Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-05-15

THE WORK AMONG FREEDMEN-A cler-
gyman in Kentucky to whom large grant
of Bibles was made for circulation among
freedmen, writes to the society that the do
nation, large as it was, did not nearly sup
ply the demand and there is still very
great destitution of Bibles among them,
which we know the Bible Society is doing
its utmost to supply. As to the condition
OF the people, far as his region is con-
cerned, he says:
The freedmen, general thing, are
doing well, far better than perhaps any
people ever did before in Just coming out
of slavery Our farms were never better
cultivated than they We're by them last
year. They have provided homes for their
families built churches, contributed freely
to the support of their preachers, the poor
and destitute among them, and to sustain
schools for the education of their children.
| speak this advisedly, having travelled
during the year four times over large
portion of the state. In almost every town
and city [ have visited they have been
blessed with gracious revivals of religion
Men N ADVANCE OF THEIR AGE-A
majority of the noblest geniuses who have
conferred the greatest benefits on mankind,
have been spit upon or gnashed at and
branded by the dominant class of their CO.
temporaries Prophets, discoverers, in
ventors, martyrs, illustrious company gath
cred from many times and countries, and
associated in one fellowship of sublime ge-
MUS, heroic devotion. and tragic fate
history has nothing left of equal pathos to
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dreaded, despised, prosecuted, ontcast, dy-
me appealing to after generations to do
them the justice so cruelty denied in their
own. Nor has posterity proved recreant
to the holy trust. They are revered and
celebrated now with an enthusiasm in strong
contrast with the obloquy they suffered
when alive. And to enter into sympathy
with them Is an inexpressible comfort to
those who in later times are called TO kin
dred experience As Hene Says, an
equally great man sees his predecessors far
more Significantly than others can. From
a single spark of the traces of their earthly
glory he recognizes the most secret act
from single word left behind he pene-
trates every fold of their hearts and thus
the great men of all times live in a mysti-
cal brotherhood. Across the long centu-
ries they bow to each other, and gaze on
each other with significant glances, and
their eyes meet ever the graves of buried
races whom they have thrust aside between,
| and they understand and love each other"
1t Is delightful to notice the genialitv with
which, in his Cosmos, the grand old Hum
bolt recognizes his great predecessors in the
enterprise of surveying the universe as a
whole,-Strabo, Eratostheus, Ptoemy, Hip
parchus, Galen, Aristotle, Lucretius, the
elder Pliny, Albertus, Roger Bacon, Cali
leo, Copernicus, Newton, and the rest
with what JOY and piety he signalized, from
hight like their own, these intellectual
peaks looming in clouds and stars athwart
the historic table-land of science. The
picture. in the New Testament, of Jesus on
the mount of TRANSPORTATION in converse
with Moses and Elias, it is beautiful SYM
bol of the fellowship of the highest kindred
spirits in all ages.-Alger's Soltudes of
Nature aud Man.