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time) is but the emblem, but has given increased supplies and potency to 

 those before known. So, too, has it done much to " refresh'" and glad^ 

 den the heart of man as he wearily plods his way in search of food or 

 pleasure, and in combining pleasure with profit to himself aud the world, 

 has added new -'joys" to the crown of honored bliss and earthly happi- 

 ness shadowed forth so beautifully in the wine and oil, the symbols used 

 upon this and all similar occasions. 



In this, then, the work of the man as a mason is completed ; as a scien- 

 tist only begun. The Masons, in common with the citizens of the State, 

 will, during the revolving years of the future, look forward with interest 

 and hope to the success of your labor, fellow-members of the Academy, 

 labor which we and they fully trust will redound to the honor of the 

 members, and the substantial benefit of the people. 



Prof. Parvin paid a glowing and fitting tribute to the ladies of the city, 

 to whose labor of love the Academy was so greatly indebted for the 

 success of the present entei-prise, and could he, he said, but reach the 

 ears of the men of wealth in which Davenport abounds, and properly 

 touch their inward conscience, he would prove to them that the highest 

 and truest development of manhood was to be found only when the large 

 purse was brought into liberal and harmonious relations with the culti- 

 vated mind, and the noble and j^enerous soul. To all such he would say, 

 go and do as the noble patrons of the Academy had already done, and 

 further endow it for usefulness. 



As a citizen of Iowa, having grown to a ripened age with the growth 

 and strength of the State, and in behalf of its citizens, known for their 

 love of a wide-spread knowledge, he congratulated the members of the 

 Academy upon what they had done, and in the fullness of time would 

 do, if properly encouraged and cheered on their way. 



As a Mason, identified somewhat prominently with the order from its 

 introduction into the territory of Iowa, and as a band of brethren always 

 friendly to science, its progress and development, he was happy to ex- 

 tend in their name his most hearty congratulations. As an humble 

 student of science from his boyhood up, ever finding, as he treaded its 

 paths, new pleasures and increased delights, he was profoundly impressed 

 with the earnest manner and the success thus far attending the labors of 

 his associates, young and old, in the work before them, regarding it as 

 an augury of the larger success in store and sure to reward the labors so 

 happily begun. 



In the conclusion of his remarks the Professor said, that it was a day 

 memorable in the history of the Academy, of the city, the state, and the 

 fraternity. The laying of a corner-stone of an institution devoted solely 

 to the instiiiction, progress and development of Science and Art is a 

 "new departure"' in the State, and from which we have much to hope. 



The honored names of citizens, not directly connected with the pur- 

 suits of science, yet laboring in common with those who are, is an evi- 

 dence that the enterprise is in the hands of those who mean success as 

 their watchword. In the future, when the names of the politicians who 

 have filled our governmental and senatorial chambers are forgotten, the 



