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The gift of
BlJen F . Draper
HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY
vSiSi.
,THE
ADIN BALLOU
A SOUVENIR
Seliitatton of
THE ADIN BALLOU
MEMORIAL
INCLUDING
THE UNVEILING OF THE STATUE
A HISTORICAL STATEMENT
WITH
FORMAL PRESENTATION AND RESPONSE
COMMEMORATIVE ADDRESSES AND
ACCOMPANYING EXERCISES
AT
HOPEDALE, MASSACHUSETTS
OCTOBER 27
1900
CAMBRIDGE
1901
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PRELIMINARY STATEMENT
EXERCISES ON THE GROUNDS .
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
UNVEILING OF THE STATUE
EXERCISES IN THE TOWN HALL .
PRAYER BY REV. CHARLES J. WHITE .
SELECTED HYMN ....
ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE DAY
HISTORICAL STATEMENT
PRESENTATION AND RESPONSE
ADDRESS OF REV. LEWIS G. WILSON .
LETTERS ......
ADDRESS OF REV. CARLTON A. STAPLES
ADDRESS OF DANIEL SEAGRAVES .
ADDRESS OF ALEXANDER WILDER, M. D.
APPENDIX
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PRELIMINARY STATEMENT
The Adin Ballou Memorial, an account of the
dedication of which is given in the following pages,
consists of a statue of the man whose name it bears,
somewhat larger than life, surmounting a massive
pedestal appropriately inscribed, and the grounds on
which it stands. It is located near the center of the
principal village of the thriving town of Hopedale,
Massachusetts, once the seat of the Hopedale Com-
munity, of which Mr. Ballou was the founder and
leading spirit. The grounds constituted his former
homestead, on which he resided for nearly half a cen-
tury ; the dwelling house and its appurtenances oc-
cupying one corner of them, the remaining portion
being devoted to gardening purposes and the produc-
tion of various kinds of fruit. They have a frontage
of eight rods and a depth of about ten and a half
rods, making an area of a little more than half an
acre. The house was a modest one story and a half
cottage with an ell, to which a small printing-office
was attached. The buildings have been taken away,
the cottage being removed to a new site a quarter of
a mile distant, refitted, and otherwise improved and
made convenient and attractive for further domestic
service. The lot, relieved of these incumbrances,
and of several large fruit trees in the foreground, has
been carefully graded, laid out, beautified, and fitted
6 ADIN BALLOU MEMORIAL
for its new uses, under the direction of a skillful
landscape gardener. It is now a broad lawn, inter-
sected by well-graveled walks, and ornamented with
beds of shrubbery and flowers of tasteful design.
Most of the fruit trees in the rear are preserved, and
will remain as they are until other trees more desira-
ble for their shapeliness and shade can be grown.
The monument, including the statue and pedes-
tal, occupies a position somewhat to the rear of the
center of the lot and considerably removed from the
main street of the village ; from which, however,
excellent views of it can be obtained, whatever be
the direction of approach. The statue is of Roman
bronze, eight feet in height, and weighs sixteen hun-
dred pounds. It was modeled by William Ordway
Partridge, of New York City and Milton, Mass., and
finished under his immediate supervision, the casting
being done by proficient artisans in New York. It
represents Mr. Ballou as he was in mid-life, with a
light mustache and beard, all his powers in full vigor,
standing erect and self-possessed, in a natural position,
and one perfectly familiar to those who knew him
at that period, as if in the act of addressing a public
assembly. His left hand grasps a book which rests
upon a supporting column simulating a pulpit or
desk, while the right hand is thrown out a foot or more
from the body — a posture altogether characteristic
of him when engaged in earnest argument or exhor-
tation. His head is bare, and his countenance, the
features of which are strikingly correct, is lighted
up with an animated and exceedingly lifelike ex-
pression.
PREUMINARY STATEMENT 7
The pedestal, supporting the statue and consisting
of a die, base, and sub-base, is also about eight feet high
and of good proportions throughout. It is made of
Cape Ann granite from the quarries of Jonas French
& Co., according to plans drawn by Daniel Wood-
bury of Boston, architect, who superintended its
construction and erection. The die is six feet in
height, with slightly inclining sides, its top measuring
three feet four inches square and its bottom four feet,
and weighs seven tons. The base is seven feet
square and the sub-base ten feet. The whole struc-
ture rests apparently upon a grass-covered mound,
slightly raised above the general level of the ground
about it, while having a substantial and durable
foundation underneath. The mound is surrounded
by a spacious graveled area which has two approaches
from Hopedale Street in front and one from Peace
Street on the southerlv side.
On the several faces of the die are the following
inscriptions, appearing substantially as indicated.
On the front or west face : —
ADIN BALLOU ;
Preacher, Author^ Reform er. Philanthropist^
Apostle of Christian Socialism,
AND
Founder of the Hopedale Community.
1 803-1 890.
" Blessed are the Peacemakers."
" Not disobedient to the heavenly vision."
8 ADIN BALLOU MEMORIAL
On the rear or east face : —
This Monument is erected and these grounds are set
apart as a Memorial of Adin Ballou — a tribute of affection,
gratitude, and honor, from many friends.
On this spot he spent the greater portion of his life ;
here he wrought his chief work and entered into rest.
Dedicated and presented to the
Town of Hopedale,
October 27, 1900.
On the south face : —
A man of rational Christian faith, sterling qualities of
mind, and rare excellence of character ; whose life was de-
voted to works of Righteousness, Brotherhood, and Peace,
— to the well-being of his kind and the upbuilding of the
kingdom of God on the earth.
On the north face : —
Extract from Preface to the History of Hopedale Community,
" If Providence has entrusted me with any distinctive
mission in the world, it is to aid in showing my fellow-men
the way into that Christlike order of life which illustrates
the great ideas of the Fatherhood of God and the Brother-
hood of man."
ADIN BALLOU MEMORIAL
DEDICATORY AND COMMEMORATIVE
EXERCISES
The movement for a permanent Memorial of
Adin Ballou, inaugurated in the autumn of 1898
and urged forward with befitting diligence through
the intervening period, reached its culmination two
years later ; the event being celebrated with appro-
priate dedicatory and commemorative exercises in
the town of Hopedale, Mass., where the said Me-
morial is located, on the afternoon of the 27th of
October in the year 1900. Announcement of what
was to take place having been widely extended by
private circulars and through the public press, a
considerable assemblage of people from near and far
was gathered on the date specified, each and all de-
sirous of expressing by their presence and participa-
tion in the exercises of the day their appreciation of
the nobility and worth of the man whom they had
known but to admire and love, and of doing honor
to his name and memory. The occasion was ren-
dered the more noteworthy and impressive by the
closing of the mills in the village, the suspension in
large measure of ordinary business, and the general
lo ADIN BALLOU MEMORIAL
quiet that prevailed, as on a day of rest and sacred
observance. The weather proved somewhat in-
auspicious and threatening, which prevented many,
no doubt, especially aged and infirm persons, from
attending, while the funeral of a prominent and
much esteemed citizen of Milford near by, occurring
at the same time, detained many more who would
otherwise have been present.
Nevertheless, a goodly company convened at the
outset on the memorial grounds, standing singly or in
groups in close proximity to the monument, convers-
ing with each other, or awaiting in silence the opening
ceremonies. Promptly at the hour of half-past one,
the time fixed upon for the exercises to commence,
the Hopedale Band, whose members had kindly
volunteered their services for the occasion, arrested
the attention of those gathered around and brought
them into proper order by strains of carefully chosen
and well-rendered music. When they ceased. Rev.
Wm. S. Hey wood, of Dorchester, son-in-law of Mr.
Ballou, who had had general charge of the work
now brought to a successful issue, stepped to the
improvised platform, and in an informal manner
began the speaking of the afternoon with the fol-
lowing
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.
The grandest product of any land or clime is a
great and noble man, — a man of preeminent quali-
ties of mind, and heart, and character, whose intel-
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS ii
lectual and executive endowments are surmounted
and dominated by a lofty moral purpose and a pro-
found sense of the eternal verities, and whose life,
consecrated to high aims and animated by a Christ-
like spirit, is devoted to the well-being and happi-
ness of his fellow-men and to the establishment of
the divine kingdom on the earth : his chief if not
his only care, " to stand approved in sight of God,
though worlds judge him perverse." Such a man
is a consummate flower in the garden of humanity,
imparting fragrance and vitality to surrounding airs ;
"a gem of purest ray serene," shining conspicu-
ous amid the common jewels that adorn and en-
rich the world. He is a masterpiece of creative
wisdom and love, the crowning glory in the realm
of time of the handiwork of the Almighty, " tran-
scending," as Theodore Parker says, " the earth and
moon and sun — all the material magnificence of the
universe." A guide is he and an inspiration to other
men — to the age in which he lives and to unnum-
bered ages yet to come. His life enters into the life
of the race, cleansing it of its impurities, quickening
its better energies, developing its higher capabilities,
renewing, beautifying, transfiguring it forevermore.
Men of this type are not numerous in our day,
or, indeed, at any period of history. They do not
throng the thoroughfares of the globe ; are but rarely
found in the arena of human eflfort and accomplish-
ment. But when they appear, it becomes us to
take knowledge of them ; to recognize them, to ap-
preciate them, to reverence them, to render them
12 ADIN BALLOU MEMORIAL
the homage ever due to immaculate virtue and im-
perishable worth. And this is the purpose for which
we are convened to-day. For such a man as I have
portrayed, in large degree, was Adin Ballou, — he
to whom we now and here pay tribute ; the tribute
of personal esteem, of heartfelt gratitude, of affec-
tionate remembrance and well-merited commenda-
tion. A man was he of gentle bearing and persua-
sive speech, of unimpeachable integrity and a name
without reproach, a consistent disciple of the Master
he loved so well and a wise interpreter of the coun-
sels of God, an earnest champion of unpopular
causes and salutary reforms, and a benefactor of his
kind. And we have met, on the very spot where he
dwelt for nearly fifty years and wrought his chief
work, and whence, in ripened age, he entered into
rest, that we may celebrate the consummation of an
undertaking designed to crown him with somewhat
of the honor felt to be his due, and to perpetuate
his name, his memory, and his beneficent, uplifting
influence in the world unto many generations.
It is not for me, however, to pronounce his eulogy
or speak his praise ; to recount his multiform per-
sonal and social accomplishments ; his distinguishing
intellectual, moral, and spiritual characteristics ; or to
rehearse even a single chapter of the story of his long,
active, consecrated, and benignly useful life. Testi-
monies of such a nature, whatever they may be, will
come more fittingly from other lips than mine, whose
utterances you will presently be privileged to hear.
It is my simple task just now, as the one upon
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS 13
whom has devolved the responsibility of superin-
tending in a general way the movement which this
day reaches its culmination and of making provision
for this observance, to open its proceedings with
these introductory remarks, and, in behalf of those
by whose free-will offerings these grounds hiave been
prepared and this monument erected upon them as
a permanent memorial to Adin Ballou, to welcome
you to this locality, made sacred by so many never-
to-be-forgotten memories and associations, and to
the various exercises, here and elsewhere, of this in-
teresting and hallowed occasion. May something
of the humane, reverent, heroic spirit of him to
whom we do honor possess all our hearts, and may
his illustrious example as a servant of the truth,
a warrior against every form of wrong, and a friend
and helper of his fellow-men, be to us all an incen-
tive and encouragement to the best use of all our
powers, to righteous and noble living, from this time
henceforth, as long as we have being.
I will claim your attention no longer at this stage
of proceedings than to beg the privilege of presenting
to you Mr. Eben S. Draper of Hopedale, who has
been asked and kindly consented to serve as Presi-
dent of the Day, in which capacity he will have
charge of the further exercises prepared for us.
Mr. Draper upon assuming the position specified
made grateful acknowledgment of the honor con-
ferred upon him in a few fitly chosen words, re-
serving the more formal address he had prepared
14 ADIN BALLOU MEMORIAL
for a later opportunity. He then stated that the
next exercise upon the programme for the day was
the unveiling of the statue, and he called upon
Mrs. Abbie Ballou Heywood, the daughter and
only near relative of Mr. Ballou present, to perform
that duty.
Mrs. Heywood, who had meanwhile stepped upon
the platform, holding the cord by which the cover-
ing was to be removed from the still concealed pro-
duct of the sculptor's art, at once complied with the
request, and the full figure of her beloved and revered
father appeared in all the dignity and nobleness of his
distinctive personality, as manifested in mid-life, when,
under the inspiration of some great theme, he stood
in the presence of a congregation of eager listeners,
instructing or exhorting them concerning the things
that make for righteousness, or upon some scheme
or plan of his devising for the betterment of the
world.
The unveiling of the statue having taken place and
the accompanying applause having subsided, those
in attendance, by direction of the President, formed
a procession, and, under the leadership of the Band,
repaired to the Town Hall where the remaining ob-
servances of the occasion were to be held.
Upon reassembling, the audience being augmented
by a large number of persons, who for various
reasons had not participated in the open-air cere-
monies, to the extent of filling the spacious audito-
rium to its utmost seating capacity, the services were
PRAYER OF REV. C. J. WHITE 1 5
. resumed with as little delay as practicable, and pro-
ceeded without interruption to the end. The Band
honored the occasion with another selection, after
which Rev. Charles J. White, of Woonsocket, R. I.,
offered the following fervent and impressive
PRAYER.
Almighty and ever blessed God, our heavenly
Father, we are gathered here to-day to pay the trib-
ute of our reverent love to one whom thou didst
bless as thou didst thy servant of old, and whom
thou madest a blessing to us and to a great multitude
no man can number. During many eventful years
he went in and out amongst us — a man of God, a
humble, faithful follower of thy Son, Jesus Christ.
We humbly invoke thy blessing upon us and upon
these services. May a deeper sense of the beauty
of such a life and its worth to the world come into all
our hearts. To live in an age full of distractions, full
of the idolatry of mammon worship, of materialism,
of atheism, and yet to live the higher life, — never
swerving from the path of rectitude, never losing
sight of the true ends of life, never bartering spirit-
ual treasures for the dross of our market-places,
to have been always the same calm, manly man —
this won all our hearts. His life was a light shining
in the darkness. It made the place where he dwelt
to be like a city set upon a hill whose light is shed
abroad over distant fields. His words appealed to
our sense of justice, truth, righteousness, and love ;
1 6 ADIN BALLOU MEMORIAL
his presence, to all the sentiments of a true and
genuine manhood. He taught us the worth of char-
acter, showed us how a steadfastness in adherence to
principle gives dignity and power to life. He illus-
trated the charm of simple manners, sincerity in
speech and fidelity in action. He made attractive
to us ' the quiet heroism of a life that seeks only to
be true and useful. By his life he made the gospel
luminous. He became our instructor in righteous-
ness. He was our leader in works of reform. He
interpreted for u$ the divine word in nature, in hu-
man experience, and in the holy book. His sincerity
chastened us, his purity won us, his goodness wrought
as a spell, his wisdom excited our reverence, his
courage inspired us, his sweet spirit was a continual
refreshment. Our Father, we loved this man whom
thou didst bless, and we pray that we may never for-
get him and the sacred lessons of his life. Forever
inscribed upon the tablets of our souls may his
gracious memory remain. May his fidelity to con-
victions of right and duty, and his benignity in the
maintenance of them, come more and more into our
lives. Persuaded that we are right, may we as fear-
lessly and unselfishly as he withstand the evil and
fight against the iniquity that assails us. May we
have more of sympathy for the weak, the sorrowing,
the poor, the bereaved, and all the multitudes that
need a friend, a consoler, and inspirer.
Out of the shadows into light — out of despair
into hope — out of hate into love he led them. He
comforted them ; he brought them to the healing and
PRAYER OF REV. C. J. WHITE 17
refreshing waters of life. O Father, as yonder
statue, massive, majestic, lifelike, stands through
storm and sunshine, and all the tumult of the ele-
ments from year to year, an impressive spectacle to
the people of this place and to the strangers who
shall visit it, may its moral significance never be
lost. May the venerable man as he beholds it say,
" Surely virtue makes life worth living." May the
young say, "It is noble to serve the needs of the
world, to spurn ignorance and indolence, and to
live for the cause of truth and righteousness." May
all who behold it say, " To be such a Christian as
he is to be a prince in the city of our God." May
his associates in the ministry of Christ emulate his
example. Will God bless and sanctify the life of
his servant and all the solemnities of this occasion
to the everlasting welfare of his people, for His holy
name's sake. Amen.
The assemblage then united in singing the follow-
ing Hymn written for another occasion by Rev.
John W. Chadwick, of Brooklyn, N. Y.
^^ What has drawn us now apart
From the common daily round,
Bringing here a lowly heart,
Standing as on holy ground ?
** Not the scorn of humble things,
Simple tasks that love can find ;
Not the pride of thought that brings
Laggard will and restless mind.
1 8 ADIN BALLOU MEMORIAL
" Nay, but here upon the height,
Rapt from idle cares away.
Fain our souls would see a light.
Herald of the coming day ; —
^^ Morning visions high and pure,
Glorious things that are to be.
Faith and hope that shall endure.
Love's abiding unity ; —
^^ All the things that make for peace
In the daily toil and strife ;
All that can our part increase
In the world's diviner life.
*' Short the time we linger here ;
Then with earnest heart and hand.
Back to work with holy fear ;
Every vision God's command."
ADDRESS
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE DAY.
Ladies and Gentlemen, — Under ordinary cir-
cumstances it would have given me great pleasure
to officiate in these dedicatory exercises, but as the
only reason for my doing it is the illness of my brother.
General Draper, I am sorry to be occupying the posi-
tion. I am very glad, however, to say that while
his physicians do not consider it wise for him to at-
tend to business at the present time, he is improving
very rapidly, and it will be, I trust, a comparatively
short time before he is entirely recovered and is at-
tending to his ordinary duties.
As you are all aware he has presented the statue
of Mr. Ballou which is to-day being dedicated.
The grounds have been given by many friends
and admirers, but the statue, as I have said, has been
presented by General Draper. He desired extremely
to have been present to-day to take part in the exer-
cises, both because he had a great admiration and
respect for Mr. Ballou, and further, because he de-
sired to say this in public and quite at length ; in fact
he urged me to be present on this occasion, because
he thought it was important that our family should
be represented in the exercises on account of their
life-long admiration and intimacy with Mr. Ballou.
20 ADIN BALLOU MEMORIAL
I do not feel that it would be wise or proper for
me to undertake any special eulogium or discrimi-
nating criticism of Mr. Ballou and his work. That
can much better and more properly be done by
those who were more closely associated with him,
and who knew him longer, and more especially
those who were intimate with him during the time
of his hardest work and greatest trials. When I had
the benefit of acquaintance and association with him,
after I was old enough to appreciate it, he was in the
position of minister in the Hopedale parish, and my
acquaintance was that ordinarily existing between a
pastor and one of his congregation, except that I had
a partial understanding and realization of the work
he had done in the past.
The principal feature of Mr. Ballou's life, as I
knew it, outside of his goodness, which impressed
me, was his strength, more mental than physical in
later days, but evidently great, physically as well as
mentally, in his prime. It was always remarkable to
me to see a man of such grand strength of brain, and
also of feeling, evidently blessed with sufficient force
so that in other men it might be called temper, always
have perfect self-control and never to be, or seem to
be, anything except a strong, just, good man. I do
not know that the words Mr. Ballou uttered were
any more remarkable than those uttered by other
men, but they carried conviction with them, and im-
pressed any one who heard them greatly.
It has often seemed to me, from my experience of
men in public station and in public life, that it is not
ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT DRAPER 21
SO much what a man says as the man who says it, that
impresses people and carries conviction, and this to
my mind was the great force in what Mr. Ballou said,
the character and goodness of the man back of what
he said, which was known of all men. With his
earlier work connected with the founding and con-
ducting of the Hopedale Community, I of course was
not familiar, but knowing what a tremendous disap-
pointment the seeming failure of his idea must have
been to him, I was much impressed with the fact that
he had not allowed it in any way, so far as could be
seen, to embitter his life, or to prejudice his judg-
ment of men and things. This in itself proved the
possession of great and rare virtues, because we all
know that there are few men with whom we are ac-
quainted, who are strong enough to endure failures
in the accomplishment of things that are dear to
them, without rendering them unable in the future
to judge of other men and things justly or properly.
His love of truth, as he understood it, was with
him a supreme feeling, and the only person that he
had to convince of the truth of anything, in order to
have him live absolutely in that line, was himself.
He was considerate of the opinion of others, but
when they did not agree with his own well con-
sidered conclusions, he had no doubt or hesitation in
following his own path. His personality was de-
lightful ; his conversation most interesting ; and his
manner charming and sincere. It was always a
pleasure to meet him, and his presence was always
an influence for good.
22 ADIN BALLOU MEMORIAL
I am glad that this statue which has been unveiled
to-day has been erected, and in the future, as it calls
to mind the person whom it represents, it will help
all who hear of his life to be better and nobler them-
selves.
HISTORICAL STATEMENT AND PRESEN-
TATION
BY REV. WM. S. HEYWOOD
Two years ago, in the autumn of 1898, Mr. and
Mrs. William Tebb/ of London, England, old-
time friends and admirers of the man upon whom
our chief thoughts are fixed to-day, being on a brief
visit to this country, spent an afternoon with myself
and wife at our home in Dorchester. During the
interview, occupied mostly in conversation upon
questions of reform, with reminiscences relating to
the progressive movements of the past fifty years or
more and the persons identified with them, among
whom he stood conspicuous, one of our guests,
when reference was made to him, remarked that
there ought to be a monument erected as a testi-
monial to his exalted character and signal service of
the truth and of humanity, and as a means of
transmitting his name and influence to posterity.
Whereupon the suggestion became for quite a while
the theme of animated discussion, our English
friends urging with much zeal the inauguration of
immediate practical measures for carrying it into
effect. Mrs. Heywood and myself, though naturally
gratified at the proposition, were yet reluctant to
become sponsors for the contemplated movement, or
1 See Appendix.
24 ADIN BALLOU MEMORIAL
to be regarded as its originators or chief promo-
ters. But we were willing to cooperate with others
in its behalf, and, if desired, to act as their agents
in seeing what could be done in the way of prose-
cuting it to a successful issue. So much was stated
to our visitors, and I personally promised to confer
with persons in Hopedale and elsewhere who might
be presumed to have sufficient interest in the project
to aid in its realization. Proceeding to do this, the
response was so favorable that upon fiirther consul-
tation with Mr. and Mrs. Tebb it was determined
to enter upon the undertaking at the earliest prac-
ticable date.
Of course the execution of the proposed work in-
volved the raising of money, which must be done
by an appeal to the friends of Mr. Ballou scattered
far and wide over a large extent of country. But
before such an appeal could be issued it was im-
portant that some certain amount should be fixed
upon as the maximum of expectation in this regard.
And this matter was thoughtfully considered in con-
versation and correspondence with Mr. and Mrs.
Tebb, the decision being that five thousand dollars
(1 5000) should be asked for, in the confident hope
that two thirds or three fourths of that sum could
be secured with little difficulty. Another prelimi-
nary question that arose requiring early answer related
to the character, nature, or form of the memorial it-
self. And this proved a more serious problem — one
upon which much time and thought were expended.
Several things were suggested as perhaps suited to
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the end in view. One was to reconstruct the Ballou
dwelling-house, make it as durable as possible, and
fit it up as a museum in which could be collected
and preserved household articles, pictures, books,
letters, manuscripts, and other mementos of its for-
mer occupant and his distinctive work. Another
was to solicit of Mr. Joseph B. Bancroft, who was
understood to be contemplating the erection of a
library building as a tribute to the memory of his
estimable wife, such an enlargement or change of his
plans as to allow a room, corridor, or alcove within
its walls to be set apart and used for the purpose
already indicated in regard to the house. A third
proposal was to erect on a section of the Ballou
homestead near the street a massive, ornate, impos-
ing fountain, whose waters should flow perpetually
and abundantly for the comfort and refreshment of
both man and beast. This was strongly favored,
not only on the ground of its practical utility, but
because of its symbolic significance — the personal
infiuence and public labors of Mr. Ballou having
been a source of inspiration and renewed life to many
souls. To these several propositions, however, there
arose objections which caused them at length to be
abandoned for another that seemed more feasible
and satisfactory. And this was to place on some part
of the said home lot a monument of massive size
and artistic design, bearing fitly chosen inscriptions
and emblems of a varied but distinctively expressive
and appropriate character.
That point being settled, another scarcely less
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perplexing and difficult of solution came to the
front. What shall be the form of the monument
itself, its architectural design or character? And
efforts were at once put forth to obtain information
and fix upon something acceptable and conclusive in
that regard. Mr. and Mrs. Tebb, who had left
Boston for the South before that matter came up for
consideration, visited sculpture galleries, marble and
granite works, and cemeteries along their way, hop-
ing to find what in their judgment would serve the
purpose in view, but without avail. I did the same
in and about Boston and New York, but had no
better success. They continued their quest in Lon-
don and vicinity after their return home in Decem-
ber with the same result. Nothing was found quite
satisfactory to any of us. The search was at length
suddenly terminated and all perplexity relieved in
a manner as unexpected as it was gratifying and
conclusive.
While making a call one morning upon Mrs.
Edward L. Osgood at her home in Boston, the pro-
posed monument became a theme of conversation.
Referring to the form or design which should char-
acterize it, she said with much feeling and emphasis,
"It ought to be a statue." " Yes," I replied, " that
Would be the most appropriate and desirable ; but
statues cost money — much more than it was deemed
possible to raise or wise to attempt to raise." And
there, after a few more remarks between us, the mat-
ter rested.
The following day I wrote to her brother. Gen-
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eral Wm. F. Draper, then in Rome as United States
Ambassador, giving him some account of the move-
ment for the contemplated memorial and soliciting
for it his favorable consideration and aid. I also
spoke of the difficulty experienced in finding a suit-
able design for the proposed structure, and asked
him, situated as he was at one of the great art centers
of the world, where sculptures greet the eye along
almost every street, as well as in studios, museums,
and galleries of art, to look about, and, if possible,
find something that in his judgment would meet
the requirements of the case. I also incidentally
quoted the words of his sister the day before, with
my comment in reply to them.
By due course of mail an answer to this com-
munication was received, expressing a deep interest
in the enterprise and a readiness to render it sub-
stantial aid, without going into details. A few days
later a second letter came to hand, in which was this
significant passage : "If the idea of a memorial
statue meets the views of other contributing friends,
I will make the following proposition : If they will
provide the grounds properly fitted up, — say the
lot on which Mr. Ballou's house now stands, — I
will give a statue and pedestal." This generous
oflFer was speedily made known to friends in this
vicinity, who were much pleased with it, and in due
time to Mr. and Mrs. Tebb, whose satisfaction and
delight words could but inadequately express.
Encouraged by this happy solution of a perplex-
ing problem, those having the enterprise in charge
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deemed it advisable to institute immediate measures
for its prosecution and fulfillment. Circulars were
accordingly issued, stating briefly what had been
undertaken and what accomplished, and soliciting
contributions of money to meet the conditions upon
which the proposed gift of an unnamed friend would
become available. These circulars were sent to per-
sonal friends of Mr. Ballou still living, (so far as they
could be found,) to surviving members of the fam-
ilies of those known to have passed away, and to
persons understood to cherish a high regard for him
and his work in the world. The response to the
appeal was so prompt, and so generous withal, as to
remove all doubt of ultimate success, and to warrant
proceedings of a more definite and practical char-
acter.
The first of these was to decide upon and secure
the services of an artist for the construction of the
statue and its legitimate adjuncts, and inquiries were
at once made to that end. Several persons of em-
inence as sculptors were suggested and their merits
carefully considered. Among these was William
Ordway Partridge, of New York city and Milton,
Mass., a man of good repute in his profession, whose
statues of Alexander Hamilton and General Grant
(equestrian) in Brooklyn, N. Y., and of Shakespeare
in Chicago are regarded as superior works of art by
connoisseurs and much admired by the general pub-
lic. He was highly recommended by Mr. Edwin D.
Mead, of the " New England Magazine," a man of
rare culture and refinement, in whose judgment
HISTORICAL STATEMENT 29
there was good reason to confide. His favorable
opinion was confirmed by other persons of similar
qualifications whom it was deemed wise to consult in
the matter. Rev. John W. Chadwick, of Brooklyn,
somewhat of an art critic, wrote : " I do not think
you would make a mistake in taking Mr. Partridge
for your sculptor." Mr. Franklin W. Hooper,
president of the Brooklyn Institute, a competent
adviser in such a case, said, " I think Mr. Partridge
can be relied on to do a good piece of work, and I
believe that his education and temperament fit him
well to study the problem of the statue of Adin
Ballou."
Influenced by these and other testimonials of a
like character I visited at different times his studio
in Milton, where much of his larger work is done,
for the purpose of examining the many products of
his skill and toil to be found there and of interview-
ing him face to face. The result was that he was
given the commission for the construction of the
statue and its monumental base, and a contract was
made between us accordingly.
I may add that while the model for the statue was
in process of making at Milton, it was visited re-
peatedly by Mrs. Heywood and myself, as it was
once by persons from Hopedale and elsewhere, for
the purpose of criticising it and offering such sugges-
tions in the way of modification or change as were
thought desirable in order to secure a satisfactory
counterpart of the man whose outward form it was
designed to represent.
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And now the work is done. The image of our
beloved and honored one, reproduced in permanent
and unalterable bronze, is completed and given its
appropriate place on the spot made forever sacred as
his former home, the seat of his most disinterested
and arduous labors for God and Man, the center out
of which went immeasurable power of blessing for
the world ; and there it is to remain until its constit-
uent elements are decomposed and crumble into
dust, reminding those who look upon it of the
noble personality, the sublime character, and distin-
guished career of Adin Ballou, and helping to carry
his name, his fame, and his influence onward and for-
ward to the undetermined futures of human history.
It is a great pleasure for me to announce that the
moneys received in answer to the appeal sent forth
as already stated tcfls sufficient to meet substantially
the financial liabilities involved in the undertaking.
They supplied means for the purchase of the grounds,
the fitting them up as a site for the statue, and the
meeting of the incidental expenses connected with the
general management of aflFairs. By special arrange-
ment with the Park Commissioners of Hopedale,
they assumed the entire responsibility of grading,
laying out, and beautifying the lot, putting in the
foundation of the monument, and otherwise suiting
the locality to the specific uses for which it has been
set apart and is this day consecrated, making it an
ornament and attractive feature among many others
of this beautiful village.
It will not be deemed out of place, I trust, for me
HISTORICAL STATEMENT . 31
to improve the present opportunity of saying a few
words in grateful recognition of the contributions
made in different ways by interested and willing
parties to the triumphant success of the movement
which to-day reaches its culmination and gains its
crown. Nor shall I be thought invidious, I ven-
ture to hope, if, in so doing, I mention names that
have already passed my lips. We shall all of us
long and gratefully remember the two English friends
with whom the movement originated, from whom it
received generous financial aid, and by whom it has
been followed from first to last with unabated interest
and satisfaction. It would have gladdened their
hearts, had circumstances permitted, to have been with
us on this occasion and participated in these services,
as it would ours to have looked into their faces and
^ven them cordial greeting. They are, no doubt,
with us in spirit, and possibly at this moment are
formally joining us in these commemorative observ-
ances. " The date of the inauguration of the Memo-
rial," wrote Mrs. Tebb in a recent communication,
" will be kept as a red-letter day. The American and
English flags will float on either side of our gateway,
and there will be other indications of our rejoicing
with you and all at Hopedale on the important
occasion. Except for the impossibility for Mr.
Tebb to take part in any public function, we should
have tried to be with you."
And I cannot refrain from referring again and in
more personal terms to him whose munificent gener-
osity has provided the noblest and most impressive
32 ADIN BALLOU MEMORIAL
feature of the Memorial, but whose generosity has in
no wise exceeded the uniform courtesy, kindness,
and magnanimity which he has manifested in this
affair from the beginning until now. I may add
that in arranging the details of these proceedings, the
thought naturally turned to General Draper as the
proper person to serve as President of the Day. He
was asked to act in that capacity and to favor us with
an address expressive of the admiration and rever-
ence with which he regarded the man at whose feet
we lay our offerings at this time. He accepted the
invitation, but the state of his health and his physi-
cian's interdiction prevent him from carrying his
purpose into effect. This we can but deeply regret,
not because we are not well provided for by the one
who takes his place, but because we lose the charm
and inspiration of his personality and the peculiarly
fitting words which he would have spoken to us and
which we should have so gladly heard.
In ^ving expression to the gratitude which is due
to those persons whose donations have made the
Adin Ballou Memorial possible, and prepared the
way for the satisfactions and delights of this occasion,
it is designed to include all who in any way have
aided in the work from the greatest to the least.
The children and youth whose dimes and nickels
have gone to swell the aggregate amount received
are by no means to be forgotten or ignored, but
counted in with those of larger gifts as helpers in a
good and worthy cause. And even manifestations
of friendly interest and words of encouragement un-
HISTORICAL STATEMENT 33
accompanied by monied contributions have been
duly appreciated and deemed deserving of remem-
brance.
This review would lack an important feature and
fail to do justice to all concerned did it not refer to
the sculptor, Mr. Wm. Ordway Partridge, and the
part he has taken in the achievement we are gathered
here to -celebrate. As is evident to all thoughtful
minds, he has wrought under embarrassing circum-
stances and amid many difficulties. He had no living
object before him to copy ; no bust, cast, or outward
form of person, face, or feature, by which to shape
his model or guide his thought and hand. He had
nothing to aid him in his task but a few photographs,
taken at different periods of life, under widely vary-
ing conditions — none of them the exact reproduc-
tions of him they claimed to represent, especially in
his most natural posture and happiest mood. He
could and did receive suggestions, as indicated, from
persons who had known the subject. But those
persons were of diversified tastes, retained different
memories or impressions of the man himself, had
dissimilar ideas regarding attitude, expression of
countenance, etc. ; and often when not satisfied were
unable to state definitely what should be done to
remedy the real or supposed defect. But Mr. Par-
tridge studied his subject thoroughly, even to the
careful reading of his autobiography, examined the
pictures of him carefully, listened to criticisms and
suggestions patiently and endeavored to profit by
them, wrought conscientiously, and, I feel justified in
34 ADIN BALLOU MEMORIAL
saying, has succeeded admirably. Not that there are
no blemishes or defects to be seen ; not that every-
thing is true to life ; not that perfection is attained.
But Mr. Partridge has given us a fine specimen of
the sculptor's art ; he has fashioned for us a grand
representation of majestic manhood, an excellent re-
production of the bodily form and distinctive person-
ality of Adin Ballou.
Of the other features of the Memorial — the
pedestal on which the statue rests, the surrounding
grounds, and all connected therewith, I have occasion
to say but a word : they all speak for themselves ;
they are their own commendation, reflecting credit
and honor in proportionate degree upon those re-
spectively under whose superintendence and by
whose skill and labor they have been prepared and
fitted for their proper place and office in this com-
memorative achievement.
And so, dear friends, we come to the end of our
story. The work is done. The hopes of two years
ago are this day fulfilled and justified. The Adin
Ballou Memorial is completed and now receives its
coronation. The outward token of our gratitude,
veneration, and love is before us, its chief feature a
type of that simple moral beauty and majesty which
characterized the personality and the career of him
whose name it bears. There it is and there may it re-
main, a mute but eloquent witness, not alone to the
man it represents, but to the grandeur and eternal
excellence of those fundamental principles of truth,
righteousness, and love, of which he was an able and
HISTORICAL STATEMENT 35
eminent champion and interpreter. There it is and
there may it remain for centuries yet to come, or until
those principles find practical illustration in all the
affairs and relations of human life, among all peoples
in all parts of the globe ; till the great end for which
he longed, prayed, labored, when incarnate in the
flesh, be accomplished ; till the sublime ideal that so
gladdened his eye and heart be made real, and the
glorious vision to which he was never disobedient
becomes actualized in the experience of mankind.
That end, that ideal and vision, was a divine order
of society, a kingdom of heaven on the earth, pat-
terned after and representing, in imperfect degree
to be sure, but still representing the society of the
blessed in higher realms of being. He was ever
contemplating and ever striving to hasten the coming
of the time in which he believed with all his heart,
when, in the unfolding purpose of God as revealed
by prophets and poets since the world began, men,
rising above their selfishness and pride, their cruelty
and crime, their scorn and hate of one another, shall
dwell together as one great brotherhood ; when so-
called Christian nations, instead of ignoring or tram-
pling under foot the most central teachings of the
Master they profess to serve by waging bloody and
wicked wars, thus multiplying the miseries of the
world, shall make them the basis of all public poli-
cies, whether relating to domestic concerns, to their
intercourse with each other, or their dealings with
inferior and more benighted peoples ; and when the
angelic song of " Peace on earth, good will to men "
36 ADIN BALLOU MEMORIAL
shall be no longer a memory, an echo of a melody
that " came upon the midnight clear " in the long
time ago, or a merely sentimental ditty falling upon
careless, unresponsive ears and hearts, but a " Gloria
in Excelsis" indeed, charged with uplifting and
transforming power — the full-choired anthem of
a regenerate humanity and a ransomed world, wherein
universal man lives in love and harmony with his
brother man, and God, the infinite Spirit, is all and
in all.
And now the only remaining duty I have to per-
form at this time is to present this Memorial of Adin
Ballou, in the name and behalf of those by whose
contributions it has been made possible, with all its
belongings, as originally provided, to the town of
Hopedale, to have and to hold it in fee simple and
in exclusive proprietorship for safe keeping and pre-
servation, from this time henceforth to many gener-
ations. And to you, sir (addressing Mr. Frank J.
Dutcher), representing the inhabitants of said town
as chairman of its Board of Park Commissioners, I
take pleasure in passing this title-deed (handing him
the document) properly executed and attested, con-
veying the same, as stated, according to due forms
of law. I confidently trust that you and those for
whom you act, as also your and their successors, will
guard and protect this possession, with unremitting
diligence and care, in order that it may long endure,
unimpaired by the hand of the spoiler and the rav-
ages of time, to testify by its presence in this beau-
tiful village and in this general community to the
HISTORICAL STATEMENT 37
noble character and no less noble work of him in
whose honor it is erected, and to the perpetuity of
whose name, fame, and influence we this day con-
secrate it ; in aflFectionate and reverent remembrance
of him, and in adoring gratitude to the Author of
all good for the unspeakable gift of such a friend,
teacher, exemplar, and benefactor to us and the
world.
RESPONSE
BY MR. FRANK J. DUTCHER
It gives me much pleasure to accept, in behalf of
the Town of Hopedale through its Board of Park
Commissioners, the property conveyed by this deed.
For those who knew Mr. Ballou for many years this
piece of land has associations not possessed by any
other spot in town. Here he lived for nearly half
a century ; many of us remember his venerable form
at the well known seat at his desk in the south win-
dow, or possibly occupied in outdoor pursuits, and
his genial smile which met us in passing. Every
tree upon the premises was planted by his hands and
bears evidence of the thoroughness with which he
accomplished his work. It is therefore fitting that
the scene of a large share of his active life should
have been selected as the site of a permanent memo-
rial. The statue which we are here to dedicate will
be a constant reminder to this and future generations
of the founder of this town and of the principles for
38 ADIN BALLOU MEMORIAL
which he stood. In accordance with the wishes of
those who have generously contributed towards this
Memorial, the Park Commissioners as its custodians
will endeavor to give it such care as will render it of
permanent benefit to the community.
ADDRESS OF REV. LEWIS G. WILSON
OF HOPEDALE, MASS.
Mr. President, Ladies, and Gentlemen, — It
is with no little hesitation that I take my place here
to-day as one of those who are to bear witness to the
great goodness and value of the life of Adin Ballou.
There are those here present who knew him in those
early days when, in his mature manhood, he so
bravely confronted the evils of Society, State, and
Church, and never wavered from his own conceptions
of personal responsibility. I had the honor and
the great happiness of only five years — the closing
years of his life in our midst — in which to walk and
talk with him ; but they were years of such intimacy
of fellowship that perhaps they may in a measure
represent a much longer time of association.
This is an important day in the history of our
town. We have come here to honor the memory of
that man, who, on the 24th day of March, 1 842, with
a little company of earnest and sympathetic co-labor-
ers, met in the " old house," and, to use his own
words, " with praise and prayer and thanksgiving and
fraternal congratulations," started out to put into
practical application what he was pleased to call the
principles of Christian Socialism. Success in this
world takes on many outward forms. Not all are
40 ADIN BALLOU MEMORIAL
born to accomplish the same things ; not all are con-
stituted to achieve the same results. But he is, after
all, the most successful man who most thoroughly
enables his contemporaries and those who come after
him to realize the highest type of manhood. Adin
Ballou struggled all his life to gain this kind and
quality of success. No one can read his autobiography
without being convinced that at an early age he had
a " heavenly vision," and that he never became
disobedient to it. He insisted in his own life upon
the practice of those virtues which should strengthen,
cleanse, and beautify his own character, and he showed
thousands of others how they might accomplish
similar results. He did not hesitate when he had
once formed a determination to espouse what he be-
lieved to be the truth, no matter what it might cost
in terms of obloquy, persecution, and self-sacrifice.
He was led through this loyalty to truth and right
to abandon one position after another as greater
light came to him from time to time ; but he was
consistent through all the years of his notable life to
the vision of personal and social progress which had
appealed to him in his early days. The monument
which we dedicate to-day would be of little value if it
did not represent and enforce some great and lofty
ideas. To rear merely the efHgy of a particular man
for his own sake is of little avail. The man in whose
memory it is raised must have lived and taught and
labored for some great end that his fellow-men ac-
count worthy to be realized in practical human life.
This monument to Adin Ballou would hardly be
ADDRESS OF REV. LEWIS G. WILSON 41
worth the material of which it is composed if it were
not to remind the passer-by that human life is some-
thing which has a divine significance. I know that
it shall be said by many that the life of Adin Ballou
was most significant because of his experiment to
work out a system of society based upon socialistic
principles. With such I have no controversy, and I
shall applaud every word that shall be said in praise
of that noble enterprise. But there are many and
unforeseen complications in all ages that make such
experiments more or less futile. Humanity in all
its great variety must have scope for its innumerable
tastes, capacities, and longings. The great world is so
large, human nature is so fond of its personal freedom
— even to do wrong or to do nothing — that the
generations as they come and go are forever presenting
so many new and unknown factors that the human
mind has not yet appeared which is able to grasp and
make practical (or, I believe, even desirable) any uni-
versally efficient plan of social, political, and industrial
cooperation. The day may come, but it has not yet
arrived, when so great a scheme may be made mani-
fest. At present it is for us to lay the emphasis
upon those fundamental laws of personal righteous-
ness and social good will, which, I believe, were the
paramount factors in the teachings and in the char-
acter of Adin Ballou. In all times and in all places
they need such grand re-statements as he so elo-
quently made. Through much struggle and through
study, self-denial, and hard work he sought to accom-
plish the enlightenment and spiritual elevation of
mankind.
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Adin Ballou was great, too, in my opinion, because
he believed that a human soul once individualized
and set upon its work needed the whole of time and
the whole of eternity in which to do it. No little
span of threescore years and ten would do. Our at-
tention has been called to the fact that when he was met
by apparent failure there was no bitterness, no rancor,
no cynicism in his conversation. This is easy to un-
derstand when we realize that he knew that no good
work is ever a failure. Adin Ballou did not fail !
His success was genuine and ample because it was
the success which always attends good thoughts, good
deeds, good motives, good principles, and a perfect
faith. And he knew, as we all ought to know, that
whatever may be the passing incidents of this present
life, all high and holy purposes are bound to reach
fulfillment in God's own good timei He knew that
when he laid aside his work in this sphere of human
interest he was to be commissioned for a still higher
and wider service in the higher life. He knew that
the spiritual life in store for him and for us all was
to be in the style and fashion of all that the Infinite
and Eternal had promised in the hopes and aspira-
tions of the sons of men.
And finally, Adin Ballou believed that man could
never realize himself and the immortal soul could
never reach its glorious destiny in the midst of dis-
cord, strife, human hatred, or anything that degrades
it. And, therefore, in season and out of season, he
championed the great gospel of peace and good will,
— peace and good will in the heart, peace and good
ADDRESS OF REV. LEWIS G. WILSON 43
wU in our thoughts one of another, — social, sec-
tarian, national, and industrial peace and good will.
All the wrongs and miseries of human life must give
"WBj when that life is spiritualized and purged of its
destructive and debasing tendencies. This was his
triumphant doctrine. It beamed upon him in those
early days of his heavenly vision. It was the star
of his lifelong devotion. He was loyal to it to the
last.
Yes, we honor the memory of Adin Ballou to-
day because he believed in the divine mission of the
human soul; because he proclaimed a grand and
victorious immortality ; and, finally, because through
all his active years he actually incarnated the spirit
which runs in the lines of that prophetic poem of
our beloved Longfellow, —
** Were half the power that fills the world with terror.
Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts.
Given to redeem the human mind fi-om error.
There were no need of arsenals and forts.
** Down the dark future, through long generations.
The echoing sounds grow Winter and then cease ;
And like a bell, with solemn, sweet vibrations,
I hear once more the voice of Christ say, * Peace ! '
** Peace! and no longer from its brazen portals
The blast of War's great organ shakes the skies!
But beautiful as songs of the immortals.
The holy melodies of love arise."
The band at this stage of the proceedings fivored
the audience with another piece of music, after which
44 ADIN BALLOU MEMORIAL
a little time was given to the reading of letters frorrx
persons known to have great respect for Mr. Balloxa
and to be in cordial sympathy with many of his dis—
tinctive views, received in response to invitations to
be present and participate in the exercises of tl>.e
occasion. They are presented as tributes to Ixis
personal worth, his generous aims in life, and l^is
unfaltering zeal in every good word and work.
LETTERS
FROM REV. WILLIAM H. FISH,
The oldest living associate and co-^worker of Mr. Ballon.
It would be a great pleasure to me, my friends,
o be with you by bodily presence, as I certainly am
ti spirit, to share with you the social and spiritual
nspiration and influences of this most interesting
iccasion attendant upon the lifting of the veil from
he memorial statue of my almost lifelong friend and
>rother, Adin Ballou, and the dedication of it to one
)f the ablest and noblest men of his generation, in
lis sphere of life and work. He was consecrated
nost devotedly and earnestly to God and humanity
or the advancement of the Divine Kingdom through-
)ut society. For seventy years in a broad field he
^reached with much power and effective influence
he Christ's gospel of " good tidings of great joy "
:o all people, which breathed only " peace on earth
ind good will to men ; " and now his representation,
jtanding in perpetuity, will give emphatic though
iilent support to the great cause he so long worked
'or with voice and pen.
As I have known something of the movement
resulting in this Memorial, I am quite sure that the
family and friends of Mr. Ballou must appreciatively
and gratefully esteem and honor the man who, with
46 ADIN BALLOU MEMORIAL
kindred spirit to him, was also consecrated to Go(
and humanity : I mean Mr. William Tebb, of Lon —
don, who first, I understand, proposed some fitting
monument to Mr. Ballou, offering also a very gen
erously large amount as the beginning of a genera
subscription for it. His most intelligent and excel —
lent wife, once a beloved member of my own family,
no doubt encouraged and supported him in this by
her corresponding spirit. Other rich men and
women also who followed these with generous dona-
tions will be fully appreciated and honored, as will
the many beside who could give only their mites in
comparison; even the smallest amounts will share
their due proportion of gratitude and praise as the
practical friends of the great departed brother, who
was the equal friend of all classes. Heaven bless
them all, both rich and poor ; and may they all find
their great friend and each other in some higher and
better sphere of being, in that blessed heaven for
which Dr. Martineau said " all men sometimes sigh
and good men hope."
Fraternally yours,
Wm. H. Fish.
from francis j. garrison.
Lexington, Oct. 2$, 1900.
My DEAR Mr. Heywood: —
I am indebted to you for your kind reminder of
the dedication of the Adin Ballou monument at
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Hopedale on Saturday, and regret that I cannot be
present on the occasion. I am glad that the town
with which he was so long identified, and to which
he gave such moral and spiritual uplift, is to have
this bronze effigy of him as a constant reminder of
its debt to him. From my earliest boyhood the
name of Adin Ballou has always been associated with
Hopedale, and it is impossible for me to think of
one without the other. He was truly its patron
saint, and it is most fitting that his form and face
should thus be made familiar to the generations to
come, and his memory kept undying.
I am, with great regard.
Very truly yours,
Francis J. Garrison,
FROM GEORGE L. GARY,
President of Meadville Theological School.
Meadville, Penn^, October 23 d, 1900.
Dear Mr. Heywood, — I regret exceedingly
that school duties stand in the way of my accepting
your kind invitation to attend and take part in the
exercises at Hopedale next Saturday. The moral
heroism of the life of Adin Ballou well deserves the
recognition which it is to receive from his devoted
friends, and I should esteem it a great privilege to
be present at the installation of the Memorial which
their generosity has provided.
Cordially yours,
George L. Gary.
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FROM ALFRED H. LOVE,
President of the Universal Peace Union.
Philadelphia, Tenth Mo., 25, 1900.
Dear Friends, — It is with profound regret that
I have to deny myself the renewed baptism which is
to come with the unveiling of the statue of the re-
vered Apostle of Peace, our beloved Adin Ballou,
and the appropriate dedication services accompany-
ing that ceremony. Yes, give us a monument to
Adin Ballou on the consecrated soil of Hopedale.
It will be a re-consecration. The light of his pure
life already makes it " holy ground."
Few men had a deeper hold of my affection and
esteem. Model and tutor he was to me. The very
thought of him is an inspiration and a stimulus to
strive for the realization of our highest ideals. It
was the magnetism of the Divine in him that drew
purest streams from the spiritual fountains of our
soul life. Our thoughts were better thoughts, our
struggles were lighter struggles, because of his faith
and trust. His " Christian Non-Resistance " was
my text-book. It was the clearest exposition of
Peace principles ever issued from the press.
Adin Ballou was one of the founders of the Uni-
versal Peace Union. He was a necessity of the age.
A gigantic civil war was putting professions to the
test. The first gun fired on Sumter, April 10,
1 86 1, placed peace men upon trial. It made the
Universal Peace Union. At informal meetings held
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preliminary to its formation his presence was electric ;
his addresses were powerful, argumentative, convin-
cing. When organization was effected he ought to
have been elected permanent president, and I so re-
commended, but he declined. Yes, let it be a monu-
ment both in heart and in sight ! It is, I believe, the
first monument that was ever erected to a pure, radi-
cal, conscientious, and consistent Peace man !
I can never forget my visit to Hopedale and to
the home of Adin Ballou. I was there on Sunday
and had the rare pleasure of hearing him in his own
church, and the privilege of participating in the ser-
vice, speaking for peace and arbitration. From the
meeting we went to his lovely home doubly endeared
by his estimable partner. When the time came for
us to separate, he emphasized his exalted aspirations
and bold demands for Peace, but sadly said at last,
"I walk in the shadow of my great disappoint-
ments."
Yes, I repeat, unveil the statue, dispel the dark-
ness, and " let his light so shine before men that they
may see his good works and glorify our Father which
is in heaven."
Your attached friend,
Alfred H. Love.
from william lloyd garrison.
Boston, October 24, 1900.
My dear Friend, — I regret not to be present
at the dedication of the Adin Ballou Memorial. In
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these days of war, when the strenuous life of the
fighter is exalted and the peaceful precepts of Jesus
are derided, it is an especially appropriate time to
celebrate the memory of the great non-resistant of
Hopedale.
Adin Ballou was a rare and noble man, living his
long life in the spirit of love and seeking to bless his
generation. With his unceasing labor for the true
brotherhood of the race and the realization of the
Sermon on the Mount, he naturally allied himself
with the abolitionists and kindred reformers. His
name is an honored one in anti-slavery annals. The
poor blessed him, and his gentle yet sturdy nature
drew him to the side of the suffering and the op-
pressed.
The Hopedale Community was a center of light
and influence. It was a brave effort for high thought
and plain living amid surroundings far from propi-
tious. It will be remembered and cherished long after
the thousand financially successful enterprises of the
day are forgotten. From it radiated ideas and apostles
who carried with them renewed faith in humanity,
and aspirations having for their goal the reign of
heaven upon earth.
The busy world regarded Hopedale with indiffer-
ence and its dignified and stalwart founder with
amused tolerance, wondering how one could spend
himself in such unprofitable work. For what pur-
pose has this life except the acquisition of material
gain ? But invisibly, the seed so humbly sown grew
in the hearts and souls of men eventually to be
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scattered across the sea. Mr. Ballou lived to receive
the recognition of Tolstoy, whose genius has made
all nations of the earth give ear to the gospel of
non-resistance.
My father's regard and veneration for this true
philanthropist and attached co-worker has been left
as a legacy to his children. As one I deem it a
privilege to pay this inadequate tribute to Adin
Ballou.
Very sincerely yours,
Wm. Lloyd Garrison.
FROM MR. AND MRS. WILLIAM TEBB.
Hamburg, 5th Oct., 1900.
Dear Mr. & Mrs. Heywood, — Mrs. Tebb
and I were much gratified at the receipt of your
esteemed letter informing us that the Adin Ballou
Memorial was nearly completed, and the ground (so
fittingly chosen) where it is to stand had been made
ready for its reception. You also extend a cordial
invitation to ourselves to be present and participate
in the interesting ceremony of dedication.
I need hardly say that, heartily sympathizing with
your object, and reverencing the man whom you will
assemble to honor, nothing would afford us greater
satisfaction than to be able to comply with your
wishes and be permitted to unite with you and the
surviving friends. Some of these will undoubtedly
recall their reminiscences of Adin Ballou, — his
struggles in initiating beneficent reforms, his wise
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teachings, his high ideals, and his unfaltering (sii
in the ultimate triumph of the principles he adva —
cated for the permanent well-being of the humarr
race.
Your letter reached me at Berlin (where I was con-
sulting a well-known physician), the capital of an
empire which boasts of possessing three millions of
trained soldiers, — a crushing burden to the nation
and a menace to liberty and progress throughout
the continent of Europe. Happily, however, there
are not wanting signs in the rapid spread of socialistic
ideas that the people of Germany are becoming tired
of the rule of the " mailed fist " and of the misery
which it entails.
In the presence, however, of the growth of mili-
tarism and aggressive imperialism in my own coun-
try, with its legacy of bitter race hatred, it hardly
becomes me to refer to the irrational policy of other
nations. England has, I fear, forfeited her historic
title to be considered the friend of oppressed nation-
alities by the stupendous blunder of the South Afri-
can war, — a war provoked by a few ambitious and
unscrupulous politicians and their rapacious allies.
Those present at the approaching commemorative
service, whose privilege it was, like my own, to
possess the personal friendship of Adin Ballou can
realize what this venerated apostle of peace and
righteousness would think of it all. How strenu-
ously he would have exposed and denounced its
wickedness ! and with what unerring judgment and
logic he would have shown a more excellent way !
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In a letter to Mrs. Tebb on the true sources of
happiness, dated 4th June, 1875, ^^ ^^^^ • " ^^ ^""
envious, unrevengeful, forbearing spirit, which seeks
to overcome evil with good only, is indispensable to
true happiness. Yet the majority of mankind, as
individuals, communities, and nations, expend a large
portion of their time and resources in resenting in-
sults, retaliating injuries, and crushing out offenders
and enemies with deadly force ! "
Adin Ballou spent his long and valuable life in
opposing slavery, mammon, war, and social injustice,
and endeavoring to build up a community in which
the laws of health, reason, moral order, and practical
Christianity should prevail; and the statue now
erected to him will be a perpetual memorial of his
work for future generations.
Believe me, dear Mr. & Mrs. Heywood,
Yours very faithfully,
Wm. Tebb.
For Mrs. Tebb and myself.
The following telegram was received at a late
hour
FROM REV. CHARLES H. EATON, D. D.,
of New York City,
Regret that I cannot be with you. Many hon-
ors to Adin Ballou, the true patriot, prophet, and
inspirer of men.
ADDRESS OF REV. CARLTON A. STAPLES
OF LEXINGTON, MASS.
Mr. Chairman, — It seems hardly necessary for
me to add anything to what has been already so
fittingly said of the work and character of our dear
friend, Adin Ballou. But I wish to say that it has
had my hearty and unqualified assent. Allow me,
then, to speak of some personal recollections of him
and my indebtedness to him for influences which
have done much to guide my life.
When a child of four or five years, I remember
spelling out his name on " The Independent Messen-
ger," — a religious paper edited by him, and pub-
lished at Mendon, — and the thrill of surprise and
satisfaction it gave me to have accomplished so
much in learning to read. From that day to this it
has been a name associated with tender memories
and pleasant to repeat.
When the body of my elder brother was brought
home from the pond where he was drowned while
gathering lilies, his gentle voice, his comforting
words, his face radiant with trust and love, were an
unspeakable blessing to father and mother. In the
church listening to his preaching, often not knowing
what it meant, still that melodious voice, that digni-
fied manner, that glowing countenance impressed
REV. CARLTON A. STAPLES 55
me deeply, and made me feel that he spoke of things
trae and heavenly.
I was a member of the Sunday-school which he
first organized in the Mendon Church, and recall
words and stories of his annual addresses, especially
one on David and Goliath ; nor shall I ever forget
his Fourth of July oration in the church (I think
in 1838) upon the wrong and sin of slavery, — a
forcible, exhaustive, and convincing argument, which
I listened to impatiently, while a dime was burning
in my pocket given me for celebrating the day. The
oration was published here and in England, and
widely circulated. It produced a profound sensa-
tion in the town and the Church, and was the means
of alienating some of his friends and supporters,
making it more difficult to raise his salary, which
never exceeded five hundred dollars. His advocacy
of the cause of temperance, speaking for it in the
district schoolhouses of the town, of the anti-slavery
cause, and the cause of peace, while seriously increas-
ing the burdens of his work, widely extended his
influence and won for him many devoted followers.
I well remember his removal to this place in 1 842
on the formation of the Hopedale Community, when
the old Jones mansion was the only house here,
where to-day we see a large and prosperous village.
It was my good fortune to visit the place in that
year and meet the members, when the whole Com-
munity — some fifteen or twenty persons — were
sheltered under one roof and living together as one
family. Subsequently, when a private school was
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established here under Mr. Ballou's charge, I became
one of his pupils. Thus more than ten years of my
early life were under his direct personal influence. I
learned to regard him with the highest respect, and
even a feeling akin to reverence, — a sentiment that
the experience of later years has only deepened ;
and as I look back. upon the past of my life I feel
that I owe to him much of whatever good I have
done for others or attained for myself. It was due
not so much to what he said as what he was. High,
broad, and noble as his sentiments were, the man
was more and nobler.
The founding of the Hopedale Community was
an earnest attempt to embody in civic and social life
the principles of the Sermon on the Mount, — the
spirit of Christian brotherhood and of sonship with
God, — the noblest conception of life and duty ever
taught by man. Adin Ballou believed in these
sentiments with all his mind, heart, and soul, and
did all in his power to make them effective in human
society and upon the consciences of men. His faith
in them never waned or wavered ; they might be de-
feated to-day, but they were sure to rise to-morrow,
" for the eternal years of God are theirs." All his
disappointments had not shaken his conviction of
their invincible power ; to fight against them was
contending with the Almighty. In this faith he
lived, in this faith he died.
A man of the people, in sympathy with all classes
and conditions in their hopes and struggles for
what is better, his early life was passed on the farm
REV. CARLTON A. STAPLES 57
where he was inured to hardship and enjoyed few
privileges of intellectual improvement. But he was
a diligent student all his days of books, of men, of
society, and an efficient laborer with the axe, the
scythe, the hoe, on his own little homestead. " I am
not ashamed," he said, " to be seen doing any kind of
work however hard and disagreeable." Thus he was
in sympathy with the workers in all departments of
industry, glad to take them by the hand and give
them words of good cheer. A man of tireless activ-
ity as long as he lived, working with hands or brain,
in the garden, at the printing press, with his pen, or
poring over family and town records to compile his
historical and genealogical books, he accomplished
an amount of literary work, much of it the hardest
drudgery, that is astonishing — work requiring untir-
ing patience and persistence for fifty years. But after
all, what is to live longest and prove most helpful
and beneficent is the example, the faith, the spirit
of Adin Ballou, as they have touched, broadened, and
elevated other souls. The noble statue which we
have dedicated to his memory may fall and crumble
into dust, this beautiful village that he founded, with
its vast industries and its splendid prosperity, may
sink into decay, and the valley itself become again the
wilderness it was two hundred years ago when Deacon
John Jones, of the Mendon Church, here began the
first clearing, but the fruit of his life, garnered up
in souls made more Christ-like by his influence and
going forth from them to quicken and uplift other
souls, shall endure when all material things have
passed away.
ADDRESS OF DANIEL SEAGRAVE
OF WORCESTER, MASS,
Mr, President, Ladies, and Gentlemen, — I
am invited to occupy a brief space of time on this
occasion as the representative of Worcester County
Commandery, K. T., of which the subject of these
remarks was in days of yore an active and worthy
member. His Masonic record in brief is as follows :
— made a Master Mason in Charity Lodge, now
dormant, at Milford in 1824, the year of his major-
ity, having been born in 1803, ^^^ Worshipful
Master of the Lodge in 1826 ; exalted a Royal Arch
Mason in Mt. Lebanon Chapter, Medway, in 1825 ?
created a Knight Templar in Worcester County Com-
mandery, then located at Holden but now at Worces-
ter, Sept. 15, 1825, of which he was a useful and
esteemed member for several years. Sept. 7, 1871,
he was elected an honorary member of that body,
and at the time of his decease was the oldest surviv-
ing member both in age and membership.
** Ere mature manhood marked his youthful brow
He sought our altar and he made his vow :
Upon the tesselated floor he trod.
Bended his knee and placed his trust in God.
Through all his long and noble life he stood
A true, warm Brother, foremost e'er in good.*'
ADDRESS OF DANIEL SEAGRAVE 59
Now a few words of reminiscence. It had been
my privilege to know of Mr. Ballou from childhood,
and to have heard him discourse as a Christian
Minister in the church of his faith in my native
town of Uxbridge. My recollections of him as he
appeared to me at that time are vivid to this day.
So frequent were his ministrations on wedding and
funeral occasions, particularly the latter, in all the
region round about, that his name became a house-
hold word.
It was my privilege, also, during the years of the
'40's to read his paper, " The Practical Christian,"
which was so ably edited by him ; and during the
last several years of his life, it was my good fortune
to meet him occasionally in person and thus recall
my recollections of him and renew my acquaintance
with him. My impressions of him from my first
knowledge of him to the close of his life were that he
was one of nature's noblemen — a man who walked
daily with his God and could always be counted as
a friend, both in companionship and counsel.
Rev. Adin Ballou — a man honored as a citizen,
a Mason, a Knight Templar, and as a Christian
Minister ; beloved and esteemed by his family, his
neighbors, his fellow-townsmen, and by all who
had his acquaintance during his long, preeminently
active and useful life, till its very close, — who can
truthfully tell the story of this life and measure the
influence which it had for good upon all who came
in contact with it for a period of more than four-
score years ! How fiill of kindly words, noble deeds.
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righteous endeavors, was this life ! The poet has
thus written of a good man : —
*' O truest man, one in a thousand men ! —
O generous heart, O trusty faithful heart !
How in our hearts indelibly is drawn
The record of thy virtues, many and pure.
Twin record with the registry in Heaven,
Whose penman is, O joy, the onmiscient God !
He made our Brother, made him of the clay
So sacred hence to virtue and to us ! "
But I am not here to pronounce an extended
eulogy of this good man, your fellow-townsman, for
this has been so well and truthfully done by the
speakers who have preceded me that I need not
multiply words in that direction. I am happy to
know that the people of this town and the friends of
Mr. Ballou, here and elsewhere, among them your dis-
tinguished fellow-citizen, Hon. William F. Draper,
our late ambassador to Italy, have made it possible
by their generous contributions to erect yonder
heroic statue of enduring bronze upon the site of
his former home in this community during many
years of his life — a most appropriate spot — upon
which shall stand for many generations the image,
aye, the counterpart of this worthy man and highly
esteemed citizen. You, as his friends and neigh-
bors, do well to show your profound regard for
such a man by words of eulogy and by erecting an
enduring memorial like that which we have assem-
bled to dedicate on this occasion. Well may we
ADDRESS OF DANIEL SEAGRAVE 6i
pay tribute to his memory. Ne'er lived a truer,
nobler man than he.
There may his memorial stand and stand forever
upon that sacred spot hallowed by the association of
the years of a long, useful, godly life, as a silent
teacher of all that is true and noble in manhood, in
good citizenship, and in the highest type of Chris-
tian character.
ADDRESS OF ALEXANDER WILDER, M. D.
OF NEWARK, N. J.
I aM deeply conscious, Mr. Chairman, of the im-
portance of this occasion. It is significant that we
are paying tribute to a man for being brave and
heroic in the cause of charity and peace. But before
speaking of him, let me say a few words concerning
the projector of this Memorial. In his personal
character, in his quality of mind and heart, in self-
abnegating efforts to promote and accomplish what
would be of benefit to others, William Tebb is a
worthy successor of Adin Ballou. If, as in the case
of the ancient prophets, the spirit of one came in
great power upon the other, then is William Tebb
a man so inspired. All the praise that has already
been bestowed upon him, he has richly deserved.
His career of philanthropy for many years past, his
devoted efforts in behalf of others, his generous
munificence, his zeal in endeavoring to break the
chains which arbitrary power had forged, have had
few examples in our time to equal them. Iniquity
framed into law is no less baleful in its character
than when defiant of law, and he has swerved in no
effort for its removal. Truly such a man is imbued
with a spirit and purpose like that of the man whom
we are assembled here to honor.
ALEXANDER WILDER, M. D. 63
The late William Leggett once said, " Show me
a thing to be right in principle and I will reduce it
to practice if I can." In this utterance, so tersely
made, we find delineated the character and career of
Adin Ballou. Were I to have any doubt of him, it
would arise from the praise I hear so unstintingly
bestowed. When all men speak well of a person,
he is generally a trimmer rather than a reformer.
The latter must wait for a future generation to do
him justice. Yet Adin Ballou was a man whom it
is meet to praise.
It was not my fortune to be personally associated
with him. I only knew him by years of correspond-
ence. Once, however, in 1848, the reformers of that
period held a convention at West Winfield, N. Y.,
in which he was the principal speaker ; I made a
day's journey to be present. It is hardly necessary
to mention the impression he made upon me. I
remember how he appeared as he stood in the pulpit
of the church where we were assembled. His man-
ner of address was remarkable for its gentleness, his
utterances were mild, but his argument was cogent
and full of a force that seemed to overbear all ques-
tion* The closing sentence, " I have done," still
rings in my ears.
The civil war through which our country passed
apparently obliterated its former history from the
memory of most people. Few are able to tell what
took place before it, or to recall the momentous ques-
tions that then agitated the public mind. Yet there
was an irrepressible moral conflict going on in which
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brave souls were engaged, and mortal but immoral
efforts were put forth to soothe and silence the voice
of awakened conscience. It was amid those scenes
that Adin Ballou passed the heroic period of his life.
He early displayed that openness to religious con-
viction that inspired and characterized his endeavors
in everything that he undertook. He never lost his
faith in the spiritual, but always cognized the superior
powers that direct and influence human action. He
believed in God as the Father of mankind, who did
not will that any should perish. But he was con-
scious that salvation is subjective and moral rather
than judicial. In his conception it consisted in being
made free from sin itself— from the turpitude, the
actual thinking and doing wrong rather than from
the penalties. Hence while he ignored all notion
of a retribution inflicted arbitrarily by a God un-
ceasingly angry, he thought and taught that no soul
on .earth or beyond the earth would enjoy the Divine
presence except by putting away everything evil and
learning to do well.
Believing, as he did, in a religion and worship that
should be active and efficient in every department
of human life, he took part in the various move-
ments of his day for bettering the condition of his
kind. He was keenly sensitive to the evils of
drunkenness, to its entailing of disease, poverty, and
wretchedness, bringing devastation to homes and de-
struction to morals and social life, and fought valiantly
against that widely prevailing vice. The appeal had
gone forth against the enslaving of human beingSj
ALEXANDER WILDER, M. D. 65
and many and mighty were the efforts of men in
power and in business to prevent the agitation of the
subject and silence the moral uprising of the people
to bring the wickedness to an end. The prosperity
of the country was involved, it was affirmed, inasmuch
as it depended vitally upon the wealth produced by
slave labor. Adin Ballou chose to be just rather than
rich, and so was an abolitionist. It was also claimed
that women as well as men are charged with the
duties and responsibilities of our daily life, and are
therefore entitled in justice to a full share of its
powers and privileges. He acknowledged the claim
and its consequent right, and woman found in him a
sympathizer and helper.
There was another issue in his view equally im-
portant and essential with those named. He held
and maintained that the Sermon on the Mount in-
culcated an order of life that can be and ought to be
lived. He met the obligation manfully and sought
to weave the lesson into every-day experience — to
practice that real charity which seeks as paramount
the good of others, to submit to wrong instead
of doing wrong, resisting not with violence the evil
assailant, but turning to him the unsmitten cheek,
aspiring in all things to be perfect as the heav-
enly Father is perfect, forgiving injury and seeking
only to know and do the will of God. When the
Non-Resistant Society became desuete in Boston, it
found shelter in Hopedale.
This doctrine was vital in primitive Christianity
and was fiiUy believed and taught by Adin Ballou.
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It was announced by two Hebrew prophets of the
ancient time who said, " Let us go up to the mount
of Jehovah, to the house of the God of Jacob, and
he will teach us his ways and we will walk in his
paths." " And he shall judge among the nations
and rebuke many peoples. And they shall beat
their swords into ploughshares and their spears into
pruning-hooks."
And then comes the proclamation of the true evan-
gel, without which Christianity is no better than an
empty gourd, " Nation shall not lift up sword against
nation, neither shall they learn war any more** If
there be a Christianity different from that or adverse
to it, far be it from me.
It was from a little group of persons striving to
realize as one family what they sincerely believed
and revered as the highest good, having Adin Ballou
as their teacher and the " Practical Christian " as their
exponent, that Hopedale came into existence. It
was a noble enterprise, a godlike conception. An-
cient cities paid worship to their founders as divine
personages. We also eulogize Adin Ballou as a
hero. In classic times heroes were regarded as of a
nature superior to men ; a hero was a son of God.
Think it no sacrilege then that this is claimed for our
hero of today. We have also a scripture for it, relat-
ing that " many sons of God were to be brought
into glory by the captain of their salvation."
Athens is remembered, not however for distinction
because Solon was her lawgiver, nor for Themistocles
the general, nor even for Perikles her statesman^
ALEXANDER WILDER, M. D. 67
TDixt as the home of Plato. So likewise in future
^mes Hopedale will be held in grateful memory, not
so much for her distinguished citizens, or her finan-
cial and mechanical achievement, but because this
xnan lived here. The name Hopedale will always
liave its place in men's memories associated with
Adin Ballou.
He was an apostle of the gospel of Peace. He
looked upon war as in its essence crime, abnegating
all the commandments of God and especially the
two great commandments of all, which enjoin love
absolute to God and love to others as embodied in
our own being. And he sought to establish here a
commune in which there might be some approxima-
tion to, some realization of the diviner life.
Such a man is circumscribed by none of the
peculiar limitations of time. He looks beyond, he
knows of what is behind the curtain as one who hears
discourse from that world where all is reality. He
is near to all that is of the eternal world.
It has been suggested that this statue which we
have this day inaugurated will ultimately crumble
away and perish. It may become buried beneath
the soil, and at some far-off period be found again
and taken for the simulacrum of a divinity. But the
true memorial of Adin Ballou depends upon no relic
so ephemeral. He is immortal. He fulfilled his
mission. Whatever undertaking he may have seemed
to leave unaccomplished, it is so only in appearance.
No word, no work, so holy in purpose, is ever fruit-
less. There is a reward in the doing itself. Great
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tasks, like trees of long endurance, require genera-
tions to be fulfilled. What is begun in the service
of truth and goodness is sure to be consummated ;
only we perhaps do not see the way and end thereof,
and the times and seasons are not in our power. It
is in the true and living world beyond this super-
ficial transitory sphere that there is any real com-
pleting.
Even though, like the sages of antiquity, Adin
Ballou may have been overlooked or underestimated
in his own generation, there is for him perennial dis-
tinction. He did not live in time alone, but his
vision and communion were of two worlds — that
which now is and that which is to come. He has
not died, but lives forevermore. His presence here
is more real and vital than yonder statue. He is in
the everlasting home ; he is, as he was when among
us bodily, a dweller in eternity.
At the close of Mr. Wilder's address, which con-
cluded the speaking on the occasion, the congrega-
tion united in singing the familiar
DOXOLOGY.
" From all that dwell below the skies,
Let the Creator's praise arise ;
Let the Redeemer's name be sung,
Through every land by every tongue.
" Eternal are thy mercies, Lord ;
Eternal truth attends thy word ;
Thy praise shall sound from shore to shore,
Till suns shall rise and set no more.*'
ALEXANDER WILDER, M. D. 69
BENEDICTION.
Now may the blessing of God, the Father Al-
mighty, His grace as it was in his Son, our Lord,
and in His faithful servant and follower, Adin Ballou,
and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be and remain
amongst us forever. Amen.
APPENDIX
A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
William Tebb, whose name with that of his wife, Mary E.
Tebb, is closely associated with the movement delineated in the
foregoing pages, was bom October 22, 1830, in Manchester, Eng-
land, to which city his parents had removed from Westmoreland
County, the Lake District, three years before. He inherited from a
long line of yeoman ancestry a vigorous physical constitution, which
was, however, so much impaired by an attack of scarlet fever in his
childhood and the attendant blood-letting medical treatment, so
universally practiced at that day, that he has been more or less a
sufferer therefrom during all his subsequent life. As was then and
there usual with the children and youth of the humbler classes in
society, he received but a meager amount of school education, scarcely
more than can now be acquired in the lower grades of our New
England Grammar Schools. But his naturally active mind and an
early awakened desire for knowledge atoned in large measure for the
deficiency.
When about fifteen years of age he was given employment in the
office of a leading business firm of his native city. The days
were long and his labors wearisome ; but he found relief and en-
joyment as well as instruction and inspiration in certain evening
classes and clubs which he joined, and in lectures upon practical
and progressive topics by some of the foremost platform speakers
of his own country and of the United States. Through the teachings
of these men and by what he learned from experience and observa-
tion, he became profoundly impressed with a consciousness of the
existence about him, in both manufacturing and agricultural localities,
of various forms of wrong and suffering caused by unjust legislation
and by an inequitable and unfratemal industrial system, to which the
72 APPENDIX
great mass of working men and women were subjected. Moreover,
he was struck with the devotion paid by professedly religious people
to matters of dogma and ceremony while indifferent to the degrada-
tion and misery seen on every hand and to the causes producing
them. The better impulses of his heart prompted him to inquire
if there were not some remedy for the existing inequality and
wretchedness, some cure for the ills that afflicted so many of his
fellow-men, and to hail as an evangel of mercy and blessing what-
ever gave promise of relief and better conditions of personal, domestic,
social, and civil life.
About this time he heard of Robert Owen and of his theories
and plans touching a new industrial and social system, and even
visited New Lanark, Scotland, where Mr. Owen was endeavoring to
put those theories and plans into practical operation. Other thinkers
and workers along similar lines to the same beneficent ends became
known to young Tebb as he grew towards manhood, intensifying
his interest in and sympathy for any and all efforts to benefit and
bless mankind. Among the names of such was that of Adin Bal-
lou, which first came to him through English magazines that copied
articles from American papers concerning him and his work at
Hopedale. From what he thus learned he was anxious to learn
more. The attempt to organize a Christian Republic in which
Practical Christianity should not only be taught but applied to all
human concerns seemed to the young man as he says ** too good
to be true." Such an effort, founded on the Fatherhood of God
and the Brotherhood of Man, appeared as a new dispensation, pro-
phetic of a new heaven upon the earth. Hearing of *'The Prac-
tical Christian," he subscribed for it, and finding it so acceptable
and so valuable to mankind he labored diligently to extend its cir-
culation and influence among his fellow-countrymen.
Desirous of seeing more of the world and of acquainting himself
with the reformatory movements on this side the water and those
identified with them, he left the land of his nativity for the United
States in 1852, soon after attaining his majority. For a time he
was associated with a valued friend in a business enterprise at Ham-
ilton, Canada West, but two years later removed to Providence,
APPENDIX
73
H. I., when the opportunity opened to him of making the ac-
c^uaintance of Mr. Ballou and forming a friendship with him as last-
ing as life. Obtaining employment in the counting-room of a large
ixnanufacturing establishment at Blackstone, it was convenient for him
to visit from time to time this new-found friend and counselor,
"whose spirit he in large measure caught and whose labors for the
good of mankind he appreciated and sought to emulate.
In Mr. Tebb's ** enthusiasm for humanity" he instituted meet-
ings on Sunday and on week-day evenings for the discussion of
great questions then agitating the public mind, — Temperance, Anti-
Slavery, Peace, the Rights of Women, Industrial and Social Reform,
etc. ; becoming himself ere long a ready and efFecdve public speaker.
His utterances upon these themes, and especially upon that of
American slavery, were so searching, brave, and uncompromising,
that he became an object of obloquy and persecution on the part of
the pro-slavery portion of the community, who, unable to silence
him, conspired to get rid of him. Chief among his opponents was
a clergyman of the neighboring village of Millville, who, under
the pretext that his Sunday labors in the cause of Reform was a
desecration of the day and hence prejudicial to the best interests of
the people at large, induced his employers to discharge him, obliging
him to seek occupation elsewhere.
In 1862, having spent the intervening years for the most part in
the West, he returned to his native land, where his business capacity
and enterprise found ample field for active exercise in a line of man-
ufectures which proved not only eminently usefiil to the world, but
highly lucrative as well; enabling him not only to supply himself
and ^unily with all the necessities and comforts of life and dispense
a generous hospitality, but to contribute in substantial ways to the
promotion of many salutary reforms with which his name has been
identified — reforms that have given him prominence in the more
intelligent and philanthropic circles of English society and an inter-
national if not a world-wide reputation.
While residing in Blackstone and making occasional visits to
Hopedale, Mr. Tebb made the acquaintance of Miss Mary E.
Scott, daughter ot William and Sarah Scott, well known in the
74 APPENDIX
village at the time, whom he subsequently married. She has been
both helpmeet and companion to him in all his endeavors; codperat-
ing with him and even sometimes anticipating and leading him in
his labors for the advancement of the truth, the overthrow of unjust
customs and laws, and the inauguration of a better era for mankind.
One in the order of marriage they are substantially one for all that
makes for human wel&re and happiness.
The great questions which have interested Mr. and Mrs. Tebb
during the forty and more years of their wedded life, as he recently
writes, and in the agitadon of which they have been more or less
actively engaged, are moral, social, and religious reform, psychical
phenomena and inter-commimication between the seen and un-
seen worlds, the public health, anti-vivisection, the vaccination
tyranny, the prevention of premature burials, the removal of poverty,
the enfi-anchisement of woman, peace and arbitration as a method
of redressing grievances and settling difficulties instead of wars and
the resort to force and arms.
What may be regarded, perhaps, as the chiefest of Mr. Tebb's
labors and the most signal achievement of his life was the securing
of the repeal of so much of the Compulsory Vaccination Laws of
the British Empire as to exempt persons conscientiously opposed to
the practice from observing it. The story of his agency in the
matter is a most interesting one, but too long for more than a sum-
mary of it here.
Some thirty years ago an incident occurred in connection with
the unsuccessful vaccination of one of his children, to which his
attention was called by his thoughtful wife, leading him to question
the validity of that method of treatment as a preventive of the small-
pox, so generally believed, and prompting him to enter upon a thor-
ough and exhaustive investigation of the whole subject. Beginning
with a careful examination of cases coming under his immediate
observation and as carefully studying others reported in the columns
of the public press and in medical journals, then reading all the lit-
erature upon the subject accessible to him, he extended his researches
imtil he has made the whole world almost tributary to the purpose in
view. He has done this, not only by correspondence with people
APPENDIX 75
oompetent to aid him in his endeavors, but by personal interview
suxd scrutiny, traveling hr and wide in search of knowledge and in
gathering statistics relating to the matter. He has visited every
part of his native land, most of the countries of continental Europe
amd northern Afiica, the Canadas and many of the States and
Territories of the United States, several of the divisions of South
America, Asia Minor, India, China, and Japan, the islands of the
Southern hemisphere, including New Zealand and Australia, con-
sulting the most reliable authorides and interviewing many distin-
guished citizens, — scientists, medical experts, and others, — in the
interest of the cause he had come to have so much at heart. And he
has become convinced beyond all possibility of doubt that the prevail-
ing view of the practice in question is one of the greatest delusions that
ever misled and victimized the human race ; that it has no inherent
and certain efficacy in staying the ravages of the dread disease it is
supposed to midgate or prevent ; but that it is a prolific means of
disseminadng some of the worst maladies that afflict mankind,
notably cutaneous infections, pyaemia, ailments of the eyes, syphilitic
maladies, and leprosy.
The result of his inquiries Mr. Tebb has given to the world in
numerous articles in the public journals of England and America, in
" The Vaccination Inquirer and Health Review," of which he was
the founder, and in several pamphlets from his pen, the principal of
which are " The Vaccination Question," ** Fourteen Years'
Struggle," '* Results of Vaccination," and «*The Recrudescence
of Leprosy," a work of over 400 octavo pages. His views were
also very fully set forth in his testimony before the Royal British
Commission on Vaccination, appointed by Parliament in 1889,
whose sittings continued till 1896, when it made a report re-
commending that persons conscientiously opposed to the practice
be exempted from the operations of the law exacting it. This re-
port was printed in full and circulated through the kingdom, doing
much to create a public sentiment against the practice in question
and to secure a final adoption of its recommendation by the govern-
ment, which was approved by the Queen over her own signature,
August 12, 1900.
76 APPENDIX
For fidelity to his convictions in persistently agitating this matter
and in refiising to have his children vaccinated, Mr. Tebb has not
only encountered much bitter opposition, but popular odium as well
and legal prosecution. He has been made to suffer not a little for
his faith's sake. Thirteen times has he been arraigned before the
courts and required to pay fines amoimting to several hundred if not
a thousand or more dollars. But now, in his declining years, he
has the great satisfaction of feeling that he has triumphed in his
warfare, having been instrumental in securing the repeal of the
compulsory features of a statute of the kingdom which he regarded
as a gross infiingement upon the rights of conscience and the prin-
ciples of personal liberty.
In his work in this behalf Mr. Tebb has had the sympathy and
cooperation in his own country of some of its most noted citizens ;
among them Dr. Charles Creighton, formerly Demonstrator of
Anatomy at Cambridge College ; Prof. Edgar M. Cruikshank,
Bacteriologist of King's College ; Alfi-ed R. Wallace, F. R. S., an
eminent scientist and physician ; C. H. Hopwood, of the Queen's
Coundl; J. Garth Wilkinson, a distinguished author; Prof. Francis
Newman, John Bright, John Stuart Mill, and Herbert Spencer.
Mr. Gladstone declared himself ** opposed to compulsory vaccination
and mistrusted the practice altogether."
Mr. Tebb was instrumental in organizing a series of Anti- Vac-
cination Congresses on the continent of Europe ; the first having
been held at Paris in 1879, the ^^^^ ^^ Berlin in 1899, enlisting
men of high character and wide reputation in science, statesman-
ship, and literature in the cause. On a visit to the United States
in 1879, he initiated a movement which resulted in the formation
of the *' Anti- Vaccination Society of America," with Dr. Alexander
Wilder of New York, Professor of Physiology, as President.
Mr. and Mrs. Tebb, who now reside on a charming manorial
estate called Rede Hall, in Barstow, Surrey, a few miles out of Lon-
don, have an interesting family of four children. A son, W.
Scott Tebb, graduated at Cambridge College, studied medicine,
and is a physician in the nation's capital. He is the author of
"A Century of Vaccination," a volume of 450 pages, in which
APPENDIX ^^
he gives a history of the practice from the days of its originator.
Dr. Edward Jenner, and proves to his own satisfaction and that of
many others, not simply its inutility as a prevention of smallpox
and kindred diseases, but its harmfulness in spreading other and even
more loathsome ones. Their eldest daughter is the wife of a Pro-
fessor in a London University. The second one, Christine, is a
highly educated scientist, a member of the British Astronomical
Society, by whose authorities she was sent to Russia a few years
since to take and report observations of an important eclipse, visible
in that country, but not in England. She was about the same time
called to a Professorship in Bryn Mawr College, Penn., but de-
clined the honor. She has been the companion of her father in
most of his travels of research in foreign lands, acting as his aman-
uensis and as the interpreter of languages unknown to him, for the
acquisition of which she seems to possess by nature a wonderful
aptitude, which she exercises with scarcely less wonderfiil fecility
and proficiency. The youngest daughter, Beatrice, resides with
her parents at Rede Hall.
STATEMENT
There has been received from one hundred and three
persons subscribing to this fund, in contributions varying
from one dollar to five hundred dollars each, the sum of
$2623.15, and from the Worcester Co. Commandery
K. T., of Worcester, the Loyal Workers, and Unitarian
Sunday School of Hopedale, $135.00 additional, making
a total of $2758.15. This amount has been devoted
exclusively to Memorial purposes, $2000.00 having been
paid for the Ballou homestead as a site for the monument
since erected upon it, and the remaining $758.15 passed
over to the town of Hopedale, by agreement with its
Board of Park Commissioners, to be expended in grading
the lot and otherwise properly preparing it for its designed
use as a part of the public Park System under their super-
vision.
The buildings on the premises were disposed of for a
sum sufficient for the payment of printers' bills, {nof includ-
ing that incurred by the publication of the accompanying
^^ Souvenir y*) postage, traveling expenses, etc., with a
balance of $41.85 which was also paid to the town ; mak-
ing an aggregate of $800.00 that the town received under
the arrangement and in furtherance of the object specified
aDOve*
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