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hopeful in destiny. Our trees — from the openin.tJj bud to the 

 golden harvest — from the laying off their autumnal livery, and 

 during their rest in winter's shroud, waiting a resurrection to a 

 new and superior life -r- all are eloquent preachers, proclaiming 

 to our inmost soul, 'The hand that made us is divine.' God 

 gave us trees adorned with inimitable beauty, pleasant to the 

 sight and good for food. He gave us also a natural and instinc- 

 tive love for them. Witness the love of Abraham desiring to 

 have all the trees that were in the field, and in the border round 

 about — of Kosseau longing to be laid under his own sequestered 

 trees— of Temple directing that his heart should be buried be- 

 neath the tree of his own planting — of Washington returning 

 to the cherished groves of Mount Vernon — of Webster reclining 

 in life, and sleeping in death under the umbrageous elms of 

 Marshfield — of our own Downing, whose genius lives in trees 

 which adorn many a lovely landscape, many a beautiful garden, 

 and many a fruitful orchard in our land.'- 



I can render no more fitting close to this tribute to the mem- 

 ory of one so dearly beloved by all those who love the true, the 

 beautiful and sublime, than by quoting the closing remark of 

 •<jrOv. Washburn, of Massachussets, to the next sentiment, 

 ^' Massachusetts:" 



' ' But my friends, I recollected that although he might pass 

 away, his works would live after him, and the monument he had 

 been able to rear and perpetuate would stand when the mere 

 monuments of granite and marble should be forgotten ; this 

 monument which will speak in language too eloquent ever to be 

 forgotten ov^er this broad land of ours." 



On motion the following committee was chosen on the presi- 

 dent's annual address, viz.: Prof. D. E. Maginnis, J. S. Harris 

 .-and C. L. Smith. 



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