Excerpt from Lore of the Meadowland Holley five hundred and sixty dollars per year for his ser vices in the ministry, so long as said society and Mr. Hol ley could agree For three years they did agree, at the end of which time the pastor, looking for fairer financial fields, let his eyes behold Marblehead, Massachusetts, but, after a few weeks, be pronounced it not good, and decided to look further. Middletown, Connecticut. And Albany, New York, made him offers, which he declined, and descended upon Boston. There he preached in the Old South church to crowded congregations for a time. After several trial sermons, which were declared excellent, the great Hollis Street Unitarian church invited him to become its pastor, and this he did. Installed on March 8, 1809, Holley spent the next nine years of his life, the most pleasant years he was to spend in the world, as pastor of this church. There was a thorough and most cordial understanding and sympathy between min ister and people, and we may well believe that he was happy. 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.