Alabama; no Southern State
has suffered more fearfully. May God and kind angels lift the war
curse from her widowed head!

The following extract from a letter, written by Mr. Adams, one of the
witnesses of the above scene, to the author, in 1864, from New York,
during a temporary sojourn there, will carry its own comment on the
fulfilment of the fatal prophecy:

"Now that my two poor boys are in daily danger of themselves
becoming 'unbodied spirits,' Emma, I continually revert to
that terrible prophecy of yours uttered in the assembly
chamber at Montgomery. Heaven knows I was then so little
prepared to expect war or any reasonable fulfilment of the
doom, that I could only look to see some great pestilence,
fire, or other sweeping calamity falling on poor Alabama. Last
night, when I read in the _Herald_ of the sweeping
extermination that had visited those two fine Alabama
regiments, I could not help going to Mrs. Adams's desk, where
she keeps the copy that young Waters made us of your prophecy,
and reading it aloud to the whole company.

"Our friend J. B., who was present, insisted upon seeing the
date, and when he saw that it was January, 1860, they were all
fairly aghast, and said if ever there was genuine prophecy it
was contained in that paper."

CLEARING AWAY THE FOG.

An esteemed correspondent writes, "For several years I have been a
reader of some of the treatises you have published in the interest of
progressive thought, and have found much to admire and reread; yet an
occasional paragraph containing the formula of orthodox theology, with
its dogma of God and Jesus, interwoven into your sequences of
argument, mystifies and perplexes my reason and judgment, and I
indulge in much speculation regarding your exact position,--whether
Christianity is to be vitalized and conserved by the discoverer of
modern science, or the Bible dogmas and traditions reinterpreted to
coincide with scientific method."

I am not aware of having ever written anything that could make my
position at all doubtful, nor do I see how doubts could arise in any
one who attends carefully to my language, and does not indulge in
drawing inferences therefrom which my language does not warrant. Upon
this very question I have expressed myself fully in published
lectures. I have never manifested any sympathy with the theology of
the churches, have never failed to speak of