Excerpt from The Commemorative Services of the First Parish in Hingham on the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Building of Its Meeting-House: Monday, August 8, 1881 Two hundred years ago this day our fathers raised the frame of this Meeting-house. Two hun dred years! Not long to one who stands beneath the domes of those old cathedrals of England from whence these same fathers came. Not long to one who reads the rise and fall of races. It seems but a leaf in the pages of history. And to one who measures nature's vast creations, or tracks the comet in its eternal flight, it is but a Span. And yet, as we look about us and See how little there is of age in the land, how like a patriarch this old frame. 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.