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Aug. 4, 1916, 
roll-call he remembered in the days 
of campaigning in Louisiana, when 
after a charge upon a height the roll- 
call was taken, and he recalled the 
tense moment as the answer to each 
name was awaited. He spoke of the 
tendency to judge the success of a 
man by the amount of wealth he ac- 
cumulated or position he attained and 
declared each man lived to some pur- 
pose however slight might be his 
place. He referred to Mr. Story as 
a man who had influenced the lives 
of the men about him by his kindly, 
jovial disposition. 
George E. Willmonton responded 
to a request for a story with his 
usual readiness of wit and stock of 
anecdotes. 
Rey. George H. Perkins of Bev- 
erly, retired, spoke touchingly of Lar- 
kin W. Story, who, he said, brought 
him to the association for the first 
time. ‘He was a fountain of kind- 
ness to all who knew him,” he said. 
“Tt is an honor to speak to men. 
There is a greater need today for men 
than ever before. When the Titanic 
was sinking Capt. Smith called to his 
crew, ‘Be British, men, be British.’ 
I say to you, be Americans, men, be 
Americans. You know what that 
means, you who are descended from 
the men who founded this: country, 
who were never defeated in offensive 
or defensive struggle. You know the 
call of today for men. Never before 
was there such need of virtue, intel- 
ligence and patriotism that our re- 
public might be saved. Those men 
who have departed from among us 
were veterans of war, of industry 
and of civil life and their example has 
been a worthy one. Our lives are not 
over. We should live them to the 
end. Our achievements should not 
end with our youth. Then when we 
are gone men will recall that we have 
lived.” 
The Rev. Dr. Rider of Essex spoke 
of the fellowship shown by the gath- 
ering. “It is great to feel this ‘to- 
getherness.’ It is a sample of the 
spirit that will promote that great 
brotherhood which Burns prophesied. 
We can’t have a good time without 
we get together. The world is an 
echo—give and the world gives back 
to you. We are glad to live when 
we are on this North Shore. It is 
not the scenery that gives us this joy 
of living, although it is the most won- 
derful you can find; it is the charac- 
ter of the men and women who have 
built up your community and whose 
influence we feel today. The world 
is better because they have lived. 
After all this terrible warfare is over 
it is just such fellowship as there 
is here today that is going to settle 
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everything. It was so after the Civil 
war. What we need today is not 
an increase of armament, but an in- 
crease in the American spirit, and by 
that | mean not the spirit of combina- 
tion, but of co-operation.” 
Julius F. Rabardy spoke of Col. 
Cook of Gloucester, who died the past 
year. He related an incident on the 
battlefield of Antietam, depicting the 
character of the late member of the 
association. 
Horace H. Atherton, clerk of the 
Essex County Probate Court, declared 
that he was at a loss to understand 
why he had been selected to speak, 
as his only connection with Manches- 
ter was a railroad connection. He 
said that the judgment of a man’s 
worth to the world as made in the 
probate office was based on an in- 
ventory of the estate he left, and that 
too often that was also the basis 
of judgment of the outside world. 
There should be double standards of 
judging a man’s success in life, he 
declared. The success of the man 
who has lived well and been of serv- 
ice to others should also be recog- 
nized. Concluding, he said, “I am 
doing something which none of the 
ministers here dared do; I am taking 
a text and it is found in I Timothy, 
VI; 7—‘For we brought nothing into 
this world, and it is certain we can 
take nothing out.’ ”’ 
Francis M. Stanwood spoke of the 
tendency of speakers to deviate from 
the purpose of an occasion to talk of 
matters foreign to it. He touched 
on the preparedness question, which 
he said was being heard on every 
occasion, 
“From recent articles in magazines 
we might be led to believe that Amer- 
ica is unprepared, that we are in a 
state of degeneracy, that the stamina 
of old had been lost. They tell us 
this because we have not followed 
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of France, the science of Germany 
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million men. It is all nonsense. They 
do not digest the American character. 
lf that war, which they tell us will 
inevitably come, is thrust upon us, 
the American character will solidify 
itself to meet the strain upon it.” He 
prophesied that in the event of such 
a struggle for the conquest of Amer- 
ica the end would find the greatest 
army in the history of the world as- 
sembled here, just as the grandest 
army in history up to that time was 
found in America following the Civil 
war. 
Julius F. 
Rabardy denounced the 
spirit of militarism which, he be- 
lieved, threatened America. 
The Rev. P. H. Cressy of Beverly 
spoke briefly regarding the spirit of 
the gathering. 
The singing of old familiar songs 
between speeches was led by Rev. A. 
G. Warner. “Auld Lang Syne” was 
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