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cent Y. Bowditch of Boston, Massachusetts. A 
facsimile of this dial was also placed before 
the Manor House on the island of Naushon by 
Mr. John M. Forbes in memory of Dr. Bowditch. 
The lines run thus : — 
WITH WARNING HAND I MARK TIME’S RAPID FLIGHT 
FROM LIFE’S GLAD MORNING TO ITS SOLEMN NIGHT. 
YET, THROUGH THE DEAR GOD’s LOVE I ALSO SHOW 
THERE’S LIGHT ABOVE ME, BY THE SHADE BELOW. 
A sun-dial is to me, in many places, a far more in- 
spiring memorial than a monument or tablet. Let 
me give as an example the fine sun-dial, designed by 
W. Gedney Beatty, Esq., and shown on page 359, 
which was erected on the grounds of the Memorial 
Hospital at Morristown, New Jersey, by the Society 
of the Daughters of the American Revolution, to 
mark the spot where Washington partook of the 
Communion. 
What dignified and appropriate church appoint- 
ments sun-dials are. A simple and impressive bronze 
vertical dial on the wall of the Dutch Reformed 
Church on West End Avenue, New York, is shown 
on page 346. The sun-dial standing before the rec- 
tory of Grace Church on Broadway, New York, is 
on page 364. 
There is ever much question as to a suitable 
pedestal for garden sun-dials : it must not stand so 
high that the dial-face cannot be looked down upon 
by grown persons ; it must not be so light as to 
seem rickety, nor so heavy as to be clumsy. A 
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