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THE ADVOCATE OF PEACE.

ON EARTH PEACE, NATION SHALL NOT LIFT UP SWORD AGAINST NATION, NEITHER SHALL THEY LEARN WAR ANY MORE.

JUNE, 1837.

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this century, have also the disposition to help it forward. A failure for the lack of pecuniary means of the great work which we are now called upon to accomplish, would be most deplorable. Let all the friends of God and humanity weigh the

TERMS, $1.00 a year in advance; to ministers, 75 cents. especial claims of this cause at the present time, and make a Postage twelve cents a year.

EDITED BY THE SECRETARY.

EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTORS.

HON. AMASA WALKER, North Brookfield, Mass.
HOWARD MALCOM, D. D., Philadelphia, Penn.
WM. G. HUBBARD, ESQ., Delaware, Ohio.
REV. WM. STOKES, Manchester, England.

ELIHU BURRITT, Esq., New Britain, Conn.

REV. J. H. BAYLISS, Chicago, Ill.

ABEL STEVENS, LL. D., Brooklyn, N. Y.
JULIA WARD Howe, Boston, Mass.

prompt and generous response to this appeal.
In behalf of the Executive Committee,

JAMES B. MILES,

Corresponding Secretary and Assistant Treasurer

MEMBERSHIP.

The payment of any sum between $2.00 and $20.00 constitutes a person a member of the American Peace Society for one year, $20.00 a life member, $50.00 a life director, and

SPECIAL APPEAL OF THE EXECUTIVE COM- $100.00 an honorary member.

MITTEE

THE PEACE SOCIETY AND THE FIRE.

The Advocate of Peace is sent free to annual members for one year, and to life members and directors during life. If one is not able to give the full amount of a membership, or

directorship at once, he can apply whatever he does give on it, with the understanding that the remainder is to be paid at one or

more times in the future.

Among the sufferers by the great fire that has desolated one of the richest portions of our city, is the American Peace Society We are grateful that the Wesleyan Building, where we were then located, and which was in great danger at one The Advocate is sent gratuitously to the reading rooms of stage of the fire, was preserved. But the establishment of our printer, J. E. Farwell, Esq., in which were many of our stereo- Colleges and Theological Seminaries—to Young Men's Christype plates, was consumed with all its contents. In several other tian Associations-to every pastor who preaches on the Cause ways our Society suffers severely, and by this great catastrophe of Peace and takes a collection for it. Also, to prominent inhas been deprived of funds to quite a large amount, which we dividuals, both ministers and laymen, with the hope that they expected to have received ere this, and which we are in pressing will become subscribers or donors, and induce others to become need of for the prosecution of the ordinary operations of the So- such. To subscribers it is sent until a request to discontinue is received with the payment of all arrearages. ciety; but this loss is especially grievous to us now, as we are greatly enlarging our work, and are engaged in efforts for convening at an early day an International Peace Parliament or Con- THE APOSTLE OF PEACE.-Memoir of William Ladd.-By gress, for the purpose of improving the golden opportunity fur-John Hemmenway.-A most remarkable book of one of the nished by the Geneva Arbitration, and other Providential circum-greatest and best men that ever lived, well spiced with anecdotes, stances. In view of these facts the Executive Committee ear-will be read with lively interest by the old and the young, and nestly appeal to the friends of peace in all parts of the country, should be in every family and Sunday school in the land. This to rally for the help of the Society in this exigency. Let all contains about 300 pages, with a fine likeness of Mr. Ladd. who are indebted for the Advocate promptly remit. Let all Substantially bound in muslin, $1.00. Will be sent by mail, who have the ability to assist this Christian and philanthropie postage paid, on reception of the price. cause, rightly considered second to no benevolent enterprise of Dunham, No. 1 Somerset St., Boston.

Address Rev. ALT

REV. AND DEAR SIR:

Office Am. Peace Society, No. 1 Somerset St.,
Boston, Oct. 10, 1872,

A peculiar exigency exists in the operations of the American Peace Society. The recent successful termination of the Geneva Arbritration furnishes an opportune occasion for bringing the leading minds of all nations together in an INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS. For this reason, special contributions are needed at this time, as well as extraordinary efforts to arouse the people, and especially Christians of all denominations, to the importance of energetic and definite action with a view of creating perpetual peace among the nations.

The officers of this Society present an urgent appeal to Pastors to secure from their respective churches, an especial contribution, as a thank offering, for the grand victory of Peace at Geneva and to aid the Society in this Christ-like and philanthropic work.

We would also invite each Pastor to preach a discourse upon the inspiring subject of Peace on the day the contribution is to be taken.

Please notice the appended endorsement and commendation

HOWARD MALCOM, President.

ALPHEUS CROSBY, Chairman Ex. Com.
DAVID PATTEN, Treasurer.
JAMES B. MILES, Cor. Secretary.

The undersigned, cordially approve of the great and beneficent work in which the American Peace Society is engaged, and especially the object of the proposed International Congress.

SIDNEY PERHAM, Governor of Maine.
JULIUS CONVERSE, Governor of Vermont.
SETH PADELFORD, Governor of Rhode Island.
ISRAEL WASHBURNE, JR., Ex-Gov. of Maine.
L. A. WILMOT, Governor of New Brunswick.

JOHN T. HOFFMAN, Governor of New York.
JOHN W. GEARY, Governor of Pennsylvania.
E. F. NOYES, Governor of Ohio..

C. C. CARPENTER, Governor of Iowa.
P. H. LESLIE, Governor of Kentucky.

HARRISON REED, Governor of Florida.

THE CALL FOR AN INTERNATIONAL PEACE CONGRESS.

The undersigned, believing that the peace and well-being of nations, the best institutions and enterprises of Christian civilization, including all the great interests of humanity, demand a permanent guarantee against the peril and even possibility of war, regard the present as a favorable opportunity for convening eminent publicists, jurists, statesmen and philanthropists of different countries in an INTERNATIONAL PEACE CONGRESS, for the purpose of elaborating and commending to the governments and peoples of Christendom, an INTERNATIONAL CODE, and other measures, for substituting the arbitrament of reason and justice for the barbarous arbitrament of the sword. We do, therefore, unite in the call for such a Congress. The above has been signed by the following gentlemen, among others:

Theodore D. Woolsey, D. D., LL. D., New Haven.
Mark Hopkins, D. D., LL. D., Williams College.

Emory Washburn, LL. D., Cambridge, Mass.

Hon. Reverdy Johnson, Baltimore, Md.

David Dudley Field, LL. D., New York.

Hon. Gerritt Smith, Peterboro', New York.

Hon. Peter Cooper, New York.

George H. Stuart, Esq., Philadelphia.

Howard Malcom, D. D., LL. D., Philadelphia.

Hon. F. R. Brunot, Chairman Indian Commission, Pittsburg, Pa.

Hon. Elihu Burritt, New Britain, Ct.

Hon. Edward S. Tobey, Boston, Mass.
Amasa Walker, LL. D., No. Brookfield, Mass.
George F. Gregory, Mayor of Fredericton, N. B.
Hon. Wm. E. Dodge, New York.

Hon. G. Washington Warren, Pres. Bunker Hill Mt. As'tion.
Hon. John J. Fraser, Provincial Secretary, N. B.

C. H. B. Fisher, Esq., Fredericton, N. B.

T. H. Rand, Chief Superintendent Education, N. B.

A. F. Randolf, Esq., Fredericton, N. B.

J. B. Morrow, Esq., Halifax, N S.

John S. Maclean, Esq., Halifax, N. S.

D. Henry Starr, Esq., Halifax, N. S.

M. H. Richey, Ex-Mayor, Halifax, N. S.

Geo. H. Starr, Esq., Halifax, N. S.

Jay Cooke, Esq., Philadelphia.

John G. Whittier, Amesbury. Mass.

Hon. Charles T. Russell, Cambridge, Mass
Samuel Willets, New York.
Joseph A. Dugdale, Iowa.

Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Commendation of the Peace Cause by Prominent Men in the United States.

"The cause of Peace we regard as an eminently philanthropic and Christian enterprise of great importance, and worthy of sympathy and support. It has already accomplished much good, and would doubtless accomplish vastly more, if it possessed adequate means. We think it deserves, as it certainly needs, a large increase of funds. The American Peace Society, charged with the care of this cause in our own country, and whose management has deservedly secured very general approbation, we cordially commend to the liberal patronage of the benevolent."

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Rev. T. D. Woolsey, D. D., LL. D., Ex-President Yale College.

E. O. Haven, D. D., Evanston, Ill.

Hon. David Turner, Crown Point, Ind.
J. M. Gregory, LL. D., Champaign, Ill.

R. M. Hatfield, D. D., Chicago, Ill.
John V. Farwell, Chicago, Ill.

Hon. Wm. R. Marshall, Ex-Gov. of Minn.
Hon. James Harlan, U. S..Senator, Iowa.
Rev. P. Akers, D. D., Jacksonville, Ill.

Rev. Noah Porter, D. D., LL. D., Pres. Yale College

Rev. Prof. Samuel Harriss, D. D., LL. D., Yale Theological Seminary.

ON EARTH PEACE ・ ・ ・ ・

NATION SHALL NOT LIFT UP SWORD AGAINST NATION, NEITHER SHALL THEY LEARN WAR ANY MORE

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A REVIEW OF THE SITUATION. The February number of the Fortnightly Review contains several papers of an attractive kind. The leading article, by Emile de Laveleye, the well-known contributor to the Revue de Deux Mondes, is an exposition of "The Causes of War in the Existing Furopean Situation." France, Germany, Russia, Poland, Austria, Turkey, Italy the Scandinavian powers, England and the United States are successively passed in review as to the internal or external provocatives of war that may be discovered in their several circumstances. What he says of our own country, although expressed in very few paragraphs, shows that he treats his subject with remarkable justness of knowledge. He recognizes the fact that the genius of our institutions is averse to war. We quote a few passages from this portion

of the paper:

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two countries have none but common interests. America produces the cotton, the grain, the meat, of which England has need; England, the iron stuff, the fabrics, which she can manufacture cheaper than America. Their exchanges are already gigantic; they ought to double or even triple for the advantage of both. It is distressing to hear Americans of to-day speak of such a contingency as war; it was not so that their fathers used to talk; those worthies felt a religious horror of war, and they knew that they owed to the world the example of a democracy equitable toward all. It must again be admitted that the Americans have always proposed the solutions which are most conformable to justice, and the most favorable to the sentiments of brotherhood among nations. They have often proposed, and always accepted, an appeal for arbitration as the rule for the settlement of international difficulties, and at the congress of Paris they urged the recognition of the equitable principle of the immuity of private property in war, alike on land and sea, which England committed the blunder of rejecting."—Advertiser.

"The pacific spirit of Penn, the religious spirit of the Pilgrim Fathers, the just and loftily humane spirit of Washington, communicated to the whole nation a moral temper far above that of other people. From the beginning of human societies there is none to approach that which grew up in New England down to THE THREE NEW RULES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW.-The folthe time when Europe flooded it with the rising tide of its emi-lowing are the three new rules of International Law agreed upon grants. The moral force of the primitive nucleus must have been very powerful to be able to prevail, as it still does, over the impure elements which it has had to assimilate.

In the present day the American people is no longer so pacific as it once was, for various reasons. To begin with, the mixture with European emigration has lowered political morality. Next, the marvellous growth of the great republic inspires it with a pride which is perhaps intelligible, but which leads it to fail in the respect due to other nations, and somewhat to disregard their just susceptibilities. The founder of the State enunciated the principle that the Union ought not to meddle with the affairs of Europe. It has remained faithful to this programme up to the present day; but from time to time there are signs of a readiness to forsake it, and reasons for thinking that in the future this may happen.

Desire of territorial aggrandizement begins to operate. Certain parties go for the annexation, by force of arms if need be, of Canada, of Mexico, of Central America and the Antilles. Still Congress has recently given proof of a sagacity that was hardly expected, and which no European nation would probably have displayed, by refusing to sanction the purchase of two islands in the Antilles, and by abstaining, in spite of the most violent provocations, from intervention in the civil war of Cuba. We have to hope that this spirit of moderation will last. The still unpeopled territory of the Union offers room for hundreds of millions of men, and if it succeeds in upholding its noble institutions, its power of attraction will be strong enough to draw into it the whole American continent without the employment of force. A free government, a modern republic, ought not to make conquests. Even before accepting populations which should seek to be received into the confederation, it ought to examine whether they are worthy of it or whether they would not introduce into it an element of inferiority and disorder.

by the late Joint High Commission at Washington, and taken as a basis by the arbitrators at Geneva appointed by that Commission. This agreement as to the rules are in themselves, and apart from the Geneva Arbitration, a most important advantage to humanity :

"A neutral Government is bound

"First, To use due diligence to prevent the fitting out, arming, or equipping, within its jurisdiction, of any vessel which it has reasonable ground to believe is intended to cruise or to carry on war against a Power with which it is at peace; and diction of any vessel intended to cruise or carry on war as above, also to use like diligence to prevent the departure from its jurissuch vessel having been specially adapted, in whole or in part, within such jurisdiction, to warlike use.

"Secondly, Not to permit or suffer either belligerent to make use of its ports or waters as the base of naval operations against the other, or for the purpose of the renewal or augmentation of military supplies or arms, or the recruitment of men.

"Thirdly, To exercise due diligence in its own ports and waters, and, as to all persons within its jurisdiction, to prevent any violation of the foregoing obligations and duties."

The Parliament of England has just fixed the estimates of army expenses for the coming year, at £14,416,400: or seventy-two millions of dollars.

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Mr. Cardwell, the Secretary of State for war, gave the following statement as to British war forces. 'Regulars 125,000; Militia 129,000; Yeomanry 15,000; Volunteers 160,750; Reserves 35,000. Of those 416,838 are at home: the remainder are in India and elsewhere."

The most threatening circumstance for the repose of the world, and the most to be regretted from the point of view of progress, is the inveterate hostility of the Americans to the English.clothing being of course given him. This hostility, kept up as it is by the press, by the school, by traditions, by families, and envenomed at each instant by the agitations of the former, is a thing against nature, and whoever contributes to feed it commits a crime of lese-humanite. The

The wages of these soldiers are 25 cents a day; his food and

If this tremendous expense for war, exists in time of peace, what must it be in war? The expenses of the huge British navy are not included in the above.

"DER SCHWERSTE GANG."

"My heart is heavy, and full of fear,
As though some sorrow were drawing near.

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Thus speaks the young wife with deep-drawn sighs
The grandmother bows, and her little boy's eyes

Turn on them both, as he gently says,
"My father comes not all these many long days."

The grandmother comforts, though her heart is sore,
"He soon will come now, the war is just o'er. "

In sorrow they sit anxious and sad,
But the little boy plays again merry and glad.

A soldier comes slowly along the road
One sees that his heart bears a heavy load.

Still slower his step as now he draws near,
Did not duty compel, he were not here.
His trembling hand is now on the door,
It opens, and starting up to the floor,

The young wife wildly towards him springs,
While pale with anguish her hands she wrings.

As the throne is now left vacant, the cabinet council, in accordance with the constitutional provisions to meet such an exigency, immediately after the king's death issued a proclamation convening the Legislative Assembly on the 8th of January, 1873, whose duty it will be to choose a sovereign from the native aliis or chiefs of the kingdom. I see in the government paper containing the official notice of the decease of the king, the remark that on the following Sabbath both at the morning and evening services at the various churches, sermons were preached suitable to the occasion. The people were wisely counselled to observe quiet and moderation during the trying period to elapse before the next sovereign shall be named by the proper authority. I am happy in the belief that the people generally, from one end of the islands to the other, will heed the advice thus given, and more than happy to add, that, since we heard of the king's death, the God-fearing portion of our people have been incessant in prayer to Him who has the hearts of all men in His hands that He will incline the members of the Legislature to act in His fear and give the nation a sovereign after His own heart, selecting from the three or four candidates whose claims to the throne will be urged.

We shall, I trust, in this exigency see how much the Hawaiian nation is indebted to God for His word, and for the precious gospel of Christ. Formerly on the death of a high chief, especially of a king, there was not only loud wailing, but multitudes of the aged shaved their heads, burned their bodies with sharp sticks which they had set on fire, and knocked out their teeth. On the death of Kamehameha I. the grand-father

"For God's sake, tell me!" she cried; "speak, John, of the king who now lies in state in his palace at Honolulu, Where is my husband, you come alone?

"Your husband has gone to his last, long rest,
My hands his dead eyes lightly pressed.
"Not alone he sleeps; of comrades brave
A hundred lie with him in one grave;

"And the salvo of honor was so strong for the slain
That thousands felt it through heart and brain.

"For there where we laid our ranks of dead
The thunder of battle rolled overhead.

"His watch, his note-book, his last farewell
Are here. This paper confirms my tale.
"For love of the friend of whom now bereft,
I bring them to you-they are all that is left."
Did the angel of faith and trust draw near?
For sobs and moaning one scarce could hear.

In sorrow's deepest, bitterest woe,
Back on the heart will the tears fresh flow.

The soldier turns from the home bereft,
He crosses himself and the house he has left.
Without fear had he stood before shell and ball,
But this duty fulfilled was the hardest of all.

-From the German of "Fritz Hoffmann."

waiting the day of burial, I repeat, on his death all law was
suspended, all restraints, even the slight ones which heathenism
imposes was taken away, so that it became virtue, so to speak,
to commit crime. Those who plunged the deepest in the mire of
pollution were regarded as showing the highest respect for
their deceased chief. Theft, rapine and murder were let loose
to spread far and wide as much havoc as possible. People of
all ages and both sexes threw off all covering and all restraint,
and a combination of discord and wailing, self-torture, robbery
licentiousness and murder, formed the full ingredients of a tem
porary hell. The late John Young, an Englishman in th
employment of the Hawaiian chiefs, declared that during such
a scene of outrage which followed the death of Kamehameha I.
he guarded his wife with a loaded musket. This was in 1819,
when the pioneers of the American mission were on their way
to the islands to take possession of them for the Lord Jesus.

In December, 1872, Lot Kamehameha V. departed this life, and how did things about his dying bed, and in his palace and yard, compare with things about his grand-father the great Kamehameha in 1819. I have not heard particularly how it was at the time of his death. Still I can tell nearly how things were conducted. There may have been some wailing in the king's apartment, and about the yard. It is likely there was; and I shall not be surprised to hear that a few old Hawaiian ladies tore their hair and beat their breasts. But on the whole, things I presume were conducted at the king's death, and will be at his funeral, with much Christian propriety. My objection to the method of conducting the funerals of high chiefs, of late years, is founded on the extravagant expenditure in purchasing black broadcloth, and silks, and crapes to be worn at the funeral. A Christian simplicity is lacking; but other than this, chiefs here die like Christians not like heathen, as in the time of Kamehameha I.; and have a quiet, Christian burial, not a tumultuous heathen one as had that somewhat extraordinary chieftain, the founder of the Kamehameha dynasty. From what I see and know (by having resided among the people and labored for their temporal and spiritual benefit during more than forty years,) of the influence of the gospel on chiefs and people, I am prepared to predict a quiet and peaceable succession to the MY DEAR BROTHER,-The Hawaiian nation has recently throne in accordance with the decision of the Hawaiian legisbeen deprived of their reigning sovereign. On the 11th instant, lature at their coming session. Had not the precious Bible Lot Kamehameha who ascended the throne as Kamehameha V. been translated into the Hawaiian language, and the people departed this life after a reign of nine years and ten days. His taught to read it, and had not the glad tidings of a crucified death occurred on his forty-second birthday. He was never but risen and exalted Saviour been proclaimed in their ears these married, nor did he though requested, name a successor to the more than fifty years, the two princes, candidates for the occuthrone. He is the third king who has deceased since my resi-pancy of the throne, being of nearly equal rank, would seek to dence on the islands which commenced iu March, 1828.

LETTER FROM SANDWICH ISLANDS.
MAKAWAO, MAUI, Sandwich Islands,

Editor Advocate of Peace:

December 30, 1872.

shed each other's blood, and to embroil the nation in a senseless

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and ruinous war. As things now are I have very little fear that either of these young chiefs have any such intention or desire; and if they had, my confidence is strong that the people would refuse to follow these leaders in a war of succession. I hope that this feeble nation will show to more powerful ones the advantage of cherishing the spirit of peace.

For many years my old friend, George C. Beckwith, sent me the Advocate of Peace. In a few instances I furnished articles for the periodical, and I ought to have done more for a cause which is near my heart. I now send you an item of intelligence in the death of the king of Hawaii. If spared, and my health continues as firm as it is at present, you may hear from me again, if you need and desire the aid of a laborer on Hawaii who is old enough to lay down the pen, but who desires to use it while the Saviour spares him. The Lord greatly bless you and the cause you advocate. So prays your brother in labor for Christ and J. S. GREEN.

His cause.

there. Now of all the judges I have ever met this judge was the chief. I knew what his errand was when he entered the door; it was to inveigle me out of the room, and into some public gathering. This gathering was a religious sociable, an "annual sociable," he assured me, "of all the religious denomi nations of the place."

Amazed

and incredulous, I assured him that I could not attend, but the "Of what?" said I. He repeated the assertion. tional statements, he made it a matter of personal favor. His Judge would take no refusal. He explained, he made addimanner was so cordial, his spirit so kindly, and his importunity A minute's walk brought so courteous, I yielded and went. us to the hall. The place was full of people; men, women and maidens. But full as it was with people, it was fuller yet and children; the white headed and the golden; young men of the sweet noises of happiness. The buzz of merry conver sation, the peal of hearty laughter, the prattle of children, and all the sweet tumult of joyous spirits were there. Tables there

IS THE MILLENNIUM TO COME FIRST TO were also reaching from side to side of the hall, loaded down

NORTHFIELD, VT.?

BY REV. W. H. H. MURRAY.

Many speculations have been indulged touching the locality of the Millennium in its first appearance on the earth. The writer of this article confesses that in common with many others he has shared this anxiety, and often bewildered himself with many reflections touching the matter. But at last the problem is so far solved as to relieve him of anxiety. He has no doubts but that the reign of universal peace and blessedness will begin, if indeed it has not already begun, in the town of Northfield, Vt.; and the reasons of this belief he will now proceed to give in the form of a reminiscence.

Not long since I found myself in the village of Northfield, a cosy out of the way spot, nestled down among the hills which girt it about on all sides. Now and then you find a place so walled in and protected that it suggests peace and rest and happy calm. Now Northfield suggests not inanition and laziness, but a kind of benevolent, restful indolence, and this always Smart people, people that are forever rushing along like a rail car and spinning like a Japanese top; people that rise at five o'clock in the morning in winter, and before sunrise in summer, as if man was put into this world only to work and make a buzz saw of himself,-people that are forever in a hurry, and out of breath-what will such people find to do and worry about in the millennium? For everything will be finished up and in perfect shape then, with nothing to fret over and little to do save to take care of and enjoy one's self. Oh, the blessedness of indolence, the sweet repose and quietude of work completed and tasks performed! To wake and yet rise not but take a long fresh breath of conscious life, and then lapse gradually into forgetfulness again! To rise at last after the full measure of needed slumber is received, bathe leisurely and inhale in delicious slowness the dewy air! To eat with slow and easy effort that the senses may interpret all the delicious flavors that lurk in meat and fruit! Ah me, this is life and blessedness of

seemed to me one of the conditions of the millennial state.

state indeed.

Now Northfield suggests this celestial_pause and rest of all the faculties. Here, said I to myself, as I sat gazing out of my chamber window upon the mountains, along whose sides and top the atmosphere itself seemed to rest, here indeed is repose. Here is quiet, and surcease of anxious thought, emancipation from irksome duty and a chance to draw one's breath in peace. So musing, and ministered unto by the restful genius of the spot, the hours passed until the shadows darkened, and night whose motion is noiseless, lent a still deeper charm to the quietude of the place.

But an interruption came, the spell was broken and my peace intruded upon. A loud rapping at the door announced a visitor, and the inevitable Judge Blank appeared. Now I have never found a town in Vermont that hadn't a judge. Maine is noted for its colonels, Vermont for its judges. I have met Judge Blank at thirty different places. If he was not at the depot when I arrived, I invariably found him at the hotel. They grow up

with food and fruit, and lighted up here and there with odorous plants and brightly colored flowers. Through the jubilant throng the Judge piloted me. Never was there a sociable so social. Never faces happier; never fellowship more lovingly familiar than I beheld that night in that little hall. It was a family party, and such love and joys as sanctify the family group were there; no stiffness, no coldness, no embarrassing restraint, but free, unfettered utterance, born of unanimity and confidence.

"I thought," said I to the Judge, as I looked around upon the joyous faces, "that this was a meeting of the different denominations."

"Well, so it is," he replied, and I will now introduce you to the several clergymen.'

And there in very truth they were, happy as the happiest; the Congregationalist pastor cracking jokes with the Baptist; the curate of the Episcopal church hob-nobbing with his Methodist brother; the Universalist and Calvanist preachers with mouths stretched in hearty laughter. There they all were together, the lion and lamb lying down side by side in peace, literally. And then and there from the lips of the reverend curate, whose wit and courtesy I shall not soon forget, I learned the following facts.

For some ten years, while other villages have been filled with rivalry betwen competing clergymen and contending churches, Northfield has lived in love and peace one with another: Once every year each of the churches organize a sociable and sends forth an invitation to the pastors and members of all the other churches to meet them in fraternity and happy fellowship. And they come, one and all, like childen thronging to their common home; come to enjoy in each other's company the good things of life, and in happy ways praise God for his goodness toward them. Of course in such a village and in such churches there can be no sectarian combats; no denunciations of a brother's piety, and breach of Christian courtesy.

Late in the evening, blessing the good Judge, by whose kindness my eyes had been permitted to see this sweet fulfillment of the Gospel promise-" Peace on earth and good will to men," I parted from my professional brethren and the good curate, who assured me that "they didn't propose to go home 'till morning," and returned to my room, and seating myself in my chair mused long and earnestly over what I had seen. An unusual tenderness crept into my heart, and a gladness I cannot describe pervaded my soul. I was a better man because of what I had beheld. The torch of faith and hope in man's progress was kindled anew and burned with a purer and steadier flame. I felt that I, myself, might yet live to see the dawn of peace among men and stand above the grave in which was buried the last sectarian feud.

Go on, dear Northfield, in thy sweet work of love, nor cease to "cultivate the things that make for peace," for in so doing thou shalt be an example unto many and cause the Millennial light to rest in vital warmth and brighter colors perpetually along your native hills. Reader, has the Millennlum begun in Northfield, and if so, why might it not come to your parish ?— Congregationalist.

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