a press of other engagements. I subjoin the testimonials which have been given me by the pastor and parents of the deceased.

I cheerfully testify, that I have for many years been acquainted with Deacon Pinneo and his family. I visited his interesting little son in his last sickness, conversed and prayed with him. I am also well acquainted with the author of the Memoir; and, with others, advised him to write it; and have no doubt that all the statements have been made with the most scrupulous regard to accuracy. JOSIAH TOWNE,

Pastor of the Cong. Church, East Hanover. Hanover, 31st Oct. 1831.

We are happy to state, that we have read the Memoir of our beloved son; and that it is correct in every particular, according to our recollection. We have consented to its publication, with the hope that it may be blessed to the everlasting good of some who shall read it.

ORRAMEL PINNEO.

EUNICE H. PINNEO.

Hanover, Nov. 4th, 1831.

INTRODUCTION.

"He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down.”—Job xiv. 2.

"Death has been here, and borne away

A brother from our side,
Just in the morning of his day,

As young as we, he died.

"Perhaps our time may be as short,
Our days may fly as fast;

O Lord! impress the solemn thought,

That this may be our last."

To the young Sabbath Scholar who takes up this

Book.

MY DEAR YOUNG FRIEND,-Would you like to know for whom this book was written? It was for you. It is your book. I knew that you were fond of reading about boys and girls of your own age, what they said, what they did, how they lived, and how they died; and I have written for you an account of an interesting little boy, who lived in the town where I lived for a long time, and who, as we believe, gave himself to Jesus when he was ten

years old, and was soon after taken by Jesus out of this world of sin and sorrow, to be forever with him in His heavenly kingdom.

"But what was his name?" you ask me.

It was Addison Pinneo.

"And where did he live?"

In Hanover, New Hampshire.

This story of little Addison I have written with the hope that you will read it, read it all, and read it carefully. Now, do not disappoint me. Do not throw the book down without reading it, and go to your play, or to some trifling book, which will do you no good. And do not read it as some Sabbath scholars, whom I know, read their books. Instead of reading the whole, they read only a little here, and a little there, so that they may get the story, and then throw them down. And some, if they read the whole, read it so carelessly, that, when their teacher asks them the next Sabbath, "What is in their book," they can say hardly a word. Do not be like them; but see if you cannot read this so well, that when your parents, or teacher wish you to give an account of it, you can tell them all about it, and answer correctly all the questions they may ask you.

Oh, I wish that you had known little Addison, that you had gone to school with him, that you had heard him talk of Jesus, and had knelt to pray with him; or that you could have seen him on his death