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HIS MARRIAGE. 



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only adding to my troubles to add to the said things ! " The 

 marriage took place at the German Church in Manchester, 

 October 1, i860. He had previously called on the minister, 

 who translated for him his form of service. "The only difference 

 from Mr. Tayler's service is, that the giving away is left out : 

 and that there is the double instead of the single ring, which 

 I much like. I never understood why the wife was to have 

 the badge which the husband did not." 



They went to Llandudno for their short wedding tour. 

 His wife wrote to his sister Mary (October 5): " Our little 

 son has taken to us wonderfully, and it seems that with the 

 name of mother, which he gives me, all the affection of a son 

 to a mother has sprung into his little heart. He is very happy, 

 and seemed very touched when he stood between us before 

 the altar, when we were solemnly declared before God to be 

 a father and a mother to the child. Mr. Marotsky seemed 

 himself very struck with the boy, and could scarcely restrain 

 his tears. He blessed the boy : and said to him, in such 

 a beautiful way, that he hoped — nay, that he knew — that 

 we should be a true father and mother to him, and that he 

 hoped Robbie would always thank God for it, and be a true son 

 to us. After the legal proceeding was over, which took place 

 in the vestry, in the presence of the registrar, we went into the 

 church. Then he gave us a beautiful address, taking the 

 Lord's Prayer and explaining it in its relations to the home. 

 Then came the question put to Philip in English, and to me 

 in German, 6 Wilt thou take,' etc. ? Then the exchanging of 

 rings : then he joined our hands in his, and held them thus, 

 while he spoke a prayer and a blessing." Philip says of the 

 boy : " You should have seen his frisks when he was turned 

 loose on the sands, the first evening, and shouted out, * Now 

 I am free ! Now I am at liberty ! ' We have an excellent 

 study of the natural effects of emancipation on an uncultivated 

 mind : in which, as in the whole of my history with him, I 

 have had the spiritual history of the slavery question enacted 

 before me." 



The collections which came from the Smithsonian were so 



