Excerpt from The Clergy in American Life and Letters In the main it has been the plan of the author to follow the suggestion of the editor of this Series to tell the story of the influence upon American life and letters of the clergy during the national era of American literature. Little attention, therefore, has been given to the Clergy who lived before the Revolution. 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.