Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Berkshire County, Massachusetts . Edwards family meeting inStcckbridge. in vSeptember, 1870, he said: For a town no larger than this, there have been and are connectedwith it, by residence or birth, an unusual number of those whose nameswill live in history. In the same line with Edwards, West and Fieldwere great men, and were worthy of the tablets in this church by which they are commemorated in connectionwith him. In another line are thenames of Judge Sedgwick, and MissCatharine Sedgwick, and Mrs. Theo-dore Sedgwick. We
Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Berkshire County, Massachusetts . Edwards family meeting inStcckbridge. in vSeptember, 1870, he said: For a town no larger than this, there have been and are connectedwith it, by residence or birth, an unusual number of those whose nameswill live in history. In the same line with Edwards, West and Fieldwere great men, and were worthy of the tablets in this church by which they are commemorated in connectionwith him. In another line are thenames of Judge Sedgwick, and MissCatharine Sedgwick, and Mrs. Theo-dore Sedgwick. We have also amongthe living a codifier of laws, the riiosteminent of this age (David DudleyField) ; a judge of the Supreme Courtof the United States (Stephen ) ; and still another (Cyrus ), whose name will be remem-bered as long as the swift messages ofthe telegraph shall make the ocean-bedtheir highway, and shall outrun the sunin his course. At the head of these,Edwards stands, the greatest of all* * * ; not great before God (for,that no man can be), but great as walking humbly with Mark Hopkins. Henry Ward Beecher owned a farm in Lenox, and passed severalsummers there with his family. Many of the brilliant word-pictureswhich he drew for his hearers in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, weredrawn from the hills and streams of Berkshire, and his religious andethical teachings were inspired in many instances by recollections ofJonathan Edwards and Mark Hopkins, as he traversed the paths oncetrodden by them. Here he wrote his famous Star Papers, in whichhe drew lessons of pregnant import from most inconsequential objects: Ten million wings of despised flies and useless insects are mightierthan hand or foot of mine. Each mortal thing carries some quality of BERKSHIRE COUNTY 49 distinguishing excellence by which it may glory, and say, In this, 1am first in all the world! Since the same hand made me that made them, and the samecare feeds them that spreads my board, let th
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