I would willingly be the tinder to promote the cheering blaze."-- Manuscript Notes.] With great pleasure we heard, with his attentive and affectionate congregation, the Unitarian clergyman, Mr.Conant, and afterward visited him in his house, where almost everything bore traces of his own handiwork or that of his father.

He is just such a teacher as is wanted in this region, familiar enough, with the habits of those he addresses to come home to their experience and their wants; earnest and enlightened enough to draw the important inferences from the life of every day.[B] [Footnote B: "Let any who think men do not need or want the church, hear these people talk about it as if it were the only indispensable thing, and see what I saw in Chicago.

An elderly lady from Philadelphia, who had been visiting her sons in the West, arrived there about one o'clock on a hot Sunday noon.

She rang the bell and requested a room immediately, as she wanted to get ready for afternoon service.

Some delay occurring, she expressed great regret, as she had ridden all night for the sake of attending church.