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Excerpt from The Minister and Parish: A Discourse on the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of His Ordination, Delivered Before the Members of the Second Congregational Society in Worcester, March 28, 1852
The eventful scenes of life have we passed together! How many changes have come over us since first we met, changes in age and person, in fortune and condition, in family and neighborhood, in purpose and prospect! We have taken counsel together on affairs of town and parish; we have obeyed the same sabbath-bell, and mingled our prayers together; we have stood together at the marriage-festival, and when we have offered our children in baptism; we have sat together in the hour of religious joys, and broken and eaten of the bread of life; we have watched in the same chamber of sickness, witnessed together the last struggles of the dying, and followed our dead in company to the place of their rest. When, then, the images of faded joys and hopes crowd upon the me mory, when the buried recollections of these long years start up afresh, shall I doubt that the review of the period will have interest for you as well as myself Let me, then, to-day speak of it. Let me ask you to accompany me, as I shall go back through this long vista, and revive our half-forgotten impressions, and gather up and preserve the events, which we have shared together. That I may present a distinct pic ture, let me observe some order: I shall first dwell.
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