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cupying the pulpit, as our friends from the far North were witness. Ah, friends of the Green Mountain and Bay State, you will, if yet in the flesh, remember with me that Sabbath so long ago in the South, when the negro slave walked up to the pulpit, opened the hymn-book, and announced the old sacred song: When I can read my title clear, To mansions in the skies. I remember how loudly my dear father tried to sing-though only a poor singer --just because Uncle Sol was going to preach; how Sol gave the verses out by couplets to be sung, as was the custom then in the country. All joined in singing that sacred song, and bowed the knee when Uncle Sol said, Let us pray. I am very sure I have never knelt with more humble devotion and reverence than on that Sabbath morning. Roads and bridges having been made passable after the storm, I said the Good-by to the friends I had found in the pleasant country village, and resumed my journey. It was a pleasing ride that balmy summer mo