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spared, & most recently deprived Congrega-
-tion, to lay the Corner-stone [cornerstone] of a new Edifice.
We come to this hour & this spot with joy; &
still we have come hither through much
tribulation. But as this is the divinely ap-
-pointed method, for men whom sin has
undone, of arriving at any permanent &
settled state of blessedness, it behooves
us not to complain. If we are truly, what
we hope we are, a good Providence is over
us; a divine hand is guiding us; a glo-
-rious Redeemer is in the midst of us; and
holy angels encamp around us.

After having struggled, amid many vicis-
-situdes, for more than a year, against the
depression & weakness of ill-health, & other as-
-verse circ^s [circumstances], on the fourth of Sept. 1850, your
Pastor was permitted to lay the Corner-stone [cornerstone]
of the first church-edifice Erected by this
Society on yonder site. It was a day of