Excerpt from A Sketch of St. James's Parish: From Its Foundation in 1807 to 1899 As the years pass, crowding out in their busy rush the memories of bygone days, it seems well that an effort should be made, while some members of Old St. James's Church still survive, to write out a short sketch of that parish from records still existing and also taken from sermons and papers left by the Rev. Dr. Morton. Dr. Morton's history is so bound up with that of St. James's Church for a period of nearly sixty years, that writing of one, forces me almost unconsciously into introducing him also as a central figure in the story. Having been requested by the vestry of St. James's to prepare this paper, I have done the best I could with such records as I have been able to command, added to my own early recollections, trusting that it may prove of some interest to the few members of the congregation of "Old St. James" who still survive, and perhaps to the new generation also who have arisen since then. 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.