A Discourse Delivered On The Centenary Of The First Presbyterian Church, Greenwich, New Jersey (On Its Present Site) June 17Th, 1875

On 17 June 1875, a New Jersey pulpit became a time capsule. One church, one hundred years. In A Discourse Delivered On The Centenary Of The First Presbyterian Church, Greenwich, New Jersey (On Its Present Site) June 17th, 1875, D. X. Junkin offers a church centennial discourse that is at once a presbyterian anniversary sermon and a civic record, spoken at the church centennial celebration on the congregation's present site in Greenwich. Presented here as the complete sermon text, the address sketches first presbyterian church history alongside the moral language and theological confidence that shaped american presbyterian history. Junkin writes with a pastor's warmth and a historian's care, making the work approachable for readers curious about presbyterian heritage in america, and useful to anyone tracing families, places, and congregations. As a new jersey genealogy reference and a church history research source, it preserves names, milestones, and local memory from 19th century new jersey, anchoring wider national movements in greenwich new jersey history. It captures how a congregation narrated its own origins, trials, and hopes, linking faith to education, charity, and public life. Read it for its rhetoric, its sense of place, and its record of community identity in post-Civil War America across generations in small river towns. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, this historical reprint edition has been restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint -- a collector's item and a cultural treasure -- it belongs on the shelf of classic American religion enthusiasts, local historians, and collectors who value primary sources in their original voice.