Excerpt from Three Discourses Upon the Religious History of Bowdoin College, During the Administrations of Presidents M'keen, Appelton,& Allen To Prop. E. C. Smyth. Sir: - In behalf of the students we respectfully solicit, for publication, a copy of your very interesting and valuable Lectures upon the Religious History of the College. Deeming them a treasure well worth our possession, and being desirous that the benefits arising from them inuy not be confined to ourselves, but extended to all the Iriciids of the College, we earnestly hope you will comply with our desire. Gentlemen, The Discourses which you request for publication are cheerfully placed at your disposal. Any labor they may have cost has been abundantly rewarded by the generous interest with which they were listened to, and by the kind appreciation so pleasingly expressed in your note. Allow me to add a word of explanation, - not necessary for you, perhaps, - but for others into whose hands they may come. My original design simply was to prepare a brief account of some past seasons of religious interest in the history of the College, to be read at the Concert of Prayer for Colleges in February last. The materials gathered with this end in view, demanded, it was thought, ampler treatment; hence the method adopted. The principal object, however. has still been an immediate and practical one; and the course of thought pursued has been determined, in some measure, by the existing religious condition of the College. 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.