Address delivered at the New-York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, December 2d, 1846 / By Harvey P. Peet, A. M., president of the Institution. With an appendix containing the proceedings at the dedication of the chapel.

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1847
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Credit: Address delivered at the New-York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, December 2d, 1846 / By Harvey P. Peet, A. M., president of the Institution. With an appendix containing the proceedings at the dedication of the chapel. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    word of exhortation. You have been sought out by the hand of benevolence, in your widely scattered homes. You have been rescued from the fearful doom of ignorance and wretch' edness, which ere long would have closed over you forever. This beautiful and spacious edifice has been built, and again and again enlarged, for your accommodation. Means have been provided, with no parsimonious hand, for your comfort and the preservation of your health ; for giving you the means of future support; for elevating you to the moral and intel¬ lectual rank, and for restoring you to the social privileges of your brothers and sisters who hear, and above all, for your religious instruction. Gratitude to those who have provided the means of instruction, and to that Power whose instru¬ ments in this work they are, demands a diligent improve¬ ment of those means. Your stay here is limited, and the present opportunity, lost, will never return. For the sake of your kind teachers; for the sake of your anxious parents and relatives ; for your own sakes, I urge you not to trifle away opportunities and privileges so precious. May you so im¬ prove these opportunities and privileges, that your parents may receive you with joy; your neighbors regard you with esteem and respect; your teachers speak of you with pride and satisfaction, and your own consciences reprove you not with time misspent, and talents unimproved;—and above all, may the doctrines of the Gospel, here preached in a language you can understand, sink into your hearts, and be blessed to your spiritual consolation in the trials and afflic¬ tions of life, and to your eternal welfare in the life to come.