Litchfield enquirer., 1872-11-21

signs and wonders which there awaited my astonished observations Reaching l home, made 1t my first business to call Ton my reverend friend; for the Doctor. it must ba known, was one of my most val ued intimates, had baptized me, had counselled me, had travelled with me in foreign lands; we had many interests, many sympathies in common, and no diff ferences except with regard to the extent of the Flood, the date of the Creation, and other matters of small personal import l ance. l found him in his study, surround ed by those seven hundred and odd vol umes, the learning and excellent spirit of which gave to his sermons such body of venerable divinity, such bouquet of sa- vory eloquence. He was walking to and fro rapidly, studying slip of manuscript 1 with an air of serious ecstasy. He did not look up until had seized his hand, and even then he stared at me as a man might be supposed to stare who had been passing fortnight with angels or other spiritual existences and unexpectedly found himself among natural and reason able beings again.
 "Ah. my dear Elderkin," he said at last, ''I am glad to see you. How are you, and how have you been? Excuse me for not recognizing you at once. I had just lost myself in the consideration of mystery which believe to be of the subimest importance. Oh, my dear to these things They are above and be- and will outlive them"
 Indeed ]" replied. sNothing in the way of chaos, I hope?"
 l ,0ok horo of khio ohoof of fooISoor1 ' he exclaimed, waving it excitedly. "Do you remember the belief which I have often expressed to you,-the belief that the dispensation of miracles has never yet ceased from earth, that we have still a right to expect signs, wonders, instanta- neous headings, and unknown tongues and that, but for our Wretched incredui- ty, these things would constantly happen among us? You have disputed it and ridiculed it, but here I hold proof of it's truth. A month ago this blessing was vouchsafed to me. It was at one of our Wednesday evening exercises. had just been speaking of supernatural gifts. and of the duty which we lie under of expect ing and demanding them. The moment I sat down, stranger Ia gentleman whom I had previously noticed at church) rose up with a strangely beaming look and broke out in discourse of sounds that were wholly unintelligible. You need not smile It was true language, I am confident; it flowed forth with moving warmth and fuency; and the gestures which accom- panied it were earnest and most expres- siEe.a
 ''That was fartunats,i' said ]; s'ether wise you must have been very little edi- fed. But isn't it rather odd that the man should use earthly gestures with an un- earthly language?
 The Doctor shook his head reprovingly, and continued -
 l 'Deacon Jones the editor of the sPatri- ot, is photographer. He took down the elQse of the strangers address, and next day brought it to me written out in the ordinary alphabet Let nae read it to you. As you are acquainted with several modern languages, perhaps you can give me key to an interpretation.
 'I don't profess to know the modern languages of the other world" said I. 'eHowssef, let ps hear it.,
 gravity which almost made me think him stark mad. "De noton irbila orgonos ban | orgonos amartalannene fl dunial maran ta calderak isais deluden homox berbussen carantar. Falla esoro anglas emoden | ebuntar ta diliglas martix yehudas sathan | val caraman mendelsonen lamata yendos nix poliglor opos discobul vanitarok ken laros ma dasta fnomallo in salubren to mallomss, Isse on esto opos if sa- than. And so he read on through more than a page and half of closely written man. uscript, his eyes flashing brighter at each line, and his right hand gesturing as i'm pressively as if he understood every sylla- ble.
 Bless you, it's nothing new" said I. ''There's an institution at Hartford where they cure people of talking that identical language - .. -s}
 ''Just what expected you to say," he replied, flushing up. '1 know you,-you scientific men,-you matsrialists. When you can't explain 8 phenomenon, you call it nonsense, instead of throwing yourselves with childlike faith into the arm of the supernatural. That is the sum and final ity of your so-called science, But, come, be rational now. Don't yeq catch sins gle glimpse or suspicion of meaning in these remarkable words ?"
 'I am thankful to say thatI don't," de- clared I. ''h ever go mad, ! may change my mind"
 "Well, now, do" he asseverated ioud- ly. 'There are words here that believe understand, and I am not ashamed to own it. Why, look at it, yours .aaf," he added, .pleadingly. ''That word sathon, twice repeated, can 1t be anything else than Satans Tehudas, what is that but Jea0s? And then hoDaor, how very near to the Latin homo think, too, that have even got notion of some of the gram nautical forms of the language. That ter imitation of en, as in aetuden, salubrea, seems to me the sign of the present tense of the plural form of the verb. That oth- CT termination of tar, as in ebuntar, ca. rantar, I suppose to be the. sign of the infuitiye. Depend upon it tha.. this lan- guage IS one of absolute regularity, un- deformed by the results of human folly and sorrow, as perfect as crystal"
 "But not as clear" I obseryed,-''at least, not to our apprehension. We'll, how was this extraordinary revelation re- ceived by the audience ?" '1n dumb silence" said the Doctor. ''Faith was at too low an ebb among us | to reach and encircle the amazing fact. I had to call out the astonished brethren by name; and even then they responded briefly and falteringly. But the leayen worked. I went round the next day and talked to all my leading men. I found faith sprouting like grain of mustard seed. I found my people, waking up to the great idea of continuous, deathless, l present, miracle demonstration And these dim suspicious, these far-off longings and and fearful-hopes were. indeed, precursors of such Q movement of spirits, such a shower of supernatural mercies, as the 1 world has not perhaps seen for centuries. Yes, there have been wonders wrought among us, and there are, I am persuaded, greater wonders still to come. What do you think must be my feelings when see my worthieat pariahi hidners rise ID public and break ont with unknown tongues?" should suppose you would rather see them break out with tue smallpox, :" I answered. @ @ ~ ..
 "Ah, Professor wait, wait, and soon you will not laugh, !" said the Doctor, sol l emnly. S''' < .5'9.s.s.1 ssPerhans not. T am a sincora fr;ood of