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Rev. Abraham Jackson Rev. E. H. Barstow Rev. Alfred Goldsmith Rev. J. M. Stow
Jan. 31, 1855-July 5, 1863
July 26, 1865-Aug. 6, 1868 1868-1869 June 2, 1870-Mar. 1875
Supplied for a few months
Rev. William L. Collins
May 22, 1903-Dec. 31, 1903
they started to work to make their dream a reality. They collected enough money to make a down payment on the little church on the Common, which at that time was not in use. The collection amounted to $500.00, which they gave to Rev. Daniel Murphy, a missionary priest who used to come from Boston and say Mass in the Town Hall occasionally. If the Town Hall were not available, he would say the Mass at the home of one of the parishioners. Father Murphy contacted a member of the Episcopal Society and gave him the down payment on the building and received the deed August 20, 1868, to the building which is now St. Joseph's Church. The total cost of the church was $1,037.50.
The first Mass was celebrated in St. Joseph's Catholic Church in 1869. The growth of the parish, since it was first organized, is aptly illustrated by the parable of the mustard seed.
In the early years of St. Joseph's Church, the Mass was celebrated only every few months, but with the continued growth of the congregation, Mass is celebrated twice every Sunday. Though St. Joseph's Church is still a Mission of St. Catherine's Church in Charlestown, N. H., the hopes and feelings of her parishioners is that it will become a parish in the near future.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL SOCIETY
This society was organized in 1842 as a station in connection with Langdon, meetings being held in the town hall. A chapel was completed in 1845, sold to the Roman Catholics in 1868.
Ministers: I. W. Huntley 1845; A. S. Tenney 1846; S. Eastman 1848; D. P. Leavitt 1850; S. P. Heath 1851; O. S. Morris 1854; H. Chandler and H. F. Forrestal 1855-6; P. Wallingford and Charles Lewis 1857-8.
ST. PETER'S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH
The Roman Catholic Church in North Walpole was organized in 1848 as a mission of St. Mary's parish, Claremont; 1853 became a mission of St. Charles' parish in Bellows Falls, Vermont; 1865 became a mission of St. Mary's parish, Claremont; set up as a parish, St. Peter's, 1878.
The present church was built by volunteer labor in 1877, completed in time for Midnight Mass, Dec. 25, 1877. Stone for the foundation was hauled from Chester, Vt., by horse and wagon. It was rebuilt in 1933; dedicated Nov. 1934. Intricately carved white marble altars and colorful decorations and memorial windows make an extraordinarily handsome interior.
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Resident Pastors of St. Peter's Parish:
Rev. Maurice F. Galvin 1877-82
Rev. Timothy W. Coakley 1911-15
Rev. Narcisse Cournoyer 1882-85
Rev. George F. Marshall 1915-32
Rev. G. H. Feeney 1885-91
Rev. Edward P. Farrell 1932-38
Rev. John J. Houlihan
1891-1900
Rev. William F. Pendergast 1938-54
Rev. Louis M. Wilde 1900-11
Rev. John B. McQuaid
1954-
Catholic Priests, Natives of North Walpole:
Rt. Rev. Msgr. John J. Foley, Pastor, St. Catherine's Parish, Manchester Rev. Thomas Pheur, MM, Am. Cath. F. M. Soc. (Maryknoll) Motherhouse Rev. John Lynch, O.S.B., Treasurer, St. Anselm's College, Manchester Rev. James F. Moynihan, S.J., Boston College, Brighton, Mass. Rev. Stanley Piwowar, Ass't, St. Hedwige's Parish, Manchester
Religious Sisters, Natives of North Walpole:
Sisters of Mercy (N. H.)
Helen Reardon, Sister M. Gonzaga
Anna Powers, Sister M. Nicholas
Anna Pheur, Sister M. Laurenita
Mae Pheur, Sister M. Thomasina
Mary Jane Aylward, Sister M. Edmund Betty Szuch, Sister M. Baptista
Eleanor Shaughnessy, Sister M. Leonora
Sisters of St. Joseph (Vt.)
Katherine Gallagher, Sister M. Dominic
Irene Diggins, Sister Anna Marie
Anne Gallagher, Sister M. Thomas
Religious Brother, Native of Walpole:
Henry Francis Delaney, Brother Henry, S.J.
UNITED RELIGIOUS CHRISTIAN SOCIETY
This Society was formed December 1817 through the preaching of Edward B. Rollins with 35 members. An edifice was built on "The Flat" near "March Hill".
"An Account of the Planting of the Church of Saints in Christ-At Walpole New Hampshire on the thirtieth day of June in the year of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ one thousand eight hundred and twenty one-With a Record of the Acts of the Church: This group, with a membership of 13 males and 22 females, met with Edward R. Rollins as teacher, the services including singing, praying, and some exhortation followed by relating of personal 'experiences', the establishment of 'fel- lowship', and the observance of communion and baptism. On August 16, 1821, it is recorded that they heard new members relate their 'experi- ences', then 'went out by the water side, united in prayer and praise, and
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Irene Mason and Harriet Robinson were baptized by Elder E. B. Robin- son.'
"In 1822 the fellowship received a circular letter from the Conference at Bradford, Vt., with instructions for the conduct of their affairs. The brethren spent much time and thought trying to relate the communica- tion to their particular situation."
December 23, 1823 Brother Jacob B. Burnham was chosen "to serve the Brethren in search of fellowship" and became their pastor, ordained February 18, 1824. During 1825 Elder Rollins supplied with preaching one Sunday each month.
In June 1825 a meeting was held at the home of Robert Fay who had been one of the leaders in the fellowship and chosen as deacon. There is no record of what transpired at that meeting, but a group separated from "the Christian connexion", and Sylvestre Smith was chosen "to move forward in the duties" which Brother Fay had been performing.
The fellowship met "at the School House ... in the Hollow . . . March 20 AD 1826 being desirous of forming a Religious Society to be known . . . " as the United Religious Christian Society of Walpole.
At a meeting July 1, 1826 at William Robinson's Inn in the Hollow the society voted to build a mecting house. The contract was let to Caleb Farnum to complete the house by November 1 for $560. The following were the specifications: "45 feet in Length and 35 feet in Width and 16 feet Posts and to contain 14 Cock tennon Posts with outer
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Sills and 5 cross Sills with a Sufficient number of Sleepers ... finished on the outside with 9 Windows of 40 lights 7 Inches by 9 and 6 Windows 24 lights 7 Inches by 9 and to be decently boarded, Clapboarded and Shingled ... with a good double Cornish and one good double pannel Door with good Hangings, the Inside to be finished ... with 44 Slips a good double Floor and the wall Slips to be 8 Inches above the Floor the doors of the Slips to be pannel work and hung with Suitable hangings and the Slips decent plain work ... and a Small Pulpit to be raised suitably above the Floor for the accommodation of the Speaker Said pulpit to be 3 feet by 4 feet and made of Pannel Work a small Galery in front of the Meeting House for Singers to be raised 7 feet from the Floor across the whole width of the Meeting House and eight feet wide and suitably Raised on the back Side with 3 rows of Seats and 2 flights of Stairs to go up into the Galery and the partition between the Galery or Entry to be Lathed and plastered up to the front of the Galery ... the front to be finished with pannel work and one flight of stairs to go up to the pulpit the walls of the Meeting House are to be ceiled up as high as the bottom of the windows with good Boards ... with 2 inside doors made of pannel work . .. 3 Inside beams to be circular one foot or more .. . the inside of the House that is not ceiled all to be lathed and plastered on the walls and above with a decent arch from the walls toward the center ... . " The building was completed and used in November.
The records available are of the Society and are of the business rather than the spiritual life of the Church. At the annual meetings officers and committees were elected, it was voted "to accept the report of the com- mittee to support the gospel as usual by subscription", "to set up the charge of the Meeting House to the lowest bidder" and "that the wood be set up at auction to the lowest bidder. .. . " The wood was to be "cut and split 2 feet in length and piled in to the Porch of sd Meeting House." The price ranged from $1.50, although in 1831 it was struck off to Joseph Mason Jr. "at the rate of nothing at all per cord."
Seth Willey (or someone else) was usually paid $1.50 per year "for making the fires, sweeping the Meeting House once a month and finding his own broom." In 1834 William Robinson paid one dollar for the privilege. In 1842 it was deemed necessary to sweep the Meeting House once a week, and later locking and unlocking the door was included in the chores.
There is some mention of festivals and there was a Ladies' Benevolent Society which provided carpets in 1861, but the common means of rais- ing money was by subscription for a specific purpose-preaching, current expenses, special repairs.
In 1830 a block of horsesheds was built on the east side of the Meeting House and another on the west side, each block "to front even with the north end of the Meeting House."
In 1860 a special meeting was called to vote on major repairs. The
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committee reported "That the house should be levelled up; the under- pinning replaced; the roof shingled; the house painted; the inside sleepers levelled and the floors brought to a level grade; Pews turned to front the North, at which end the pulpit should be placed; and both Pulpit and pews fitted up in modern stile respectably and painted; two stoves fitted up with funnels, and a chimney; the Plastering repaired where necessary, and Galery changed, and seats altered so as to make them more comfortable." Four hundred dollars was raised, but the cost came to $489.98. It was voted that the Selectmen make an appraisal and assessment on the slips. After being assessed $12 on each pew they proceeded to make plans for dedicating the refurbished house.
In 1853 the Society borrowed $350 to buy land of G. W. Whipple for a parsonage. "They then proceeded to erect the buildings by inviting all who felt an interest in the same to assist in digging the cellar, drawing stone, preparing the ground, and underpinning the buildings. .. . " The buildings included a house, barn, hog pen, etc.
With all this property it became routine at the annual meeting to elect a committee to have charge of the property. In the last years of the Society election of this committee was the most important item of busi- ness.
In the 1878 records there is mention of an organ, and the gallery was for the singers. Except that we know that the brethren and sisters sang together, we have no further record of music.
In 1890 the Society received a legacy from Thomas Bellows. In 1903 there was a subscription for repairing the horsesheds, but otherwise the Society seemed to depend upon the income from the legacy.
There was no meeting held from August 18, 1908 to January 15, 1914 when a meeting was called by a Justice of the Peace. A meeting was held in 1919, another in 1927. In 1936-7 there was an attempt to reorganize the Society and aid was sought from the Congregational Christian Confer- ence.
In 1937 the parsonage was sold to Floyd Jennison for $300.
There was a meeting in 1939, and in 1940 there was a subscription to support preaching. Calls were posted for meetings 1941-3.
On May 2, 1953 five of the seven living members met at the church with Rev. Everett Barrows of the Congregational Christian Conference and dissolved the Society. All property and trust funds were transferred to the Conference to be administered for religious work in Walpole if practical, but if not, to be used in the area.
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Preachers: Elder Jacob B. Burnham 1829-39, 1841-2; Elder Seth Ross 1840; Elder Abiah Kidder 1843-44; Elder P. M. Hersey 1845; Elder Moses Winchester 1846; Elder Farnam 1851-3; Elder C. W. Martin 1855-6; Rev. M. Jackson 1858; Elder William H. Ireland 1858-60; Rev. J. L. Green 1862; Elder Seth Hinkley 1864-65; Rev. David B. Murray 1872-76; Rev. S. Chadwick 1876; Rev. J. M. Woodward 1878-79; Rev. Clark Simonds 1880-81; Rev. H. M Eaton 1881-86, 1890; Rev. Dr. Bruce 1886; J. Fawcett 1895-96; James F. Scott 1897; W. J. Hall 1900; Rev. G. H. Kent 1906-8.
WHAT BECAME OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL LANDS?
Gov. Wentworth granted the society (SPG) interest in 108 towns, some in Vermont, about 300 acres per town. In Walpole these lands were along the north line of the town and were included in that part set off to Langdon. It was expected that these lands "would constantly increase in value with no expense to the society unless the society cultivated and improved the lands." Also "The Governor had set aside in each town a glebe for the support of the ministry of the Church of England and his heirs."
In 1763 Mr. Browne, Church of England missionary, urged that the Society appoint an agent to take care of the lands and to preserve the timber in settled towns.
Political unrest and the War of the Revolution prevented any activity on behalf of the Society, but the treaty of 1783 secured the rights of the Society and a few years later the Society took steps to gain possession of these lands for the benefit of the Episcopal Church.
In 1788 the SPG conveyed all its right and title to lands in New Hamp- shire to a board of trustees, providing that one tenth of the income to go to the Bishop of New Hampshire, nine tenths to support Episcopal clergymen in each town. If there was no church, the funds should go as decided by the trustees. This did not include the church lands.
Jan. 19, 1803 Sanford Kingsbury, Ithamar Chase, Thomas Collins Drew and Isaac Temple were appointed a committee to take possession of all the glebe lands in Cheshire County and to lease them on such terms as they thought proper, but for not more than ten years. Trustees were appointed for the lands outside of Cheshire County.
Although difficulties were encountered in gaining possession, some were recovered. By 1807 suits were commenced in the name of the SPG to recover lands. An investigating committee in 1855 reported that in 1808 Simeon Olcott of Charlestown and Nathaniel Adams as trustees deeded one half of the Society's rights in various towns in Cheshire County (including Walpole) to Trinity Church, Cornish, and one half to Union Church, Claremont. One tenth of the income was to be ap-
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propriated for the Bishop of New Hampshire, the other nine tenths of the income to be used for support of Protestant Episcopal clergymen in Cornish and Claremont. When a Protestant Episcopal Church should be erected and established with a settled clergyman in any of these towns, nine tenths of the income from the SPG lands in that town were to be used for the benefit of such clergymen. Finding suits for regaining the lands too costly, the trustees transferred in 1812 for $100 all their rights, to the Trustees of Donations to the Protestant Episcopal Church, a Massachusetts corporation, incorporated 1810. The income was divided as before. This board proceeded to lease the lands for 999 years.
The lands in Walpole were recovered through the efforts of Rev. William Montague. Lands were leased at an annual rental of 6% of appraised value.
The income from these lands in Cheshire County amounted to $100 per year to the Bishop. In 1829 the church at Drewsville being in need of financial assistance, it was recommended to the Trustees of Donations for an appropriation.
After more than 20 years of passing resolutions, etc., the custody of the funds from the glebe lands was transferred to the Trustees of the Protestant Episcopal Church in New Hampshire who have since admin- istered them.
ST. PETER'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, DREWSVILLE, N. H. by Rev. James Estes
The "Walpole Episcopalian Society" was incorporated in 1816 with the following charter members: Thomas Drew, Moses and Aaron Southard, Ira White, Stephen Johnson, Jacob Putnam, Joseph Field, Nehemiah Chandler, Holland Burt, and Nehemiah Royce. At the first meeting called at the home of Thomas Drew on April 7, 1817, the society chose officers and committees to procure subscription money for the support of an Episcopal clergyman. Also, at this meeting, by-laws for the society were drawn up and rudimentary plans were laid out for the in- vestigation of steps that would lead to the erection of a church building. Within three years this society became known as St. Peter's Church, al- though for some time services were held either in the schoolhouse or in the hall of Thomas Drew, located over his residence on Main Street. There was no resident clergyman in these early years.
The first Rector was the Rev. George Richardson, who was also in charge of the society at Charlestown and who began his missionary work in the diocese in 1825 while still a young man. Mr. Richardson con- tracted a fatal disease in 1828 and died in March of 1829. In the same
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year the Rev. Edward Ballard was appointed to officiate in the two par- ishes. He found two communicants in Drewsville and saw little hope for the growth of the parish. One factor that sustained the life of St. Peter's was the prospect of reclaiming certain of the old glebe lands from which an income could be derived if occasional services were held in the village. Mr. Ballard left the diocese in 1832.
On September 20, 1834, a meeting was held for the purposes of giving some serious consideration to the matter of the status of St. Peter's. A week later a meeting was held to inquire into the expediency of erecting a church building. A committee was appointed to look into the matter and report back at a meeting set for September 30. At that time it was voted to proceed with construction. Thomas Drew gave the land for the church building with the proviso that it should never be used for any other purpose. Thomas March Chase, Hope Lathrop, and William Bel- lows were elected as a committee to superintend the building.
When the Rev. Luman Foote began his Drewsville ministry (yoked with Springfield, Vermont) in 1835, he found that construction had al- ready begun on "a neat stone church, of the Gothic order". The cost of this building was met by a subsidy from the income of glebe lands and by a donation from St. John's Church in Portsmouth. On August 24, 1836, St. Bartholomew's Day, the Rt. Rev. Alexander V. Griswold offi- ciated at the consecration of St. Peter's Church. Some of the memorial gifts are noted as follows: the windows over the Altar were given by the Rt. Rev. Alexander V. Griswold, D.D., Bishop of the Eastern Diocese, the Rt. Rev. Carlton Chase, D.D., first Bishop of New Hampshire, and the Rev. Nathaniel Sprague, a former Rector; the windows in the rear of the church were given by Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Wilcox and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Collins Drew; the Communion Service was given by Nathaniel Tucker. Bishop Griswold again visited St. Peter's in 1841, when he noted that the two parishes of Charlestown and Drewsville were still small. In the meantime Mr. Foote had left the diocese and was succeeded by the Rev. Edward Livermore who in turn was succeeded by the Rev. Eleazer A. Greenleaf.
In 1843 Mr. Greenleaf reported that a parsonage had been built and that, with twenty-four communicants, the outlook was encouraging. Two years later he was succeeded by the Rev. Nathaniel Sprague, who had in the past officiated at occasional services of worship. Shortly thereafter the history of the parish becomes sparse; but it is noted that in 1867 exten- sive repairs and alterations were made to the inside of the building at a cost of $2000. In 1885, while the Rev. Edward A. Renouf was serving the
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parish, 37 communicants were listed and there were 17 children in the Sunday School.
After the turn of the century, there was an increase of activity under the leadership of supply clergy and a few enthusiastic laymen. The Rev. Louis Reed assumed the responsibility of the parish in 1932, and in the next few years more repairs and changes were made. The old-fashioned lamps were electrified and the two wood stoves were replaced by a new oil furnace. The communicant strength was never too great, but the activity of the parish was remarkable. This trend continued until the early 1940's, when the increased mobility of the townspeople once again caused a decline in numbers. It was deemed advisable to close the parish down for the time being and it has never been reactivated. The physical plant has been maintained by the Diocese of New Hampshire with the hope that at some point it may be used as a Summer Chapel or as a Com- munity Church.
ST. JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, WALPOLE-by Rev. James Estes
On July 27, 1862, the Rev. James H. Tyng, Rector of St. Peter's Church, conducted the first Episcopal service in the Town Hall in Wal- pole Village. Services were held there every Sunday until Fall, when the Methodist Chapel was hired for that purpose. On September 25, 1862, Mr. Tyng called a meeting of all interested parties at which time the following parish officers were elected: B. P. Spaulding, Senior Warden; George Huntington, Junior Warden; A. R. Johonnot, Clerk; and Dr. H. Wotkyns, Treasurer. Two days later the society was established under the name and title of "Rector, Wardens and Vestry of St. John's Church, Walpole, N. H.". The incorporators were James L. Mitchell, B. P. Spaulding, George Huntington, H. Wotkyns, Ambrose Arnold, A. R. Johonnot, Henry W. S. Griswold. The parish was admitted to the Con- vention May 27, 1863.
Judge Josiah G. Bellows recalls the beginnings of the Episcopal society in the following manner: "At about the opening of the Civil War, in 1860-1861, two members of the Unitarian Church became much dis- satisfied at the political preaching sometimes heard there, and thought it would be a good thing to start an Episcopal Church. Accordingly they persuaded one James L. Mitchell then one of the prominent hotel keepers in New York to purchase the Methodist Chapel, which had been secured for the Catholic Church but which had proved an unfortunate venture for that Church and the Episcopalians then proceeded to hold services there and for some five or six years continued their worship under the
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direction of the Rev. Mr. Fisher. Business reverses overtook Mr. Mitchell. The Society was weak financially and Mr. Mitchell was compelled to sell the Chapel back to the Catholics."
The Rev. James H. Tyng left for the Diocese of New York on Easter of 1864 and was succeeded on May 7, 1865, by the Rev. F. S. Fisher, who served both St. Peter's and St. John's. This relationship between the two parishes was discontinued as of May 1, 1866, and three years later on February 3, 1869, Mr. Fisher resigned the rectorship of St. John's. For a decade the parish had no clergyman, and only infrequently were services held. During 1877-1878, some services were held over the Post Office, and from 1880 until 1900 occasional services were held in the Hall of Good Templars on the first floor of the Academy building.
During the Summer of 1900, a canvass of the town of Walpole was made by the Rev. Messrs. Parker, Lay and Dow of the Diocese of New Hampshire. As a direct result of this work St. John's parish was reorgan- ized in May of 1901, and the Rev. Charles S. Hale conducted services for some months. At first the services were held in the parlor of the Elmwood and then later in a room over F. A. Spaulding's store which was rented and fitted out for this purpose.
On August 1, 1902, Hudson E. Bridge presented the parish with land on which to erect a church building as a memorial to his daughter Kath- erine. On August 21, 1902, the ground was broken; and nearly a year later on August 16, 1903, the first service was held in the new church building. Following the morning service, the corner stone was laid. Three weeks later, on Saturday, September 5, 1903, the building was consecrated as St. John's Church by the Rt. Rev. William W. Niles, D.D., Bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire. Bishop Niles was assisted in the service by Canon Bryan of Garden City, L. I., the Rev. Dr. E. A. Renouf and the Rev. Alfred H. Wheeler of Keene, the Rev. E. M. Parker and the Rev. George W. Lay of St. Paul's School, Concord, the Rev. C. J. Shrimp- ton of Athol, Mass., the Rev. D. L. Sanford of Bellows Falls, the Rev. Dr. Waterman and the Rev. W. B. T. Smith of Charlestown, the Rev. Mr. Dow of Wakefield and the Rev. Mr. Ticknor of Claremont. Mrs. Helen W. Doolittle of St. James Church, Keene, and the St. James choir as- sisted with the music.
Some of the furnishings and memorial gifts are described in the Sep- tember 12, 1903 issue of The Walpole Gazette as follows: "The furnish- ings are rich and substantial. There are ten oak pews and a carved oak pulpit at the right of the chancel. The Estey organ, in a handsome colonial oak case, was the gift of Mrs. Hudson E. Bridge. The church
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furnishings comprise the following articles presented by members of the ¿ parish and friends: a brass cross and brass candlesticks for the altar from Admiral and Mrs. H. B. Robeson; a pair of brass altar vases from Miss Willard and Mr. John H. Williams; a brass altar book rest from Mrs. and Miss Tobey; a solid silver communion set in four pieces from Mrs. Har- rison P. Bridge as a memorial of her husband; a burse and veil from Rev. W. B. T. Smith of Charlestown; an oak hymn board from Mrs. E. K. Seabury; a brass lectern from Mrs. Bolivar Lovell in memory of her hus- band; an altar service book as a memorial of her husband from Mrs. James L. Mitchell; a chancel prayer book and hymnal from Mrs. Maria Louise Kendall; a carved stone font and brass cover from Mrs. Emma Bridge Chapman; an oak credence shelf from Mrs. N. W. Holland; a lectern Bible from Mr. J. E. Williams, Jr., of St. Louis, Mo .; an oak prayer desk, a memorial from Mr. and Mrs. John H. Williams. The carved oak chairs for the chancel were presented by Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Bridge. The hand- some brass chandelier was the gift of Mr. Charles H. Crump of Boston." The stained-glass window over the altar was given as a memorial to Helen and Hudson Bridge.
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