INFLUENCE OF A SINGLE FARM COMMUNITY. 15 
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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 
