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has for many years listened to him as the expounder and 

 advocate of these doctrines, who announces to his people 

 that a great change in his religious belief has taken place, 

 and that he must, if not there, elsewhere, henceforth 

 preach a doctrine he has all his life been laboring to de- 

 stroy ; and these people, after serious deliberation, con- 

 clude that it is better to change their religion than to 

 change their minister. This action was a striking testi- 

 monial to the superiority of Christian character over sec- 

 tarian profession, and the result of it was an abundant 

 harvest of religious harmony and joy throughout the 

 twenty years of his continued ministry. The memories 

 of these people are even now, forty years after his death, 

 full of the kind words and good deeds of this honored 

 and beloved pastor. The description of the good minis- 

 ter in Goldsmith's "Deserted Village" will apply to him. 

 "E'en his failings leaned to virtue's side;" so, at least, 

 must have thought the poor, ill-shod woman whom he met 

 in the road as he was walking home one wintry day, and 

 to whom he gave the pair of shoes, which, to supply an 

 urgent need of his wife, he had been to the harbor to buy. 



Eev. C. E. BARNES of Salem felt a deep interest in the 

 study of nature. He believed that the more we knew of 

 nature, the more plainly should we perceive that the God 

 of creation was the God of revelation. 



Dr. ADDISON DAVIS of Boston, a Squam boy, spoke 

 most eloquently of the swarm of B's abounding here : 

 beauties, beaches, berries, belles, etc. He was glad that 

 the Institute had come here, for he knew that they would 

 come again. Men who study do know something better 

 in quality and quantity than those who do not, and they 

 increase the sum of human happiness. 



