Hiram, Dulcenia, Galen, children of David White Apr. 20, 1810 Caroline, child of Betsy Webber Lutina Keziah, child of Betsy Webber July 1, 1810 Apr. 17, 1814 Diantha, child of Mrs. Haynes Esther, William, James, and Pascal, children of Edward Blodgett, Schuyler Howard, Lucretia Mary Calista, Joanna Lorin, Roxana, Adelpha, Comfort, Miranda, Martha, Maria, Elizabeth May 27, 1814 July 1, 1817 Oct. 26, 1817 Nov. 8, 1818 Dec. 9, 1818 Miller, Bap. by Mr. Ely of Monson, children of Abijah Pierce Dec. 9, 1818 Sarah, Prudence, Bap. by Mr. Ely, children of Dec. 9, 1818 Norman, child of William Webber Dec. 9, 1818 Parley Lyon, Sally Webber, Persa Goodale, Hannah May, Grosvenor May, Diantha Reeve, Dec. 20, 1818 Apr. 18, 1819 Sophrona, child of William Webber, Bap. by July 23, 1819 Mary Allen, Lorinda Adalaide, Wm. Ainsworth, children of Adolphus Webber, Bap. by Rev. Mr. Ely Aug. 13, 1820 Joseph Trenance, Marcus Waldo, children of Burt Chloe Phidelia, Jonathan Parker, Edwin Ballard, children of Eleazer and Marsilvia Webber, Bap. by Mr. Burt Warren Allen, Caroline Augusta, Freeland Orlando, children of Freeland and Esther Wallis Bap. by Mr. Burt Aug. 20, 1820 Aug. 20, 1820 Aug. 20, 1820 Warren White, William Spooner, children of Mary Dearing, Sophia Ann, children of Harding Charles Searles, child of Erastus and Mary Webber Rachel Ann Pierce, by Rev. Jas. Vail Miranda Delia, child of Miranda Blodgett Sally Clark, Bap. Mr. Lane Benj. Haynes, Bap. by Mr. Lane Caroline, child of Moses Harding and Almira Sept. 3, 1820 Sept. 10, 1820 1821-1822 Aug. 25, 1822 Sept. 7, 1823 Sept. 7, 1823 Oct. 3, 1824 Nov. 21, 1824 Jan. 7, 1825 June 26, 1825 Marcus Waldo, child of Erastus and Mary Webber, by Rev. Otis Lane June 26, 1825 Sarah, child of William and Bathsheba Webber, by Rev. Otis Lane July 10, 1825 Jan. 17, 1830 Eurilla, wife of Grovenor May Lucy Wallis, Calista Wallis, Mary Howlett, Nancy Webber, wife of Adolphus Webber Jan. 22, 1832 Mar. 25, 1832 Without a soul-save this bright drink The tears fill my astonished eyes Oh, it is wickedness to clothe, Yon hideous grinning thing that stalks That in a garden of glory walks, Till good men love the thing they loathe! But not an infamy like this, Art, thou hast many infamies, Oh, snap the fife and still the drum, And show the monster as she is. Richard le Gallienne. Some nations have their rise from the debris of decayed or destroyed empires. Out of the mulch there springs a more vigorous, virtuous people or one that fulfills the purposes of God better. The new nation absorbs the valuable, the worthwhile material of the old and grows to prominence and power, only to run its course and suffer a like fate. Fragments, fragments, is the final issue, and it will ever be thus until the preservative be applied not as a beautifying veneer but as a leavening, vitalizing force. That preservative is the teaching of the Prince of Peace, transformed into life and action, individual and national. When the white man came to America, conquest was the only way by which it could ever be a home to them. Two peoples so diverse in life and ideals would inevitably clash, with the result that the stronger would build upon the ruins of the weaker. The aborigine taught the white man how to cope with the rigors of life here. He found it a howling wilderness full of wild beasts whose dangerous and destructive habits demanded their extermination. It soon resounded with the war cry of the savage more cunning and cruel than wild beasts. Subjugation could be complete only with extermination. The struggle for existence here was severe but it produced a people inured to hardship and danger. In addition it taught them self-reliance. The free life here so far from the home government together with their ultra protestant faith gave them a new vision of freedom, and the legislation of the mother country grew irksome, and when it was found that that legisation was dictated not by love, but by greed and love of power, the time was drawing near for the "birth of a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal," and fusion of the colonies into a national unit had been rendered possible by common hardships and common dangers, as well as common ideals. To demonstrate what one little town has done to transform a howling wilderness into a howling success, the abode of peace and plenty, the Good Samaritan of the world, the ideal |