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Excerpt from The American Quarterly Register, 1839, Vol. 11 W: now bring our labors for another year to a close. We have been sus tained by the hope that they are not altogether in vain. Other publications contain many articles which are more immediately interesting than the mass of those which are inserted in the American Quarterly Register. Our object is not so much to entertain the passing hour, as it is to collect and arrange materials for thought which will be permanently useful. Some of the articles inserted in the eleven volumes of our work will be of indispensable importance, we may pre sume to say, my years hence. They have been prepared with an exhausting amount of labor, and in some cases, from sources which are exceedingly rare, and which will soon cease to exist. For instance, our excellent friend and fellow laborer, John Farmer, Esq., who has, during the last year, gone down to the grave, was in the possession of stores of information, with much of which be enriched our pages, that will be sought in vain elsewhere, or at any future time. Invaluable records are frequently lost, or burned, and they inevitably decay in the lapse of time. In rescuing, therefore, some of this perishing information from utter less, we cannot but feel that we are doing good service to our country, and to the churches of our Lord. We interfere with no other publi cation; we come into collision with no class of our fellow men. In the statis tical department of our labor, our concern is not so much with the living, as it is with the pious and venerated dead - with the noble and sainted men, to whom, under God, we owe our inestimable civil and religious institutions. 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.