Excerpt from Leonard Bacon: Pastor of the First Church in New Haven On December 15, 1824, the Society extended a call to Mr. Bacon to settle with them in the ministry of the gospel, and on the 19th of the same month the church united with the society in their call. This call was accepted by Mr. Bacon January 17, 1825. The proceedings of the church and society, with Mr. Bacon's letters of acceptance, are given at page 13. 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.