This fair statement of unfair things, which have occurred in the Reformed Congregation of Harrisburg, during the last two years; I am induced to lay before the public, not from light or trivial considerations, but by painful necessity. My determination was to remain passive and silent in all this business; yet at the same time prayerful and faithful to God, believing as I did, that the great disposer of all events would ultimately furnish us all with a clear and manifest interpretation of the whole affair. And indeed, I do not now distrust the providence of God, but on the contrary, firmly believe that he will yet at some future day fully develop the sad and mystic matter to the praise of his name. However, as many false and pernicious, yea, even slanderous reports, are almost incessantly raised and rumored, by several malicious persons about me and my friends;--I have for some time past thought it my bounden duty, "to set forth in order, a declaration of those things which have happened among us." And I do it merely to prevent any further mischief, and to counteract as far as possible, the prejudicial effects that may have been produced by means of misrepresentations. Let the members of the country congregations, and all others whom it may concern, read the following pages and judge for themselves. [3]

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