ision in the camp. The Christadelphians are an offshoot,
as I understand. They are very adventurous people, these
Christadelphians. They welcome strangers in their midst. The original
Ecclesias contend for the application of the principle of separation in
communion worship.

THE CHRISTADELPHIANS.

The love of names is one of the strongest passions of which human nature
is susceptible. In starting a newspaper, in publishing a book, in
opening a shop, a good name is half the battle. Years and years ago
there was an individual advertising his academy as Hogflesh. How
disgusting! Respectable parents objected, and the name became Hoflesh.
A little while since a poor fellow, tortured by the jeers of the world,
advertised that, for the future, instead of bearing the monosyllable
unpleasantly suggestive bequeathed him by less scrupulous or
thicker-skinned parents, he would henceforth call himself, and be called
by others, Mr. Norfolk Howard. (I should not wonder if by this time,
with his new name, the man has married an heiress.) Poor Charles Lamb
once wrote a farce, but as it turned out that the hero of it was Mr.
Hogsflesh, good society would have none of it, and straightway it
vanished into limbo. Our fathers can remember what ridicule was showered
down on Dissenters by the _Edinburgh Review_, and what laughter there was
at them all over the land when the Rev. Sydney Smith told how Mr.
Shufflebottom was ordained at Bungay. It is to be feared that in the
religious world names have had even a greater influence than amongst the
profane. What good men have been persecuted and suffered wrong because
they bore the name of a sect distasteful to an imperious majority! How
the mob have thirsted for their blood! "These are Christians--away with
them to the lions," said they of old Rome. "Down with the Roundheads!"
was the cry of country squire and rural parson when a few devout men such
as Richard Baxter and others more or less known to fame met in a small
room to keep alive the spirit of piety and prayer amongst themselves. It
was the same when Wesley and Whitefield, often at the peril of life,
proclaimed in parishes of England sunk in ignorance Gospel truths. There
are thousands who, like the late Isaac Taylor, of Ongar, could tell how a
"Church and King mob" kept them in perpetual fear, because they were
"Meetingers." There are yet parishes in Suffolk and Norfolk where to go
to chapel is to insure your bei