Excerpt from Fiftieth Anniversary of the First Baptist Church, Bloomfield, N. J., 1851-1901 This story of the celebration of the fiftieth anniver sary of the First Baptist Church, Bloomfield, N. J., has been prepared as a special souvenir of that event. The story includes an account of all the exercises, together with the principal papers and addresses, and is supple mented by full statistical tables covering the fifty years and also by an historical sketch of the Sunday-school work. The illustrations add much to the interest of the souvenir, and will enhance its value in the coming years when another generation may be interested in the faces of some of the leaders who were identified with the first half century of the church's history. So far as they could be obtained, portraits are given of every officer of the church during the fifty years.* The celebration, which covered four days, November 24-27, was itself a memo rable event, full of joy and praise and inspiration, and greatly strengthened the bonds of Christian unity and fraternal fellowship already such marked features of the church's life. 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.