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ONE YEAR OF GOOD GOVERNMENT.
On the 4th of March, 1869, General U. S.
Grant took the oath of office and entered
upon the duties of President of the United
States. The lapse . of a twelve month
now
enables us' to take a retrospective
view of the
first year of the
n' 1 j u ... . . ,
Grant, and to inquire whether he has justified
the predictions of his friends, the expectation
of his party, and the hopes of the country at
large.
! To all these questions, upon a dispassionate
review of the events of the political year, we
are enabled to reply in the affirmative. The
results which were fairly to be anticipated
from the election ot President urant nave re
ally taken place, and the country has good rea
son to congratulate itself upon a wise selec-
V- - m
tion of its Chief Magistrate.
I ll may be conceded that the elements of
political prophesy have not yet been reduced to
proportions of an 'exact science. rrobatly
the leadiug events of the year we are called
upon to review were not very distinctly fore-
seen by any of the numerous organs of public
opinion which twelve months since undertook
A mmA 4 Vi sv kA.Aa.nna rT tha nam Annnnifltpn I
tibn. 1 Many things have transpired very differ.
ently from the anticipations of even the besjt
predicted.
The experiment commenced a year
ago was one which was not free from grave
difficulties and complications. It, on the oue
hand, the new Administration possessed the
certainty of being able to' compare favorably
with a corrupt and unscrupulous predecessor,
that verv circumstance imposed upon
unoosed upon 'it tne
herculean task of cleansing the i Augean W
of a demoralized governmental system
Order
had to be evoked from chaos, and the
entire
governmental machinery had to be reorganized.
That this colossal achievement has been fairly
accomplished and that in our public offices hon-
estv. caDability, and patriotism have very gen-
pi-ally taken the place of peculation and dis-
ldvalty, is the grand, the magnificent trophy of
lftsa renowned than war's," and triumphs of
a Year of good government add a yet fresher
garland to tne laureis oi r ori. iuuuiauu, iw.o
htiw. and AoDomattox I ' ;
, 1 . 1 rii k a a '
I Military heroes nave Dimwiuuui uunucui,-
1y proved themselves saaiy aencient, m siaies
manship and in many of the qualities requis-
consT
it fnr tha successful management of a consti
tutional government. ,It was, therefore, not
improbable, a prwr, m nwiUk vji-m,,
vhn never nrofessed to be a politician, would
be found wanting in some requisite essential to
the highest administrative success. The re
cord of his first year forever sets at rest all
uneasy anticipations of this character. He
has shown himself richly endowed with the
highest gifts of the statesman. His selec
tions of men to fill the chief positions in his
gift has often occasioned surprise at the outset,
but the test ot experience has vindicated his
knowledge of character. He has been proof
against that besetting temptation . of military
rulers, the ambition to signalize their advent
to power by some dashing demonstration along
the line of international questions. Despite
the' Opportunities afforded bj numerous foreign
complications closely anecuug .mcnou in
terests, and despite the goading of a portion of
the Republican press, he has maintained the
Wgn vantage ground of perfect amity with all
foreign nations. By so doing, he has largely
increased the moral and material weight which
our country will be enabled to throw into the
seale should we ever be called upon to take a
decided stand in support of some sound princi-
The completion of the Pacific railroad, the
inception of the surveys for the inter-oceanic
. canal of Darien, the reduction of nearly a
hundred million of the public debt, the intro
duction of3 honesty and, economy into the
handling of: the publio moneys, the adoption
ot a sound system-of Indian policy, the ao-
' quisition at a trifling outlay of a priceless foot
hold in the Antilles, the restoration of an era
ot good feeling at home , and . of confidence
abroad, the rapid tendency toward specie pay
ments, the attainment of a par value of Ame
rican bonds, the definitb triumph of impartial
guffrage, the near approach to universal am
mMf nd to complete restoration to the Union
prophets ; but the general results attained to- Whenrevived again, after many years discoL- !f"7 m .ue ucorgia aeoaie
day are far more flattering and the outlook far tinuanceit wa3 ?ound to work v different. 0Q Tacsday 8Poke M follow8:
iuore assuring than could resonably have been . . -..hhiwrW hinr.Mrl. ronr- tu v. n
t J wrnnnrd sis ters"-r-such are the
GREENSBORO,
imperishable trophies of one year of the rot-
ernment 01 uiyses B. Grant They may safe
ly challenge comparison with a similar period,
oot only of en j of his predecessor, bat of en j
constitutional ruler whom the world has ever
seen. Washington ChronieU. j
CASTE AND CULTURE.
A well educated young Englishman, an Ox
ford graduate, who had spent nearly a year in
various cities of America, eeve this as the
most remarkable point of difference between
he two countries in respect to the position of
omen: , j
"In England, he said, the women of the
igher class were well educated, and the mid
le class women wretchedly. Here it was just
he other way, to far as the distinction of class
es coud be traced at all. .
Almost precisely the same remark had pre
viously been made to me by a young English
woman ot nigh rank and of uncommon in tell 1
gence and independence. She -came here
tall of interest in our High Schools. Normal
Schools and the Poughkeepsie Female College.
To her amazement, the vounz ladies whom
she met in "society" had either never heard
of these things, or spoke of them very contempt
tously. "Mechanics daughters, they said,
''might go to such institutions they
supposed; but certainly none of their circle
did. rom which, their Encash visitor in-
ferred, the mechanic' daughters were ob
And she did not
hesitate to declare that in intelligence and in-
fo-nation
these young lsdies in "Societv"
(even in Boston) were very
much inferior to
those of the higher rank in England.
The facts thus stated by foreigners are sim
ply true. All the vast improvements in our
educational system, while reaching boys of all
classes, have scarcely touched the education
of girls of what is sometimes called "the more
favored class in our largest cities. Theit
schools are stationary or retrograde; very little
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is aemanaea oi mem, very little attained. In
the country towns and rural cities of New
.bnuland, New lork and the West, where so-
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uiety lei more democratic, the daughters of the
rich atteod the same liigh Schools with the
daughters of the poor, and have as good an op
portunity tor instruction. J3ut in our larger
cities, where wealth congregates, the separation
between caste and culture begins.- The daugh
ters ot the rich have a
better musio teacher
and a native French
gcverness. liut all the
real mental tiaiuing, tne Latio and vireec, the
mathematics, the logic, the natural sciences,
the history, the geography, go to the daugh
ters of the poor. Or, at least, the middle
classes; those who send their daughters to
school for the real purpose of learnine; almost
monopolize the benefit of our High and Nor
mal Schools.
It is a singular fact that when the Boston
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was first established.
was soon discon
tinued, because the majority of the girls came
from the wealthier classes, who, it was thought
could provide instruction at their own expense.
sented in the school. A former member of the
committee on that school has told mc. that
fashionable mothers would attend its examina
tions at his request, would admit that the ed
ucation there received was far more thorough
than their daughters were receiving,
would
promise to take it into consideration ; bnt the
daughters never came. The sons went to the
pubiio itin gchoo, fcut the dai,ghters must
go whero their cousins and then;
. . a . t
"set went,
to meet io
and meet tnose wnom tney were
society. In short, education was entirely sub
ordinated to social connections. And what is
true of Boston is true ot all large cities in Am-
enta, nuu, ucpuu w
small ones.
The consequence is inevitable. Just as at
the South, the refusal of whites to send their
children to the same school with blacks is
really bringing 'the white children up in ig
norance; so in these cities, the preference of
caste over culture is really giving the advan
tage of education to the untashionable classes.
In later life, the advantages of travel and so-
Cietj d- 8omethinS t0 restore the balance.
But at eighteen or twenty, the greater mental
maturity of the graduating class in any High
School in New England, as compared with an
equal number lrom the "best society, is ap-
km .
parent 10 any man or woman oi seuao wuo wui
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been already said.
In one respect, it may be, this state of thiugs
nnmn ia nnsprvpn mill iv iiv i iirtf i ni. mjt im
Ce e i wv .u vr r
shifting of social positions, which is the life of
.u. .v t r . -
& democratic societv. In foreign countries.
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wnere social BLrauucauoo umoro perm&ueub,
it is essential 1 that the "governing families2
I families
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should xeep vpueir -sunaara ot eancauoo.-
Here, where it is rather desirable that fami
lies should rise and fall, and yield place to
others more energetic or better trained, the
philosophy of the thing is very different.
Sooner or later, education tells upon a race
lican society. T. W. A. Woman's Journal.
The Poor Among Friends. Another ex'
cellent feature in the; practical administration
of Quakerism is the care extended to the poor
and unfortunate of the denomination.- The
more thrifty and prosperous, as a part of their
religious duty releive those who ere in dia-
tress and want. An instance or a
mate of a publio poor-house I have never
known. Their quota of helpless poor is, to be
sure, relatively small; as it should be, when it
is remembered that they discourage intemper
ance, and religiously inculcate lessons of in-
dustry, frugality and simplicity, of dress and
manner of living. But there are those who in
wafrom causes beyond their own control,
and such, as a rule, are , comfortably provided
for, and with aihoughU
feeling which cannot be too wannlj praised.
uuuiu uruviue lUMrutiiJu ui lueir uwa ciueust. n a. r.i.r
l -J J - O J i A uvui n vuo iv T lUSk UCU VUUI(IC99
and the superiority of second-class education .. , : ' r n .wJ :n .
, . . j . . . j that by denunciation of Gov. IS., they will have
simply predicts a time when what is now second . . , , . j .v Wn .
, J . . . .i is a i gained their end, and defeated the bill to re
class may be first class, and the firit class go b r ilj r
do,a. ind hU, after All, ia a health, repa? '3r".JL !l
N. C , THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1870.
A CARD.
WiLUtaua Hotxl,
The following note was left aJ my hotel this
ercmng:
Wabotsotok, D. O, Mar. 8, 1670.
8n: I have in my posaessioa six afidavits
of respectable citisess of. Springfield, Mass., in
regard to vour career with Mn Tvitt nr4 iV.
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infamous treatment of her husband, cauiiog,
as they believe her ixntimely death.
Now, sir, I propose to have these documents
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puuuaucu uu piAccu la iuo nanus ox every J
u xcrcvcauiive iB uoogress, re
ferring them to a entleman of high standing
in this city who knows something of the facts
in the case himself, and into whose hands I in
tend placing the original papers.
Your infamy shall be known throughout the
land, and the Ghost of poor Levitt, whom you
worse than murdered, ahall raise up in recu
sation whithersoever joa go.
I write tor the purpose of attaching on con
dition vix-that you eill off your Blood hound t
and let us hsve peace in Georgia. Go home,
and attend honestly and faithfully to your du
ties as Governor, give up this unworthy idea
or scheme of perpetuating yourselt and friends I
in otnee and 1 promise to place the papers at
your disposal as soon as you have complied with
the above condition. Meantiae I'll not abow
them to mortal man.
I shall await action for one day only after
receipt of this. Think well and dec ids yvur
fute.
BRUTUS.
To R. B. Bullock, Governor of Georgia.
"Brutus" is respectfully informed that I
have no "idea or scheme of perpetuating my
self or friends in office" beyond the constitution
al term, and that I am "honestly and faithful
ly" endeavoring to secure the admission of
Georgia into the Union with the reliable repub
lican State government.
My efforts in that direction will not be sus
pended in deference to this latest effort of the
Kuklux Klao, and Brutus," therefore, need
not withhold, even for one day, whatever new
batch of lies his klao may have accumula
ted. My acts, either public or private, during my
whole life are open to inspection and to criti
cism. It has been my fortune, either for rood or
ill, to be placed in a position that secure- for
me the intense hatred of an unscrupulous par
tisan organization, and, although it is disagree
able to bear, I shall not shrink from the po
litical principles to avoid the flood of infamous
slander and abuse which has hitherto, snd
nit v .
win De nereaiter, poured upon me.
it. B. BULLOCK.
GOV. BULLOCK'S RECORD.
Judge Davis, of New York, late of the Court
f Appeals in that State and now a Represen-
tative from the Rochester dis't in Congress, in
How me to say that when CoDgTe
passes this act determining the oath these offi
cers shall take, it supersedes your objection
and disarms it of all force; for upon comply
ing with this act Georgia steps back into the
Union, her officers stand upon her own consti
tution, and Congress ceases to have power over
those officers beyond what it has over all State
officers.
Now, Mr Speaker, I propose to say a few
words personal to Governor Bullock. He has
been assailed, in the course of debate upon the
subject of Georgia, both now and heretofore,
in the bitterest neraooal invective. T revxrA
sach debtte not 0Q- M indecorous here, but
as altogether wanting in that resrard to
pro
priety that this House ought always to require
It is small importance, in respect to the great
principles before us, what has been done by
individuls in Georgia, Whether Governor
Bullock be a good man or a bad man ought
not to affect the legislation of this body.
till '. . 'II 1 . .. m
neiner 11 win oenem or injure mm is ot no
moment to this House in the discharge of oar
solemn duty. 1 have known Mr B., from his
earliest boyhood. His parents reside
in my
village; they are my immediate neighbors; and
I have known Gov Bullock from childhood to
the Dresent hour. With a narentir-e of which
anJ an ajgnt De pr0U(1 t0 ho bM bcen
l k Mr t " w
reared to love honesty and integrity.
I Thirteen years sgo long before the
war-
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the duties in which he was eogaged called bini
into the southern states. He married whu
there, and there his children have been born
and reared; there all hu hopes in life and all
. . . . ' . . .'t
I oia interesu aire ueca casw xy ois own in
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teiugence, nis pracucai gooa sense, bis earnest
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I UH UiSVAO 1VI uiiuavii m UAAIC. uiu KMUCU iui
himfleIt a fame lhtt hlfe
given him the hieh
position that he now occupies. He has at all
times challenged investigation into his official
and private character. Yet men stand here
to asperse both without a shadow of proof, act-
ing upon no evidence, put seeming to turn a
they will fail in this.
I can tell you the secret' Mr. Speaker, of
this stuck on Governor Bullock. If that
man had chosen, as. occupying the position he
did in Georgia, he might have done, to strike
d .HstocrVu who cannot forget that
haadepriTed lhem of Ath M4j
hands with these legacies of the rebellion, thee
I meftrlsn silavM f Visiir tfwriftlfl Kfr.rl fruA mnA
the law if he would have struck hands
ith
that class of men all would have been
welLl
No man on yonder side of the House would
-ould
have aspersed his conduct. No attack upon
QearW0lim haTe been reorganized
tbe BoM of wbo condemn
hcrnQW Her humble, her poor, those whom
Wft froa bceidageahd set up in all
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his private leputation would nave been made
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again, if not to chattel slavery, at leaat to a
boadsge scarcely better.
Bat such was not the con J net of Governor
Bullock. God has sot moved in his heart to
commit such outrages upon the spirit of the
age. On the contrary, instead ot striking hands
with that ela.s ofmea, aed building op for
himself dower sad wealth and social relatioes
lith them, he has reetbed with aa opea heart
and a warm hand down to the poor and ham-
a e m m .
Die oi bis State. Ha has sought to protect
them at all time, and 1 to ace to theon that the
rights Cowgreas bad given to them were not
destroyed or trampled upon by their former
masters, who fought bat failed to destroy the
Government under which we live.
lie has stood up boldly sad manfully for the
right, for the quality befure the law of all
men, and history wil preserve his name when
they who have ajpersed htm here or elsewhere
will be forgotton. The history of Georgia will
embalm his name as one whose deeds have
7ed her humble poor, the representatives of
actual labor in her fields and her esechasuo
shops, and everywhere throughout the State,
from the harden of constant oppression forever.
His name willl stand on her pages not only as
the nxst Governor of ueorgta after the great
bellion, but as one who, amid the storm of
obloquy and reproach, amid threats of aaaaati'
natioo and dangers that might appall the stout
eat heart, obeyed the will of God and the dic
tates of jujticc acd humanity while firmly ex
ecuting the law.
TnK SHADOWS OF THK FUTURE.
A most singular chain of circuzatucces
preceded the asxaMiuation of that excellent
monarch, Henry IV., of France. In the morn
ing of the day on which he was murdered by
luvauiao, rnaay, .May M, 10.U, be was ex
ceedingly pensive. In tSe hope of composing
bis spirit he threw himself on his bed, bnt
was unable to rest. Thrice he rose and thrice
he fell on his knees in prayer. Soon after, re.
pairing to the presence chamber, bis attend
ants endeavored to , divert the melancholy
which preyed so deeply on his mind. Being
naturally amiable and cheerful, he tried to fall
in with the well-meant pleasantry of his no
bles, and attempted to smile, but concluded
thus, "We have laughed enough for rriday;
there will be weeping on Sunday."
His Queen, Marie de Mcdicis. bad been
crowned but the day before. La Broasc, a
physician, is, by some reported to have said to
the Duke de Vendome on that evening, "If
the King survives a danger which threatens
him at present, be wiil live thee thirty years."
The Duke entreated the King to grant this
physician an audience, and repeated what the
old gentlemen had born saying. Hi Majesty,
with unusual asperity. and hastiness, said, "lie
is an old fool for telhog you such things, and
yon aro a young one if you believe him." The
Duke's rejoioder was given respectful acd sen
sible: "Sire, one may not believe aueh things,
but one may fear them." Bayle, however, has
endeavored to shake the credit of this whole
story.
1 be same day as the rvtng and Queen were
walking through an apartment of the paltce,
the King stopped to speak with somebody pres
ent. 1 he Uueeo stopping at the same time.
be said to her, as by a spirit ot involuntary
prophesy, "Go on, goon, Madame the Regent."
A few nights before tbecatastrorhe, the Queen
dreamed that all the jewels in her crown were
changed into pearls, and that she was told
pearls were significative of tears. Another
night he started and cried out in her sleep,'
and waked the King, who asking her what
was the matter, she aoswered, 'I have had r
frightful dream ; but I know that dreams are
mere illuioc:s " I was always of the san.e
opinion, bald llenry; "noweter, tell lue weal
your dram was !" 'I dreamed," continued
she, "that you were stabbed with a knife un
der the shore rib.." "Thank God!" added
the Kmg, "it was but a dream " On the morn
ing of the fatal day His Majesty win, as we
bavo befure observed, unusually low. More
than once he aid to those about him, "Some
thing or other hangs very heavy on my heart."
jMiore no entered nu carnage ne looa leave oi
ia a a a ! p
the Queen no fewer lhan'three times, and had
not passed through many streets ere IUvaillae
gave bim that fatal ; thnm which deprived
France of one of the most generous and hu
mane sovereigns the ever had. Dublin Uni
versity. WUII'PKD BY A WOMAN.
An amusing incident happened on the side
walk in front of the Catholic Church, in the
Wet Division. Yesterday morning. As the
congregation were coming out, an old lady,
with a cowhide in her sight hand, seised
young man by the collar, snd asked him why
be went wito ner aaugotcr. itnout giving
him time to explaio, she plied the cowhide rig
orouly over bis shoulders. He struggled, and
twisted her band so that she was obliged to re
lease him, sad he ran tff.
It seems that the young man has been meet-
leg tne uaugnter oi me laay cunaestioeiy,
coutrary to the mother's wishes. Yesterday
.a i a t a a
morning he met ber on the street snd accom
panied her to church. Unfortunately for him
a small brother, sged eleven years, was about
half a block away, and saw bim walk beside
bis sister. The yoeng:er ran home and told
his mother, and she procured the cowhide and
went to the church, determined to teach the
young man be could not court her dioghtei
without her cot-s. nt.1 A great deal of merri
ment was occasioned by Ler ciuduct. Who
the parties were is not known. Vniber the
young man will persist in huvattentions when
he has to run the risk of getting a eowhiding
is questionable; but he may o ao, as generally
the mora omxuitioa lovtrs have the more de-
termiid axe they to meet and tell each other
'aurreptitioualr what they dare not i
ia the pre
enee of the heads cf the tamilj.
Kind words are among the brightest flow
era of earth; they convert the humblest home
into a paradise; therefore, use the pa, especial
ly around the fireside circle.
NO. 5
iGEOEOUFOX.
One somewhere m rations Qtakcruai an "the
leagthentd shadow of George Fox." That this -shadow
has had more subaUaee that shadows
are usually suppowd to posses, I shall hope te
make appareaL George Fax appeared ai .n
time vhen the reign of externalists in natters
rxflaiaieg to religion was well nigh twpreaa.
lie was bora in 1624 el Drayton, in Leicester,
shire. England.
Even in his minority he exhibited a grarilr
and staidaeas of naiad "seldom seen in child--ren.
It was proposed to make a priest cf
him, but he was finally aprrrutieed to n shoe
maker, who
also n dealer In cattle. He
often taed la his dealing the word Verily, aad
then kept so strictly to it that people who knew
him would say. "21 George nays Verily them
is no altering his. He was remarkable at
eleven years of age far questions and convtr
nation eonceraieg religious mantra. At eight
een aad aiaeteea his naiad became nieh exrr
cieed. He was greatly oppressed by the out
ward, tuptfrleiaTafid corrupt type ef rtllica
which prevailed emoeg his aasoclalea, I
ought counsel ef tricau, bnt onlj to become
still more perplexed by what each clerical In
terview revealed to him. Oece he went to a
distinguished priest ia Warwickshire and talk
ed with him about the ground cf despair and
temptations, but theooly consolation the priest
could ofier was to bid him tekt tvlceo sai
simy ps jltns." He sought still another of graal
reputation, fur light a poo the problems which
oppreed him, and this prtiatly physician, we
ate told, was for giving rux some "physio and
for b led ing him." He had other kiedred in
terviewa and disappointments. After much
striving with himself, he at last saw clearly, t a
he was walking alone by himself in a field, oo
a lint day morning, that merely to be bred at
Oxford or Cambridge was not enough to make
a man a minister. Thereafter, greatly to the
distress of his worthy and respectable family
connections, be refused to go to church and to
listen to the priests whom he had spiritually
weighed and found wanting. He would go
into the orchard, or the fields, by himself, and
with his Bible, seek the lijcht which he had
failed to get from others. There were at this
lime Dissenters from the established church,
but they also were eqcally powerless, to afford
him spintual enlightenment. Again as he was
walking alooe in the fields be saw that, though
priests and people were wont to call their char
ches holy places temple of God, etc , that "God
who made the world did not dwell in temp lea
uiade with handa, but rather in the hearts of
his people." These were to him new, radical,
important conceptions of fundamental truth.
At this juncture his old family priest, named
Stevena, became afraid of Fox, "for going af
ter neuf lights." Fox now had many more rev
elations. He dwelt mneb alooe by himself,
apart from his relative and friends, tbat his
mind no! be unduly biased aed distracted.
He passed many sleepless nights aad would
speod whole dsys in solitary walks, and silting
in a hollow tree, studying the lessons of the
Bible, and mediuting upon the problems of
life. .After much tribulation many thiogs
which had been obscure became clear to his
uwderstaodiog. doubts which had perplexed
him disappeared, and he became filled with
light, and possessed of a sweet peace fain ess cf
spirit inexpressibly precious 11 is work as a
reformer then began in real earnest. Of course
be became a thorn in the side of the preist-
hood and shocked, as he would to-day. both
preists and church Deorde bv his want of rev.
m g;
erecee for what they deemed sacred ofaees and
saend places. He never ioined anr church.
but give himself to following "Inward Light."
tic diligently sought out the poor and suffer
ing and did much to alleviate their sorrows.
It is somewhat singular to note, io view of tho
present prominence of the Women's Right's
reform, that ooe ot the first of the "odd no
tions" then prevalent in Ho eland which Georre
Fox felt called opoo to combat was that "aro
ma had tut souls f"
Fox and the erly Friends came among the
people of their dsy habituated of course to
the prevalent term peculiar to the com moo iy
accepted theological opiciooa. Fox was adili
gent reader of the Bible, but he felt that he
knew not God, but by revelation, as he who
had the key, did open the avenue of sueh
knowledge within himself. Thus, it is recor
ded of him, "his seal in the pure knowledge
of God grew stronger ; so that hs wished to
io crease therein without the kilp cf any man,
look, or mrriting." He maintained witn great
earnestness that "there was an s coin tier in
man to teach him: and that the Lord would
teach his people himself ; that there was no
sealed book of rcvalaiiona, which Christ could
not open, that Christ was to be found not out
wardly but "t the blood of the hearts' of his
people. For the greater pert he employed,
without clear, intellectual discrimination, the
then and still popular modes of expression in
speaking of Christ, the Bible, etc Bat in his
cardies! doc trine of the indwelling or God ia
the souls of men and women, and that there
may be spiritual growth "sithout the help of
any man, book or writiog" he buiided better
than be himself knew.
In some things he was doubtless narrow
minded, but as bis minor peculiarities are for
gotten he will be remembered in history as a
far-seeing, comprehensive reformer. William
Howit pays him a merited tribute ia the West
minister I Uric , wherein he says: "Oa almost
all those great questions of civil and religious
polity, which the world is now coming to a lain
discussion of, he made up his mind at once.
and as at ooe splendid leap, vaulted across the
(uoraM of thai error and sophistries of sgea M
louig urn snd women of the
may still find instruction in the
George FuX.
present time
example of
Tbe Home for Aged Men, just, opened la
Boston, covers 40,000 square feet between
Worcester and 8prinSeld street. The estate
was purchased of the city for 150.000, and
paid for by private subscnpti'M. The carpet
aad fcrnitnre dealers of the city famished the
building with all the articles necessary to make
a pleasant aad comfortable home. The p reseat
number of la males is twenty, aad : there ' are
aceommodatiocj for thirty Bore,
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