on the ridge-pole of the town. People have wed, children have been born, these rich farms have yielded their golden crops, and "God's acre" has fattened on the harvests of the 'grim reaper.' The hands that laid the enduring foundations of this temple, the fingers that tuned your father's old bass-viol, and the lips that sang old Dundee and Mears, and Coronation have for a good while laid "mouldering in the ground," while their deathless spirits have become very familiar with the high-ways and byways of the land that "stands dressed in living green." What other institutions of our town have stood the storms of a hundred years as well as our churches? What corporations among us are a century old? What societies composed of such diverse elements have held together and held to their work during the strain and stress of a hundred years and have gained in power and influence and good accomplished like our churches-not organized for profit or personal gain, but for the good of the community! You have a few farm-houses a century old, and a few farms that still remain in the same family, but they are not many; almost all kinds of property not only change hands but change names in a hundred years. The congregation changes; the deacons change; the preachers change but the church lives; and lives, we believe, because built upon the rock that no descending storm can destroy or beating winds overthrow. And we felicitate you on having proved the folly of spiritual oslerism as applied to the New England Church. You have survived your first Century ; may you thrive through your second and grow young and vigorous during the remainder-until the Lord Himself shall come to Orange to awaken the dead. (2) In the second place, I proceed to felicitate you upon your youth. When you come to think it over, you will conclude with me that any institution that survives a century, and is hale and hearty at the celebration of its centennial, without weakness of limb or dimness of vision, and smells of fresh paint and new