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Rh the Park.’ ‘I shall be delighted to do so.’ I found them charming company. They gave me an account of the last hours of their dear father, whom I used to think of as the beloved disciple, so meek, so gentle, so lovely. I little thought that a few years later I should publish ‘Yesterday, To-day, and Forever,’ the delightful work of their brother, and one of the most popular volumes I have ever issued. I was glad to be introduced to Tholuck, the Monods, and other celebrities of France and Germany. Dr. Baird was the only American there that was with me at the great Evangelical Alliance meeting in London in 1846, fifteen years before.

“After the meeting, our party went to Visp, the Gorner Grat, and Zermatt. We had a snowball party on the Gorner Grat, 10,000 feet high, while the valleys below were excessively hot. We saw the sun set on Monte Rosa, and the scene around was the most magnificent I ever saw. The good Doctor had some of the most sublime bursts of eloquence amid those glorious mountains. O, it was good indeed to be with him!”

Mr. Carter used often to relate the following incidents of this trip.

On one occasion Dr. Guthrie was about to cross a little foot-bridge which he thought of doubtful sound- ness. He had forgotten the German for “safe,” so he asked the guide in French, but he shook his head; then he asked him in English, with no better success. “I am going to try him with Scotch,” exclaimed the Doctor. “Is’t siccar, man?” “Ah, ja, ja, siccar!” responded he at once.

When they were crossing the Austrian frontier in going to Venice, the official who examined the passports was puzzled by Dr. Guthrie’s, on which were included the names of his party of eight, and, after trying in