Excerpt from An Historical Sermon in Connection With St. Barnabas Church, (Also Known as "Brick Church, ") Queen Anne's Parish, at Leeland, Prince George's County, Maryland

I am the more impelled to make this effort, because the minds and the hearts in which these facts have been treasured, your fathers and mothers, men and brethren, and far remoter ancestry, men and women who link us of today with a venerable and hon ored history, have almost all fallen asleep. And, we, their children, plunged now into a new order of things, struggling for very life, the seething tide dashing fragments of all wrecks against us from every quarter - whatever else we lose, cannot afford to lose, for ourselves and for those who come after us, one particle of the stay and inspiration that comes from the priceless, change less heritage of truth and fact and life, which the Church hands down to each generation of her children for jealous and loving transmittal.

The first item of special interest to us in the Parish Record is a copy of the Act for dividing St. Paul's Parish, as follows.

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.