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Excerpt from The Canton Baptist Memorial: Being a Historical Discourse Delivered Before the Baptist Church in Canton, Mass;, At the Celebration of Their Fiftieth Anniversary, Wednesday, June 22, 1864 Eaton, Rev. A. F. Mason, and Deacon Luther Hewins, contain ing interesting allusions to the former days 7' and Messrs. Addison Boyden and Roland F. Alger, of South Dedham, did ample justice, in stirring and pithy speeches, to the progress and claims of the Baptist cause in New England. Remarks were made 'also by the pastor; and, after singing Corona tion together, the jubilee assembly broke up. Rev. J. W. Olmsted, D.D., of the Watchman and Re ector, arrived too late for the festivities, but made one of a party in an excursion to the old Blackman House to see the room where, fifty years before, the thirty-five constituent members of the church signed their names to the Covenant and Articles of Faith. In the evening, an interesting meeting was held in the chapel; where former preachers took part in the services, and closed with worship a happy and memorable day. In the following history, wherever I have occasion to refer the reader to the church-records, I have inserted in the text parentheses containing the figures of the page. Proper names introduced in capitals are those of pastors or evangelists of the church. Tables of statistics and other important particulars respect ing the church, which would have embarrassed the pages of the Memorial, I have placed in the Appendix. 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."