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And the work both at home and in missions
As that work in its progress extends.
And in love we all welcome their children
As plants in a garden are seen;
May they grow both in station and wisdom
In favor with God and with men.
In the earlier days of the Pilgrims
When passion was strong in the land,
A company, friends of the martyrs.
Were formed as an organized band.
By the shores of a beautiful river
Which they found in their diligent search.
In a place which was called Wickapimset,
They founded a visible church.
The day of their earliest meeting.
We may not with certainty know,
But the date with account of its service
The records of Heaven will show.
In the year sixteen hundred and eighty
A meeting for worship was held.
And before and for many years after
Their service the angels beheld.
Through the years on each Sabbath morning.
As far as our knowledge extends.
There was held in this place where we ^ther
A regular meeting of Friends.
And now in Nineteen Hxindred One,
This year of wondrous grace,
I sign my name, Your Loving Friend,
Etc., Obadiah Chace.
In the last year of his life he wrote the
following :
We thank Thee, dear and blessed Lord,
For gifts sent down from Heaven,
And ask the fullness of His Grace
For Nineteen Hundred Seven.
We pri*e the fitting words arranged
With wisdom and with care.
And brought so lovingly to view
In Bishop Brooks's Prayer.
This little poem was inspired by the famous
prayer of Phillips Brooks, which is as follows:
"Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think
of a prayer so large that God in answering it
will not wish that you had made it larger.
Pray not for crutches, but for winga. Pray
that, whatever comes— trial, doubt, failure or
success, hope, joy — it may all work together
to make your soul fit, first to receive, and then
to shine forth with, the light of God."
Charles Anthony Chace, son of the Rev.
Obadiah, born Dec. 22, 1846, was educated in
the schools of Warren, R. I., and at the
Friends' School, Providence. For three win-
ters he taught school, and in 181'9 moved to
the Abner Slade farm, residing there until
1900, when he built his present beautiful resi-
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dence
Slade
at South Swansea.
Chace now resides
His son Benjamin
on the farm. For
many years Mr. Chace and his sons erected
windmills, tanks and silos, and in 1902 they
incorporated the New England Tank and
Tower Company, Mr. Warren 0. Chace taking
charge of the factory at Everett, Mass. Mr.
Chace was a Republican previous to 1884, when
he joined the Prohibition party, becoming one
of its active and leading members. He has
been for many years a member of the State
committee, has served as a delegate from
Massachusetts to two Presidential conventions,
has been a candidate on the State ticket several
times, and in 1900, 1901, 1902 ai3d'1906 was
the candidate for State senator from his district,
the vote those years being 263, 409, 459
and 738, respectively. In 1904, as candiSate
for presidential elector, he received 4,275 votes;
and in 1909, as candidate for State auditor,
5,663. For seven years Mr. Chace served his
town as a member of the school board, and he
is also a member of the Massachusetts Sunday
School Association.
On Sept. 26, 1873, in the Friends' meetinghouse,
jVIr. Chace married Adeline Francis
Slade, adopted daughter of Abner Slade, of
Swansea, who has a sketch following this.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Chace have had
children: Benjamin Slade, born Jan. 11, 1875;
Harold Anthony, born Aug. 13, 1876, who
died Feb. 28, 1878; Arthur Freeborn, born
May 13, 1879 Warren ; Obadiah, born June 12,
1882; and Sarah Slade, born April 22, 1889.
Mr. and Mrs. Chace are life members of the
American Peace Society.
Benjamin Slade Chace, son of Charles
Anthony, born Jan. 11, 1875, married June
19, 1895, Carrie Estelle Mosher, and they have
had five children : Fenton Mosher, born Aug.
11, 1896; Harold Dean, Dec. 22, 1898; Clyde
Fuller, Aug. 6, 1908; Carol Elisabeth, Feb.
21, 1910; and Beryl, March 8, 1911 (died
March 28, 1911). Mr. Chace lives upon his
father's farm, and is ably managing the extensive
work there.
Arthur Freeborn Chace, M. D., son of.
Charles Anthony, born May 13, 1879, was educated
at Oakwood Seminary, Union Springs,
N. Y., Earlham College, Richmond, Ind., from
which he received the degree of A. B., and
also graduated from Harvard with the degree
of A. B., and from the College of Physicians
and Surgeons of New York City with the degree
of M. D. He has advanced rapidly in
his profession, and is now secretary and assist-
ant treasurer of the New York Post-Graduate
Hospital, and a member of its board of trus-