ERRATA . 
 
 PAGE 20. Read "llth of Revelation," instead of "10th of Revelation;" 
 read, also, ' two witnesses," instead of " ten witnesses." 
 Brother Johnson, in "The Vision of the Ages," gives the llth 
 chapter a great deal of knowledge. He says that when France 
 set up a God of Reason the two witnesses lay dead exactly 
 three years and a half to a day when they destroyed the Bible. 
 Brother Johnson gives a historical account of all the chapters 
 in Revelation as far as history bad gone at the time he wrote. 
 
 PAGE 29. Read "Be baptized," instead of "He baptized." 
 
 PAGE 31. Read "into all truth," instead of "unto all truth." 
 
 PAGE 33. Read "fell on us," instead of "falls on us."
 
 LAUBjA DICKEY, AT THE AGE OF EIGHTY -THREE.
 
 AUTOBIOGRAPHY 
 
 OF 
 
 - LAURA DICKEY 
 
 AND 
 
 Choice Miscellaneous Selections 
 
 CHICAGO, ILL. 
 
 CHAPMAN PUBLISHING CO. 
 
 1895.
 
 N\ S one of the pioneers of Chicago, having come here in 
 ^ October, 1846, this short sketch of my life I would 
 dedicate to those ladies of the city who for many successive 
 years in connection with taking FAITH'S RECORD have 
 treated me with marked courtesy and kindness, and have 
 manifested the amount of interest in my personal history 
 which encourages this effort to reproduce some of the in- 
 cidents connected with a long, active, and not altogether 
 uneventful, life. L. D.
 
 r
 
 INDEX. 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Preface 3 
 
 Autobiography 5 
 
 Chapter I. My Early Days 5 
 
 Chapter II. Chicago Life n 
 
 Views on the Prophecies 19 
 
 Remarks on the New Covenant and the Third Person in the Trinity 27 
 
 Chapter III. My Connection with the Foundlings' Home 36 
 
 Miscellaneous 49 
 
 Sermon, by Rev. J. W. Allen. Alexander Campbell and His Work 49 
 
 Narrative 57 
 
 Remarks of Napoleon I., Captive of St. Helena 61 
 
 Woman's Work 64 
 
 The W. C. T. U., Having Cut Their Eye-teeth, Will Now Abandon the 
 
 Soothing-syrup Policy 65 
 
 The Ribbon of Blue 66 
 
 David and the Giant in 1882 67 
 
 Alabaster Boxes of Human Sympathy 68 
 
 General Gordon 68 
 
 lo Victis 69 
 
 Died (To Mr. and Mrs. Kellogg) 70 
 
 In Memoriam 71 
 
 The Warning Dream 71 
 
 Jesus Our Refuge 74 
 
 Mary 75 
 
 Dedicated to My Scrap Book ... 75 
 
 To Mr. and Mrs. F. G. P 76 
 
 Jennie Lind 77 
 
 The Old Bridge 78 
 
 Blues . . 79 
 
 Recipe 80
 
 CHAPTER FIRST. 
 
 MY EARLY LIFE. 
 
 [ WAS born September 27, 1811, in the town of Newstead, Erie County, 
 N. Y., where my parents, Samuel and Jane Anderson, settled in their 
 early married life. There, surrounded by broad acres, with everything 
 additional which their thrift and industry could acquire, I was reared 
 in a home of plent}', free from all anxiety and care; for my mother 
 wonderful woman that she was seemed more than competent to assume 
 all responsibility. I can scarcely find words in which to express all the 
 admiration I felt for her in those childish days, or even that which her 
 memory elicits at this late date. Generous to a fault, firm yet affectionate, 
 not only to her own, but to every needy one who came within the radius of 
 her influence, she proved a friend and benefactor. The memory of such 
 a mother has proved a life-long blessing, and that early beautiful past 
 has always seemed to me like an oasis in the desert in life's wearisome 
 hours. I had a kind, indulgent father, and all that was ever expected of 
 Lottie, as I was affectionately called my name being Laura was to look 
 after my younger brothers and sisters, and this was to me only a labor of 
 love. I have sometimes thought the knowledge thus obtained, as it regard- 
 ed the care of little ones, together with my natural love for children, com- 
 bined, in after years, to decide what my vocation should be when circum- 
 stances threw me upon my own resources. Much as I love to linger on 
 this blissful period of my life, even as the happy years so quickly fled, I, too, 
 must hasten in their review. 
 
 While very young, I was married to the man of my choice, and though 
 as time went by I was both wife and mother, still I knew no care, for my 
 mother, knowing how incompetent I was to take charge of a house, and my
 
 6 m AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 
 
 husband (well pleased at my freedom from care), arranged that we should 
 board at my father's. And so the happy hours flew b}', until the loss of my 
 husband enveloped me in such a cloud of darkness and despair, that, nearly 
 bereft of reason, I was considered incapable of giving necessary attention 
 to my two babies (the eldest not being two years old). In looking back 
 to those dark days life for many months seemed only a blank; but God 
 is good, making youth elastic, and time a restorer. Again I married, and 
 shortly afterward we moved to Canada, where Mr. Balch, my husband's 
 father, lived. I will not dwell on this time of my life, only to say I there 
 began to learn what life really was in its labors and responsibilities. I had 
 never before known the real value of money, in fact I had almost everything 
 to learn, but the many, and sometimes bitter, lessons were as nothing when 
 compared to the terrible home-sickness I experienced at the separation from 
 home and friends, and to attempt a description of my feelings at that time 
 would prove fruitless, except in one definite, ever-present thought, which 
 amounted to a longing for that religion of which I had heard so many speak, 
 but of which I had no personal knowledge. My prayer was, "Father in 
 heaven, what must I do to be saved? I believe in Christ as my Savior, and 
 I pray that Thou wilt give me the evidence of sins forgiven." But, though 
 I prayed most fervently, I never could feel the assurance of acceptance, so 
 I thought I had only to wait, and in His own good time He would send 
 the same evidence to my waiting spirit that others had spoken of receiving. 
 Thus I waited and prayed, and my prayers were not in vain, for He spared 
 me until, led by His providence, I heard and understood the truth as taught 
 in His Holy Word, that the evidence of sins forgiven was in His promise, 
 and not in our feelings. In other words, we know that when we come to 
 Him in His own appointed way He will accept of us and forgive all our sins, 
 because He has promised to do so; and when we do what He requires of us, 
 we know He will fulfill His promise in our behalf. Our Savior gave Peter 
 the keys of the kingdom, and one of those keys Peter used on the day of 
 Pentecost, when, "speaking as the Spirit gave him utterance," he named the 
 conditions which should open the door of Christ's kingdom to the Jewish 
 people. When he had preached Christ to them they believed, for we read
 
 AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 7 
 
 that they were pricked in their heart, and cried out unto Peter and the rest 
 of the Apostles, "Men and brethren, what shall we do? Then Peter said unto 
 them, Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ 
 for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. 
 For the promise is unto you and to your children and to all that are afar 
 off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. And with many other 
 words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward 
 generation. Then they that gladly received His word were baptized, and 
 the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls. 
 And they continued steadfastly in the Apostles' doctrine and fellowship 
 and in breaking of bread and in prayers." This we find recorded in the 2d 
 chapter of Acts, from the first verse to the 42d, inclusive. 
 
 The 10th chapter of Acts shows us that Peter was afterwards called upon 
 to use the same key (conditions) which should admit the Gentile world, as 
 up to this date the door of Christ's kingdom had been closed to them. Thus 
 the people spoken of by Peter as "afar off," upon the same conditions 
 which the Jews in the beginning received, were permitted to enter the king- 
 dom of Christ. Reading the above-named chapter caref ully leaves no room 
 for doubt concerning this conclusion. And as the Pentecostians and Cor- 
 nelius gladly received the Word and were baptized, even so did I, rejoicing 
 in the blessed privilege thus given, immediately enter Christ's kingdom, 
 returning to my home with an evidence of sins forgiven which can never 
 be gainsaid, for it rests upon His blessed promise; and from that date to the 
 present, although I have often had occasion to doubt myself, I have never 
 doubted His Holy Word, for the promises are '-yea and amen in Christ Jesus 
 our Lord." For over fifty 3 T ears I have known that He never disappoints 
 those who put their trust in Him. Though our best efforts are imperfect, He 
 graciously looks upon us in the face of His anointed and sees Christ as our 
 righteousness; and thus in His strength we are encouraged to strive on, 
 until, by adding to our faith courage, knowledge, temperance, patience, 
 godliness, brotherly kindness and charity, we may at the last obtain an 
 abundant entrance into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior, 
 Jesus Christ. Thus, according to Peter second epistle, from verse and
 
 8 AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 
 
 chapter 1st to verse llth, inclusive we are shown how the second key 
 opens the everlasting door through added conditions of the Gospel. Our 
 Savior said: "Unto thee will I give the keys of the kingdom of heaven" 
 (Matt. 16:19), and since one key only is required to open one door, we are 
 forced to the conclusion that faith, repentance and baptism unlocked the 
 door of His kingdom on earth, and the additions to our faith, already quoted r 
 unlocked the door which opens to us beyond death's portals. I am so 
 grateful to our Father in heaven that a subject of such vital importance to 
 us has not been left obscure or uncertain, but that the Bible is full of loving, 
 plain but positive, assurance in all that pertains to our salvation, both as to 
 what has been done for us and in what is required of us. 1 have dwelt 
 upon this event of my life, because out of it has grown my greatest happi- 
 ness, for "godliness is profitable unto all things having the promise of the 
 life that now is and that which is to come." My happiness was increased 
 by returning from Canada to my childhood's home in New York State, 
 where we remained a few years, living in one of my father's houses: then 
 once more I left my native home, never again to return except to visit, but 
 I was older, more useful and much happier during the years that followed* 
 until another great change came into my life. 
 
 The last move to which I have alluded was made to a place called 
 Royal Oak in Michigan twelve miles from Detroit. At that time they 
 were laying the first car track from that city to the little town of Royal Oak, 
 the cars to be drawn by horses, and the road for a time to terminate at 
 Royal Oak. As there was other work connected with it, a gentleman 
 who had charge of the industry spoke to my husband about board- 
 ing the hands at work for him. I at first objected, thinking the work- 
 men would probably be a rougher class than I cared to have my children 
 become accustomed to, but he assured us there should be no profanity 
 allowed; so all one winter I cooked for eighteen men without assistance,. 
 and baked all my bread in a tin oven and bake kettle. Then Mr. Simonton r 
 considering me competent, solicited us to take the Railroad Exchange, which 
 he owned, and wished us to board himself and family. We took the hotel. 
 and during the time we occupied it occurred the political campaign in which
 
 AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 9 
 
 "Tippecanoe and Tyler, too," was sung and echoed from early dawn to 
 dewy eve, and when they were expected to pass through Royal Oak with 
 their long processions of wagons, log cabins, etc., it occurred to me that 
 they would sing and shout themselves hungry, and that extensive prepara- 
 tions for a dinner would prove agreeable to some of the crowd and profit- 
 able to ourselves. But the proprietor's wife, my husband and others discour- 
 aged the effort, thinking the crowd would provide themselves with food, 
 which doubtless many of them did, but I, still thinking it best, unaided and 
 without encouragement, prepared a dinner for over sixty people, and at the 
 dinner hour there came such a rush that the only pity was preparation had 
 not been made for a hundred instead. So it was unanimously conceded a 
 good thing that I followed the dictates of my own judgment in the matter. 
 I have mentioned these things particularly that you may understand it was 
 not an idle boast when I said I had grown more competent as well as older, 
 and I am sure you will excuse the seeming appearance of egotism in these 
 reminiscences when you are reminded that I am over eighty -three } 7 ears old. 
 
 "I am old, so old that childhood days seem 
 
 In the shadowy past but a mystical dream; 
 They are fading away, yet each year of the past 
 
 I love to live o'er, and shall cling to the last 
 To my few treasured relics, my few withered flowers, 
 
 That tell of the wealth of those sunnier hours. 
 Oh to live eighty years, eighty long fitful years! 
 
 Yet their smiles and their joys, their griefs and their fears 
 Are gone as the clouds that are hurrying by 
 
 To dim for a moment the fair summer sky. 
 I have lived a long life, though it seems a brief day 
 
 Four score, and God's mercy still brightens my way." 
 
 But to resume. After the lapse of a few more years, another change 
 seemed advisable; my husband, who for years had been in feeble health, was 
 visibly failing with great rapidity. Our last move was to Detroit, and
 
 10 AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 
 
 during the remainder of the time that Mr. Balch lived we kept boarders, 
 and in this way contributed to the support of our family. Again I was left 
 a widow, and as nursing the sick offered a better remuneration than any- 
 thing else I considered myself capable of doing, I decided to engage in it 
 as a business, and as a homeopathic nurse I took my first lessons of Dr. Ellis, 
 of Detroit. I should perhaps earlier in my narrative have mentioned the 
 names of three of my father's brothers, not that they were all the uncles I 
 had, but because, although our paths diverged for years, they again met and 
 crossed, which necessarily connects them with this life story as it proceeds. 
 There were Uncles John, Elijah and Cyrus K. Anderson, who in my early 
 home had often constituted a part of our family, and as a matter of course 
 I was ver3" much attached to them. Uncle Cyrus, the youngest of all my 
 father's brothers, was a man of more than ordinary ability and attainments. 
 While young, he had chosen a collegiate course rather than the "of age pat- 
 rimony" which his elder brothers had received, and he fortunately obtained 
 both. He married a daughter of Judge Clois (a man of some note in the 
 East), and afterward moved to Buffalo, N. Y., where for several successive 
 years he filled offices of trust, was County Clerk, Treasurer, etc. And it 
 speaks well for his private life that after the death of his first wife, in due 
 course of time, he married another of the Judge's daughters. They were 
 both lovely women, and well do I remember the happy hours spent with 
 them at our house (their country home) and at theirs (our city home). But, 
 in the later years of which I am writing, he had moved to Chicago (the 
 Garden City of the West, as it was then called), and was living with his 
 third wife, whose maiden name was Harriet Wilbur, and she, too, was a beau- 
 tiful woman. My Uncles John and Elijah, with their wives women of 
 blessed memory to me were also living here, Uncle John having bought a 
 farm about eight miles from the court house, and Uncles Cyrus and Elijah 
 occupied a house together in the city. I have been thus minute in describ- 
 ing, as even their places of residence had a part in shaping this humble life 
 history. But I am anticipating. Uncle Cyrus invited me to spend the 
 winter with him in Chicago, thinking, I suppose, that it would afford me rest 
 and recreation and might in other respects prove a benefit. I accepted his
 
 AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 11 
 
 kind invitation, and, after making arrangements for my older children to 
 remain in Detroit for the winter, I took my two-year old baby boy and 
 turned my face Westward. So in the autumn of 1846 I first looked upon Chi- 
 cago, then but a babe as compared with its present dimensions, though still 
 a very promising infant, as time has verified. Arriving at my uncle's house 
 with my little boy is but the beginning of new experiences of my life 
 history. 
 
 CHAPTER SECOND. 
 
 IT PON arriving, I was warmly welcomed by my relatives, but after a time 
 I realized that it could not always be convenient to have one visitor 
 who all the time occupied the guest-chamber. And though Uncle Cyrus 
 would have taken the whole house, I would not for a moment allow Uncle 
 Elijah and Aunt Matilda to be thus inconvenienced by moving at that 
 time of the year; so I made it unnecessary by accepting a situation at Dr. 
 Shipman's to wean little Kittie, their first child. (I have since nursed her 
 with two of her own little ones, also her sister Helen with one.) I learned 
 their need of some one through a gentleman who was acquainted with Dr. 
 Shipman, and staying at nr^ uncle's between opportunities for nursing was 
 much more satisfactory to me. And this was the way I first became 
 acquainted with Dr. Shipman and his wife, who at that time were boarding 
 with a private family. But about a week after I went there, they changed 
 to the Tremont House, and I was afterward with them when boarding at 
 the Sherman House, and finally went with them when they moved to the 
 North Side, that being the first the}' had kept house in the city. After this, I 
 nursed under Dr. Shipman's practice for about seven years, and then I 
 was marrjed to Mr. Dickey, of Amanda, Ohio, and for some years follow- 
 ing was absent from Chicago. Of the years spent in Ohio I will not now 
 speak, as I wish, if permitted, in the future to publish that part of my life 
 by itself, as it contains subject matter more than sufficient to fill a book.
 
 12 AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 
 
 After my return to Chicago, I again nursed the sick, under Dr. Shiprnan's 
 practice principally, so my opportunities for becoming very well acquainted 
 with Dr. and Mrs. Shipman were not limited. And I may be allowed to 
 say right here that I as much believe Dr. Shipman was appointed to carry 
 out this faith work in behalf of the poor little outcasts of this city, as I 
 believe that Moses was" raised up " to lead the children of Israel out of 
 Egyptian captivity; not through miraculous endowment, but by virtue of 
 his birth and education, being, as he was, the son of a very religious and 
 exceptionally benevolent father. Mr. Cleaver, of Cleaverville, told me 
 shortly after Dr. Shipman founded the home that he presumed there was 
 not another man in the city of Chicago who could so entirely command the 
 confidence of the people as did Dr. Shipman. " For," said he, "I know of 
 more than a hundred families that the Doctor, in addition to the medical 
 treatment given, has helped to furnish with necessary supplies to tide them 
 over their time of destitution." And I know that the Doctor with his fam- 
 ily always kept what was called " the Lord's bank " in his house, although 
 he had a large family of his own. In looking back to my first winter in 
 Chicago, I am led to recount the mercies of Him who by His hand was then as 
 now leading me, for whenever circumstances seemed to close one door against 
 me my way was being opened in another direction, in manifestations which 
 could not admit of doubt. During the winter, I made arrangements to stay 
 with a family where I could keep my little boy with me, expecting to 
 remain until spring, but a requirement entire!}' unforeseen aroused my dig- 
 nit}^, and I decided to leave. Still I felt troubled, as I respected them very 
 highly. Under these circumstances, imagine my surprise and gratitude 
 when the following morning my Uncle John came to the city for the express 
 purpose of taking me home with him, because while I was grieving, Uncle 
 John dreamed that he pulled me out of the fire, and at four in the morning 
 he said, " Lydia, get me some breakfast, so I can go and get Laura, for she 
 is in trouble." I gladly returned with him, and when, after a time, I again 
 engaged in nursing, Uncle John and Aunt Lydia kept my little boy. So 
 between the rest of mind afforded by the good care given my child and the 
 intervals between work pleasantly spent with all the uncles' families, the
 
 AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 13 
 
 winter was soon gone, and with the opening spring my children came. I still 
 continued nursing however, and during those years I took care of Mrs. Ship- 
 man twice, also two of William B. Ogden's sisters, Mrs. Sheldon and Mrs. 
 Jones, Mrs. Mahlon Ogden, Mrs. Cleaver and others who are remembered with 
 pleasure. I feel very proud of many now grown into young manhood and 
 womanhood upon whom I bestowed first care in the capacity of nurse. I 
 took care of Mrs. George R. Davis when little Bennie Davis came as a New 
 Year's gift. He is now a promising young man, engaged in studying law. 
 And Bennie Grout, whose life I was permitted to save, will soon graduate 
 as a physician and surgeon, so you will admit that I have good reason to be 
 proud of my Bennies. In reviewing the past, I feel assured that I was 
 made an instrument in the hands of God of doing good to others as well 
 as maintaining myself. I will now give one more incident, as connected 
 with my nursing days, before closing this chapter. I took care of a young 
 man by the name of Charles Clark. He was a member of the Poughkeepsie 
 League, a school where one hundred and twenty men had bound themselves 
 together to care for one another in time of need. Charley's was the first 
 case of sickness, and a serious case it was to them all. Dr. Bebee, the great 
 surgeon, amputated his leg twice, and for a time his life hung in the balance, 
 but after five weeks, at great expense and with the best of care, he recovered 
 sufficiently to be taken home. The league then paid me $50 for my serv- 
 ices, and I, knowing what great expense they had incurred, thought the 
 league should be commended for their good work, and wrote 
 
 Men may say what they will do 
 
 Words of loving kindness too 
 
 Are very good; 
 
 But actual deeds 
 
 Done by the league, 
 
 Are better understood. 
 
 Such deeds must tell 
 
 Must bind Satan in his cell. 
 
 To Christ our Lord we give all praise 
 
 That men bind Satan in these days. 
 
 Hail glorious morn, millennial day,
 
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 We shall bind Satan in this way! 
 
 All monarchies the earth around, 
 
 By men and means they must be bound. 
 
 And we will pray 
 
 That Christ our Lord hasten the day 
 
 That Satan is bound a thousand years 
 
 And Christ will dry the nation's tears. 
 
 Deeds of kindness, words of love, 
 
 Are like dew-drops from above. 
 
 Then I inclosed $5, adding 
 
 Most noble league, 
 
 My mite I freely give to thee 
 
 As my initiating fee, 
 
 For as this league is like no other, 
 
 I thought, perhaps, it needs a mother. 
 
 Mr. Dudley, President of the league, replied as follows: 
 DEAK MOTHER: Good woman that thou art, may God ever protect 
 and bless you in your good work. Allow me at this my first opportunity 
 to express to you the heartfelt thanks of each and every member of the E. 
 N. B. C. League for your ever kind and watchful attention manifested in behalf 
 of our dear brother, Charles Clark, during the sad hours of his affliction, 
 and to acknowledge the receipt of $5 liberally donated by you for his relief. 
 God speed you in the right is the wish of your friend as well as son, 
 
 A. W. DUDLEY, 
 President of the E. N. B. C. League, 
 
 Chicago, 111. 
 
 And I was also told that the league unanimously accepted my offer of 
 becoming their mother, and so I became the mother of one hundred and 
 twenty sons in a day. Not a common experience, I think you will admit. It 
 was thirty years since this letter was written to the league, and I there 
 expressed the way in which I believed Satan was to be bound, and will 
 add a later expression of my views as given in a letter to my daughter short- 
 ly after the Prophetic Convention at Farwell Hall, which I had attended.
 
 AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 15 
 
 THE WOMAN'S VIEWS ABOUT THE RETURN OF THE JEWS AT 
 THE PERIOD WHEN DANIEL'S SAINTS POSSESS THE 
 
 KINGDOM. 
 
 CHICAGO, Nov. 22, 1886. 
 
 DEAR JULIA: I went every day last week to the prophetic meeting to 
 hear about the wonder-working God among the destinies of men and nations, 
 and I must say God has wonderful men to defend His cause. Such har- 
 mony of spirit prevailed through the whole session as was pleasant to 
 witness. 
 
 Although they differed in thought as to how it was, yet on the ques- 
 tion of the second coming of Christ at the millennium they are a unit. They 
 think at Christ's appearing will be a first resurrection and the conversion 
 of the Jews. From what they teach of pre-millennials and post-millennials, I 
 discover that I don't believe like either one of them, all my knowledge being 
 derived from the Bible and a book called " The Vision of the Ages." Every 
 person can read their millennial views in their works, so I have only to 
 state my views. 
 
 I believe with these men in the signs of the times, and that we are 
 very near the end of this age of time, and that great events are at the door. 
 I believe in the great tribulation, but I look at it different from their idea. 
 J think, in God's controversy with the nations, His battle will be with 
 the anti-Christ host that wants to take the earth. This will be a literal bat- 
 tle of the wicked one against the Messianic nations. Jesus is represented 
 in the nineteenth chapter of Revelation as being in front of the battle, hav- 
 ing on His vesture and on His thigh a name written, King of Kings, and 
 Lord of Lords, and His name is called the Word of God. 
 
 The Messianic nations hold up the Word of God to the people; the 
 anti-Christ will do all they can to hide the Word and keep the people in 
 ignorance. Jesus, the Word, is represented in front, and will overcome 
 the wicked host that purposes to possess the earth. Daniel says in the seventh 
 chapter, " And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the king-
 
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 dora under the whole heavens, shall be given to the people of the saints of 
 the Most High." Jesus will not leave the mediatorial throne till He comes 
 to the judgment. The Jews will gather in Jerusalem, and will tarry till 
 Jesus comes to the judgment, a Jewish nation. They are one of the wit- 
 nesses; they witness for the Old Testament the Christians for the New 
 Testament. Jesus, the Word, God with us, will rule till the heathen are His 
 possession, through Daniel's saints; this will harmonize with the Word, 
 " The first will be last, and the last first;" the Jews, being first, rejected Christ; 
 the Gentiles accepted Christ, causing them to be first. Daniel's saints, with 
 the Messianic nations, will rule the Christ-kingdom politically, and Christ 
 the Lord will be the governor of the earth through His word. At that 
 period, with the power of the beast and the false prophet destroyed, and 
 the dragon bound, there is nothing in the way of the Gospel of the king- 
 dom. The laws of the kingdom will protect the Jews in their rights as 
 Jews. They can receive the Gospel or remain under their own law. God 
 gives them the gift, as Paul hints, without repentance; but He will not let 
 them worship idols any more. God says by the mouths of the prophets, 
 "Ye are my witness." We are the two witnesses, the Jews and the Chris- 
 tians. The " Vision of the Ages " teaches that the nations which believe 
 in Christ will politically govern the earth. 
 
 The Young Men's Christian Association a few years ago had a national 
 convention in Chicago, the object being to get the name of God in the con- 
 stitution. Our nation took no notice of the call. One of the speakers said, 
 " Brethren, we have failed; but I will tell you what is the matter; this was 
 our time to put the name of God in the constitution; when God's time 
 comes to have His name in the constitution, it will go in." One woman in 
 that small assembly of about sixty people in Farwell Hall, said, " Glory to 
 God!" A gentleman at the close of the meeting grasped her hand and said, 
 " I want to shake hands with you for responding at such an appropriate 
 moment." The woman knew then what she knows now, that in the new order 
 of coming events Jesus would govern the earth through His word, by His 
 saints, or, in other words, through the Messianic nations. How appropriate 
 that the Christian Association has their part of the work ready, namely
 
 AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 17 
 
 to put the name in when God's time comes! We see now why God's name 
 has not been in these human governments. 
 
 After the battle of the Almighty God, the Bible nations, with the 
 Word of God as their guide, will rule the whole earth. 
 
 When Christ was on earth, the people said to Him that Elias was first 
 to come; and He answered that John was Elias, if they could bear it, mean- 
 ing that they had a oneness of spirit. The resurrection of the martyrs is 
 spoken of, and they are to live and reign with Christ a thousand years. The 
 " Vision of the Ages " teaches that like spirits with the martyrs will give 
 their life unto death for the liberty of the Gospel. 
 
 One thing remember, the Jews don't reject God. They are believers 
 in God. They are very useful to Christians as monumental witnesses. At 
 the time Daniel's saints possess the Kingdom, we have reason to think by 
 the Scriptures that the Jews will be returned to their own land, and tbeir 
 return honors God's promise, and shows the nations that He is a covenant- 
 keeping God. He said He would scatter them, and He said He would 
 return them to their old estates, better than at the beginning. In reading 
 Ezekiel, observe the last verse the Lord is there. The Lord protects them 
 when the government of the whole earth rests upon His shoulders. The 
 only way left for us to do is to accept it as it reads, and it plainly reads 
 that after the Jews return they worship according to the law in their temple. 
 Read Ezekiel 43rd, 44th and 46th chapters, where the Prince is not allowed 
 to enter the east gate. Read the thirty-fifth chapter and verse where it says, 
 u because thou hast said these two nations and these two countries shall be 
 mine." I understand that these enemies of Christ say these Jews and these 
 Christian dogs shall not possess the earth, but Christ the Word has promised 
 to have dominion over the whole earth, and no one can doubt His protec- 
 tion and deliverance to His two witnesses. Everything said in Ezekiel 
 represents Jewish worship at that period as sanctioned by the Holy Spirit 
 of promise. They have served their full time in being a scattered people, 
 and God will show them, though they reject Him, that He will cause them 
 to be protected by the people that accepted Him; for it is the Christ-people 
 that will have the rule under the whole heavens. Thus they will be pro-
 
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 tected in the political government of God down through the thousand 
 years, and in a body be allowed to govern themselves under the govern- 
 ment of Christ; but the saints will have the political reign, and will rule 
 the earth with a rod of iron, which indicates great power. 
 
 Some people have fallen into line to believe that Christ cannot fight 
 our battles unless He comes in person; but we cannot limit the power of 
 God. He came to earth to redeem it from bad government, and thus help 
 man to be free to accept or reject His counsels; and while some say the 
 earth is growing worse, I claim it is growing better; when we compare the 
 present with the past, I think we should take courage, as this is the last bat- 
 tle. Although war is a calamity, .yet we are no better than other people 
 who have had to defend the right and forward the cause of Christ by 
 overcoming the powers that be by the evil one, the enemy to all right 
 government. 
 
 I know that my children will wish me to explain how the dragon is to 
 be bound a thousand years. Ezekiel says, when this host comes up to bat- 
 tle that only one-sixth part goes back alive. The people that fought for the 
 dragon will not get what they fought for, the kingdom, but they will be 
 overthrown, the horse with his rider; so Satan during the thousand years 
 has no one to fight his battles; he is restrained, or bound in the bottomless 
 pit, till Christ's bride, the church, finishes the work commenced of covering 
 the earth with the knowledge of God as the waters cover the sea. Christ 
 has kept His word; His dominion is an everlasting dominion. God cannot 
 fail, and all who trust in Him will be at His right hand in the judgment day, 
 when He comes to be admired of His saints and take vengeance on them 
 that know not God and obey not His Gospel. O, how beautiful is the plan 
 of salvation, and all of God's goodness to the whole earth! When He sent 
 His Son to us the whole earth politically was governed by the evil one, and 
 Christ died and rose again to establish His kingdom in the hearts of men, 
 bringing in the new covenant, helping men to redeem the earth from bad 
 government. 
 
 At the end of the thousand years, when all the earth has been redeemed 
 from the power of Satan through good government, and every people and
 
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 nation have been taught the redeeming love of Christ, those who reject the 
 Lord at that period the Lord will reject at His second coming; then is said, 
 " Behold, I come quickly, and my reward is with me; he that is unjust, let 
 him be unjust still; and he that is filthy, let him be filthy still; and he that is 
 righteous, let him be righteous still; and he that is holy, let him be holy 
 still." From your Mother, 
 
 MRS. LAURA DICKEY. 
 
 As the above was written nearly eleven years ago, I will say in conclu- 
 sion that I am still investigating and receiving added light on this subject. 
 That I believe we are now in the preparation day, and that the men and 
 means which our Heavenly Father is employing to bind Satan will be found 1 
 in the Young Men's Christian Association, in the Temperance reform, in 
 the Labor question, in the Grand Army of the Republic, and in the Chris- 
 tian Endeavor Society, as all these represent a united non-sectarian effort, 
 which will, we believe, eventually merge the government of the people into 
 more direct government of God, thus making the government of God and 
 the government of the people identical. And if Charles A. L. Totten is 
 right in his views concerning the destiny of the lost tribes of Israel, giving 
 Ephraim as England and Manassah as America, then Mrs. Dickey and Prof. 
 Totten have solved the Jewish question. 
 
 VIEWS ON THE PROPHECIES. 
 
 \\7IIEN Jesus came to His earth, the Prince of the power of the air was 
 holding possession politically, Satan occupied an airy foundation. 
 When Christ came He set up His kingdom in the heart of man, and thus He 
 has leavened all Christendom with Gospel and liberty, and the promise of 
 God is through Abraham that Israel shall inherit the earth. Revelation 
 xix chapter, 10th verse, says: "The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of 
 prophecy."
 
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 The 10th chapter of Revelation says: "The ten witnesses testified in 
 sackcloth and ashes for a long time." 
 
 Revelation xii chapter, 13th verse: "And when the dragon saw that he 
 was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the 
 man-child." 
 
 14th verse: "And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, 
 that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished 
 for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent." 
 
 15th verse: "And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after 
 the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood." 
 
 16th verse: "And the earth helped the woman; and the earth opened 
 her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his 
 mouth." 
 
 Remember, the woman, Christ's Church, represents those that fled into 
 the wilderness the Puritans. Also remember, Christ gave the emblem, 
 this great eagle, to AMERICA. 
 
 Revelation xvii chapter, loth verse: "And hesaitli unto me, The waters 
 which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, 
 and nations, and tongues." 
 
 This represents the water as peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and 
 tongues, that were and are sent to destroy the woman, Christ's Church. 
 But the earth helped the woman, this great eagle government, and kept the 
 serpent from destroying the woman. 
 
 When Christ said to the Disciples, "A little leaven leaveneth the whole 
 lump," thus He leavened His Disciples with Gospel and liberty. Ingersoll 
 and all men that love liberty will fight for this earthly government just as 
 soon as any Christian, for all Christendom was leavened with liberty at the 
 same time that Christ leavened His Disciples with the Gospel. 
 
 The Captain of our salvation is a great general, and has put all men, 
 small and great, that love liberty in a way to preserve His earth from the 
 beast and the false prophet. And the dragon will come soon to make war 
 on the woman, and we say, "Lord, come quickly." The army of the Lord 
 is getting ready to fight this last battle, and Christ, through His army, the
 
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 people, will fight the dragon, and take away his power to fight us any 
 more. 
 
 Emperor William says in his speech: "To us the church is not only a 
 memorial of the Reformation, but a serious admonition, and an expression 
 of divine blessing through the Protestant church." 
 
 The confession of our faith that we make to-day in the presence of 
 God binds us and the whole of Christendom. Therein lies the bond of 
 peace, reaching beyond all lines of division. 
 
 In the matter of faith there is no compulsion. Free conviction of the 
 heart and the decisive acknowledgment thereof is a blessed fruit of the 
 Reformation. We Protestants make feud with nobody on account of the 
 belief, but we hold fast our faith in the Gospel unto death. 
 
 The dedication of Martin Luther's church, so long delayed, the Em- 
 peror says his father and grandfather longed to see accomplished in their 
 da}', and their posterity have succeeded in carrying out their desires. The 
 Emperor has at last fearlessly accomplished their wish. I believe fear of the 
 people kept this dedication from being accomplished long ago. In God's 
 time He has provided the valiant Emperor with courage and power to carry 
 out the wish of his forefathers. To me it looks significant of the signs of 
 the times, as much as to say to the dragon, " Come on, we will fight to the 
 death for our liberty." 
 
 Eight years ago I wrote "The Woman's Views About the Return of the 
 Jews." I then said Christ would not leave the mediatorial throne to setup 
 a kingdom, for He had set up His kingdom in the heart of man, and the 
 seventh part of time belongs to Christ and His people, to take a rest in the 
 government of God. 
 
 We are nearing the great day when the battle of God, through His peo- 
 ple, shall fight the dragon, so Daniel's saints can possess the earth; then the 
 knowledge of God shall cover the earth as the water covers the sea. At 
 that time if a man lives a hundred years and is a sinner, the Lord syas, 
 "Let him be accursed" (means second death). He has been given time to learn 
 which is better, righteousness or sin, bad or good government.
 
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 This battle with the dragon will show who controls the earth this time, 
 the Lord or the Devil. According to the Word of God, the dragon will 
 be bound and the people on God's earth will enjoy peace and righteousness 
 in the government of God. 
 
 Prof. Totten says : "We are some of the lost tribes of Israel. Eng- 
 land is Ephraim and we are Manassah, that went over the walls when our 
 forefathers fled from persecution and came to this wilderness to worship 
 God." 
 
 I am thankful that I am privileged to live so near the seventh part of 
 time. If God spares m}- life to come in and take possession of the inherit- 
 ance promised to Israel, the whole earth if I can live to see the government 
 of God and the government of the people identical I will be thankful. I am 
 thankful now, and can say like old Simeon, "I am ready to depart in peace; 
 not my will but Thine be done." 
 
 I said in the "Woman's Views:" "The Jews will remain in a body as 
 Jews through the Millennium, to witness for the Old Testament." 
 
 We read of two witnesses, two olive bowls of oil, two olive trees and 
 seven golden candlesticks. We learn that beauty and bands shall be united 
 as one stick. 
 
 I will explain howl understand the two witnesses. The Old Testament 
 is one witness, and the New Covenant, called the New Testament, is a wit- 
 ness; the Jews witness with the Old Covenant and the Christians with the 
 New Covenant. Thus we have the need of one olive bowl of oil of proph- 
 ecy for the Old Covenant and one for the New Covenant. 
 
 The two olive trees witness the same; these two witnesses mean two. 
 and remain two in my mind. 
 
 I consider the Jews that rejected Christ a monumental witness for the 
 Old Testament, and we need their witness to prove our own position in the 
 New Covenant. 
 
 The seven golden candlesticks to the seven churches are to light us 
 through the seventh part of time. 
 
 Isaiah Ivi, 10th verse, says: "His watchmen are blind; they are all igno- 
 rant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving
 
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 to slumber. Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and 
 they are shepherds that cannot understand; they all look to their own way, 
 every one for his gain, from his quarter." 
 
 I do hope Isaiah did not mean us; if I could only think that he meant 
 the Jews; but realty, I am afraid he meant us, too. As for myself, I have 
 been doing a good deal of barking, and if I have said anything wrong in 
 explanation, or any other way, I will be glad to be told in a common-sense 
 way what it all means. 
 
 In the thirty-third of Ezekiel we find the duty of the watchman. No man 
 has set me as a watchman, but I am watching the signs of the times. Over 
 forty years ago I was reading in Daniel, and Daniel said, "The wise should 
 understand." I said, "Daniel, I don't understand a word you say, but I will 
 try." I have kept my promise; I have tried to understand by reading the 
 Bible and other books "The Messiahship," the great demonstration written 
 by Walter Scott, Standard office, Cincinnati; "The Vision of the Ages," 
 Christian Publishing Company, S. T. Lewis, Manager. Those books in a 
 measure guided me to think and study, and read and run. And now God 
 gives us a man who is writing books called "The Romance of History," and 
 he says we are lost Israel found in ourselves. I am glad to believe we are 
 Israel, because Israel is to inherit the earth. You will notice in reading 
 the Prophets that Judah and Israel are separately mentioned. Jeremiah 
 xxx : 3: "For, lo, the days come, that I will bring again the captivity of my 
 people Israel and Judah, saith the Lord." In the fourth verse, "And these 
 are the words concerning Israel;" twenty-fourth verse, "In the latter days ye 
 shall consider it." If I get the idea right, Israel will rule in the Kingdom of 
 God in the seventh part of time, and Israel will protect Judah in her rights 
 to worship God as she understands; and Judah shall be allowed to choose 
 her own governor from her own people to govern her affairs, but the Jews 
 will be tributary to the government of God through Israel. 
 
 The Lord our Righteousness will he King over and through Israel and 
 will rule this time, and Judah accepts Israel's rule and the righteous govern- 
 ment of God through Israel. According to promise, Israel shall inherit the 
 earth. I solved the Jewish question five years previous to reading Professor
 
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 Totten's book. A Presbyterian minister said: "Mrs. Dickey, if you have 
 solved the Jewish question, you have done more than any man has done." 
 I replied, "I have solved it to my satisfaction." I feel greatly indebted to 
 Professor Totten, for I could not see why Judah and Israel were separately 
 mentioned until I read his works. 
 
 I promised to explain the four faces in the first chapter of Ezekiel as I 
 understand them. The face of a man represents Christ. Christ came as a 
 man. and represents all men. Cornelius said to Peter, Actsx: "A man came 
 to him in bright clothing." The face of the lion is England. The face of 
 the ox represents the strength of Germany. The face of the eagle represents 
 America. And when Almighty God fights with the dragon to get control 
 of His own earth, then the four faces, Christ, England, German} 7 and Amer- 
 ica, will ally their powers to fight the dragon; and when the dragon gets 
 whipped he is bound. Read Zachariah 3d chapter, 8th verse: "Hear now, O 
 Joshua the high priest, thou and thy fellows that sit before thee; for they 
 are men wondered at; for, behold, 1 will bring forth my servant the 
 BRANCH." Read 9th and 10th verses and all of Zachariah, and open your 
 eyes for the past and the present, and you will learn the BRANCH, as I un- 
 derstand it, means Israel. We are the temple of God made without hands. 
 I still believe the Jews will build a temple for Jewish worship. The reason 
 I believe this is the way it is written in the 44th and 46th chapters of Ezekiel. 
 I think they will witness in their temple for the Old Testament till Christ 
 comes in person, when Christ will destroy the last enemy, which is death. 
 Christ has come and been coming with spirit and power, helping His people 
 to destroy the beast, the false prophet, and is coming in the same spirit and 
 power to overcome the dragon, and thus He will help His Bride, the Church, 
 to gain the victory and claim with Christ the government of the whole 
 earth in the name of the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. His Bride will 
 occupy till He comes in person. II Peter, 3d chapter, says: "The earth also 
 and the works that are therein shall be burned up." The dragon represents 
 the Devil and he is the last enemy that Christ will destroy, which means 
 death. Death is swallowed up in victory. Thanks be to God, who giveth 
 us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ ! And soon, thank God, we
 
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 will sing the Song of Victory, of Moses and the Lamb, and the Songs of the 
 Church. The Bride will resound to the ends of the earth; Jesus is the root 
 and offspring of David; the Bright and Morning Star, Christ, will go forth 
 with His nations represented as a man. The dragon that had control of 
 the earth when Christ came to His own and they received Him not is cast 
 down and bound. Christ said, "I come to send the sword," and now with 
 the Church, His Bride, we are promised a rest. 
 
 When Eve listened to the serpent, he took possession of her heart. 
 When Christ came, He leavened the heart of man with His Word, His plan, 
 and thus brought good-will to man. - When we realize that woman was and 
 is the mother of every man and woman that was and is born, it is a great 
 thought. She was also the mother of the Son of God. We can see that 
 what the woman lost in Adam she gained in Christ. Christ has be.stowed 
 great honor on the woman, being the seed of the woman. Through the promise 
 of God the seed of the woman shall bruise the serpent's head. I don't expect 
 the Lord to come in person till the end of the Millennium. I expect He 
 will give us possession of the earth to occupy till He comes. God always 
 has a man when He needs him most, and through a man He has raised up 
 one to let us know who we are. He has written "The Romance of History." 
 God reminds us of His promise that Israel shall inherit the earth. Professor 
 Totten says we are one of the lost tribes of Israel. We have eyes to see and 
 ears to hear; it will be well to read the promises of God and notice the signs of 
 the times, and awake out of sleep, lest trouble come on us unawares. We shall 
 need preparation lest the thief come and find us not ready to go to the 
 Master, and hold fast our faith, come what will. This tribulation that is at 
 the door will then show which of us is on the side of the Lord. O, Lord, 
 help us to be ready with oil in our lamps, to go in unto the marriage of the 
 Lamb. I am aware when we accept Christ in faith we are the true seed of 
 Israel. Paul says: "I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present 
 you as a chaste virgin to Christ." Also there is neither male nor female in 
 Christ Jesus. We are all baptized in the same name. The word of God is 
 spirit and is truth. I believe God's word is His promise and will be kept by 
 His power in spirit and in truth. She truly is a foolish virgin that does
 
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 not prepare to meet the Bridegroom. We ought to rejoice to know our 
 faith in Christ through His promise to Abraham delivers us from paganism 
 and unbelief. O, woman ! be glad and rejoice, for Christ is the friend of 
 woman. The Lord says: "O Israel, thou has destroyed thyself, but in me is 
 thine help. I will be thy king; where is any other that may save thee in all 
 thy cities?" (Hoseaxiii, 9.) Zachariah xii, 5: "And the governors of Judah 
 shall say in their hearts, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength 
 in the Lord of Hosts their God." Seventh verse: "The Lord also shall save 
 the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the 
 glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against 
 Judah." 
 
 Read all of the ninth chapter of Zachariah. The thirteenth verse says : 
 "When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim,and raised up 
 thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of 
 a might3 r man." Sixteenth verse: "And the Lord their God shall save them 
 in that day as the flock of his people." It would be well if all the people 
 would read the Word of God, and, as Paul said to Timothy, learn to divide 
 the Word of truth in order for instruction to ourselves and others. 
 
 The twelfth chapter of Revelation says the dragon made war on the 
 woman. We are looking for him, so Christ's prepared people can bind 
 him and despoil him of his power. When he is bound, we look for a rest in 
 the long-looked-for period in the government of God through His people, 
 the government of God and the government of Israel to inherit the earth 
 according to promise. The government of God in the new order of things 
 will explain why we still pray "Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on 
 earth as it is in Heaven." There will be no more monarchinl governments, 
 such as we now have. Christ will be King of Kings and Lord of Lords; and 
 Daniel's saints through Christ shall rule the earth with a rod of iron. The 
 revenue in the government of God won't be whiskey revenue, it will be 
 peace and righteousness through our amended laws. Jesus promises His 
 people a rest when the beast and false prophets are destroyed and the 
 dragon bound. Glory to God in the Highest, peace on earth and good 
 will to man !
 
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 NOTICE. 
 
 One thing I feel sure of: When Christ and His Bride take control of 
 the earth, Israel and Judah will be joined into one stick in fight. The 
 covenant was broken between Beauty and Bands and they were cut asunder; 
 but they will be bound together in brotherhood when they fight the Bear. 
 
 Israel bears testimony with Christ in the New Covenant. The Jews 
 will continue to bear testimony under the Old Covenant. 
 
 NEW COVENANT, KINGDOfl OF CHRIST 
 ON EARTH. 
 
 THE APOSTLES AND THIRD PER5ON IN THE TRINITY. 
 
 COR fort}' years I have been interested in the Prophecies, and have given 
 much thought to the coming of our Lord, and the means used through 
 the Prophets and Apostles. When Christ came in His ministry He spoke to 
 all the people, and did many miracles manifesting the power of God, and 
 chose the Apostles to be His witnesses, so the new covenant could be written. 
 Jeremiah (xxxi: 31) speaks of a new covenant; also Hebrews, viii: 8. In the 
 seventeenth chapter of St. John, in order to get the meaning of Christ, we 
 should see who He is talking to, and see His purpose in teaching them by His 
 word; and His power that He does all these things in their presence, to 
 prepare them to be His witnesses. In order to understand we should read 
 the book of testimony in St. John, and all the testimonies in the four Evan- 
 gelists. Then the power of God, manifested through Christ, is seen to 
 prepare His witnesses. Then we perceive Christ's purpose, when, in John 
 xvii: 9, 10, "I pray for them; I pray not for the world, but for them which 
 thou hast given me; for they are thine, and all mine are thine, and thine are 
 mine, and I am glorified in them." Eleventh verse: "Holy Father, keep 
 through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be
 
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 one, as we are." In the twenty-second verse Christ prays for His chosen wit- 
 nesses that they be one "even as we are one." This oneness of spirit is mani- 
 fested as one man. Twentieth verse, same chapter: " Neither pray I for these 
 alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word." This 
 proves the object of calling them to witness through Christ, so through them 
 the new covenant could be written, and the words of eternal life could be 
 brought to the world through the Apostles. The third person in the 
 Trinity was endued with power from on high messengers of the cov- 
 enant of God to all the world. St. Paul's argument m the eighth chapter 
 of Hebrews puts all in order. No testament can be made till after the death 
 of the testator, and the witnesses to the covenant were necessary to be one 
 in spirit to witness what they had seen and heard. Everything written 
 is witnessed, so the world may receive Christ in His new covenant laws and 
 commands, and believe His promises. This leads us to see the laws of the 
 Kingdom of God. If you will read the four Evangelists with a view to un- 
 derstanding the laws of the new covenant of the Kingdom of God you will 
 find after Christ is risen from the dead (in the last chapter of Mark) His 
 commission to the Apostles was to go and preach the Gospel to every creat- 
 ure. And His promise is: " He that belie veth and is baptized shall be 
 saved." And they went and preached everywhere, the Lord working with 
 them and confirming the Word with signs following. 
 
 This leads us to see what the miracles were for to confirm the Word. 
 Then in Matthew xvi, when Christ gave the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven 
 to Peter and said: "Whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in 
 Heaven." Then if you have read the four Evangelists you have learned 
 that Christ told His Disciples to tarry at Jerusalem till they were endued 
 with power from on high. Jesus was translated ten days when Pentecost 
 was fully come. When the Disciples were assembled the}* were all of one ac- 
 cord in one place (Acts ii chapter). Peter has the keys, and standing up with 
 them (11-14 verses) said: "Hearken to rny words." We want to see what 
 Peter binds on earth, as he has the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven. In the 
 thirtj'-second verse he says: "This Jesus hath God raised up. whereof we all 
 are witnesses." In the thirty-eighth verse Peter preached the law of the
 
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 Kingdom of Heaven, and in tlie fortieth verse he exhorted them to save 
 themselves, showing it was an act they could all do to repent of their sins, 
 and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and so 
 receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. This corresponds with Christ's words: 
 "As many as receive me I will give power to become sons of God." This 
 power is promised us after we receive Him; sometimes it is called the Com- 
 forter, the Holy Spirit. I feel sure it is a comfort to believe in the prom- 
 ises of God, for Jesus Christ is God with us. "In the beginning was the 
 Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God, and was made 
 flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory of the only 
 begotten Son of God." It is the Comforter in our souls to know we believe 
 the promises of God, that we are born of God's word of promise. This 
 leads us to inquire how we know. Because Christ said: "Go teach all nations, 
 baptizing in my name." 
 
 This brings us to ask how can we get the new name in the new cove- 
 nant. Peter said, "He baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remis- 
 sion of sins and you shall receive the Holy Ghost." We suppose from what 
 Christ said it is power we receive from God. Christ said as many as re- 
 ceived Him He would give them power to become sons of God. God 
 placed it in our own power to receive Him. Peter said, "Save your- 
 selves from this untoward generation." God had a plan to bring His word 
 to man. The Father, Son and the Apostles are one in action and in spirit. 
 Thus the three are one, and the person of the oneness of the Spirit is to 
 bear witness of the power of God given to His Son; so that when we receive 
 God's Son we receive power from on high to do the will of God. Faith 
 comes by hearing, and the words of eternal life are inviting us back to a 
 loving Father, and God gives the Apostle the witness of the spirit of power 
 to write the new covenant in order for us to understand when we come 
 into Christ's kingdom on earth we covenant with Christ by coming in His 
 name. I think we have some of the language of Ashdod by calling the 
 Holy Spirit the third person in the Trinity; it blinds the minds of the people 
 to speak of the Spirit in that way. Christ Himself is the personal power of 
 God in the spirit of truth. He is the person, and the Apostles witness with
 
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 Him, and according to our finite understanding we could easily see the 
 Apostles were the third person. But again we see the three compose one 
 body and one spirit, and unite all in one power, one spirit, one faith, one 
 Lord, one baptism, one body, fitly joined together in the unity of the 
 spirit of faith in Christ Jesus our God. 
 
 This leads to the thought that God will not hear us if we hold iniquity 
 in our hearts. Since we have been forgiven, the loving spirit of forgiveness 
 should abide in us; and if we are born of the spirit of truth, the effect on 
 us will be that we wish everyone would look to Christ and live; for out of 
 Christ there is no eternal life. One thing we ought to remember: When 
 Christ was baptized, God acknowledged Him His Son; and when we are 
 baptized Christ acknowledges us, and gives His promise of the Holy Spirit 
 of power, the Comforter, as long as we abide in the laws of the Kingdom of 
 Heaven. He promises to abide ib us if we keep His commandments. He 
 promises eternal life, and is gracious to forgive when He sees we trust in 
 Him and not in ourselves. It is necessary while we live in this world that 
 we should be law-abiding citizens. And when we enter the Kingdom of 
 Heaven in the name of Christ on earth, in order to know the law of 
 Christ we should stud}* His word in prayer and supplication, that the words 
 of Christ be the man of our counsel; and try to be taught of God, for -Jesus 
 said to the multitudes that followed Him: "You cannot come to me except 
 my Father that sent me draw you, for all that he drawest arc taught of 
 God; and I will raise him up at the last day." This teaches us these men 
 were not taught of God; they were taught doctrines and commandments 
 of men, and cannot be saved, because Christ comes to save men that are 
 drawn by the spirit of the teaching of God. When we obey the laws of 
 the Kingdom of Heaven, the Kingdom is within us, and we shall be able 
 to give a reason for the hope that is within us when we cast our hopes 
 on the promises of God, and not on our feelings as evidence. 
 
 Our feelings are evidence to us that the Word of God is truth. These 
 promises of God are so adapted to our wants that we feel this is just what 
 we need; and here Abraham's faith comes good. If we have faith enough to 
 believe in Christ's plan, His Kingdom of Heaven on earth we enter, freed
 
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 from sin. We have been buried with Christ to represent His death; when we 
 rise from the watery grave we represent our faith in the resurrection of 
 Christ; and as Christ was raised from the grave, so we shall be raised to walk 
 in newness of life if we continue in the Apostles' doctrine of the Kingdom 
 of Heaven on earth. Christ has only left on record two ordinances: one is 
 the order of baptism; the other is the communion with Christ every first 
 day of the week; that reminds us of His broken body and shed blood, and 
 gives us an opportunity to renew our covenant and go forth with the armor 
 of God shielding us from business temptations in the world, knowing the Dord 
 we have trusted in has all power in heaven and in earth, and can supply all 
 our needs according to His promises. The responsibility rests with our- 
 selves to believe Christ's words and go forth observing the laws of the 
 Kingdom of Heaven. 
 
 Peter rehearses the laws of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth: "Add to 
 your faith virtue, knowledge, temperance, courage, patience, godliness, 
 brotherly kindness, charity; if these things be in you and abound, you will 
 have an abundant entrance into the everlasting kingdom; and if we lack 
 these things we are blind, and cannot see afar off." After the loving Father 
 has taken us back, through such cost, it becomes our duty to love His advice, 
 and cast ourselves on His mercy, and be thankful to comply with His wish, 
 and cling to the new name and the promises, and work out our salvation 
 with fear and trembling. Not that fear that doubts Christ's word, but the 
 same fear that Paul had, to keep our body under lest we be cast away. 
 Watch and pray lest we enter into temptation; pray without ceasing, which 
 means an unceasing desire to do right. 
 
 Our own mistakes let them come as they will, we suffer for them. 
 
 We all have the Word of God to guide us unto all truth. 
 
 As a man thinketh so is he; it stands us in hand to think right, in 
 order to act right, and rest ourselves on a sure foundation. 
 
 It is a great comfort to settle our minds on Christ, a sure resting-place. 
 
 If all of us should live according to the advice in the Epistles, we 
 would be living Epistles, known and read of all men; then the world 
 could take knowledge through us and learn of Christ. Paul says, if our
 
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 Gospel is hid, it is hid to them that are lost, in whom the god of this world 
 blinded the minds of them that believe not. Jesus says: "It is the Spirit that 
 quickeneth the words that I speak unto you; they are Spirit and they are 
 life." We can find many places where Christ's words are His sure promises; 
 and we can obey His words if we will; or we can resist the will of God if we 
 choose; but the responsibility rests with ourselves for disobedience to God. 
 When Jesus had spoken many went away. Then said Jesus unto the twelve, 
 "Will ye also go away?" Pe-ter said: "Lord, where shall we go? Thou 
 hast the words of eternal life, and we are sure that thou art that Christ, the 
 Son of the Living God." 
 
 Jesus gives the reason why all left but twelve. Christ said, "They seek 
 honor from one another; they love the honor of the world." 
 
 I have told you faithfully of the Apostles' doctrine, the visible church 
 Of Christ on earth. And the Apostles have been faithful in describing the 
 character of the children of the King in all their Epistles, and their advice is 
 alarming, lest when we have run the race set before us we should lose the 
 crown of eternal life. In all the Evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke and 
 John, and also in John the Baptist, you will learn that the Kingdom of 
 Heaven is at hand. It comes without perception; it is within us; and we 
 are notified by Christ's word that the Kingdom of Heaven is near us. 
 
 The reason I have said the Apostles were the third person in the Trin- 
 ity is because Jesus prayed that they be made one with Him and His Father. 
 And the Apostle John's testimony (First Epistle, v: 7): "For there are three 
 that bear record in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost; 
 and these three agree in one." The question is, Who are these three that 
 bear record in heaven? 
 
 The Apostles bore record about Jesus Christ's word, and were one 
 with the Father and the Son, bearing record of Christ's work on earth. 
 And we also find in Revelation, xxi: 12, 13 verses, that the twelve tribes 
 of Israel had their names written on the gates, and the Apostles' names were 
 in the twelve foundations of the lamb. We see from this that the Apostles 
 represent setting up the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, and their testimony 
 is the knowledge of Christ to us. When we receive Christ we receive Him
 
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 on the testimony of the Apostles, and from their testimony we believe 
 in Jesus Christ. I believe the person represented is the Apostles, and 
 they are the proof to us of Christ's word of truth, and Christ is 
 represented as the truth, and Christ's words are life to the world, 
 for the Apostles have seen Him and His works, and they testify to the 
 power of God through Christ to all men. If you believe in His name and 
 obey His commands you will enter the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, ac- 
 cording to His plan, and be made free from sin, and abide in Christ accord- 
 ing to the laws of the Kingdom of Heaven. The Apostles' witness is we 
 shall have an abundant entrance into the everlasting kingdom by obedience 
 to the law of the Lord. 
 
 I here recognize the person of the Apostles, bringing to us the person- 
 ality of Christ and the power of Christ to save man by the Divine power 
 of God. I have done the best I can for the children of men, so the Holy 
 Spirit, the power of God, need not rest in obscurity. And man can know 
 when he is born in the name of Christ. When we are born in Christ's 
 name and promises we can know of His Love, for He gave His life for us 
 and became our Passover. When He instituted the Communion in His name 
 and represented it as His broken body and shed blood, then He was ready 
 to give His life for all men. Whomsoever will may come into the Gospel 
 Kingdom on earth. It was the Jewish Passover time when they put Christ 
 to death, and after His resurrection He appeared to His Apostles and other 
 of His brethren forty days, and said to His Disciples, "Tarry at Jerusalem 
 till you are endued with power from on high;" and at the Pentecost time, 
 ten days after Christ ascended, you will find the power of God manifested (in 
 the second chapter of Acts); and Peter opened the door of salvation to the 
 Jews, first in the Kingdom of Heaven on earth in the name of Christ, when 
 they entered according to direction, and had their sins forgiven. After a 
 time, when Christ was ready to receive the Gentiles, God manifested His power, 
 and the Holy Spirit fell on them. Peter speaks of it as a gift that falls on 
 us. At the beginning it was the preparing power of God making known to 
 them that He was ready to take them into His Kingdom of Heaven on earth 
 on condition of obedience of entrance in the name of Christ. The Chris-
 
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 tian Jews did not expect that the Gentiles would be allowed to come in, and 
 took Peter to task for admitting them. Peter says, "What wasl that I could 
 withstand God? I was sent to tell them words whereby they could be saved." 
 So we see God prepares the way to help us to come, but we all have to enter 
 in the name, the same as at the beginning. When Peter preached to the Jews 
 that had put the just one to death they had to accept the name they had 
 rejected. 
 
 If men in our day can take the risk of changing the law of the Lord 
 by taking a promise and misplacing it to suit the doctrines and command- 
 ments of men, and make the laws of God of no effect, they can see the 
 effect of their doings now in this unbelieving world and the different names 
 of the Protestant churches. We deserve the scoffs of the Catholics; they 
 claim one name, one church. If we had proved true to the Apostles' doc- 
 trine, we should have had one name, one church, one Lord, one faith, and 
 one baptism. 
 
 The Apostle St. Paul said if any man preached any other doctrine than 
 he preached, let him be accursed; and the curse of all these doctrines of men 
 is upon us in all this Babylon of beliefs; the seed of unbelief is sown, and our 
 nation of unbelief will pay the price, for our cup of iniquity is nearly full; 
 and the people are seeking glory and honor from the world and each other. 
 These men that are teaching the doctrines and commandments of men would 
 not dare teach the laws of the Kingdom of God; the different organizations 
 would scorn a preacher that would not teach the traditions of their church. 
 We are in the toils of Satan, and soon, very soon, and even now, we are 
 passing through tribulation; but this is a bare beginning of the chastise- 
 ment of God, letting our own individual and national sins punish us. 
 
 We all know the name of Christ, and the Scriptures teach His followers 
 were first called Christians at Antioch. We have counted ourselves unworthy 
 to wear the name of Christ, and the world has its wisdom and counts the wis- 
 dom of God and His plan of no account; and the evil one and his sore 
 judgments will be hard to bear. It was the evil one that changed the law 
 of God so he could rule the earth himself; and the same cause that de- 
 ceived the world will humble it till he will drive us all together. God will
 
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 not hinder the man of sin till he drives us as one man home to the king- 
 dom of Christ on earth. 
 
 We have three opposing parties represented: the beast, the false prophet 
 and the dragon. When they are removed the thousand years of peace in 
 Christ's kingdom on earth will come; the temporal power of the beast is 
 gone. That is the reason His personal power is assuming so much power. 
 God said the beast and false prophet should go down together. We hare 
 reason to think by the signs of the times they will go into oblivion at the 
 end of this age. It looks now as if we are near the last battle to see who 
 will govern the earth. The zeal of the Lord of Hosts will accomplish this 
 through His people. 
 
 The Lord will rejoice when His people, through the power of God, over- 
 come the enemy of God and man; then the dragon will be bound. The 
 same man of sin that changed the laws of God is at our door to send us 
 back to our Father's home in Jesus' name. When that time comes Christ's 
 Bride will rule the whole earth. In the name of Christ, our Lord, we have 
 got to pass through tribulation with this man of sin. When we are driven 
 together in the one name, the Young Men's Christian Association will put 
 the name of Christ, King of Kings and Lord of Hosts, on their banners. 
 They are holding the name for that purpose. Nine years ago this winter 
 they met in Farwell Hall to put the name of God in our worldty constitution. 
 God hindered them. One man gave the reason why they were hindered. 
 He said: "Brethren, this is our time to put the name of God in the consti- 
 tution; but when God's time comes for His name to go in, it will go in." 
 I said: "Glory to God!" I knew then what I know now. We are nearing 
 the seventh part of time, when Christ's Bride, the church, the Israel of God, 
 will inherit the earth one thousand years. And when we enter in His 
 name we will occupy till He comes in person. 
 
 David said the name of the Lord should resound to the ends of the 
 earth. The rule of Christ through His people is described as being as strong 
 as iron. When the man of sin wrested the keys of the kingdom from Peter, 
 he failed to see Peter had a wife, or perhaps in his highness he assumed the 
 name of God to rule the earth, and thought it was not best for God to marry.
 
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 If he built his church on Peter, and failed to notice Peter had a wife, and 
 undertook to rule in Peter's name, or in Christ's name, changing the laws 
 of God for greatness and honor, he would be sure to fail, for Christ has 
 and will prevail. 
 
 "Glory to God in the highest, peace on earth and good will to man!" 
 
 CHAPTER THIRD. 
 
 A FTER a few years' absence, I returned to Chicago and resumed nursing, 
 as before stated, and often heard Dr. Shipman speak about the neces- 
 sity of a Foundlings' Home being established in this city, more especially 
 during the two years immediately preceding the opening of the home on 
 Green Street. It is not necessary for me to repeat why Dr. Shipman was 
 so exercised on this subject; doubtless you are all familiar with his reasons 
 as given by himself. But I do know that it was a matter of conscience 
 with him. He fully realized that it was a great undertaking; yet its mag- 
 nitude did not deter him from engaging in this much-needed work. When 
 speaking with him about it, previous to its commencement, I told him if he 
 had held a baby over his shoulder as many nights as I had, I did not 
 believe he would care to start a baby home. But, although I did not talk 
 encouragingly, I thought my long experience in the care of babies rendered 
 me capable of giving valuable assistance in that department. Mrs. Fuller, 
 of Lake Avenue, and muny others who felt sure that I, through the mercy 
 of God, had been permitted to snatch their babies from the jaws of death, 
 could testify to my efficiency in the care of little ones; so I promised the 
 Doctor, if he entered upon the work, I would give six months in labor; and 
 although circumstances did not favor the exact carrying out of my inten- 
 tions, what I could not do in one way I endeavored to do in another. As 
 will be shown hereafter, the Doctor would not be discouraged, for his con- 
 victions were strong and his faith was equally strong; so he persevered, I 
 need not say with what results, for they are well known to you all. And
 
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 we need not marvel when we remember that our Heavenly Father possesses 
 the same power to-day that He did when the Children of Israel were enabled 
 to escape from their pursuers by passing through the midst of the sea on 
 dry land; the same power that closed the lions' mouths; that protected His 
 servants in the midst of the fiery furnace, and sent a raven to feed the 
 prophet Elijah. When we think of ail God's wonderful manifestations of 
 power through the ages, the only marvel is that we should ever doubt. 
 And evidently Dr. Shipraan did not indulge in fears, but practically went 
 to work, and as the first thing to be done was to get a house, Mrs. Ship- 
 man and I began assisting him by looking for one. But as she, unfortun- 
 ately, received a fall which disabled her for walking, I continued alone 
 until the Green Street house was found, and the Doctor thought it would 
 do for a beginning. Our first was a baby boarder, received Monday, Janu- 
 ary 29, 1871. Tuesday a boy baby was given, and I called him a captain, 
 because he yelled so loud and was so unlike our gentle lady boarder; so the 
 Doctor named him John Captain. Wednesday evening a girl baby was 
 brought, and I asked the Doctor to call her Mary Ann Dickey. I still have 
 her little belt with the name marked on it. The same evening (Wednesday) 
 a poor little sick baby was left. The first item furnished by a reporter was: 
 u A large two-bushel basket to take the babies in, and an old stove," and 
 two ladies who came from the North Side asked: " Why was not the home 
 furnished before being opened ? " I replied: " When the babies come, we 
 expect the Lord will send us what we need." And surely our trust was 
 not in vain, for the same evening our sick baby came two men brought 
 a mattress bed, simply saying, " From a friend to the babies," and only the 
 Lord and ourselves knew what a blessing it was. And again, after ten 
 o'clock the same night, the Lord sent us other much-needed supplies, 
 eighteen nice clean baby napkins. The girl who brought them said the 
 lady had just finished them and thought, though late, she would send them, 
 as we might be in need of them. I do not now remember the lady's name, 
 but I know the Lord guided her hand that night. And so the work was 
 going on. Friday a colored baby was brought, making five in less than a 
 week. Saturday I went to Mr. Bangs and bought a stove for twenty dol-
 
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 lars, which was delivered the following Monday. I did not intend the Doc- 
 tor should know that I owned the stove, but he questioned me so closely 
 that I had to tell him. He refused to accept it, saying I could not afford to 
 give it, and beside a larger one would soon be needed, but it could be used 
 a while. I have alluded to the stove that you might better understand 
 some little incidents that afterwards occurred, which will be mentioned 
 later. Now, ladies, I will give you a description of our home family and 
 surroundings at that time. There were five babies, as already stated. An 
 elderly woman by the name of Blodget brought recommendations to Dr. 
 Shipman, and he sent her to the home to assist, and she also had a few 
 dishes and things which she brought along with her. I had happened to 
 meet her once previous to seeing her at the home. When I was introduced 
 to her. she told me that she had been engaged during the war in doing 
 hospital work, and that when they had nice warm soups they tantalized 
 the Confederate soldiers by putting the soup under their noses, then taking 
 it away, and finally giving them the cold slops that were left. I said I also 
 had for a few months done the same kind of service, but that 1 had treated 
 the poor sick boys alike. She then said: " I know just what you are if that 
 was the way you did; you are a Southern Secesh Copperhead." I answered: 
 " Madam, you do not know me at all; I am a woman who sympathizes with 
 suffering wherever I find it, be it North or South." Of course Dr. Ship- 
 man knew nothing about her except through her references, which he had 
 considered satisfactory. Another woman was also sent to help take care of 
 the babies; but oh what helpers they were! The difficult}^ of obtaining 
 efficient help was one of the many trials of those earlier days one which 
 no doubt the Doctor realized as a whole, but if he had been subjected to 
 the minutiae of it, his perplexities, I am sure, would have been greatly 
 increased. The last-named woman, who came into the home as a helper 
 was unkind to the babies; not even the little sick one was excepted. She 
 said if I expected those babies treated as though they were our own, I'd 
 find myself mistaken. I said: " I see I shall, but as far as possible I shall 
 treat them as though they were my own." When the first calling day was 
 announced by the Doctor, I asked the women if they would assist me to
 
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 wash the babies' clothes, that the little ones might be clean. They said, no, 
 they would not; so I washed them without help, which took all night, as I 
 had to attend to the babies beside. I shall never forget that night's wash- 
 ing and ironing. In the morning I said: " Will you heat a kettle of water 
 to thaw the ice off the steps before anyone attempts to come up them ? " 
 Again they refused, saying: " If the Doctor wants it done, let him send 
 someone to do it; " so I attended to it myself; but I felt my strength giv- 
 ing way, and the Doctor told me I would have to go somewhere and get 
 rested. As I had engaged to nurse Mrs. Peck (before knowing when the 
 Doctor would open the home) and the time was drawing near, I went, but 
 was unable to stay with her, and after a few days was taken to my son, near 
 Ottawa, where I was very sick a few weeks. Before I returned to the city, 
 the following May, the home had moved to Randolph Street. They had 
 procured a matron, and also had a maiden lady who dressed the babies, but 
 the poor little things looked as though they had the spotted fever, and Dr. 
 Shipman wanted me to see what I thought about them, for he knew I 
 understood a good deal about babies, and truly it did not take me long to 
 find out what the trouble was, for the bands were brought up close under 
 the arms and fastened so tightly as to impede circulation. This was done 
 so as to make a long body to pin the napkin on, that the flannels might not 
 be in danger of getting soiled, and when I rectified their manner of dressing 
 by putting the bands where they should be worn, and pinning them properly 
 so the poor little things could breathe naturally, they began to recover. I 
 told them, and here repeat, that babies should be dressed from the shoulders 
 if one desires to make them comfortable and healthy. The woman who 
 dressed the babies used to hold up the most pitiable, emaciated one among 
 them and say: " Ain't it an honor to this homeopathic institution ? " and 
 the matron sanctioned this impression given against homeopathy. But 
 when it was so plainly seen that it was their own management, or rather 
 mismanagement, that had caused the trouble, they were not at all pleased; 
 and as they had no other redress, they influenced the washerwoman to make 
 things disagreeable for me. because, under the new order of dressing flan- 
 nels were occasionally soiled. I was not paying strict attention to the
 
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 washerwoman's tirade, so the matron evidently thought they were failing 
 in their purpose and said: " Mrs. Dickey, that means you." Well! to tell it 
 in a few words, just then I guess they did not think me quite as meek as 
 Moses was said to have been; and as I would not tell the Doctor or Mrs. 
 Shipman of their doings, because I knew they had enough to contend with, 
 I never knew what their misrepresentations were. But the Doctor asked 
 me if I was willing to go to his house with the babies that needed my atten- 
 tion, and as it wae much more difficult to take care of them at his house 
 than at the home, there could be but one conclusion. When I went to the 
 home to take care of the sick babies, Mrs. Shipman had told me that as 
 soon as they could have the rear rooms, which were not at first vacated, 
 they had thought it would be a good arrangement to fit them up as a 
 nursery for sick babies and give me charge of them; and I hoped in that 
 way, if I could stand the work, to redeem my promise of six months' labor 
 made to the Doctor. But evidently something had changed their plans, 
 since the Doctor asked me, as before stated, -if I was willing to take the 
 babies to his house and care for them. Previous to ray going to Dr. Ship- 
 man's house, Dr. Ballard, who was at that time assistant physician at the home, 
 said: "I feel better when the babies are better; don't you, Mrs. Dickey ? " I 
 said: " No, sir; I always feel worse when the babies are better; " and he 
 laughed, for he understood the hard night and day work that resulted in 
 their improvement, and when I told the Doctor that their manner of dress- 
 ing was what had caused the babies to look so spotted, he said he had sus- 
 pected as much. When I first returned to the home, I had been very much 
 gratified to find a matron in charge who seemed so well adapted to the 
 position. She did not profess to know much about babies, but in the 
 domestic department seemed careful and competent. One little incident I 
 will mention which shows her carefulness: At the time I bought the stove 
 of which I have spoken, I also bought a small porcelain kettle, expressly to 
 be used in preparing the babies' food, and while I was caring for the sick 
 babies she refused to let me use it, saying she did not want it " all stuck 
 up." I did not tell her it was my own kettle, but asked her if she then 
 would let me take a basin to prepare the food in. Later, when I was work-
 
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 ing outside in the interest of the home (as will hereafter be explained), 
 having made arrangements for the furnishing of two rooms, Mrs. Shipman 
 asked the men who were at work in them what day they would be through, 
 and they said she could have the rooms Thursday. Accordingly, the fur- 
 nishing goods were delivered at that time, but the matron refused to have 
 them brought inside, because the rooms were not entirely completed, so the 
 things were deposited in the yard. But I was afraid they might get wet or 
 something happen to them, and Miss Martin, the linen woman, said: " Mrs. 
 Dickey, I will help you carry them in and find corners for them until they 
 can have their proper places; " then added: " Mrs. Dickey, I should think 
 you would hate the matron for the way she has treated you." and I laugh- 
 ingly replied: " Oh, no; I ought to like her for taking such good care of 
 my little kettle." Again, when the matron was complaining about the 
 inefficiency of the stove, saying it was not large enough, and the oven was 
 cracked and would not bake, I replied that I too would be glad when the 
 new stove came, as then I could take mine away. "Your stove! Your 
 stove!" she exclaimed, " How came it yours?" "Because I bought and 
 paid for it," said I. Still she seemed to discredit my statement, and after- 
 wards said to me:" Mrs. Dickey, now tell me, is this stove really yours, or 
 did Dr. Shipman give it to you for service rendered ? " I then answered 
 with emphasis: " I have told you 1 bought the stove of Mr. Bangs, and if 
 you don't believe me, you can go and ask him if you choose to." I pre- 
 sume it then dawned upon her that she had refused me the use of my own 
 kettle. Shortly after I became acquainted with her, she told me that Dr. 
 Shipman would have to give the home up to the state, for he could not 
 carry it, and it troubled me until I committed it to the Lord in prayer, say- 
 ing: " Oh Lord, if it is Thy will that Dr. Shipman may succeed in his home 
 work, then it is mine; but if it is not Th}' will, neither is it mine," after 
 which I slept in peace. And when she made the same assertion to others, 
 by whom it was repeated, 1 only thought she expressed her fears, as I had 
 done when lie first engaged in this great undertaking. I had often thought, 
 If the Doctor fails in this work, will it leave his beautiful faith and trust 
 unimpaired? One day I said something of this kind to Mrs. Shipman, and
 
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 she admitted that I had spoken what her own thoughts had sometimes been. 
 And so, when the matron from time to time expressed her conviction of the 
 Doctor's inability to carry on the work, I, of course, supposed that her 
 remarks were prompted by anxiety, but as I afterward learned, through 
 some motive, supposably of a selfish character, it was her intention that he 
 should be hindered from going on with his appointed work, as it was made 
 known that she at different times had told people not to leave money to the 
 home, as it only encouraged the Doctor in making an effort to continue the 
 home work. But time has proven in many ways that it only requires God 
 and one faith worker to constitute a host, and opposition counts as nothing 
 when arrayed against that of which He approves; and when, months after, 
 they had given her an opportunity to resign, and I was informed that it was 
 because she was untruthful and unreliable in many ways, I only said I could 
 have told all that when I was in the home. She told me if she had con- 
 trol she would give the babies paregoric, and I detected some cases where 
 she had sanctioned its use to an alarming extent. I not only knew myself 
 that her word was not to be depended upon, but she had given all in the 
 house plenty of reason to understand the same fact. I had been very care- 
 ful not to speak an unkind word to her, even under provocation, and I 
 would not speak against her to the Doctor or Mrs. Shipman, knowing how 
 difficult it was to get such helpers as the situation demanded, and, said I, 
 " I knew you would soon enough see for yourselves what she was capable 
 of doing." And they were glad I had not spoken, for to have understood 
 a little then would have complicated the difficulty. I have not thus 
 recounted the matron's shortcomings because I consider it pleasant to recall 
 a person's defects, but rather to impress upon my readers one of the great 
 trials of those early home days. But Dr. Shipman stood the test, and the 
 Lord has rewarded him by supplying these many years a corps of ami- 
 able, reliable and competent co-workers. First was the Ladies' Aid Society, 
 and through it untold good has been accomplished. When Dr. Shipman 's 
 health failed, and it was deemed advisable that he should go abroad, how 
 marvelous it seemed that in such a time of great need Dr. Prince should 
 come, as though sent from the skies; also Mrs. Fox as matron, and Miss Peck,
 
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 her daughter, who acceptably and efficiently fills the position of matron 
 since Mrs. Fox has grown aged and infirm. I would speak of Mrs. Meser- 
 ole, Mrs. Trumbo, Mrs. Reed and others as assistants; Dr. Harriet Howe 
 as physician, and Mrs. Brown as housekeeper. In fact, every department 
 is represented by faithful, energetic helpers in this beautiful faith work. 
 And the home building, with all its conveniences and systematic appoint- 
 ments, is in itself a monument of God's mercy to one who has trusted Him 
 implicitly. After what I have written, I think, ladies, you will easily 
 understand why I felt sure that I had been misrepresented to Dr. Ship- 
 man when he asked me to go to his house with the babies. I went, but 
 taking care of them there was more exhausting than at the home, more 
 going up and down stairs, and in some other ways less convenient; and the 
 result was I soon had to discontinue the care of the babies; and as this was 
 my second attempt (and failure too), I decided that I should have to try 
 in some other way to redeem my promise to the Doctor. Now, it is well 
 known that no person living in the home has a right to solicit for it, as it 
 is purely a faith institution. But it is equally well understood that the 
 Lord works through means, that His people are His agents. So, having 
 severed my connection with the home, I assumed the responsibility of plac- 
 ing some of its needs before those who were willing to work for the Lord. 
 I first went to Mrs. Potter Palmer, who at that time was an influential 
 member of the Christian Church. She gave ten dollars, and the united 
 efforts of the church ladies furnished two rooms nicely. I next saw Mrs. 
 Elkins, who was spoken of as being very active in every benevolent enter- 
 prise. She being a member of the Unitarian Church, the ladies of that 
 church gave seventy-five dollars in furnishing one large room. It will be 
 remembered that the home was still on Randolph Street. Next I went to 
 Mrs. Cleaver, of Cleaverville, to see about getting a stove, and she raised 
 sixty dollars with which to purchase one. I will mention one incident con- 
 nected with those soliciting days which may interest you. One lady intro- 
 duced me to her husband, saying: " I want to tell you what he says 
 ' that you are another old fraud, trying to fill your own pocket with 
 money.' " I could not refrain from smiling, but said: " I don't know as
 
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 I blame you for thinking so, considering all that is going on these days; 
 but this time you are mistaken, for I do not receive any money, but could 
 show you a pair of blistered feet for my portion." He replied: "I can 
 readily believe they are blistered if you are walking these hot sidewalks; 
 but why do you not take some of the money to ride on ?" "Because," 
 said I, " as already stated, I do not receive anything myself, but I have 
 made arrangements that everything given shall be left with Mrs. Stephens, 
 an aristocratic lady living on Michigan Avenue; but I have ten dollars that 
 I have worked and earned, and I am walking to save it, for as long as I 
 can make it last I intend to continue this work for the home; and although 
 I am a poor woman who has to walk, and j r our wife can ride in her carriage, 
 we are on an equality in this work, and I do not believe if she collected any 
 money that she would keep it." Said he: " Neither do I believe you 
 would." I then replied: "I am in a good deal of a hurry, but intended 
 to stay until you admitted this much." But, though often footsore and 
 weary, an occasional word of appreciation renewed my courage. During 
 those soliciting days, on the 22d of June, I went to the Presbyterian Church 
 .social, which was given with a sincere desire to benefit the home, and 
 while there Mrs. Ambrose said: " Mrs. Dickey, I am glad to see you here, 
 for you are the only woman ever in the home who was worth a row of 
 pins." In this way I labored until I felt that I had made my promise 
 good for six months' service. After the new home was built, or rather 
 was in process of building, the Ladies' Aid Society had cards with a cut 
 of the building on them. They were called bricks, and sold for ten cents 
 each. I was offered a percentage for selling them, but chose not to receive 
 it, and so carried seventy dollars from their sale to the home. I am thank- 
 ful that the Lord has seen fit to use me in this grand faith work. For He 
 knew that my trust was in Him, although I am forced to admit that my 
 standard of faith was far below that of Dr. Shipman's in regard to estab- 
 lishing the Foundlings' Home, and this admission reminds me of the time 
 when Dr. Shipman introduced me to Mrs. Sampson, jestingly, as one of the 
 founders of the home. Said I: " Dr. Shipman, how can so good a man as 
 you make such an assertion, for I am sure the poor babies would have died
 
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 in the street if founding the home had depended on me; but," addressing 
 Mrs. Sampson, " I will tell you who I am I am that old woman on whose 
 back the Doctor opened his home and like to broke it." " Yes," said the 
 Doctor, " Mrs. Dickey was like another woman who could not stand it here, 
 only more so." Again, after the great Chicago fire, I told Dr. Shipman he 
 would surely have to give up the home now, for the city was burned, and 
 he replied: " God is just as rich as He ever was." The undiminished pros- 
 perity of the home since that period is in itself a lesson to all professing 
 Christians whose faith is weak and uncertain. I scarcely know where to 
 stop when writing on this subject, but as I wish to add some selections and 
 would not weary you, with a few added remarks I will close. The Lord 
 has mercifully spared me to a ripe old age, for if living on the 27th day of 
 next September I shall be eighty-four years of age, and I have 
 already been permitted to see one great-granddaughter married and attend 
 the commencement exercises of the Chicago Musical College with another, 
 who upon that occasion received her teacher's certificate. And I also record 
 with thankfulness that the Lord has permitted me to occupy a desirable 
 position in the church to which I have many years belonged, being one of 
 what is called the " early seven," which I will here explain. During the 
 year 1849, through deatli and removals, the Christian Church, for a time, 
 was not in an organized condition, and of the few remaining, I was told, 
 some were contemplating seeking a church home elsewhere. I then went 
 to talk with Brother M. H. Baldwin and wife, and, being joined by 
 Brother and Sister Saunders, who afterwards moved to Iowa, we conferred 
 together and decided to meet the following Lord's day for worship. 
 Accordingly, we met as we had proposed, and our number was increased 
 by Dr. Major and an elderly brother by the name of Reese Out of 
 this small organization (having only an earthen service pitcher, still 
 preserved by the writer) has grown a church numbering many hundred 
 in North, South and West Chicago. But of the original seven, only Dr. 
 Major and myself remain identified with the present in this city. I am 
 also happy to know that taking care of the first babies, and subsequent 
 events, have identified me with one of the noblest institutions in Chicago,
 
 46 AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 
 
 the Foundlings' Home. And it is to me a source of satisfaction and 
 thankfulness that not one sick baby that I took care of while there died; 
 and although my connection with the home has been for nearly twenty 
 years principally of a business character (as Dr. Shipman always paid me 
 a liberal percentage, both as canvasser and collector for Faith's Record), 
 I shall never cease to pray for the prosperity of the home and its faith 
 workers. The little paper Faith's Record, which comes to " stir up youf 
 pure minds by way of remembrance," has from year to year brought me 
 to your doors, a recipient of your oft-repeated and never-to-be-forgotten 
 kindness, for which I again thank you all, hoping this expression of my 
 gratitude may meet your eye when I shall have passed away. I know you 
 did not show kindness for the sake of thanks, yet we are all human 
 enough to experience pleasure in knowing that our kindness is appreciated 
 by those upon whom it is bestowed. Yet we may rejoice in the thought 
 that though we sometimes suffer from the ingratitude of others, it will prove 
 as nothing if only our names shall be found written in the " Lamb's Book 
 of Life." And let us hope that we may all be permitted to meet where 
 the flowers of love and gratitude are in perpetual bloom, where " the smile 
 of the Lord is the feast of the soul." I am not writing an adieu, for, if 
 the Lord permits, I hope again to look upon your smiling faces and hear 
 your kindly greeting. I cannot say, as did the Apostle Paul, that I have 
 finished my course, for I know not when this earthly tabernacle shall be 
 dissolved; but I do know that we have " a building of God, a house not 
 made with hands, eternal in the heavens," and lean say with Paul, " I 
 have fought the good fight; I have kept the faith; henceforth is laid up for 
 me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will 
 give me at that day; and not to me only, but unto all them that love his 
 appearing." Ladies, when I have written what I am now about to, I pre- 
 sume you will consider it high time for me to close this biographical sketch 
 of myself, but I want you to know 1 have already spoken with Dr. Ship- 
 man concerning my last resting-place. I said to him: " As I took care of 
 the first home babies, it seems to me appropriate that I should be buried 
 with home babies." He thought so too, and promised, if he outlived me,
 
 AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 47 
 
 he would see it arranged as I desired, and a gentleman living in Austin 
 says if I am brought to Forest Home to stay with the babies he will see 
 that I have a monument. It seems to me a beautiful thought that in the 
 morning of the resurrection I may rise, surrounded by these " little ones," 
 " for of such," said He, " is the Kingdom of Heaven."
 
 48 
 
 AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 
 
 MRS. IvAURA DICKEY, AT THE AGE OF EIGHTY-THREE.
 
 MISCELLANEOUS. 49 
 
 SERMON. 
 
 REV, J. W. ALLEN DISCUSSES THE REV. ALEXANDER CAMPBELL AND 
 PROTESTANTISM. 
 
 ALEXANDER CAMPBELL AND HIS WORK. 
 
 AT the West Side Christian Church the Rev. J. W. Allen preached the following 
 sermon: 
 
 The life of a great man is always an attractive study, and it loses none of its 
 attractiveness when it is connected, as the lives of great men often are, with some 
 great movement in history. Such lives are centers of far-reaching influences; rep- 
 resentatives of facts in human history; incarnations, as it were, of great truths and 
 principles. In studying the lives of such men.we are studying more than their lives 
 we are studying the lives of myriads of our race, we are watching the development of 
 great principles vitally related to the well-being and progress of mankind. 
 
 The history of Martin Luther, for example, is more than the history of Luther. 
 It is the history of the Protestant reformation of the sixteenth century. Not that he 
 began that movement, for he did not; there were Protestants long before Luther's 
 day. All such movements come as the day comes. There is a point of time when 
 the sun appears above the horizon and all eyes behold it. But first there is a faint 
 glimmer of light in the eastern sky, then a brighter red and still brighter, heralding 
 the day. There were 
 
 HERALDS OF THE REFORMATION 
 
 long before Luther rose like a sun to scatter the long night of Romish darkness. 
 There were Huss in Bohemia, and Savonarola in Italy, and Wickliffe in England, and 
 all over Europe were hundreds and thousands who were hoping and longing for the 
 coming of the day. All these hopes and longings seemed to meet at length and 
 blend in Luther, and through him broke forth in one splendid protest against the 
 cruel superstitions of the Church of Rome. And when, October 31, 1517, he nailed 
 his ninety-five Latin theses to the door of his little wooden church at Wittenberg, he 
 fairly launched upon the world the reformation of the sixteenth century, and became
 
 50 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 under God its leader and champion. I repeat, then, that in studying the life of Luther 
 we are studying more than one life; we are studying the history of the reformation. 
 We are studying a great movement which has brought up with it the destinies of 
 myriads of our race. The same is true of the life of Alexander Campbell. It possesses 
 an interest apart from itself. It, too, is a part of the great religious movement, and 
 that we may know that this is well worthy of our study let us remember that 
 
 NO RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT 
 
 since the day of the Apostles ever had such rapid growth. It is only little over half a cen- 
 tury since it was inaugurated, and yet it has outstripped in the race denominations 
 whose history dates back more than two hundred years, and to-day only two Protest- 
 ant denominations enroll more members. 
 
 God not only raises up the men who are to accomplish his purpose in the world, 
 He also appoints their fields of labor. The Roman empire was made ready for the 
 eoming of Paul. The reformation of the sixteenth century would never have been 
 what it was had the reformer appeared among the weak races of Southern Europe 
 instead of among the sturdy Germans of the North. Three of the most important 
 events of the world's history took place about the same time the invention of the 
 printing-press, the discovery of America and the Lutheran reformation. Luther was 
 born thirty-five years after the invention of the printing-press, and nine years before the 
 discovery of the New World. The art of printing most powerfully aided the work of 
 Luther. Indeed, humanly speaking, it is not probable he would have succeeded with- 
 out it. All the printers and booksellers were on the side of Luther and helped to 
 circulate his work, whose pages 
 
 FELL FROM THE PRINTING-PRESS 
 
 like leaves from the trees in autumn, and were borne by the breezes to heaven, to 
 every country in Europe, "and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the 
 nations." 
 
 When Alexander Campbell, descended from Scotch-Irish parentage, related on 
 his father's side to the Covenanters of Scotland, and on his mother's side to the 
 Huguenots of France, finished his education at the University of Glasgow, he was, 
 under the providence of God, transferred to the New World. New wine should be put 
 into new bottles. God was about to pour forth the new wine of a new religious 
 movement, and there was a new world ready for its reception. Alexander Campbell 
 landed in New York City September 29, 1809, and in the following year, on July 15, 
 delivered his first discourse in Washington County, Pa. It has been regarded as 
 singular that Alexander Campbell should have begun his preaching in the almost 
 wilderness of the New World, rather than in some one of its great and growing sea-
 
 MISCELLANEOUS. 51 
 
 board cities. Had the plan of beginning been left to the election of human wisdom, 
 it would doubtless have been some other than it was. But 
 
 GOD'S THOUGHTS 
 
 are not as our thoughts, nor His ways as our ways. When He raised up John the 
 Baptist, He sent him not to Jerusalem, but into the wilderness of Judea. And the 
 ministry of Jesus was carried forward not in Judea, but in Galilee, amid a simple, 
 less bigoted and less prejudiced people than those of Judea and the Holy City. The 
 most fruitful harvests are grown in new soil freshly broken. And the people to whom 
 Alexander Campbell first preached were, of all others, the best fitted to receive the new 
 message he was soon to deliver. They were the pioneers of a new nation, the fore- 
 runners of a new civilization, the newest, freshest, richest soil of humanity, not hard- 
 beaten beneath the tread of immemorial customs, not over-grown with the rank weeds 
 of prejudice and superstition; but a simple-minded people, unconventional, intelligent, 
 a brave and liberty-loving people, a people prepared of the Lord, read}' to receive the 
 scattered grains of fruit from the sower He would provide. 
 
 I once saw a beautiful water-lily growing up out of a rank and loathsome pool. 
 When we come to study the reformation of Luther in Germany, and the 
 
 REFORMATION OF WESLEY 
 
 in England, we find they are like beautiful lilies growing up out of loathsome pools. 
 When Luther appeared upon the scene, the Church of Rome was utterly corrupt; 
 some of the popes had been murderers, libertines and sensualists. In 1510 Luther 
 made a visit to Rome and saw with his own eyes the shameless wickedness of the 
 church; saw convents full of lazy and luxurious monks; saw the priests hurrying 
 through the mass and expressing atheistic sentiments in the midst of the most solemn 
 services, and he carried away such an impression that he afterward said, "I 
 would not for hundreds of thousands of florins have missed seeing Rome. If I had 
 not seen it I might have been troubled lest I had been unjust to the Pope." The 
 immediate occasion of Luther's attack on Rome was the sale of indulgences. An 
 indulgence was a license to commit sin. These indulgences, like a license 
 to sell liquor, were sold to any one who could pay the price. Tetzel, the vender of 
 them in German}-, said: "There is no sin so great that an indulgence cannot remit; 
 and even if any one had offered violence to the Blessed Virgin Mary, mother of God, 
 let him pay, only let him pay well, and all will be forgiven him." The indulgence, 
 too, was able to free a soul from purgatory. "At the very instant," said Tetzel, 
 ' ' that the money rolls at the bottom of the chest, the soul is liberated, 
 
 ESCAPES FROM PURGATORY 
 
 and flies to heaven." When this man came to Luther's town selling indulgences^ 
 the lion in Luther was aroused, and he began his war on Rome.
 
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 The same is true of the Wesley reformation. Religion in England was at a very 
 low ebb. A converted preacher was as rare as a comet. Religion was likened to a 
 frozen or palsied carcass. The preaching of the Gospel had almost ceased; the ser- 
 mons were moral essays; the spiritual religion was buried under forms and cere- 
 monies. The clergy were usually sons of the gentry, and spent their time mostly in 
 drinking, hunting and riotous living. Such was the condition of religion in Eng- 
 land, especially in the established church, when John Wesley was born in Epworth 
 in 1703. 
 
 The Church of Rome is a great spiritual despotism. It denies to the people the 
 right to interpret for themselves the Word of God. One of the positions taken by 
 Luther in his war on Rome was the right of every man to interpret the Bible for him- 
 self. This is one of the principles of Protestantism. This principle, so true and so 
 necessary to the life of religion, may be abused. It began to be abused before Luther 
 died. 
 
 LIBERTY RAN INTO LICENSE, 
 
 and numerous sects and denominations began to appear. Christ formed one church 
 "On this rock will I build my church," not churches. He prayed that His fol- 
 lowers might be one. The early Christians were of one heart and one mind, and 
 when divisions began to appear they were promptly rebuked. Protestant Christendom 
 is, however, in singular contrast with this. There are scores of religious parties. 
 Fifty years ago the feeling between these parties was bitter in the extreme. Each 
 party strove for supremacy, each maintained its peculiarities with a zeal as ardent and 
 persecuting as the laws of the land would permit. The distinguished tenets of each 
 party were constantly thundered from the pulpit. They would not commune with 
 each other; they would not attend each other's meeting, and if they did were liable 
 to the discipline of their church. Such was the uncompromising spirit prevailing 
 that the most trivial things would produce a division, and members were known to 
 break off from their congregations because the preacher presumed to give out before 
 singing two lines of a hymn instead of one, as had been the custom. Against these 
 unscriptural divisions 
 
 ALEXANDER CAMPBELL 
 
 raised his voice, and as the Lutheran Reformation was occasioned by the corruption 
 in the Church of Rome, and that of Wesley by the impurity and irreligion of the 
 Church of England, so the religious movement led by Alexander Campbell was occa- 
 sioned by the divided condition of Protestant Christendom. 
 
 In the year 1501 Martin Luther became a student at the University of Erfurth, 
 then the most celebrated school of Europe. One day, as was his custom, he entered 
 the library and opened many books to find the author's names. One volume attracted
 
 MISCELLANEOUS. 53 
 
 his attention. He had never until then, however, seen its like. He read the title. 
 It was a Bible. His interest was greatly excited. His heart beat wildly as he held 
 the divinely inspired volume in his hand. With indescribable emotion he turned its 
 pages. He went to his room with a full heart. " Oh, that God would give me such a 
 book for myself," he thought. He returned to the library to pore over the new-found 
 treasure. He read it again and again, and then, in his astonishment andjoy, returned 
 to read it once more. In that Bible lay hidden the great Reformation. Just twenty 
 years after Luther entered the University of Erfurth, where he found the Bible, he was 
 summoned by Charles V., Emperor of Germany, to appear before the Imperial Council 
 of Princes of the Empire to answer the charges against him. He went, and before 
 the Emperor and Princes gave his reason for his position, first in German and then 
 in Latin. They replied, "We want no reasons, but short answers. Will you recant? 
 Yes or no?" Luther gave 
 
 THE MEMORABLE REPLY 
 
 " I will give an answer, an answer without teeth or horns. This is my answer: Con- 
 vince me by clear proofs of Scripture and sufficient reasons, and I submit. The Popes 
 and Councils have often erred. I can not deny plain Scripture at their command. 
 It is not safe nor wise to act against one's conscience. Here I stand ; I can not do 
 otherwise. God help me, amen." 
 
 Luther's reformation grew out of the Bible. His appeal was to the Bible. His 
 great work was the translation of the Bible into German. The same is true of the 
 Wesleyan reformation. It also grew out of the Bible. Members of the Holy Club, 
 to which he belonged at Oxford, were called " Bible moths," " Bible bigots." Wes- 
 ley was anointed with the same spirit that was in Luther a desire to live to God and 
 to do the will of God. Luther does not belong to the Lutheran Church; no church 
 can confine his spirit, nor appropriate his name and fame. Wesley doesn't belong 
 to the Methodist Church, and never did. 
 
 THESE WERE GOD'S MEN, 
 
 and were His gifts to the race. They did not get all of the truths out of the Bible. 
 Who has ? But they took it for their guide and practiced what they believed it 
 taught. 
 
 Mr. Campbell did the same thing. He opened the Bible and said: "When the 
 Bible speaks, I will speak; when the Bible is silent, I will be silent." When Wes- 
 ley studied the Bible he saw some things that Luther did not see. He did what 
 Luther would have done accepted them, taught them, practiced them. When Alex- 
 ander Campbell studied the Bible he saw some things that neither Wesley nor Luther 
 saw. He did what they would have done accepted them, taught them, practiced 
 them. The position that Mr. Campbell followed in the line of the great reformer who
 
 54 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 had come before needs some qualification. It is no disparagement to these illustrious 
 men to say that Alexander Campbell saw with a clearer vision and a broader view 
 than they. He lived in an advanced period of the world's history. He stood 
 
 UPON A LOFTIER EMINENCE. 
 
 The air was purer, his vision had a wider range. The question is often asked me, 
 ' ' How does your church differ from other churches ? " I have not always found it 
 easy to answer the questions in a few words, either to my own satisfaction or to that of 
 the person asking it. I want to say, however, that there is a difference, a difference that 
 is radical. And it grows out of the difference between the work that Alexander Camp- 
 bell sought to do, and the work that such distinguished reformers as Luther and Wes- 
 ley sought to accomplish. Luther's and Wesley's work may properly be called a 
 reformation. They sought to reform the churches of which they were members. Mr. 
 Campbell sought, not so much to repair defects in modern Christianity, as to restore 
 primitive Christianity. He said, "We will go back to the beginning; we will take 
 up the work where the apostles left it; the stream of Christianity has become muddy 
 and unwholesome; we will go back to the fountain where the waters are pure; we will 
 go back beyond councils and synod; we will put aside all man-made creeds and con- 
 fessions and systems of theology, and sit at the feet of the Great Father and His 
 Apostles." In following out this purpose, Mr. Campbell and those associated with 
 him were compelled to do some things that were singular. They said: We will 
 organize congregations of believers as they were organized by the apostles: we will 
 give them no human name, but the name we find in the Bible. In speaking of our 
 race there are two names, and only two, that 
 
 INDICATE UNIVERSALITY, 
 
 the name Man and the name Christian. All other names are local; all other names 
 tend to divide; all other names lie more or less at the foundation of rival interests; but 
 the name Man and the name Christian lie at the foundation of universal brotherhood; 
 as men we are one in Adam, as Christians we are one in Christ. We will take the name 
 Christian, they said, and call our congregations Churches of Christ. We will adopt 
 no human creed and no man-made robes of government. If the creed contains less 
 than the Bible, it contains too little; if it contains more than the Bible, it contains 
 too much; if it contains neither more nor less than the Bible, but is just like the 
 Bible, we have no use for it, for we have the Bible, believing " that all Scripture given 
 by inspiration of God is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruc- 
 tion in righteousness, that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished to all 
 good work."' 
 
 When any one asks admission into the church we will not ask him to relate his 
 experience or subscribe to a doctrinal statement of belief, but will do as the Apostles
 
 MISCELLANEOUS. 55 
 
 did, question him about just one thing, his faith in Christ. "He that hath the Son 
 liath life." In the recent Congress of Churches at Cleveland, the creed problem was 
 up for discussion, and the question was, " How may modern creeds be so revised as to 
 be no longer a source of discord or 
 
 DISUNION AMONG CHRISTIANS?" 
 
 Brother B. B. Tyler, representing us in the congress, made a speech on the question 
 which was received with prolonged and rapturous applause. The solution proposed 
 for the difficulty, seemingly new to the congress, has for fifty years been one of our 
 hobbies; that is, " Instead of revising modern creeds, restore the primitive creed." 
 " Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved." The object of the faith that 
 saves the soul is not a doctrine, however true, nor a system of theology, however scrip- 
 tural, but a person, and that person the Lord Jesus Christ. Under the Ptolemaic sys- 
 tem of astronomy it was held that the earth was the center of the solar system. As 
 long as this was accepted as true, there were confusion and disorder everywhere. There 
 were difficulties the astronomers could not solve; mysteries they could not. unravel. 
 But Copernicus at length announced the true order of the heavens. The sun was the 
 center. All difficulties were then solved. Around the center the earth and all the 
 planets moved in orderly course, each keeping time to the music of the spheres. 
 Christ is the center of 
 
 THE CHRISTIAN SYSTEM. 
 
 Put anything else in the center and there is confusion. Take your reckonings from 
 Him as the Central Sun, holding that trust in Him and loyalty to Him make one a 
 Christian, and all disorder begins to disappear. If any one asks : " What must I do 
 to be saved? " we will give the answer given by the apostles. Faith in Christ, repent- 
 ance toward God and baptism into the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, were 
 the conditions upon which they promised the forgiveness of sins. We will observe the 
 Lord's Supper every first day of the week, for this was the primitive practice. In all 
 of our congregations there shall be bishops and deacons, for that was the divine order; 
 and then we will call upon all Christians to unite on the Word of God, rejecting as 
 martyrs of religious faith and practice everything for which we cannot give a "Thus 
 saith the Lord." 
 
 In union there is strength. A hundred barrels of powder, a handful here and a 
 handful there, fired, will burn and produce some concussion; but bring it together as 
 they did in New York harbor, powder and dynamite, grain to grain, barrel to barrel; 
 stretch through the whole mass the electric wire; let on the current, and there is an 
 explosion that shakes the earth and
 
 56 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 RENDS THE ROCKS OF HELL GATE. 
 
 God's people are a scattered people, toiling on a church here and a church there, hav- 
 ing some power, and each doing something to bring the world to Christ; but bring 
 them together, unite them in bonds of Christian love, and then let on the fire that 
 comes from the touch of the finger of God, and something will have to give way. We 
 have the promises of the Savior that the gates of hell shall never prevail against the 
 church, but the church thus united would soon prevail against the gates of hell. 
 " Neither pray I for this alone, but for those also who shall believe on me through 
 their word, that they may be one as Thou, Father, art in me and I in Thee; that they 
 may be one in us, that the world may believe that Thou hast sent me. ' ' Christian 
 union is the need of the hour. There are forces at work in modern society not only 
 antagonistic to Christianity, but to the order and progress of society; elements of 
 darkness and disorder, such as 
 
 RUM, ROMANISM AND SOCIALISM, 
 
 which will ere long compel Christians to abandon their petty strifes, and their sense- 
 less divisions and unite on the Word of God, not only for self-protection, but for the 
 order and happiness of society. God hasten the day! Two men-of-war met on the 
 high seas. In the darkness of night, mistaking each other for enemies, they opened 
 fire, and all through the night the battle raged. But as the morning dawned they 
 looked and, lo ! each was flying the British flag. They saluted each other and at 
 once prepared to meet the foe that was coming down upon them. Brethren of all the 
 churches, if we be Christians we are flying the same flag, and now in the growing 
 light it is time to salute each other and get ready to meet the common foe, even now 
 bearing down upon us.
 
 MISCELLANEOUS. 57 
 
 A NARRATIVE. 
 
 The following narrative was related by Anthony Sherman, an octoge- 
 narian, who heard the account from Washington's own lips: 
 
 "The darkest period of our Republic was the year 1777, when Wash- 
 ington, after experiencing many reverses, went into winter quarters at 
 Valley Forge. Often I observed tears course down the cheeks of our be- 
 loved commander when he was considering the sufferings of his brave 
 soldiers. 
 
 " Washington was in the habit of praying in secret and calling upon 
 God for assistance, and it was only by the help of God we passed safely 
 through those days of adversity. 
 
 " One daj 1 " Washington spent the whole afternoon in his room alone. 
 When he came out I observed that he was much paler than usual, when he 
 related to me the following: 
 
 Whilst I was sitting at my table this afternoon, engaged in writing, 
 and my mind heavy with sorrow. I suddenly observed directly opposite to 
 me a most beautiful female. 
 
 He was Surprised. 
 
 I was so much surprised, for I had given strict orders not to be dis- 
 turbed, that I could not find words at the moment to enquire the object of 
 this unexpected visit. Two, three, and even four times I repeated the 
 question without receiving an answer, the only effect being that she raised 
 her eyes a little. I now experienced a most curious sensation spread over 
 my whole body. I wished to rise from my seat, but the steady gaze of my 
 mysterious visitor kept me spellbound. I again tried to speak to her, but 
 my tongue was tied. An unknown, mysterious, irresistible power had 
 taken me prisoner. I could do nothing else but steadily gaze at the ap-
 
 58 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 parition. Gradually the room filled with light, and the form grew more 
 clear and bright. My feelings were those of a dying man; I could neither 
 think nor act. My steady gaze at the figure was all I was aware of. I now 
 heard a voice which said: "Son of the Republic, behold and learn! " At 
 the same time the figure stretched out its arm and pointed with the finger 
 toward the East. Light clouds arose in the distance, which dispersed and 
 revealed to my eyes a most astonishing picture. 
 
 All the Earth. 
 
 Before me all the countries of the earth were spread out Europe, 
 Asia, Africa and America. Between Europe and America I saw the waves 
 of the Atlantic Ocean toss backward and forward, and between America and 
 Asia the waves of the Pacific Ocean. 
 
 Again I heard the voice: "Son of the Republic, behold and learn! " 
 Immediately a dark form like that of an angel appeared over the ocean be- 
 tween Europe and America. It then dipped water from the ocean with 
 both hands, and with its right sprinkled it over America, and with its left 
 over Europe. Immediately dark clouds arose from both of these countries, 
 which met in the middle of the ocean; here they remained stationary for a 
 while, then moved westward and wrapped America in darkness. Lightning 
 flashed through the dark clouds, and 1 heard the groaning and the shrieking 
 of the American people. Again the angel dipped water from the ocean and 
 sprinkled it as before. The black clouds withdrew and sank into the sea. 
 
 Saw America. 
 
 For the third time I heard the voice: " Son of the Republic, behold 
 and learn! " I looked toward America and saw populous villages and cities 
 from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific Ocean. Again I heard the mysteri- 
 ous voice: " Son of the Republic, the end of the century is near at hand. 
 Behold and learn! " The dark form of the angel then turned toward the 
 South, and coming from Africa I observed a horrible phantom making its 
 way to our country. It floated slowly and heavily over our towns and the 
 country; the inhabitants arose to make war on each other, and formed in
 
 MISCELLANEOUS. 59 
 
 battle array. As I looked at this scene I observed an angel surrounded 
 with light; on his head he wore a beautiful crown, on which was inscribed 
 the word "Union." In his hand he held the American flag. This he 
 planted between the contending armies, crying out: " Remember you are 
 brothers!" 
 
 Immediately the nations threw away their arms, became friends again, 
 and gathered around the flag. 
 
 Heard a Voice. 
 
 Again I heard the mysterious voice: " Son of the Republic, the second 
 danger is past. Behold and learn!" And I saw villages and cities steadily 
 increase in size and number until the whole country was covered with 
 them, the whole extent, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, and the 
 nation had multiplied in as countless numbers as the stars in heaven or the 
 sands on the sea shore. Again I heard the voice: " Son of the Republic, 
 the end of the century is at hand. Behold and learn! " The dark angel 
 then put a trumpet to his mouth, blew it three times, then dipped out some 
 water from the sea with his hand and sprinkled it over Europe, Asia and 
 Africa. My eyes now beheld a most terrible scene. From each of these coun- 
 tries dark, heavy clouds arose and united in one mass; through this mass 
 dark red lightning played. I saw troops of armed men advancing, and 
 then sail across the sea to America, which was immediately covered by the 
 black cloud. And I saw how these immense armies desolated the land and 
 laid towns and villages in ashes. I heard the roar of cannon, the clashing of 
 swords, the cry of the victorious and vanquished millions engaged in 
 deadly strife; when again I heard the mysterious voice proclaim: "Son of 
 the Republic, behold and learn! " The dark angel then took up the 
 trumpet and gave one long and terrible blow. Suddenly a light burst forth 
 and drove away the dark cloud hovering over America. At the same time 
 I saw the angel with the beautiful crown, on which was inscribed the word 
 " Union," descend from heaven, holding in one hand the Star Spangled 
 Banner, and in the other a sword, and accompanied by legions of heavenly 
 spirits. These united with the American people when the latter were
 
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 almost overpowered, and they took fresh courage and formed in battle 
 array. Again, amid the horrible noise of war, I heard the mysterious voice: 
 " Son of the Republic, behold and learn! " 
 
 For the Last Time. 
 
 After this voice the dark angel dipped out water for the last time from 
 the sea and sprinkled it over America, and immediately the dark cloud 
 retreated with its armies, which it had brought along, leaving the victory 
 to the Americans. 
 
 I then again saw towns and villages rise in the same places where they 
 had stood before, while the heavenly angel planted the Star Spangled 
 Banner among the people with a loud voice: "As long as the stars are in 
 heaven, and as long as the dew descends from heaven to earth, so long shall 
 this republic exist." 
 
 At the same time he took the beautiful crown from his head, on which 
 was inscribed the word " Union," placed it on the Star Spangled Banner, and, 
 kneeling down, cried out, "Amen!" The apparition then appeared before 
 me in my room, and again I heard the voice: " Son of the Republic, what 
 you have seen is explained as follows: 
 
 The Close. 
 
 " Three dangers will come over this republic. The second is most to 
 be dreaded. When this one is past the whole world cannot conquer her. 
 Let every child of the republic learn to serve his God, his country and the 
 Union." 
 
 With these words the form vanished. I arose from my chair with tbe 
 conviction that the birth, progress and fate of the United States of America 
 had been revealed to me. 
 
 "These words," says Mr. Sherman, "I heard from General Washing- 
 ton's own lips." 
 
 We know that the first two sections of the vision have been fulfilled. 
 The last is now upon us. The reason for so vivid a picturing of the future 
 of this country before him was because he needed a strong re-assurance from
 
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 some quarter. He had come to where he could not be pacified with the 
 ordinary helps of his mind's reasonings or his religious convictions. 
 
 REMARKS OF NAPOLEON I, CAPTIVE OF ST. 
 
 HELENA. 
 
 In the course of a few years Russia will have Constantinople, part of 
 Turkey and all of Greece. This I hold to be as certain as if it had already 
 taken place. All the cajolery and flattery that Alexander practiced upon 
 me was to gain my consent to effect that object. I would not give it, fore- 
 seeing that the equilibrium of Europe would be destroyed. In the natural 
 course of things Turkey must fall to Russia. The powers it would injure, 
 and who would oppose it, are England, France, Austria and Prussia. Now, 
 as to Austria, it would be very easy to secure her assistance by giving her 
 Servia and other provinces bordering on Austrian dominions, reaching near 
 to Constantinople. The only hypothesis that France and England will ever 
 be allied with anything like sincerity will be to prevent this, but even this 
 alliance will not avail. 
 
 France, England and Prussia united cannot prevent it. Russia and 
 Austria can at any time effect it. Once mistress of Constantinople, Russia 
 gets all the commerce of the Mediterranean, becomes a great naval power, 
 and God knows what may happen. 
 
 The object of ray invasion of Russia was to prevent this, by the inter- 
 position between her and Turkey of a new state, which I meant to call into 
 existence as a barrier to her eastern encroachments. 
 
 Turkey will not long serve as a wall between Russia and the Mediter- 
 ranean. Any rectification of the map of Europe that accepts Turkey as a 
 breakwater to the waves of Russia's ambition will prove worthless. The 
 Moslem has served his purpose. He has done his work, and, wasting daily, 
 he must soon pass away. The great sacrifices made from 1854 to 1856 to
 
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 preserve Turkey have served only to exhaust and waste her. " Weighed 
 and found wanting, and given to another" is her doom. 
 
 Among the many methods employed by Russia in her pursuit of un- 
 limited dominion, two are remarkable. They are practiced chiefly toward 
 her less civilized and less powerful neighbors. 
 
 One is to keep a body of Russian troops by friendly agreement in the 
 territories of some other state, serving that state and receiving its pay 
 for a given period. The other is to raise a force, and this also in an amica- 
 ble and preconcerted manner, among the inhabitants of a foreign contermin- 
 ous region, to draft that force into Russia, to maintain it with Russian 
 mone}% and to incorporate it more or less permanently with the Russian 
 arm}'. 
 
 Both of these expedients have, respectively, important effects. The 
 first teaches the Russian soldier everything that a future invader might 
 find it necessary to learn of the resources, manners, temper and geographi- 
 cal condition of the people amid whom he is thus temporarily domesti- 
 cated. He notes the weak points and the strong, and hereafter can clearly 
 show to his government what should be avoided, what may be seized, what 
 precautions are requisite; what opportunities exist, how the whole work of 
 occupation should be managed. He is making a long reconnoissance. and 
 on a grand scale. More than this, he is becoming acclimatized. 
 
 In the other case, where Russia levies a foreign body, drafts them into 
 her territory and pays them, equal effects are produced. They are not like 
 those Russian troops of whom we have just spoken, and whom the Czar 
 loans to a neighbor now and then; they are not, like those troops, dis- 
 ciplined soldiers, still under orders of their own officers, and those officers 
 carefully selected, holding constant communication with their own country, 
 changed and replaced at will. 
 
 No! they are foreign troops commanded by Russian officers. They are 
 troops who are taught and drilled in Russia, who are under control of 
 Russia, and who see only just what she pleases. When Russia withdraws 
 her auxiliary contingents, she withdraws spies; but when she disbands her 
 other class of troops and sends them back to their own land, she sends back
 
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 emissaries, agents and proselytes, who prepare the way in their simple 
 homesteads for the coming of the double-headed eagles under which they 
 have served, and for the coming, moreover, of some old comrade in high com- 
 mand, who, perchance, having displayed superior abilities, has been pro- 
 moted and induced to naturalize himself in Russia, and to accept the 
 allegiance of a state which loads him with crafty and insidious distinctions. 
 
 Doubtless the disbanded and returned troops could teach their coun- 
 trymen something of the defenses of Russia, in the same manner as the 
 Russian contingent can give the converse information. 
 
 But terms are not equal. There is no question even of invading Russia 
 among those feeble communities; but in Russia their invasion or absorption 
 is a business quite within practical realization and duly predetermined. 
 
 This double system has been long pursued by the huge despotism of the 
 East all around its lower frontiers from the shores of the Caspian and of 
 the Azof, down to those of the Black Sea among all the tribes of the Cauca- 
 sus who could be brought into that dangerous intercourse, and among the 
 dependencies of Persia.
 
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 WOMAN'S WORK. 
 
 MRS. J. E. CHACE. 
 
 From the Mishawaka Enterprise. 
 
 What is it? The answer given to this inquiry by the " Lords of Creation " has 
 become stereotyped. That woman must marry, cook her husband's dinner, iron his 
 shirts, tidy the house and wash the children's faces has, we think, been conceded 
 ever since Mother Eve took her first lesson in housewifery. And we were willing 
 oh, how willing! to intrust all that pertained to the public good to those who were 
 accounted our superiors. And had they as faithfully discharged their duty when 
 considering the public weal as did woman in the daily routine of domestic life, 
 then, indeed, it might not have become necessary for her to step out of the pre- 
 scribed limit into a wider field of action. But, alas ! There came a day when it dawned 
 upon woman's feeble intellect that something was amiss; that those to whom she had 
 blindly confided the interests of this great commonwealth had either ignorantly or 
 designedly betrayed the trust reposed in them. The evil which in its incipiency had 
 been overlooked, or willingly ignored, had been permitted to assume gigantic pro- 
 portions; brooding like a bird of ill omen until, like a pall, it overspread and 
 darkened the fair face of civilization; blighting and destroying all who succumbed to 
 its evil power. And she whose home had been the sweetest, holiest spot on God's 
 green earth found herself thrust out; her children beggared; and she, together with 
 them, made the victims of such cruelty as only a drunken husband and father would 
 inflict; and to her dismay she found for all this there was no redress; for the same 
 evil presence polluted our halls of legislation and defiled the lowliest hut; and with 
 blanched cheek and quivering lip she prayed (for I had forgotten to mention that this 
 privilege had been granted her in addition to those already named), prayed oh how 
 earnestly, that He who sitteth upon the throne might pity and assist her in tb^s terrible 
 emergency, and seeking consolation in His word, she read, " Faith without works is 
 dead, being alone." Thus were the eyes of her understanding opened, and, endeavor- 
 ing to walk the divinely appointed way, she has since "shown her faith by her
 
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 works." Although in the performance of this necessary work we find ourselves hedged 
 about and circumscribed, yet we hear the precious voice of the Master saying, "She 
 hath done what she could." We are not discouraged because we have not been 
 able in a short space of time with hands tied to unravel all the intricacies which the 
 sterner sex have spent years in weaving, but, working patiently on, we are enabled to 
 offer the prayer of faith, which asks deliverance from this monster, which finds no 
 place too high or too low for his occupancy. And we know that God hears us. " For 
 the trumpet now is sounding that shall never know retreat until the demon of strong 
 drink is crushed beneath our feet." But fathers, husbands, brothers, sons, this great 
 work rests measurably with you. Will you be found among those who come up to the 
 held of the Lord against the mighty? If so, well; if not, remember God reigns, and 
 He will devise ways and means of working out this social problem without your assist- 
 ance. May God speed the work of prohibition! W. C. T. U. 
 
 THE W. C. T. U., HAVING CUT THEIR EYE-TEETH, WILL NOW 
 ABANDON THE SOOTHING-SYRUP POLICY. 
 
 MRS. J. E. WORK. 
 
 From the Enterprise. 
 
 " vShe hath done what she could" was the commendation of the divine Teacher 
 as the penitent woman kneeled at His feet and washed them with her tears. His 
 promise was that it should be a memorial of her for all time; and through the ages 
 women have wept and prayed, not only in penitence for their own sins, but more often 
 in behalf of fathers, husbands and brothers. But the time has come when weeping 
 and praying will not avail. The deadly serpent of the still is dragging his slimy folds 
 over the sacred precincts of our homes, lifting his hydra head and hissing in our ears 
 his horrible purpose to destroy our most cherished hopes and blast our dearest expect- 
 ations. And shall we sit tamely by and do no more than weep and pray while our 
 loved ones are being slain before our eyes? Is this all we can do, or shall we take 
 the advice of one of our legal gentlemen in a speech at one of our street temperance 
 meetings? He advised the praying brothers and singing sisters, as he called them, 
 to enforce the laws that they have, giving it as his opinion that they are sufficient to 
 protect us if enforced; as if we do not understand the perfect farce of trying to enforce 
 law against business licensed and protected bylaw! Thank you, gentlemen. Women 
 may be very illogical, but they are not fools, and we will leave the soothing syrup 
 now to teething children. We have cut our eye-teeth, and do not need it, but we
 
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 are not going to abandon the field to the enemy by any means. We intend to keep 
 this matter before the people. Miss Frances Willard, in one of her speeches, said 
 that the letters W. C. T. U. had two other interpretations in the work of the dif- 
 ferent organizations, all tending to the same end. It means we come to unite, and 
 in our efforts to suppress the traffic it means we come to upset, and this we intend 
 to do. And may the great Ruler of the universe strengthen our hearts and lengthen 
 our tongues, and, taking prohibition for our watchword, we will sing in the ears of 
 the voters of this Republic till from very weariness of hearing it they will avenge us 
 of this our adversary by voting to stop the manufacture of this liquid fire and brim- 
 stone, which is the first as well as the second death. And as faith and talk will not 
 do without work, do not be alarmed if you see some of the singing sisters coming 
 toward you with a collection card, but smilingly put your hand in your pocket and 
 furnish the needful dimes which we must have to carry on this work. Mothers, sis- 
 ters, rouse yourselves to the importance of the work before us, and help to drive this 
 evil from our land, and then will come the time of which the angels sang on the 
 plains of Judea, " Peace on earth, good will to men." W. C. T. U. 
 
 THE RIBBON OF BLUE. 
 
 MRS. JULIA E. CHACE. 
 
 Mishawaka, Indiana, April 12, 1881. 
 
 Young man, what would you not do for the mother 
 
 Who loves you as only a mother can love, 
 Who would e'en give her life, could she save you from sinning, 
 
 And for you ever pleads with the Father above ? 
 
 Would you banish forever dark clouds of foreboding, 
 
 Bring joy to the heart ever loving and true, 
 Let me whisper it, boys, this and more you'll accomplish 
 
 By fearlessly donning the Ribbon of Blue. 
 
 Not a true-hearted sister, wife, maiden or mother 
 All over this fair licensed whiskey-cursed land 
 
 But devoutly thanks God when her loved or another 
 Resolves in the strength of true manhood to stand. 
 
 Then haste thee to flee from the death-dealing billows, 
 Which ruin and blacken as onward they roll;
 
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 Flee! flee from the wine whose deadly aroma 
 Will wreck and destroy thee, both body and soul. 
 
 Aye, boys, with pride wear the " badge " as a token 
 That unto yourselves you will ever prove true, 
 
 That the vows you have spoken shall never be broken 
 And your lives pure and true as this Ribbon of Blue. 
 
 DAVID AND THE GIANT IN 1882. 
 
 MRS. JULIA E. CHACE. 
 
 As backward we tread in the annals of time, 
 
 A prominent city named Gath we may find; 
 
 There sunbeams danced brightly over valley and hill, 
 
 And sweet flow'rets bloomed by the murmuring rill. 
 
 But, ? inid balmiest breezes, with beauty surrounding, 
 
 Was Goliath, the giant, spreading terror around him. 
 
 To the armies of Israel his challenge was sent, 
 
 Twice repeated each day, until forty were spent 
 
 In defying the leaders of Israel's host 
 
 And vaunting his prowess in blasphemous boast, 
 
 'Till, dismayed and disheartened, they return no defiance; 
 
 Must they yield to this power unwilling compliance ? 
 
 No! a man, small of stature, and only a youth, 
 With right for his might and his armor of Truth, 
 Walks forth, in the name of the Lord of Hosts, 
 To meet the bold giant and silence his boasts; 
 For helmet and breastplate, sword, spear and shield 
 Can no longer give safety his doom is now sealed. 
 Armor, prowess and strength prove alike unavailing ; 
 ******* 
 
 For their champion slain, the Philistines are wailing. 
 
 Friends, we've many Gaths of modern date; 
 They abound and flourish in every state 
 Where a hydra-headed giant is found 
 Spreading death and destruction all around ;
 
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 His armor is kept without rent or flaw, 
 
 For 'tis made of the liquor-license law. 
 
 E'en the pure air from heaven by his breath is polluted, 
 
 And the ruin he's wrought has ne'er yet been computed. 
 
 Worse than thousand Goliaths, this whiskey fiend's boast 
 
 For his victims each day are a countless host. 
 
 And shall we idly stand while this monster destroys 
 
 The hope of our nation, fair girls and brave boys? 
 
 No! like David, who met and conquered the foe, 
 
 In the name of the Lord of Hosts we'll go 
 
 Armed for the contest ; and thus may we live 
 
 'Till Israel's God shall the victory give. 
 
 For on Thee, oh Lord, do we place our reliance ; 
 
 Thou can'st wholly defeat, tho' 'twere legions of giants. 
 
 ALABASTER BOXES OF HUMAN SYMPATHY. 
 
 Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your 
 friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness. Speak approving, cheering words 
 while their ears can hear them, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made hap- 
 pier by them; the kind things you mean to say when they are gone, say before they 
 go. The flowers you mean to send to their coffins, send to brighten and sweeten 
 their homes before they leave them. If my friends have alabaster boxes laid away, 
 full of fragrant perfumes of sympathy and affection, which they intend to break over 
 my dead body, I would rather they would bring them out in my weary and troubled 
 hours, and open them, that I may be refreshed and cheered by them while I need 
 them. I would rather have a plain coffin with out a flower, a funeral without a eulogy, 
 than a life without the sweetness of love and sympathy. Let us learn to anoint our 
 friends beforehand for burial. Post-mortem kindness does not cheer the burdened 
 spirit. Flowers on the coffin cast no fragrance backward over the weary way. 
 
 GENERAL GORDON. 
 
 [General Gordon, just before leaving England for the Soudan, sent a message to 
 Canon Wilberforce, ending, " I am now calmly resting in the current of His will." ] 
 
 BY WILIylAM LUFF. 
 
 It is easy when the current bears us softly through the vales, 
 Where sweet music ever cheers us and sweet fragrance fills the gales;
 
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 Where the sunlight gleams upon us and the flower-banks shield from harm, 
 It is easy to be restful when the stream is hushed and calm. 
 
 But it dashes and it crashes, and the rocks oppose its course, 
 As it rushes through the chasm with a wild, impetuous force; 
 Lo, it leaps in foaming fury o'er the cataract's dark brow! 
 Am I resting in the current ? Am I calmly resting now ? 
 Trust it, brother, ever trust it, for it cannot lead thee wrong ; 
 Never dare to stem its progress, for its power is wise as strong ; 
 Though it wind among the mountains, where the shadows darkly fall, 
 Calmly rest upon its bosom, trust its majesty through all. 
 
 Do its waters overwhelm thee ? Art thou troubled and distressed ? 
 Carried onward, carried downward, all is working for the best. 
 Hold the centre of the current, shun the rocks of human craft ; 
 Calmly rest upon its bosom, and no hurt shall reach thy raft. 
 
 I am resting, calmly resting, in the current of His will ; 
 Where it bears me I am happy, be it cataract or rill ; 
 Like a straw upon the waters, I would yield myself to go 
 Just wherever He shall bear, and rejoice to have it so. 
 
 I am resting, calmly resting, in the current of His will ; 
 Not a struggle, not a murmur, in the whirlpool restful still. 
 O, delightful, sweet submission! O, enjoyed and perfect rest ! 
 Till I reach the boundless ocean and His loving, peaceful breast. The [London] 
 Christian. 
 
 IO VICTIS. 
 
 W. W. STORY. 
 
 I sing the Hymn of the Conquered, who fell in the battle of life 
 
 The hymn of the wounded, the beaten, who died overwhelmed in the strife; 
 
 Not the jubilant song of the victors, for whom the resounding acclaim 
 
 Of nations was lifted in chorus, whose brows wore the chaplet of fame 
 
 But the hymn of the low and humble, the weary, the broken in heart, 
 
 Who strove and who failed, acting bravely a silent and desperate part; 
 
 Whose youth bore no flower in its branches, whose hopes burned in ashes away, 
 
 From whose hands slipped the prize they had grasped, who stood at the dying of day 
 
 With the work of their life all around them, uplifted, unheeded, alone,
 
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 With death swooping down o'er their failure, and all but their faith overthrown. 
 
 While the voice of the world shouts its chorus, its psean for those who have won 
 
 While the trumpet is sounding triumphant, and high to the breeze and the sun 
 
 Gay banners are waving, hands clapping, and hurrying feet 
 
 Thronging after the laurel-crowned victors I stand on the field of defeat 
 
 In the shadow, 'mongst those who are fallen, and wounded, and dying and there 
 
 Chant a requiem low, place my hand on their pain-knotted brows, breathe a prayer, 
 
 Hold the hand that is hapless, and whisper, "They only the victory win 
 
 Who have fought the good fight, and have vanquished the demon that tempts us 
 
 within ; 
 
 Who have held to their faith, unseduced by the prize that the world holds on high; 
 Who have dared for a high cause to suffer, resist, fight if need be, to die." 
 Speak, history ! Who are life's victors? Unroll thy long annals and say 
 Are they those whom the world called the victors, who won the success of the day ? 
 The martyrs, or Nero ? The Spartans who fell at Thermopylae's tryst ? 
 Or the Persians and Xerxes ? His judges, or Socrates ? Pilot, or Christ? 
 
 DIED. 
 
 Lilly May, infant daughter of Albert and Anna Kellogg, was born August 2, 1873, 
 and died September 28, 1874. 
 
 TO MR. AND MRS. KELLOGG. 
 
 Like a beautiful sunbeam, bright and fair, 
 Came your babe to bless and your love to share, 
 But O how dark and dreary the day 
 When she like a broken lily lay! 
 
 We knew, as we noted the failing breath, 
 
 That very near was the angel of death; 
 
 But we felt that redolent grew the air 
 
 With the white rob'd messengers ling'ring there. 
 
 We wept o'er the anguish witnessed when 
 Was severed the bud from the parent stem; 
 But, leaving the chill, bleak shores of time, 
 Transplanted, it blooms in a lovelier clime. 
 
 As we gazed on the waxen form so fair, 
 And severed one tress of shining hair,
 
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 Then closed the beautiful eyes so blue, 
 I Not lost, we murmured, for well we knew 
 
 Though the footfall here wakes echo no more, 
 
 Firm is its tread on the golden shore. 
 
 There, blest in the light of His love, she waits, 
 
 'Til for thee shall be opened the pearly gates. MRS. JUTJA CHACE. 
 
 IN MEMORIAM. 
 
 (Addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Potter on the death of little Truman.} 
 
 A priceless treasure to thee was lent, 
 
 Which day by day more beautiful grew, 
 'Til hope and love wove visions bright 
 
 Of the future years of baby Tru'. 
 
 Time sped on, and the rosy lips 
 
 Lisped the music of accent sweet, 
 While an added joy to the parent heart 
 
 Was the echoed patter of little feet. 
 
 Love environed, he grew apace, 
 
 But, ah! life's numbered years were few. 
 For His treasure lent the Father sent, 
 
 And the angels hasten'd for little Tru'. 
 
 How doubly blest are the early called 
 
 Eternity's years can only unfold, 
 For the Shepherd there gives tenderest care 
 
 To the precious lambs of the "Upper Fold." MRS. J. E. C. 
 
 THE WARNING DREAM. 
 
 "GOD LOVETH A CHEERFUL GIVER." COR. IX: 7. 
 
 (The following lines were suggested by the perusal of a story in which was given 
 a vivid description of the different views entertained by a husband and wife regarding 
 the true aim and object of existence. She, possessing a practical faith which mani-
 
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 fested itself in works, truly believed when she "gave to the poor she lent to the Lord," 
 and endeavored to "do His commandments, that she might have right to the Tree of 
 Life, and enter through the gates into that city where gold finds no place, save in the 
 formation of its streets, 'neath the tread of the redeemed." He, time-serving and 
 void of sympathy, recognized no obligations outside the precincts of his own luxuri- 
 ous home for he represented that numerous class who stop at no expense inasmuch 
 as it contributes to their own happiness, but for any other purpose cannot be induced 
 to part with their "shining gold." Upon one occasion after denying his wife the 
 privilege of carrying into effect some benevolent design he fell asleep over his paper 
 and dreamt that death, having first robbed him of his loved ones, had at last brought 
 him into the spirit world, where, through a land dark, lone and dismal, he was has- 
 tening to join the loved ones who had preceded him. His disappointment and the 
 cause will be found embodied in this poem.) 
 
 He dreams, and lo! through the mystic realms 
 
 Of the valley of shadows he wends his way; 
 
 Still presses he on with an eager tread, 
 
 For beyond where sunset glories are shed 
 Lies the beautiful city of endless day. 
 
 Onward, for oh! how he yearns to greet 
 
 His loved and lost who have gone before; 
 
 He knows, just beyond those battlements bright, 
 
 The glory of God and the Lamb is the light, 
 And fain would he dwell on that radiant shore. 
 
 Ah, see! a gleam of that wondrous light 
 
 Now pierces the shadows which brood o'er his way; 
 'Mid the rivulets pure and meadows green 
 Of that bright beyond forms belov'd are seen. 
 
 Oh, the bliss of re-union in endless day! 
 
 Poor man: so near, yet so far away 
 
 From his shining ones in the love-light pure ; 
 
 He on the barren so bleak and cold 
 
 Sees rising a wall formed of glittering gold, 
 More bright than of yore, still it fails to allure. 
 
 "Lost, lost!" he wails, and the echo resounds 
 Through the length and breadth of that desolate land. 
 See! a swift-winged messenger, robed in light,
 
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 Like a vision of beauty bursts on his sight. 
 List the cry: "Comest thou with a helping hand ?" 
 
 Though his glance told how great was the pity of heaven, 
 
 Still firm the response by this Son of Light given: 
 
 ' 'Not for thee bloom and beauty or exquisite song, 
 
 For this golden obstacle, high and strong. 
 
 By thy hand erected, must evermore stand, 
 Forbidding thine entrance to yon blissful land. 
 
 "No heed wouldst thou give to His promise or love, 
 
 Who fain would have built thee a mansion above. 
 
 O fatal decision, devotion to self, 
 
 And insatiate greed of this glittering pelf, 
 
 Which sparkles and towers and dazzles for thee! 
 Of thy sowing, behold, this the harvest shall be! 
 
 "Oft thy chosen companion tearfully plead 
 
 That thou would'st give to the famishing bread. 
 
 Thy response, 'What folly it is to suppose 
 
 In striving to lessen humanity's woes, 
 
 We lend to the Lord, who with treasures untold 
 
 Will repay this improvident outlay of gold; 
 
 Better keep what we have; I think it more wise 
 Than this effort by proxy to build in the skies.' 
 
 " 'O husband,' she wailed, ' 'tis madness to scoff, 
 For the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof; 
 His the cattle upon a thousand hills, 
 And shall we refuse to dispense as He wills? 
 Like an eye of flame burns the changeless Word: 
 ' He gives to the poor who would lend to the Lord. ' 
 Though wretched and lowly the suppliant be, 
 
 ' Thou shalt thus,' said the Master, ' bestow upon Me.' 
 
 "Thus, day by day, as the years were enrolled, 
 
 Rose the mansion fair, by her sweet faith controll'd. 
 And the gold she lent on that love-ilium 'd street 
 Laid the shining pavement beneath her feet; 
 Thine, garnered and treasured by thy command, 
 Built this golden structure, massive and grand; 
 'Tis all thine own, yet this barrier of thine
 
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 Shall exclude the light of the inner shrine 
 Withhold from thy sight and fond embrace 
 Treasured form and angelic face. 
 Thine, ever thine, it shall glitter for thee, 
 For time-chosen treasures eternal shall be!" 
 
 MRS. JULIA EWER CHACE. 
 
 Mishazvaka, Ind. 
 
 JESUS OUR REFUGE. 
 
 MARK iv : 37, 38, 39. 
 
 Wildly the tempest swept over the sea, 
 
 'Til but upheaving billows was deep Galilee; 
 
 Thrilling the cry 'bove the mad waters' rave : 
 
 " We perish ! we perish ! Lord hear us and save ! " 
 
 Though gently was spoken that " Peace, be still," 
 Winds and waves bow to His gracious will ; 
 Again do the depths mirror perfect respose, 
 As the blue wave in peace and tranquillity flows. 
 
 E'en thus, O our Savior, we cry unto Thee, 
 As wildly we're toss'd on life's perilous sea, 
 And our frail bark shrinks from each pitiless wave ; 
 We perish ! we perish ! if Thou dost not save. 
 
 Oh, for that faith which shall lead us to Thee, 
 Though "walking the waters" of life's troubled sea ; 
 Nor let us sink down 'neath its treacherous wave ; 
 Lord, help us ! We perish if Thou dost not save. 
 
 From the waves that o'erwhelm of sin and regret 
 From the evils which ever our paths here beset ; 
 From all that sheds darkness or gloom o'er the grave, 
 O Lord, our Redeemer, defend us and save. MRS. J. E. C.
 
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 flARY. 
 
 WRITTEN BY REQUEST. 
 
 More sweet than the breath of Araby's bowers, 
 
 Wafting afar on orient gales, 
 Kissing the morn whose wealth of bright hours 
 
 More radiant grows as the future unveils : 
 
 Aye, dearer and sweeter than combining aromas 
 Distilled from the heart of exotics most rare, 
 
 Is the fragrance emitted by mem'ries which cluster 
 ' Round the Marys, so gentle, devoted and fair. 
 
 Like a strain of sweet music from harp-strings 
 Floating along through the dim aisles of time, 
 
 Comes the record of purity, love and devotion 
 Which e'er round the Marys of old must entwine. 
 
 That " better part " by a Mary was chosen; 
 
 " Mary's tears bathed His feet," pride and vanity gone; 
 " Last near the Cross " 'twas a Mary who lingered; 
 
 " At the sepulchre Mary was seen with the dawn." 
 
 O'er the brow of one evermore " bless'd among women " 
 
 Is woven a chaplet of bright immortelles, 
 And down through the age with the sweet name of Mary 
 
 A charm never fading and potent still dwells. MRS. J. E. C. 
 
 DEDICATED TO MY SCRAP BOOK. 
 
 BY MRS. JULIA CHACE. 
 
 Dear silent companion, thy pages are rife 
 With the purity, sweetness and beauty of life; 
 From thee may we gather the sweet echo chime 
 As softly it floats down the dim aisles of time, 
 ' Til, wrapt in its melodies, rich and rare, 
 Life woos us anew with its freedom from care.
 
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 In thee do we find, exquisitely wrought, 
 Purest gems, won from the bright realms of thought; 
 And still shall they shine, while the ages shall roll, 
 With rays that refract, reproduce in the soul 
 Emanations sublime, which here to us given, 
 Prove a foretaste sweet of a sinless Heaven. 
 
 When I shall have pass'd to the other shore, 
 May these sweet exotics I've lingered o'er, 
 By my dear ones sought, rebloom in the heart, 
 And their rich fragance to them impart. 
 Thus shall utterance pure with harmonies blend, 
 And only with time may its mission here end. 
 
 TO MR. AND MRS. F. G. P. 
 
 'Tis said the weather on the bridal (as bride's) day, and the succeeding one 
 (groom's day) indicates or omens the kind of life the newly-wedded shall lead to- 
 gether. 
 
 May the untried years of thy future prove 
 
 Bright and serene as the bridal hour, 
 Illum'd by the light of a deathless love, 
 
 Controll'd by the light of its magical power. 
 
 If perchance but a shadow may seem to obscure 
 
 The beautiful light of that rose-tinted realm, 
 Bear and forbear is a talisman sure 
 
 To open the flood-gates of radiance again. 
 
 E'en thus may the bark of the twain made one 
 
 Securely float down the river of time, 
 'Til, bathed in the splendor of life's setting sun, 
 
 Entranced thou shalt list to the evening chime. 
 
 And still where the ages of time shall merge 
 
 In eternity's fathomless, limitless sea. 
 Beyond the knell of a parting dirge, 
 
 May thy love continued perfected be. MRS. J. E. CHACE.
 
 MISCELLANEOUS. 77 
 
 JENNIE LIND. 
 
 The following lines were written more than forty years ago, shortly after Jennie 
 L,ind came to America. 
 
 I have listened oft with pleasure 
 
 To the praises, loud and long, 
 Lavished in no stinted measure 
 
 On the beauteous Queen of Song. 
 Oh! how much I've longed to share 
 In listening to that voice so rare. 
 
 By a noble mind attended, 
 
 I have thought this voice was given 
 By His love, who, though ascended, 
 
 Grants a foretaste of that Heaven, 
 Where the good, the pure, the free 
 Join their sweetest melody. 
 
 As one drop from out the ocean 
 
 Is the semblance given here 
 Of that blissful, thrilling portion 
 
 Granted in a holier sphere, 
 Where the myriad voices sing 
 Anthems to their Savior King, 
 
 May the yet unrivalled songstress 
 
 To earth's sons be given long, 
 Gladdening by her gift so boundless, 
 
 Cheering by her glorious song. 
 May she, when from earth set free, 
 Join the angels' minstrelsy. 
 
 To her heart, so pure and gentle, 
 
 Be the shield of mercy given, 
 Fitting it for its presental 
 
 To that glorious home in heaven, 
 Where sweet praise is ever hymned, 
 May'st thou be welcomed, Jennie Lind. JUUA E. CHACE.
 
 78 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 THE OLD BRIDGE. 
 
 Chant me a requiem sad and slow, 
 
 No more shall I gaze on the ebh and flow 
 
 Of thy silv'ry wavelets, old St. Jo. 
 
 Ah, well, I am told, whether lowly or great, 
 All things earthly must meet their fate, 
 And mine, 'tis apparent, is to " cremate." 
 
 Twenty odd years I have served full well, 
 
 And while in your midst am permitted to dwell. 
 
 Treasured secrets would scorn to tell. 
 
 Though such, indiscreetly, I may not promulge, 
 In reminiscence I fain would indulge 
 And my own meditations thus divulge. 
 
 Flitting like dreams through the shadowy past, 
 Memories varied crowd thick and fast, 
 Soon, oh soon, they will prove the last. 
 
 Trembling, and wearied with labor and time, 
 To a younger and stronger I soon shall resign, 
 And gladly the care- freighted future consign. 
 
 Thrilling anew, I remember the hours 
 
 When the beautiful earth seemed a garden of flowers, 
 
 And love's whisper sweet, as neath sylvan bowers. 
 
 I remember, too, with grief and pain, 
 
 Oft the frenzied cry, which proved but vain, 
 
 Of bleeding hearts in the funeral train. 
 
 In politics, too, I became well versed, 
 
 As from year to year, with insatiate thirst, 
 
 I listened to hear the subject rehearsed. 
 
 The grand old flag, our national pride, 
 I have seen imperil'd when treason defied ; 
 More firmly it waves since its subjects were tried. 
 
 Beautiful words of praise I recall, 
 
 Ascending to Him who reigns over all ; 
 
 But oh ! with what terror, what dread, what appall,
 
 MISCELLANEOUS. 79 
 
 E'en wooden ears shrank from the language profane 
 With which men in their madness their souls still stain. 
 "Thou My name," saith Jehovah, " shalt not take in vain." 
 
 The inebriate's song I've heard with disgust, 
 And marveled that one with so holy a trust 
 Could the glory of manhood thus trail in the dust. 
 
 Would that the words that Divine love hath given 
 Home to the hearts of offenders were driven, 
 "No drunkard can enter the Kingdom of Heaven." 
 
 Many lessons hath life, oh, heed while ye may, 
 For darkness must follow the sunniest day, 
 And on all things is written " Passing away." 
 
 Then chant my requiem, soft and low, 
 One lingering farewell glance bestow, 
 As I to the land of oblivion go. 
 
 BLUES. 
 
 My subject, though gloomy and chilling the blues 
 Since named by my husband, I may not refuse, 
 Though I'd fain with a happier theme be impressed 
 When thought assumes form and to him is addressed. 
 
 Should this investigation prove prosy or dry, 
 Perchance prompt reproof a frown or a sigh 
 I trust you'll forgive, or at least will excuse- 
 Inspiration itself must needs die near the blues. 
 
 " What's the matter, my dear," is a query not new, 
 As the visage elongate is presented to view ; 
 A voice from its tone might proceed from the shoes 
 Replies, " Nothing, nothing, only I've got the blues." 
 
 Answered, I grant ; still must I muse 
 O'er this manifest sadness styled briefly "the blues." 
 The cause ? asks my heart ; oh, why need this be ? 
 Trembling the while lest 'tis traced back to me.
 
 80 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 Repents he the vows which our lives thus entwined ? 
 Have I proved less constant, devoted or kind, 
 Than anticipation, when wandering through 
 Misty lands of the future, presented to view ? 
 
 He says to this "No;" " What is it then, pray ?" 
 
 " ' Bothered, perplexed, and discouraged' you say ; 
 
 I feel that 'tis true ; still, this do you know 
 
 Where the rose-bloom is fairest, the sharpest thorns grow?" 
 
 ' ' Were there here no perplexities, sorrow or strife, 
 Who would e'en give a thought to that holier life ? 
 Were the soul aspirations, the spirit's glad trust, 
 Like the clay that enshrines, they'd be wedded to dust." 
 
 "Then let us, dear husband, with cheerful content, 
 
 Bear the darkness and clouds which in kindness are sent ; 
 
 Though luxuries may to us be denied, 
 
 Let us limit our wants by subduing our pride. 
 
 "Thus, when cares pale the cheek, and years dim the eye, 
 We'll remain young in spirit, for love cannot die ; 
 Then, with hope weaving o'er us his tri-colored hues, 
 We'll banish forever these heartaching blues." MRS. J. E. C. 
 
 RECIPE. 
 
 I WISH, for the benefit of mothers, to say I discovered, while taking care of sick 
 babies, that Sea Moss Farina was a very valuable article if properly prepared. 
 Bennie Grout would soon have died with the canker and indigestion which had taken 
 possession of him if something had not immediately reached his case. I took of Sea 
 Moss Farina one teaspoonful, one pint of boiling water, a pinch of salt, also of sugar; 
 put all together in his bottle and let him drink all he wanted between times of nurs- 
 ing never, be it remembered, oftener than once in three hours. And the same 
 preparation can be used with one pint of milk added and all boiled together, to give 
 young babies as food, as there is a mucilage in it which keeps the milk from curdling 
 in the stomach. This food is particularly adapted to weak stomachs, but care must 
 be taken to follow the directions, as more than I have named of the farina in its pro- 
 portion would produce too frequent evacuation.

 
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