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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inscriptions on the benches are the same as the ones on the benches in the original memorial. They read, "One of they founders him New England know, who staid they feeble sides when thou wast low" and "who spent his state, his strength, and years with care, what after comers in them might have share...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Dudley Memorial Near Lamont Library Completed | 11/30/1949 | See Source »

...semi-circular stone benches, similar to those which supplemented the Dudley Gate, will flank the sundial and bear the inscriptions of the original benches. These read, "One of thy founders him New England know who staid thy feeble sides when thou wast low" and "who spent his state his strength and years with care that after comers in them might have share...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Work Begins on Memorial Near Lamont | 5/31/1949 | See Source »

...Quakers established women as the spiritual equals of men. The Puritan conception of companionship and "tender respectiveness" set a new standard for Christian marriage. Wrote William Penn to his wife, as he was about to depart for Pennsylvania: "My dear wife, remember thou wast the love of my youth, and much the joy of my life; the most beloved, as well as the most worthy of all my earthly comforts . . . God knows, and thou knowest it, I can say it was a match of Providence's making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Christian Marriage | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

...handiwork because it seemed to transfer responsibility for his fate from God to man. Presumptuous man, who in all his pryings into matter below vision and into space beyond sight had never been able to answer the first question which the Voice from the Whirlwind put to Job: Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Christmas 1945 | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

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