Transcription: And then how you all set to work to dig the foundations and collect the enormous amount of stone that was needed. How often when I returned, was I moved to tears as I saw even feeble old women, bent with age, collecting gravel in their aprons to remove it from the site. And then that grand occasion on Ascension Thursday, May 20, 1841, fourteen years ago, when we finally laid the corner stone...
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