was necessary, that when it came, it came so hardly, for when 
in the year 1786, it was planned to supplant the use of the 
German language, the Lutheran Church, representing the 
habit of mind of the people, introduced the following to its 
liturgy: — "And since it has pleased Thee chiefly by means 
of the Germans to transform this State into a blooming 
garden, and the desert into a pleasant pasturage, help us not 
to deny our nation, but to endeavor that our growth may be 
so educated, that German Schools and Churches may not only 
be sustained, but may attain a still more flourishing condi- 
tion," — and so the language against desire passed, for a babel 
of tongues, and a division of material interests, are against 
the spiritual current of history. 
E. C. J. 
