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ORDER OF EXERCISES AT THE CHURCH, 



ON THE OCCASION OF THE 



FIFTH ANNIVERSARY 



OF THE 



NORFOLK AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



SEPTEMBER 28, 1853. 



Agreeable to the programme of the day, a procession was formed 

 at the Agricultural Hall precisely at 12 o'clock, M., under the 

 eflBcient marshalship of Col. Thomas Adams, Sheriflf of the County, 

 and, preceded by the National Instrumental Band of Roxbury, it 

 took up the line of march to the Rev. Dr. Lamson's church, where 

 an address was delivered and other exercises performed. 



A voluntary by the choir having been sung with happy effect, 

 the Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, President of the Association, rose and 

 addressed the assemblage as follows : — 

 Ladies and Gentlemen op the Society, 



AND Friends of Agriculture. 



The revolving year lias completed another, period in our history, and as- 

 sembled us to celebrate the Fifth Anniversary of the Norfolk Agricultural 

 Society. 



While I regret the inauspicious state of the weather, I am happy to congratu- 

 late you on our personal prosperity, and on the progress of the society. " Our 

 land has not cried against us, nor have the furrows thereof complained ; " but 

 Spring has sown, Summer has ripened, and Autumn has garnered a bountiful 

 harvest. Nature from her store-house of plenty has poured around us blessings 

 in rich variety and abundance, thus rewarding the husbandman, and blessing 

 all the rural industries of life ; " for the profit of the field is for all, and the king 

 himself is served by it." 



It is suitable that we should meet in this consecrated place, gratefully to ac- 

 knowledge the Divine goodness, and to rejoice in the triumphs of science and 

 art, so wonderfully displayed in our age, remarkable not only for enterprise and 

 invention, but for combined and vigorous action — an age, too, when no friend 

 of the cause of human advancement is permitted to loiter by the wayside, or to 

 put his hands to the plough and look back. 



