Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-30
NEW SUNSET LONE

Dedlcation services for the new
sunset Home for Aged Women were
held at the Home yesterday after
noon at go o'clock. The dcdica
tlon address was delivered bv DIR.
1. Is. Mower. president of the Sun
set Home Association. During the
AFTERNOON and evening about JWy
NatervilIc citizens visited the home
The services were opened bv the
singing Of the hymn. MY Faith
Looks Up to Thee" led by John r.
Choate. DR.. Koderick J. Mooney of
the Fairfield tiniversalist church
read the lord Psalm and Rev. T..
A. Pollard Jones offered prayer. Fol
lowing Dr. Movers address the scrv-
ices closed with the singing of the
hymn. Faith of Our Fathers"
About 40 short program which
included vocal solos by Mrs. CIV
Hume and Mrs. Gladys Ferrell was
enjoyed and again in tho evening a
program including vocal solos by
Miss Beatrice Bowl:cr and l.. L.
CadWallader vas carried out.
DIR. Mower spoke as follows:
This is the hour of glddncss for
the circle Of friends here and for
the larger circle who are with us in
spirit. | think we may say it is
the golden hour. We are in the
Sunset Home but it is the sunrise
hour. for it is the time OF begin
nings. Foundations have been laid
First steps have been taken. The
first chapter in the history of Sun
set Home is being written.
zone of the SatiSfHCtions of life
Is the privilege of sharing in the
Development and progress of worth
while enterprises. Some of us re-
member when the FIRST dollar was
given for the founding of the Good
viii homes and when the first sod
was turned for the erection of 4
building for impcr.llcd buys. To
look back over the years which have
been marked by such growth and
usefulness Is Il great satisfaction.
AS we share in the services of
this hour 1t is easy to anticipate
the enlargement and the increase in
usefulness which are sure to follow
the achievements which we are paus-
ing for IL moment to recognize to-
day.
Il think there is gratitude in all
our hearts for the gracious way in
which we have come to this hour.
So many agencies and influences
have conspircd TO secure the results
that are in evidence today, Some
of the great hearts of old Testament
times were accustomed to aCknowl-
edge that the good hand of the
Lord mad been over them and had
wrought with them and for them.
1t is a beautiful expression. The
GOOD hand of our God has been over
us or as it is sometimes phraScd.
the hand of our God has been upon
us for god May we not make the
same grateful Acknowledgement to-
day?
some years ago at the dedication
of the Pilgrim shaft at old Plymouth
President Taft spoke in glowing
terms of the coming of the Pilgrims
He recognized the lofty purpose that
brought them overseas and enabled
them to lay the foundations of a new
civilization. but he said 1t was not
merely of their own volition that they
came. A guiding hand had led them.
They came in the fuliillmcnt OF
great purpose. the realization or
plan. Gods plan. So the friends who
conceived this home and through
many months have given time ana
effort, have not been alone in their
ondeayor. They have been sustained
nv the purpose born OF Divine I'M
m,lse. What we see today has heen
made possible because devoted wo-