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C ambridge , M ass .,
Sept 1,1882.
Dear Friends at Home : .
Last Saturday evening on my
way from the Norton Post-office a
voice called through the screen door
L-—.-.. e f . t he Mans i on* How*, “ Yl'aTr fi ie nr p
lias come,” and sure enough there
was Prine«* looking as natural as
ever except a new straw hat that
he liought way down in Kentucky.
We spent a quiet Sunday in Nor­
ton, going to church in the morn-
ing. Monday morning, accompan­
ied liy Mrs. H, the Stone Hall
superintendent, we came through
Boston, on our way to Wellesley,
where we ate our frugal lunch of
cakes and apples that cost 20 cts.
in Boston, climbed stairways, fouml
our way through the mazes of
domestic hall and th«* laundry, re-
packe«l my shawl straps and start­
ed on the 3:39 train to -Newton
Where we change« 1 to street cars for
Harvard square. Prince had,
thoughtfully, engaged room for me
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at his boarding place, for you must
know hotels ar«* not allowe«! in
Cambridge, on account of the stu­
dents ; whether transient custom
interferes with students or just the
other way, I have not been able to
' tin« I out. Coming in we passed
Mt. Auburn on the right, and
nearer the square Longfellow’s on
the left. After supper we walke«!
out by the historic mansion from
which the poet’s soul has flown ;
the gate stood wide open, birds
were chirping their evening song ;
down across the open fiel«l he love«!
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so well, over and beyond the placi«l
river upon the suburban heights
the evening lights were shining
from a thousand homes, in all of
which we saw, that of which he
has told us an hundre«! times aild
in a hundred different ways. Do
you think that once would be
enough; we have been there since
in the hot noontime, ami when the
glorious full moon rose slowly from
V above the spires of Cambridge,
looke«l up at the house from pacing
up an«! down the broad path along
the river Charles, an«l have found
that w<? are not alone in seeking
the shrine of one we have loved so
long and well. His resting ¡»lace
in Mt Auburn wr found unmarke«!
by monument as yat, a fresh
Ixraqnet alone marking the sp«ff
where he lies in a lot bordeted by
& stone wall perhaps a foot high.
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The smooth 1 turf is even with the
wall on the inside ; two trees stand
near a corner of the lot, which
eoimnands a fine view of-the silent
city, being at the summit of a steep
ridge looking down on a beautiful
lake on either side.
In our walks about the College
(jiwtdrangle the hall buftt'l#2 years
ago in memory of Justinian Holden
’Wtw1 lirit ■ hard.. to liml'T It ‘lo irte
venerable, and is now used as aliali
of elocution and linei ai ts. John
Eliot’s Bible we found not in a dark
corm*r of" the library but along with
John Bunyan’s Bible, Robert Burns’
letter to the Earl of Buchan in 1764
with “ Scots wha hae wi” Wai lace
bled,” chained monastic M.. S. of
1390, Th«* Gospels in Latin of the
eighth century, Pope’s “ Essay on
Man,” with the author’s autograph
corrections, and it would tire you
to death if I tqld you’ more of the
ancient literary treasures spread
under glass in that upper yoom in
Gore Hall known as the Harvard
library. We found another of
Eliot’s Bibles in the Boston Public
Library yester«lay along with the
first edition of Shakespeare ¡»lays
ami the July bulletin of new books.
Thus the multitude stop a moment
to look upon the relics left us from
the centuries, then sway with
scarcely a sigh toward the piles of
freshly lx»und l»ooks, whose pages
they scan hurriedly, for. time is so
precious.
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To-day we have, been out to the
botanical gardens where Prof. Asa
Gray is the ruling spirit. The col­
lections of ferns ami orchids would
enchant some of the H erald read­
ers whose greatest delight is in rare
ami Irfijutiful plants. Everything
outside is withering op«! growing
parched and dusty from ttm waiiz
of rain ; though cloudy this morn-
ing a light sprinkle that, did not
wet the ro.47,
all the moisture
that fell. Complaints on i^epopnt of
the drouth are heard everywhere.
('omirig «n frn”i the gardens we
crosse«l the full length of Cambridge
square, over which tl e Continental
army marched ami countermarched
under the eye of Washington seate«!
on a platform in the ojd ejm, flow,
so tenderly cared for by th«* people’
of Cambridge. Here the flag with
thirteen stripes was first unfurled,
and Jjerp now rises a monument to
tl»e solfliers whq died in the civil
war. The l»oys can take down
their histories and learn those things
easier than I tan write them. We
cross««! ilft/ street and enter«*«! jthe
“First Parish Church^ yigefy is
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being refitted, and wandered out
through the old town burying
g^Otin«!, which contains graves as
old as 1640. Several- of the first
Presidents of Harvard College and
famous preachers'are there intern*«!.
It is an uncare«! for spot, some-of
th«; graves lying against and ini-
me«Hately - underneath workshop
windows. We cannot say as Mar
western prairies, " we run ami run
but never’ climb,” for from the
height on Bunker Hill ami from
above th«* gihled dome of the state
house we have felt the stiff breeze
coming in from beyond the islands
gracing Boston harbor.
We have planned another long
»lay- in Boston to-morrow, which
will be our last «Iky of sightseeing
together for some time, as I return
to Wellesley Monday. You must
be tire«! as well as I, so let us say
good night.
jj.
M aili S tump ,
From Bro. T. F. Campbell.
Los A ngeles , C al .,
Sept, (i, 1882.
I write you now from one of the
most lovely spots on earth—a per
feet paradise—where one might
almost expect to find the long
missing tree of life. Other locali­
ties which I have visited in this
county during my brief stay con­
tain many attractive features, this
is lovely ; so situated that malaria
never reaches if, apd free from the
fogs which often obscure the bright­
ness of the mornings in other
places, it is the favorite resort for
invalids in the winter season. The
city, of seventeen thousand inhabit­
ants is pleasantly situated in the
margin of th»' foot hills where the
L q « Angeles fiver comes through
from the mountains. The valley is
less than half a mile wide where
the city is located ; but it spreads
to the west and
south, receiving the
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San Ga^ije), Santa Ana, ami other
streams, forming a5j**arable tract of
forty-five miles in length by twenty
ii) ’.yj'lth. The scarcity of water
for irrigation fins
regarded as
an insuperable barrier to the culti­
vation of nine’ll of this plain; but
the fact, whip)) wiH obviate this
difficulty, is in process j of demon-
stration, that a field thoroughly
thorough
saturated with water in the winter
and spring ami kept well pulver­
ised ^n«l free from weeds «luring
the summer will yield socials, fruit
and vegetables, equal in quantity
and superior in quality to on«* upon
which watci* is used freely through
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the summer. The vineyards and
orange groves.in the vicinity of the
city are extensive and lovely, yield1
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From Downey, 1 went, on Satur­
day to Bro. Kendrick’s residence,
where I spent a part of the «lay;
thence, in company with Bro. K., to
Sister Wilson’s, where we bad been
Invited to dinner. I learned that
Bro. K. ha«l baptized about twenty
of the Wilson family since he ‘
located at Downey a few years ago.
Pro Montgomery came for me in
the evening ami took me in a buggy
to his residence five miles east of
Downey, where I spent the time
pleasantly, until morning, when he
took me, after a most sumptuous
breakfast, to Loa Arigeles in . time
for the morning services. I Was.
greet«*«! by a fairly fill»‘d house, and
what was sai«l to Is* a good audience
for the Christian church which has
no standing.among the fashionable
churches qf the city. I made the
acquaintance of the officers present,
Bro. Smith, elder*, who laliors also
in teaching, and Bros Moore and
Parker, deacons; These? with other“*”—
brethren ami a noble band of sis­
ters, are alive to the cause and
doing goo«l work. Bro. Coulter,
their merchant-preacher am! elder,
to whom the church is more In­
debted than to any other, was ab­
sent. I greatly regretted not meet­
ing him. This loss was, however,
in part and most pleasantly com­
pensated for by the (Courtesies and
kind offices of his famjily, preside«]
over in his absence, by his sister
an«! co-laborer in the good work of
building up the church, Mrs. Price.
On Lord’s «lay I dined with Elder
Smith ami his excellent lady, who
is also a most energetic worker
both in church and Sunday school.
After this I remain««! with B*:q.
Coulter’s family, as his residence
was near the church ami easy of
access, preventing,Jong exposure to
night air after preaching. It gives
us pleasure to acknowledge piapy
kind offices from Mr. C M. Cpujtey
and Benjamin, a youth yet in his
teens, sons q( Bjo. Coulter, who, to­
gether with Master Theodore, Misjj -
Mai j Belle and the vpnerable
gran«knot, her, constitute the family
now adimmo.
I delivered two sermons on
Lord’s day and two lectures one on
Monday, and one on Tuesday'even­
ing, with rjo yi^il'b} rpsi|lt^
good audience* »h<^rofound at­
tention. “Paul may plant "and
Apollos water, God must give the
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