Excerpt from The Centennial Discourse: Delivered in Westhampton, Mass., Sept. 3d, 1879, on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Formation of the Church in That Town Lord Macaulay says, that any people who are indifferent to the noble achievements of remote ancestors, are not likely to achieve any thing worthy to be remembered by their descendants. Let us, then, attempt to look into the deeds of the Fathers of Z/zz's not with a blind reve rence for what they did, whether it was good or bad, but with that which will enable us to ascertain what was good in their example, and with the resolution to profit by it. 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.