Excerpt from Familiar Conversational: History of the Evangelical Churches of New-York Have you nothing more to tell us concerning the history of this old and venerable church? I should like to hear more too about all the early Christian churches in this city; but perhaps your time may be too precious, and can be more profitably spent in other ways. Uncle. Oh no, my boys. Nothing can give me greater pleasure, than to hear you express the wish to learn something concerning the early introduction of Christianity and its institu tions into our city: and it will be a source of high gratification to myself, as well as some improvement to you, I hope, to sit down and talk ove1 with you the early history of our city churches. And I am glad that your interest in the subject has led you to mention it; but at the same time that I make known to you my sin ceie willingness to spend some portion of my time so profitably, as in conversations with you upon this interesting subject, I would remind you, beforehand, that it will require consider able patience, and will perhaps draw upon your fund of self-denial, to sit hour after hour, and perform what some people would call the drudgery of listening. 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.