Excerpt from The Pilgrim Temple-Builders: A Sermon Preached in the Congregational Tabernacle, Jersey City, N. J., On the Sabbath Before Forefathers' Day, December 17, 1865Heavens! What a goodly prospect spreads around, Of hills and dales and woods and lawns and spires, And glittering towns and gilded streams, till all The stretching landscape into smoke decays.' Thirty Church-spires are visible from that hill-top to a practised eye, every one of them the spire of a parish Church, and every one of them Independent.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.