nization
is formed, and, you might say, just a little before, leading spirits
will be developed. Certain men will take the lead, and the weaker
men will in a short time, unless they get all the loaves and fishes,
denounce the whole thing as a machine, and, to show how thoroughly
and honestly they detest the machine in politics, will endeavor to
organize a little machine themselves. General Garfield has been
in politics for many years. He knows the principal men in both
parties. He knows the men who have not only done something, but
who are capable of doing something, and such men will not, in my
opinion, be neglected. I do not believe that General Garfield will
do any act calculated to divide the Republican party. No thoroughly
great man carries personal prejudice into the administration of
public affairs. Of course, thousands of people will be prophesying
that this man is to be snubbed and another to be paid; but, in my
judgment, after the 4th of March most people will say that General
Garfield has used his power wisely and that he has neither sought
nor shunned men simply because he wished to pay debts--either of
love or hatred.

--Washington correspondent, _Brooklyn Eagle_, January 31, 1881.

HADES, DELAWARE AND FREETHOUGHT.

_Question_. Now that a lull has come in politics, I thought I
would come and see what is going on in the religious world?

_Answer_. Well, from what little I learn, there has not been much
going on during the last year. There are five hundred and twenty-
six Congregational Churches in Massachusetts, and two hundred of
these churches have not received a new member for an entire year,
and the others have scarcely held their own. In Illinois there
are four hundred and eighty-three Presbyterian Churches, and they
have now fewer members than they had in 1879, and of the four
hundred and eighty-three, one hundred and eighty-three have not
received a single new member for twelve months. A report has been
made, under the auspices of the Pan-Presbyterian Council, to the
effect that there are in the whole world about three millions of
Presbyterians. This is about one-fifth of one per cent. of the
inhabitants of the world. The probability is that of the three
million nominal Presbyterians, not more than two or three hundred
thousand actually believe the doctrine, and of the two or three
hundred thousand, not more than five or six hundred have any true
conception of what the doctrine i