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6 [upper right corner]

within the limits of the city, except such as
the Sowers of the Spiritual seed may find; else
we should have procured the material for this
occasion nearer home. As it is, the block is
from our own county, & we have some pride
in that fact. There is nothing foreign to this city
and County about the edifice we are rearing.
This granite comports well with the solid & sub-
-stantial character of the building itself, & we
trust, also, of those who shall worship in it.

Confessedly, if there be anything
primitive, solid, & everduring, in doctrine & in
character, in this world, it is held in the creeds
covenants, & history, of the churches we repre-
-sent as firmly as in any other. We profess that we are built
on the apostles and prophets, J. C. [Jesus Christ] being the
chief stone of the corner; & not on fathers &
saints, ancient or modern. Our doctrines, our
covenants, & our teachings, are, indeed, too hard
for some; but, oh, when days of trial come, &
the storms of life beat fiercely, & the tides