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" In days of old if a man dared to say that he didn't 

 couldn't believe in this or that doctrine, the punish- 

 ment might be ' off with his head,' or burn him at the 

 stake, or throw him into a dungeon to die like a dog. 



" Ah, yes ; this is a union church, for all sects 

 except the Catholics and there you see sectarianism 

 running rampant. In place of charity such a feeling 

 begets jealousy and rancor. In place of love, hatred, 

 malignant hatred, is engendered." 



When Henry finished his peroration, I thought of 

 the language of Dr. William Cunningham Gray, the 

 saintly editor of the Interior, who spent a great por- 

 tion of his long life in the woods, and who shortly be- 

 fore his death wrote : 



k ' It has been my highly prized privilege to return to 

 the Adamic conditions of existence, to live in the para- 

 dise of God, to taste the exquisite and exhilarating joys 

 of primitive life. Adam was under disadvantages, but, 

 after all, he was the happiest man of his race. Let us 

 forsake the vapid follies of fashion and dissipation and 

 return to a life as simple and unostentatious, as benev- 

 olent and unselfish as that of our Lord. Let us free 

 ourselves from the vain complexities of theology, of 

 philosophy and of living and rise to the pure, free air, 

 and to the simple dignity and worth of true manhood 

 and womanhood." 



The wind increasing in violence, we went to the 

 camp, had our dinner, and once more set out for the 



