Excerpt from A Sermon, Preached in the Meeting-House of the First Church, Dorchester, on Sunday, June 19, 1870: Being the Two Hundred and Fortieth Anniversary of the First Assembling of the Church for Divine Service After Its Landing in America For, it is no mean inheritance that has thus descendedto us; it is no ordinary history whose records we unroll; it is no ignoble root that bears us. Looking back through two hundred and two score years, we see, met together in the outer air, evidently for some common and absorbing purpose, a company Of one hundred and forty persons. 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.