PROF. STOWE, in his discourse in the last issue of Bidwell's National Preacher, gives the following characteristic dictum of the great errorist of our age, and his own very happy reply: “The late Theodore Parker once told me that he no more felt the need of an infallible revelation on religion than on chemistry. It struck me that there were some very essential differences in the two cases. Chemistry lies entirely within the bounds of natural knowledge; religion does not. We can detect the mistakes of chemists by our own investigations in the world of nature, as open to us as to the chemist; but who can go into the spirit lands, and there detect the mistakes of the religious philosophers, and come back and let us know? By the time the mistake is ascertained it is too late to correct it. Moreover, chemistry pertains only to material things and this short life; but religion to spiritual things, which fix our destinies for eternity. I must have an infallible, objective revelation on religion, or I must discard religious thought altogether, and live wholly in and for the world of sense.”