pton,
Massachusetts, was accepted.

President George A. Gates, of Iowa College, addressed the Association,
and was followed by an address by President Cyrus Northrop, D.D., of
Minnesota, and also by President E.D. Eaton, D.D., of Wisconsin.

The closing address of the Association was made by President Taylor.

The following minute read by Secretary Roy was then adopted:

When, just eighteen years ago, this city was smoldering in the
ruins of the great fire, which had consumed the holy and
beautiful house of this New England Church and the homes of
every family in it, the pastor, searching among the ashes
within these walls for some memento, found a charred leaf of
the pulpit hymn-book on which he was able to decipher these
words:

"Daughter of Zion, awake from the dust,
Exalt thy fallen head:
Rebuild thy walls, thy bounds enlarge,
And send thy heralds forth."

That hymn was sung at the first service in the rough board
tabernacle erected upon this spot.

We give thanks to God this day for the faith and courage by
which this people did awake from the dust and rebuild these
walls, and by which they have gone on building up their
spiritual temple and participating largely in the whole round
of service for extending the Redeemer's kingdom, a part of
which has been the inviting and the welcoming of this
missionary convocation to their sanctuary and to their homes,
and for which, to them, along with all others in the sister
churches who have joined them on this occasion in exercising
this grace of hospitality, we express our heartiest thanks.

We here call to mind with grateful emotion one of the manliest
of men, one of the truest disciples of Christ, Dea. C.G.
Hammond, who counted it an honor to have ministered at this
altar from the day of its setting up to the day of his
translation, and who for many years had served as one of the
Vice-Presidents of this Association, and had been giving
largely of his substance to its treasury.

At this closing hour, we are also thankfully reminded that the
First Congregational Church of this city was ready thirty years
ago to entertain this Association in the days of its weakness
and of its cross-bearing witness for Christ and for his lowly
poor: and likewise, ten years ago, to open its do