America is usually impatient of archives and documents. Its face is toward the future and the sunrise. Consequently we are sadly lacking in the historic sense, and in breadth of View. In to-day alread'y walks to-morrow, said Coleridge. True; but in yesterday once walked to-day; and no man is competent to guide the church to-day unless he knows the church of yesterday. The causes of our present strength, the reasons for present weakness, all lie deep rooted in the years that are gone.