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men because they dread as the greatest calamity to be cast into the 

 hands of Giant Doubting, who to them is but another name for 

 Giant Despair. But the path of Doubt leads to the portal of Truth. 



It has been no part of my purpose in this address to impugn 

 the character of the books of the Old Testament. On the con- 

 trary, I regard that noble work as the most important anthro- 

 pologic record possessed by man a work which richly repays 

 the most diligent study. I gladly accept it as a genuine record, 

 and believe that, though it has been colored by time and by the 

 work of designing men, it was never invented. It is sometimes 

 said that persons who are absorbed in scientific studies fear or 

 pretend to scorn the Bible. I neither fear nor scorn it. I admire 

 it, and study it, and gain much from it ; but no intelligent person 

 takes as of the same authority all its versions, or, indeed, all the 

 contents of the books which are arbitrarily styled canonical, and 

 about the very names and numbers of which scholars, churches, 

 and sects dispute. 



The Hexateuch contains that intrinsic evidence of truth which 

 so impressed the Ojibwa elders, before mentioned, who said that 

 the work was true because they and their fathers " had heard the 

 same stories since the world was new." To those who can read it 

 understanding! y it is a true story of a plane of culture. 



" Now as to myself I have so described these matters as I have 

 found them and read them ; but, if any one is inclined to another 

 opinion about them, let him enjoy his different sentiments without 

 any blame from me." 



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By JESSIE ORIANA WALLER. 

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Y paper is entitled the " Mental and Physical Training of 

 Children," and I shall begin with remarks on physical train- 

 ing, as it is first in natural order, the physical life beginning 

 before the mental. In these days, when there is a great rage for 

 education, a certain top-heaviness has been produced among chil- 

 dren, and the good homely helpmate of the mind the body is 

 decidedly neglected. It is looked upon as is the dull but sensible 

 wife of some clever man, whose duty is to get through all the 

 home drudgery. She must be invited out with him, but is ignored 

 in society, and is only tolerated on account of her brilliant hus- 

 band. Now, I consider the body to be just as important as the 

 mind, and that it ought to be treated with just as much respect, 



