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the fulfillment of their predictions. The not all far advanced in reform, for the very TERMS. testimony of many of their speakers was first act of true reformer or progressive is to The Pleasure Boat will be published sublime, joyful, glorious, and for a time get rid of war and politics, and a govern- Monthly at $1.25 for 26 numbers, or in the there was cause to hope for the speedy pass- ment of force, and all its emblems. same proportion for a shorter term. 5 copies ing of the old theological of There are two kingdoms or principles for $5.00. away heavens, thunders, lightnings, storms and tempests, which are directly opposite to each other, Letters and money must be addressed to that had so long scattered devastation over in spirit and in practice. One is the king- JEREMIAH HACKER, the mental world; and for the estab- dom or principle of love, and rules its sub- Berlin, lishment of anew order in which would jects by convincement and persuasion. It Camden Co. New Jersey. dwell harmony and love; but when the teaches us what is evil and what is good, late war came, it seemed as though nearly and why it is evil or good, and shows us REFORMER'S HALE. all were swept onward by its vile spirit like the effects of each, and overcomes evil by chaff before the wind. Only here and there good, and saves the erring. The other is When will Reformers, so called, begin to a steadfast soul could be found true to the kingdom of force, and labors to over- do as well as say—work as well as talk—pro- their profession, yet not very active, but come evil by evil, and destroys, crushes and gress as well as talk of progressing ? For mourning over the fall of others and their ruins. No man can belong to both these long weary years we have been looking for disappointed hopes, and feebly enquiring kingdoms at the same time. If he is a non- a company of active workers, who have left what could be done to bring the combatants resistant and a peace man, he cannot will- the ignorance, errors and sins of the world to their senses. ingly move a finger to aid the government behind them, and are laboring in truth and And now, in a time of comparative peace of force, he can neither vote for nor hold purity, to establish a true brotherhood, a in the outer world, where do we find the office under such a government, but must kingdom of harmony and love but thus majority of those who style themselves Re- leave it to those who are in and of the far we have looked in vain. We meet here formers ? Mixed with and stained and world—the animals in human form, who re- and there an individualof this class, but can spotted by the world. Not long since I bap- ject the teachings of wisdom, and destroy : : ~ : l r 1 ' rs'' i^ii;-i 1 to -i' a ™ h JL people who each other the iesf r • riaw two the thesametown wlionave Deeii iitmrT^nreCrtfieinseires 0 in and these things, and come into the kingdom of made free from selfishness and the errors of the age. The cloths were spread, tthe or bench, and leaving the world, the flesh and the the world, by the truth. We often meet food placed on a large table love, placed over devil with all their destructive selfishness with individuals and companies who call two little military flags were sure, to be and lusts outside. themselves Reformers, Progressives, Lead- the table. A little thing to be straws and feathers, Another thing that I noticed at the pic- ing Minds, or something else indicating noticed here, but even mighty tell-tales, nic of the progressives was the old worn-out that they have left the errors of the world small as they are, are or wind is. ceremony of the dead or dying past—the them, and are traveling over the showing which way the tide behind and see a wolf's asking for a blessing on the food, as though sunny plains of Progression; but on care- If I pass the den of a wolf, good reason to con- its nature could be changed through such a fully examining, we find they need reform- tail sticking out,: I have den. So when ceremony—a mere superstition. If we live ing, stripping, cleansing and purifying, be- clude there is a wolf in the of people, let their pro- aright, we shall receive all favors, temporal fore they can be ready to commence reform- I attend a gathering so high or holy, and see the and spiritual, with thankful hearts ; every ing others. When we first heard of the Odd- fession be ever rag raised, I have good breath will be prayer or thanksgiving, but Fellows, -we were in hopes, on seeing them, striped political war that the political war mere ceremonies of words or forms over to behold a company who had bid adieu to reason to conclude the heart, or this sign would not food are but ceremonies. the regions of selfishness—the kingdom of spirit is in Had those people been in the It is time for reformers to weigh all their animal passion, and entered the clime or be hung out. perfect peace and harmony acts, see with their own eyes, and not follow kingdom of true brotherhood—but soon unselfish spirit of enlightened, they would not have had blindly nor carelessly in the footsteps of learned that they belonged to the old truly hateful, disgusting war-flag on their others from mere habit. It is time for pro- world and old order of things, could wran- that They would have loathed the very gression in acts as well as in words—time gle about politics, belong to different par- table. and thought of it, and would have had for spiritualists to give up governments oontend against each other, vote under sight ties, flag, if any was necessary, or one which crush and ruin, and labor to government seeks to a white a of animal force, which or dove or some other emblem establish the government of love which saves evil with evil, and that their love with a lamb overcome It may be the thing was stuck reformers, exalts the erring. Will they do hypocrite's, was bounded by their of peace. like the from mere custom, without it, or will they cling to the sinking ship ? lines,—loved only their own class- upon the table party on the suhject, and if so, There will be a people, and that before that they were drawn and bound any consideration in short a want of thought and reflection many years, who will renounce all govern by selfish motives, and not by the it indicates together is inexcusable in people who profess ments of force, and labor to establish a of a true brotherhood. which bonds and tola to be the leading minds : for a true reform- righteous government of love, wherein, wis- When the spiritualists appeared estab- er or progressive weighs his every word dom, right, justice, not numbers, nor weight us that a telegraphic chain had been and has a wise reason for all of flesh and blood will rule, not in courts, discovered between this and the and act, lished or He does not follow blindly in any but in each heart. Th'e truth in each will world, that every home was to be a he does. soirit track, but weighs and fathoms all, be his law, his prophet, priest and king, and that purified beings from the surn- beaten station, and knows for himself, through his blessed will those be who are prepared for were to be our teachers, and that and sees merland peace own eyes and faculties. Those little striped this. A few are now, and may their number soon harmony and love and universal looked and hoped for rags told me distinctly that the people were increase. would reign, we again Since writing the above, we hear hess of savages and wild beasts, in which to true history of the wrongs on both sides, and that the Spiritualists at their late worship God in sincerity and truth—regard- then deal with them in the same spirit in annual convention, after a stormy ed by the Indians as superior beings sent by which Penn dealt with their fathers, and debate, established a secret order, the Great Spirit—takenby them into their there will be no more bloodshed. But pur- similar to Masonry. If so, then good wigwams, and fed and warmed into life— sue the present course and the doom, of the na- by to that class; we must plod on think of them turning like vipers and wild tion is sealed. Let this prophesy be pre- alone, if need be, and leave them in beasts upon their benefactors, and sweeping served for the instructionof the coming ages, the mire. Already is the world most them from the broad continent, the work go- for it is of God and not from man. We sorely cursed with secret societies, ing on age after age, with scarcely a voiee warned Abraham Lincoln, by private letter all bound to protect and screen their to oppose the destruction, and all the time and by paper, and in time; and had he heed- own members. Wo have not only steeple houses being multiplied on every ed that warning he might have escaped with the Masons, Odd Fellows, and other hand, in which hypocritical priests whine life; and now by the same spirit we warn similar secret societies, but every about a religion and a book, .one part of the nation, but have no idea that it will turn religious order is a secret society which teaches that all men are brothers, and from its insane policy in season to escape the with the hypocrites' the other part love, which em- that the strong may run riot impending doom; but our skirts will be braces only its own party. It is next with the rights, liberties and lives of the clear of the blood of souls, as they were in to impossible to get justice in a court weak, and lay waste and destroy, and still the late war. on accouni of these societies, as the be the accepted servants and consecrated members of all will favor each other. children of the Most High ! CAPTAIN'S OFFICE. If a man is poor and needy, one asks, And now in the middle of the Nineteenth "Is he a Mason?" No. "Is he a Century, amid all the high professions of CORRESPONDENCE. Methodist?" asks a second. No. Gospel light, of just and equal laws, our ar- he a Quaker?" Here is a letter from a valued friend, who "Is inquires a third, mies are still hunting the remnants of these has not only read the Boat fifteen and a and so 011 to the end of the long list spoiled and ruined people, for offences or half years, and the Chariot two years, as of societies; and if the man is not a petty strife, in which the whites have ever they were issued, but has also had an extra member oi either of them he is left, been the first transgressors! In Boston copy bound at the close of each volume, it may be, to be trundled off to the harbor, generations ago, white men in In- saying he had rather leave them to his chil- pauper house 011 a wheelbarrow. Oh dian costume to cast blame on the innocent dren than their cost in money. He is an in- for the spread of the open, bold, liv- Indians, and thus screen themselves, threw dustrious, worthy farmer, of exemplary ing truth, and universal brotherhood ! overboard the tea from the British vessels , life and conversation, a man of religious ex- that spirit which would unite each and that policy has been pursued down to perience, and his testimony is worth hav- and all to the whole human race, and the present time; and now, straggling white ing : make the world one. The Spiritual- vagabonds impede railroad trains, throwing Saco, August 3, 1867. whole from My ists, after saying so much about love trains the track for the plunder, Honored and Dear Friend :—I - andthen — er-« vm* lncfiaj^, mid* whs well toheap of" yout" _ . and harm on v. slimildJhft fiift yerv last welfare3 ~call for extermination, while the Govern- which occupies much of my mind. I wish to form partial, secret societies. for ment at Washington, as blind as an owl at your prosperity in all your plans. I feel that you are anxious to do all the good in RED MEN'S HALL. noonday, hears the cry, and sends out its armies to chastise your power here and now. It gave me re- the Indians for crimes newed life to see the beautiful Pleasure Hear, O Heaven s ! and give ear, 0 that vagabond white men have committed ! Boat enter my little haven again, in which Earth ! What sane man, with a thimblefull of hon- I have enjoyed great satisfaction. What can it be that sets This Nation, with a Religion that pro-- esty and a knowledge of these facts, can some people so much raise a sword or gun, or cast against the Pleasure Boat, except it is the fesses to be capable of blessing the whole a vote to save honest the life of such a Government ? truth it contains 1 I have not a world—capable of saving men from all sin, If I knew doubt, but you write by the Governmentand nine-tenths inspiration as much which professes to overcome evil with good, of all the as any one whose writings I have ever read. religion of the nation were going 1 do not to forgive enemies, and bless those that in- to eternal expect to find perfection in mortals, smash before setting of the there is some freight jure us—a religion that sends its missiona- the sun, and I in the Boat that could could save them by turning my hand have been left, but if it is not sound, read- ries to save the people of foreign lands—and over, I ers can would have that hand severed from my let it alone. I say to people, if all with a government that professes to be wise body lau piacticed the before I would do I would rejoice instruction given through and just—has gradually destroyed the vast it; at the you, from the great and knowing that good Spirit, we family of Red Men, except the scattered rem- crash, believing and something would not have suffered in the late most better would arise out of the chaos than dreadful nants of a few broken tribes ; and now has we war, which I shall lament while have known and should lite remains—the its armies out to hunt these, while many of in the past, be sure wickedest of all wicked- that under no event could matters be worse ness. The horrible war did not destroy its leaders are calling for complete extermi- any near relatives than they are now. of mine, but it destroyed nation ! Can history furnish a parallel case relatives and friends of others as near to of wickedness ? The old Jews destroyed This nation has suffered terribly as part them as mine are to me. Is there a cruelty ttiat can small nations, but where in any history un- puuishment, or rather has reaped pari of the exceed that of pressing a peaceful, harvest for its injustice to the African race; ovmg intellect into a state where he is der heaven have we an account of a people torced to stave and as sure as there is a God who takes cog- his brethren in pieces when once so numerous as the Red Men, being le 'eels as much nizance of deeds done here on earth, or as against hurting as being swept away by any class of people, either tiurt ? flow could the teachers of Christian or savage ? And this destruction sure as there is a law of compensation in Prists principles enlist for the lighting, ana a nation of whining, canting hypoci itos, the eternal destiny of things, a harvest must send the souln of their brothers to the by awiuI place of Sodom and Go- yet be reaped for our treatment of the Red to which they consign all that whose Bins exceed those do wickedly 1 morrah ! J ust think of it! A little compa- Men, who when our forefathers found them, were the race of men then on I have those Friends' books you so kindly ny of half-starved, half-clad people, landing noblest earth, sent accordancewith the me, for which 1 feel obliged. 1 have on Plymouth Rock, with sword in the right and living more in laws perused them other with much satisfaction, and hand and Bible in the left, and half that of God or wisdom than any nation.; should like to know what to do with them. Bible a record of wars blasphemously said Let our Government at once withdraw its 1 should like to purchase a history of the to have been ordered by God—a people pre armies from the Indian territory, and send persecutions and sufferings of the early not speculators and base Friends, such as my parents borrowed, and tending to be thekchildren and servants of commissioners, 1 read to treat with the Indians, as it when a boy. 1 would like to leave God, fleeing from persecutionfor righteous- scoundrels, the record with my children, as I have con- ness' sake, to find a free home in a wilder has done, but true and just men, to get a sidered thom to possess the most goo d of any society I have ever read of. I do not Voting is a principle that should be in- testimony of the Dunstan priest mentioned know of anything more offensive generally vestigated fairly, and understood. Many in friend Milliken's letter, whose mind was than the truth; I know of nothing more honest people place great confidence in the so poisoned with sectarian bigotry that he worshipped and idolized than money. ballot; they think we should go all to could see nothing but an "awful wicked I see no harbor for the Boat here except wreck if we neglected voting. They say man" in one who has spent the greater part my own. you would be martyred. of his life in efforts to make all better and I must inform you how the Boat fares Your well-wisher in all you undertake, happier, and is still toiling to the same end. with the Dunstan Priest. Being at a fune- Henry Milliken. 19, 186" ral, he asked me a question I could not an- Pennfield, July could not have swer without a question. It not being a Friend Hacker :—I am happy once more Brother Hacker:—You than you have in send- proper time, I avoided a direct reply, and to sit down and enclose money in exchange done a better thing bless you. wrote to hLn, asking more questions for him for the Boat, which has always been a wel- ing me the Boat. 1 thank and accord you all due praise, to answer as a public teacher. He answered come visitor to us, but which I had feared I honor you and shall get all the subscribers I can. But me from the Bibl*e in passages that were as had hauled up to sail no more. and I feel as if tell you some of my views familiar to me as to him. He must have we could hardly do without Friend Hacker's I would like to laboring for humanity, as it is heard that I read the Boat, for he said, " It counsels. Our frend Hoag told me he was in regard to termed. I feel that there is more said is sad that our minds should get poisoned by in hopes you would come this way and often than done, and there should be something bad teaching as reading. When I was a boy make us a visit. Oh, how pleased I should done soon, besides preaching, philosophiz- I sometimes accidentally saw a little paper be to see and talk with a man that dared to ing, conventions, and running to hear the called the Pleasure Boat, published by an stand up for Truth and Right such through gifted ones gab; and what progressive awful wicked man, at any rate I thought so scenes as we have passed, when all other mind can help seeing that co-operation in then, and think so now, which I have no public men, such as H. C. Wright, whose its forms is more likely to do doubt has done agreatamount of mischief." Autobiographyand other writingsI had just all various good than so much preaching. I think it is I have copied his words. I have challenged got together with others, sunk to the War time there was some one spot on earth con- him with all others, by writing to him, to spirit. Yes, how I would like the to grasp secrated to the principles and institutions find ene falsehood in the Boat, and have hand of Hacker, and bid you a God-speed. which the angel world is striving to inaugu- offered them my volumes to search. I have Be encouraged, friend Truth is Hacker, gurate; where men and women shall work not had an item from him since, although slowly but steadily advancing. It is nine with and ,for instead of against each other. I fourteen months have elapssd since I wrote. years since I first read the which first Boat, feel that I am anxious for the time to come when opened my eyes, when I first began to look « surely come people will feel an interest in reading and at things as they are, and I have seen great The wiser time hath tbis fine overplus of night, true principles of reform—of minds When practicing the advancement in the of people general- No longer sullen, slow or dumb, peace and good will to all mankind, as given ly, in regard to religion and truth, as 1 un- Shall leap to music and to light us in the Boat. derstand them. But you will weary of this, J" In this new childhood of the world Our friend Harris has offered liberally to so I will close. Enclosed are five dollars Life of itself shall dance and play, £jv blood through Time's ehruuk veins furnish the 33oat to tho poor. I do not eall four (Jopies of the Boat, aiict, by ihe way, Fresh as objects of charity who have I will add one dollar for your photograph. be hurled, any poor And labor meet delight half way." reason, common sense, and health to labor; Schoharie Co., N. V. W. A. B. it the duty of capitalists to em- Brother, if the true plan of co-opera- but I think Tou shall have the old volumes of the workers, and pay them a living tion is not soon shown to the world, ploy poor Boat you sent for before when I return "to for all wealth comes by labor. There 1 shall have to expose my ignorance in price, Maine—have none here. I sent some to a widow who is too infirm to labor, hav- putting it in black and white, so that the is you last winter, and they may be at your ing been left a human wreck by rheumatic wayfaring man can understand; but some- post-office now. fever. Her limbs and fingers are twisted thing tells me that the time is not far dis- when men will understand and organ- out of shape, and her only child attends her Jerusalem, July 29, 1867. tant re- ize rapidly. day and night, except when a neighbor Friend :—We received the Boat, lacker Yours, in favor of a perfect brotherhood, lieves her occasionally to go out for a little and are very glad to hear from you. have spent in sickness .En- T. B. while. They what closed we send five dollars for two copies, saved in health, and I think would they had the balance of the money for the support of and co-operation to have the paper, which might be Remarks.—Brotherhood like the Boat. When I first saw your paper at not one in with mine, and I expect it would be are doubtless the true doctrine, but sent [a tho house of my friend, I was young and in- who call them- to our friend Harris to supply her a thousand, even of those pleasure experienced ; and as I had been thrown reformers, is prepared to come with it. selves upon the world an orphan child, with no together in one family and unselfishly labor « " has superior ideas of Woman's Delia one to guide or protect me, the paper was for the good of all. Very few of them are man's too. Rights, and If mankind would and has been a great benefit and blessing to more than half hatched out of the errors and find stop, reflect, consider, the true principle me, which I have always felt the strong- world. Some have a shell of one within to sins of the of government their own souls, be est attachment. 1 have read every copy of of politics clinging to them; some a to rule kiud determined themselves right, set it from its commencement, except now and shel of another kind; some a shell of one examples for all others to pure follow the then a number that did not reaoh me. 1 kind of religion, and some of another kind, given reasonable consciousness to all for a feel anxious to have it published so long as which will tend to cause jars and diseords. through this life, there would guide be no you are blessed with health and strength to The most that I anticipate in my brief day other government. need of any Does not all do it, and am anxious to do all I can to sus- is, a friendly, quiet, pleasant neighborhood. we enjoy consist in the the happiness pure tain it. People must learn to live together as neigh- life ? The way to feel right is realities of Please receive our best wishes for your bors first, before they are prepared to be- to do right. prosperity and happiness in your new home. come one family. Yet, if you have found If we could see ourselves as others see us, Yours in tho bonds of Friendship and Love, any prepared, go on with the good work How strong the sense would strive to free us. Martin Henshaw. while I labor to stop people from fighting There is sincere comfort in taking pure Not long since, I saw several persons labor- of freight from the Boat; I often go on board Remarks.—The above, from the poor or- ing to form a happy community—a home some which is as good as ever— phan boy with none to guide him, and who harmony—but, on questioning them, learned and take a from the best of producers, whom I felt the need of a friend, and knew how to I that they believed in politics, in voting, in comeB in war, and love, if I never see them personally. appreciate one, will more than ofiset the I government of force, and even Q justified and glorified the crazy John Brown know you still live. We hail it with joy. dren, and also to myself. The children for his insane attack on Virginia. Not Our good old friend the Boat is floating were so eager to read it thoy could hardly much harmony ttiere. again ! It looks better Jo me than " applos wait for each other. Please send it regu- of gold." I will try to get some more sub- larly. Yours, John Prosser. Saccarappa, Me., July 8, 1867. scribers soon. It is a dark place here, but Friend thank God— Hacker:—We received the first Maine, July 28, 1867. number of the Boat, and were very much " Day is breaking, men are waking, Dear Friend:—I enclose one dollar pleased the way,"— and a to see it in sailing order once more, Clear quarter for your valuable paper, which and I sincerely hope it will continue so until and we hope soon to say," can never do without, as long as it is pub- priestcraft is knocked in the shade. But " is calling, creeds are filling, lished. Y ours, we will Truth trust that as long as the Boat is By decay." Nancy Trull. afloat there will be a few that will cling to Truth, the rigging. We were Yours for the surprised to receive Louisa C. Hall. The foregoing are only a few of many,, the Boat, and more so to know you were perhaps two hundred, similar testimonies away out in New Jersey. I hope that every Mich., Aug. 5, 1867. received sinee the July number of the Boat subscriber will try and get one Iowa Co., more name 1 of the Boat has was issued. Give us a thousand more such at least to add to the list. I for one will Brother Hacker.:—No. come ha,nd. caused me to rejoice that friends, and yon shall have the Boat twice a see what I can do. I, this time, bring you to It are again field as an advocate of month; and this would very soon be done if one new name, and next time must try to do you in the Truth. I will do all I can to obtain sub- all our readers were as zealous in obtaining better. Enclosed are three dollars seventy- in Truth. subscribers as the old benighted sects are in. five cents for the three names. scribers, for I feel an interest the give each of my obtaining funds to send the Gunspel to the' Yours for the truth, Had I the means, I ^rould children a but I am poor, have to heathens, or to build gaudy temples in J. Hacker Small. volume, buy all we eat or wear, and everything has which to show off their Sunday clothes and been very high. I often peruse the Chariot, ornaments. There are thousands scattered, Aug. 5, 1867. one here and another there, who would joy- Friend Hacker :—I and value it more than gold. When I feel am much rejoiced to fully subscribe for the Boat if they could find the Pleasure Boat has started again— discouraged or lonely, I read it; it inspires me with hope, and causes me to rejoice in see a copy of it. Let its subscribers, each have received the first number, and shall en- and all, make it a point duty to seek out deavor to promote its circulation. its truths. Yours in the bonds of love, of The such persons and show them a copy. All time is come when it should make a D. Wiers, M. D. success- that is wanted to increase our list to thou- ful cruise.. Priestcraft and warcraft are be- 1867. sands is a little extra exertion on the part coming unpopular, and the public mind is Lislon Falls, Aug., of our readers. Very many complain of revolutionizing towards the peaceful Friend Hacker:—It was with much joy and living solitary, isolated lives, with no con- moral precepts contained in the Boat, and I that I greeted your Boat as it landed in our an absence the genial spirits near them—no neighbors that humbly pray there may be no power suffi- harbor, after so long in midst of so much down on believe as thoy do. Let. such circulate the cient to stop its progress again, and that it darkness settled the sea of life, which has hove up its waves Boat, and obtain subscribers, and they will may have free progress, run down all the of war and blood amidst the dark political soon have company. One person that com- Wafcrafts on the ocean, priestcraft every- threatening swallow and en- plained thus two years ago has now the where, and the rascally, tyrannical, brutal tempest to up gulf that has come in its wake. company of several of the same belief, Government at Washington, by which we everything But thanks be to God and all good spirits gained by circulating the paper. You can- are made to toil and sweat for the support which has pleased to use to uphold not expect to reap unless you sow, and now of lazy drones who are a burden to them- he been the Boat, and preserve not only the natural, is the seed-time. Sow the Boat now, while selves and a heavier tax to the laboring but also the moral and spiritual life of the you have it, and be in earnest, and then yow classes — government paupers with their master and I a expect a harvest of friends. millions of treasures. This nation, at the crew; and, trust, goodly may present time, appears to be a nation of bond- number of its passengers as usual. And holders and bond-slaves,with a government well may thoy like to sail with you, as you in Jackson Co., Mo., Aug. 28,1867.. instituted to protect the one and subjugate say you always intend to sail the ways of the wisdom, for her ways are pleasant, and all Friend Hacker—Please send me other to incessant toil for their support as I am in idleness and vice. For the purpose of her paths are peace, and none of them lead a number of your paper, after subjugating the toilers, and making them of war. How long, oh how long, will it the truth. Yours, T. I. G., slaves, the priests and politicianshave in- be before people learn this one truth! Attorney at Law. stituted a large standing army, who are How often has this one truth been preached "Rbmaeks.—An attorney at law riding down, with whip and spur, all oppo- by all ministers, and how few have prac- truth ! Is the Millennium ticed it! Surely, there is but here and after the sition to their authority, and flashing their really coming, or what is on the dock- flaming swords and bayonets in our faces to there a traveler; for notwishstanding they all preach that we must walk in the foot- ets An attorney after the truth! intimidate us into submission. Such tyrants But what can an attorney do with are not to be tolerated in a Christian nor steps of the Prince of Peace, yet most of them walk right straight into the very first the truth, unless he is willing to give civilized era, and I trust thou wilt meet them up his trade ? He can't serve two op- in the Boat with the weapons of the Gospel. path that leads to war. The most cowardly of them are what they call chaplains, posite masters at the same time. For the enclosed, I wish for five copies of We have always found the lawyers this volume for gratuitous distribution and the remainder into office or into the ranks. By their practice they teach a far better class of men than the. among the benighted, to enlighten them in more humane the ways of truth and righteousness. The their dupes to fight, after tBey have been clergy—more liberal, battle truth and is preaching peace. But let us not be dis- and have many good friends and sub- between error raging, and the members of the tyranny is hard to conquer. Trust in God, couraged ; Truth is mighty, and will event- scribers among keep thy courage up; ually prevail. Yours, bar. There is the real Hon. E. find Cowing. Farewell. Solomon Ward. W. K. Fox, of Portland, now one of the best Judges in the United States Court. Massachusetts, Aug., 1867. Norton Hill, Aug., 1867. He has the soul of a true man under r Pear Brother,—'For so I must call you,— Friend Hacker :—I received your paper, his vest. Years ago, when we were a Wend of mine seven miles from here, re- and you may well believe it was a very taking boys from the county jail ceived the Boat, and sent it to me, to Jet me welcome messenger to my wife and chil- j and procuring good temporary homes 4 \ 1

for them, and laboring, might and knothole—give the jury or main, to convince Judge the There are good people here, and the lawmakers that masonic or some other sign to influ- land is equal if not superior to any they could do better with juvenile ence, knowing all the time is; offenders than to that you in this part of Jersey, and there lock them up in are laboring to transfer an honest enough of it for sale to supply hun- prison to be corrupted by old offend- man s goose to the platter of a rogue, dreds of good families, and a few ers, and thus induced the city and and yourself to have the two thirds or years more will see a good neighbor- State to provide that splendid three fourths of it for your farm and palace-like twisting. hood here. It is the highest land building, where Now, if you have the truth in your between and New York hundreds of neglected Philadelphia erring boys heart, how in the name of all good- or Atlantic City, ne;ir two hundred have been transformed into industri- ness can you be an attorney ? Is the feet higher than either of those cities, ous, worthy young men, Friend F., millennium coming? Are you wil- and healthy, and the climate good. then an attorney at law, always went, ling to give when we up your trade for the I would advise all who are seeking a requested it, to the jailor's truth? or do you think the truth of the home in Jersey to visit this place be- office,to reduce their bonds and other- Boat will be as pliable and accommo- fore purchasing elsewhere. Then, wise aid, and never charged a far- dating as the creeds of thing for his the churches, seven miles from here is the Blue services. And when making a saint of you on the Sab- Anchor tract of four thousand we have had occasion to acres, consult him bath and in the steeple house, and owned by progressive people. Some or other lawyers in our labors for hu- permitting you to be a devil six days fifteen or already manity, they always aided twenty families are us without of the week in the court room? The there, and invite other reformers to money or price, and proved them- truths of selves and the Boat are not made of join them. They have donated 300 humane generous. But indiarubber, to suit indiarubber con- acres for an in the court room lawyers Industrial College, where have a sciences, but are stern, stubborn real- both sexes will have equal advantages hard trade, and what can they do ities, to guide and rule there with the every day, in in education, and in all sorts of labor truth ? A man may every place and every action. in field and be a Judge, and cut garden, if they choose, straight through Please let me hear from you again. and equal remuneration for the same the middle of the goose, if his con- I send you copies of the Boat, hop- work rendered, whether by male or science tells him the line runs there; ing the contents may inspire you with fern; have a free but if he is le workers. Tliey a lawyer, he must if pos- a love for truth, and a determination meeting every Sunday, where each sible get the whole goose for his cli- to secure it and bind it to your heart can be heard. Some of the women ent, .whether it belongs to him or not. as a priceless treasure. wear the reform dress, and none sneer Suppose A. comes to you and says, at them. So if you don't like Ber- " B. has got my goose, and I want Letter from Dr. H P. Simmons. lin you oan pitch your tent at Blue you to commence an action against or the fruit Elysian Gkove, 111., Anchor, among gardens him and restore the goose to me." July 20, '"67 of Hammonton, if you like there; You engage to do it if possible ; but My Dear Bro. Hacker—I must but be into and sure, if you come this way when the case conies court, express, or rather I cannot express, hunting for a home, to'stop at Berlin all the evidence is drawn out on both my gladness on the receipt yesterday and " gain information of the place sides, you discover that yonr client of the resuscitated Pleasure Boat" from trusty has people. is a rogue—that he no right to (July number), and hope the captain, Will those who have land or farms the goose. Now, if you have the passengers and crew, may have many for sale in Berlin, or the township of truth in yuur heart and obey it, you pleasant voyages on the placid sea Waterford, give me a. description of must leave your client in the lurch, of human progression. their land, and their lowest price and without an effort to aid him in his Herewith please accept the small best terms? People are inquiring rascality; and if you do this your amount enclosed, as the first instal- for farms and wild land. trade is gone, you cease to be a law- ment on the following proposition, yer ; for no one will employ yon, for viz.: In consideration of his philan- August fear you will serve him the same. thropy and pre eminent agency in Boston, 15, 1867. But your trade requires you to pushing on the car of human pro- Brother Hacker—The long looked stick to your client and do your best gression, the undersigned will be for papers have arrived, and we wTill have one of one hundred who will donate endeavor to distribute them where for him, though you discovered the will that he is a rogne; so you cast aside to J. Hacker five dollars, or one of recipients be likely to sub- Quaker did his fifty ten dollars, or one of twenty-five scribe. We want to see the paj:>er the truth as the coat, sustain and it and saying,Lay there, Quaker or Truth, twenty dollars; this sum ($500) to itself, ought to, be appropriated by our worthy Bro. pay you something besides; but the while I whip devil Chase and then people generally prefer groping for the twisting, squirming, turning, Hacker as his own good judgment and philanthropy may direct. along in darkness and ignorance, to and screwing, that follow ! You must walking in the sunny paths of light whitewash falsehood and make it ap- Yours in the bonds of true broth- P. Simmons. and truth. The everlasting desire pear like truth, and blackwash truth erhood, It. for and glitter, especially in the a pomp and make it appear like lie; you Ridgefield P. O., 111. populous cities, predominates, and must dress your client A. in robes of the masses are governed by fashion white and make him appear like a "Bro. Hacker-—Your minister at in both Church and State. Folly is sainf, while you clothe the honest B. the desideratum, and plain, simple, in sable and make him appear like Berlin need not have any fears that those broad acres will be settled by practical truths are ignored by those an imp of evil. You must blow legal who consider themselves the cream snuff, pepper and ginger, into the Eastern scoffers; for none but mis- sionaries will be likely to settle where of society. So what can be done eyes of the Judge; and while he is with all this superstition and false clearing out his peepers, you must the people can tolerate such an igno- ramus and bigot in the pulpit." state of society. "We will aid you palaver, frighten, bribe, or confuse all we can, if it is any use to try to and obfuscate—call the jury, and So says an Eastern friend; but he lift people out of the mire in which drag a big wolf through some legal need not be hasty in his judgment. they are now wallowing. The Boat is a favorite with some, and there mischievous habits been checked in to ask in vain, at his door, for a supply of are many who will pay more than his younger days, and had he been their wants. He was a man of few words, :$1 25 for the sake of having it; yet trained to some honest branch of on the subject of religion, but few men sectarianism will doubtless do much manual labor, the world might have think more than he did; and he passed to injure you and your efforts. been the better for his being in it; quietly away, after much bodily suffering, I will be one of 25 to give $20 but he is as much out of his place in as an infant falleth asleep, without fear, •each to have the paper go on, and a pulpit, as a toad would be mixed feeling no necessityfor calling for a clergy- you may announce it in the Boat. up with, and hopping about among man to fit him for the life to come. " Come, I wish it was so I could come down the wheels of a clock. ye blessed of my Bather," " for I was a among you and work for the common stranger, and ye took me in; hungry, and good of all mankind, but the time is " Jeremiah Hacker and his Boat.— je fed me," &c. " Inasmuch as ye did it to not yet. Once more that old and faithful captain, J. the least of these my brethren, ye did it un- Hoping Hacker, has started his Pleasure Boat, which to me." you are well and buoyant, so long sailed from Portland,Me., and which, with hope for the future prospects of after the war disturbed its voyages, turned the Boat, I am your friend, into a Chariot, and run after wisdom and FAKMERS' HAL1L. J. W. IIabkis. love till the great fire "burned it out of mat- erials. Now the editor, publisher, printer HINTS to farmers. An esteemed friend, at the close and proprietor, all of which are J. Hacker, Farmers and gardeners often destroy their ot a the captain, have moved to Berlin, Camden best friend or permit their boys to do so. valuable letter, queries thus :— Co., N. J., and with new materials the pa- The speckled little wood or bark picker that "Does thee not feel some qualms of per again appears, as sharp as ever, and it picks rows of little holes in the bark of apple conscience in never was dull. It looks like now and some oilier trees, does so to get the eggs giving such a heavy living that insects have deposited there, and until fire or war again disturb it. It is a thus dose of sarcasm to thy neigbor, S. H. benefit the tree. I know this to be a fact, Johnson, when most faithful worker, and terribly radical on but men and boys ignorantly believe likely it is the such every- they first of the kind that he ever had ad- some subjects, but a paper as injure the tree, and so kill their friends. body ought to read, and we hope the old Where a country is new, and barns open ministered to him % What, if so large subscribers, and new ones, will sustain Bro. enough for swallows to pass in and out and a dose administered to him when Hacker to his heart's content. Copies can build nests, they skim over grass and grain least expected should kill him or be had at our office (544 Broadway). Give fields all summer, feeding on insects, take all wound him so badly us your hand, Bro. Hacker, and fight for the their food on the wing, and thus protect that he will not Bight till the day-star of immortality shines grass, grain, fruit, and other crops from the be able to feed his flock on such food on your brow, for fight we know you will, depredations of insects. But when the coun- any onger, and the sin of it be laid though denying all weapons, repudiating try increases in wealth, barns are made so on the e ? Can thee all wars, and abhorring all contentions, but very close the swallows have no place for bear it ? Let nests, are driven off, and the farmers com- me hear from thee s"on. From thy using love as a two edged sword, and cut- ting right and left." plain because their grass, grain, fruit, &c., are friend, Wilmington, Delaware, destroyed by insects. Nighthawks and whip- T. G." So says Bro. Chase in the Banner poorwills live on insects, but some boys are of Light; but we must be allowed a allowed to destroy them. finger in his pie. The captain is not Bats live on insects, and if they had suita- Reply.—Ifeel very much as I ima ble places to breed, would be great friends to gine a faithful surgeon does, when a practical printer, and lias long re- farmers. gretted that he did not learn that A pair of robbins will destroy thousands oi tinder the necessity of probing a worms deep, dangerous, and long- glorious art in youth—has not time in a season, but in some places are offensive, to do killed, because, after their supply of worms neglected wound for a patient whom so now—but would advise all fails, they eat fruit; Better plant more fruit he loves and pities, with but a small young men who intend ever to be and give them a share than deprive yourself editors to first make themselves first- of their services among the worms. They earn ciance of saving life—a wound so of- more fruit than they destroy. They may be " rate fensive that it was spreading noi- printers, and then set up their kept from eating fruit by making small some exhalations, sickness, and bad own matter, instead of writing it for boxes for wrens and placing them in the fruit trees. Wrens keep other birds out odors on the surrounding moral air," others to set. of the You do not fruit trees near their nests. and must be probed to the hottom, or exactly understand Moles are among the farmer's best friends. the probing would make it still more us, Brother Chase. We do not, and They live mostly on worms, grubs, &c., and offensive ; and if he dies the fault never did deny all weapons, nor re- never eat vegetables. Thirty-five years ago pudiate all but believe I saw it stated in an English paper that a will not be mine, but must be charg- wars, in fight- certain farm in England had become so in- ed to those here before me who per- ing errors, ignorance, bigotry, super- fested with worms that grass, grain, and all stition, and hosts of other evils and sorts of vegetation was ruined by them, and mitted the wound to remain unprob- with the the farm was considered nearly worthless, ed until it had spread its poison not sins, weapons of truth, and and was sold at auction. A man who had only through the whole system of the thus save the man, body and soul, common sense, and knew how tp use it, patient, but had by its poisonous ex- alive for better uses than feeding bought it very cheap, and advertise^ for live worms. Yes, fight we will against moles, which the boys caught and sold him halations infected nearly the whole by the dozen. He turned tliem loose on his flock. wrong, as long as there is a shot of worthless farm, and in a few years it was If it leaves him so debilitated that truth or a sword of the spirit left in free from worms, and one of the most profit- the locker. able farms in the country. Since then I have he can not administer such food to watched the habits of moles closely, and all his flock any more it will the harm I have ever known them to do is prove a II. Godsend to the flock, and, if there is Died in Brunswick, Me., Aug. 28,Daniel sometimes to deface a lawn by the little hills any sin in their being deprived of Hacker, aged seventy-two years. Though they make on commencing a tunnel. I have this Brother never saw good enough in any inquired of many whether they were certain such food, 1 feel not only able they but church to though he never that moles do harm, and one man thinks willing to have it laid on me ; for I draw him into it; sometimes cut off strawberry roots. If so, saw the clergy, as a class, practice righte- they probably more than pay the damage by think it would be much better for me ousness suffer than for a whole flock to enough to cause him to venerate destroying worms. to be them more than he A year or two since a writer inquired of did honest laborers; Club how moles fed on si ch tra h as he administers. though he never the New York Farmers' The grand mistake is in ever at- made a public profession of could be killed, without giving any reason religion, few men, I think, have lived a bet- why they should be destroyed. T lie club re- reach, and a dreadful tor, tempting to J ter life, and I have no doubt that he has plied, without saying a word or against responsibility rests on the Bishop made a happy the mole. Since then a writer to the same change in passing from the of eating potatoes who consented for such a man to oc- seen to the unseen club accuses the mole and world. I never knew the other roots. This is a false accusation, and cupy the pulpit. Had his loafing weary, the hungry, the aged, or the infirm the writer admitted that he was not sure that 6 the accusation was a just one. I am sure it here again soon, and stop with us a while. is not just. had the same SPIRITUALISTS'HALL. I once thought I I must close for the train will go soon. crime to charge to the mole, but discovered Good the mistake before I had killed any. There bye. Irene E. W. Retrospection. is an animal of the mouse family that often 'Twas but a dream : burrows in the ground where moles do. I Remarks.—It would make some of the lit- And yet the blush upon thy cheek, have known them to eat large potatoes and tle readers of the Boat, and some of the large Thine eyes' quick flash, so bright, yet meek, beets out hollow, leaving only a thin shell >nes too, stare, to be at Hammonton station The gentle whisper, soft, yet clear, with'a hole in it. I caught a mole, but was in strawberry time and see twelve hundred That filled my longing, eager ear, not Are seen, and felt, and as willing to condemn him to death with- bushels of strawberries put on. board heard, well out a fair trial, so I began to examine liis the cars As tlio' my waking did not tell structure, and the beet shell which I sup- in a day sometimes there are more than that. 'Twas all a dream ! posed he had hollowed out, and I found his Washington nose and teeth were not formed right for Co., N. Y., Aug. 11, 1867. Still art thou here ! such work. So I acquitted him, and finally Dear Friend Ilacker—When the Boat arri- Vho' bitter fates chain down the soul, found the guilty chap, a chunky, dirty- ved you can't think how glad, we all were to And disappointment hides the goal; Tho' farther off the temple brown colored mouse, with rough and rather see it. Father said a present of $50 would seems long fur, short tail, looking more like the That haunted boyhood's wilder dreams— tail of a rat than a common mouse, and very not have pleased him so much, and mother Ambition yet retains her sway, small black eyes, and burrowed in the ground. said she would be willing to wear her old And in my heart hope smiles like May, I had three thousand cabbage plants, and not bonnet five years for the sake of subscribing For thou art here ! one was injured by the cut marks, because if that would be necessary, and sister Jane the moles ate the 'worms, and wherever the Oh ! Holy Love ! moles were plentiest, the ground was mel- said she would go without waterfalls seven Amid the cold world's heartless din, lowest and more productive. A man that I years if she could not have the Boat without, The joy and pain, the grief and sin, employed killed a mole one day, and when I so I guess you will have us all a board. Thy smiles break in like sunny gleams ap- That haunt the went to the field he showed it to me, and I ran all over the Boat in a hurry to find convict's prison dreams ; peared as much pleased as some men would Opening a world unknown before, at the capture of a wolf; he really thought Abba Ellen and the two Adas that used to AVhere grief and care shall harm no more' - he had done me a service, but X soon con- write for the Chariot, but not one of them Oh 1 Holy Love 1 vinced him that he had killed one of my best could I find and I sat down and cried. This Come hands. is not like the other Boat—no Cnildren's Cab- thou with me! Lizards are notable as destroyers of in- I miss the voice that used to cheer, sects. They are quite plenty here in Jersey, in in it. What does it mean, friend H. ? you The deeds affection held so dear; and are as harmless as toads, but the shyest love the children so well and they all love I miss the hands that clasped my own. things I ever saw. The toad takes insects by you so much, why is not their Cabin open and The love that marked thy every tone ; throwing out a long tongue, striking the in- The heart whose pulses like to mine full of them ? I never wrote much—never " sect as with a whip lash. The tongue is Beat ever mine,—foreverthine"— covered with glutinous matter, and the in- wrote to you before in my life, but I loved Come thou with me. sect sticks to it and is drawn in. But not so you when you were here and took hold of with these little lizards. They spring at your hand, you know, and led you through Peace be with thee !| their prey or run it down. They run up and the orchard and showed you where all the Through every grief tliy heart may know,] In sorrow's pang, or pleasure's down a tree, head foremost, quicker than a apples were, and filled your glow ; often sat good pockets. Tho' foes surround, and friends'deceive, — squirrel, and when weary I have remember down and watched them, and have got sev- Don't you it ? And now I want Still may the voice of Love relieve— eral of them quite tame. They often come you to have a Cabin for the children or a play- Bringing, like dews to fading flowers, near my door and play and catch insects, and room or cubby house where we can meet and Pleasure and strength to weary hours, are as much company for me at times here have nice times. I never saw Abba Ellen Peace be with thee. C. Berlin, N. J., August, 1867. in my hermitage as Robinson Crusoe's pets nor the Adas, and never expect to, while I were to him. I saw a young man strike one I love them, and love to read with a stick, and nearly kill it, the first day live, but their I spent in Jersey. The poor little thing fell letters, and I want you to send the Boat af- Visions. up from the tree to the ground, held its ter them, and get them on board, and then By Jane M. Jackson. hands and looked so beseechingly that I we shall feel at home again, and you will, Various opinions have been held respect- never shall forget it, nor the pain it gave me friend H. ? to see one of God's little creatures so thought- won't you, ing the reality of the gift said to be bestowed Your friend, Nellie Johnson. lessly destroyed. All these little creatures upon certain individuals. That of seeing vi- were created for wise uses, and if we would study their habits more we would be the Michigan, Aug. 5, 1867. sions ; these debates have lasted since the wiser for it. Uncle Hacker—Father and mother call days in which the Phythonessof Endor ex- you Brother Hacker, so I suppose I may ercised that gift in obedience to the com- Cllll,OKK.VS CABIN. call you Uncle, and I wish you was my Un- mand of her King. That there are gift would come Letters from children. cle, for then you and see us, as ed ones, we need not go back to the antede- and I sent my other Uncles do, would show you luvians to prove. To the good and pure, Na- The following letter was copied and how handy of the Boat, my calves, and they are—they ture unfolds her hoarded stores of know to the Printer for the first No. as well as but was lost by mail. It is rather behind mind me just old oxen, and I ledge in music and poetry, in the cheerful strawberry time, but not too late. yoke them and hitch them to my little cart, voices of children, and the sweet singing of and Kate and Jane get in and ride, and birds. Each vision is filled with mysteries Hammonton, N. J., June 14, 1867. sometimes Rate takes the kitten with her, of a universal spirit of love and beauty. The requested me to little pet Father Hacker.—You and Jane her chicken, and you gplendorof the sun's rays, the silver sheen of write and I will try. It is very pleasant here to see what nice would laugh times we have. pale moonlight, and the ever burning star to day, and I have been picking berries—have And I would show you a great many other many, are to them visions of inspiration. The paint picked 17 quarts to day. That is not things, and tell you where the good do apples er sees in visions models that equal anges but I have not picked all day. I not grow. I am a little chap ten years berries will go old. beauty; as the celestial hier know how many bushels of Kate is eight, and Jane is six, and in their seraphic there were 5 car that's all his enraptured off to-day, but yesterday of us except father and mother, and archy presents itself to gaze* 1 to Philadelphia. they of his loads, 4 to New York and wish you would come and see us, and he feels in the sanctuary soul these deal better than I did have a I like this place a great meeting here. I have read your harmonies, and, if he but catches a single have first rate good Boat and my western home. I Chariot ever since I was big grace, the canvass breathes ! From exalted come in anc the enough to read times here seeing the trains anything, for father has seven ecstacy and nature's enchantment,the true the little and large volumes of berries go off. I hope all them and I would poet draws his inspiration, his most passion- the paper, and bound, rather read them girls and boys will write for anything else. Father is ate descriptions, and dedicates them to love it. I like to i eac than going to send have a nice lot of letters in money, and says he will and immortality. What are the dull the letters, and hope Ada Crosby will wiite send this in his realities and I want you to come of earth life, its sorrows, cares soon. * Give my love to Mrs. H. and a large letter, and see us. and trials, to share for yourself. You must come down Good bye. John Samson. the gifted seer, whose realms are people with visions of imperishability of matter, my own proper gift and calling, leav- Spiritualists, Progressionists, etc.etc., with types of a future existence, beyond the ing others to use saws, planes, au- <» straighten themselves out and l'c grave; who can hear the voices, see the gers, and gimlets, according to their ready for the line and the scoring, which surround the earth, to nourish a gifts. So I have fitted up a hacking not the crooked and the eon- forms and let is divine and never dying flame of love and room ; and those that would escape cusy grumble when the hatchet good wi 11 to men in universal harmony. Vi- the hacking must straighten them- applied, but be honest, confess am t ie eions have been so often presented to tho selves out so that they will not need forsake, and be prepared for gaze of the dying that no one can deny hacking; while those that would work before them. their frequent occurrences. "Now I begin to avoid being hit by the flying chips WORKERS' HALIi. __ see what might be done in music !'" were the must keep in their own proper places last words of Mozart. New combinations where the chips will not reach them. " Labor is Honor. and glorious conceptions floated before his When Solo.non commenced his Lahor is honor ! God's spirit hath spoken, This is the song that His universe smgs , spiritual sight, filling tho comprehensive soul great temple, there were men in the unbroKen, with rapture and Through the vast hills of creation of that immortal musician mountains rending the rocks asun- Loudly and clearly the glad echo rings. beatiful inspirations. Shelley's invocations der, others were breaking off the Up from the hills and the green valleys ste influence, heavenly crea- ing, were written under rough corners, while others followed star above, he bent in Seeking the light of the bright tions, before whose mighty power with different tools to straighten and Rises the song to the blue heavens pealing, reverence, as he listened to voices and gazed square them, and others to hammer " Labor is honor, and labor is love.' and heard alone through spi- smooth and at visions seen finish them, that they in story men and women, inspired might All the great deeds that are grandest rit guides. Gifted come together in the temple Living through centuries treasured anu by God, look into futurity, and learn to read without the sound of hammer. Some bright, the hearts of those they meet, and predict were felling the tall cedars, while All the great lives that are dearest to glory, their flashes of light. or misery of others deprived of others were scoring and hewing, and Filling the world with the happiness Words from whose utterance ages are dated, mediumship. "What! don't you hear it? others planing and polishing. And Thoughts that have held the whole worlci harps," said Dr. Liefchild, none of these workmen quarrelled in control; those heavenly lifve When Joan of Arc was with others for not using the same Names on whose echoes the proudest just before he died. waited, asked about the clothing of the spirits who' tools. The broad-axe man did not Are but the offspring of labor and toil. appeared to her, she replied, " Is it possible quarrel with him tha* used the is served by min- smoothing plane, and he that used Not to the eye that glanceth there lightly, to conceive that a God who Doth the bright look of the heavens un- istering spirits cannot also clothe them ?' the plane did not quarrel with him fold ; By'yielding up the soul to truth, it will draw who used the broad-axe. It was the But to the spirit that turneth there rightly, Are all its wonders and mysteries told; _ a divine character j en- duty of the axe men to straighten in an inspiration of And at each step to the soul upward spnng- abling the seer to apply its teachings to use- the crooked; to search out rotten ing, light from fulness, to help them pity and assist the un- specks and fill with sound wood ; and Comelli new radiance, new them far if one attempted to work an unsound above, fortunate, whose paths have led While in the heart is an angel voice singing, into the temple, there was " from peace, be to each one the angel of heal- timber Labor is honor, and labor is love." ing, blessing the troubled waters of ignor some one to inspect and condemn it. was ance and vice. Thus all worked in their proper Light to the mind that in darkness for the general good, and clouded, places Strength to the spirit that weakness had HACKING ROOM. while thus working, one tool sharp- touched, Hewing- Crooked Timber. ened or repaired another; the fire, Joy to the soul that in sorrow was shrouded, the anvil, and the hammer, sharp- Life to the heart when its life spring was I am sometimes told that I am a hushed. Hacker by name, a hacker by na- ened and straightened the drill, the Truth as their foothold who seek it sincerely, ture, and a hacker by occupation; grindstone and whetstone sharpened Skill to the hand when it toileth to live, the axes and the hatchets, and thus Eyes that can look up to heaven's light clear- and I must add, that it there is any ly, , . „ in me, I am also a backer by the tools worked to repair each oth- These are the honors that labor can give. grace That, grace as well, as by name, nature, and er. temple and its builders occupation ; and when 1 look at the represent the spiritual temple now INTELLIGENCE OFFICE. world as it is, I think there is more in process of erection, and all the real Cry. instruments are sharpening and re- The Fashionable need of hackers and hewers at the Get up a feast,—call in the goats ;— present time than of any other occu- pairing each other, and fitting the Our church-funds now are low,— now see before me much materials to come together without Our sheep are lean as Pharaoh's kine,— pation. I Their money cometh slow. that needs hacking and hewing; j ir <>r discard, and without the sound and though it is unpleasant work to of axe or hammer. But on looking Our church and organ both in debt, the various And interest gaining fast;— one who desires to live in peace^ and about among workmen, And back we may be forced to move have the good will of all, yet, if this we see many tools out of order—some To our old camp at last! is my calling and gift, i must be not fit for use—and also see many Then make a feast,—call in the goats ;— faithful, even though all men forsake companies laboring to work in crook- We'll fleece them all we can ;— are differ- ed, knotty, eoncusy, fuugusy, or rot- " The end will justify the means" and denounce ine. There And sanctify the plan. and callings in the spiritual ting timbers, and timbers that have ent gifts parson, must have enough field of labor. We are all at work not been properly fitted, and stones The too, and if To strut and loaf at ease ;— fitting and preparing materials for a containing seams and cracks; Be led and clothed in dandy style, great spiritual temple in which God this course is continued the building Tho' others starve or freeze. is to dwell—a- temple of harmony will surely fall and bury many in Then make a feast,—call in the goats,— and love. Each soul is to be as a the ruins. Seeing these evils, and We'll tell them 'tis like love— being assigned to the hatchet, we The more they give the more they'll get, stone, a limber, a board, a shingle, Stored in the land above. some other part ot the temple, shall, on the next excursion, com- or the and each must be fitted and pre- mence hacking some of crooked, The kids will come with cents and dimes, for its place; and as I am a knotty, and unsound timbers ; so let The nice sweet things to share, pared call themselves And every little helps, you know, -hacker and hewer, I must attend to those who Reformers, Sohurry up the Fair.