dressed an immense audience of the citizens of Boston in Faneuil Hall. Thence he returned to Washington, where he remained until the public reception which was given him in July by his political friends in the capital of Massachusetts. Once more he returned to the duties of his office at Washington, where he remained until the beginning of September. During the journey which he afterward made through Baltimore toward Marshfield, he took a severe cold, which aggravated all his old symptoms. He visited. Boston several times, and at length, on the 21st of September, he returned to Marshfield for the last time, fully conscious that his condition was very critical.

To every intelligent and thinking man the close of life is always an important and solemn occasion; and thus Mr. Webster viewed it. He directed his attention, as he lay upon his couch, to the subject of religion, and requested that certain passages of Scripture should be read to him. On Sunday evening, October 10th, he dictated to his attendants a singular testimony and exposition of his religious belief. It was as follows:

66 LORD, I BELIEVE: HELP THOU MY UNBELIEF. "Philosophical argument, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe in comparison with the apparent insignificance of this globe, has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith which is in me; but my heart has always assured and reassured me that the gospel of Jesus Christ must be a divine reality. The Sermon on the Mount cannot be a merely human production. This belief enters into the very depths of my conscience. The whole history of man proves it.

"D. WEBSTER."

It was the earnest wish of this great man to leave behind him an express declaration of his belief in the truth of the