Excerpt from Oration Delivered Before the City Council and Citizens of Boston, on the One Hundred and Nineteenth Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1895

Once again in accordance with a wise custom established many years ago we are assembled by the authority and appointment of the city of Bos ton to celebrate the birthday of our beloved nation. Full of 'gratitude to Almighty God for the bless ings which we have received with such 1m bounded liberality from His hand in the past, we seek anew, in the obedience to Him who is the Arbiter of all destiny, to still further work out our national life with fear and trembling, God working in us both to will and do of His good pleasure.

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