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Friends, and Fellow Citizens,

Recollections of
the past come crowding upon me us at
this hour; for, after a residence of more
than five years, some of us may be
considered as having a past, in respect
to Sacramento & California. The five circles
of seasons that have gone their rounds
since we here took up our abode have
been more crowded with scenes, changes,
events, disasters, trials, & triumphs also,
than any years we shall live to see again.

This remark will ap-
-ply no less to the religious aspect of af-
fairs among us, than to any other. The
changes in our Sunday Congregations have
been many & great, in the mutations of
things. Among the Clergymen of the city,
by reason of sickness, death, & other causes,
the changes have been almost without