clear that the young man who was converted" in the old Longmeadow church in 1802 was indeed none other than Louis XVII. of France.

THE OSTRACISM OF AN

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ABOLITIONIST

HOSE of us born in New England since the Civil War have so care

fully been taught that the North was ever Abolitionist in its attitude, that it is with not a little shock that we learn of such a case of persecution for opinion's sake as that of the Reverend Joshua Young, D. D., who was driven from his parish at Burlington, Vermont, because he officiated at John Brown's funeral.

Doctor Young is still living in a pleasant little town near Boston, and one day he intends to tell in full the story of his relation to the Abolition movement. Mean

while, I give the account of this minister's connection with John Brown as he himself, a serene white-haired octogenarian, with vivid recollections of the past, recently gave it to me. At first I found him rather reluctant to open anew the old wound of his social ostracism because of sympathy with the cause of the blacks. "They are rather ashamed now up in Burlington at the way I was treated,” he said, "so why go over it all again?"

But when I told him that the rising generation would not and could not believe that New England had ever failed to live up to the lofty anti-slavery sentiments with which we have been taught to associate her, unless the details of such stories as these are made more clear, his interest in a modern rehearsal of the half-century old drama was enkindled, and he speedily brought out his "John Brown Book"