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of his narrow nationality — and the heaven-piercing gaze of Chaldea and Shinar, without their superstition-looking above all the stars of science, and the differing glories of their devotees, to Him who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks, and holdeth the stars in his right hand.

With such aims and convictions as these, there is no destiny too auspicious for the land. Learning would become the preceptor of industry, the crown of enterprise, the ornament of the republic, a minister of the church. Art, handmaid of religion, science, elevator of humanity, literature, the voice of experience, and labor, the body of thought, would combine their constructive offices for rearing the open temple of our life. And in building that sanctuary, hands, brain and heart, our Artificer, Designer and Prophet, should do all things after the pattern shown them in the Mount the Mount of the adoration and vision of God!

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BY JOSEPH M. WIGHTMAN,

PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION.

BOSTON:

GEO. C. RAND & AVERY, CITY PRINTERS,

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ADDRESS.

FRIENDS AND ASSOCIATES,

The Constitution of our

Association declares, that "Every third year from 1821 there shall be a public festival, in October, on which occasion an address shall be pronounced by a member. These addresses have been usually delivered in some public hall, or church, with appropriate ceremonies. In conformity with the desire of the government, this arrangement was changed at the last triennial celebration, for a less formal and more brief address from the President at the festive table.

My immediate predecessor performed this duty so ably and satisfactorily, on that occasion, as to induce the present Committee of Arrangements to adopt a similar course.

It is now forty-eight years since our first triennial festival was inaugurated, by an eloquent address from the President, BENJAMIN RUSSELL- a name familiar in our history and in the annals of our city and commonwealth. Honored and respected by his fellow-citizens during more than thirty years of public service, and endeared to us by a membership of half a century —

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