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Excerpt from The One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the First Reformed Dutch Church: New-Brunswick, October 1, 1867 The Scottish Pilgrim, it is said, in a spirit of pious veneration, visited the graves of those who had died martyrs, of religion. His purpose was to refresh his own mind, and revive in the hearts of his countrymen the record of their noble lives, their heroic endurances, and their triumphant deaths. With engravers chisel, he went from churchyard to churchyard over that land of martyrs, and on the fading stone he reproduced the record of their names, their sufferings, and their renown. Our undertaking this morning will resemble that of "Old Mortality;" for we are to recall the names and revive the record of a noble race of men, who, more than one hundred and fifty years ago, laid the foundation of our civil and religious institutions, and whose early sacrifices and toils, and earnest piety and devotion, should be held by us in sacred remembrance. I am to give you a sketch of the history of the origin, the progress, the struggles, and the triumphs of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of New-Brunswick. This is the oldest religious organization in this city, reliable authorities fixing its origin in the early part of the last century, and making it coeval with the first settlement of this locality. The period itself is remote and interesting. 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.