feeling that all is yet unsaid, from the incapa of the parties to know each other, although use the same words! My companion assu to know my mood and habit of thought, and go on from explanation to explanation unti is said which words can, and we leave mat just as they were at first, because of that vic assumption. Is it that every man believes ev other to be an incurable partialist, and himse universalist? I talked yesterday with a pair philosophers; I endeavored to show my g men that I liked everything by turns and noth long; that I loved the centre, but doated on superficies; that I loved man, if men seen to me mice and rats; that I revered saints, woke up glad that the old pagan world stood ground and died hard; that I was glad of n of every gift and nobility, but would not live their arms. Could they but once understa that I loved to know that they existed, a heartily wished them God-speed, yet, out of poverty of life and thought, had no word or w come for them when they came to see me, a could well consent to their living in Oregon any claim I felt on them, - it would be a gr satisfaction.' IX NEW ENGLAND REFORMERS A LECTURE READ BEFORE THE SOCIETY IN AMORY HALL, ON SUNDAY, MARCH 3, 1844 In the suburb, in the town, NEW ENGLAND REFORMERS WE HOEVER has had opportunity of acquaintance with society in New England during the last twenty-five years, with those middle and with those leading sections that may constitute any just representation of the character and aim of the community, will have been struck with the great activity of thought and experimenting. His attention must be commanded by the signs that the Church, or religious party, is falling from the Church nominal, and is appearing in temperance and non-resistance societies; in movements of abolitionists and of socialists; and in very significant assemblies called Sabbath and Bible Conventions; ' composed of ultraists, of seekers, of all the soul of the soldiery of dissent, and meeting to call in question the authority of the Sabbath, of the priesthood, and of the Church. In these movements nothing was more remarkable than the discontent they begot in the movers. The spirit of protest and of detachment drove the members of these Conventions to bear testimony against the Church, and immediately afterwards to declare their discontent with these Conven I tions, their independence of their colleagues, a their impatience of the methods whereby th were working. They defied each other, lik congress of kings, each of whom had a realm rule, and a way of his own that made cond unprofitable. What a fertility of projects for salvation of the world! One apostle thought men should go to farming, and another that man should buy or sell, that the use of mon was the cardinal evil; another that the misch was in our diet, that we eat and drink damı tion. These made unleavened bread, and w foes to the death to fermentation. It was in va urged by the housewife that God made yea as well as dough, and loves fermentation just dearly as he loves vegetation; that fermentati develops the saccharine element in the grain, a makes it more palatable and more digestibl No; they wish the pure wheat, and will die b it shall not ferment. Stop, dear Nature, the incessant advances of thine; let us scotch the ever-rolling wheels! Others attacked the syste of agriculture, the use of animal manures in farr ing, and the tyranny of man over brute natur these abuses polluted his food. The ox mu horse from th be taken from the plough and the cart, the hundred acres of the farm must |