Excerpt from A Quarter-Century Discourse: Delivered in the Tenth Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, on Sunday, November 7, 1858 As I appear before you this morning, my mind goes back irresistibly to the scene pre sented in this house on a Friday evening, ust twenty-five years ago.* The Presbytery to which the church belonged was convened here, and with them a crowded auditory, who had come together, as might be, to indulge a rational curiosity, or to testify their Christian sympathy in the solemnities of that hour. In such a presence, after an impressive sermon by my venerable predecessor in this pulpit, I knelt in yonder aisle and was ordained to the ministry 'by the laying on of the hands of the Presbytery 3' after which, I was installed. 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.