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William Bull and Sarah Wells Stone House AssociationScope and Content
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stranger cloth not intermeddle
with his joy!" There are doubt-
less many among you who will
long remember these years of
1879 and 80, on account
of the pleasure and pain
which it has brought them.
Here are families who are
sorrowing on account of
deaths, while there are some
who are rejoicing prematurely
perhaps, on account of a
marriage. Some of you have
recovered their health, while
others have lost it, Here is
the successful, and there is
the unsuccessful speculator.
If we could look into the
hearts of all of you, even
in this our company we
would see the "laughers and
weepers parting each other" (Macaulay)
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And if we view the
year as a community, and
not as individuals we see the
same mixture of advantages
and drawbacks. If we call
upon the farmer to state
wherein the year has failed
to meet his expectations, he
will tell us of a rainless
May and of a consequently
light hay crop. And he will not
fail to add that he is badly in need of rain
now.
The weather last winter
was uncommonly mild, but
in consequence we can only
sparingly indulge in the lux
ury of ice, which an uncom-
fortably hot summer would
have made peculiarly grati-
ful. Nevertheless we will let
this year take its place among
its fellows with a fair char-