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ers who could look upon them as events belonging 'to, to them, almost 

 a remote antiquity. 



In 1868 General Smith, still active and in good health, made the tour 

 of Wisconsin, visiting many of his old friends in the northern and east- 

 ern part of the State; then proceeding to Quincy, in the State of Illi- 

 nois, he finished his tour in a visit to his youngest daughter, residing in 

 that city with her husband, Mr. Robert H. Deaderick. And here, in 

 the fulness of years, this long and brilliant life came to a quiet and 

 peaceful close. 



General Smith during all his life was an active and prominent Mason, 

 passing through all the degrees of that order, from the Blue Lodge to 

 the Royal Arch Chapter. He was several times made Grand Secretary, 

 and was twice Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Wisconsin. He 

 had a singular love and veneration for the order while he lived, and he 

 Was buried with Masonic honors on the 26th day of August, a. d. 1868, 

 at Mineral Point, Wis. A Masonic monument marks his place of rest. 



No. XVII.— Page 463. 



In asserting what I here do, I do not forget that in "The Form 

 of Prayer for the Visitation of Prisoners" it is said, in that part of the 

 form provided for " persons under sentence of death," that after a par- 

 ticular confession, by the person under sentence, of the sin for which he 

 stands condemned — which confession the visiting clergyman is to exhort 

 him to make — such clergyman shall 'Uieclare to him the pardoning mercy 

 of God, ill the form zvliich is used in ike comtnunion serz'ice;'' that form 

 being admitted by all to be one more capable of being interpreted to be 

 a form of "absolution" than any other in our Prayer Book. The infer- 

 ence drawn therefore by some is that the church here puts an interpre- 

 tation on that form generally, interpreting it wherever it occurs in the 

 Prayer Book as but "a declaration of God's pardoning mercy." 



Conversing not long since with a layman of our church, whom I have 

 often consulted in the preparation of this biography, he made some 

 remarks of which what follows, so far as I remember, is the substance. I 

 adopt them as expressing my own views : • 



1 do not consider that the church in this rubric says in terms exactly what these 

 words, brought from the communion service, are or do, except, perhaps, as when they 



