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CHARLES D. CLEVELAND. 731
line for guiding; and as for result, this lonely and solemn rally on the deepest within us, as it is continuously unfolded, moat lead to a glad and solemn union fcitih the Highest without us. Who can know unfailing inward energy except through this new birth ? It proved an ever-fresh spring of vigor to my father, and because of it he was chosen, in 1839, president of "The Philadelphia Bible Society." What changes were wrought iu the policy of the Society, what numerous plans were devised and executed for multiplying its operations, how it was made a cordial alliance of all denominations, will presently appear. This is now to be said: that, after filling his office for five years, he found that his Anti-slavery testimony had engendered in the managers a bitterness that would seize the address of 1844 for pretext, and make retaliation in his sacrifice. Thankful, for the thousandth time, to be a sacrifice for the cause he loved, he sent in his resignation in a letter full of Christian kindness and sorrow. A short extract will show its tone:
•'One whose great heart wishes the beat for humanity calls to us from the West: ' When your Society propose to put a Bible into every family, and yet omit all reference to the slaves; and when, giviog an account of the destitution of the land, they make no mention of two and a half millions of people perishing in our midst vnthoat the Scriptures, can we help feeling that sometliing is dreadfully wrong?1 This, brethren, is a moat solemn question. It ia a ijuestiou which I verily believe the American Bible Society, so far as |