Excerpt from Centennial Sermon: July 2, 1876, Being the Church's Semi-Centennial It will be seen, from the date of this transaction, that this church, as a religious enterprise, and as a corporate society, if not as an ecclesiastical organization, fairly reaches this month the end of its fiftieth year; and that this historical discourse, which General Assembly has recommended as proper to signalize our. Country's centennial year, chronicles also the completion of the church's first half-century. 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.