Excerpt from Manual of the First Congregational Church, Littleton, N. H: Issued in 1896 At the annual meeting of the Congregational Society of Littleton, N. IL, 1896, the pastor was present and stated that the church sorely needed a manual. Mr. John S. Lient'rew volunteered to solicit the necessary funds for its publication. A committee was chosen and instructed to compile and have. Printed a manual of the church. This being the first printed manual of the church, it required time and much hard work to produce such a treatise as the committee designed to pub lish. Mr. John F. Tilton has labored unceasingly in prepar ing the papers which will be found under their proper heads. Others have given much time and willing-hearted effort to make up this volume. 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.