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Rev. C. A. Bartol remarked that he liad great pleasure 

 in seeing the cup of this communion table passing round. 

 There should be no war between science, philosophy and 

 religion. All meet on common ground in pursuit of 

 knowledge. Philosophy must reign, but must not gov- 

 ern. It has no right, as religion has no right, to shut 

 ont any facts that knowledge finds. Religion reigns over 

 all, but without injustice to any. Life is the nearest 

 fact, the most universal thing. The mountain crumbles, 

 but the plant springs up and insects grow. The trees, 

 the beasts, and the men are of one stufl'. Who can say 

 what of the mountain is in the man? What of granite in 

 the plant? What shall we say of the notion of a Deity 

 as out of matter? This precipitate of mind into matter 

 ever tends to go back into mind. The Agassiz Boulder 

 suggests the saying that Queen Elizabeth's mind was like 

 one of those Druidical rocking-stones, which the slightest 

 touch can disturb, but the greatest power could not over- 

 throw. I know a tree near here, three hundred, perhaps 

 five hundred, years old. We think the tree is the weak 

 yielding thing. But we know very well how this tree 

 clings to the rock and sucks food from it, as the child 

 from its mother's breast. No doubt in those five hundred 

 years that ledge has changed very much. The rock has 

 crumbled, but the tree remains. The great sentiments, 

 the religious sentiments, Avill survive after all these hard 

 elements of nature have melted and changed and i)assed 

 away. Here is illustrated the inunortality of the prin- 

 ciple of life. 



The time drawing near for the arrival of the train for 

 Salem, the meeting adjourned, after having passed a vote 

 of thanks, ofl'ercd by Mr. W. P. Upfiam, to the town 

 authorities and to the citizens for their kindness and 

 courtesies. 



