#Wisconsin elder lawyer

[beardedmrbean]

A conservative Wisconsin newspaper publisher is no doubt hoisting a cold one to a local jury that has ordered a brewery-owning liberal activist to pay $750,000 in the state's largest defamation judgment.

The previous record for a libel suit in Wisconsin was $450,000, said James Friedman, the attorney for the Wisconsin Newspaper Association.

On Friday, an Oneida County jury took only three hours — including a lunch break — to order Minocqua Brewing Co. owner Kirk Bangstad to pay $750,000 for defaming Lakeland Times publisher Gregg Walker in posts on the brewery's popular social media outlets.

Among other things, the 13-member jury found Bangstad had smeared Walker by calling him a "crook" and a "misogynist."

Bangstad, who operates a federal super PAC, also was found to have defamed Walker by claiming in a Facebook post that he had engaged in elder abuse and committed other crimes against family members so that he could inherit the newspaper business.

Under the jury verdict, Bangstad and his brewery are to pay $320,000 in compensatory damages, and Bangstad is to pay $430,000 in punitive damages out of his own pocket for his Facebook post about crimes against family members. The jury concluded Bangstad acted with "malice" with that Aug. 22, 2022, post.

Bangstad, who ran unsuccessfully as a Democrat for the Wisconsin Assembly in 2020, declined to discuss the case. The Lakeland Times' editorial page is conservative.

"I'll talk to the Journal Sentinel, but I would prefer not to talk to you," Bangstad told columnist Daniel Bice of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, part of the USA TODAY Network. Bangstad's super PAC recently asked state Supreme Court's new liberal majority to eliminate funding for the state's four taxpayer-funded school voucher programs and independent charter schools.

Minocqua Brewing owner Bangstad vows to appeal verdict

On Facebook, he said he would appeal the jury verdicts.

"I have to trust that Wisconsin’s Judicial System — its appellate system in particular — will ultimately be 'just' in this case," Bangstad wrote. "I have to believe this because I still believe in America, Wisconsin, and our institutions."

"And years ago, before Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson, Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, and Fox News, our institutions, because they were strong and trusted by our citizens, were the envy of the world."

On Friday, he put it more bluntly, attacking Oneida County Circuit Judge Leon Stenz: "The long and the short of it is this Oneida County judge had it in for us."

Matthew Fernholz, the attorney for Walker, said he was pleased with the jury's conclusions.

"We feel like it was a solid jury verdict," Fernolz said. "It should be upheld."

Friedman, the Wisconsin Newspaper Association lawyer, said at least two cases have logged $450,000 awards, the previous record for the state, including a 1992 case against the Milwaukee Sentinel and a more recent one over a book claiming the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting never happened.

"I'm quite certain there's never been like a million-dollar verdict in Wisconsin in a defamation case," said Friedman, an attorney at Godfrey & Kahn. "So I think this is the biggest one now."

What's interesting about the case — in addition to the amount of the jury verdict — is the role of the newspaper in the case.

Usually, a paper is the target of a libel suit, not the one bringing it.

"I'm not recalling a newspaper or news outlets suing someone for defamation," said Kathleen Bartzen Culver, an associate journalism professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "Nothing is leaping to my mind."

Minocqua Brewing known for 'Progressive Beer' like 'Bernie Brew'

Bangstad has drawn attention for his outspoken political stances, hanging a giant "Biden/Harris" sign outside the brewery and battling with local government bodies.

He started selling "Progressive Beer" with names like "Bernie Brew" and "Fair Maps" in 2020, and he launched the Minocqua Brewing Co. SuperPAC in 2021.

The PAC has funded a lawsuit against the Waukesha School District for removing COVID precautions and another alleging three Wisconsin Republicans conspired to keep Democrat Joe Biden from becoming president.

Walker and Lakeland Printing Co. brought the defamation case against Bangstad and Minocqua Brewing in May 2021 after Walker became a frequent target of Bangstad on his popular social media outlets, where he often posts about Wisconsin politics.

Minocqua Brewing has 82,000 followers on Facebook. Bangstad soon started raising money off the litigation.

In its verdict, the jury found Bangstad and his brewery owed $40,000 for calling Walker a "crook," and $40,000 for calling him a "misogynist." The jury said Walker deserved $200,000 in compensatory damages for the post about his family and $430,000 in punitive damages.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Rick McKee, Augusta Chronicle

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

April 5, 2023

Heather Cox Richardson

In yesterday’s election in Wisconsin, the two candidates represented very different futures for the country. One candidate for the state supreme court, Daniel Kelly, had helped politicians to gerrymander the state to give Republicans an iron lock on the state assembly and was backed by antiabortion Republicans. The other, Janet Protasiewicz, promised to stand behind fair voting maps and the protection of reproductive rights. Wisconsin voters elected Protasiewicz by an overwhelming eleven points in a state where elections are usually decided by a point or so. Kelly reacted with an angry, bitter speech. “I wish that in a circumstance like this I would be able to concede to a worthy opponent,” he said. “But I do not have a worthy opponent to which I can concede.” Yesterday’s vote in Wisconsin reinforces the polling numbers that show how overwhelmingly popular abortion rights and fair voting are, and it seems likely to throw the Republican push to suppress voting into hyperdrive before the 2024 election. Since the 1980s, Republicans have pushed the idea of “ballot integrity” or, later, “voter fraud” to justify voter suppression. That cry began in 1986, when Republican operatives, realizing that voters opposed Reagan’s tax cuts, launched a “ballot integrity” initiative that they privately noted “could keep the black vote down considerably.” That effort to restrict the vote is now a central part of Republican policy. Together with Documented, an investigative watchdog and journalism project, The Guardian today published the story of the attempt by three leading right-wing election denial groups to restrict voting rights in Republican-dominated states by continuing the lie that voting fraud is rampant. The Guardian’s story, by Ed Pilkington and Jamie Corey, explores a two-day February meeting in Washington organized by the right-wing Heritage Foundation and attended by officials from 13 states, including the chief election officials of Indiana, Florida, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. At the meeting, participants learned about auditing election results, litigation, and funding to challenge election results. Many of the attendees and speakers are associated with election denial. Since the 2020 election, Republican-dominated states have passed “election reform” measures that restrict the vote; those efforts are ongoing. On Thursday alone, the Texas Senate advanced a number of new restrictions. In the wake of high turnout among Generation Z Americans, who were born after 1996 and are more racially and ethnically diverse than their elders, care deeply about reproductive and LGBTQ rights, and want the government to do more to address society’s ills, Republican legislatures are singling out the youth vote to hamstring. That determination to silence younger Americans is playing out today in Tennessee, where a school shooting on March 28 in Nashville killed six people, including three 9-year-olds. The shooting has prompted protesters to demand that the legislature honor the will of the people by addressing gun safety, but instead, Republicans in the legislature have moved to expel three Democratic lawmakers who approached the podium without being recognized to speak—a breach of House rules—and led protesters in chants calling for gun reform. As Republicans decried the breach by Representatives Gloria Johnson, Justin Jones, and Justin Pearson, protestors in the galleries called out, “Fascists!” Republican efforts to gain control did not end there. On Twitter today, Johnson noted that she had “just had a visit from the head of HR and the House ethics lawyer,” who told her “that if I am expelled, I will lose my health benefits,” but the ethics lawyer went on to explain “that in one case, a member who was potentially up for expulsion decided to resign because if you resign, you maintain your health benefits.” The echoes of Reconstruction in that conversation are deafening. In that era, when the positions of the parties were reversed, southern Democrats used similar “persuasion” to chase Republican legislators out of office. When that didn’t work, of course, they also threatened the physical safety of those who stood in the way of their absolute control of politics. On Saturday night, someone fired shots into the home of the man who founded and runs the Tennessee Holler, a progressive news site. Justin Kanew was covering the gun safety struggle in Tennessee. He wrote: “This violence has no place in a civilized society and we are thankful no one was physically hurt. The authorities have not completed their investigation and right now we do not know for sure the reason for this attack. We urge the Williamson County Sheriff’s office to continue to investigate this crime and help shed light on Saturday’s unfortunate events and bring the perpetrators of this crime to justice. In the meantime, our family remains focused on keeping our children healthy and safe.” The anger coming from losing candidate Kelly last night, and his warning that “this does not end well….[a]nd I wish Wisconsin the best of luck because I think it's going to need it,” sure sounded like those lawmakers in the Reconstruction years who were convinced that only people like them should govern. The goal of voter suppression, control of statehouses, and violence—then and now—is minority rule. Today’s Republican Party has fallen under the sway of MAGA Republicans who advocate Christian nationalism despite its general unpopularity; on April 3, Hungarian president Viktor Orbán, who has destroyed true democracy in favor of “Christian democracy” in his own country, cheered Trump on and told him to “keep on fighting.” Like Orbán, today's Republicans reject the principles that underpin democracy, including the ideas of equality before the law and separation of church and state, and instead want to impose Christian rule on the American majority. Their conviction that American “tradition” focuses on patriarchy rather than equality is a dramatic rewriting of our history, and it has led to recent attacks on LGBTQ Americans. In Kansas today, the legislature overrode Democratic governor Laura Kelly’s veto of a bill banning transgender athletes who were assigned male at birth from participating in women’s sports. Kansas is the twentieth state to enact such a policy, and when it goes into effect, it will affect just one youth in the state. Yesterday, Idaho governor Brad Little signed a law banning gender-affirming care for people under 18, and today Indiana governor Eric Holcomb did the same. Meanwhile, Republican-dominated states are so determined to ignore the majority they are also trying to make it harder for voters to challenge state laws through ballot initiatives. Alice MIranda Ollstein and Megan Messerly of Politico recently wrote about how, after voters in a number of states overrode abortion bans through ballot initiatives, legislatures in Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Missouri, North Dakota, Ohio, and Oklahoma are now debating ways to make it harder for voters to get measures on the ballot, sometimes even specifying that abortion-related measures are not eligible for ballot challenges. And yet, in the face of the open attempt of a minority to seize control, replacing our democracy with Christian nationalism, the majority is reasserting its power. In Michigan, after an independent redistricting commission redrew maps to end the same sort of gerrymandering that is currently in place in Wisconsin and Tennessee, Democrats in 2022 won a slim majority to control the state government. And today, Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer signed into law a bill revoking a 1931 law that criminalized abortion without exception for rape or incest.

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

[brookston]

Holidays 7.12

Holidays

Alkanet Day (French Republic)

Battle of the Boyne Day

Carver Day (Missouri)

Day of Struggle and Martyrdom of the Polish Villages

Different Colored Eyes Day

Disco Demolition Night (Chicago, Illinois)

Divad Etep’t (Elder Scrolls)

Etch-A-Sketch Day

Fjord Day

Founder’s Day (Rhodesia)

Hijab and Chastity (Iran)

International Cabin Crew Day

International Day of Combating Sand & Dust Storms

International Malala Day

Internet-Wide Day of Action for Net Neutrality

Lawyer’s Day (Mexico)

Malala Day

National Cancel Culture Awareness Day

National Hair Creator’s Day

National Keder Day

National Rodeo Day

National Tyler Day

New Conversations Day

Night of Nights

Orangeman’s Day (a.k.a. “The Twelfth;” Northern Ireland, Newfoundland and Labrador)

Rainmaker Day (Salem, Oregon)

Ratha Yathra (a.k.a. King; parts of India)

Relieve Stress By Walking Outside and Calling the Hogs Day

712 Day (Iowa)

Shonen Knife Day (Japan)

Simplicity Day

Tirana Festival (Chile)

Tube to Work Day (Boulder, Colorado)

USA Woman VP Day

Visitation Day

World Paper Bag Day

World Penis Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Eat Your Jell-O Day

International Cava Day

Michelada Day

National Pecan Pie Day

Pani Puri Day

Independence & Related Days

Granda Aŭtista Duklando de Sophia (Declared; 2016) [unrecognized]

Kiribati (from UK, 1979)

Pacificonia (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]

Pibocip (Declared; 2000) [unrecognized]

Sao Tome and Principe (from Portugal, 1975)

Unification Day (England; by Athelstan of England, 927 CE)

2nd Friday in July

Collector Car Appreciation Day [2nd Friday]

Flashback Friday [Every Friday]

French Fries Day [2nd Friday]

Fry Day (Pastafarian; Fritism) [Every Friday]

Kebab Day [2nd Friday]

National Motorcycle Day [2nd Friday]

Wayne Chicken Show begins [2nd Friday thru Sunday]

World Kebab Day [2nd Friday]

Worldwide Art Day [2nd Friday]

Weekly Holidays beginning July 12 (2nd Week of July)

Kilburn Feast (Yorkshire, England) [2nd Friday thru Sunday]

Sea Festival (Jūras Svētki Sākas; Latvia) [2nd Friday]

White Cloud’s Birthday & Tatanka (Bison) Festival (North Dakota) [2nd Friday thru Sunday]

Festivals Beginning July 12, 2024

Art of Wine Festival (Fayetteville, Arkansas)

Ballard SeafoodFest (Ballard, Washington) [thru 7.14]

Baltimore Washington One Carnival (Baltimore, Maryland & Washington, D.C.) [thru 7.14]

Bospop (Weert, Netherlands) [thru 7.14]

Boston JerkFest Rum & Brew Tasting (Boston, Massachusetts) [thru 7.13]

California State Fair (Sacramento, California) [thru 7.28]

Copper Country Strawberry Festival (Chassell, Michigan) [thru 7.13]

Corn & Clover Carnival (Hinckley, Minnesota) [thru 7.13]

Dine L.A. Restaurant Week (Los Angeles, California) [thru 7.26]

Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival (Edinburgh, Scotland) [thru 7.21]

Famous Food Festival (Deer Park, New York) [thru 7.14]

Farm Toy Show (Metropolis, Illinois) [thru 7.13]

Halal Ribfest (Chicago, Illinois) [thru 7.14]

Hanover Tomato Festival (Mechanicsville, Virginia) [thru 7.13]

Kaltenberg Knights’ Tournament [Kaltenberger Ritterturnier] (Geltendorf, Germany) [thru 7.28]

Loveland Loves BBQ, Bands & Brews (Loveland, Colorado) [thru 7.13]

McLoud Blackberry Festival (McLoud, Oklahoma) [thru 7.13]

New Jersey State Barbecue Championship (Anglesea, New Jersey) [thru 7.1]

North Carolina Blackberry Festival (Lenoir, North Carolina) [thru 7.13]

The Odessa International Film Festival (Kyiv, Ukraine) [thru 7.20]

Ohio Brew Week (Athens, Ohio) [thru 7.19]

Parke County 4-H Fair (Parke County, Indiana) [thru 7.19]

Pori Jazz (Pori, Finland) [thru 7.20]

Rib & Wing Festival (Seven Springs, Pennsylvania) [thru 7.14]

Square Roots Music, Craft Brew & Local Food Festival (Chicago, Illinois) [thru 7.14]

Trempealeau Lions Catfish Days (Trempealeau, Wisconsin) [thru 7.14]

Umbria Jazz Festival (Perugia, Italy) [thru 7.21]

The Wayne Chicken Show (Wayne, Nebraska) [thru 7.14]

Whiskies of the World (Dallas, Texas)

Wireless Festival (London, United Kingdom) [thru 7.14]

World’s Largest Wild Rice Festival (Deer River, Minnesota) [thru 7.14]

Feast Days

Alphaeus Philemon Cole (Artology)

Amedeo Modigliani (Artology)

Andrew Wyeth (Artology)

Carl Lundgren (Artology)

Day Sacred to Dikaiosune (Ancient Deity for Justice; Everyday Wicca)

Donald E. Westlake (Writerism)

St. Elizabeth of Hungary (Positivist; Saint)

Eugène Boudin (Artology)

Feast of Saints Peter and Paul (Eastern Orthodox)

Gaulbert (Christian; Saint) [Foresters, Parks, Park Rangers]

Germ (Muppetism)

Henry David Thoreau (Writerism)

Hermagoras and Fortunatus (Christian; Martyrs)

Jason of Thessalonica (Catholic Church)

John Gualbert (Christian; Saint)

John the Iberian (Christian; Saint)

Kronia (Kronos Festival; Ancient Greece)

Louis Martin and Marie-Azélie Guérin (Christian; Saint)

Max Jacob (Artology)

Millennial Fairy Olympics, Day 7 (Shamanism)

Mr. Screech (Muppetism)

Naadam, Day 2 (Mongolia)

Nabor and Felix (Christian; Martyrs)

Nathan Söderblom (Lutheran, Episcopal Church (USA))

The Old Dances (For Yama, Buddhist God of Death & the Underworld)

Pablo Neruda (Writerism)

Pam Grier Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Paisios of Mount Athos (Greek Orthodox)

Requiem in D Minor, by Gabriel Fauré (Mass; 1900)

Solstitium VIII (Pagan)

Surrealism Day (Pastafarian)

Take a Walk in the Woods Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Vardavar (Pagan Prank Festival; Armenia)

Veronica (Christian; Saint)

Viventiolus, Bishop of Lyon (Christian; Saint)

We Come to the River, by Has Werner Henze (Opera; 1976)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Luckiest Day of the Year (Everyday Wicca)

Lucky Day (Philippines) [39 of 71]

Prime Number Day: 193 [44 of 72]

Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]

Premieres

The Adventures of Sam Spade (Radio Series; 1946)

Alice Wins the Derby (Ub Iwerks Disney Cartoon; 1925)

Amateur Night (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1935)

Booby Socks (Phantasies Cartoon; 1945)

Breakfast of Champions, by Kurt Vonnegut (Novel; 1973)

The Bride Came C.O.D. (Film; 1941)

By the Sea (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1931)

California Girls, by The Beach Boys (Song; 1965)

A Dance of Dragons, by George R.R. Martin (Novel; 2011) [A Song of Fire and Ice #5]

A Distant Mirror, by Barbara W. Tuchman (History Book; 1978)

Everything That Rises Must Converge, by Flannery O'Connor (Short Stories; 1965)

Explorers (Film; 1985)

Family Feud (TV Game Show; 1976)

Fighton’ Pals (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1940)

The High Window, by Raymond Chandler (Novel; 1942)

The Hunter, by Richard Stark (Novel; 1962)

I’d Like to Buy the World a Coke, by The New Seekers (Radio Jingle; 1971)

Last Date, by Floyd Cramer (Song; 1960)

Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League — Gotham City Breakout (Animated Film; 2016)

Mad Max Beyond the Thunderdome (Film; 1985)

Monk (TV Series; 2002)

Northern Exposure (TV Series; 1990)

Oz (TV Series; 1997)

Pacific Rim (Film; 2013)

The Playful Pup (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1937)

Point Break (Film; 1991)

Princess Mononoke (Animated Studio Ghibli Film; 1997)

Road to Perdition (Film; 2002)

Rock-a-Bye Bear (Tex Avery MGM Cartoon; 1952)

Rupert the Runt (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1940)

Salt Water Tabby (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1947)

She (Film; 1935)

Silverado (Film; 1985)

The Sword of Shannara, by Terry Brooks (Novel; 1977)

Trouble for Trumpets, by Peter Cross and Peter Dallas-Smith (Children’s Book; 1984)

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (Film; 1961)

When Harry Met Sally (Film; 1989)

Today’s Name Days

Nabor, Felix (Austria)

Fortunat, Hilarije, Mislav, Proklo, Tanja, Živko (Croatia)

Bořek (Czech Republic)

Henrik (Denmark)

Armand, Härm, Härmel, Härmo, Herman, Hermann, Hermo (Estonia)

Herkko, Herman, Hermanni (Finland)

Jason, Olivier (France)

Siegbert, Henriette, Felix, Elenore (Germany)

Veronike, Veroniki (Greece)

Dalma, Izabella (Hungary)

Ermacora, Fortunato (Italy)

Heinrichs, Henriks, Indriķis, Ints (Latvia)

Izabelė, Margiris, Vyliaudė (Lithuania)

Eldar, Elias (Norway)

Andrzej, Euzebiusz, Feliks, Henryk, Jan Gwalbert, Paweł, Piotr, Tolimir, Weronika (Poland)

Nina (Slovakia)

Fortunato, Juan (Spain)

Herman, Hermine (Sweden)

Hilary, Ilary, Larry, Veronica (Ukraine)

Bud, Buddy, Jason, Jay, Jayla, Jaylen, Laylin, Laylon, Jayson, Oscar, Osvaldo, Oswald, Oswaldo, Ozzie, Waldo (USA)

Jace, Jacey, Jacy, Jaison, Jase, Jasen, Jason, Jayce, Jaycee, Jaycen, Jayson, Live, Olivier, Olivia, Oliver, Ollie, Olly (Universal)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 194 of 2024; 172 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 5 of Week 28 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Tinne (Holly) [Day 6 of 28]

Chinese: Month 6 (Xin-Wei), Day 7 (Ding-Chou)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 6 Tammuz 5784

Islamic: 5 Muharram 1446

J Cal: 14 Red; Sevenday [14 of 30]

Julian: 29 June 2024

Moon: 37%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 25 Charlemagne (7th Month) [St. Elizabeth of Hungary]

Runic Half Month: Ur (Primal Strength) [Day 4 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 23 of 94)

Week: 2nd Week of July

Zodiac: Cancer (Day 22 of 31)

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 7.12

Holidays

Alkanet Day (French Republic)

Battle of the Boyne Day

Carver Day (Missouri)

Day of Struggle and Martyrdom of the Polish Villages

Different Colored Eyes Day

Disco Demolition Night (Chicago, Illinois)

Divad Etep’t (Elder Scrolls)

Etch-A-Sketch Day

Fjord Day

Founder’s Day (Rhodesia)

Hijab and Chastity (Iran)

International Cabin Crew Day

International Day of Combating Sand & Dust Storms

International Malala Day

Internet-Wide Day of Action for Net Neutrality

Lawyer’s Day (Mexico)

Malala Day

National Cancel Culture Awareness Day

National Hair Creator’s Day

National Keder Day

National Rodeo Day

National Tyler Day

New Conversations Day

Night of Nights

Orangeman’s Day (a.k.a. “The Twelfth;” Northern Ireland, Newfoundland and Labrador)

Rainmaker Day (Salem, Oregon)

Ratha Yathra (a.k.a. King; parts of India)

Relieve Stress By Walking Outside and Calling the Hogs Day

712 Day (Iowa)

Shonen Knife Day (Japan)

Simplicity Day

Tirana Festival (Chile)

Tube to Work Day (Boulder, Colorado)

USA Woman VP Day

Visitation Day

World Paper Bag Day

World Penis Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Eat Your Jell-O Day

International Cava Day

Michelada Day

National Pecan Pie Day

Pani Puri Day

Independence & Related Days

Granda Aŭtista Duklando de Sophia (Declared; 2016) [unrecognized]

Kiribati (from UK, 1979)

Pacificonia (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]

Pibocip (Declared; 2000) [unrecognized]

Sao Tome and Principe (from Portugal, 1975)

Unification Day (England; by Athelstan of England, 927 CE)

2nd Friday in July

Collector Car Appreciation Day [2nd Friday]

Flashback Friday [Every Friday]

French Fries Day [2nd Friday]

Fry Day (Pastafarian; Fritism) [Every Friday]

Kebab Day [2nd Friday]

National Motorcycle Day [2nd Friday]

Wayne Chicken Show begins [2nd Friday thru Sunday]

World Kebab Day [2nd Friday]

Worldwide Art Day [2nd Friday]

Weekly Holidays beginning July 12 (2nd Week of July)

Kilburn Feast (Yorkshire, England) [2nd Friday thru Sunday]

Sea Festival (Jūras Svētki Sākas; Latvia) [2nd Friday]

White Cloud’s Birthday & Tatanka (Bison) Festival (North Dakota) [2nd Friday thru Sunday]

Festivals Beginning July 12, 2024

Art of Wine Festival (Fayetteville, Arkansas)

Ballard SeafoodFest (Ballard, Washington) [thru 7.14]

Baltimore Washington One Carnival (Baltimore, Maryland & Washington, D.C.) [thru 7.14]

Bospop (Weert, Netherlands) [thru 7.14]

Boston JerkFest Rum & Brew Tasting (Boston, Massachusetts) [thru 7.13]

California State Fair (Sacramento, California) [thru 7.28]

Copper Country Strawberry Festival (Chassell, Michigan) [thru 7.13]

Corn & Clover Carnival (Hinckley, Minnesota) [thru 7.13]

Dine L.A. Restaurant Week (Los Angeles, California) [thru 7.26]

Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival (Edinburgh, Scotland) [thru 7.21]

Famous Food Festival (Deer Park, New York) [thru 7.14]

Farm Toy Show (Metropolis, Illinois) [thru 7.13]

Halal Ribfest (Chicago, Illinois) [thru 7.14]

Hanover Tomato Festival (Mechanicsville, Virginia) [thru 7.13]

Kaltenberg Knights’ Tournament [Kaltenberger Ritterturnier] (Geltendorf, Germany) [thru 7.28]

Loveland Loves BBQ, Bands & Brews (Loveland, Colorado) [thru 7.13]

McLoud Blackberry Festival (McLoud, Oklahoma) [thru 7.13]

New Jersey State Barbecue Championship (Anglesea, New Jersey) [thru 7.1]

North Carolina Blackberry Festival (Lenoir, North Carolina) [thru 7.13]

The Odessa International Film Festival (Kyiv, Ukraine) [thru 7.20]

Ohio Brew Week (Athens, Ohio) [thru 7.19]

Parke County 4-H Fair (Parke County, Indiana) [thru 7.19]

Pori Jazz (Pori, Finland) [thru 7.20]

Rib & Wing Festival (Seven Springs, Pennsylvania) [thru 7.14]

Square Roots Music, Craft Brew & Local Food Festival (Chicago, Illinois) [thru 7.14]

Trempealeau Lions Catfish Days (Trempealeau, Wisconsin) [thru 7.14]

Umbria Jazz Festival (Perugia, Italy) [thru 7.21]

The Wayne Chicken Show (Wayne, Nebraska) [thru 7.14]

Whiskies of the World (Dallas, Texas)

Wireless Festival (London, United Kingdom) [thru 7.14]

World’s Largest Wild Rice Festival (Deer River, Minnesota) [thru 7.14]

Feast Days

Alphaeus Philemon Cole (Artology)

Amedeo Modigliani (Artology)

Andrew Wyeth (Artology)

Carl Lundgren (Artology)

Day Sacred to Dikaiosune (Ancient Deity for Justice; Everyday Wicca)

Donald E. Westlake (Writerism)

St. Elizabeth of Hungary (Positivist; Saint)

Eugène Boudin (Artology)

Feast of Saints Peter and Paul (Eastern Orthodox)

Gaulbert (Christian; Saint) [Foresters, Parks, Park Rangers]

Germ (Muppetism)

Henry David Thoreau (Writerism)

Hermagoras and Fortunatus (Christian; Martyrs)

Jason of Thessalonica (Catholic Church)

John Gualbert (Christian; Saint)

John the Iberian (Christian; Saint)

Kronia (Kronos Festival; Ancient Greece)

Louis Martin and Marie-Azélie Guérin (Christian; Saint)

Max Jacob (Artology)

Millennial Fairy Olympics, Day 7 (Shamanism)

Mr. Screech (Muppetism)

Naadam, Day 2 (Mongolia)

Nabor and Felix (Christian; Martyrs)

Nathan Söderblom (Lutheran, Episcopal Church (USA))

The Old Dances (For Yama, Buddhist God of Death & the Underworld)

Pablo Neruda (Writerism)

Pam Grier Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Paisios of Mount Athos (Greek Orthodox)

Requiem in D Minor, by Gabriel Fauré (Mass; 1900)

Solstitium VIII (Pagan)

Surrealism Day (Pastafarian)

Take a Walk in the Woods Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Vardavar (Pagan Prank Festival; Armenia)

Veronica (Christian; Saint)

Viventiolus, Bishop of Lyon (Christian; Saint)

We Come to the River, by Has Werner Henze (Opera; 1976)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Luckiest Day of the Year (Everyday Wicca)

Lucky Day (Philippines) [39 of 71]

Prime Number Day: 193 [44 of 72]

Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]

Premieres

The Adventures of Sam Spade (Radio Series; 1946)

Alice Wins the Derby (Ub Iwerks Disney Cartoon; 1925)

Amateur Night (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1935)

Booby Socks (Phantasies Cartoon; 1945)

Breakfast of Champions, by Kurt Vonnegut (Novel; 1973)

The Bride Came C.O.D. (Film; 1941)

By the Sea (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1931)

California Girls, by The Beach Boys (Song; 1965)

A Dance of Dragons, by George R.R. Martin (Novel; 2011) [A Song of Fire and Ice #5]

A Distant Mirror, by Barbara W. Tuchman (History Book; 1978)

Everything That Rises Must Converge, by Flannery O'Connor (Short Stories; 1965)

Explorers (Film; 1985)

Family Feud (TV Game Show; 1976)

Fighton’ Pals (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1940)

The High Window, by Raymond Chandler (Novel; 1942)

The Hunter, by Richard Stark (Novel; 1962)

I’d Like to Buy the World a Coke, by The New Seekers (Radio Jingle; 1971)

Last Date, by Floyd Cramer (Song; 1960)

Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League — Gotham City Breakout (Animated Film; 2016)

Mad Max Beyond the Thunderdome (Film; 1985)

Monk (TV Series; 2002)

Northern Exposure (TV Series; 1990)

Oz (TV Series; 1997)

Pacific Rim (Film; 2013)

The Playful Pup (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1937)

Point Break (Film; 1991)

Princess Mononoke (Animated Studio Ghibli Film; 1997)

Road to Perdition (Film; 2002)

Rock-a-Bye Bear (Tex Avery MGM Cartoon; 1952)

Rupert the Runt (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1940)

Salt Water Tabby (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1947)

She (Film; 1935)

Silverado (Film; 1985)

The Sword of Shannara, by Terry Brooks (Novel; 1977)

Trouble for Trumpets, by Peter Cross and Peter Dallas-Smith (Children’s Book; 1984)

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (Film; 1961)

When Harry Met Sally (Film; 1989)

Today’s Name Days

Nabor, Felix (Austria)

Fortunat, Hilarije, Mislav, Proklo, Tanja, Živko (Croatia)

Bořek (Czech Republic)

Henrik (Denmark)

Armand, Härm, Härmel, Härmo, Herman, Hermann, Hermo (Estonia)

Herkko, Herman, Hermanni (Finland)

Jason, Olivier (France)

Siegbert, Henriette, Felix, Elenore (Germany)

Veronike, Veroniki (Greece)

Dalma, Izabella (Hungary)

Ermacora, Fortunato (Italy)

Heinrichs, Henriks, Indriķis, Ints (Latvia)

Izabelė, Margiris, Vyliaudė (Lithuania)

Eldar, Elias (Norway)

Andrzej, Euzebiusz, Feliks, Henryk, Jan Gwalbert, Paweł, Piotr, Tolimir, Weronika (Poland)

Nina (Slovakia)

Fortunato, Juan (Spain)

Herman, Hermine (Sweden)

Hilary, Ilary, Larry, Veronica (Ukraine)

Bud, Buddy, Jason, Jay, Jayla, Jaylen, Laylin, Laylon, Jayson, Oscar, Osvaldo, Oswald, Oswaldo, Ozzie, Waldo (USA)

Jace, Jacey, Jacy, Jaison, Jase, Jasen, Jason, Jayce, Jaycee, Jaycen, Jayson, Live, Olivier, Olivia, Oliver, Ollie, Olly (Universal)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 194 of 2024; 172 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 5 of Week 28 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Tinne (Holly) [Day 6 of 28]

Chinese: Month 6 (Xin-Wei), Day 7 (Ding-Chou)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 6 Tammuz 5784

Islamic: 5 Muharram 1446

J Cal: 14 Red; Sevenday [14 of 30]

Julian: 29 June 2024

Moon: 37%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 25 Charlemagne (7th Month) [St. Elizabeth of Hungary]

Runic Half Month: Ur (Primal Strength) [Day 4 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 23 of 94)

Week: 2nd Week of July

Zodiac: Cancer (Day 22 of 31)

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Wisconsin Financial Planners-Sanctioned by Certified Financial Planning Board-September 2021 Update

Wisconsin Financial Planners-Sanctioned by Certified Financial Planning Board-September 2021 Update

Sanctioned Wisconsin Financial Planners The list below, taken from the CFP board disciplinary page of their website in September 2021, is a historical record of individuals from Wisconsin who have been disciplined by CFP Board and does not imply that any listed discipline is currently in force. To verify an individual’s current certification status visit the CFP website here. According…

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The courageous Dred Scott

Who Was Dred Scott?

Dred Scott was born into slavery sometime in 1795. He made history by launching a legal battle to gain his freedom. After his first owner died, Scott spent time in two free states working for several subsequent owners. Shortly after he married, he tried to buy freedom for himself and his family but failed, so he took his case to the Missouri courts, where he won only to have the decision overturned at the Supreme Court level, an event so controversial it was a harbinger for Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and inevitably of the Civil War. Scott died in 1858.

Early Life

Scott was born sometime around the turn of the century, often fixed at 1795, in Southampton County, Virginia. Legend has it that his name was Sam, but when his elder brother died, he adopted his name instead. His parents were slaves, but it is uncertain whether the Blow family owned them at his birth or thereafter. Peter Blow and his family relocated first to Huntsville, Alabama, and then to St. Louis Missouri. After Peter Blow's death, in the early 1830s, Scott was sold to a U.S. Army doctor, John Emerson.

In 1836, Scott fell in love with a slave of another army doctor, 19-year-old Harriett Robinson, and her ownership was transferred over to Dr. Emerson when they were wed.

In the ensuing years, Dr. Emerson traveled to Illinois and the Wisconsin Territories, both of which prohibited slavery. When Emerson died in 1846, Scott tried to buy freedom for himself and his family from Emerson's widow, but she refused.

'Dred Scott v. Sandford' Significance

Scott made history by launching a legal battle to gain his freedom. That he had lived with Dr. Emerson in free territories become the basis for his case.

The process began in 1846: Scott lost in his initial suit in a local St. Louis district court, but he won in a second trial, only to have that decision overturned by the Missouri State Supreme Court. With support from local abolitionists, Scott filed another suit in federal court in 1854, against John Sanford, the widow Emerson's brother and executor of his estate. When that case was decided in favor of Sanford, Scott turned to the U.S. Supreme Court.

In December 1856, Abraham Lincoln delivered a speech, foreshadowing the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, examining the constitutional implications of the Dred Scott Case.

Roger B. Taney

On March 6, 1857, the Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford was issued, 11 long years after the initial suits. Seven of the nine judges agreed with the outcome delivered by Chief Justice Roger Taney, who announced that slaves were not citizens of the United States and therefore had no rights to sue in Federal courts: "... They had no rights which the white man was bound to respect."

The decision also declared that the Missouri Compromise (which had allowed Scott to sample freedom in Illinois and Wisconsin) was unconstitutional and that Congress did not have the authority to prohibit slavery.

The Dred Scott decision sparked outrage in the northern states and glee in the South — the growing schism made Civil War inevitable.

Too controversial to retain the Scotts as slaves after the trial, Mrs. Emerson remarried and returned Dred Scott and his family to the Blows who granted them their freedom in May 1857. That same month, Frederick Douglass delivered a speech discussing the Dred Scott decision on the anniversary of the American Abolition Society.

Eventually, the 13th and 14th amendments to the Constitution overrode this Supreme Court ruling.

Death and Legacy

Scott and his family stayed in St. Louis after his emancipation, and he found work as a porter in a local hotel. But after only a little more than a year of true freedom, Scott died from tuberculosis on September 17, 1858.

Scott is buried in the Calvary Cemetery in St. Louis (Harriet survived him by 18 years and is buried in Hillsdale, Missouri). Putting pennies (displaying the face of President Lincoln) on Scott's headstone has become a local tradition over the decades. The commemorative marker next to the headstone reads: "In Memory Of A Simple Man Who Wanted To Be Free."

In 1997, Scott and his wife Harriet were admitted to the St. Louis Walk of Fame. (source)

Imagine having people put coins with a racist Man on your headstone after you died trying to get free as a Black Man.

“Lincoln the politician did not recognize blacks as his social or political equals and, during his years as a lawyer and office seeker living in Illinois, his opinion on this did not change.” (source)

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Nazareth have just declared themselves Protestants

MY VERY DEAR BROTHER IN TIIE LORD, — Your two letters of Nov. 20 and Dec. 19 have both safely reached this, nearly at the same time, and have, indeed, as you say. made my heart glad, not only on account of the remittances, which I see you understand are very welcome for the carrying on of divers works in this country, but, I assure you, it is always a source of joy to hear of you, and especially to receive your kind letters. The Lord bless you abundantly for your kindness. I should be very glad, before you proceed, as you intend, to America, to see you and your dear wife in Jerusalem, and I think you would find some change for the better in the disposition of the people of this country since you left it. But whether you come or not, I pray that God may bless you abundantly on your visit to America.

Since I saw you at Beyrout in 1827, I have never been so long in one country as I have now been in Jerusalem, now above four years. Many sweet and many bitter blessings have we received at the hand of the Lord in our wandering life, and all is intended for our good.

You will hear with much pleasure that thirteen families, with sixty-one souls, at Nazareth have just declared themselves Protestants, several of whom, I hope, are under the influence of the Spirit of grace. Here among the Jews we see just fruits enough to keep up our courage, but certainly 1 do not yet perceive any important change among the Jews at large. Oh that the Spirit of life might be breathed upon these dry bones!

Please remember us kindly to your dear wife.

Ever faithfully yours,

S. ANGL. IIIEROSOL.

He left Constantinople May 3,1831, and reached Boston just in time to go to the dying bed of his life-long friend and fellow- laborer, Rev. Daniel Temple, and to preach his funeral sermon at Reading, Mass. The sermon, which was published in pamphlet, besides being a striking comment upon the text, “ There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God,” was a warm-hearted tribute to the exalted character of one whose conversation had long been in heaven.

Soon after reaching this country, he made his way to his native town, which he had left nearly forty years before, and had seen only in vacations while a student. lie arrived at Templeton late on a Saturday evening. The next day, on going into the pulpit and looking round upon the congregation, he could not recognize a single countenance, not even among the hoary heads. The church itself, an orthodox society, had been organized and built up since he had left the place. His first call was at the burying-ground, of which he said, “ I thought I should find there more whom I knew than anywhere else.” But even the graves of many of his friends were obliterated. He wrote at the time, “ The changes everywhere are very great, ‘ one generation passeth away, and another generation cometh.’ All the former elders of the land, the deacons, the selectmen, the school committeemen, the town-clerks, the lawyers, the representatives, — all, all are gone!

‘ The world passed away and the lust thereof, but he that doeth the will of God abided for ever.’ Oh how blessed are all those who are connected with that which is eternal! ”

lie visited the home of his childhood in a distant part of the town, where he had left his aged father when he went at the call of God, as did Abraham, into a far distant country. But that too was gone. The site only remained. Near by he found living an aged aunt totally blind, of whom he wrote: “ She said that sometimes when she lies awake in the night the whole room seems as bright as day, and she thinks she sees every thing, but when she puts out her hand and waves it, she finds she ‘ can see nothing but the love of God.’ Blessed eyes that can see that! ”

As extensively as possible he visited his relatives, especially his brothers and sisters, who were scattered over the country tour packages bulgaria, from Massachusetts to Wisconsin, and many were the sacred and joyful, and sometimes amusing, scenes that occurred as he made himself known to them in his own humorous way. In every case they failed at first to recognize the family likeness in the aged man who called at their doors and asked in the name of a disciple for a shelter, or a cup of cold water. He had kept the fire of love for his kindred burning bright on the hearthstone of his heart, during the many years that had separated him from all to whom he was bound by natural ties, and as he joined them in their family circles, and bowed with them at their family altars, he felt as if he had not been absent a day. The account which he gave of a visit to a brother in the far West, when they laughed and wept by turns, but all for joy, is too domestic to be here transcribed, although strikingly expressive of his genial, loving character.

District of Columbia

The two years that he spent in this country were devoted almost exclusively to hard work in the same blessed cause for which he had gone forth to the Eastern world so long before. lie was constantly going from place to place, from one part of the country to another, preaching and advocating the cause of missions, on the Sabbath, during the week, and on all occasions. During these two years, lacking five days, he travelled about twenty-one thousand miles, visited eighteen States of the Union, and the District of Columbia; he occupied two hundred and thirty-five different pulpits, preaching or addressing more than four hundred congregations, speaking on an average about an hour each time, and addressing, in addition, the students of colleges and theological seminaries, Sabbath schools, select schools, Ac., all over the country. As he was leaving for the scene of his labors in the East he wrote: “ Instead of being worn down by this service, I feel all the fresher and the better for it. AVhat thanks are due to Him‘who giveth power unto the faint,* and what thanks shall we render to Him for all that cordiality, that truly Christian hospitality, with which lie inspired the ten thousands of Ilis dear people to receive us.”

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Nazareth have just declared themselves Protestants

MY VERY DEAR BROTHER IN TIIE LORD, — Your two letters of Nov. 20 and Dec. 19 have both safely reached this, nearly at the same time, and have, indeed, as you say. made my heart glad, not only on account of the remittances, which I see you understand are very welcome for the carrying on of divers works in this country, but, I assure you, it is always a source of joy to hear of you, and especially to receive your kind letters. The Lord bless you abundantly for your kindness. I should be very glad, before you proceed, as you intend, to America, to see you and your dear wife in Jerusalem, and I think you would find some change for the better in the disposition of the people of this country since you left it. But whether you come or not, I pray that God may bless you abundantly on your visit to America.

Since I saw you at Beyrout in 1827, I have never been so long in one country as I have now been in Jerusalem, now above four years. Many sweet and many bitter blessings have we received at the hand of the Lord in our wandering life, and all is intended for our good.

You will hear with much pleasure that thirteen families, with sixty-one souls, at Nazareth have just declared themselves Protestants, several of whom, I hope, are under the influence of the Spirit of grace. Here among the Jews we see just fruits enough to keep up our courage, but certainly 1 do not yet perceive any important change among the Jews at large. Oh that the Spirit of life might be breathed upon these dry bones!

Please remember us kindly to your dear wife.

Ever faithfully yours,

S. ANGL. IIIEROSOL.

He left Constantinople May 3,1831, and reached Boston just in time to go to the dying bed of his life-long friend and fellow- laborer, Rev. Daniel Temple, and to preach his funeral sermon at Reading, Mass. The sermon, which was published in pamphlet, besides being a striking comment upon the text, “ There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God,” was a warm-hearted tribute to the exalted character of one whose conversation had long been in heaven.

Soon after reaching this country, he made his way to his native town, which he had left nearly forty years before, and had seen only in vacations while a student. lie arrived at Templeton late on a Saturday evening. The next day, on going into the pulpit and looking round upon the congregation, he could not recognize a single countenance, not even among the hoary heads. The church itself, an orthodox society, had been organized and built up since he had left the place. His first call was at the burying-ground, of which he said, “ I thought I should find there more whom I knew than anywhere else.” But even the graves of many of his friends were obliterated. He wrote at the time, “ The changes everywhere are very great, ‘ one generation passeth away, and another generation cometh.’ All the former elders of the land, the deacons, the selectmen, the school committeemen, the town-clerks, the lawyers, the representatives, — all, all are gone!

‘ The world passed away and the lust thereof, but he that doeth the will of God abided for ever.’ Oh how blessed are all those who are connected with that which is eternal! ”

lie visited the home of his childhood in a distant part of the town, where he had left his aged father when he went at the call of God, as did Abraham, into a far distant country. But that too was gone. The site only remained. Near by he found living an aged aunt totally blind, of whom he wrote: “ She said that sometimes when she lies awake in the night the whole room seems as bright as day, and she thinks she sees every thing, but when she puts out her hand and waves it, she finds she ‘ can see nothing but the love of God.’ Blessed eyes that can see that! ”

As extensively as possible he visited his relatives, especially his brothers and sisters, who were scattered over the country tour packages bulgaria, from Massachusetts to Wisconsin, and many were the sacred and joyful, and sometimes amusing, scenes that occurred as he made himself known to them in his own humorous way. In every case they failed at first to recognize the family likeness in the aged man who called at their doors and asked in the name of a disciple for a shelter, or a cup of cold water. He had kept the fire of love for his kindred burning bright on the hearthstone of his heart, during the many years that had separated him from all to whom he was bound by natural ties, and as he joined them in their family circles, and bowed with them at their family altars, he felt as if he had not been absent a day. The account which he gave of a visit to a brother in the far West, when they laughed and wept by turns, but all for joy, is too domestic to be here transcribed, although strikingly expressive of his genial, loving character.

District of Columbia

The two years that he spent in this country were devoted almost exclusively to hard work in the same blessed cause for which he had gone forth to the Eastern world so long before. lie was constantly going from place to place, from one part of the country to another, preaching and advocating the cause of missions, on the Sabbath, during the week, and on all occasions. During these two years, lacking five days, he travelled about twenty-one thousand miles, visited eighteen States of the Union, and the District of Columbia; he occupied two hundred and thirty-five different pulpits, preaching or addressing more than four hundred congregations, speaking on an average about an hour each time, and addressing, in addition, the students of colleges and theological seminaries, Sabbath schools, select schools, Ac., all over the country. As he was leaving for the scene of his labors in the East he wrote: “ Instead of being worn down by this service, I feel all the fresher and the better for it. AVhat thanks are due to Him‘who giveth power unto the faint,* and what thanks shall we render to Him for all that cordiality, that truly Christian hospitality, with which lie inspired the ten thousands of Ilis dear people to receive us.”

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Nazareth have just declared themselves Protestants

MY VERY DEAR BROTHER IN TIIE LORD, — Your two letters of Nov. 20 and Dec. 19 have both safely reached this, nearly at the same time, and have, indeed, as you say. made my heart glad, not only on account of the remittances, which I see you understand are very welcome for the carrying on of divers works in this country, but, I assure you, it is always a source of joy to hear of you, and especially to receive your kind letters. The Lord bless you abundantly for your kindness. I should be very glad, before you proceed, as you intend, to America, to see you and your dear wife in Jerusalem, and I think you would find some change for the better in the disposition of the people of this country since you left it. But whether you come or not, I pray that God may bless you abundantly on your visit to America.

Since I saw you at Beyrout in 1827, I have never been so long in one country as I have now been in Jerusalem, now above four years. Many sweet and many bitter blessings have we received at the hand of the Lord in our wandering life, and all is intended for our good.

You will hear with much pleasure that thirteen families, with sixty-one souls, at Nazareth have just declared themselves Protestants, several of whom, I hope, are under the influence of the Spirit of grace. Here among the Jews we see just fruits enough to keep up our courage, but certainly 1 do not yet perceive any important change among the Jews at large. Oh that the Spirit of life might be breathed upon these dry bones!

Please remember us kindly to your dear wife.

Ever faithfully yours,

S. ANGL. IIIEROSOL.

He left Constantinople May 3,1831, and reached Boston just in time to go to the dying bed of his life-long friend and fellow- laborer, Rev. Daniel Temple, and to preach his funeral sermon at Reading, Mass. The sermon, which was published in pamphlet, besides being a striking comment upon the text, “ There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God,” was a warm-hearted tribute to the exalted character of one whose conversation had long been in heaven.

Soon after reaching this country, he made his way to his native town, which he had left nearly forty years before, and had seen only in vacations while a student. lie arrived at Templeton late on a Saturday evening. The next day, on going into the pulpit and looking round upon the congregation, he could not recognize a single countenance, not even among the hoary heads. The church itself, an orthodox society, had been organized and built up since he had left the place. His first call was at the burying-ground, of which he said, “ I thought I should find there more whom I knew than anywhere else.” But even the graves of many of his friends were obliterated. He wrote at the time, “ The changes everywhere are very great, ‘ one generation passeth away, and another generation cometh.’ All the former elders of the land, the deacons, the selectmen, the school committeemen, the town-clerks, the lawyers, the representatives, — all, all are gone!

‘ The world passed away and the lust thereof, but he that doeth the will of God abided for ever.’ Oh how blessed are all those who are connected with that which is eternal! ”

lie visited the home of his childhood in a distant part of the town, where he had left his aged father when he went at the call of God, as did Abraham, into a far distant country. But that too was gone. The site only remained. Near by he found living an aged aunt totally blind, of whom he wrote: “ She said that sometimes when she lies awake in the night the whole room seems as bright as day, and she thinks she sees every thing, but when she puts out her hand and waves it, she finds she ‘ can see nothing but the love of God.’ Blessed eyes that can see that! ”

As extensively as possible he visited his relatives, especially his brothers and sisters, who were scattered over the country tour packages bulgaria, from Massachusetts to Wisconsin, and many were the sacred and joyful, and sometimes amusing, scenes that occurred as he made himself known to them in his own humorous way. In every case they failed at first to recognize the family likeness in the aged man who called at their doors and asked in the name of a disciple for a shelter, or a cup of cold water. He had kept the fire of love for his kindred burning bright on the hearthstone of his heart, during the many years that had separated him from all to whom he was bound by natural ties, and as he joined them in their family circles, and bowed with them at their family altars, he felt as if he had not been absent a day. The account which he gave of a visit to a brother in the far West, when they laughed and wept by turns, but all for joy, is too domestic to be here transcribed, although strikingly expressive of his genial, loving character.

District of Columbia

The two years that he spent in this country were devoted almost exclusively to hard work in the same blessed cause for which he had gone forth to the Eastern world so long before. lie was constantly going from place to place, from one part of the country to another, preaching and advocating the cause of missions, on the Sabbath, during the week, and on all occasions. During these two years, lacking five days, he travelled about twenty-one thousand miles, visited eighteen States of the Union, and the District of Columbia; he occupied two hundred and thirty-five different pulpits, preaching or addressing more than four hundred congregations, speaking on an average about an hour each time, and addressing, in addition, the students of colleges and theological seminaries, Sabbath schools, select schools, Ac., all over the country. As he was leaving for the scene of his labors in the East he wrote: “ Instead of being worn down by this service, I feel all the fresher and the better for it. AVhat thanks are due to Him‘who giveth power unto the faint,* and what thanks shall we render to Him for all that cordiality, that truly Christian hospitality, with which lie inspired the ten thousands of Ilis dear people to receive us.”

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Nazareth have just declared themselves Protestants

MY VERY DEAR BROTHER IN TIIE LORD, — Your two letters of Nov. 20 and Dec. 19 have both safely reached this, nearly at the same time, and have, indeed, as you say. made my heart glad, not only on account of the remittances, which I see you understand are very welcome for the carrying on of divers works in this country, but, I assure you, it is always a source of joy to hear of you, and especially to receive your kind letters. The Lord bless you abundantly for your kindness. I should be very glad, before you proceed, as you intend, to America, to see you and your dear wife in Jerusalem, and I think you would find some change for the better in the disposition of the people of this country since you left it. But whether you come or not, I pray that God may bless you abundantly on your visit to America.

Since I saw you at Beyrout in 1827, I have never been so long in one country as I have now been in Jerusalem, now above four years. Many sweet and many bitter blessings have we received at the hand of the Lord in our wandering life, and all is intended for our good.

You will hear with much pleasure that thirteen families, with sixty-one souls, at Nazareth have just declared themselves Protestants, several of whom, I hope, are under the influence of the Spirit of grace. Here among the Jews we see just fruits enough to keep up our courage, but certainly 1 do not yet perceive any important change among the Jews at large. Oh that the Spirit of life might be breathed upon these dry bones!

Please remember us kindly to your dear wife.

Ever faithfully yours,

S. ANGL. IIIEROSOL.

He left Constantinople May 3,1831, and reached Boston just in time to go to the dying bed of his life-long friend and fellow- laborer, Rev. Daniel Temple, and to preach his funeral sermon at Reading, Mass. The sermon, which was published in pamphlet, besides being a striking comment upon the text, “ There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God,” was a warm-hearted tribute to the exalted character of one whose conversation had long been in heaven.

Soon after reaching this country, he made his way to his native town, which he had left nearly forty years before, and had seen only in vacations while a student. lie arrived at Templeton late on a Saturday evening. The next day, on going into the pulpit and looking round upon the congregation, he could not recognize a single countenance, not even among the hoary heads. The church itself, an orthodox society, had been organized and built up since he had left the place. His first call was at the burying-ground, of which he said, “ I thought I should find there more whom I knew than anywhere else.” But even the graves of many of his friends were obliterated. He wrote at the time, “ The changes everywhere are very great, ‘ one generation passeth away, and another generation cometh.’ All the former elders of the land, the deacons, the selectmen, the school committeemen, the town-clerks, the lawyers, the representatives, — all, all are gone!

‘ The world passed away and the lust thereof, but he that doeth the will of God abided for ever.’ Oh how blessed are all those who are connected with that which is eternal! ”

lie visited the home of his childhood in a distant part of the town, where he had left his aged father when he went at the call of God, as did Abraham, into a far distant country. But that too was gone. The site only remained. Near by he found living an aged aunt totally blind, of whom he wrote: “ She said that sometimes when she lies awake in the night the whole room seems as bright as day, and she thinks she sees every thing, but when she puts out her hand and waves it, she finds she ‘ can see nothing but the love of God.’ Blessed eyes that can see that! ”

As extensively as possible he visited his relatives, especially his brothers and sisters, who were scattered over the country tour packages bulgaria, from Massachusetts to Wisconsin, and many were the sacred and joyful, and sometimes amusing, scenes that occurred as he made himself known to them in his own humorous way. In every case they failed at first to recognize the family likeness in the aged man who called at their doors and asked in the name of a disciple for a shelter, or a cup of cold water. He had kept the fire of love for his kindred burning bright on the hearthstone of his heart, during the many years that had separated him from all to whom he was bound by natural ties, and as he joined them in their family circles, and bowed with them at their family altars, he felt as if he had not been absent a day. The account which he gave of a visit to a brother in the far West, when they laughed and wept by turns, but all for joy, is too domestic to be here transcribed, although strikingly expressive of his genial, loving character.

District of Columbia

The two years that he spent in this country were devoted almost exclusively to hard work in the same blessed cause for which he had gone forth to the Eastern world so long before. lie was constantly going from place to place, from one part of the country to another, preaching and advocating the cause of missions, on the Sabbath, during the week, and on all occasions. During these two years, lacking five days, he travelled about twenty-one thousand miles, visited eighteen States of the Union, and the District of Columbia; he occupied two hundred and thirty-five different pulpits, preaching or addressing more than four hundred congregations, speaking on an average about an hour each time, and addressing, in addition, the students of colleges and theological seminaries, Sabbath schools, select schools, Ac., all over the country. As he was leaving for the scene of his labors in the East he wrote: “ Instead of being worn down by this service, I feel all the fresher and the better for it. AVhat thanks are due to Him‘who giveth power unto the faint,* and what thanks shall we render to Him for all that cordiality, that truly Christian hospitality, with which lie inspired the ten thousands of Ilis dear people to receive us.”

[travelbalkan]

Nazareth have just declared themselves Protestants

MY VERY DEAR BROTHER IN TIIE LORD, — Your two letters of Nov. 20 and Dec. 19 have both safely reached this, nearly at the same time, and have, indeed, as you say. made my heart glad, not only on account of the remittances, which I see you understand are very welcome for the carrying on of divers works in this country, but, I assure you, it is always a source of joy to hear of you, and especially to receive your kind letters. The Lord bless you abundantly for your kindness. I should be very glad, before you proceed, as you intend, to America, to see you and your dear wife in Jerusalem, and I think you would find some change for the better in the disposition of the people of this country since you left it. But whether you come or not, I pray that God may bless you abundantly on your visit to America.

Since I saw you at Beyrout in 1827, I have never been so long in one country as I have now been in Jerusalem, now above four years. Many sweet and many bitter blessings have we received at the hand of the Lord in our wandering life, and all is intended for our good.

You will hear with much pleasure that thirteen families, with sixty-one souls, at Nazareth have just declared themselves Protestants, several of whom, I hope, are under the influence of the Spirit of grace. Here among the Jews we see just fruits enough to keep up our courage, but certainly 1 do not yet perceive any important change among the Jews at large. Oh that the Spirit of life might be breathed upon these dry bones!

Please remember us kindly to your dear wife.

Ever faithfully yours,

S. ANGL. IIIEROSOL.

He left Constantinople May 3,1831, and reached Boston just in time to go to the dying bed of his life-long friend and fellow- laborer, Rev. Daniel Temple, and to preach his funeral sermon at Reading, Mass. The sermon, which was published in pamphlet, besides being a striking comment upon the text, “ There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God,” was a warm-hearted tribute to the exalted character of one whose conversation had long been in heaven.

Soon after reaching this country, he made his way to his native town, which he had left nearly forty years before, and had seen only in vacations while a student. lie arrived at Templeton late on a Saturday evening. The next day, on going into the pulpit and looking round upon the congregation, he could not recognize a single countenance, not even among the hoary heads. The church itself, an orthodox society, had been organized and built up since he had left the place. His first call was at the burying-ground, of which he said, “ I thought I should find there more whom I knew than anywhere else.” But even the graves of many of his friends were obliterated. He wrote at the time, “ The changes everywhere are very great, ‘ one generation passeth away, and another generation cometh.’ All the former elders of the land, the deacons, the selectmen, the school committeemen, the town-clerks, the lawyers, the representatives, — all, all are gone!

‘ The world passed away and the lust thereof, but he that doeth the will of God abided for ever.’ Oh how blessed are all those who are connected with that which is eternal! ”

lie visited the home of his childhood in a distant part of the town, where he had left his aged father when he went at the call of God, as did Abraham, into a far distant country. But that too was gone. The site only remained. Near by he found living an aged aunt totally blind, of whom he wrote: “ She said that sometimes when she lies awake in the night the whole room seems as bright as day, and she thinks she sees every thing, but when she puts out her hand and waves it, she finds she ‘ can see nothing but the love of God.’ Blessed eyes that can see that! ”

As extensively as possible he visited his relatives, especially his brothers and sisters, who were scattered over the country tour packages bulgaria, from Massachusetts to Wisconsin, and many were the sacred and joyful, and sometimes amusing, scenes that occurred as he made himself known to them in his own humorous way. In every case they failed at first to recognize the family likeness in the aged man who called at their doors and asked in the name of a disciple for a shelter, or a cup of cold water. He had kept the fire of love for his kindred burning bright on the hearthstone of his heart, during the many years that had separated him from all to whom he was bound by natural ties, and as he joined them in their family circles, and bowed with them at their family altars, he felt as if he had not been absent a day. The account which he gave of a visit to a brother in the far West, when they laughed and wept by turns, but all for joy, is too domestic to be here transcribed, although strikingly expressive of his genial, loving character.

District of Columbia

The two years that he spent in this country were devoted almost exclusively to hard work in the same blessed cause for which he had gone forth to the Eastern world so long before. lie was constantly going from place to place, from one part of the country to another, preaching and advocating the cause of missions, on the Sabbath, during the week, and on all occasions. During these two years, lacking five days, he travelled about twenty-one thousand miles, visited eighteen States of the Union, and the District of Columbia; he occupied two hundred and thirty-five different pulpits, preaching or addressing more than four hundred congregations, speaking on an average about an hour each time, and addressing, in addition, the students of colleges and theological seminaries, Sabbath schools, select schools, Ac., all over the country. As he was leaving for the scene of his labors in the East he wrote: “ Instead of being worn down by this service, I feel all the fresher and the better for it. AVhat thanks are due to Him‘who giveth power unto the faint,* and what thanks shall we render to Him for all that cordiality, that truly Christian hospitality, with which lie inspired the ten thousands of Ilis dear people to receive us.”

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Nazareth have just declared themselves Protestants

MY VERY DEAR BROTHER IN TIIE LORD, — Your two letters of Nov. 20 and Dec. 19 have both safely reached this, nearly at the same time, and have, indeed, as you say. made my heart glad, not only on account of the remittances, which I see you understand are very welcome for the carrying on of divers works in this country, but, I assure you, it is always a source of joy to hear of you, and especially to receive your kind letters. The Lord bless you abundantly for your kindness. I should be very glad, before you proceed, as you intend, to America, to see you and your dear wife in Jerusalem, and I think you would find some change for the better in the disposition of the people of this country since you left it. But whether you come or not, I pray that God may bless you abundantly on your visit to America.

Since I saw you at Beyrout in 1827, I have never been so long in one country as I have now been in Jerusalem, now above four years. Many sweet and many bitter blessings have we received at the hand of the Lord in our wandering life, and all is intended for our good.

You will hear with much pleasure that thirteen families, with sixty-one souls, at Nazareth have just declared themselves Protestants, several of whom, I hope, are under the influence of the Spirit of grace. Here among the Jews we see just fruits enough to keep up our courage, but certainly 1 do not yet perceive any important change among the Jews at large. Oh that the Spirit of life might be breathed upon these dry bones!

Please remember us kindly to your dear wife.

Ever faithfully yours,

S. ANGL. IIIEROSOL.

He left Constantinople May 3,1831, and reached Boston just in time to go to the dying bed of his life-long friend and fellow- laborer, Rev. Daniel Temple, and to preach his funeral sermon at Reading, Mass. The sermon, which was published in pamphlet, besides being a striking comment upon the text, “ There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God,” was a warm-hearted tribute to the exalted character of one whose conversation had long been in heaven.

Soon after reaching this country, he made his way to his native town, which he had left nearly forty years before, and had seen only in vacations while a student. lie arrived at Templeton late on a Saturday evening. The next day, on going into the pulpit and looking round upon the congregation, he could not recognize a single countenance, not even among the hoary heads. The church itself, an orthodox society, had been organized and built up since he had left the place. His first call was at the burying-ground, of which he said, “ I thought I should find there more whom I knew than anywhere else.” But even the graves of many of his friends were obliterated. He wrote at the time, “ The changes everywhere are very great, ‘ one generation passeth away, and another generation cometh.’ All the former elders of the land, the deacons, the selectmen, the school committeemen, the town-clerks, the lawyers, the representatives, — all, all are gone!

‘ The world passed away and the lust thereof, but he that doeth the will of God abided for ever.’ Oh how blessed are all those who are connected with that which is eternal! ”

lie visited the home of his childhood in a distant part of the town, where he had left his aged father when he went at the call of God, as did Abraham, into a far distant country. But that too was gone. The site only remained. Near by he found living an aged aunt totally blind, of whom he wrote: “ She said that sometimes when she lies awake in the night the whole room seems as bright as day, and she thinks she sees every thing, but when she puts out her hand and waves it, she finds she ‘ can see nothing but the love of God.’ Blessed eyes that can see that! ”

As extensively as possible he visited his relatives, especially his brothers and sisters, who were scattered over the country tour packages bulgaria, from Massachusetts to Wisconsin, and many were the sacred and joyful, and sometimes amusing, scenes that occurred as he made himself known to them in his own humorous way. In every case they failed at first to recognize the family likeness in the aged man who called at their doors and asked in the name of a disciple for a shelter, or a cup of cold water. He had kept the fire of love for his kindred burning bright on the hearthstone of his heart, during the many years that had separated him from all to whom he was bound by natural ties, and as he joined them in their family circles, and bowed with them at their family altars, he felt as if he had not been absent a day. The account which he gave of a visit to a brother in the far West, when they laughed and wept by turns, but all for joy, is too domestic to be here transcribed, although strikingly expressive of his genial, loving character.

District of Columbia

The two years that he spent in this country were devoted almost exclusively to hard work in the same blessed cause for which he had gone forth to the Eastern world so long before. lie was constantly going from place to place, from one part of the country to another, preaching and advocating the cause of missions, on the Sabbath, during the week, and on all occasions. During these two years, lacking five days, he travelled about twenty-one thousand miles, visited eighteen States of the Union, and the District of Columbia; he occupied two hundred and thirty-five different pulpits, preaching or addressing more than four hundred congregations, speaking on an average about an hour each time, and addressing, in addition, the students of colleges and theological seminaries, Sabbath schools, select schools, Ac., all over the country. As he was leaving for the scene of his labors in the East he wrote: “ Instead of being worn down by this service, I feel all the fresher and the better for it. AVhat thanks are due to Him‘who giveth power unto the faint,* and what thanks shall we render to Him for all that cordiality, that truly Christian hospitality, with which lie inspired the ten thousands of Ilis dear people to receive us.”

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Nazareth have just declared themselves Protestants

MY VERY DEAR BROTHER IN TIIE LORD, — Your two letters of Nov. 20 and Dec. 19 have both safely reached this, nearly at the same time, and have, indeed, as you say. made my heart glad, not only on account of the remittances, which I see you understand are very welcome for the carrying on of divers works in this country, but, I assure you, it is always a source of joy to hear of you, and especially to receive your kind letters. The Lord bless you abundantly for your kindness. I should be very glad, before you proceed, as you intend, to America, to see you and your dear wife in Jerusalem, and I think you would find some change for the better in the disposition of the people of this country since you left it. But whether you come or not, I pray that God may bless you abundantly on your visit to America.

Since I saw you at Beyrout in 1827, I have never been so long in one country as I have now been in Jerusalem, now above four years. Many sweet and many bitter blessings have we received at the hand of the Lord in our wandering life, and all is intended for our good.

You will hear with much pleasure that thirteen families, with sixty-one souls, at Nazareth have just declared themselves Protestants, several of whom, I hope, are under the influence of the Spirit of grace. Here among the Jews we see just fruits enough to keep up our courage, but certainly 1 do not yet perceive any important change among the Jews at large. Oh that the Spirit of life might be breathed upon these dry bones!

Please remember us kindly to your dear wife.

Ever faithfully yours,

S. ANGL. IIIEROSOL.

He left Constantinople May 3,1831, and reached Boston just in time to go to the dying bed of his life-long friend and fellow- laborer, Rev. Daniel Temple, and to preach his funeral sermon at Reading, Mass. The sermon, which was published in pamphlet, besides being a striking comment upon the text, “ There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God,” was a warm-hearted tribute to the exalted character of one whose conversation had long been in heaven.

Soon after reaching this country, he made his way to his native town, which he had left nearly forty years before, and had seen only in vacations while a student. lie arrived at Templeton late on a Saturday evening. The next day, on going into the pulpit and looking round upon the congregation, he could not recognize a single countenance, not even among the hoary heads. The church itself, an orthodox society, had been organized and built up since he had left the place. His first call was at the burying-ground, of which he said, “ I thought I should find there more whom I knew than anywhere else.” But even the graves of many of his friends were obliterated. He wrote at the time, “ The changes everywhere are very great, ‘ one generation passeth away, and another generation cometh.’ All the former elders of the land, the deacons, the selectmen, the school committeemen, the town-clerks, the lawyers, the representatives, — all, all are gone!

‘ The world passed away and the lust thereof, but he that doeth the will of God abided for ever.’ Oh how blessed are all those who are connected with that which is eternal! ”

lie visited the home of his childhood in a distant part of the town, where he had left his aged father when he went at the call of God, as did Abraham, into a far distant country. But that too was gone. The site only remained. Near by he found living an aged aunt totally blind, of whom he wrote: “ She said that sometimes when she lies awake in the night the whole room seems as bright as day, and she thinks she sees every thing, but when she puts out her hand and waves it, she finds she ‘ can see nothing but the love of God.’ Blessed eyes that can see that! ”

As extensively as possible he visited his relatives, especially his brothers and sisters, who were scattered over the country tour packages bulgaria, from Massachusetts to Wisconsin, and many were the sacred and joyful, and sometimes amusing, scenes that occurred as he made himself known to them in his own humorous way. In every case they failed at first to recognize the family likeness in the aged man who called at their doors and asked in the name of a disciple for a shelter, or a cup of cold water. He had kept the fire of love for his kindred burning bright on the hearthstone of his heart, during the many years that had separated him from all to whom he was bound by natural ties, and as he joined them in their family circles, and bowed with them at their family altars, he felt as if he had not been absent a day. The account which he gave of a visit to a brother in the far West, when they laughed and wept by turns, but all for joy, is too domestic to be here transcribed, although strikingly expressive of his genial, loving character.

District of Columbia

The two years that he spent in this country were devoted almost exclusively to hard work in the same blessed cause for which he had gone forth to the Eastern world so long before. lie was constantly going from place to place, from one part of the country to another, preaching and advocating the cause of missions, on the Sabbath, during the week, and on all occasions. During these two years, lacking five days, he travelled about twenty-one thousand miles, visited eighteen States of the Union, and the District of Columbia; he occupied two hundred and thirty-five different pulpits, preaching or addressing more than four hundred congregations, speaking on an average about an hour each time, and addressing, in addition, the students of colleges and theological seminaries, Sabbath schools, select schools, Ac., all over the country. As he was leaving for the scene of his labors in the East he wrote: “ Instead of being worn down by this service, I feel all the fresher and the better for it. AVhat thanks are due to Him‘who giveth power unto the faint,* and what thanks shall we render to Him for all that cordiality, that truly Christian hospitality, with which lie inspired the ten thousands of Ilis dear people to receive us.”

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Nazareth have just declared themselves Protestants

MY VERY DEAR BROTHER IN TIIE LORD, — Your two letters of Nov. 20 and Dec. 19 have both safely reached this, nearly at the same time, and have, indeed, as you say. made my heart glad, not only on account of the remittances, which I see you understand are very welcome for the carrying on of divers works in this country, but, I assure you, it is always a source of joy to hear of you, and especially to receive your kind letters. The Lord bless you abundantly for your kindness. I should be very glad, before you proceed, as you intend, to America, to see you and your dear wife in Jerusalem, and I think you would find some change for the better in the disposition of the people of this country since you left it. But whether you come or not, I pray that God may bless you abundantly on your visit to America.

Since I saw you at Beyrout in 1827, I have never been so long in one country as I have now been in Jerusalem, now above four years. Many sweet and many bitter blessings have we received at the hand of the Lord in our wandering life, and all is intended for our good.

You will hear with much pleasure that thirteen families, with sixty-one souls, at Nazareth have just declared themselves Protestants, several of whom, I hope, are under the influence of the Spirit of grace. Here among the Jews we see just fruits enough to keep up our courage, but certainly 1 do not yet perceive any important change among the Jews at large. Oh that the Spirit of life might be breathed upon these dry bones!

Please remember us kindly to your dear wife.

Ever faithfully yours,

S. ANGL. IIIEROSOL.

He left Constantinople May 3,1831, and reached Boston just in time to go to the dying bed of his life-long friend and fellow- laborer, Rev. Daniel Temple, and to preach his funeral sermon at Reading, Mass. The sermon, which was published in pamphlet, besides being a striking comment upon the text, “ There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God,” was a warm-hearted tribute to the exalted character of one whose conversation had long been in heaven.

Soon after reaching this country, he made his way to his native town, which he had left nearly forty years before, and had seen only in vacations while a student. lie arrived at Templeton late on a Saturday evening. The next day, on going into the pulpit and looking round upon the congregation, he could not recognize a single countenance, not even among the hoary heads. The church itself, an orthodox society, had been organized and built up since he had left the place. His first call was at the burying-ground, of which he said, “ I thought I should find there more whom I knew than anywhere else.” But even the graves of many of his friends were obliterated. He wrote at the time, “ The changes everywhere are very great, ‘ one generation passeth away, and another generation cometh.’ All the former elders of the land, the deacons, the selectmen, the school committeemen, the town-clerks, the lawyers, the representatives, — all, all are gone!

‘ The world passed away and the lust thereof, but he that doeth the will of God abided for ever.’ Oh how blessed are all those who are connected with that which is eternal! ”

lie visited the home of his childhood in a distant part of the town, where he had left his aged father when he went at the call of God, as did Abraham, into a far distant country. But that too was gone. The site only remained. Near by he found living an aged aunt totally blind, of whom he wrote: “ She said that sometimes when she lies awake in the night the whole room seems as bright as day, and she thinks she sees every thing, but when she puts out her hand and waves it, she finds she ‘ can see nothing but the love of God.’ Blessed eyes that can see that! ”

As extensively as possible he visited his relatives, especially his brothers and sisters, who were scattered over the country tour packages bulgaria, from Massachusetts to Wisconsin, and many were the sacred and joyful, and sometimes amusing, scenes that occurred as he made himself known to them in his own humorous way. In every case they failed at first to recognize the family likeness in the aged man who called at their doors and asked in the name of a disciple for a shelter, or a cup of cold water. He had kept the fire of love for his kindred burning bright on the hearthstone of his heart, during the many years that had separated him from all to whom he was bound by natural ties, and as he joined them in their family circles, and bowed with them at their family altars, he felt as if he had not been absent a day. The account which he gave of a visit to a brother in the far West, when they laughed and wept by turns, but all for joy, is too domestic to be here transcribed, although strikingly expressive of his genial, loving character.

District of Columbia

The two years that he spent in this country were devoted almost exclusively to hard work in the same blessed cause for which he had gone forth to the Eastern world so long before. lie was constantly going from place to place, from one part of the country to another, preaching and advocating the cause of missions, on the Sabbath, during the week, and on all occasions. During these two years, lacking five days, he travelled about twenty-one thousand miles, visited eighteen States of the Union, and the District of Columbia; he occupied two hundred and thirty-five different pulpits, preaching or addressing more than four hundred congregations, speaking on an average about an hour each time, and addressing, in addition, the students of colleges and theological seminaries, Sabbath schools, select schools, Ac., all over the country. As he was leaving for the scene of his labors in the East he wrote: “ Instead of being worn down by this service, I feel all the fresher and the better for it. AVhat thanks are due to Him‘who giveth power unto the faint,* and what thanks shall we render to Him for all that cordiality, that truly Christian hospitality, with which lie inspired the ten thousands of Ilis dear people to receive us.”