Truth espoused : relative to the difficulties that existed in the town of Manchester, Massachusetts, between James Thurston, minister of the Gospel and a respectable number of the inhabitants of Manchester اand which occasioned a majority of the male members of the church and a respectable proportion of the parishioners to secede from the society in said town, April 5th, 1819 : subjoined is a general view of the council doings, in relation to the dismissal of James Thurston from that society, June 17th, 1819 : also, sketches of the law-suit, James Thurston, plaintiff, Tyler Parsons, defendent [i.e. defendant] : annexed is James Thurston's memorial to the council, presented by Leverett Salstonstall, Esq. at the installation of the Rev. Samuel M. Emerson, at Manchester, September 12th, 1822 /