Excerpt from A Historical Discourse Delivered at Worcester: In the Old South Meeting House, September 22, 1863; The Hundredth Anniversary of Its Erection While I accepted as an honor the invitation to perform that service, I could not but be somewhat embarrassed by the consideration that I had no particular acquaintance with your local and parochial history. Your kindness relieved me of that embarrassment by providing that the details which are the special interest of such an occasion should be collected and narrated by one Of your selves, who has performed that service much better than I could have, done. With this understanding I accepted your invitation, considering myself as m some sort a substitute for my young friend and late parishioner, your pastor, to whom such a duty so soon after his installation might have been burdensome. May his ministry, beginning a new century in your venerable sanctuary, be commemorated with praise to God, when the second century shall be completed. 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.