rough his good deed he
will rise again in the grateful remembrance and in the lifted and
broadened minds and fortified characters of generation after generation.
The pyramids may forget their builders, but memorials such as this have
longer memories.

Mr. Fitz has done his part in providing your library with a dwelling.
It will be for the citizens of Chelsea to provide it with worthy
habitants. So shall they, too, have a share in the noble eulogy of the
ancient wise man: "The teachers shall shine as the firmament, and they
that turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever."

THE INFLUENCE OF GOOD BOOKS

The following paragraphs, which are from an address
delivered by Rev. Dr. Collyer at the opening of the Richard
Sugden Library at Spencer, Mass., are taken from a report in
_The Library Journal_ (September, 1889). The
autobiographical portions, perhaps, are little related to
the progress of libraries here in the United States, but
their interest is so great that more of them have been
included here than are strictly pertinent to our subject.

Robert Collyer was born in Keighley, Yorkshire, Eng., Dec.
8, 1823. He was apprenticed to a blacksmith as a boy of 14,
came to Shoemakertown, Pa., with his parents in 1850 and
followed there the trade of a hammermaker. Later he entered
the ministry of the Unitarian church and in 1860 founded
Unity church in Chicago. In 1879 he became pastor of the
Church of the Messiah in New York City, where he died in
1912.

When Richard Sugden asked me to come to Spencer and say some word
which would fit this occasion, I wrote him by the next mail that I
should be ever so glad to come, and felt that it was a great honor to
receive such an invitation, and a great pleasure. Nor was the trouble of
much account--which touches us all who say Aye to such an invitation on
the impulse of the moment and then wonder how we shall make our promise
good. My old friend wanted me to come, and not another and better man,
and to say the word which was in my heart to-day, whatever this might
be; and this was enough, because I had read in the papers--what he was
far too modest to tell me, beyond the merest mention--about the gift of
Richard Sugden to his town, and so I said it makes no great matter what
any man may say, the thing he has done tells its own story, and tells it
more nobly than I could ever hope to do, more nobly