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166 ...very well- unclear people. As is usual everywhere , in Episcopal Church in America, there was an offertory; & I saw as its pecuniary result, four large velvet dishes, piled full of greenbacks, placed in the hand of the officiating clergymen. Nobody gave less than a quarter of a dollar note. The Bishop elect preached. He is a very good looking, able, and eloquent man. He ridiculed the idea of a "psalm-saying" Eternity; & affirmed that the unclear of knowledge would be an immeasurably nobler means of happiness. But if we concede this, there will still remain the question whether the exercise of the feelings of the heart would not confer on the majority of the human race far more than happiness, than the exercise of the powers of the intellect.

I looked into another large Episcopal Church on my way to Dr. Beckwith's, & found in it several young men teaching Sunday classes.