St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-07-09

to her for the continued and faithful
assistance she had given me as mother,
in keeping up high ideal before the
mind of my daughter. not only in the
intellectual but the spiritual life. Most
of the speakers had testified from the
standpoint of either pupil or teacher,
and remember thinking the mothers OF
Brooklyn owed her greater debt than
any other class. My daughter had been
under Miss Brigham's instruction for
some years and realized how beautifully
this noble teacher had supplemented
every highest effort Of mine to develop
the best and most lovely in the young
life."
Mount Holyoke college possesses Miss
Brighams monument. The beautiful
burial ground at Westboro is her resting
place. In these places her immortality is
assured but Brooklyn was blessed and
honored with her life. That was the
city OF her love and the life OF her blessed
example illumines it now and shall ilu-
mine it when brick and mortar have
crumbled to dust.
Oh, Mount Holyoke, rich in the mem-
DRY of your blessed dead, heaping up day
by day the precious gold Of noble exam
pie and holy living. Hold fast to the
names OF the sainted women. the saints in
heaven and the saints still upon the earth,
who have made and are making the
name Of this college a sweet SAVIOR
throughout the world. Let no Holyoke
woman, let no American woman, let no
Christian woman in all the world forget
the name OF the woman called of God to
be the founder of this college, Mary
Lyon, blessed among women.
AS the sun OF this memorable day
sinks beyond yonder mountain in the
West, we shall bid you farewell. All the
day the air has been full Of melody for
us. In our hearts we have sung peans of
vict DRY as we looked upon our finished
work. Every breeze from the shores Of
the Atlantic is vocal with the notes Of
love and gratitude for &c years of sanity
living, for 26 years Of holy example
graciously granted to the greatest city
of the American Republic. Down from
the heavenly gates float notes of holy
Joy from those who receive their welcome
from our beloved leader, the dear saint,
who led them there and in whose crown
they are stars OF rejoicing.
Here on this consecrated ground we
have builded an house, the first to rise
from the sacred ashes, the one permitted
to take the fame from the ancient altar,
the one where loving memories are per-
petuated in brick and stone. Never
surely was any other house framed OF
such lovely timber as this one. Surely
the light OF heaven will gild it with ten
der, indescribable hues of azure and Grim
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in at every window of house built from
turret to foundation stone of such royal
material. To other eyes this cottage
may look like all the others, but to u:
every enchanted brick and stone, all the
glass and marble, nay, even the wood, is
transformed by the thought it represents
and glorifed with the dear name in
scribed upon its walls.
TIC your kind care and loving thought
we commit this precious gift, praying
earnestly that those who live in it may
live ever on the same high plane from
which Miss Brigham never descended
God forbid that any resident of tn,
Mary Brigham cottage should ever com,
down to self seeking. May all who, il
all the days to come, find home within
these consecrated walls so follow he
blessed example that with her they may
be made partakers of the Hea venly King
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