It is a delight to see it grow and a greater delight to help it grow,--to help improve its schools, and found its Public Library, and help lay the foundations of great institutions of learning.

Worcester had an admirable Bar, admirable clergymen, and physicians of great skill and eminence.

Among her clergymen was Edward Everett Hale, then in early youth, but already famous as a preacher throughout the country.

There was no Unitarian pulpit where he was not gladly welcomed.

So his congregation here, by way of exchange, heard the most famous pulpit orators of the country.
Among the physicians was Dr.Joseph Sargent, a man then without a superior in his profession in Massachusetts.