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sense, making them worthy members of church and of ^tate ? 

 What prevents your sons from being plants grown up in their 

 youth, and your daughters being corner stones polished after the 

 similitude of the palace ? What prevents every one of you from 

 having a home, embellished, adorned, made beautiful, attractive, 

 and lovely by a blending of the natural and artificial, a place where 

 you can live in comfort and die in peace ? What prevents your 

 having a sufficiency of wealth, flocks and herds, and well stored 

 granaries, and the means of obtaining every desirable gratification ? 

 What prevents your having the means of intellectual improvement 

 for yourselves and families ; schools of every grade for your chil- 

 dren, and books and periodicals, of every desirable kind, for your- 

 selves and them ? And what prevents every one from having a 

 hope, big with immortality beyond the grave ; from having a hope, 

 that, 



" When days and years are passed. 

 We all shall meet in heaven 1" 



The answers to these deeply important questions are involved in 

 the inquiries, the solution is with each one individually. God has 

 beneficently spread all around us the elements of happiness — it is 

 for us to say whether these shall be wisely improved. 



LIVE STOCK. 



Horses. First premium to John Allen for best breeding mare ; 

 to J. D. Pike for second best. 



John Allen for best three years old colt ; David B. Pike for sec- 

 ond best. 



Henry C. Currier for best two years old colt; J. D. Pike for 

 second best. 



James Rafford for best one year old colt. 



Bulls. First premium on pure Durham bull, to John Allen of 

 Maysville, for one bred by Charles Perley of Woodstock, N. B. 



The other bulls appear to have been high grades of Devon, Here- 

 ford, &c. 



Cotos. First premium to Joseph Blake for best stock cow ; Eben 

 Richardson for second best. 



