Excerpt from History of the First Presbyterian Church of Jersey City, New Jersey: In Four Discourses Preached in the Month of July, 1876; Also, the Discourse Preached at the Close of Services in the Church Building, Sunday Morning, April 29, 1888 The first four of the following discourses were preached in the First Presbyterian Church of Jersey City on successive Sabbath mornings in the month of July, 1876, in compliance with the rec ommendation of the General Assembly of the year 1873 (see Minutes of the General Assembly, page that that month in the Centennial year of the country should be used as the occasion for presenting from the pulpit the histories of the churches in our denomination throughout the land. It was intended to publish them immediately after their delivery. But owing to circum stances, which need not be here stated, this design was postponed. 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.