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istence of religion, namely, a national 
establishment. The world has moved 
since Hooker’s day ; the conditions of 
church existence and growth are better 
understood, but this need not pre- 
vent us from doing honor to him as a 
mighty and accomplished champion of 
what seemed to him a great and fun- 
damental truth. The “ Ecclesiastical 
Polity” is of worth to us, not for its 
argument or doctrine in all respects, 
but for its style: this is noble, lofty, 
and often musical; it has been called 
‘the first monument of splendid lit- 
erary prose that we possess.’’ In force 
of reasoning, it is justly regarded as a 
masterpiece. Its influence was wide 
and lasting. Perhaps it is not exag- 
geration to say that it has colored the 
whole history of the English church. 
It is a work of massive logic and 
masterful philosophical thought; its 
breadth and range of argument and 
its command of legal principles show 
that its author, if he had not chosen 
the church as aprofession, might have 
been a great constitutional lawyer or 
a jurisconsult. 
The massive and erudite learning 
and forceful and majestic style of 
Hooker fairly justify what might seem 
the excessive praise of Hallam: ‘So 
stately and graceful is the march of 
his periods, so various the fall of his 
musical cadences upon the ear, so 
grave and noble his diction, so little is 
there of vulgarity in his racy idiom, of 
pedantry in his learned phrase, that I 
know not whether any later writer has 
more admirably displayed the capaci- 
ties of our language, or produced 
passages more worthy of comparison 
with the splendid monuments of an- 
tiquity.”’ 
A few extracts will serve to show 
the dignity and impressiveness of 
Hooker’s style: 
«‘ The use and benefit of good laws 
all that live under them may enjoy 
with delight and comfort; albeit the 
grounds and first original causes from 
whence they have sprung be unknown, 
as to the greatest part of men they 
Aves. 
“Many talk of the truth, which 
never sounded the depth from which 
it springeth ; and therefore, when they 
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are led thereunto they are soon weary, 
as men drawn from those beaten paths 
wherewith they have been inured.” 
‘‘Of Law there can be no less 
acknowledged than that her seat is 
the bosom of Ged; her voice the har- 
mony of the world; all things in 
heaven and earth do her homage; the 
very least as feeling her care, and the 
greatest as not exempted from her 
power; both angels and men, and 
creatures of what condition soever, 
though each in different sort and 
manner, yet all with uniform consent, 
admiring her as the mother of their 
peace and joy.” 
Surely, these last words are worthy 
of being inseribed on the walls of 
every court-house and _ legislative 
chamber, and town hall, and school 
house, and _ university, of every 
place of business and every private 
home, as a lesson for the times, 
to remind us, as President Roose- 
velt has recently said, “material 
well-being, success in arts and letters, 
great industrial] triumphs, all of them 
and of the structure raised thereon 
will be evanescent as a dream, if it 
does not rest on the righteousness 
that exalteth a nation.” 
A Good Profit. 
At the meeting of Col. H. P. Wood- 
bury Camp, 149, S. of V., in Manches- 
ter, Tuesday evening, treasurer E. R. 
Sargent of the fair committee reported 
the net proceeds of the recent fair to 
be $336.61. All things considered, 
this is regarded as a remarkably good 
showing, and emphatically bespeaks 
the feeling of good-will the townspeo- 
ple have toward the G.A.R., for whom 
the fair was run, indirectly. Great 
credit is due to the committee having 
the fair in charge. Two S. of V. 
notices will be found in another col- 
umn. 
County Treasurer Reports. 
County Treasurer David I. Robin- 
son and the County Commissioners of 
Essex county have issued their annual 
report for 1904, and the following are 
some interesting statistics relative to 
Manchester: For county tax, Man- 
chester paid $12,489.31. The town 
also paid into the county treasury for 
dog licenses $336 20, receiving back 
$236.71. The amount of damage done 
in Manchester by dogs, as announced 
in our last issue, was $23.55. 
Real Estate. 
Among the recent real estate trans- 
fers is the following: William Johnson 
of Manchester conveys to Fred W. 
Johnson five acres of woodland in 
Gloucester on the Essex town line. 
To get best results advertise in the 
North Shore BREEZE. 
— 
“Are they first-class instruments?” 
“You don’t have to take my word 
for that,’’ replied the dealer; “these 
phonographs speak for themselves.”’ 
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Public Notice. 
All ARTICLEs intended for insertion in the 
Warrant that is to be made up for the Annual 
Town Meeting of March 6th should be in 
the hands of the Selectmen on or before 
Feb. 18th. 
WILLIAM H. ALLEN, 
FRED K. SwetTT, 
WILLIAM E. KITFIELD, 
Selectmen of Manchester. 
NOTICE. 
To ALL members of Col. H. P. Woodbury 
Camp, No. 149, Sons of Veterans. 
Favorable to an invitation of the First 
Baptist church, through its pastor, Rev. E. 
H. Brewster, the organization will attend 
church exercises Sunday evening, Feb. 12, 
at 7 o’clock, the occasion being commemo- 
rative of Lincoln’s birthday. 
Sons of Veterans will assemble at the 
G. A. R. Hall at 6.30 o’clock. Full uniform, 
white gloves. 2 
The Camp would extend to the G. A. R. 
Post and to Allen Relief Corps an invitation 
to unite with them in attendance at these 
services. Liw. FLOYD, 
Commander. 
E. W. BAKER, Secretary. 
Vote of Thanks. 
Col. H. P. Woodbury Camp, No. 149, 
Sons of Veterans; desire in this public man- 
ner to express its sincere thanks to the mer- 
chants of the town and to all who by gift or 
personal assistance did so much to make 
our late fair a social and financial success. 
The Camp appreciates the hearty response 
so bountifully given, and desires to express 
to each and all this memorandum of our 
cordial esteem. LEwWik LOYD; 
Commander. 
E. W. BAKER, Secretary. 
Resolutions... 
WHEREAS, It has pleased Almighty 
God to remove from our midst our fellow 
member, Cyrus A. Crombie; be it, therefore, 
RESOLVED by the Fireman Relief As- 
sociation, in meeting assembled, that in the 
death of Cyrus A. Crombie the Association 
has lost an efficient and _ conscientious 
worker ; be it further 
RESOLVED, that our sympathy be ex: 
tended to the family of the departed mem- 
ber by forwarding to them a copy of these 
resolutions, and that the same be spread 
upon our records and published in our 
weekly papers. 
JAMES HOARE, 
GEO. S. SINNICKS, 
EE. L. ROGERS, 
Committee on Resolutions. 
Manchester, Mass., Feb. 8, 1905. 
