Excerpt from The Church Memorial: Containing Important Historical Facts and Reminiscences Connected With the Associate and Associate Reformed Churches, Previous to Their United Presbyterian Church of North America Nor do we desire to bury all of the past. We love 'the Churches in which many of us have not only been born, but born again. They have been faithful Churches of the living God. They have contended earnestly for the truth of God. They have done good service in the cause of our dear Re deemer. And although they are now organically one, and we rejoice that it is so, yet Our hearts are full of sacred memories, and we turn with mingled emotions of joy and sorrow to the past. We remember our old ecclesiastical associations with tenderest emotion, and with the captives Of Old we are ready to say, If I forget thee, 0, Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. One prominent Object in the preparation of this work was to preserve the leading facts connected with the union of these Churches. In a few years the'fathers of the Church who took an active part in these proceedings will be no more. Others will be called to carry out the principles upon which this union was formed. Various Opinions may arise as to the meaning of different acts and the design of their framers. Such we know has been the case hereto fore both in Church and State. Even the constitution of the United States is now differently interpreted; and its true meaning can be certainly determined only by the recorded sentiments of its framers. For this purpose, therefore, we have collected together the action of these Churches and the remarks on the subject of union in the different Synods, that in after years they may Speak for themselves. 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.