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Excerpt from A Souvenir of the Conant Memorial Church: Its Inception, Construction, and Dedication; With Illustrations When this book was commenced I had no thought beyond making a small souvenir of the dedication of the Conant Memorial Church; but as I worked at the compilation, the history of the church in Dudley seemed as interesting to me as the record of my ancestors; and as building the church and trying to provide for the preach ing of the Gospel was practically a part of the town's business in the time of those early settlers, it is not easy to say much about them and have their work not well understood. I judged also that the historical sermon of Rev. Mr. Francis would be acceptable, even if seasoned slightly with the religious dogmas of that day, inasmuch as it gives a great deal of the early history of the locality in a very clear and concise manner. In the history of the first church, I have made copies from the old records of the town as the best form in which to preserve it. I have been unable to find any record of the action of the Church in reference to the building of the edifice destroyed in 1890, but suppose that it was built largely by a committee of the townviii preface. 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.