Memorial Services in Honor of Mrs. Mary Hemenway By the Boston Public School Teachers
Memorial Services in Honor of Mrs. Mary Hemenway By the Boston Public School Teachers
Larkin Dunton
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SEAVER Superintendent of Schools Address by Edwin P. Seaver How the Old South Meeting-house was saved from threatened destruction is a well-known story that needs not now to be repeated. Mrs. Hemen- way's interest in that patriotic enterprise did not end with her giving a large share of the purchase money. That generous gift was but the beginning of a larger enterprise, — the prelude to a nobler history. These ancient walls had been saved. What should be done with them ? They might have been al...lowed Xo stand as mute witnesses to the events of a glorious past. They might have been used merely as a shelter for curious old relics, which antiquarians love to study and passing visitors cast a glance upon. And so the old meeting-house might have stood many years more, — a monument to religion and freedom, not unworthy, indeed, of its purpose, but yet a silent monument. 42 Memorial Service The plans of Mrs. Hemenway were larger and more vital. The old building should be not only a relic and monument of the past, but a temple for present inspiration and instruction.
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