EPISTOLARIA.

LETTER FROM ENGLAND.

“Dear Bro:

            “The third number of the Herald has come to hand. I am truly indignant at A. Campbell. To assert that you are worthless to your friends, worse than worthless to the world!! ‘Twill be well for him, if he ever turns half as many to righteousness as you have done, should he yet learn the way thereof himself, of which, however, there seems little chance. Instead of demonstrating the “hallucination” on which he affirms “Elpis Israel” to be “based,” he assails you in a strain of vituperation as low and coarse as it is unchristian. His vulgarism off the “big head” must disgust every person of ordinary refinement. I wonder he could descend so low. But it shows how a man may be carried away by rancorous feeling. Nevertheless, abuse is no argument, and his proves nothing but his inveterate hatred of the truth, and of you its proclaimer. His virulence shows that he finds in “Elpis Israel” no contemptible opponent of his go-to-heaven theory. It must have hit him hard, or he would not be so very wroth. His olla podrida of “worthlessness” is comprehensive and indefinite enough; and most insulting to the many worthy and amiable individuals who esteem you very highly in love. If you are “worthless,” they, as the admirers of such a character, must be “worthless” also—an aggregate of “pestilent fellows,” such as the sect of the Nazarenes were of old composed of. Really, ‘tis a pity there is no one philanthropic enough to rid the world of you all. Your “amiable friend’s lance is a wooden “weapon” indeed, very “wooden.” I admire your demolition of it. You have shivered it entirely, and in merry mood too.”

England, May, 1852.                                                                                                    “X. Y. Z.”

LETTER FROM SCOTLAND.

“Dear Brother:

            “How melancholy it is to read the attacks of A. Campbell upon you and your writings. It is nearly two years now since I saw that he was in his dotage; but he appears now to be somewhat crazy, and just making himself a laughing-stock. How the half-and-halfs are chuckling over his lampooning you, if he could. He is just making himself a notorious ---, poor old man! Dear brother, if you are able to go on with the Herald, I have no doubt but it will do a glorious work, and must and will overturn the Campbellite system. I am more than astonished that we have not heard more of a breaking up amongst them; but like all other sects they seem joined to their idols: let us hope, however, that a change may come over them for the better soon. The articles in the Herald continue very edifying and interesting. You have evidently the truth on your side, and that must finally prevail.”

“E. A. L.”

Scotland, May 1852.