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William Bull and Sarah Wells Stone House AssociationScope and Content
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We meet to day for the thirteenth time since the commencement of these re-unions, not one has been missed. We have made it one of our rules by a resolution passed Aug 26 1874 that if the appointed day should prove stormy, we are to meet the next clear day.
But from want of practice we are likely to forget this wise provision and allow it to become a dead letter.
(Note written in lighter, pencil-like script below:)
The above paragraph was not read because our exercises were disturbed by rain.
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Read Aug 25th, 1880
The year which has just passed has no doubt been to each of us a fulfilment of the words of Goethe: "The future hides in it gladness and sorrow". The new year comes to us like a sealed up scroll, upon which as we are permitted to unroll it, day by day, we read words of sweet and bitter import. Into the private joys and woes of any of you of course I cannot enter. "The heart knoweth his own bitterness and the