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ful possibilities of that community. A youth from a neighboring 

 town just over our line, not distantly related to the lion. Philip Cor- 

 bin, found employment here. He loved to sing, and he made his way 

 one Saturday night up the stairs of the old church to the gallery, 

 where the choir was rehearsing. A single suit of clothes was all he 

 possessed. As they were soiled and worn from his work, he had 

 waited for this visit to the choir and church until cold weather came, 

 and he could w^ear his overcoat. A stranger, he took a seat at the end 

 under a light. His voice and singing attracted the leader. He was 

 invited to a seat near the center, gladly vacated by Elnathan Peck, 

 then of advanced years. His clothes were forgotten in the pleas- 

 ure of his position. He was constant and punctual in attendance, 

 found his wife there, climbed on and on till within even the swift, 

 brief sweep, of our day and generation we see him close to the top 

 round on the ladder of success, influential in state, and trade, and 

 church. 



May not this retrospect, inadequate as it is, ^till be profitable to us ? 

 As the harmonies of voice and organ roll forth through these familiar 

 arches, may not our hearts be attuned to worship, and be to us a fore- 

 taste of joys in praise during that eternity toward which we all are 

 involuntarily drifting, and in that heavenly home into which may the 

 passing years bring us every one ! 



WOMAN'S WORK IN THE CHURCH. 

 Deacon John N. Bartlett. 



Tbe nature of woman's work in the church may be inferred from 

 her position in the Christian home, where she sits on her throne of 

 love, its tender watchfulness and patient endurance, the center and 

 soul of its affections. Remove from home the wife and mother, the 

 daughter and sister, and the hearthstone is desolate. Take from our 

 church life what woman is doing in it, and you rob it of its symmetry, 

 its beauty, and much of its efficiency. The historian of the occasion 

 and others who have preceded me have, of necessity, covered much 

 of the ground pertaining to my theme ; and what has been well said 

 need not be repeated. 



It remains for me to admire the picture already presented. 



Look at our large and prosperous Sabbath-school and remember 

 that of its 115 officers and teachers, 83 are women, and that its Infant 

 Department has always been under the instruction of devoted women, 

 who have counted it a joy to tell little children of the love of Jesus. 

 Look at the Ladies' Benevolent Society, dating from 1841, older than 

 the church. It has clothed the missionary and his family, and has 

 kept our hearts in sympathy with the Master's work in the far West ; 

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