. The town and people; a chronological compilation of contributed writings from present and past residents of the town of Woodbury, Connecticut;. educational, but as soon as they understood theirurgencv, by swift steps they secured the graded school, and an equip-ment adequate to all our local needs. It is tmnecessary to say thatthe founding of our Central School has been one of the most import-ant epochs in the life of our town. It is to be expected that a largerand richer life would be the outcome of a well-grounded religiousfaith, and so upon this foundation have been built these moral,phvs
. The town and people; a chronological compilation of contributed writings from present and past residents of the town of Woodbury, Connecticut;. educational, but as soon as they understood theirurgencv, by swift steps they secured the graded school, and an equip-ment adequate to all our local needs. It is tmnecessary to say thatthe founding of our Central School has been one of the most import-ant epochs in the life of our town. It is to be expected that a largerand richer life would be the outcome of a well-grounded religiousfaith, and so upon this foundation have been built these moral,phvsical and educational reforms. In the last three movements that have been epochs in the life ofour town. I thank God I have shared with others of my fellow towns-men the dangers of battle and the joys 01 conquest. God only knowswhat another century may have in store for dear old Woodbury, butshe will have in all the future, as during the past thirty years of myhappy life amid her charming scenery and beloved friends, mypravers and benediction. J. L. R. , Conn. Pastor XorfJi Coiigrcgafioual Church. 20 IliK Iowx AND ip:()ri,i;. Til]-; CIlArKI, Ol TlJlv XOKTIl COXCKIvCATlONAl. ClURCIl. WUOUl! L RV, CON X liCTlC L T 21 Jaxiarv io, 1866.—In these days in which we are hving wc arein dang-er of running- past an ancient hterature and history that areexceedingly captivating and instructive. It seems to me that we losemuch in so doing. 1 do not know that the men who lived thousandsof years ago were wiser in their day and generation than many whohave lived since and wdio live now. but this we know, that no manduring the past nearly three thousand years has been able to writeanything to match the Iliad of Homer, no man has written a smooths-narrative or one more beautiful than Xenophon, no general made amore persuasive address to discontented soldiers than he or con-ducted a more perilous expedition, no purer, more self-denying, morefaithful, just, and almost sacred man ev
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