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sold it to Charles Upson, Esq., and purchased the house east of the Meeting house where he resided until his death. This house is now owned by Mr. Ephraim Hall and his grandson, Charles Hall, and is the finest looking residence at Wolcott Center.
Mr. Woodward was not married when he settled here. He afterward married the daughter of Rev. Dr. Smalley, of New Britain, now Berlin, but died childless. After his death his widow received from her father a house in East Haven, where she resided many years. She is spoken of as "a very fine woman," of a cheerful temperament, and fond of society. It is said that she was often present with her husband at public balls, given at the Hotel, and that she sometimes took part in the dance. Her husband never danced, but engaged in the social chat with much animation.
When Mr. Woodward settled here, Farmingbury was a flourishing parish, a " wide awake " community with con- siderable enterprise and business energy. In those days the present park in the city of Waterbury was a swamp, and Wolcott was a business centre with several stores and other enterprises which attracted visitors and drew trade from the vicinity for many miles around. The Church was really a strong one ; it had in its member- ship men of talent and men of means. Several of these subscribed toward Mr. Woodward's settlement twenty- five dollars or more, and paid their yearly tax towards his salary, besides. This "settlement" was raised by subscription ; the salary was paid by tax. There seems to have been considerable opposition to this method of raising the salary ; so that, when Mr. Gillet closed his labors, the Society voted "that we are willing that those who find themselves willing, may have, preaching by sub- scription for three months." But they were compelled to return to the tax rate in order to fulfil their engage- ment with Mr. Woodward.
The two hundred pound settlement was paid in three
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installments, or in three yearly parts. This subscription was copied into the Treasurer's Book by Mark Harrison, Esq., who was Treasurer in 1794:
The several subscriptions for Mr. Woodward's settlement are as follows :
Nov. 5, 1794.
£
s. d
£ s. d
Moses Todd,
IO 0
Joseph M. Parker,
IOO
Jesse Alcox,
I O
0
Zephana Parker,
I IO O
Aaron Harrison,
200
Isaac Upson,
4 9 0
Elijah Lane,
0 15
0
Joseph Minor,
. 2 O
Nathaniel Lewis,
600
Ezekiel Upson,
I OO
Samuel Upson,
IOO
Nathaniel Lane,
IO
0
Obed Upson,
300
Jacob Carter,
4 6 0
Wait Hotchkiss,
I 0 7
Amos Seward,
I II
0
Solomon Alcox,
I IO O
David Norton,
8 12 0
Heman Hall,
2 12 0
Thomas Upson,
0 10 O
Asahel Lane,
I 4 0
John Kenea,
3 I
David Alcox,
200
Isaac Hopkins,
I OO
Mark Barnes,
I I2 II
Joseph Smith,
2 15 O
Nathan Barnes,
I 5 0
David Harrison,
IO Q
David Norton, Jr.,
I
0
O
Benoni Gillet,
I IO O
Jesse Selkrigg,
2 12 0
Samuel Byington,
5 IO O
Daniel Byington,
4 9
O
James Bailey,
3 6 0
Joseph Beecher,
4 0 O
Joseph Beecher, Jr.,
LIO O
Judah Frisbie,
2 12 0
Brainard Lindsley,
IOO
Elnathan Thrasher,
IO 0
Ezra Stevens,
I O
0
Farrington Barnes,
0 15
O
John Alcox,
2 O
0
Stephen Carter,
3 IO
O
Amos Beecher,
O IO
0
Daniel Alcox,
I IO
O
James Thomas,
4 IO
0
Ephraim Smith, Jr.,
4 O
0
Benjamin Alcox,
IO
0
Streat Richards,
7 0
0
Jonah Barnes,
0 15
0
Moses Pond,
400
Joseph Freeman,
0 I8
0
John Bronson,
6 12 0
Jeremiah Scarritt,
2 IO 0
Mark Harrison,
13 10
0
Ezra Mallery,
I OO
Charles Upson,
2 IO
0
Timothy Bradley,
I
5 0
Simeon Plumb,
I O
O
Asahel Bradley,
I
0 0
Samuel Plumb,
I
5
O
Amasa Bradley,
I
0 0
Solomon Plumb,
I 6 0
Justus Peck,
2 0
O
William Stevens,
I 0 0
2
5 0
Caleb Miner,
Ashbel Upson,
I 00
John Beecher,
2 0 O
Heman Byington,
I IO O
6 18 0
Richard Welton,
Calvin Cowles,
3 12
0
Abel Curtiss,
I O 0
Charles Frisbie,
Aaron Harrison, Jr.,
0 18 0
I IO O
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& s. d
£ s. d
Joseph Sutliff, jr.,
200
Eli Roberts,
IO0
Noah Neal,
I IS O
Abram Norton,
2 60
John B. Alcox,
100
Joseph Atkins,
I IO O
Joseph Twitchel,
3 0 0
Ozias Norton,
ISO
James Alcox,
3 12 0
Jesse Alcox, jr.,
IS
0
Selah Steadman,
IO0
Hezekiah Beecher,
O IS
0
Jonathan Carter,
4 18
0
Noah W. Norton,
O IS 0
Daniel Johnson, jr.,
O IS 0
Nathan Scarritt,
I 00
Nathan Gillet,
O
Elisha Horton,
O IS O
John Norton,
1 15 0
John Wiard,
0 60
Walter Beecher,
4 0
O
Ebenezer Bailey.
0 6
0
Barnabas Powers,
IO 0
Jerry Moulthrop,
0 12
0
Levi Johnson,
O IS o
Enos Dutton,
0 18
O
John Talmage,
IOO
James Scarritt,
I
0
0
John Frisbie,
I 19
0
Luther Atkins,
0 IS
0
Daniel Dean,
0 15 O
Nathan Stevens,
2
0 0
John Potter,
6 10 0
Ebenezer Johnson,
I 0 0
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By this list it may be seen that most of these men, if not all, subscribed liberally. They paid Mr. Woodward 400 dollars salary and twenty-five cords of wood, and gave him in addition this 1000 dollars settlement. To make up this settlement several persons gave twenty dollars, others thirty, and one- Mr. Charles Upson-six- ty-five ; while some of those who gave smaller sums, doubtless gave more in proportion to their ability than the more wealthy. This subscription list is highly cred- itable to the community in which it originated ; it shows the effort they made to sustain the institutions of the Gospel. But those were the days of strength in Wol- cott ; for from 1790 to 1820 the town was at the height of its prosperity, as regards wealth and population. At the time of Mr. Woodward's settlement the num- ber of inhabitants was about 900. In 1800 it was 948 ; in 1810, 952 ; in 1820, 943; in 1830, 844; in 1840, 633 ; in 1850, 603. The church membership, when Mr. Woodward began his ministry, numbered about 100, and the congregation from 300 to 500, which must have filled the Meeting house. That the congregation was large may be inferred from the apparent difficulty the 6
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committee had in "scating the Meeting house." Be- sides, Mr. Woodward's preaching was calculated to at- tract the attention of the multitude more than Mr. Gil- let's because of the apt and animating illustrations which he habitually introduced. The increasing esteem in which he was held is indicated by the three annual subscriptions which were raised for paying the settle- ment. The first amounted to sixty-three pounds, the second to sixty-seven, the third to nearly one hundred pounds, or almost thirty pounds more than the two hun- dred pounds first agreed upon.
Under Mr. Woodward's labors the membership of the church increased somewhat ; how much, we are unable to say, because there is no record to be found of those who united with the church from 1798 to 1811. In a list of members prepared by Mr. Keys in 1815, there are over forty names of persons of whose uniting with the church we have no record, but who must have be- come members during these twelve years .*
Mr. Woodward was more than ordinarily successful as a preacher, and was highly esteemed as a neighbor and citizen. He was easy and friendly in his manners, ever ready with some pleasant remark, and was therefore liked by all classes. Probably no minister in the parish was ever loved and confided in as a minister more than he, for to this day the remark of the people, as to all they ever heard of him, is in the highest tone of Chris- tian love.
* A like difficulty is experienced in regard to baptisms. Deacon Isaac Bronson was appointed in 1811, to keep the church records, and he says : " Here seems to be a long chasm (from 1792 to 1811) as to the record of baptisms, but no further papers have as yet come to hand. I therefore be- gin at the time I received the papers." If Isaac Bronson could find " no further papers " sixty years ago, I may properly cease the search now. Yet it seems a little singular that Mr. Woodward should keep the record of ad- ditions to the church, and of marriages, from 1792 to 1798, and then con- tinue the record of deaths as he did, to 1809 (a short time before his death) and omit the two former.
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He had a school for several years that was very popu- lar with young men. He usually had from four to six scholars boarding with him, and others came to recite. Benoni Upson, son of Thomas and brother of Charles Upson, fitted for college at this school. He resided about half a mile from Mr. Woodward's. Mr. Woodward had students from New Haven, from Waterbury and other neighboring places, and also from the Southern States.
The efforts of the parish to promote education were quite commendable for those times. In November after Mr. Woodward's settlement the Society voted that "we will keep eleven months school," and this length of term does not appear to have been an unusual thing. It is probable that Mr. Woodward was induced to commence his school, because of the large number of young men in the community needing opportunities of more advanced culture than the common schools afforded.
Immediately after the success of the subscription to pay Mr. Woodward's settlement, the people proceeded to complete the inside of the Meetinghouse.
At a meeting held on the first day of December, 1794, they voted first, "that we will do something to the Meeting house." Then they "voted that the Meeting house be finished in the following order, viz .: First, that the roof be shingled with pine, and the siding with white- wood. 2ndly, that the body of the house be painted white and the roof red. 3rdly, that the inside of the said house above and below be decently and properly finished, lathed, and plastered, and timbers capped ; a row of pews built in the back part of each of the galleries, raised to a proper pitch to overlook the seats in front of said pews. Voted that the above described work be done and com- pleted by the first day of November next, and that a com- mittee be appointed to cause the house to be repaired as is above written or described, at their own discretion ; and further, the said committee are to sell or dispose of any boards, shingles, or nails that may be taken off or out of
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installments, or in three yearly parts. This subscription was copied into the Treasurer's Book by Mark Harrison, Esq., who was Treasurer in 1794:
The several subscriptions for Mr. Woodward's settlement are as follows :
Nov. 5, 1794.
£ s. d
£ s. d
Joseph M. Parker,
IO0
Moses Todd,
I 0 0
Zephana Parker,
I IO O
Jesse Alcox,
I 0 0
Isaac Upson,
4 9 0
Aaron Harrison,
200
Joseph Minor,
4 2 O
Elijah Lane,
0 15
0
Nathaniel Lewis,
600
Ezekiel Upson,
I IO
0
Samuel Upson,
6 18 0
Richard Welton,
I O
O
Obed Upson,
IO 0
Nathaniel Lane,
I OO
Jacob Carter,
4 6
O
Calvin Cowles,
30 0
Wait Hotchkiss,
IO 7
Amos Seward,
3 12
0
Solomon Alcox,
I IO O
David Norton,
I II
0
Heman Hall,
2 12
0
Thomas Upson,
8 12 0
Asahel Lane,
I
4 0
John Kenea,
IO
David Alcox,
2 O 0
Isaac Hopkins,
3 IO
Mark Barnes,
I 12 II
Joseph Smith,
I OO
Nathan Barnes,
I 5 0
Abel Curtiss,
2 15 O
David Norton, Jr.,
I
O
O
David Harrison,
I 0 0
Jesse Selkrigg,
I OO
Benoni Gillet,
I IO
O
Charles Frisbie,
2 12 O
Samuel Byington,
5 IO 0
Daniel Byington,
4 9
O
James Bailey,
3
6 0
Joseph Beecher,
4 0 O
Joseph Beecher, Jr.,
1 IO 0
Judah Frisbie,
2 I2 0
Brainard Lindsley,
I OO
Elnathan Thrasher,
I IO 0
Ezra Stevens,
200
Stephen Carter,
3 IO
0
Amos Beecher,
0 IO
0
Daniel Alcox,
I IO
0
James Thomas,
4 10 0
Ephraim Smith, Jr.,
4 0
0
Aaron Harrison, Jr.,
0 18 0
Streat Richards,
70 0
Benjamin Alcox, ·
I
0 0
Moses Pond,
I IO O
Jonah Barnes,
0 15
0
John Bronson,
4 0
O
Joseph Freeman,
0 I8
0
Mark Harrison,
6 I2
O
Jeremiah Scarritt,
2 IO 0
Charles Upson,
13 10 0
Ezra Mallery,
I
0 0
Simeon Plumb,
2 IO
O Timothy Bradley,
I 5
Samuel Plumb,
I O
0
Asahel Bradley,
I 0 0
Solomon Plumb,
I
5
0 Amasa Bradley,
T 0 0
Justus Peck,
200
William Stevens,
I
6 0
Ashbel Upson,
2
5 0
Caleb Miner,
I OO
John Beecher,
200 Heman Byington,
I OO
Farrington Barnes,
I5 0
John Alcox,
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£ s. d
£ s. d
Joseph Sutliff, jr.,
200
Eli Roberts,
IO0
Noah Neal,
I 18 0
Abram Norton,
2 60
John B. Alcox,
IOO
Joseph Atkins,
I IO O
Joseph Twitchel,
3 0 0
Ozias Norton,
I 8 0
James Alcox,
3 12 0
Jesse Alcox, jr.,
I8
Selah Steadman,
IO 0
O
Hezekiah Beecher,
0 18
0
Jonathan Carter,
4 18
O
Noah W. Norton,
0 18
o
Daniel Johnson, jr.,
O IS 0
Nathan Scarritt,
IO 0
Nathan Gillet,
Elisha Horton,
O IS
0
John Norton,
I 15 O
John Wiard,
6 0 0
Walter Beecher,
4 0
0
Ebenezer Bailey,
0 6 o
Barnabas Powers,
IO 0
.
Jerry Moulthrop, Enos Dutton,
0 12
O
Levi Johnson,
O IS 0
0 18
0
John Talmage,
IO O
James Scarritt,
I O
0
John Frisbie,
I 19
O
Luther Atkins,
0 18
0
Daniel Dean,
0 15 O
Nathan Stevens,
2 0 0
John Potter,
6 10 0
Ebenezer Johnson,
IO 0
O
By this list it may be seen that most of these men, if not all, subscribed liberally. They paid Mr. Woodward 400 dollars salary and twenty-five cords of wood, and gave him in addition this 1000 dollars settlement. To make up this settlement several persons gave twenty dollars, others thirty, and one-Mr. Charles Upson-six- ty-five ; while some of those who gave smaller sums, doubtless gave more in proportion to their ability than the more wealthy. This subscription list is highly cred- itable to the community in which it originated ; it shows the effort they made to sustain the institutions of the Gospel. But those were the days of strength in Wol- cott ; for from 1790 to 1820 the town was at the height of its prosperity, as regards wealth and population. At the time of Mr. Woodward's settlement the num- Der of inhabitants was about 900. In 1800 it was 948 ; n 1810, 952 ; in 1820, 943; in 1830, 844; in 1840, 533 ; in 1850, 603. The church membership, when Mr. Woodward began his ministry, numbered about 100, nd the congregation from 300 to 500, which must have lled the Meeting house. That the congregation was arge may be inferred from the apparent difficulty the 6
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committee had in "seating the Meeting house." Be- sides, Mr. Woodward's preaching was calculated to at- tract the attention of the multitude more than Mr. Gil- let's because of the apt and animating illustrations which he habitually introduced. The increasing esteem in which he was held is indicated by the three annual subscriptions which were raised for paying the settle- ment. The first amounted to sixty-three pounds, the second to sixty-seven, the third to nearly one hundred pounds, or almost thirty pounds more than the two hun- dred pounds first agreed upon.
Under Mr. Woodward's labors the membership of the church increased somewhat ; how much, we are unable to say, because there is no record to be found of those who united with the church from 1798 to 1811. In a list of members prepared by Mr. Keys in 1815, there are over forty names of persons of whose uniting with the church we have no record, but who must have be- come members during these twelve years .*
Mr. Woodward was more than ordinarily successful as a preacher, and was highly esteemed as a neighbor and citizen. He was easy and friendly in his manners, ever ready with some pleasant remark, and was therefore liked by all classes. Probably no minister in the parish was ever loved and confided in as a minister more than he, for to this day the remark of the people, as to all they ever heard of him, is in the highest tone of Chris- tian love.
* A like difficulty is experienced in regard to baptisms. Deacon Isaac Bronson was appointed in 1811, to keep the church records, and he says : " Here seems to be a long chasm (from 1792 to 18II) as to the record of baptisms, but no further papers have as yet come to hand. I therefore be- gin at the time I received the papers." If Isaac Bronson could find " no further papers " sixty years ago, I may properly cease the search now. Yet it seems a little singular that Mr. Woodward should keep the record of ad- ditions to the church, and of marriages, from 1792 to 1798, and then con- tinue the record of deaths as he did, to 1809 (a short time before his death) and omit the two former.
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He had a school for several years that was very popu- lar with young men. He usually had from four to six scholars boarding with him, and others came to recite. Benoni Upson, son of Thomas and brother of Charles Upson, fitted for college at this school. He resided about half a mile from Mr. Woodward's. Mr. Woodward had students from New Haven, from Waterbury and other neighboring places, and also from the Southern States.
The efforts of the parish to promote cducation were quite commendable for those times. In November after Mr. Woodward's settlement the Society voted that "we will keep eleven months school," and this length of term does not appear to have been an unusual thing. It is probable that Mr. Woodward was induced to commence his school, because of the large number of young men in the community needing opportunities of more advanced culture than the common schools afforded.
Immediately after the success of the subscription to pay Mr. Woodward's settlement, the people proceeded to complete the inside of the Meetinghouse.
At a meeting held on the first day of December, 1794, they voted first, "that we will do something to the Meeting house." Then they "voted that the Meeting house be finished in the following order, viz .: First, that the roof be shingled with pine, and the siding with white- wood. 2ndly, that the body of the house be painted white and the roof red. 3rdly, that the inside of the said house above and below be decently and properly finished, lathed, and plastered, and timbers capped ; a row of pews built in the back part of each of the galleries, raised to a proper pitch to overlook the seats in front of said pews. Voted that the above described work be done and com- pleted by the first day of November next, and that a com- mittee be appointed to cause the house to be repaired as is above written or described, at their own discretion ; and further, the said committee are to sell or dispose of any boards, shingles, or nails that may be taken off or out of
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by him made to this meeting, and that said committee report to this meeting at their adjournment." No report of the committee is recorded, and the matter went over till December 7th, 1801, when it was voted "that Charles Upson, Esq., Deacon Joseph Atkins, Mark Harrison, Esq., Major Streat Richards, and Isaac Bronson, be a com- mittee to wait upon the Rev. Mr. Woodward and inform him that the Society, for various reasons, wish not to act upon the proposition by him made as to a dismission, par- ticularly, as they are well pleased with his performance as their minister, and are by no means willing for a dis- solution of the pastoral connection between him and them." This action is all that is recorded concern- ing this matter, unless it be a resolution passed soon after by the Society in regard to the payment of Mr. Woodward's salary when it should become due. The unusual rigor of this action may give us a suggestion of the reason why he desired a dismission,- namely, because the Society was so slow in paying his salary, even after waiting a year for it to become due. The first action reads thus : "Voted that if the Rev. Mr. Woodward's salary be not paid by the first day of March, annually, or any part of the same, such salary, or such part of it as is not paid, shall be upon interest until paid." But this, after three years' trial, did not remedy the diffi- culty as desired, and hence the second vote : " That exe- cution be taken out against the Society collector at the end of ninety days next coming after the first day of March, yearly, and put into the officer's hands by the So- ciety's Committee, unless said collector shall have paid the Rev. Mr. Woodward's salary in full by that time." After this it may be supposed that either the collectors or parishioners recognized the fact that a minister had a right to his salary after having earned it. It is proper to state here that the Treasurer's book shows that Mr. Woodward received part of his salary from time to time during the year. He received money (a very little), orders,
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notes, wheat, and other items, as individuals felt disposed to let him have, or to sell to him, but much of it went over from month to month after the end of the year, until be- ing weary with delay he proposed to find another parish, or other work.
It may be thought that it must have been difficult to obtain a collector after a vote to "take out execution " against him but it was not. The first man elected after the above rule was passed was Selah Upson, and it is a singular incident that the assessment which he was to collect, with the order from the justice of the peace to collect it, have come into my hands just in time for in- sertion here :
To Selah Upson, Collector of the Society Rate in the Society of Farmingbury, in Wolcott, in New Haven County, Greeting :
By authority of the State of Connecticut, you are hereby com- manded forthwith to levy and collect of the persons named in the annexed list herewith committed to you, each one in several pro- portion as therein set down of the sum total of such list, being a tax or assessment granted or agreed upon by the inhabitants of said Society of Farmingbury, regularly assembled on the 27th day of October, 1805, for defraying the ministerial and other charges arising within the same, and to deliver and pay the sum and sums which you shall so lay and collect, unto the Treasurer of the said Society, at or before the first day of March, 1806, and if any person or persons shall neglect or refuse to make payment of the sum or sums whereat he or they are respectively assessed and set in the above list, to distrain the goods or chattels of such person or persons, and the same dispose of as the law directs, returning the overplus (if any be) unto the owner or owners; and for want of goods and chattels whereon to make distraint, you are to take the body or bodies of the person or persons so refusing, and him or them commit unto the keeper of the gaol of the said county within the said prison, who is hereby commanded to receive and safely keep him or them until he or they pay and satisfy the said sum or sums assessed upon him or them as aforesaid, together
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the said house, for the benefit of the Society, or appro- priate them for any use for which they may be proper in repairing said house as above ; and further that the said committee exhibit a true and just account of all the ex- penses that shall arise in so doing, before the annual So- ciety meeting in November next. Voted that Capt. Na- thaniel Lewis, Jacob Carter and Capt. Charles Upson be a committee for the above purpose. Voted to lay a rate three pence on the pound on the list of 1794 to be paid the first of June next. Voted a tax on said list of three pence on the pound to be paid in cattle and sheep* the first of November next. Voted that John Beecher and Judah Frisbie be collectors to collect the above rates." In a meeting held in the last part of January next they added one penny to each of these taxes making them each four pence on the pound. At a meeting held on the 5th of next February they voted "that we are willing that there should be a steeple erected adjoining this house, at the expense of individuals ; and that the overplus, if there be any, of the rates laid to do the Meeting house be laid out on the steeple." The steeple was not built at this time, but the rest of the work proposed was com- pleted before July of 1795 and then for the first time Far- mingbury had a finished Meeting house. There is one item we mention and leave the reader to interpret, for he will probably know as much about it as any one. In the Treasurer's book for 1797 we find the following record : "Capt. Walter Beecher debtor to an order on the Treas- urer for one dollar. Contra, credit by making three pair of butterflies for the Meeting house." It is thought these were ornaments about the sounding board over the pulpit.
There were, probably, some services dedicatory of this house in the summer of 1795, but I have seen no record
* There was a ready market for these cattle and sheep at the Center. The hides were made into leather in Wolcott, and the beef was packed in bar- rels for foreign markets.
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of them in the books. There is a hymn printed and preserved, said to have been composed by Mr. David Har- rison especially for this dedication .*
" DEDICATORY POEM.
With joyful heart and tuneful song, Let us approach the mighty Lord, Proclaim his honors with our tongue, And sound his wondrous truth abroad.
His glorious name on golden lyres, Strike all the tuneful choirs above,
And boundless nature's realms conspire To celebrate his matchless love.
The heaven of heavens is his bright throne, And cherubs wait his high behest, Yet for the merits of his Son, He visits men in humble dust.
In temples sacred to his name His saints assemble round his board,
Raise their hosannas to the Lamb, And taste the supper of the Lord.
O God our King, this joyful day, We dedicate this house to thee ;
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