LIFE AND LETTERS OF JOSEPH HARDY NEESIMA

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ADDRESS AT RUTLAND. 113 intense earnestness of the speaker, and refer to the scene as one never to be forgotten. Swept away by his feelings, refusing to resume his seat nntil his ap~ peal was answered, declaring that he would not return to Japan without the money he asked for and that he should stand on that platform until he got it, the young Japanese carried his audience with him. Hon. Peter Parker of Washington rose and subscribed one thousand dollars; Ex~Governor Page of Vermont and Hon. William E. Dodge of New York, followed with like sums, and before Mr. N eesima had finished, his day-dream had become a reality. Towards the end of October, after an absence of nearly ten years, he left New York for Japan, via San Fran cisco, the first 01·dained evangelist of his raw. TO MR. AND MRS. HARDY. GREEN RIVE~, WYOMING, Octobl

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