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We shall miss him ami we shall mouin for him, yet was he su- 

 premely fortunate in his death. 



" Why Mccp we, then, for him who, having won 

 The bound of man's appointed years at hist, 



Life's blessings all enjoyed, life's labors done, 

 Serenely to his final rest has passed? 



And I am glad that he has lived thus long, 



And glad tliat he has gone to his reward ; 

 Nor can I deem that Nature did him wrong, 



Softly to disengage the vital cord. 

 For ere his hand grew palsied and his eye 

 Dark with the mists of age, it was his time to die." 



Ex-President W. C. Strong said that the members of the So- 

 ciety were in the presence of a great sorrow. Mr. Wilder had 

 been with them so long and his presence had been such a benedic- 

 tion that it was haul to give him up. The speaker moved that a 

 committee be appointed to submit resolutions on the death which 

 had occasioned so great a loss to the Societ}' ; which motion was 

 unanimously passed. 



The Chair appointed as that Committee Ex-Presidents Strong, 

 Hovey, and Hyde, Edward L. Beard and Robert Manning. 



On motion of Benjamin G. Smith, the following persons were 

 appointed a Committee to attend the funeral of Mr. Wilder, on 

 the next day : 



The President, Henry P. Walcott. 

 The Ex-Presidents, — 

 Charles M. Ilovey, William C. Strong, 



James F. C. Hyde, Francis Parkujun, 



John B. Moore. 



The Vice-Presidents, — 

 John Cummings, C. H. B. Brcck, 



Benjamin G. Smith, Frederick L. Ames. 



Members of the P>xecutive Committee, — 

 H. H. Hunnewell, Charles S. Sargent, 



H. Weld Fuller, William H. Spooncr, 



and the following named niembers : — 



Kobcrt Manning, John G. Barker, 



George W. Fowle, Edward L. Beard, 



