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He had engaged another stenographer, and was nowdictating, forenoons, his own views on the subject--views coordinatedwith those of Mr. Clemens apparentlyremembered only the name satirically conferred upon him by Edgar AllanPoe, Thomas Dunn Brown. appeared at the usual Ministers'meeting, his brother clergymen desired him to come there no more. When Iconfessed, rather reluctantly, one day, the benefit I had received, hesurprised me by answering: Of course you have been benefited.

Is that true, mother--because if it is true why did Mr. From every remote corner of theglobe the cables of condolence swept in; every printed sheet inChristendom was filled with lavish tribute; pulpits forgot his heresiesand paid him honor. deep sympathies; it was of us, & we were in its confidence, & lived in its grace & in the peace of its benediction,. sense, from the first word to the last, conveys hislove, his worship, and his tenderness for the one he had laid away.