in the English prayer-book in favor
of "Jews, Turks, heretics, and infidels," which found its counterpart
in the extemporaneous prayers of other orthodox religious sects, is
beginning to sound rather antiquated. The idea of holding up Dr.
Gottheil, for instance, as a proper subject for especial prayer, is to
most sensible people rather ridiculous, however good Christians they
may be. Investigation has found the principles of a high morality in
other religious creeds than those of Western Europe and America; and
charity, that chiefest of Christian virtues, has taught us to judge
others, if we judge them at all, by standards of general application
with allowance for peculiar conditions. We have discovered that
political sagacity was not confined to the founders of the political
systems of modern Europe. It is found that the human mind is much the
same under like conditions in all countries and in all times; and we
are approaching gradually to Tennyson's "parliament of man" and
"federation of the world."

--A sadder story has not been told for a long while than that of the
mother and daughter who were excluded from the Shaker settlement at
Whitewater, where they had been for fourteen years, and after leaving
which, and seeking in vain the means of livelihood, they, in despair,
took poison, and died in each other's arms. The sadness is not so much
in their death; for to that they were at any time liable; and loving
each other fondly, as they manifestly did, in their voluntary death
they were not divided. But the mother was at first driven to the Shaker
community fourteen years ago, with her little girl, because she had
been deserted by the father of her child, to whom she had not been
married. She had weakly yielded to the impulse of nature without
fortifying herself by a legal claim upon the father of her child, and
the world, instead of treating her tenderly and helping her, turned its
back upon her and told her that she and the child that she had borne
were fit only to starve or to live in a county poor house. After
fourteen years of the cold, colorless, and unnatural life of the
Shakers, the daughter showed that she was not an abstraction or a
forked radish, and behaved like a woman, perhaps not a prudent one, to
the young men of the community. She was told that such behavior was
only fit for the world's people, and that she and her daughter must go.
But the world's people had driven out the mother herself upon somet