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BNL.771.028
4 Apr 1771:21,22 (3522)
Yesterday his Excellency Thomas Hutchinson, Esq; lately
appointed Governor of this Province, on an invitation from
the Corporation of Harvard-College, was pleased to visit
that ancient seat of learning. . . [went in procession; 4th
para.]
The General Court being then sitting in the college, a
committee of the Corporation waited on the Honorable House
of Representatives to ask their attendance on the exercises
of the day.--Which invitation they were pleased to accept
of.
The public exercises began with a handsome gratulatory
oration in Latin pronounced by Mr. Wetmore, one of the
resident graduates. To this his Excellency made an elegant
reply in the same language testifying his affection to the
seminary in which he had his education, and his regard to
the interests of literature.
Then followed an anthem, composed, set to music and
performed by the young gentlemen of the college.
The words of the anthem.
We have heard with our ears, O Lord, and our Fathers have
told of thy might:--Thy wonders which thou didst of old; how
thou didst drive out the heathen from among them ?
For they got not their land by their own sword; but it was
thy right-hand, thine arm, and the light of thy countenance
! O praise the Lord forever and ever.
----How blessed are all they that fear the Lord and walk
in his ways, for thou shall eat the labour of thine
hands.--O well is thee, and happy shalt thou be.
Lo ! thus shall the man be blessed that fears the Lord.
For thus saith the Lord, from henceforth, behold all nations
shall call thee blessed; for thy rulers shall be of thine
own kindred; your nobles shall be of yourselves, and thy
governor shall proceed from the midst of thee.
Awake ! awake ! Put on thy strength, O Zion,--break forth
into joy with hallelujah ! for the Lord hath redeemed his
people.
Blessing and glory, salvation and wisdom, thanksgiving and
honor and power and might, be unto the Lord God Almighty,
who sitteth on the throne, and unto the Lamb, forever and
ever, Amen.
When the exercises were over, the procession returned to
the hall, where a genteel entertainment was provided for his
Excellency, the honorable and reverend overseers--the
Honorable House of Representatives, and the other gentlemen.
The whole was conducted with the greatest decorum and
elegance.
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