Excerpt from The Story of the Lancashire Congregational Union, 1806-1906: Centenary Memorial Volume, Prepared at the Request of the UnionOf portraits, letters, etc., illustrating old time Nonconformist Church life, which he has been diligently collecting for many years, whilst the pastors and deacons of the Grosvenor Street and Cavendish Street Churches respectively afforded every facility for consulting the important documents in their possession. To Mr. Hewitson, of The Bury Times, I am under obligation for information respecting the Kay family, and a great company of others have vied with one another in their willing service. The book is the property of the Union, having been undertaken at its request and issued under its imprimatur. It has to be admitted that the task has not been easy, especially that part of it which deals with the second half of the century's work, which fails to yield the sort of incident needed for a book such as this set out to be. It is, however, hoped that it has so far succeeded in its aim that it will contribute, along with the other parts of the Centenary programme, towards exciting new interest in, and securing more loving and consecrated service for, that Congregationalism whose history is one of which we may be justly proud, and which, if true to its ideals, will ever be amongst the most needed of the religious forces of the day.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.