Excerpt from History of St. John's Church, Philadelphia He wrote to his sister, Sister Angela The new church bids fair to be the handsomest in the United States. In point of gran deur, it is not, of course, to be compared with the Cathedral of Baltimore, but as far as beauty is concerned, it will exceed it. 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.