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  TO OUR PIONEER ANCESTORS WHO BRAVED

          HUNGER, PRIVATION, LONELINESS, TOIL

          AND SACRIFICED FORTUNES, FRIENDS AND

          FAMILIES FOR THE BETTERMENT OF THE

          HUMAN EXPERIENCE AND TO THOSE WHO

          CAME AFTER THEM TO PRESERVE THE

          AMERICAN DREAM THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED

          WITH LOVE AND AFFECTION.

           

              ECCLESIASTICS CHAPTER XLIV: 1 - 14

                    The Apocrypha

Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us.

The Lord hath wrought great glory by them through his power from the beginning.

Such as did bear rule in their kingdom, men renowned for their power, giving counsel by their understanding, and declaring prophecies:

Leaders of the people by their counsels, and by their knowledge of learning meet for the people, wise and eloquent in their instructions;

Such as found out musical tunes, and recited versus in writing;

Rich men furnished with ability, living peaceably in their habitations;

All these were honoured in their generations, and were the glory of their times.

There be of them, that have left a name behind them, that their praises might be reported.

And some there be, which have no memorial, who are perished, as though they had never been: and are become as though they had never been born: and their children after them.

But these were merciful men, whose righteousness hath not been forgotten.

With their seed shall continually remain a good inheritance, and their children are within the covenant.

Their seed standeth fast, and their children for their sakes.

Their seed shall remain for ever, and their glory shall not be blotted out.

Their bodies are buried in peace, but their name liveth for evermore.