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ago came up before me, with memories almost overpow 

 ering of my first visit thirty-five years ago. And all then 

 with me are now dead. 



June 25. 



At nine in the morning off with Holls to Rotterdam, 

 and on arriving took the tram through the city to the 

 steamboat wharf, going thence by steamer to Dort. Ar 

 rived, just before the close of service, at the great church 

 where various sessions of the synod were held. The 

 organ was very fine; the choir-stalls, where those wretched 

 theologians wrangled through so many sessions and did 

 so much harm to their own country and others, were 

 the only other fine things in the church, and they were 

 much dilapidated. I could not but reflect bitterly on the 

 monstrous evils provoked by these men who sat so long 

 there spinning a monstrous theology to be substituted 

 for the teachings of Christ himself. 



Thence back to The Hague and to Scheveningen, and 

 talked over conference matters with Count Munster. Re 

 ceived telegrams from Count von Billow in answer to 

 mine congratulating him on his promotion, also one 

 from Baron von Mumm, the German minister at Luxem 

 burg, who goes temporarily to Washington. 



June 26. 



At work all the morning on my Grotius address. 

 Lunched at the &quot; House in the Wood,&quot; and walked to 

 town with sundry delegates. In the afternoon went to 

 a &quot;tea&quot; at the house of Madame Boreel and met a num 

 ber of charming people ; but the great attraction was the 

 house, which is that formerly occupied by John De Witt 

 that from which he went to prison and to assassination. 

 Here also Motley lived, and I was shown the room in 

 which a large part of his history was written, and where 

 Queen Sophia used to discuss Dutch events and person 

 ages with him. 



The house is beautiful, spacious, and most charmingly 



