"How firm a foundation, ye Saints of the Lord, Is laid for your faith in His excellent word!" The last lines which we heard, as their voices were lost in the distance, were as follows: "When through the deep waters I call thee to go, The rivers of sorrow shall not thee o'er flow." Hats and handkerchiefs were still waving in view as a last token of farewell. Soon all was a dim speck upon the ocean; a few moments more and they vanished from view in the wide expanse and lost in the distance. May God speed them onward in their course, and land them safely in their destined port. The _Star_ for October, 1841, contains several other communications of interest; giving cheering accounts of the spread of the work in various places, but we will not record them here. The November number opens with an editorial on "The Philosophy of the Resurrection," from which we extract the following: The mysterious works of God in the formation, progress, changes, and final destiny of creation, are all wonderful and miraculous in one sense. The formation of the natural body in embryo, or even of a plant or flower, is as much a miracle as the creation or reorganization of a world or the resurrection of the body. Each effect has its cause, and each cause its effect; and the light, spirit or truth which proceeds from Deity is the law of life and motion; the great governing principle of the whole machinery of the universe, whether natural or spiritual, temporal or eternal. It is the cause of causes; the main spring of nature's time piece. By it we live; in it we move and have a being. Let man be placed upon a lofty eminence surrounded with the original elements of uncreated worlds; let him contemplate the confused and chaotic mass of unorganized existence; let him hear the voice of truth and power as its first sentence rolls in majesty of wisdom from the lips of Deity; let him behold the first movement of chaos as it begins to come to order.