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[[start page]] 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 [[end page]] [[start page]] 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