Excerpt from That Ye May Tell It to the Generation Following: The First Baptist Church, Galesburg, Illinois; An Historical Sketch, 1848-1948 The Historical Committee for the One Hundredth Anniversary of the First Baptist Church of Galesburg was instructed to prepare a brief history of the church. In carrying out this commission, the commit tee has endeavored to select significant items and to present data accurately. Some records were lost in the fire of 1892 and subsequent accounts of a few of the earlier years varv. Time limitations prevented much research in sources other than the available official records of the church. Information as yet unused still remains in church records for future historians. It is the hope of the committee that the material included in this volume may serve as dependable reference in future years. 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.