Excerpt from The First Presbyterian Church, Chester, N. Y., 1798 1898 The bugle had sounded a call for the defence of their civil liberty. They answered it as became the men who lived in the land of the Pilgrim fathers. God gave them victory: made their land free and independent, and they came back to finish the work in gratitude which had been so Splendidly begun before they went away. 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.