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5 [upper right corner]

increasing numbers, to worship God, to hear
instruction, to join in prayer, & to lift up
the heart in music, whose strains are with us
yet. And thither in weakness, in trembling,
& in fear, came the preacher from toils many &
vigils late — but, his manner of life you know.

When ashes were strewedn [strewn] upon the
place of our altars, & the sweet tones of our bell
were silenced, & the glory of the former house
had departed, it was my hope that we
might be able to lay the Cornerstone of a new
one on the same day of the month as that on which we laid
the former one. In that case, I thought to have
used the same order, to have sung the same
hymn, & to have made much the same style
of due address. But, as the day had to be
changed, so all else has been, except the
hymn.

This block of granite is from the quarry
at Mormon Island. There is no "stony ground"