Excerpt from History of Reading, Windsor County, Vermont
In these latter years it is no uncommon custom that men and women of public spirit bestow their generous gifts in person, for the general welfare of their fellows, thus having the double satisfaction of giving personal service and of having assurance that their wishes as regards their gifts are fulfilled.
Happy is the man or the woman who can give an institution, be it of whatever nature, for the betterment of humanity and happy also should be the people who are made the recipients of such a gift.
No greater gift, nor one of more farreaching influence, was ever conceived than that which fosters the love of books in the youth and which gratifies the taste for literature in those of mature years. Who shall be able to measure or weigh the influence that goes out through the channel of the Public Library to enrich the life of the individual, making it thereby a power for the general welfare of mankind?
"Education is a debt due from present to future generations" and he who, in conspicuous measure, is able and willing to make possible the payment of that debt with generous interest, by making available large resources for its continuous payment from year to year and from generation to generation is indeed a public benefactor.
The town of Reading, Vermont, has been made the recipient of a gift of this high order in her new Library Building at the hands of one, who though not her son, becomes through such a gift, surely as an adopted child.
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