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1868
impeachment resolutions were to be brought into the senate & she was going on the floor.
March 1st Sunday.  Mr. Ried preached for us a candidate for the pastorale ad interim.  We did not find him very interesting.  Went to Susie Hodge's to dinner.  Read Ecce Homo at night until Mr. Gill came in with a paper & impeachment news.  The author of Ecce Homo is certainly a very interesting & clear thinker, He brings out in a new light the wonderful adaptability of the Christian plan of salvation & moral restoration to man & his needs.  How he can show as he does the wonderful wisdom of that plan, the wonderful power it has exerted and not consider the originator divine.  I cannot understand.  Truly that one admission is needed to make his book an exceedingly beautiful tribute to the Lord of Glory.  Like a beautiful gilded temple in the dark.  The
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March 2nd  [[underlined]] 1868 [[/underlined]]
gold is there but it needs the light of the sun to show its beauty.  I am sometimes half inclined to think he is a true Christian in disguise, not fully avowing his sentiments in order to catch the infidels unawares & bring them unwillingly to a contemplation of that wonderful combination of wisdom power & purity displayed in the character of our Lord so that while saying ecce homo they must in spite of themselves explain Ecce Deus.
2nd  A stormy day at work on Father's head.  The impeachment resolutions will not be presented until tomorrow
3rd  Nell & Carry went to Mrs. Trumbal's this morning & from thence to the capitol.  The impeachment resolutions did not come up.  Read French for Father & articles upon electricity.  He is going to talk upon the latter subject at the club on Saturday evening.  His