INTRODUCrION.


   This book is something entirely new for Lexington.
Although many churches publish occasionally, each for
itself, a manual or directory, giving some of these facts
for the use of their own members, yet the combining
of all these together so that the members of all the Protest-
ant bodies may readily learn about one another is an
entirely new plan and will prove to be a great success.
Aside from the great convenience of such a volume there
are higher ends to be secured. We are members, in all
these churches, of one another; our aims are common;
our methods vary and we can learn much from each
other. There is also great practical value to a city, grow-
ing as this does, in holding up the beginning of things
and the course of history in the churches. The stranger
can inform himself in a few moments as to the story of
the church into which he has come from another com-
munity.