Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-11-26
Silver Wedding In Roxbury,

Silver Wedding In ROxbury.
On Thursday last, November 20lh,
friends, 10 the number Of about seventy,
met at the residence of Mr.. and Mrs. S.
A.Riehard;on, to celebrate the twenty fifth
anniversary of their marriage. The after
noon having been spent in friendly greet
ing, social converse and music. bountiful
repast was served and partaken of with
the zest and hearty good feeling always
on such occasions.
Later on in the evening the bride and
bridegroom were called for, and the mar
riage ceremony was performed in poetic
form by Mr.. G.. p. Leonard, followed by
music. The following poem by Mrs. f..
NJ. Simonds was then read:
Twenty-Five years this very day
Since first your VOWS were pliyhted:
But Joys and sorrows mark the way
Since first You were united.
Brothers and sisters now have met
To cheer yOuon your way.
And other friends will not forget
To show their love to-day.
-Four daughters and son, we find
Were given, as loves token,
And yet, we can but call 10 mind
The circle has been broken.
Your darling Jennie who was given,
We here shall see no more;
She is way mark for Heaven
Not lost, but gone before.
Oh, may she be a bsckoaia< hand.
While life to you is given.
To lead you to a better land
Sa fe to a home in Heaven.
And one has chosen her home,
And gone from you away,
But with grandchild she has come
To cheer your home to-day.
The other three are by your side,
Your Joys and sorrows share:
Oh, may no evil them betide
Kept by a Fathers care.
Though cruel war brought bitter gries,
And sorrow was your share.
Our Heavenly Father gave relief,
And He your lives did spare.
happy home to you is given,
To cheer you here below;
Oh. may You fnd home in Heaven
When from this world you go.
oh, may you meet your loved ones there,
Among the ransomed blest,
Free from all.sorrow, grief aud care,
To find lasting rest.
Then let us look to God above.
And trust Fathers care,
And thus enjoys Savior's love
Till Heaven shall be our share.
The company were treated to mort
music, after which the following poem wa:
read by II. A. E. Richardson:
Five and twenty years have passed
Since wedding chains have bound you:
You would L ut think tme'd flown so fast
We're not the proofs around you.
The furrowed brow the silvered hair,
The flight Of time doth prove
The weight of sorrow. Joy and care,
Although they're borne in love.
Children unto you were given
Until they numbered FIVE;
The ties that bound to one. were severed.
The others ye. remain, alive.
Friends have gathered your hearts cheer.
On this glad anniversary day;
May You ever hope and never fear
For what remains in fcs e'er changing way.
Another anniversary day to you does come.
With sad and solemn meaning,
OF one, who clothed in de Gtl's sound sleep.
Has ceased from earthly dreaming.
Yet another anniversary day we have,
We call it Christmas eve,
To celebrate the birth of Him whose death ant
resurrection
Has opened wide the grave.
Yes the grave again shall opened be,
The sea her dead shall yield;
For He who once did conquer death
The victor's sceptre Yields.
Let not then your hearts be sad
With oyershadowing sorrow;
In the resurrection morn she'll come again in ange
garments clad
Il may be but tomorrow.
We know that May days brightest sunshine,
No more than summers later rain,
Help to bring the flowers of spring time
To autumn's golden fruit and grain
Though athwart life's changing pathway
Darkest shadows fall
And dearest earthly hal,,, and idols
BE wrapped in lUEs!.s all;
If sorrows rightly he accepted
The future time will tell
IT'S but the loving, tender leading
OF Him who doeth all things well.
'Ts said the darkest clouds, beneath their folds,
Conceal silver lining;
May the rays of such henceforth be found
Upon your pathway shining
May the paths which your feet here shall tread
BY you 80 wisely be chosen,
That when of You they shall say, to the world the!
are dead,
Yo shall live unto God and in Heaven.
There was then more music, after which
the many wedding gifts were presented
with appropriate remarks by II. a. E
Richardson.
By this time the roaring of the tempest
was SO plainly heard on that decided,
wintry night that most of those who were
SO comfortably located decided to remain
wakelul watchers with the happy couple
until morning, when the pleasant compa
ny dispersed, feeling that the bonds o
friendship were cemented closer than eve,
before. II. II.