Show I 1 I 1 Dech decline neA I 1 the rev HENRY henny WARD WABD beacher having been named for congress by some of ids admirers he declines the nomination in ili advance la in the following characteristic stylea i tyle if the people wish aishus us to be president of the ul united gilted states we should be disposed to accept that and we fancy there will be new times in washington city after our inaugural shall have been pronounced had tile the proposal to go to Con congress grest proceeded froat frein the Ame american board of missions there would have been grave reasons for considering erIng it we doubt vA kether they have a harder field in all alj Hwath heathendom endom nor yet a field where the Gospel is more needed but for fort mere nere political po lideal reasons to backslide from the pulpit lot congress is a little too long a slide for the first cirit venture we beg to decline 1 in ad advance vatice ex |