Excerpt from An Address Delivered on the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Organization of the First Baptist Church, Boston: June 7, 1865 At a meeting of the Church, held Tuesday evening, June 20, 1865, the following votes were passed: - "That it is desirable that the address delivered at the celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of organization of this Church, by our pastor. Rev. R. H. Neale, should be published, with such other historical matter as may be useful for future reference, and that the pastor be requested to furnish a copy for that purpose. "Voted, That brethren Cyrus Carpenter, W. H. Brewer, C. A. Turner, and D. P. Simpson, constitute a committee with full power to carry out (he purposes of the preceding vote." 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.