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 officers or soldiers especially appointed for the purpose. The officers are enjoined to see that all the soldiers keep their arms and ammunition in order; and above all to punish very severely any who blaspheme the holy name of God, or swear. And to the intent that union, which is the soul of our affairs, should remain inviolable among us, the officers shall swear fidelity to the soldiers, and the soldiers to the officers, promising together to our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, to deliver, if possible, our brethren from the cruel woman of Babylon, and with them to re-establish and maintain His kingdom till death, and observe all our lives, with good faith, this present ordinance.

B. Page 231. A similarity of faith and character between the colonists and the German people, who so cordially welcomed them, has occasioned so complete a union that little vestige can now be traced of the Vaudois settlers, who were established to the west and north of Stuttgart, but the names of some of the villages called after the places of their nativity, and a remnant of the Vaudois patois still understood in the more retired districts. In a Swiss periodical we have not at hand to quote from, we remember to have met an interesting letter written by a Vaudois pastor (we believe M. Appia), describing a visit he had paid to this locality, and his entire failure, owing to his ignorance of the language, in making known the object of his research, until some person hit on the happy expedient of fetching a little girl who had come from a more retired part, and whose native patois bore sufficient resemblance to that of the Vaudois to enable her to become a very efficient interpreter. The joy of the Vaudois pastor appears to have been very great in the discovery of this undeniable trace of his lost tribe of the &quot; Israel of the Alps.&quot; J. AND W. RIDER, PRINTERS, LONDON.