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  November 9. Monday. - Attended the Loyal Legion at Cin-
cinnati at "The  Hotel  Emory,"  [last Wednesday  evening].
General Cox read a capital paper on his campaign in Virginia
- West Virginia.  A good visit with old friends - the Herrons,
Mrs. Davis, the Forces, and Mrs. Stephenson.
  Lunched with our new Governor Foraker and McKinley.
        McKinley is a friend worth having.  Home Saturday.
  Last night Rev. Mr. Prentiss gave us a good address on the
Bible before the County Bible Society. I must sometime main-
tain my proposition that a non-professor of religion - "a mere
man of the world"--who  wishes well to his country and his
fellow men ought actively to aid in the circulation of the Bible,
and in adding to its influence. The general course of my argu-
ment is this: All peoples will have some religion. Death leads
the mind to consider the future, to a contemplation of Deity.
Hence religion, or this is religion. Now, the best religion the
world has ever known is the religion of the Bible. It builds
up all that is good. It suppresses or diminishes all that is bad.
With it men are happy and nations are prosperous.  Where it is
not found vice and crime prevail.