Excerpt from Order of Exercises, Dedication of the Cole's Hill Memorial, Thursday, September 8, 1921, at the First Church, Plymouth, Mass: Report of the Committee on the Tercentenary Celebration and Permanent Memorial God of our fathers, whose arm failed them not, neither has failed their children, we gather here with grateful hearts that Thou hast been a sun and a shield to them and to us, through all the years that are past. We come in reverence and loyalty to this shrine of the spirit to reconsecrate ourselves to the things here begun and the ideals here set up. We thank Thee for our lineage and for our inheritance. We thank Thee for the names we bear, which our fathers established in honor for all time; for the laws and covenants and constitutions which they handed down to us; for as much of their spirit as still survives in us and in the land they helped to found; for their imperishable virtues, their indomitable faith, their unfailing courage, their patience, fortitude, and loyalty to conscience. We thank Thee for the witness they bore to the truth of God and to the duty of man. We thank Thee for their brave persistence, through frost and famine, through peril and pestilence, through loneliness and bereavement, in treading the way of the Fore-runner and making straight a highway for Thee in the wilderness of a new land. Help us, O God, renew their work in a day of trial and distress. Help us to trust in Thy guidance and care; to give ourselves to Thy service, to the upbuilding of Thy Kingdom, to obedience to Thy law, to prayerful lives, to unselfish sacrifice, to fervent and sincere worship. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.