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and the approving glance of monumental Professors, the four tranquil years of study, the weighty lessons of theoloeians. the right hand of fellowship of grave and reverend diNines, the solemn con= seeration to the holy office, the invest meut of gown and bands. the putting on that more than regal authority, which aseends the pulpit as it's throne and pro claims the edicts of the Eternal. re- corded in the mighty folio which the preacher spreads before him. feeling as he turns every leaf that he Is the em- bassador of Heaven
 With thoughts like these. with many a prayer that he may be directed in his agonlzing search, he retraeed his jour ney along the high=road Presently what is that It cannot be--yes. fl is--- i, is' Blessed he the Lord God of Is- rael, There lies the pocket-boek in one of the ruts before him Emptied of it's contents. perhaps. after all. As he comes nearer. he sees that II Is pressed deep into the gravel of the road; cart, a wagon. some vehicle or other has passed over II. But the driver was not think ing of treasures to be picked up for nothing in the way: some old man. very likely. with son in the continental army, about whom his thoughts were busy and as the youth opens the pocket book he finds his money untouched. and his future saved.
 The Woodstock boy was kindly re eeiyed al New Haven. He soon found himself in the company of good friends : James Kent. in whose quiet college chamber he was often privileged 10 study. little dreaming of the time when his own grandson would be editing the renowned Commentaries of his after wards distinguished friend: John Cotton Smith. in later days the honored Gov ernor of Connecticut. and Ezra Stiles, the much knowing, largely diseoursing President ef the College. whose mem nrv he cherished through life with the warmest affection and the highest reser- enec
 For hiiy years this son of Woodstock was a preacher ef the Gospel mighty in Scripture sound in doctrine, according ta fhe standards oi hls church and time. CT a liie anal conversation not unworthy ai The honest race and the virgin soil from whsch he sprang. He is more generally remembered as the author et thc Annals U America, work winch has given hun a good name among scholars. and won the praise ef more ambttlons writers who have followed n the path he tsod, now a great highway ot history
 Another name will have attracted your notsce in the list of Master Mason s scholars Peter Morse was probably an ancestor of Icdidiah Morse. who iett Woodstock fer College al about the samc ume with my father He became afterwards well known as clergyman. and far more widely noted as the author vi geographical works. which were in- groduced most extensively into inc schools But there k ne corner ef the civilized earth which the name wtiseh ne made dis,inenished Is no, held Ilustrious as borne by his son. whose fame IS fndissoluhlV associated with the almost miraculous history of the electric tele- graph The two children of Woodstock who left il nearly a century ago, fur niSh illustrations of the familiar iaet which We may hope this institution will show again and again 10 new senera- tons tha, the farms et New Eng and are the breeding places where the senei- arshtp and the manly virtues whieh ots- ,inguish her people. get that hrss star, which enables them to grow sieadfsy ana broadly. when transferred from the wholesome turf to the dangerous pave rent
 night stop here. and perhaps l ought ,o do so. but have fallen into the pFohx ways of s,orv-,elling. and wish 10 be1 your indulgence ~hile l say sorn<fhins of my several pilgrimaxes 10 the eirsh- plaev ei my father and hsbS ssocstors- The ssrss of these ~Iss when w1e merv shsld. and if Innay tsik sh< AsRcr truth. l can recall hrtie Ucse&An t1e cake as the saserns uhere xe ssopped on our way. and the uzans;cn cf ! rSisnve, which. if remember correctly uas zed of hue and rnaspsrirg h aisItude. Al e,sc is rcne. The consciousness of . child al an carly age aogts ca the rppae of rvrr moving sensz1icns vhrh ss constantly ed1r<a nd ss3asce4 M osAess n sransipsx ! = UyxH n