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THURSDAY, 'AtriitliT 30, 1866.
REV. THOMAS BRAINERD, %D.
With startling suddenness. came the
telegraphic annotncement of the death o
the beloved and venerated pastor of Old
pine Street Church, at Scranton, on Wed
nesday morning of last week. Pr. Brain
erd had been so long ailing, and had, for
so nin ny years, contrived to get through a
great amount of parochial and public duty
without any alarming increase in his unfa
vorable symptoms, that we were in a man
ner used to them, and ceased to fear any
speedy culmination of them in death: Only'
a day or two, indeed, before he died, he
wrote in an animated strain, in view of th.
probable early resumption of his dutie:
with increased health and prospect of use•
fulness. All, therefore, but, perhaps the
few who had more carefully considered
the state of his health, were greatly shock
ed by the announcement that, after. passing
Tuesday with no unusual symptoms, and
retiring comfortably to rest at night, he
race forth his life in one single, deep sigh,
at one o'clock of the following morning.
With such a speedy, peaceful, painless
exit, well closed a life full of years, of high
usefulness, of ripe Christian character,
of distinguished ministerial success, and
crowned with well-merited honors. For
us, his death came all too soon. We would
not have put it earlier than three score and
ten at the soonest. For him, doubtless in
the ordering of Providence, it came a
precisely the most appropriate moment.
1' All things shall work together for good
to them that love him." It is certain tha
Dr. Brainerd's career has been steadily
upward, both in the measure of his useful
ness and his honor. He dies with nothin
to dim the lustre of the name he leave
with his church and his family. His sta
was yet in the ascendant when its light wa
quenched, and it will 'direr shine full-orbed
in our memories.
Especially in the last five or six years o
his lift , bas the reputation of Dr. Brainerd
been gaining most rapidly among his fel
low-men. With the first mutterings of
rebellion, he took his stand for the main
tenance of the laws and for the preservation
of the national life and unity, and never
swerved from it for a moment to the end.
He preserved and cherished the patriotic
associations of Old Pine Street Church, and
greatly enhanced their lustre. Dr. Brain
erd and Old Pine Street Church became
the most conspicuous among the loyal
agencies in our city, outside of the Brea
public organizations. They were a rock
of strength and a never-failing spring of
encouragement to loyal men and enter
prises. In sermons and prayers, in ad.
dresses, speeches, and appeals, the manly
voice of Dr. Brainerd has everywhere been
heard cheering the despondent, stimulatin
to nobler exertions the patriotic, piercing
to the very heart the, false arguments of
the disloyal, silencing cavils, and •kindlini,
fresh enthusiasm for the .national cause in
every breast. Few men showed a clearer
judgment and a better appreciation of the
high moral principles at stake in the con
flict. Few rejoiced more heartily at the
revival of national life in the masses of the
North, and at the substitution of a, martyr
zeal for country and liberty, in place of the
low and grovelling aims which seemed to
have gained almost , exclusive control over
the American mind.
Although Dr. Brainerd did not SiSproy ,
of all the measures of the late Administra
tion, and grieved over what he considered
its errors and failures, he never for a momen
thought of arraying himself against the Gov
ernment on that account. On the contrary,
lie rejoiced greatly and devoutly in the fax
of emancipation, as one of the greatest boom
of the war. He never, for a moment, los
his intense interest in • the national cause,
or abated a jot of his earnest efforts ford
success. He ever cherished the most pr's
found confidence in the uprightness and
sagacity of Abraham. Lincoln, whom, in
deed, he resembled in his shrewd' observa
tion of men and his aecurate estimate Of
public opinion.
The honor' in which Dr. Brainerd w::
held by his loyal fellow-citizens was shown
in his election as a member of the Union
League almost at its very organization, and
by the prominent position usually assigned
him in the religious portion of the public
services held by that and other bodies' of
our citizens during and since the war. No
hour of his life could have been more glad
or more solemn, than when he was thu-
Called to lead the devotions .of the people,
after the victory of Gettysburg. A throng
't • ten or twenty thousand people .blooked
the streets before him. The fire companies
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with their equipages had, by a spontaneous
impulse, turned. out to celebrate the occa
,:'on.',' Far above in the steeple, a band
was wafting the strains of " Old Hundred"
to the sk4es, and there, standing on the
sacred steps of Independence Hall, amid
he indescribable raptures of that hour of
eat deliverance, he gave suitable expres-.
:ion to the sentiments of a grateful people.
He has also been closely identified with the
Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloons and
ith various movements, great and small,
or the relief of our suffering soldiers in
the hospitals and on the field. When th.
battle of Gettysburg was imminent, and
when sore distress darkened many of the
aces of our citizens, Dr. Brainerd, nearly
sixty years old, marched beside a recruiting
officer to the drum and fife, aiding to gather
up recruits for the emergency. More than
all, he gave his only •son, Thomas, to the
service of his country, and had . the saris
action to see him rise to honor in his pro
fession, and return in entire safety with the
conquering armies of the nation before he
died. And perhaps no act of his life
caused him greater pleasure than the erec
tion, in the vestibule of his church, of the
mural tablet to the memory of the men of
his congregation who fell in the war. It
seemed to complete his patriotic record and
to blend it beautifully with that of his peo
ple.
With such a bright, undimmed record as
a patriot, he passed away. No rack of a
cloud will ever rest upon his memory in'
this high regard. His example will live
imperishably, and will instruct and inspire
the youth and the clergy and the people of
tbe land, for generations to come. 4 No cold
-uspicion, no heartless cavil, no momentary
unfaithfulness to the high interests of na
tionality and of liberty will weaken its'
power or darken its perfect beauty. We
need scarcely add that, though reaching
his conclusion with the reluctance of true
Christian charity, he had come to under
,tand and to judge most righteously, the
false and wicked man who now disgraces
the seat, lately so honored by a true, a
temperate, and a praying Presi,dent.
Dr. Brainerd had never :seemed to - cow
literary distinction. His editorial career
'n Cincinnati, many years ago, was, indeed,
a great success. But since that time, he
has been content with such fugitive issues
s are consonant with burdensome pastoral
duties, until he undertook the great work
of hiti life, the Life of his kinsman, JOHN
BRAINERD. That work, after years of
painstaking toil, he lived to complete, and
to see welcomed with unanimous and even
enthusiastic approval by the religious jour
nals of all denominations, by our daily
press, and by many critics of the old world.
Its character, as a faithful record of a pure,
devoted, and noble life, rescued from ob
scnrity, and preserved among the choicest
treasures of the Christian Church, suffered
to speak its own story and only enlarged
with skilful touches here and there to
erve as the setting 'to the diamond—this
work ensured him a literary immortality as
certain, at least in the esteem of the Church,
'as that of David and John Brainerd them
,;elves. He has bound his name up in a
rio with theirs, which time will not be able
to dissolve.
Dr. Brainerd' had received the highest
onors the Church of his choice could be
:tow. In the General Assembly of 1864,
he was chosen Moderator, and perfornied
his duties with urbanity, skill, and success
hat gave unmingled satisfaction and delight.
The Assembly of 1866 bestowed upon him
he honor of chairmanship of its Committee
on Reunion. In that position, without any
of the discomfort of 'failure, he• died, being
ranslated to a blessed region, where, with
out any preliminary measures, reunion is
universal, without mistrust, without smoth
ered jealousies; without fear of renewed
contention and division.
-Thus .ripe in honort from the Church
.nd his fellow-citizens, at the climax of ]f
usefulness, he ceased to •be among us. He
feared much that it might be otherwise - .
tEe dreaded an old age of prolonged 'M-
I, rmity, ingapacity, and dependence. :H:
loved the cheerful, sunny side of life; and
he made life such
. wherever his influence
was. He delighted in the
,gamliols and
the natural, gracefulness of children, and
he freshened his own life by drinking a
the fountain of their pure joys and sympa
thies. And it is touching to think that
the deep tenderness of a• grandfather's at
tachment to his children's children, rent
from him one after another by death,
helped to snap the cord of his own life,
and so bore him over that dreary period of
i'nfirmity which he dreaded, and landed
him at once, from a, life which he had ever
:ver kept fresh and youthful, into the life
if eternal youth beyond.
For a 'marked feature of Dr. Brakerd's
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-life was his refusal to grow mentally, mor
ally, socially and theologically old. Fixed
on great principles of Scripture and Cal
vinistic divinity, Dr. Brainerd had no
cowardly dread of anything, simply be
cause it was new. He kept himself fully
-.breast of current opinion in his age. He
studied men; he identified himself heartily
with the interests and feelings of the gene
ration of youth grown up around him. They
found in him one who wonderfully under
stood and sympathized with them, and wh
drew them to him'by an' uncommon and a
noble Christian magnetism. His name was
he bond of union to the widely-scattered
congregation of Pine Street Church, an
nothing can die so powerful as his memory
to hold them together, now that he has,
gone. His name was a tower of strength
to every enterprise to which he gave it,
and he gave it with such sagacity that i
was almost a sure guaranty of snebeee.
His own parochial life was one long sue
cess. A steady average of about thirty
additions, on profession, per annum, marked
his pastorate in Pine Street Church. And
no numbers can adequately portray the
exuberant life and the ceaseless activity
With which, under God, he has been able
to inspire its members. Although it is
one of the old "down-town" churches of
the city, remote from the new and popular
districts, its meetings are crowded -with
promising young people, the most hopeful
elements of a congregation. There is the
utmost freedom, combined with decorum, in
taking part in meetings for prayer and
conference. `The crowded Sunday-nigh
meetings, from week to week, present a
the better features of a revival prayer
meeting ; and the Brainerd Mission chapel,
a large building in Greenwich street, pu. ,
up by members of his congregation
,at
an expense of ten thousand dollars, and
manned by the young people of the church,
proves the munificence and the zeal of
" Old Pine Street."
It was the money, too, of Old Pine Street
which restored, when on the verge of ruin,
the German Street Church, which paid its .
debt and completed its house of worship, a ,
.:n expense of fifteen or twenty thousand
diallers. These are only recent proofs o
the beneficent influence exerted from this
vigorous centre
As a man of the people, Dr. Brainerd
was deeply interested in all efforts to reach
the masses with the Gospel. He was an
earnest advocate of " open-air preaching,"
and himself had practised it on many occa
sions. He was associated with Rev. James
Patterson in those famous out-door efforts
which laid the foundation of the Church
in the Northern Liberties, .And in later
days, in spite of increasing bodily infirmi-
ties, he continued the practice. He fre
quently used a butcher's block in one of
the market-houses for a pulpit, to which,
however, a support had to be attached to
-toady him during the discourse. Nervous
as he was, the surroundings were of no
consequence to him, provided he had op
pertunit, to proclaim the unsearchable
riches of Christ to his fellow-men. One of
his latest declarations on the subject of
open-air prea9hing, made in a discussion
in the Pastor's Association, was to the effect
hat the practice would increase fivefold
the pulpit efficiency of the brethren it
they would: engage in it.
A notice of Dr. Brainerd would be un
pardonably defeetive, which omitted to men
tion, his remarkable power as an extempore
speaker. Educated for the law, he seemed
_ .
ever to retain the readiness of speech so
needful to thakprofession. He was great
est, as a speaker, when called on, often
without apparent premeditation, to meet
ome special occasion.; to take the place,
Whieh, alas! none as he could fill—at th
:rave-side of departed worth arid eminent:
to stimulate` to some new patriotic effor
—to express the . joy of the people at the
tedication of a new house of worship; or
to give direction to their thoughts , in grea
public
.prayer-meetings. There was
reshness; a manliness, a strength of com
mon sense; a singular shreivdness and pene'
'ation, which put the subject in• a ne.`i ,
nd powerful light. Endowed with reten
, ,
n'ie memory and excellent powers of obser
vation, he had a store of capital illubtratiOns
hich he had wonderful skill in bringing
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- precisely at the right time and place.
Over his speeches there was a constant phi:,
if native wit, of, good humor, and of wig
'ng geniality, that gave them a pectilit
charm. He never seemed to be exhaust
ed; he always had something new, some
thing more appropriate to the special occa
sion than anything he had ever said before.
He was never common-place, yet neve
ar-fetched. Everywhere the people wel
comed hi m ,
everywhere they expected edi
fication and stimulus from his words, and
rarely were they disappointed. At 'the
Jayne's Hall monster prayer-meeting, in
1858, where thousands met every day for
weeks, he was one of the few ministers who
knew how to meet and use those marvel
lous and somewhat trying scenes, to the
highest, spiritual profit. A frequent, he
was ever a most welcome, speaker at those
ss eetings, and was as calm, as ready, and as
felicitous in his remarks, as in the most
familiar scenes. There the heart of the
multitude' was bared as, perhaps, it has
s ever been since, and it was because Dr.
rainerd's heart was so large, and so warm,
and so thoroughly the people's, that he
found himself so ready, so much at home ;
o marvelously adapted• to the occasion.
A mai4 of God , of somewhat simile
character and adaptedness, who contributed
no small share himself to the noonday and
other prayer-meetings; a man of most ten
der and devoted spirit, toward whom Dr.
Brainerd was drawn by unusual ties o
Christian affection; like himself, one of the
oldest pastors of our city churches, has
gone to heaven but a few weeks before
him. Great, often, in anticipation o
heaven, was the joy of meeting in religious
services, between Dr. Brainerd and Dr.
Kennard. Who shall attempt to describe the
joy with which, after so short a separation,
they met to renew their joint worship in
heaven ? Who * shall draw the lines o
'their features—noble even on earth, bu
• lorified above ? Who, rather, shall no
look forward , with longing to join the
blessed company, and enjoy those raptures,
of which our happiest and most elevated
scenes of devotion, under their leadership,
were but faint anticipations ?
When almost every old citizen of a great
city, and almost every member and minis
ter of a large church, feels stricken and
bereaved by a Providential event, as they
do in the death of Dr. Brainerd, it seems
idle for any one individual to parade his
:rief as special, or to demand special sym
pathy for the loss as his own. Yet we
cannot refrain from offering a wreath of
personal homage to the memory of one
ho has been our warm and fast friend
papst. since wfs knew him ; , who has en
ct,uraded our undertakings by his
cheering words and fraternal acts ; and who
as especially stood by us in the trying and
responsible duties of the editorial office.
With those, the earlier associations of his
career prepared him to sympathize; while
his native shrewdness and quickness of
wit and penetration, his unflagging inte
ert in all the great movements of the
time, and especially his loyalty to the inte
rests of Christ's cause and of the denomi
nation, fully qualified him as an adviser,
and as such he was a frequent and the most
welcome visitor in the office of this paper.
Without any attitude of officiousness, o
zolemn assumption of- superiority, or even
au- great amount of specific advice, it was
rather the magnetic influence of mutat,
with a man of such large sympathies and
such ennobling views, such a warm and
generous nature, that we felt and welcomed
as a powerful stimulus, and that we shall
most sadly miss. We differed at times;
occasionally, our views were wide apart;
but time and a closer interchange ahnos
invariably drew us together, and our inti
macy in the editorial sanctum was unbroken
to the last.•
We have, therefore, our own tear o'
regret to shed apart from the crowd; our
own tribute to lay upon his tomb; our own
memory of individual loss to deplore in his
sudden departure.
EED OF CHRISTIAN INFLUENCE IN
OUR 'POLITICAL 'ARRANGEMENTS.
Outside of the very fewprofessing Chris
tians of the North whose religibus scruples
prevent their voting at all, we have a large
body of Christians, some of whom show en
tirely too little concern or sense of respon
-ibility in the important duty of voting. Or;
if they endeavor to perform this final act in
the choice .of. rulers, faithfully and. wisely,
they are indifferent to all-those preliminary
,:tapes of the process, in the managenaent o
which most of the art and energy of pro
. eased politicians is so successfully employecl.
V oting indeed, is often but the blind obedi
ent confirmation of the previous decisions
of politicians who have almost come to
regard the people as mere tools of their will.
n their primary meetings, held , mostly in
:mall disagreeable places, frequently in im
ediate proximity to, or under the same
oof with, a drinking establishment, :to
hid' the rough characters of the township
or precinct are apt to come in far greate
cumbers than the reputable and the good,
these party managers are pretty sure to have
their own way. That way has no regard
for justice, honor, or the public good, only
so far as is necessary to preserve appear
ances with the class of voters who are
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guided by principle. Their object is the
suceess of the party for their own individua
profit. As a olass, the political managers
of the country, the men who have acquired
that cleverness and astuteness which are
regarded as the highest accomplishments o
he professed politician, are the most un
principled set of jugglers to be found any
where. They seem to become such in spite
if good intentions and fair character at the
, :tart. But whatever they were at the
beginning, they, as a class, are not the men
to whom the people should for one single
hour consent to trust the destinies of this
country. It is, indeed, nothing less than
monstrous that a country so leavened with
Christian principles as is ours, should be
suffered to fall so much under the influence
if the mere wire-working schemers, the
ii en whose highest qualifications are not fo
he kingly art of government, but for chi
and intrigue, for personal advance
ment or personal revenge. That such :
class should exist in a tree country, is no
indeed, wonderful; it must be expected in
the course of things; but that Christian
people should quietly submit, year afte
r ear, to their dictation, should allow them
to hold completely in their hands all the
reliminaries of political action,—this is
the real miracle. This is the abuse which
hrows discredit upon the working of on
'free institutions. The question is not,
whether there is piety
.and patriotism
enough in the country to save it; we may
grant that there is. But is there enough
practical good sense, along with our Chris
tianity, to bring it to bear efficiently upon
the politics of the country ? Is there an
every-day self-denying patriotism amon:
Christians, making them willing to bear in
some degree the, burdens and responsibili
ties of a proper management of our politi
cal affairs, and to save them from irreme
diable corruption at the very fountain-hea.
of power?
We do not believe the other sort of pa
triotism, which is ready to expend life and
limb and treasure for the country, admir
able as it is, will avail for the salvation o
our country, if it is not attended with tha
teddy and sober, and perhaps more dif6c
form of loyalty, which directs its efforts to
the every-day working , of our politica
*nstitntions in their first stages, from the
nomination of a school director to that o
'resident.
The good people of the country, Chris
tians and others, must declare that bad
men, depraved men, intemperate men, op
ponents of the Sabbath, mere self-seekin 6
oliticians, who have no thought of rever
ence toward the Ruler of all and no concern
for principles of righteousness, justice and
humanity, shall 'not rule this country tha
:uch men shall not clutch and hold the
reins of power in every stage of its exercise.
et them say this; let it be understood
that this is their position, and the very
time-serving and' strategy of politicians will
lead them to better and wiser courses of
etion.
Other aspects of the subject will come
up, for consideration. ,
BRIDGEVILLE, DEL.—We are glad to
hear that the , new church is still on the
advance. An accession of eight mem
bers was received at the last communion;
wo on profession, making , the entire
membership twenty-two. The Sabbath
school is growing in numbers and interest.
A pic-nie was recently given by the
miters and parents to the children, in
a neighbering grove, to which the friends
of the church and the children, and
iends of the Methodist Sunday-school
were invited. About five hundred per
sons were assembled, who were feasted
without charge and to their 'hearts' con
tent on all manner of good things. The
best of order prevailed and the satisfac
tion was universal.
The people have commenced buildin
their church.. Half a dozen of their
number subscribed MO. A buildin
committee are now soliciting funds-and
building material. They will doubtless
xtend their calls to Northern Delaware,
and to the cities of Wilmington and
Philadelphia. We bespeak for them a
hearty response.
THE PRESBYTERY OP LAKE SUPERIOR,
which for two years lacked a Constitu
tional quorum, has now six members.
A correspondent of the Evangelis
" July 25th the Presbytery held its
annual meeting at Escanaba, Michigan.
This may well be regarded as the firs
formal, regular meeting ever held by
his body. We had our Presbyteria
sermon and communion service, ou
meeting for prayer and still another ser
mon, in connection with formal publi
service. Of business of special interest
might be mentioned the taking under its
gitiuds Dt ttur Ourths.
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are, by Presbytery, of the First Preby
erian Church of Escanaba, organized
tut a few months since ; and the licen
sing of Mr. Alexander McLochlin to
'reach the Gospel.
" The religious narratives presented
were of marked interest. The church
at Sault St. Marie, which a year since
had but seven members, added during
he year, fifteen more. The Church at
Marquette added daring the year, on
- xamination fifteen, and on certificate
welve, making a total of twenty-seven ;
aising the number of members from
hirty-nine of a year since to fifty-nine.
The Congregational Church of Hancock,
Portage Lake, supplied by a member of
Presbytery, reported informally an in
crease, since May, 1865, to July last, of
fifty-eight members, by certificate thirty
one, and by examination twenty-seven ;
raising the membership from thirty-two
o eighty-seven. The other Churches
of the Presbytery were not duly repre
tented, and facts in reference to them
cannot, consequently, be given. The
contributions to the cause of religion
were in some instances with very marked
iberality, such as is rarely equalled by
other Churches anywhere.
" The commissioners to the General
Assemby to meet at Rochester next
year, are, principals, Rev. Thomas R.
Easterday and-Elder Philo S. Church;
and alternates, Rev. C. B. Stevens and
Elder J. B. Clark."
INFANT BAProms.—lt is frequently
asserted that infant baptism is neglected
by the denominations which profess to
believe in it. We have examined the
Minutes on this point with some interest.
The infant baptisms reported for the
past year are 3933. The whole number
of communicants is 150,000. There are
probably, then, about 30,000 families in
the Church. How many children would
be born in any given year in 30,000
families ? Certainly not more than 5000.
early a quarter of the Churches made
no report last year. The number of
members is carried on from the previous
• ear, but the baptisms, if any, do not
appear. We may 'add perhaps 500 for
he cases not reported. And we have
bout 4500 infant baptisms in a church
o whose members about 5000 infants
have been born during the year. Nine
tenths of Presbyterian parents consecrate
their children to God. One-tenth neglect
't. These figures and calculations show
that there is no foundation for the sweep
'ng statement that pedobaptists do not
carry out their principles.
We may reach a similar result in an
other way. The additions to the Church
last year on profession were 10,289.
The adult baptisms were 3455. Hence
of the converts received into our com
munion, 6854, or very nearly two-thirds,
have been baptized in infancy. This
does not look as if we were neglecting
fant baptism, nor as if it was a mean
ingless and useless ordinance.—Chris
ian Herald.
CALIFORMA.—Rev. T. E. Taylor
organized a church at Meadow Lake on
he .17th of June.
REv. J. D. .T.ENKINS, DE SoTo, MO.—
Rev. J. D. Jenkins has removed from
Huron, Ohio, to De' Soto, Jefferson
county, Missouri. He has entered upon
Home Missionary work in the latter
place, with fair prospects of building up
a Presbyterian Church.
, ANOTHER U NlON. —Fourteenmembers
of the Old School Presbyterian Church
at Henrysville, Clark county, Indiana—
all heads of, families—have recently
united with the Mount Lebanon New
School Church in that county. They
had for several years been receiving the
Home Missionary labors of Rev. F.
Bevan, and came into the church during
he interest which has not yet ceased in
that congregation.—lbid.
TEE MASSACRE OF BARLETTA is under
investigation. Something as the melancholy
scenes of Memphis and New Orleans with
us, it is a touehstone of the fidelity of Gov
•rnment to its avowed policy of freedom and
"ustice to all . The correspondent of Evan
gelical Christendom says :—"The processo'
against the rioters and murderers of Barletta
drags it slow length along,' and every effort
11. be use& to make it as mild' as possible,
fit be not hung up till the matter is forgot
ten. It is said that the Procurator Royal at
ni is a Liberal, and anxious that justice
-hould take its course; but the Juge d'ln
struction' at Barletta, to whom is confided
the drawing up. of the case, precognoscing
the witnesses, etc., is said to be a Paolotto
f the deepest dye a mere tool in the hands
of the priestly pa;ty, and it is feared he will
anage the case, so that it will be as innocu
ous as possible when it comes before the
Courts. The number now in prison as con
erned in that massacre is over 200. Imme
diately after that sad event there was so
strong a reaction in favor of liberty of con
z cience and worship, that the Nice Com
ittee's missionary might have settled at
arletta with the assurance that, humanly
heaking, he could be nowhere so safe as
ere in preaching the Gospel, after what
II • d occurred. By weakness on the part of its
agents, however,and bullying on the part of
*te sub-prefect, hey were driven away for a
hile, time was lost, the taeople were disconr
ged, nay, were even induced to sign a paper
equesting that the evangelist might be re
moved for a time; but all that is now past.
Giannini has returned to Barletta, and finds
no obitacle in the way of his work."