Excerpt from Historical Sketch of the First Presbyterian Church, Sparta, Illinois: Diamond Jubilee, June 4, 1944 Our church is not as old as many of the churches in this com munity but our name is the one given the church in Scotland after the Reformation and before there were any divisions. With grateful and humble pride we see our beautiful church today, with all the various rooms and their equipment, but we are equally proud that we can trace our history to a church of one room, with a vestibule and belfry. 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.