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 FORMAL PRESENTATION AND RESPONSE 
 
 COMMEMORATIVE ADDRESSES AND 
 
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 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. 
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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- 
 cupving 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 
 
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 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. 
 
PRELIMINARY 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 southerly 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, Reformer, Philanthropist, 
 Apostle of Christian Socialism, 
 
 AND 
 
 Founder of the Hopedale Community. 
 1803-1890. 
 
 " Blessed are the Peacemakers." 
 
 " Not disobedient to the heavenly vision." 
 
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 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 Commu?iity. 
 
 " 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 
 
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 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 effort 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 
 
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 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 have 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 
 
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 for a later opportunity. He then stated that the 
 next exercise upon the programme for the day was 
 the unveiHng 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 personaHty,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 15 
 
 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 Woonsoclcet, 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 ; 
 
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 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 us 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 Hfe. 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. 
 
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 " 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. 
 
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 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. 
 
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 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 
 eff*ect. Mrs. Hey wood and myself, though naturally 
 gratified at the proposition, were yet reluctant to 
 become sponsors for the contemplated movement, or 
 
 1 See Appendix. 
 
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 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 further 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 
 (^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 
 influence 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 
 offer 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. 
 
30 ADIN BALLOU MEMORIAL 
 
 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 was 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 affairs. 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 
 
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 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 
 given 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 giving 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 affectionate 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 c osing 
 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 ot 
 that man, who, on the ^th day of March, 184^ with 
 a little company of earnest and sympathetic co-labor- 
 ers, met in the " old house," and, to use h,s 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 effigy 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 Ufe 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. 
 
42 ADIN BALLOU MEMORIAL 
 
 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 time. 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 
 
 will in our thoughts one of another, — social, sec- 
 tarian, national, and industrial peace and good will. 
 All the wrongs and miseries of human Hfe must give 
 way 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 from error. 
 There were no need of arsenals and forts. 
 
 ** Down the dark future, through long generations. 
 The echoing sounds grow fainter 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 favored 
 the audience with another piece of music, after which 
 
44 ADIN BALLOU MEMORIAL 
 
 a little time was given to the reading of letters from 
 persons known to have great respect for Mr. Ballou 
 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 the 
 occasion. They are presented as tributes to his 
 personal worth, his generous aims in life, and his 
 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, 
 to be with you by bodily presence, as I certainly am 
 in spirit, to share with you the social and spiritual 
 inspiration and influences of this most interesting 
 occasion attendant upon the lifting of the veil from 
 the memorial statue of my almost lifelong friend and 
 brother, Adin Ballou, and the dedication of it to one 
 of the ablest and noblest men of his generation, in 
 his sphere of life and work. He was consecrated 
 most devotedly and earnestly to God and humanity 
 for the advancement of the Divine Kingdom through- 
 out society. For seventy years in a broad field he 
 preached with much power and effective influence 
 the Christ's gospel of " good tidings of great joy " 
 to all people, which breathed only " peace on earth 
 and good will to men ; " and now his representation, 
 standing in perpetuity, will give emphatic though 
 silent support to the great cause he so long worked 
 for 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 God 
 and humanity : I mean Mr. WiUiam Tebb, of Lon- 
 don, who first, I understand, proposed some fitting 
 monument to Mr. Bailou, offering also a very gen- 
 erously large amount as the beginning of a general 
 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. 25, 1900. 
 
 My dear Mr. Heywood : — 
 
 I am indebted to you for your kind reminder of 
 the dedication of the Adin Bailou monument at 
 
LETTERS 47 
 
 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 efiigy 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 23d, 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. 
 
48 ADIN BALLOU MEMORIAL 
 
 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 unveihng 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, 
 1861, placed peace men upon trial. It made the 
 Universal Peace Union. At informal meetings held 
 
LETTERS 49 
 
 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 
 
50 ADIN BALLOU MEMORIAL 
 
 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 
 
LETTERS 5 1 
 
 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. HeywoiOd, — 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 
 
52 ADIN BALLOU MEMORIAL 
 
 teachings, his high ideals, and his unfaltering faith 
 in the ultimate triumph of the principles he advo- 
 cated for the permanent well-being of the human 
 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, ^e said : " An un- 
 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. 
 t 
 
 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 
 true 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 1842 
 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 
 
56 ADIN BALLOU MEMORIAL 
 
 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 Hfe 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, and 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, 182.5, °^ 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 full of kindly words, noble deeds. 
 
6o ADIN BALLOU MEMORIAL 
 
 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 omniscient 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 1 848, 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 
 
64 ADIN BALLOU MEMORIAL 
 
 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 beings. 
 
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 fully believed and taught by Adin Ballou. 
 
66 ADIN BALLOU MEMORIAL 
 
 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 
 
 but as the home of Plato. So Hkewise in future 
 times Hopedale will be held in grateful memory, not 
 so much for her distinguished citizens, or her finan- 
 cial and mechanical achievement, but because this 
 man lived here. The name Hopedale will always 
 have 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 
 
68 ADIN BALLOU MEMORIAL 
 
 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 born 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 unfraternal industrial system, to which the 
 
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 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 inequahty 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- 
 lon, 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 fi-iend in a business enterprise at Ham- 
 ilton, Canada West, but two years later removed to Providence, 
 
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 R. I., when the opportunity opened to him of making the ac- 
 quaintance of Mr. Ballou and forming a friendship with him as last- 
 ing as life. Obtaining employment in the counting-room of a large 
 manufacturing 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 effective 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- 
 ufactures which proved not only eminently useful to the world, but 
 highly lucrative as well; enabling him not only to supply himself 
 and family 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 
 
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 village at the time, whom he subsequently married. She has been 
 both helpmeet and companion to him in all his endeavors; cooperat- 
 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 welfare 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 agitation of which they have been more or less 
 actively engaged, are moral, social, and religious reform, psychical 
 phenomena and inter-communication 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 enfranchisement 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 
 until he has made the whole world almost tributary to the purpose in 
 view. He has done this, not only by correspondence with people 
 
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 competent to aid him in his endeavors, but by personal interview 
 and scrutiny, traveling far and w^ide 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 
 and northern Africa, 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 authorities 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 aU 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 mitigate or prevent ; but that it is a prolific means of 
 disseminating 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 frill 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. 
 
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 For fidelity to his convictions in persistently agitating this matter 
 and in refusing 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 amounting 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 infringement 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 ; Alfred R. Wallace, F. R. S., an 
 eminent scientist and physician ; C. H. Hopwood, of the Queen's 
 Council; 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 last at Berlin in 1899, enlisting 
 men of high character and wide reputation in science, statesman- 
 ship, and Uterature 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 
 
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 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 wonderful facility 
 and proficiency. The youngest daughter, Beatrice, resides with 
 her parents at Rede Hall. 
 
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