The importance of the rising generation A sermon, preached at the desire of the selectmen, and the committee for inspecting the town schools: occasioned by the dedication of a new and very commodious grammar school house, lately erected in the First Parish of the town o Gloucester, on the 5th of March, 1795, by Eli Forbes, A.M. and Pastor of the First Church of Christ in said town. And now made public at the desire of the hearers in general. [Four lines from Solomon] - Forbes, Eli 1726-1804 (by Blunt and March, 1795)