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"Who then has a better right than he, to give it a name ? — 

 I^one ; hj all that is praiseworthy in honest labor, sacred in 

 truth and just in reward ! 



But what has convened this vast assembly ? What has 

 brought the people from their homes as far as the eye can 

 reach from this proud eminence over all the land below, to 

 gather here in solemn silence — seriousness impressed on 

 every countenance and reverence enthroned on every brow ? 

 The dwellers in vales and on the mountain tops are here. 

 The husbandman has left his plough ; the artisan his tools ; 

 the professional man his office ; the merchant has quit the 

 busy mart of trade ; the man of Science has closed the doors 

 of his study ; the student has laid aside his books to come 

 hither ! " The bridegroom has come forth from his cham- 

 ber and the bride from her closet," the Fathers and Moth- 

 ers of the land are here ! " Young men and maidens, old 

 men and children ;" and the ministers of the Sanctuary are 

 here to do honor to this occasion, and in this place no " un- 

 fit audience chamber of Heaven's King," to consecrate the 

 spot, as far as the act of man may, ''to deathless fame !" — 

 No martial music breaks upon the hearing, stirring the 

 hearts of men and gathering armed hosts in the serri- 

 ed ranks of battle ; no sound of the trumpet, nor voice 

 of prophet has collected this mighty concourse of living 

 men ! I never saw such an assembly : I never expect to 

 see the like again ! I never read of any thing in history 

 approaching its equal or its parallel, except the gathering 

 of the hosts of Israel on Mount Carmel at the call of Eli- 

 jah ! In the physical features of the scene here presented 

 to the eye, the proportions of grandeur and beauty more 

 than equal those of Carmel. The moral grandeur of the 

 object and of the assembly gathered by Elijah far surpass 

 ours. Indeed they were never equalled in our world ex- 

 cept when God descended upon Sinai and surrounded by 



