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and will to hear him patiently and to give him your support 

 actively. 



We latter-day Pharisees may have nearly come to the con- 

 clusion that nothing good can come out of Washington Naza- 

 reth, but the Voice crying in the Wilderness has not been 

 altogether unheard and the "convention" last year seemed 

 to me like a sort of star-led congress, a pilgrimage of the 

 Magi and of the prophets and seers, and [if] the wise men of 

 the East will lend a hand — may we not see the Hand of the 

 Lord and have opened to us the way of salvation ? I write in 

 parable if not hyperbole, yet reverently and with fear and 

 trembling lest with such signs and wonders in the heavens I 

 should be found unworthy to come up to the temple — because 

 of unbelief and hardness of heart ! 



I have, with others, favored Prof. Atwater's appointment 

 because he has the spirit of prophecy and appears to me to be 

 a chosen vessel. Doubtless you and I, could we undertake 

 everything, would do many things very differently from what 

 he would, but with his diversity of gifts he has the same 

 spirit and a splendid stock of muscle too, very essential, which 

 some of us have not. I shall pray for him when he enters the 

 lion's den, and may the Highest deliver him and build him 

 up. This script is not only to bespeak your favorable inter- 

 est in Atwater's mission, but to say good morrow and God- 

 speed to yourself. 



Enjoyed Prof. J. P. Cooke and Mrs. Cooke's very pleasant 

 countenances for 3 weeks at Holderness, New Hampshire, in 

 July and August last. Ask them about that loveliest of 

 places ! Yours, S. W. Johnson. 



In 1890, Professor Johnson published a new edition 

 of ''How Crops Grow." Without his knowledge, his 

 portrait was included in the volume. He had con- 

 sented to the reproduction of his photograph in the 

 columns of an agricultural journal; the possibility of 

 this permission being extended without his sanction 



