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Show 3(7> • Bushman Diary Feb. 1890 (3) Tuesday 11, 1890 (C ontinued) A.t 7 o.m. a.11 CO'.Wened a.t our residence and the follovring program was carried out. 1. S-:tng Silver ~ells , by the company 2. Speech by J .H.P..ichards . 3. Recitation bv Teresa Richardson , the Diamond We dding 4. Song by sist~r 1ia.nsen 5. The following written address by ilro. E .M.Webb of Woodruff was ree.d: Dear Friends, we meet with you once more, And wish you joy and health and peace And like your friends in days of yore ~e hope these b lessings will increase. A thousand years to mike a day Hovr many days· to make a year? For Live and t.'Tentv years h?,ve fled We stand against eternity ve · 1' Like all th2.ngs else they'passed away Ex?anse beyond our gra sp, I fear. And left behind the day you wed But broug;..ht your Silver Wedding Day. 1-To· matter when that day may be i!'!hen you are on that happy shore How soon the seasons come and go , '.l:'hat 's b ounded by Eternity How soon the E10ments pass away And time has been, to be no mo re The minutes soon to hours do grow And soon the h 01..,rs have made the day. That brings your e~¼veP Silver Wedding day. · 1; And a 11 is love 9.nd joy and peace ]',lay we be there and then we' 11 say And so the days soon make the week The weeks the nonths , the ~onths the year May your true ha?piness increase. And nau ght is left and then we s;:ieak Of joys we 1 ve had, of sorrows, tears. i And did I say thatl11.aurht is left, O surely no: for memory Restores to. "'an what t irne bereft He lives again: 0 mysery ( myst"'ry ?) And so vre r.1eet , dear friends with you To celebrate that haopy day Long y ears ago when ,ure and t rue Your vows vrere ma.de to last for aye. The Have The The:, sorrows that have come you served their purpose , let them pass joys and pleasur e n ow renevr, vrill not a l vrays st:,ty, a la.s. Alas? 0 no, tis better Tis better that they do A11 things desi ~ned by All earthly things must thus, not stay God are just pass away . The Saints of God by faith can see A future time with b lj_ss re o lete, vrnen sorrow, oa in and minery . Gi"e place to haa.:iiness c omnlete. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Song by Lary Porter Stump s p!3ech 1 ,y H. M. Ta nner Song by Ida ,lclall Rerr.1.rks by J .c . tLq_ nsen Recitation by Ellen Smith |
