Excerpt from The Services in Celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Founding of the Old First Presbyterian Church in the City of New York: In the Church, Fifth Avenue, Eleventh to Twelfth Streets, December 1916 Auspicante Deo, By the favor Of God. SO runs the opening sentence of the Votive Tablet erected by our fathers in 1749 to commemorate their gratitude for the founding Of the Church and its preservation amid perils which threatened its continuance. 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.