kind. We know, that if we could cause this structure to ascend, not only till it reached the skies, but till it pierced them, its broad surfaces could still contain but a part of that which, in an age of knowledge, has already been spread over the earth, and which history charges itself with making known to all future times. We know that no inscription, no entablatures less broad than the earth itself, can carry information of the events we commemorate where it has not already gone; and that no structure which shall not outlive the duration of letters and knowledge among men, can prolong the memorial. But our object is, by this edifice to show our deep sense of the value and importance of the achievements of our ancestors; and, by presenting this work of gratitude to the eye, to keep alive similar sentiments, and to foster a constant regard for the principles of the Revolution. Human beings are composed, not of reason only, but of imagination also, and sentiment; and that is neither wasted nor misapplied, which is appropriated to the purpose of giving right direction to sentiments, and of opening proper springs of feeling in the heart.

Let it not be supposed that our object is to perpetuate national hostility, or even to cherish a mere military spirit.

It is higher, purer, nobler. We consecrate our work to the spirit of national independence; and we wish that the light of peace may rest upon it forever. We rear a memorial of our conviction of that unmeasured benefit which has been conferred on our land, and of the happy influences which have been produced, by the same events, on the general interests of mankind. We come, as Americans, to mark a spot which must forever be dear to us and our posterity. We wish that whosoever, in all coming time, shall turn his eye hither, may behold that the place is not undistinguished where the first great battle of the Revolution was fought. We wish that this structure may proclaim the magnitude and importance of that event, to every class and every age.

We wish that infancy may learn the purpose of its erection from maternal lips; and that wearied and withered age may behold it and be solaced by the recollections which it suggests. We wish that labor may look up here and be proud in the midst of its toil. We wish that, in those days of disaster which, as they come on all nations, may be expected to come on us also, desponding patriotism may turn its eyes hitherward, and be assured that the foundations of our national power still stand strong. We wish that this coluinn, rising towards heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also to produce, in all minds, a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude. We wish, finally, that the last object on the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his heart who revisits it, may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and the glory of his country. Let it rise till it meets the sun in his coming, let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and parting day linger and play on its summit.

IX. PSALM CXXXIX. - KING DAVID.

Solemn Address.

Subjective and reverential attitude, low pitch, long quantity, inclined to monotone, full tone, slow rate, thorough, inclined to intermittent stress.

O Lord, 0 | thou hast | searched me, | 0 and | known me. |0 00 00 Thou knowest my | down- | sitting |0 and mine up- 0 | rising, |0 thou | under- | standest my thoughts | 10 a far off. 010 010 0| Thou | compassest my path, 0 | 0 and my | lying | down, 0 | and art ac- | quainted with | all my ways. | 00 | For there is not a | word in my tongue, 1 0 but | lo, 0 | O 0 | Lord, | thou 0 | knowest it | alto- | gether. |00|00| Thou hast be- | set me | 0 be- | hind and be- | fore, 00 and laid thine | hand up- | on me. |1 0 0|00| Such 0 | knowledge is too | wonderful for me: |00| it is | high, 0 |0 I cannot at- | tain unto it. | 0 0 | 0 0 | Whither shall I

go 0 | 0 from thy spirit? | 00 | 0 or | whither shall I | flee from thy presence? |00|00| If I as- | cend 0 | up into | heaven, | 0 0 | thou art | there: | 00 | if I | make my | bed in | hell | 0 be- | hold, 0 | thou art | there. |00|00| If I take the wings of the morning | 0 and | dwell in the uttermost parts of the | sea: 0|00| Even | there | 0 shall thy | hand 0 | lead me, | 0 and thy | right 0 | hand shall | hold me. |00|00| If I say, | Surely the darkness shall | cover me: | 00 | even the | night 0 | 0 shall be | light a- | bout me: |00| Yea, | 0 the darkness | hideth not from | thee; | 00 || but the night | shineth as the | day: |00|0 the darkness and the light 0 10 are | both a- like | 0 to | thee. |0 0 1001

X. CHAPTER IX.- ST. JOHN.

Thoughtful Narrative. — Observe the dignified and thoughtful attitude of Jesus, the haughty bearing of the Pharisees, the cautious manner of the parents, the joyful manner of the man with restored sight, and finally his twitting of the Pharisees. Medium rate, middle pitch, long quantity, median stress, dramatic representation of the various speakers.

And as Jesus | passed | by, 0|0 he saw a man which was | blind from his | BIRTH. | 00 | 00 | And his dis- ciples | asked him, saying, | Master, | who did | SIN, 00 this | man | 0 or his | parents, | that he was | born 0 | blind? | 0 0 | 0 0 Jesus answered, | Neither hath this | MAN | sinned | NOR his parents |00| but that the | works of | God | 0 should be made 0 | MANIFEST in | him. | 00 | 00 | I must work the | works of | him that | sent me, | while it is | day; | 0 0 | 0 the | NIGHT | Cometh | 0 when | no 0 | man | can 0 | work. 0 | 0 0 |00|0 As | long | 0 as | I am in the world, 0 | I | am the | LIGHT | 0 of the world. | 0 0|00| When he had thus 0 | spoken, | 0 he | spat on the | GROUND, 0 | 0 and | made | CLAY 0 of the spittle, | and he A- | NOINTED the eyes 0 | 0 of the | blind | man | 0 with the | clay, 0 | 0 and | said unto him, | Go, 0 wash in the pool of | Siloam, | 0 0 | (which is, by in

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| terpre- | tation, | Sent.) 0 0 0 0|0 He went his | WAY, | therefore, 10 and | WASHED, | 0 and came | seeing. 10 01 001

0 The NEIGHBORS | therefore, 10 and they which before had seen him, | that he was | blind, | 0 0 | said, 0 | Is not | this 0 he that SAT and | BEGGED? |00|00| Some | said, 0 | This is | HE; |00| others | said, 0 | He is | LIKE him: | 00 |0 but HE said, 0|I| AM | he. | 0 0|0 0 | Therefore | said they unto him, | 00 | How I were thine | eyes | OPENED? |00|00|0 He answered and I said, | 0 A | man | 0 that is called | JESUS | made | clay, | 0 and a | nointed mine | eyes, | 0 and | said unto me, | Go to the | pool of | Siloam, | 0 and wash: 0100 and I | WENT and | WASHED, | 0 and I re- |ceived | SIGHT. | 0 0 | 0 0 | Then | said they unto him, | 0 0 | Where is he? | 00 | 0 He | said, 0 | 0 I know not. | 0 0 1001

0 They brought to the | PHARISEES | him that a- | foretime | 0 was | blind, | 00 | And it was the | Sabbath | day 0 | 0 when | Jesus made the | clay, | 0 and | opened his | eyes. | 0 0 | 0 0 | Then again the | Pharisces | ALSO | asked him | how he had received his | sight. | 0 0 | 0 He | said unto | them, | 0 He | put 0 | CLAY 0 | 0 upon mine | eyes, |0 and I| WASHED | and do | SEE. | 0 0 0 0 | Therefore said | some of the | Pharisees, | 0 THIS man is not of | God, | 0 be- | cause | 0 he keepeth not the SABBATH | day. | 0 0 | Others | said, 0 | How can a | man that is a | sinner, | do such | MIRACLES? | 00 | And there was | 0 a di- | vision a- | mong them. | 0 0|00|0 They say unto the blind | man a- | gain, 0 | 0 0 | What | sayest | THOU of him? | that he hath opened thine | eyes? | 00 | 0 He said, 0 | He is a | PROPHET. | 00 | 00 |

0 But the Jews | did not BE- | LIEVE con- | cerning him | 0 that he had been | blind, | 0 and re- | ceived his | sight, | 0 un- | til they called the | PARENTS of | him that had re- |ceived his | sight. | 000 And they | asked THEM, | saying, 10 0 | Is | this your son, | who ye | say | 0 was born | blind? 0 0 0 |

how then 0 | doth he now 0 | SEE? 0|00|00|0 His | parents | answered them | 0 and | said, | 0 0 | 0 We | know | that this is our | SON, 0 | and that he was born | BLIND: 0 |00| But by what 0 | means | 0 he | now | seeth, | 0 we | know | NOT; 0|0 or | WHO hath | opened his | eyes, | 0 we | know not: 0 0 | he is of | AGE, 0 | ask 0 | HIM, O | he shall | speak for him- | self. 0|00|00

These words 0 | spake his | parents, | 0 be- | cause they | FEARED the Jews: |00|0 for the Jews had agreed al | ready, that if any man | 0 did | confess that he was | CHRIST, he should be | put 0 | out of the synagogue. | 0 0 | 00 | Therefore I said his parents, | he is of | AGE, 0 | ask 0 | HIM. 0 0 0|00|

Then A- GAIN 0 | called they the ❘ man that was | blind, | 0 and said, 0 | Give 0 | GOD the praise: 10 we know that | this 0 | MAN 0 | 0 is a | sinner. | 00 | 0 0 | 0 He answered and I said, 0 | Whether he | be a | SINNER or no, 0|0 I know not; | 00 | one | thing I | KNOW, | 0 that where- | as I | was 0 | blind 0 0 0 | now 010 I see. |00|0 0 | Then 0 | said they to him again, 0 | What DID he to thee? | 00 | How 0 I opened he thine | eyes? |00|00|0 He answered them, | 0 I have told you AL- | READY, | 0 and ye | did not | HEAR: |00| wherefore I would ye | hear it again? 0 0 10 Will | YE | also | be his dis- | ciples? | 00 | 00 | Then they RE- | VILED him, 0 and I said, | THOU art | HIS dis- | ciple; | 0 but

WE are MOSES' dis- ciples. 10 010 010 We | KNOW that God 0 spake unto | MOSES: 0 0 | as for | this 0 | FELLOW, |0 we know not from | WHENCE he | is. | 0 0 0 0 0 The | man answered and | said unto them, | 00 | Why, 0| herein | 0 is a | MARVELLOUS | thing, | 0 that VE | know not from whence he | is, 0 | 0 and | yet he hath | opened mine | eyes. 10 0 0 0 Now we know that | God 0 | heareth not | SINNERS: 0 0 | but if | any man | be a | WORSHIPPER of | God, 0|0 and | doeth his | WILL, 0 | him he | heareth. | 0 0 | 0 0 | Since the world be- | gan 0 | it was not | heard, | 0 that | any