, 1873-01-02


said
thought whom tho bcnodiction carno, sir, NO
ought to leave church. [Laughsor.] 7 canao
horo, Mr. Chairman, to listen, not to speak, aud
yot will say ono word to show MY sympathy for
this great aud good enterprise Which NC are horo
this rising land Of ours tho material ago, which
NO nro now reproducing in our noble city,-an
ora OF PORK, and Of grain, and Of lulnbor, aud all
material products. 1t is right that have them,
prosperity horo; but there will como an orn Of
books for tho intellectual n,nn, and so wo hayo
rightly come horo to-day, on this opening Of 4
now yoar, to lay tho foundation Of now library,
to tho eloquent and worry ablo addresses with
which ne haYo boon favored, Of
-: SEVENTEEN poon MEN,
who feared God and loved their country, md
who nctod upon the noblo address Of our worthy
Mayor though they did not hear it, and who, ii,
100, came to little town in Connecticut and
llid upon 4 table, onch one, ono book from his
very ncanty library, saying solomnly: II
give this book to found library In
Yale College," }Mst as aome Of us hare brought
out OF our poor libraries n book or two here.
What is the result, Mr.. Chairman, to-lay7 Yale
College has a library of about 9o,000 volumes,
aud ono OF tho best solectod libraries on this
continent. That is what came OF those aevou-
teon men bringing each his listlo volume and
laying t'upon tho table as d foundation for
noble library. So did the ancientg. " From
small things great things ariao "-e raruis orr
't,.tur magma. 80 IL IS from this a1nall bcgn~
As, fow months ago, stoodin
THE BRITISH MUSEUM,
and eaw thore over a million Of bound Volumes
md shortly afterwards in tho Royal Library at
Paris, and saw q collection almost equally as
large, and thon as I Baw in Dorlin that royal,
that royal library, worthy Of that great capitol OF
that great empire, just about as large al tho
othera, and thought Of tho life-gro.ing iuane,,-
ceB Of tho lifo-auickening Influences OF those
mighty centres Of influenza upon those great
nations. oh, how I longed that We
II from ossS4f'f sesIo to perDnoav a ooieasGan 81
being [cheorsl, that we, in this noblo city that
had boon laid in ashes whilo WAS away, aud
which was to be reproduced again moro splendid
than ogor by the time returned, could have
such library, Or or such beginning Of things
now Thy servant depart in poaco, ior mino % eyes w
layo seen Thy SALVATION" and rojoicod whom
hoard Of tho opening to-day. Now lot mo give
my
WELCOME TO THIS LIBRARY,
which bolieyo, though I may not live to
SEQ It,, and you may not 1.-Two to SEQ it,
tho remote, bnt tho near future, trust,
; what thoHo splendid libraries are now for the
whole world aooms to coaching to give un out Of
lts beneyolauco, to fill our shelves. be1iovo
the time will soon como when We shall have
library which will not DO disgraco, but m honor,
to us, Lot mo ray, on this New Years Day, a
happy New Yoar to this the frat New Year of
tho Public Library OF Chicago, tho noble child
OF a noble mothor. May it live to SEQ many
such years may it 80 Oh increasing in strength
and Influence mud power, with tho noble city in
which it is located.
The Chairman then declared tho ncaliag
Room sufficiently dedicated, and tho audionco
separated.