MEMOIR. A BRIEF sketch of the life of the writer of this volume of Sermons may not be uninteresting to the reader. CHARLES MANSON TAGGART was born in the city of Montreal, Lower Canada, October 31, 1821. The greater portion of his childhood and youth was spent in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, to which city the family removed while he was yet very young. His parents belonged to the "Old World." Their early home was in the county of Antrim, not far from Belfast, in the North of Ireland. His mother he lost in early childhood, and for a series of years he was under the immediate care of his grandmother, a warm-hearted, devout, excellent woman. When Charles was ten years of age his father married again. Of her who thus came to hold the mother's place, he always spoke with affection and respect, and by her his memory is fondly, reverently cherished. Very beautiful is the picture which she presents of him in his childhood and youth, when, by his cheerful and constant obedience, his thoughtful care for the younger b |