INTELLIGENCER AND JOURNAL. entitled to a hearty welcome is the sincere desire of HOWARD M. JENKINS, Managing Editor. LOUISA J. ROBERTS. ASSOCIATE EDITORS: HELEN G. LONGSTRETH. SUSAN ROBERTS. LYDIA H. HALL. the editors. A PLEA FOR SILENT WORSHIP.-The silence of Friends' Meetings may or may not be an educating RACHEL W. HILLBORN. service, for it undoubtedly requires a preparation and a receptiveness on the part of the individual to receive the blessing which falls like dew in Heavenly stillness. Like many ordinances, it is often observed as a lifeless form and thus has not fulfilled the high purpose for which it was designed. PHILADELPHIA, FIFTH MO. 2, 1885. TO OUR READERS. The step announced as in contemplation, by which FRIENDS' INTELLIGENCER was to be united with THE FRIENDS' JOURNAL, is accomplished in this, the first of the joint issues, which is sent to all those who have been subscribers to either paper. Of the reasons which induced the union of the two publications, something has already been said in the circulars sent individually to subscribers, yet it may be fitly added here that those who conducted the two felt convinced of the objections that existed to the separate maintenance of newspapers so nearly alike in every essential particular, which were dependent upon the same circle of readers for their support. In the similarity of the aims and characteristics of the two, they perceived strong reason for a unity of their forces, so that whatever influence might be exerted by them should be at once more direct, more powerful and more harmonious. It is our belief that they may thus be better able to serve those objects which Friends have at heart, and which are welcome too, to the large body commonly known as Friendly People. One newspaper, combining the energies of the two, may be made, we are sure, superior in all the respects that give it a just right to existence and entitle it to the consideration of good people. It is the hope of the editors that they may be able to realize in a fair degree the ideal which they have in view, and to furnish a journal that shall be in its scope and in its character a creditable representative of the membership of our religious body. The present issue is materially enlarged, and further increase of the space devoted to reading matter will be made as occasion may require. Such other improvements as may prove to be practicable, it will be our duty and our pleasure to add. We solicit, then, the kind consideration of all who are interested in a Friends' newspaper, and appeal with a friendly confidence to them for their cordial support and assistance in the work. To maintain the INTELLIGENCER AND JOURNAL as a broad-minded earnest exponent of Friends' principles; as a steady and faithful representative of Friends' testimonies, and as a family visitor which shall be in all respects a To the deeply religious understanding of George Fox, the profound quiet of the natural was filled with development of the spiritual and no other form of worship could so completely satisfy the yearning of his spirit toward God. As he found his best life to grow in this silence and as those who shared in his belief also found it met their wants, it grew into an established custom and seemed to fulfill the ancient injunction to wait upon the Lord for the renewal of strength. away We have at times known the power which comes of quiet waiting, not only to a few here and there among those gathered, but as a general influence pervading the meeting; it is an "overshadowing of divine love" to hearts that are touched thereby, realizing the promise," he that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty." How our pettinesses shrink under the influence of this blessed silence, our selfish ends and aims seem less alluring, and we are melted more into the spirit of brotherly helpfulness and good will; such a transforming silence is to-day, as it has always been, the truest and noblest worship. It must, however, be admitted that we have often fallen away from this ideal condition; the thoughts and purposes pertaining to our lower life, have encompassed and bound down the higher and spiritual nature, so that it could not rise into dominion. The mind like the crowded inn of Bethlehem, is so filled with worldly guests that the heavenly life cannot enter, and it does not rise above the condition of a hostelry for the accommodation of those who traffic in the things that perish. We have need to consider wisely, lest we refuse admittance to this divine child. The love of silent worship grows as it is cultivated and as it is found to furnish sufficient food for the unseen life of the spirit. To grow toward the divine is the highest desire of our spiritual nature, and to accomplish this there must be an opportunity for the exercise of that nature; not all the service of the intellect, nor all the observance of the written law, can of themselves reach the spring of that life which is "hid with Christ in God." Jesus continually turned the attention of his disciples and those who THE funeral of our late esteemed friend Samuel J. Levick, took place at Merion Meeting-house, near this city, on Fourth day of last week, the 22d ult., and was very largely attended, many present being unable to get inside the house. The occasion was one of deep solemnity, and quite a number spoke in testimony to the impressions produced upon their minds. Among them were Caroline E. Talbot, Thomas Foulke, Elizabeth Troth, Ellison Newport and Thomas W. Stuckey. At the grave, Caroline E. Talbot and Samuel S. Ash spoke. It is stated that Samuel had himself expressed the wish that his remains should be placed in the yard at Merion which, as most of our readers are aware, is one of the most venerable of our meetings. In its neighborhood, the family of his mother were among the earliest settlers, at the beginning of the Pennsylvania colony. BUCK.-On First month 20th, 1885, near Cisne, in Wayne co., Ill., Phebe T. Buck, in the 80th year of her age (formerly Hendricks, of Adams co., Pa.). DUTTON.-On Second-day, Fourth mo. 27th, 1885, in Westtown, Chester co., Pa., Lizzie S., wife of H. Sharpless Dutton. GORDON.—On Fourth month 9th, 1885, of hasty consumption, Hannah, youngest daughter of Harrison and Lydia A. Gordon, and granddaughter of Stephen and Hannah Burnett. GREEN.-On Fourth mo. 26th, 1885, in West Goshen, Chester co., Pa., Lizzie S., daughter of John P. Green, in the 29th year of her age. LIPPINCOTT.-On Fourth month 21st, 1885, at Riverton, N. J., Rebecca P., daughter of Mary and the late Peter Lippincott. MCILVAIN.-On Fourth mo. 26th, 1885, in West Philadelphia, John Hunt McIlvain; a member of the Monthly Meeting of Friends, of Philadelphia. 1885, at his residence, West Chester, Pa., John SharpSHARPLESS.-On Fourth-day, Fourth mo., 29th, less, in his 80th year; a member of Birminghaîn Monthly Meeting. 1885, at the residence of his brother James, Sioux City, SPEAKMAN.-On Fifth-day, Fourth month 16th, Iowa, Ellis Speakman, formerly of Coatesville, Pa. ; a member of Fallowfield Monthly Meeting, Pa. TRIMBLE.-On Fourth month 20th, 1885, in New York, Cornelia, widow of George T. Trimble, in her 84th year. NOTES. Some extracts from the testimony of Luke Woodard, in the lawsuit amongst the Canada Orthodox Friends (in reference to the meeting property at Bloomfield), have just been printed in the Western Friend, having been furnished that journal by Adam Spencer, of Springford, Ontario. Luke Woodard, it seems, went to Toronto, under an arrangement with the Friends there that they were to provide for his support, at the rate of fifteen dollars a week, and he was to be a minister for them. The support was paid him weekly. He said, in his testimony, that he made notes before going to meeting of what he apprehended he might say thereat, but that he held. himself free, or tried to do so, to be guided by his belief at the time of speaking as to what it was then right for him to say. Upon these admissions, and upon Luke Woodard's statement that he "hardly thought" it was " a new thing" in the Society of Friends to have a minister placed in the manner of his Toronto engagement, the Western Friend manifests considerable indignation, remarking with regard to the last averment that "he certainly knew he did not tell the truth." It seems to an impartial observer that Luke Woodard, like our friend D. B. Updegraff (some portion of whose testimony in the same case was recently given, and commented on, in The Friends' Journal), was at a disadvantage in the trial, because he was striving to justify the present practices of his body of Friends by the old time usages of the Society. The attempt to do this necessarily failed. It never, in earlier times, was the custom for ministers among Friends to prepare notes in advance of the sermons which they "apprehended" they might preach; nor was it the custom for their congregations to pay them a support, HAWLEY.-On First-day, Fourth mo. 26th, 1885, in West Chester, Pa., Joseph P., son of Thomas and Anna Hawley, in the 26th year of his age; a member | either by the week, or in any other regular way; nor of Birmingham Monthly Meeting. KAY.-On Fifth-day, Fourth month 23d, 1885, at Haddonfield, N. J., Joseph Kay, in his 92d year. was it usual for Friends to be baptized outwardly, with water; nor did their meetings sing hymns or It is certainly very clear that earnest conscientious men ought to refuse to be placed so wrongly. The possession of a meeting-house, or of a piece of ground, is no adequate compensation for a misfortune so serious. The new practices of the Western Orthodox are new, and their recent adoption among those claiming the name of Friends ought to be freely admitted. That would be the candid and straightforward course, relieving those who are ardently devoted to the new ways from the embarrassment which necessarily attaches to an untenable defence. Their conviction of the rightfulness of their work should be, and doubtless is, abundantly strong to sustain whatever shock there might be in the admission that they were drawing a line between themselves and the older Quakerism, which would naturally compel the adoption of a new and suitable denominational name. * The Senate of Pennsylvania has just passed an important measure regulating marriage. It requires that a license shall first be obtained of the Clerk of the Courts, who can issue it only upon evidence that the parties are of age, or, if minors, that they have the consent of their legal care-takers. Ministers or magistrates officiating at a marriage not licensed are subject to a heavy fine. Where the ceremony is entirely by the contracting parties, it is required that they make a certificate of the marriage, with two others as witnesses. And a marriage record is to be regularly kept in the clerk's office of all marriages in each county of the State. A reaction of more refined taste against the flipA committee of the faculty and trustees of the pancy and irreverence of much "American humor University of Pennsylvania has been engaged for is manifested in connection with a new book by "Mark Twain." This is, perhaps, not any more to more than a year in the investigation of "Spiritualism," i. e., in the attempt to discover by adequate be criticised than his previous ones, but there are scientific methods whether the phenomena classed signs that it will be decidedly disapproved in quarunder that name can be explained naturally, or ters where they passed uncondemned. The authoriwhether it must be concluded that they come from ties of the public library at Concord, Mass., have supernatural sources. The committee includes Prof. raised the question concerning it by refusing to place Joseph Leidy, Prof. R. E. Thompson, Prof. Fuller-it on their shelves, and the Boston Advertiser remarks ton, Horace Howard Furness, and Coleman Sellers, this and other adverse opinions as the “indication and its work is undertaken on account of the gift to the that in matters of humor the tide has turned at last, University, by the late Henry Seybert, of Philadelphia, of an endowment for a Professorship ($60,000), accompanied by the request—not upon the condition, as has been occasionally represented that the University would make such an examination. The committee has kept its work entirely private, and no statement by its authority has been made; it is known, however, that no conclusions have been "me reached, because the investigation is far from com- and that the old school of coarse, flippant and irreverent joke-makers is going out, to return no more." * * X fairs is J. D. C. Atkins, of Tennessee, previously a The new Commissioner in charge of Indian AfMember of Congress. If we may safely judge of his views and purposes concerning his new work from a recent newspaper interview, we may be encouraged to expect that he will pursue a just and enlightened policy, so far as he is permitted independent action. He is reported as saying: "I think the general features of the present policy cannot be improved upon. The views of President Cleveland and of Secretary Lamar are practically in accord with the policy of the past few years. My own views are quite in the same line. I have always believed in liberal honest treatment of the Indian. I believe he is human, as much as the Saxon, and is entitled to as great consideration as any in our dealings with him. I think the Indians ought to be educated. I am of the opinion that it is cheaper to educate them than to fight them, to say nothing of the matter of duty on our part. The fate of the Indians, if they are to remain longer than a few generations for evening services, was closed in 1789, and the more, must be to mingle with the whites, adopt to a members united with the Key's Alley Meeting and great extent their habits, and be absorbed by that other congregations. The building was torn down, population. I am a believer in great possibilities for the Indian. See what he has accomplished in the replaced by others, used as stores and dwellingIndian Territory. The population of that territory houses, which have since been supplanted by ancompares very favorably in intelligence and culture other generation of stores. and education with that of New Mexico or Arizona. I look to see the Indian Territory placed very soon on a footing with all other territories, and to be, by and by, knocking at the doors of Congress for admission as a State, and for the right of the Indians of that section to vote and become citizens in every sense of the word. I believe they are approaching the time when they may safely be entrusted with that privi lege." The "Great Meeting-house" of Friends, at S. W. corner of Market and Second streets, was the principal place of worship of the sect. It was built of brick in 1695, and was nearly of a square shape. The roof rose on each side to a central lantern, which enlarged and somewhat changed in the form of the gave light to the interior. In 1755 the house was roof. For more than 100 years the "Great MeetQuakers, the great centre of movement, religious and benevolent, and at times even political. It was torn down in 1804, and replaced by stores on Market and Second streets. A new neeting-house was built 1690, on Arch street, at the S. E. corner of Fourth. on the lot used as a burying-ground from the year These expressions all have the ring of an intelli-ing-house" was the cathedral-so to speak-of the gent comprehension of the subject, and of a liberal and kindly disposition. In connection with the fact that the Commissioner is from Tennessee, we may cite the remark of Senator Chace, of Rhode Island, at a meeting in Philadelphia, last week, that as a rule he had found the Southern men in Congress just toward the Indians, and ready to support measures for their advancement, the "land avarice" of the Western men not appearing so strongly amongst those from the South. It is to be hoped that the ex-meeting-house, which was in service until within pectations which will rest upon the new Commissioner, in view of such expressions as those above quoted, may not be disappointed, and that he may not be merely a smooth promiser, and an indifferent performer in the time of trial. In recent numbers of the Philadelphia Public Ledger Supplement are sketches of the Church buildings which have been abandoned for religious purposes and are now used as manufactories or for schools. Those mentioning the meeting-houses of Friends may be of interest to our readers. The first building for religious worship which went into secular uses was the Bank Meeting of the Society of Friends, on the west side of Front street, between Race and Vine. Originally it was a frame building, put up in 1685. It was replaced in 1703 by a brick structure, 38 feet front and 50 feet deep. The ground there was naturally higher than the grade of the street, and the people went up to the meeting-house lot by steps rising from the sidewalk. The Bank Meeting, which was occasionally in use One of the oldest places of meeting for Friends was called the Hill Meeting and built on Society Hill, south of Dock creek, in 1753. The lot on the south side of Pine street, east of Second, was the gift was enlarged by gift by his relatives. This old of Samuel Powel to the Society of Friends, and it twenty or thirty years, has now become a paint factory and enlarged by an addition in front of the old brick building which brings the property out to the street line. Another Quaker meeting-house which has gone to business purposes was on the north side of Cherry street, below Fifth street, and belonged to the branch of the Society of Friends which was in accord with the religious views of Elias Hicks. It was built in 1829. Some years ago the meeting bought a large street meeting-house became the property of the lot on Race street, west of Fifteenth. The Cherry Horstmanns, manufacturers of military goods, was occupied by them for some years, and finally torn down and the site covered by an extension of the great factory building at the N. E. corner of Fifth and Cherry streets. The Key's Alley Meeting of the Society of Friends was established upon the passageway bearing that name, now called New street, between Second and Front, south side, in 1789. It was a branch of the North Meeting, at Fourth and Green streets, and also replaced the Bank Meeting, which was on the west side of Front street, above Race. Key's Alley Meeting had much reputation for thirty or forty years as one of the principal places of worship for the sect, and the congregation, if the term may_be used for a meeting of Friends, was influential. For religious purposes the building ceased to be used about 1840, and went into service as a public schoolhouse. In the great fire of July 9th, 1850, which commenced on Vine street wharf, and destroyed 367 houses, the old meeting-house was burned. It was replaced by a commodious brick building, which is still in use for the primary schools of the sixth section. No man can solve the mysteries of life, but every man of common sense can perform its duties. POETRY. THE BRINK OF THE RIVER. When we go to the brink of the river, The dark and unfathomed depth; When we feel the damp breath of the river We feel how the world and its treasure Of endless bewailing or bliss. In the gloom on the brink of the river, Can preach like that eloquent hour. The same as on Galilee's wave; May impressions thus sadly engraven, And our hearts, like the wandering raven, Till they yield to the merciful Giver UNCOUNTED. BY BIRCH ARNOLD. -The Friend. O you who fight life's battles royal, Of those who stay at home-and wait! To seek one's rest with prayer for guidance ; To see through years, dull days lead onward To school the lips to quiet utterance, To be, and feel, and think and hunger, Can give the burdened heart its rest; To feel all this, yet stay the footsteps, -Chicago Advance. NOTES OF TRAVEL. Colon or Aspinwall has grown immensely. An almost new town has been added, built where only The wild swamp and tangle once had control. streets of the old town have been lengthened, and the town is, for the present, rescued from its former imminent peril of being overwhelmed by the tropical vegetation. But, for dirt it certainly deserves mention-not honorable mention. Nothing but the N. E. trades and the torrents of rain prevent its depopulation. I tried to number the distinct smells but grew tired. The ride across the Isthmus was rather dull. The former untouched wilderness is of the past; it is almost one continuous village of thatched hovels or forlorn wooden, one roomed houses. These are built in New York and shipped in sections. When occupied by French laborers or mechanics, they are sparsely furnished, but if the inhabitants are natives. or Jamaicans, they have simply a grass hammock and an iron pot. Everywhere one sees small grocery stores for the sale of everything, with their invariable Chinese proprietor. John does all the trade on the line. Every where one sees the cuts or piled up dirt, indicative of the Canal, while forlorn locomotives, rusty track and discarded ties are every where, causing frequent delays to the train. I think all the damaged railroad stock of the world must have been sent here. Starting from Colon and dredging the Chagres River the Company has advanced about seven or eight miles. Then again, about the middle near the mountains they have a cut some 360 feet deep, 180 feet wide at the top and 100 feet at the bottom; I believe it is about three miles long. Of course in such a cut the decline of the sides is very abrupt. The Chagres with its excessively varying discharge of water, is an almost insurmountable barrier to success. Fortunately, thus far, the Company has had very good weather with little rain. I doubt if less than 15 years sees the Canal opened. The disposal of the dirt is a problem, besides they have to build a railroad along the cut as the men advance and another to the varying place of deposit for earth. Panama is busy and populous, very dirty and terribly expensive, as one gets almost nothing to eat and no comforts. The steamer accommodations were of the poorest, owing to a war between the Companies. The English Company grossly disregards all honor to their passengers. The first port we entered below Panama we found in the hands of the Revolutionists, for the customary revolution was in progress. To prevent seizure we hastily departed, without landing mails or passengers, and omitting the next port also, stopped at Bahia. It is simply a group of miserable thatched three-sided huts. All the port towns except Guayaquil are of the |