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Tuesday, Feb. 10,th.

After devotions this morn, we were favored with
another communication from Mr Alcott.

I hardly hknow what to do about recording anything
he said. I did not fully comprehend all he said, but
I was interested and excited and felt very glad to find
I had some sympathy with his feelings. I thought I
could find some passages of scripture appropriate to his
statements, and as proof of the truth of them, but he
does not use such simple language as Jesus did
so that, "he who runs may read". How can he make
himself useful to the illiterate and unlearned, he seems
afraid of common langauge, and of common things.

Mr A. commenced by saying "that piety was
the source of all culture, and that piety consisted in
the giving up of the whole soul and body, to the spirit of
God, and that the spirit of God is always with us,
whenever we will open our hearts to receive it.

He then spoke of the good and mighty influence of a person
who posessed this divine this piety, or whose heart was
filled with divine love. A truthful teacher exhibits
in her life this divine love, humanized, and endeavors
to enlighten, and open the minds of her pupils, to receive
this divine love. We cannot have a clear perception
of divinity without the exercise of great self denial.

All the faculties of the mind and body, should
be held as sacred gifts from God, and employed only