Memorial Address on the Occasion of the Centennial Anniversary of the Formation of Centre Street Congregational Church at Machias, Me

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Excerpt from Memorial Address on the Occasion of the Centennial Anniversary of the Formation of Centre Street Congregational Church at Machias, Me: Together With a Brief History of the Congregational Sabbath School to September, 1884Those of us who listened to the delivery of the address were carried back by the vivid language of the speaker until the beautiful views the immigrants saw as they sailed up this bay and river, one hundred and twenty years before, seemed passing before our eyes, and as with him we followed rapidly down the years, the events of which he so fully in few and graphic words related, we seemed to be in turn contemporary with each of the worthies whose life and labor was the theme of his story, with the patriotic Lyon, and not forgetting the wonderful episode of Clark Brown, with the pious Steele and his colleague the earnest Jackson, the meek and pure-minded Ward, the impulsive Kendall, the efficient Brown, the genial and faithful Bowler, till we come to his own day, so full of interest and faithful work. And that of his successors, where the recollections of'a large part of his hearers came in. Verifying the words of their former pastor.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.