Memorial Observances of George Frisbie HoarBlanchard Press, 1907 - 34 pages |
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achievement American Citizenship April 24 Attest August 29 believe beloved BENEDICTION BY REV BLODGET BOARD OF Aldermen character cheer citizen City Clerk CITY COUNCIL City of Worcester Civil committee COMMON COUNCIL Congress continent convictions Daniel OF VIRGINIA day of Concord E. H. TOWNE Edward Everett Hale elected Father Foremost forever friendship George Frisbie Hoar glory heart heaven HENRY TOWNE highest HOAR BY CITY honor human knew late George Frisbie lawyer legislative liberty lived Lord's Prayer loves his household loves his town Mayor Walter H McKinley has fallen Mechanics Hall MEMORIAL SERVICE nation Oration on American passed Patriots Philippine President President McKinley principles Quartette republic Roger Sherman Senator George Frisbie Senator Hoar Senator John sentiments September 30 SERVICE TO GEORGE sion soul speech spirit terrapin thank Thee Thee for Thy thought Thy children tion to-day triumph United States Senator WALTER H William McKinley
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Page 33 - The wages of sin is death : if the wages of Virtue be dust, Would she have heart to endure for the life of the worm and the fly? She desires no isles of the blest, no quiet seats of the just, To rest in a golden grove, or to bask in a summer sky : Give her the wages of going on, and not to die.
Page 33 - GLORY of warrior, glory of orator, glory of song, Paid with a voice flying by to be lost on an endless sea — Glory of Virtue, to fight, to struggle, to right the wrong — Nay, but" she aim'd not at glory, no lover of glory she : Give her the glory of going on, and still to be.
Page 29 - Republic, would carry it on in God's appointed way. I believe if every man of the North were to die, the new and chastened South, with the virtues it has cherished from the beginning, of love of home and love of State, and love of freedom, with its courage and its constancy, would take the country and bear it on to the achievement of its lofty destiny. The Anarchist must slay 75,000,000 Americans before he can slay the Republic.
Page 29 - Protestant were to be stricken down by a lightning-stroke, that our brethren of the Catholic faith would still carry on the Republic in the spirit of a true and liberal freedom. I believe if every man of native birth within our borders were to die this day, the men of foreign birth, who have come here to seek homes and liberty under the shadow of the Republic, would carry it on in God's appointed way.
Page 16 - I am not one who has disgraced beauty of sentiment by deformity of conduct, or the maxims of a freeman by the actions of a slave ; but, by the grace of God, I have kept my life unsullied.
Page 23 - I am scarce able with much ado to make one half year's allowance shake hands with the other. And yet if a book of four or five shillings come in my way, I buy it, though I fast for it; yea sometimes of ten shillings.
Page 29 - You and I are Republicans. You and I are men of the North. Most of us are Protestants in religion. We are men of native birth. Yet if every Republican were to-day to fall in his place, as William McKinley has fallen, I believe our countrymen of the other party, in spite of what we deem their errors, would take the Republic and bear on the flag to liberty and glory. I believe if every Protestant were to be stricken down by a lightning-stroke, that our brethren of the Catholic faith would still carry...
Page 15 - It gives me great pleasure at this time to introduce to you the Assistant Chairman of the Republican National Committee, a brilliant young lady who heads up our women's work, Mrs. Robert W. Macauley.
Page 25 - ... who believes in all the five points of Calvinism. I am myself but an unworthy heretic, but I am of Puritan stock, of the seventh generation, and there is vouchsafed to me, also, some share of that ecstasy and a dim glimpse of that beatific vision. Be assured, my benighted Pennsylvania friend, that in that hour when the week begins, all the terrapin of Philadelphia or Baltimore and all the soft-shelled crabs of the Atlantic shore might pull at my trousers legs and thrust themselves on my notice...
Page 31 - The lesson which I have learned in life, which is impressed on me daily, and more deeply as I grow old, is the lesson of Good Will and Good Hope. I believe that to-day is better than yesterday, and that to-morrow will be better than to-day.