Excerpt from How Henry Von Eichenfels Came to the Knowledge of God IN the first half of the eighteenth century there lived, in an ancient and very stately castle that was located near an immense forest, a Ger man nobleman and his virtuous wife, Count Frederick and Countess Adelaide von Eichen fels. They had only one child, named Henry, a tender and most handsome boy whom they loved with all the fervor of parental affection. Before the child was able to pronounce the word father, the noble count had to leave home to serve his king in a war. His pious consort remained in thecastle: and she felt it to be her greatest consolation and her only joy, dur ing her husband's absence and while she lived in lonely retirement, that she could have her darling little Henry with her to bear her com pany. 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.