ADDRESS BY REV. JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE, D.D.,

GIVEN IN

King's Chapel, Sunday, April 12, 1885.

PRINTED BY REQUEST OF THE WARDENS AND VESTRY.

BOSTON:

PRESS OF GEO. H. ELLIS, 141 FRANKLIN STREET.

1885.

The usual order of Morning Prayer was followed, the service being read by the pastor of the church, assisted by Rev. Andrew P. Peabody, D.D. Dr. Peabody also offered a special prayer:

God of our fathers and our God, we thank Thee for the blessed memories of this hour and of this holy place. We recall with gratitude those who once worshipped here and who now adore Thee in Thy more intimate presence, in the company of Thy redeemed. We would bear in loving remembrance the venerable and saintly men who have here taught Thy truth, and whose lives, in their beauty of holiness, bore witness to its divine power. May all that was worthy of enduring honor in the fathers be reproduced in those who have entered into their heritage. May we be followers of them who leave the record of their loyalty to their Lord and Master; and may their felt sympathy and communion bring us ever nearer to Him in whom, though dead, they live. May they who now worship here cherish and transmit with pious. care the trust bequeathed to them by those who have passed into the heavenly sanctuary, and be it their constant aim and endeavor to adorn the gospel of their Saviour by the consecration of their lives to the service of God and man. We offer our prayer in the name of Him who hath led us unto Thee, through whom to Thee be our gratitude and our praise, now and forevermore. Amen.