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out even the beams of day, I see new States and empires, new seats of 

 wisdom and knowledge, new religious domes spreading around. In 

 places now untrod by any but savage beasts, or men as savage as they, 

 I hear the voice of happy labor, and behold towery cities growing into 

 the skies ! 



The general sentiments in this address Dr. Smith tells us in a 

 note to the address, had been published by him in a poem near 

 fifty years before, and had been occasionally introduced into former 

 public addresses by him, but had not before been published at 

 large or in the present form. 



After the passage above quoted, Dr. Smith concludes his sermon 

 as follows: 



Lo ! in this happy picture, I behold the native Indian exulting in the 

 works of peace and civilization ! His bloody hatchet he buries deep 

 under ground, and his murderous knife he turns into a pruning hook, to 

 lop the tender vine and teach the luxuriant shoot to grow. No more 

 does he form to himself a heaven after death (according to the poet) 

 in company with his faithful dog, behind the cloud-topped hill, to enjoy 

 solitary quiet, far from the haunts of faithless men ; but, better instructed 

 by Christianity, he views his everlasting inheritance, a house not made 

 with hands, eternal in the heavens. 



Instead of recounting to his offspring, round the blazing fire, the 

 bloody exploits of their ancestors, and wars of savage death, showing 

 barbarous exultation over every deed of woe ; methinks I hear him pour- 

 ing forth his eulogies of praise to the memory of those who were the 

 instruments of heaven in raising his tribes from darkness to light ; in 

 giving them freedom and civilization, and converting them from violence 

 and blood to meekness and love ! 



Amongst those who shall be celebrated as the instruments of this great 

 work, I hear the names of every good citizen and Christian who is a 

 friend to mankind, and to the gospel of Jesus Christ ; and especially, 

 methinks, I hear your names, ye illustrious patriots ! who, having asserted 

 your own and your country's rights, cheerfully join in every laudable 

 endeavor for conveying those rights to posterity, and bringing "the 

 utmost ends of the earth to see the salvation of our God." 



Hasten, O Almighty Father, hasten this blessed period of thy Son's 

 kingdom, which we believe shall come ; and the praise and glory shall 

 be to tliy name, forever and ever ! Amen. 



We come now to a highly interesting event in Dr. Smith's 

 domestic history: the engagement of marriage between his son 

 Charles with Mary, the daughter of the Hon. Jasper Yeates, a lady 

 of education, intelligence and amiable disposition. The letter 



