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guests and for the words of its invited speakers. A 

 hundred years ago, the honor and commemoration of 

 Franklin at the end of a century was confidently 

 expected by our predecessors, whose example we fol- 

 low to-night with this tribute in memory of his death. 

 With increasing confidence, with enlarging hope for 

 the future, in abiding certainty that whatever another 

 century may bring it can add only increasing fame to 

 his memory, we commit our discharge of this duty to 

 our successors a century hence, in the complete and 

 comfortable assurance, that their commemoration, like 

 our own, will find assembled again the descendants of 

 Franklin, this Society, its members, its invited guests, 

 and eloquent voices to commemorate his memory and 

 again record his fame. 



