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The object of this Book is to perpetuate the memory of those 



who were worthy in an immortality of well-doing 



Second 



Those who believe that a living name among their fellow 

 men and one that continually stands for good is better than 

 a marble column in a lonely Cemetery can here have a place 



Third 



Those who realizing the perishable nature of all material 

 things yet believing in the immortality of thought would 

 gladly do what they can to transmute the material and gross 

 into the immaterial and pure can here do something toward 

 the accomplishment of that object 



Fourth 



Those who have lost friends who were educated in this 

 Institution and who panted for knowledge while they lived 

 and died hoping they might be permitted to spend an eter- 

 nity in its acquisition can here embalm their memory in 

 the shrine at which they worshipped 



Fifth 



Sixth 



Those who have lost children before the opening of those 

 buds of promise which they so eagerly anticipated can here 

 bid them live again and blossom and bring forth fruit to 

 gladden their own hearts and bless the world 



Those whose parents amid the trial's and privations of a 

 newly settled country found heart and means to assist in 

 building this Institution and by personal sacrifice gave them 

 its advantages can here honour their father and their mother 

 by showing that those sacrifices and advantages are 

 appreciated 



Seventh 



Those who have lost friends who were lovers of learning 

 and while they lived laboured for its advancement and would 

 gladly honour their memory in still permitting them thus 

 to labour can here fulfil their desires 



Eighth 



Those Children of Old Union and of their country who lived 

 for the one and died for the other can here live again "more 

 abundantly" for the Institution which they loved and the 

 country for which they died 



Ninth 



Those whose hearts yearn for "Whatsoever things are true 

 whatsoever things are honest whatsoever things are just 

 whatsoever things are pure whatsoever things are lovely 

 whatsoever things are of good report" can here lavish all 

 their affections and know that they have been worthily 

 bestowed 



Belleville 1875 



