Rutland Weekly Herald

"The Gospel In Egypt."--A correspondent of the New York Tribune writes a letter with the above heading, and gives a somewhat extended and minute account of a preacher he met with in the southern part of Illinois. This Minister preach on the previous Sunday:

"On that occasion his text was from 2d Samuel, 22d chapter, 34th verse: He maketh his feet like hind's feet, and setteth me in high places.' As he could not read very well, he had mistaken 'hind's' for 'hen's,' and, upon this reading he built his discourse, going on to show that as the feet of hens are made to hold fast to a stick or to a branch of a tree, they sleep securely, while without such feet they would slip off. So it was in Christian life; the feet are faith, the branches are the promises which are taken hold of, and by this means the Christian is, according to the word, 'set up in high places;' and though the rain may fall and the wind blow, he is safe. For more than half an hour he enlarged on the text in this manner, while his hearers wondered at his ability to explain the Scriptures."