He was, as those who knew him will remember, always extremely devout to the angelic choirs.

On his birthday this year he writes as follows: "December 18, 1844 .-- Let me look back for a few moments and see where I stood last year this time (an incomprehensible length), and where I now stand.

Then my path was dim, unfixed, unsettled.

Then I was not so disentangled from the body and its desires as, I hope in God, I now am.

In all I feel a consciousness that since then I have spiritually grown--been transformed.