And here, dear brethren and sisters, another thought comes to mind suggesting another question:  If angels desire to look into the things of man’s salvation, should not men have an equal desire to look into them?  Should not those who still have the stream to cross, and to whom the ford looks somewhat dark and uncertain, be quite as much interested in it, and in all connected with it, as those who are safely landed on the other shore?  Think of this, will you?  Let me impress this thought:  If the angels, who are out of the reach of all harm and danger, feel such a glow of interest to learn all they can about the way in which all are saved; should not men, who are still exposed to danger, feel an equal or a still deeper interest?

But how is it with the bulk of professors?  Who of you, my dear Brethren, make the Bible the man of your counsel?  Who of you read and study it with that devotion of faith which makes you feel that your eternal life is in that Word?  With joy would I give you the touch of heaven’s galvanism to quicken your souls to a livelier sense of the transcendent importance of this matter.  I feel sure that many of you do read.  You love your Bible because it tells you of your sin and your Savior, of your cross and your crown.  But how is it with many?  They read some, no doubt; partly from a sense of duty and to quiet their consciences; but not, I fear, with a deep and inmost desire to learn the things of salvation.

Brethren, if the Bible be true, it is tremendously true.  It is true with a power that lifts the contrite, penitent, faithful follower of our Lord to the gates of the Holy City, and opens them to him; and it is true with a power that sinks the faithless, impenitent, careless, sin-loving sinner to hell.  To which class do I belong?  With which class am I going to spend a long eternity?  I am happy to see in the luster of many an eye here the evidence of your being in the class first named, and on the side of salvation.  God grant that all may be in that number; and in a better world and a purer life, with angels on high, sing the song of Moses and the song of the Lamb.

Brother Price was followed by brethren John Garber, Henry Kurtz and Umstead, all bearing testimony more or less extended.  The services were brought to a close, and an intermission was given.  In the afternoon queries were taken in.

TUESDAY, May 16.  The meeting was continued to-day.  Seven queries were disposed of.  Love and harmony abound.

WEDNESDAY, May 17.  The meeting was brought to a close to-day.  The business being all disposed of, it broke up in the afternoon by the singing of the hymn: 

  “Blest be the dear uniting love
    That will not let us part;
  Our bodies far apart may move,
    We still are joined in heart.”