Constitution, Act of Incorporation and By-laws ... with ... an Historical Memoir ...

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Page 1 - But wouldst thou know the beauty of holiness? — go alone on some week-day, borrowing the keys of good Master Sexton, traverse the cool aisles of some country church : think of the piety that has kneeled there — the congregations, old and young, that have found consolation there — the meek pastor — the docile parishioner. With no disturbing emotions, no cross conflicting comparisons, drink in the tranquillity of th* place, till thou thyself become as fixed and motionless as the marble effigies...
Page 8 - Whose footsteps ever wander'd there. The noiseless footsteps pass away, The stream flows on as yesterday ; Nor can it for a time be seen A benefactor there had been. Yet think not that the seed is dead Which in the lonely place is spread.; It lives, it lives — the spring is nigh, And soon its life shall testify. That...
Page 19 - Home of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows : — SECT. 1. — The Massachusetts Historical Society is hereby authorized to hold real and personal estate, in addition to its Library, to an amount not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars. SECT. 2. — This Act shall take effect from and after its passage.
Page 10 - I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope.
Page 6 - Joseph Grafton Minot, President; Harold Peabody, Secretary; John S. Lawrence, Treasurer. The relief of persons who are or have been members of the society and their families, the widows and minor children of persons who at the time of their decease shall have been ministers of an Episcopal church...
Page 16 - Dispensary be, and it is hereby, authorized and empowered to make, appoint, and have a common seal; and is hereby made liable to be sued, and enabled to sue and defend, in its corporate capacity, in any of the Courts of Record of this Commonwealth; and is hereby licensed and empowered to make purchases, and to receive grants and donations of real and personal estates, and to hold the same, for the charitable purposes aforesaid; provided the rents and profits of the real estate, together with the...
Page 6 - Virtue, than an early and pious Education of Youth ; And whereas many Poor People are desirous of having their Children Taught, but are not able to afford them a Christian and Useful Education ; We whose Names are underwritten, do...
Page 17 - Members present at such annual meeting; and to make, alter and annul their by-laws; and if by reason of any emergency, the business of said annual assembly cannot be completed on said day, they may adjourn once to a short day to finish it, and no more; and said Society shall meet at...
Page 23 - Esq . , in the name of the Town, to render him their most hearty thanks for so bountiful a gift ; with their prayers that this and other expressions of his bounty and charity may be abundantly recompensed with the divine blessing.
Page 31 - AGED SIXTY FIVE. HE WAS A MAN JUST AND TRUE, DIRECT OF PURPOSE AND OF SPEECH ; A FRIEND, WARM, GENEROUS AND SINCERE ; A COMPANION WHOSE CHOICE READING, CAPACIOUS MEMORY AND LIVELY WIT ENRICHED AND ADORNED THE INTERCOURSE OF LIFE ; A SCHOLAR WORTHY OF PARR, HIS CELEBRATED MASTER; A TEACHER WHO INCITED THE YOUNG BY HIS OWN ARDENT LOVE AND CRITICAL KNOWLEDGE OF ANCIENT LITERATURE ; A CHRISTIAN OF GENUINE, CHEERFUL, UNOSTENTATIOUS PIETY ; A THEOLOGIAN, LEARNED, CONSISTENT AND CHARITABLE, DISLIKING AND...

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