Excerpt from Oration: Delivered Before the City Council and Citizens of Boston, on the One Hundred and Third Anniversary of the Declaration of American Independence, July 4, 1879
The official observance of the Fourth of July took place in the Boston Theatre at ten o'clock.
After an overture by the Germania Band the following prayer was offered by the Rev. Joshua P. Bodfish, of the Roman Catholic Cathedral: -
"O eternal Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Creator of all things visible and invisible, Source of all our good; infinitely good in Thyself, and infinitely gracious, bountiful, and good to us; behold we, Thy poor servants, the work of Thy hands, redeemed by the blood of Thine only Son, come to present ourselves, as humble petitioners, before the throne of Thy mercy.
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