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OF THE

REV. SAMUEL GREEN,

LATE PASTOR OF UNION CHURCH, BOSTON.

BY

REV. RICHARD S. STORRS.

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY PERKINS & MARVIN.

PHILADELPHIA: HENRY PERKINS.

1836.
m D.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1836,

BY PERKINS & MARVIN,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.

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INTRODUCTION.

THE papers of the Rev. Mr. Green were put into the hands of the compiler, with a request from a committee of the Union Church in Essex Street, that a volume might be prepared, illustrative of his character, and commemorative of his labors in the service of Christ; a volume that might be referred to by numerous surviving friends, as a fountain of refreshing reminiscences, and by all into whose hands it might fall, as a source of instruction and edification.

How far the laudable object proposed by the committee will be realized, can only be known hereafter. Unless the compiler is deceived in his estimate of the value of these papers, by the partiality of friendship, or by the delightful influence they have spread over his own mind during the process of transcribing and arranging them, they will prove highly acceptable to the public at large, and an invaluable treasure to those

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