WEDNESDAY
EVENING, SEPTEMBER 20, 1882.
1.
Introductory Address.Rev. T. Frank
Waters.
2.
Prayer.Rev. Charles N. Smith.
3.
Singing. Majesty.
4.
Biographical Sketch of Gen. Denison
Prof. Daniel Denison Slade,
Harvard
University.
5.
Singing.York. The Hymn
was lined off, by the Rev. E.
B. Palmer.
6. Address.Ipswich,
16331682. Augustine Caldwell.
7.
Singing. America.
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OPENING
REMARKS OF THE ACTING CHAIRMAN.
REV.
T. FRANK WATERS,
Ladies
and Gentlemen: In the absence
of the Chairman, Charles A. Sayward, Esq., who is unavoidably detained at
Worcester, it devolves upon me to stand in his place before you, to-night.
I
regret that we are thus deprived both of his presence, and the opening address,
which he had prepared, and which would have added much to the interest of the
occasion.
Though
I am wholly unprepared to address you, you will pardon me, I am sure, for
presuming to express my gratification that we have met for so excellent a
purpose. It is wise for us to pause now and then in this busy age, and look back
into the past, to see what lessons we may learn from the men and things of the
olden time. It is specially fitting, that on the Two Hundredth Anniversary of
the death of Gen. Daniel Denison, a townsman, who as soldier and statesman, was
a tower of strength to the infant colony, we should assemble to study his
character, to commemorate his virtues and his notable deeds, and to render him
the honor that is his due. It is our privilege to have with us as the orators of
the occasion, two, who are well fitted to tell us the story of the man and of
his time; and I take great pleasure in yielding the floor at once.