Excerpt from The North Congregational Church, Springfield, Massachusetts; Fiftieth Anniversary, October 25 to November 1, 1896: Sermons An event occurred in this city on October 28, 1846, which at the time did not attract wide attention. A few lines tell the story in the issues of the local press, it was the formation of the North Congregational Church. Its members were comparatively young, few in numbers, somewhat scattered, not wealthy nor renowned. But they, and those who united with them later, held certain deep convictions and aspirations, and were capable of heroism to a de gree which enabled them to pass nobly through distresses, and overcome great obstacles. 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.