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ReviewsWe haven't found any reviews in the usual places.Write review Common terms and phrasesAbbot admire and love already amongst apostle assailant beautiful boyhood character charity Chauncy Street Christ church Clerk conscientious crowned with glory dead dear death decease divine providence earth Edward Everett eloquence eyes fame fellow-worshipper friends funeral G. W. Messinger George gift glorious glory and honor gospel grand Harris hath heaven highest hope hour human January last Lord's Day light living look Lord manhood marvellous meeting then adjourned ment Messrs mind and heart mourn nation never New-England noble orator patriotism political faith power and love praise famous preacher precious private worth Psalm public virtue Putnam Bradlee reconcile ourselves republican Resolved revered and admired sacred scholar Scripture sermon solemn soul speak speaker speech splendor spoke spoken word Standing Committee take example tell thankful things thought to-day truth uplifted utterances vestry Voted Wales wisdom word written Popular passages... perilous risks, and dazzling rewards. Statesmen, and warriors, and poets, and orators, and artists, start up under one and the same excitement. They are all branches of one stock. They form, and cheer, and stimulate, and, what is worth all the rest, understand each other ; and it is as truly the sentiment of the student, in the recesses of his cell, as of the soldier in the ranks, which breathes in the exclamation " To all the sons of sense proclaim, One glorious hour of crowded life Is worth... Page 16 Secretary read the following preamble and resolutions, which were unanimously adopted : WHEREAS, It has pleased God to remove by death our fellowmember, ROBERT M. Page 32 Health for nearly thirty years, and that these resolutions be spread upon the minutes of this meeting and that a copy be transmitted to the family of the deceased and to the medical press of this city. Page 33 I go the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and shew thyself a man; and keep the charge of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself... Page 26 And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated. And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended. Page 10 Church and Congregation have lost one strongly endeared to them by the association which has bound them together as worshippers for many years past. Resolved, That we gratefully recall the constant interest which our departed friend took in the welfare of our venerable society, an interest which he manifested to the last, by his regular attendance on the offices of the sanctuary. Resolved, That we shall always hold his example in precious remembrance, as of one, who, while he dignified our nation,... Page 33 No strongly marked and hightoned literature, poetry, eloquence, or ethics, ever appeared but in the pressure, the din, and crowd of great interests, great enterprises, perilous risks, and dazzling rewards. Statesmen, and warriors, and poets, and orators, and artists, start up under one and the same excitement. They are all branches of one stock. They form, and cheer, and stimulate, and, what is worth all the rest, understand each other; and it is as truly the sentiment of the student in the recesses... Page 16 ... had laid down in youth, and was found at the last a gospel preacher. When the history of our nation's regeneration shall be written, and it will be an illuminated record ; when victory and peace, which are as sure to be ours as that the sun burns in the heavens, shall be the reward of patient... Page 29 Bradlee was there chosen to act as marshal inside the house ; and the other members disposed themselves as assistants, to conduct to their appropriate seats the Officers of the State and City Governments, and of Harvard University, Judges of the Courts, Officers of the Army and Navy, and delegations from numerous societies and associations, that attended the funeral ceremonies, filling the lower pews of the house. Page 33 ... a word from heart to heart of him whom you revered and admired and loved ; for I am sure that the most halting speech, so it be sincere, will do more justice than silence to the spirit of this hour, so solemn and yet so rich in memories and in hopes. In these few and... Page 27 Other editions
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