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that or have a commission appointed by the court to locate the street. This afternoon when we drove by we saw that the stakes had been placed according to our offer.- We drove up to High Falls today. Left here a few minutes before 1 and went up by Creek Locks in two hours. Mrs. Sawyer, my Father, Gussie and I in our wagon and Andrews and Lucy in a separate wagon. It has been one of the loveliest of autumn days and we had a charming ride. Gertrude was in my thoughts constantly. She was with me in August the last time I was there on that delightful excursion which she so much enjoyed. Sara came home this evening and brought me a sweet sisterly letter from Alice, who grows to be so like Gertrude in her affections. I had a letter today from Beard [[strikethrough]] and one from Hurds [[/strikethrough]] and Sara brought one from Mrs. Booth to Mary and Gussie had an earnest and characteristic one from Eastman.

Wednesday Oct. 23, 1878. It has rained all day. Gussie went to Yonkers, very reluctantly I think. Have written to Eastman, Booth, Mary Gifford, Mr & Mrs. Church, Mr. Jas. B. Johnston and to Mrs. Walter B. Crane who sent me specially some flowers the day Gertrude was buried. I have tried to write in a cheerful and hopeful vein to every one, just as I feel. A letter came from Mrs. Bachelder full of love and regret for Gertrude. Mr. B. who broke his knee pan a year ago has broken the other and they are at their sea side cottage where they intend to stay all winter.

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NOTABLE CHRISTIAN LIBERALITY.

A Distinguished Universalist Divine Preaches in a Methodist Pulpit.

That broad and generous christian fellowship which fills the heart of the good pastor of the Rondout M. E. Church, Rev. M. S. Terry, led him to take advantage of the temporary sojourn in this city of the distinguished Universalist divine, Rev. Dr. T. J. Sawyer, of tuft's College, to extend to him an invitation to preach from his pulpit. We note the event as one of unusual interest, inasmuch as a similar one has never occurred in this city before, if we are not mistaken; but it is but simple truth to say that the presence of D. Sawyer was received with lively pleasure by all in attendance. Had it been fully known that he was to preach the church would undoubtedly been crammed.

Dr. Sawyer made a happy return for the cordial Christian invitation in one of the sweetest and most tender sermons ever preached in the church. The Doctor's presence is majestic and noble. His gray hair surmounts a dome-like head, with a countenance of sweet and calm expression, but full of traces of a deep and tender sorrow over a dear daughter departed. His language is very choice and elegant. His theme was "Love to Others," founded on the second great command——"Love thy neighbor as thyself." He used the parable of the Good Samaritan to show who our neighbor is, bringing out as the principal point that it was to the simple man that the Good Samaritan ministered, and said the race was bound together by indissoluble ties. To love others as ourself was the highest of virtues. To love God was comparatively easy, as we were attracted by His lovely attributes, and to love some human beings was easy, as they were naturally attractive; but to love the repellant, those sunk deep in sin, was difficult. and yet Christ died upon the cross to save such. The omnipresence of God, the common Father, made it possible to love and revere neighbors far removed. He is everywhere present, and as He enfolds all, when we pray to Him for them He sheds down upon them the grace we supplicate for them. This love of God and of our neighbor as ourself raises up the race into a higher plane of thought and action. This loving, he said, would not stop with the grace. It seemed to him impossible that we should stop loving as we crossed over Jordan. Jonathan Edwards had pictured a husband in Heaven looking down into Hell and seeing his wife there without a pang of sorrow amid the joy of Heaven, and a wife had seen her godless husband lost without grief, and a loving mother her godless daughter; but the Saviour had shown them the rich man in Hades, who loved his brethren, and would that some one should be sent to warn them. Christ had made the godless ones in Hades more loving than Edwards' saints in Heaven.

We have given only a couple of the great thoughts of a sermon replete with tenderness and beauty. It was at times so touching that many of the audience found tears springing to their eyelids, and often running over. Dr. Sawyer preceded the benediction with returning thanks to the pastor for his kind invitation, and to the people for so cordially hearing him.

Our venerable and honored citizen James S. McEntee, whose guest Dr. Sawyer is, and who has been a lifelong Universalist, was almost overcome with emotion. As he pressed Mr. Terry's hand he thanked him again and again, and said he had never hoped to see the day when an Orthodox pulpit was open to a liberal divine. But we trust the day is not far distant when all who are serving Christ will be able to find all pulpit platforms broad enough for them to meet on common ground.
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Thursday 24. This has been a lovely day. I have busied myself most of the day doing some things for Sedgwick. Toward evening I felt a disposition to be alone and 

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