An Address, Delivered at Buxton, Maine, in the Congregational Meeting-House

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Excerpt from An Address, Delivered at Buxton, Maine, in the Congregational Meeting-House: Being the First Centennial Celebration of the Settlement of This Town, 1850 Friends and Fellow Citizens: The occasion of our assembling within these hallowed walls to-day, is the expiration of the hundredth year since the foot-prints of our fathers were impressed upon this soil. It is one of those rare occasions, in which the whole population of the town has a common interest. It is to celebrate an event, interesting in its reminiscences, important in its results to the immediate actors, to the generations intervening, and to the generations yet to come. It is to contemplate by a succinct review, the prominent events of a century past, to consider the character and deeds of our fathers, and, as it were, to associate and hold intercourse with the departed dead. The occasion may justly be improved to excite sympathy for their privations, thankfulness for their success in preparing and laying the foundation of our present prosperity, veneration for their religion, for the laws which they enacted, for the sobriety of their lives, and for their love of civil and religious liberty. May the allwise and infinite Being who raised up and supported our worthy ancestors in planting this town, enable us to copy all the virtues which they exhibited, to preserve unimpaired the blessings transmitted to us, and when we depart this life, to leave to our posterity whatever good we have received, with such examples, as shall reflect honor upon our names, illustrate the advantages of rational freedom, and induce them to hand down the same, unsullied and undiminished, to their rising progeny. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.