here will ever be a millennium, and
if so how will it come about?

_Answer_. It will probably start in Meriden, as I have been informed
that Lansing is going to leave.

_Question_. Is there anything else bearing upon the question at
issue or that would make good reading, that I have forgotten, that
you would like to say?

_Answer_. Yes. Good-bye.

--_The Sunday Union_, New Haven, Conn., April 10, 1881.

BEACONSFIELD, LENT AND REVIVALS.

_Question_. What have you to say about the attack of Dr. Buckley
on you, and your lecture?

_Answer_. I never heard of Dr. Buckley until after I had lectured
in Brooklyn. He seems to think that it was extremely ill bred in
me to deliver a lecture on the "Liberty of Man, Woman and Child,"
during Lent. Lent is just as good as any other part of the year,
and no part can be too good to do good. It was not a part of my
object to hurt the feelings of the Episcopalians and Catholics.
If they think that there is some subtle relation between hunger
and heaven, or that faith depends upon, or is strengthened by
famine, or that veal, during Lent, is the enemy of virtue, or that
beef breeds blasphemy, while fish feeds faith--of course, all this
is nothing to me. They have a right to say that vice depends upon
victuals, sanctity on soup, religion on rice and chastity on cheese,
but they have no right to say that a lecture on liberty is an insult
to them because they are hungry. I suppose that Lent was instituted
in memory of the Savior's fast. At one time it was supposed that
only a divine being could live forty days without food. This
supposition has been overthrown.

It has been demonstrated by Dr. Tanner to be utterly without
foundation. What possible good did it do the world for Christ to
go without food for forty days? Why should we follow such an
example? As a rule, hungry people are cross, contrary, obstinate,
peevish and unpleasant. A good dinner puts a man at peace with
all the world--makes him generous, good natured and happy. He
feels like kissing his wife and children. The future looks bright.
He wants to help the needy. The good in him predominates, and he
wonders that any man was ever stingy or cruel. Your good cook is
a civilizer, and without good food, well prepared, intellectual
progress is simply impossible. Most of the orthodox creeds were
born of bad cooking. Bad food produced dyspepsia, and dyspepsia
produced Calvinism, and Calvinism is the can