Connecticut western news., 1877-08-17
one to pay his subscription for this chapel,

one to pay his subscription for this chapel, had better hasten to fulfil his fathers wish. Possibly it might be wrought irto pulpit, from which ministers of our Lord would utter forth the glad news of salvation.
 My imagination runs on into the future. I strive to picture what shall be the out. growth of our work here today.
 Fifty years have come and gone. A semi. centennial observance of this occa- sion is going on. Who of all this company will be there2 Not many. Probably some of these boys and girls;-and, child ren, when fifty years have passed, what will be your record
 Dare to do right Dare to be true
 You have work that nc other can do;
 Do it so bravely. so kindly, so well,
 Angels will hasten the story to tell.
 Dare tS do right! Dare to be true
 Other mems failures can never cave you,
 Stand by your conscience your honor your faith. Stand like hero, and battle till death. and the crown of life shall be yours.
 We go farther on, to the centennial year; we may presume that not one here to-day will then be present. The record of all will be made and sealed till the judgement day. But the impress of our lives will be there in the influence we have had over the lives of those who shall then gather. The smallest bark on life's tumultuous ocean,
 Will leave track behind forevermore. TDs hghtest wave of influence, set in motion,
 Extends and widens to the eternal shore. We should be wary then, and go before
 myriad yet to be; and we should take Our bearings carefully, where breakers roar,
 And fearful tempests gather; one mistake
 Nay wreck unnumbered barks that follow in
 our wake.
 THE BOX. Dea. T. s. Gold then said it was his pleas ant duty to deposit in the box for preserva- tion the following:
 LIST OF DOCUMENTS.
 Missionary Herald; Home Missionary New York Observever; New York Inde- pendent; Republican Standard; Bridgeport Farmer; Litchfeld Enquirer; Wolcottville Register; Winsted Herald; CONN. WESTERN NEWS; Religious Herald; Christian Advo- cate; Southern Workman; Daily Courant Programme of Exercises; Passages of Scripture Apostles Creed Lords Prayer ; Church Manual, with History of 2d Eccle. siastical church to the present time Annu al Report of the Church for 1876; Pro. gramme of the Semi Centennial, 1876 Constitution of the West Cornwall s. s. Association Report of Secretary of the w. c. s. s. Association Card of the w. 0. s. School; History of the Chapel Build ing, by R. R. Pratt; Copy of Subscription for Erection of Chapel; Copy of Contract for Mason work. J. Odell; Copy of Con tract with builder, K. J. Beardsley; Copy of Contract between Society's Committed and R. R. Pratt and N. Hart; Copy oi Specifications for the work; Poem writer for the occasion by D. M. Pratt; A Silver Half-Dollar, 1876, contributed by Nathan | Hart.
 After more music by the band the audi ence was invited to assemble about the cor ner stone, which is nicely wrought squar, block of grey granite from the land of liar land Ives of Cornwall Plain, and after blessing by the Key, MT. Fitch, and sing ing by the choir accompanied by the organ (and we will stop here long enough to say that better singing is seldom heard in tn, country, than was given by that little bant of singers under the leadership of MT Grorge Hewes. Everybody seemed de lighted with it.) After thls singing, Dr White was invited to speak. and occupyinl not great length of time, he brough gre citing from the oldest church in town t, the youngest church, the grandmothe church, of which he is the pastor. beinl l37 years old. The snowy locks of thi venerable laborer in the Masters Vineyard are indeed a fit emblem of the ancien church he that day represented.
 At this point in the proceedings was in introduced pleasant surprise to most o the audience, and which was not ''down ol the bills," or in other words enumerated il the programme; namely, poem by Dwigh M. Pratt, who came from college with hi baccalaureate honors fresh upon his brow Below is
 THE POEM. In prophetic days of old time. At