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hands. These beneficent agencies and public services are ours to 

 make or to mar. 



The object which must be set before us is a great one, and 

 requires the assistance of every citizen. It is to make Belfast an 

 ideal city. Knowledge of its activities must be disseminated. 

 Love for its prosperity must be created. A sense of civic patriot- 

 ism must be brought into being. Our aim should be to raise the 

 tone of our local bodies to such a level that they shall be models 

 to the other cities of the Kingdom. Then every citizen will be 

 able, thinking of his part in the life spreading around the magnifi- 

 cent pile of his City Hall, to say with pride, and justifiable pride, 

 " I am a citizen of no mean city." 



Alderman King Kerr, in moving a vote of thanks to the 

 Lecturer, said all present would go away with more information 

 than they possessed before they entered the room, and also with a 

 deeper sense of pride in their city. He thought the public, so far 

 from criticising the corporators and other municipal governors, 

 ought to criticise themselves. If they were not satisfied with the 

 government of the city the fault was their own, for the people had 

 the remedy in their own hands. 



Mr. John Finnegan seconded the vote of thanks, which was 

 passed by acclamation. 



The Chairman, in conveying it to Mr. Muir, said Mr. Muir 

 had treated his subject with great tact, and the Society would like 

 to have some more papers on the same lines as those taken by 

 the lecturer. 



Mr. Muir suitably replied, and paid a tribute of praise to Mr. 

 Hogg, who had taken the views which had added so much to the 

 success of the lecture. 



