Excerpt from Two Sermons Preached in the First Congregational Church in Milton: On the 15th and 22d of June, 1862 Nearly all the classes of society that are to be found in the State. During the last sixteen years, at every election, I think, the vote in this town has pretty fairly represented the vote of the whole State, so that when the vote of Milton is declared, we know very well what is the vote of Massachusetts. Nearly all interests, professions and pursuits are represented here in just about the same proportion to each other as in the State. This gives us, and from the beginning has given us, a various, and in some respects a heterogen eous population. We have fewer things in common than is usual in a small town. We are less compactly united. We have less a feeling of interest and pride in what relates to the town. A single fact will illus trate What I mean: The second officer in command of the great army now at Richmond a man of dis tinguished military ability, who two weeks ago today, in the battle at Fair Oaks, by what seemed almost an im possibility, did more perhaps than any other man to save the fortunes of the day, was a Milton boy, the son of Milton parents, and educated in our Milton schools. But I doubt whether there is another town in the United States, where such a fact would be so little re garded, and where on a public occasion like that of the last week, so little notice would be taken of a son so distinguished, and at this moment. Holding so im portant a post. 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.