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Time, like an ever rolling stream,
Bears all its sons away;
They fly, forgotten, as a dream
Dies at the opening day.
O God, oar Help in ages put,
Our hope for years to come;
Be Thon oar Guard while trochlea lsst,
And oar eternal Home ! Amen.
A vote of thanks to the Hon. Miss Stanley was moved by William
Winnett, Esq., and seconded by Harry Privett. Ecq,
And the Rev. J.E. Kempe, M.A., Hector of the Parish and Chairman of
the Vestry, delivered a brief address and pronounced the benediction.
The following is a copy of the statement deposited in the
cavity in the Foundation Stone:—
The funds for the erection of this Building were mainly derived from
the sale of the Burial Ground situate in Hampatead Road and formerly be
longing to the Parish of St. James, Westminster. The sale was effected
under the provisions of a Special Act of Parliament obtain*d by the London
and North-Western Railway Company in the year 1883. The Company
sought power to acquire, on payment of £15,000, so much of the Barial
Ground as had not been disposed of under the St. Jamea's Chapel Act ,1869.
The Company were, however, restricted by Parliament from taking the
whole of the ground for the purposes of their undertaking. and the Trustees
of the Burial Ground were required by the Act of 1883 to convey a speed
tied portion to the Company for the sum of £8,000, and the remaineder of
the ground without further consideration to the Vestry of St. Pancras
(within which Parish the Burial Ground was situate to be by them preserved
as an open apace. The purchase money was directed by the Act to be
applied to such ecclesiastical, parochial and other purpose for the benefit
of the Parish of St. James's as the Trustees, with the sanction of the Vestry
might direct. The money was paid into Court by the Railway Company
and the Burial Ground conveyed as to a portion thereof to the Company
and as to the remainder to the Vestry of St. Pancras. After mature
deliberation, the Trustees decided to apply one equal moiety
ecclesiastical purposes, and the other moiety to secular purposes for the
benefit of the Parish, and the Vestry sanctioned this mode of applying the
money. The moiety applicable to ecclesiastical purposee having been paid
over to the Rector and Charchwardens opon certain defltite transt, it