Hamilton, Ohio, in September of this year. There were present such men as William H. Raper, James B. Finley, George W. Walker, John F. Wright, C. Elliott, L. L. Hamline, Michael Marlay, Jos. M. Trimble, William Nast, and others, whose names, for pulpit power, have become familiar throughout the State of Ohio. These men, who were accustomed to move the masses as a storm bends the forests, found themselves entirely at the will of the youthful secretary. At first, instructed and entertained, they were at length captured, and amid tears and shouts his address was concluded, and by a unanimous vote they stood ready to sustain his

cause.

His address before the Indiana Conference, held at Centreville, Indiana, in the same autumn, was equally successful. As proof of the abiding impression produced by it, we insert a letter written to him by Mr. William Young, a venerable Christian, many years after, from Painesville, Ohio.

Some twenty years or more ago, when you were agent for the American Bible Society, I had the pleasure of hearing you address the Indiana Conference, at Centreville, Bishop Morris presiding. I shall never forget the effect of the appeal you made in behalf of God's Bible. I was brought under conviction that I had not done my whole duty to this glorious cause, though I had done something every year. In making my will I left $1,000 to the cause, if it could be spared. But, as God has given me the means, I wish to execute this part of my will before I go hence, as I owe every thing I have that is good or

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comfortable for soul and body, for time and eternity, to God's Bible. I recollect some Christians of Philadelphia gave Bishop Asbury some Bibles to distribute among the poor. On his return next year he remarked from the pulpit, "There may be some errors in my preaching, but when I was distributing the word of God, without note or comment, then I knew I was sowing the pure seed of the kingdom." Will you permit me, through you, to present to the American Bible Society a bond, payable in New York, for $1,000, drawing 7 per cent. interest. I am an old man, past seventy, much afflicted, but I have no cause to complain, for the lines have fallen to me in pleasant places, and I have a goodly heritage.

In the winter of 1843-44 Mr. Janes made another tour of the South as Bible Secretary. A communication from Mr. C. C. North, a Methodist layman of New York, who was then residing in Alabama, gives a brief account of his visit to the Alabama Conference, and will illustrate the uniform effects which attended his ministrations. Mr. North says:

In the winter of 1843 we were residing in Columbus, Miss. The same winter the Alabama Conference held its session in the town, the venerable Bishop Soule presiding. During the Conference Rev. E. S. Janes, recently chosen Financial Secretary of the American Bible Society, arrived, and made his home at our house. This was his last tour through the · Southern States, in which he visited the Conferences as representative of that great society. He was small in stature, quick in action, gentle in manner, while his countenance wore that quiet, placid expression for which he was remarkable in after years. His pleasing manner and strong speeches gave him a place at once in the hearts of the preachers.

His sermon before the Conference, on Sunday morning, preached to a crowded house, was one of the most impressive

of the many that I have heard from his lips. His theme was "Heaven," and during the delivery he seemed rapt with its glory. His countenance shone like that of Moses. The whole congregation were deeply moved by the wonderful power of his words, and responses were heard from all parts of the house. The preacher and the sermon formed a lifepicture on the minds of all present. Similar sermons and speeches before the Southern Conferences during that and a former tour brought him to the attention of the Southern ministers as a suitable person for the episcopacy, and no doubt had much to do with his election at the memorable General Conference of 1844.

It was an unspeakable pleasure to have him for our guest. We were also privileged at the same time with the company of the Rev. James Collord, who represented the Book Concern before the Conference. To us, far away from our New York home, it was a great joy to have at our table these friends of our youth. Being young housekeepers, Mr. Janes took an affectionate interest in our domestic concerns, remarking, "Things are so home-like." During his stay we were favored with the presence (at dinner) of the venerable Bishop Soule and his wife. Being an inexperienced carver, and Mr. Janes noticing my embarrassment, he kindly offered his aid, took the knife in his hand, and soon skillfully disjointed the turkey. Ours was then an undivided Church. None of that company perclear sky. A universal calm

ceived a cloud of disorder in the rested upon the people, and no one, at least at that table, dreamed of the storm that burst upon the Church the following year, and in which all of them were to be participants.

His addresses before promiscuous audiences were equally effective with those before ministers. Indeed, it was not so much the audience or the occasion, as the subject, which filled him. Dr. J. S. Porter, writes:

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When Secretary of the American Bible Society he was down for a speech at a Bible meeting in New Brunswick, where I was then stationed. By some means the cars were detained, and he did not reach the place till we had heard two good, but rather dull, speakers, when he came, and almost instantly began to speak, and he had but just entered upon the delivery of his speech when a great change came over the audience. From apparent drowsiness there was a lively interest awakened, and all seemed as if a new spirit had taken possession of them.

The secretary who could thus stir Conferences and conventions of ministers and the cultured congregations of the cities, was equally at home in the backwoods, and was not indifferent to the claims. of the frontiersman. An incident is related that at one time he had an engagement to meet a Conference on a certain Sabbath. His route led him through a rough, mountainous and thinly settled section. A break in the railroad prevented him from reaching the place at the appointed day, though he made strenuous exertions to do so by stage or otherwise. ... Sabbath morning found him in a neighborhood where a few cabins surrounded a court-house, but there was no church. By inquiring he learned that a religious meeting was to be held that morning in the court-house. He went, took his seat, no one knowing him. An unlettered man opened the meeting, reading the hymns as well as he could. After some devotional exercises there was a pause, when the leader hitched along on the bench on

which he sat, till he came near enough to Mr. Jancs to whisper in his ear, "Are you not a Church member?" An affirmative answer being given, he asked him to speak to the people. He immediately did so. A request was then made that he would preach in the afternoon. The information being circulated, a large number assembled, and among them, men in their hunting shirts, with their dogs and guns, came to the place and listened attentively to the word.

No mere sketch written as a preparation for speaking, not even a verbatim report of a speech, could convey an adequate idea of the impression produced by his living utterance, yet I cannot withhold one or two extracts from a manuscript, as indicating his mode of treating the great subject with which he was intrusted.

The Bible is an observatory so elevated, and furnished with instruments so perfect, as to enable the careful, patient, and devout student to survey the universe of truth in all its proportions and perfections.

Thank God for this perfect library; this dictionary in which infinite, unerring wisdom has defined all subjects of human concernment; this gazetteer of the moral world, giving the topography, population, and condition of its important places; this history, giving an account of the works and ways of God -of the dispensations of his providence and grace, including the history of man, his creation, fall, and redemption; this body of divinity-stating and explaining the theological, sentiments of the infinite Mind-the divine teachings of the Deity. The morality of the Bible does that which no other code of morals