. Guide through Mount Auburn : a hand-book for passengers over the Cambridge railroad : illustrated with engravings and a plan of the cemetery . e who loved him ; hisfame will live with that great body of Christians, which hesaw increase from a small band of worshippers to a wide-spread, powerful, and influential denomination, and withwhose progress and development he was identified through along, laborious, self-sacrificing life. His reputation will liveoutside even of the wide circle of his followers, among allwho cherish the memory of the good, the pure, the wise, thecharitable, and the sac
. Guide through Mount Auburn : a hand-book for passengers over the Cambridge railroad : illustrated with engravings and a plan of the cemetery . e who loved him ; hisfame will live with that great body of Christians, which hesaw increase from a small band of worshippers to a wide-spread, powerful, and influential denomination, and withwhose progress and development he was identified through along, laborious, self-sacrificing life. His reputation will liveoutside even of the wide circle of his followers, among allwho cherish the memory of the good, the pure, the wise, thecharitable, and the sacrificing. The Rev. Mr. Ballou was born April 30, 1771, in Rich-mond, N. H., and died in Boston, on the 7th of June, 1852;a long life vouchsafed to but few among the sons of to the last his mind was active, and to within a few weeksof his death, he was constantly occupied in the sacred dutiesof his calling. We weave no dirge for thee, — It should not call a tearTo know that thou art free; Thy home. — it was not here!Joy to thee, man of God; Thy heaven-course is begun;Unshrinking thou hast trod Deaths vale, — thy race is done!. STETSON page 62. 62 HANDBOOK. Turn to the left, pass between the Gray and Prince tombsand the Stetson monument, and turn to the right into GeraniumPath. Geranium Path. Notice the beautiful Stetson monument on the right, oneof the most noted in the Cemetery. As a memorial to thedead, it is appropriate in design and execution, and viewedas a work of art alone it always attracts the notice of thevisitor. It bears the following inscription : —The memoiy of the Just is dead in Christ repose in guarded rest. Hope, in their graves,hath her never-dying lamp, and throws upon their treasured dust asteady ray, full of immortality. The memorials on the Upton and Swallow lots, at theleft, will next attract attention. The Walker monument,on the right, has this inscription : — My flesh shall slumber in the groundTill the last tr
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