Download or read book A Century of History of the Walnut Street Presbyterian Church of Evansville, Indiana, Vol. 1 written by Mary French Reilly and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-05 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Century of History of the Walnut Street Presbyterian Church of Evansville, Indiana, Vol. 1: With Sketches of It's Pastors, Officers, and Prominent Members and Reminiscences of Early Times "The great eventful present hides the past, but through the din Of its loud life, hints and echoes Of the life behind steal in." In the address of Moses to the Israelites when he was about to retire to Mount Nebo, which was to be his final resting place, he exhorted them to rightly appreciate the "greatness" of God, who had in mercy brought them, notwithstanding their wanderings and shortcomings, safely thus far, saying "He found him (Israel) in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about; he instructed him; he kept him as the apple of his eye." "As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings, so the Lord alone did lead him." As if to emphasize more forcibly this beautiful and eloquent picture and add additional testimony to his assertions, he said: "Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will show thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee." The condition of Israel when found in a desert land might well apply to the state of the church when first found in these western wilds, and the loving and watchful care that has been bestowed upon it finds a smile in the foregoing description. It is now seventy years since the religious denomination worshiping in the Walnut street church had its first existence, and as there is not now living one of the members of that church, when first formed, we may conclude that by the time its Centennial anniversary arrives there will be none of even the early "fathers" or "elders" to tell of "these days of old." 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.