Excerpt from Sermons by John Milton Holmes: For Eight Years Pastor of the First Congregational Church, Jersey City, N. J., 1861-1869 The author of the sermons included in this volume, as a memorial of whom also the volume has been prepared, will scarcely need an introduction to those who are likely to be the readers of it. His own congregation, whose love for him as their first pastor was only equalled by his love for them as his first and only flock, have desired to have in permanent form, for their own use, some of the characteristic discourses of which they retain so Vivid a recollection, and by which, when they listened to them, they were so greatly stimulated and instructed. Moreover, there are few men among the graduates of Yale College for the past twenty years, whose circle of College acquaintance was larger than his. And it is believed that there are many, - not only of those who were more or less closely with him in the four years of study at New Haven, but also of the graduates of later years, among whom the fame of his genius, his good fellowship, his wit, his enthusiasm and manliness, still lingers as not the least of the traditions of recent College history, - who will be glad to see what kind of work it was with which the years of his active manhood were employed. It is chiefly, though not solely, to these two classes of readers that the present volume makes appeal. 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.