is best in describing _horrible realities_. The managers of
the American Board (sturdy champions of hell) have been compelled by
public opinion to let Mr. Hume go back to India as a missionary,
though he will not agree to send all the heathen to hell. To keep up
their dignity, however, they represented Mr. Hume as having backed
down, and compelled him to show that he had not. Since passing Mr.
Hume they have refused to allow Mr. Morse to go on the same terms,
because he will not insist on the absolute _certainty_ that the
heathen are all in hell. The _Boston Herald_ says the Board's moral
obliquity is a puzzle to honest people.

REV. SAM JONES AND BOSTON THEOLOGY.--The _Herald_ says: "Brother Sam
Jones and Brother Sam Small do chiefly limit themselves to the simple
things of the gospel, and have less theology to the square inch than
the average of ministers, as Brother Sam Jones would express it. But
they are hardly fitted for this field, we should say."

Perhaps the following extracts from Rev. Samuel's sermons explain his
relations to Boston. Before an audience of 7,500 he said, "There are
100,000 people in twenty different states praying that I may succeed
in arousing Boston to a sense of her moral and spiritual degradation.

"I love to live in the world, but not to be troubled with
creeds. I know I am on dangerous ground here in Boston when I
am on creeds, for a fellow could get up a fight here on that
question quicker than he could on stealing."

"Whiskey is the worst enemy God or man ever had, and the best
friend the devil ever had."

"We have got sentiment enough to put whiskey out of Boston."

"You have enough church members in Boston to vote the whiskey
out of Boston any morning before breakfast."

"It is every preacher's duty to denounce the things of hell
just as much as it is to preach the beauty of Christ."

"I know you denounce drunkenness, but how few pulpits pull out
their dagger and stab it."

"God has not lost his power, but the pulpit has lost its
voice."

"Boston had a fire once, but that does not hurt you half as
much as the fire of damnation that is smouldering in the
hearts of people of this town."

"I don't know what will become of my converts if I leave them
in Boston."

The greatest religious work that has been done in Boston, is that of
Jones and Small. Every hall they occupied was crowded, and at