History of the First Universalist Church in Somerville, Mass: Souvenir of the Fiftieth Anniversary Celebrated February 15-21, 1904 |
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A. H. Carvill anniversary Arthur W Benedict Street Bonair Street Boston Street Broadway C. E. Giles called Charles Tufts Charles Williams Christian club Cross Street E. E. Cole East Cambridge Edwin Munroe entertainment Erastus faith Flint Street Frank George Stephens George W Gilman Street Glen Street Glines Grant Street H. D. Maxwell Haven Hayes Highland Avenue Ireland Irving Smith J. F. Nickerson J. Q. Twombly January John F L. M. Powers L. V. Niles ladies March Medford Street Miss Angie Miss Mary Mission Circle Munroe Street Myrtle Street organization parish pastor Pearl Street Pingree preached present president R. Y. Gifford religion Reuben Horton Runey Russ Russell S. W. Fuller Sanborn Sewing Circle Skinner society Somerville Southworth Street 19 Street 21 Street 30 Street 42 Sunday School supper to-day treasurer Tufts College Tufts Street Universalist Church Vernon Street vestry voted Washington Street Webster Street
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Page 38 - And muttering discontent Cursed me and my flower. Then it grew so tall It wore a crown of light, But thieves from o'er the wall Stole the seed by night. Sow'd it far and wide By every town and tower, Till all the people cried, ,,Splendid is the flower.
Page 38 - Read my little fable: He that runs may read. Most can raise the flowers now, For all have got the seed. And some are pretty enough, And some are poor indeed; And now again the people Call it but a weed.
Page 97 - Past, But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast And the days are dark and dreary. Be still, sad heart ! and cease repining ; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining ; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.
Page 97 - Oh, yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood; That nothing walks with aimless feet; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
Page 98 - ... eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived.
Page 54 - He was educated in the schools of his native town and at the Swedenborgian Academy at Contoocook.
Page 35 - The blood of the martyrs has ever been the seed of the church...