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Excerpt from The Claims of Congregational Churches: A Centennial Address; Being a Plea in Vindication of the Rights of the First Church of Christ in Pepperell, Delivered Feb, 9, 1847
To commemorate the deeds and the experiences of our ancestors is, at the same time, a duty and a pleasure. That duty becomes more imperative, and that pleasure is greatly enhanced, when religion and patriotism combine to prompt and to gladden a public celebration. It is equally in the name of religion and of patriotism that we have, this day, met to commemorate the founding of the First Church of Christ in Pepperell. Under ordinary circumstances, this would have been a most interesting occasion. It would have afforded a noble opportunity to review the prominent events in the history of the town, and also to revive the recollections of the men of former times, to read again the story of their eventful lives, and to search out the secret springs from which they drew that wonderful strength of character which has made them the boast of this, and will make them the wonder of coming generations. It would have been an easy and a comparatively pleasant task, in this way to have illustrated, while we celebrated, New England Congregationalism. 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.
