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Excerpt from Old Salem in Lebanon: A History of the Congregation and Town This book is written in memory of the Departed Fathers of Old Salem. Its occasion is the present celebration of the centennial of the church edifice. My father, who served the congregation longer than any of her pastors, exceeding the term of Dr. Ernst by a few months, looked forward with eagerness to the coming celebration, which would have rounded out the 45th anniversary of his entrance into the ministry and the fifteenth year of our joint pastorate. He desired to begin work on this history already in last January, but I could not take it up then. He died unable to communicate his knowledge. George H. Reinoehl, who also was looking forward to this celebration, and who was an authority on church and town history, died a week earlier. These sudden deaths, together with my own illness, and other causes, rendered it necessary to postpone the anniversary from June 3d, to next Sunday, June 19th. 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.