. Providence : the sovthern gateway of New England, provd of its honorable history, happy in its present prosperity, confident of its fvtvre. e centre and constituting a single continuously built community. Since it is true that a prophet has little honor in his own family, thereal position of a city may be similarly unrealized by its own citizens. Itspraises may go unsung, its beauties be left unheralded, its wealth and pros-perity only vaguely suspected, and its most precious treasures hidden. Familiarity makes all seem of litde account and it is only when the great-ness of what it possesses
. Providence : the sovthern gateway of New England, provd of its honorable history, happy in its present prosperity, confident of its fvtvre. e centre and constituting a single continuously built community. Since it is true that a prophet has little honor in his own family, thereal position of a city may be similarly unrealized by its own citizens. Itspraises may go unsung, its beauties be left unheralded, its wealth and pros-perity only vaguely suspected, and its most precious treasures hidden. Familiarity makes all seem of litde account and it is only when the great-ness of what it possesses is set before them by visitors from afar, that citizensand neighbors begin to take notice. Such, at any rate, is the position that Providence like some other Easterncities seems to hold today, and half the great things for which she is noted at 27 a distance, are practically unknown within her city limits. That, comparedwith her population, she is therichest Vity in the Union, is commonlybelieved, but that she has several art galleries and museums that m therichness of their exhibits are second to none in the world, and a library that. has a widespread fame throughout Europe and America, is not so generallyknown; nor is it realized that one of her private citizens has housed under hisroof the finest Shakespearian Library in existence, and that others of hertownsmen possess almost unrivalled collections of the works of the worlds ;^8
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