for there is no other name given under heaven by which they can be saved. It is, we repeat, the hope of the world, and without it the world were lost in darkness and despair.

In accomplishing this work, the Bible under God, and with God, is our strongest instrumentality. Thankful for the intimations of his works and the encouraging testimonies of reason, we still cling to the Bible as the light of our faith and the guide of our practice. Respectful to the discoveries of progressive mind, we still hold to the Bible as the only divine and authoritative utterance of truth. It is the ground of our confidence, the warrant of our hope, the shield of our defence. It is the weapon which we have found mighty, through God, to the pulling down of the strongholds of error. It is our attendant shekinah. It has led us through the conflicts of the past; it has brought us to behold the glory of this day; and the glory or the gloom of the future shall not turn us from its guidance. It is from this sacred fountain of truth that we draw our rational system. It is in this revelation of the Father's goodness, that we are taught the supremacy of love. We cannot qualify the im

plicitness of our respect for it. By it we have won, by it we shall triumph.

"Trust in God and keep your powder dry!" was the language of a reliance upon Providence, which would admonish to the use of corresponding means for the attainment of the desired purpose. It is not enough that we have a satisfying system. It is not enough that our system is vital with a principle which must conquer. It is not enough that we find every requisite sanction in the Oracles of the Living God. It is not enough, that our past career has been marked by the most encouraging success. This enhances our obligation to trust in Divine Providence none the less, but in our own providence all the more.

The day of small things is passing away. The seed sown in tears, returning in first-fruits, give promise of an ample harvest. All around us there are signs of a propitious era: and among them all, that whose significance rises to the assurance of good, is the foretoken, no longer regarded as equivocal, of the founding of an institution which shall give to our ministry the advantages of a liberal education, in halls consecrated to the genius of Universalism. It is not

the exuberance of a fanatical fancy which contemplates this result with the most confident joy. Nothing is more fitting than that a religion so peculiarly adapted to the highest development of our mental and emotional nature, should be signalized in its ministry by the aids of the highest intellectual and moral culture. We depreciate not the past. Our weakness has been mighty, else it had not so multiplied the necessities for added strength and the extended application of means to opportunities. The liberality, zeal and wisdom, securing the origin and attending the conduct of an enterprise fraught with so much good to the world, cannot but receive the award of an appreciative and honorable remembrance.

To recur to our causes for gratulation and encouragement, is but to recall an occasion of bereavement and sorrow. "Our fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live for ever?" Alas! the hand of Time is upon us. I look in vain for the venerable man, whose presence has been with us so long, who taught us our wisdom, and gave us the benedictions of his love. He has gone! Our guardian for half a century, our counsellor whom we called FATHER, he is with us

no more. His simple manners, his goodness of heart, his fidelity to principle, his strength of reason, his love of the Scriptures, his unostentatious piety, constrained our unanimous love of his living worth, as they will also perpetuate the most unaffected reverence for his memory. Green lies the turf above him, while his name freshly lives in a million of true hearts; and, in after times, when other systems shall pass away, and other great men be forgotten, UNIVERSALISM shall hand down to the gratitude of millions more, the unperished name of - HOSEA BALLOU!

Sainted sire! animated with the great purpose which breathed through thy toils and sacrifices on earth, and ever hopeful in our labor for the Zion thou didst love, we will not rest nor hold our peace, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth. AMEN.