can devote their whole time to the work. "Men | the Chicago Christian Worker says: "To enter into who have business occupations cannot, and still con- much discussion of this subject at this time we think tinue their business, devote their whole time to the would tend to turn the attention of Friends away work. Therefore it devolves upon us to see that from the soul-saving work now being so abundantly none are hindered from entering the work of God blessed to the Church." for lack of means."

NOTES.

William Dean Howells, known to our readers as the editor for a number of years of the Atlantic Monthly, and a very popular author, is a native of Ohio, but of Welsh extraction, his father being born in Wales. In a recent private note to the writer of this paragraph, he, (W. D. H.), says: "My father was born at 'The Hay,' in Breconshire, and two years ago I visited Wales to look up our family. We were Quakers, and my great-grandfather came here in the last century, but returned to Wales. In 1807, my grandfather came out, and now the whole clan and cousinship are in America.”

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-New England Yearly Meeting was held last month (beginning on the 12th), at Portland, Maine. Among those present was Frank Modoc, one of the Modoc tribe of Indians, who is now a recognized minister. The statistical report showed: gain by births, 15; received by request, 141; loss by death, 81; released, 84; net gain during the year, 44; total membership, 4,370. A Committee on "Gospel Work reported the holding of 19 series of meetings, at which "127 have professed conversion and 54 renewal." Two nearly extinct meetings have been revived, and one new meeting established. The connection of the Yearly Meeting with the work of the schools in North Carolina was terminated. "A letter was received from a member of the Maine M. E. Annual Conference, stating that a delegate had been The fact that he was of Friendly descent has perappointed to represent them at this Yearly Meeting, haps been stated in print, heretofore, but it serves in but who had failed to appear, and asking that fra- this connection to draw attention to some of his ternal relations be established between us; with literary work of interest to Friends. He edited, in which this meeting united." There were urgent ap 1877, (supplying an introduction), the autobiography peals for help to missions. Eli Jones spoke in refer- of Thomas Ellwood, our early poet, and the comence to work on Mt. Lebanon, Seth Rees on the panion of Milton. And in one of his recent books, Bishop Taylor African mission (with which DeliaThree Villages," in a sketch of Gnadenhütten (the Rees, his sister, is connected), and M. M. Binford on Mexican mission work. The Women's Foreign Missionary Association, established a year ago, has 600 members, and the Yearly Meeting's Committee on Foreign Missions reported the raising of $2,795.51 during the year.

-The Representative Meeting (corresponding to a Representative Committee or Meeting for Sufferings) of Indiana Yearly Meeting met at Richmond, on the 16th of last month, forty-one members being present, and adopted a very emphatic minute against the administration of outward baptism and communion." It recites as follows:

village of the Moravian Indians, on the Muskingum, in Ohio), he deals with the Indian question in a way which Friends cannot but appreciate.

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In a letter to The Christian, a London newspaper, William Tallack, the Friend who spoke kindly of our religious Society in the recent sitting of London Yearly Meeting, refers somewhat fully to the discussion which took place in that body on " A Reasonable Faith." His own views appear to be quite "Orthodox," and he asserts that the Yearly Meeting showed that a majority “adhere to the principle of Redemption by Substitution and Expiation;" after which he adds:

Friends attached little importance to this principle, "One of the writers pleaded in excuse that the early and in general they even opposed it. Unfortunately, there are too many proofs available that he was right in this plea; for whilst it is quite true that a few

Having learned with sorrow that certain individuals, holding the position of Ministers of the Gospel in one of the co-ordinate bodies of the Society of Friends, have partaken of the rites of water baptism and of the bread and wine in the so-called Communion of the Lord's Supper, some of whom have administered these rites to others, and some of them have been holding meetings within the limits of In-passages can be quoted from the Early Friends which are thoroughly Scriptural as to Substitutionary Atonediana Yearly Meeting, and advocating, privately and ment, yet the general drift, the preponderating tenor publicly, their views, which are contrary to the testi- of many of those Friends, especially Barclay and mony which the Society of Friends has always main- Penn, is fairly open to a charge of unsoundness, and tained as to the spiritual nature of Christ's kingdom; is markedly different from the plain drift of Holy and to the declaration of faith in our Book of Disci- Scripture. The modern Friends, as a body, hold more pline, and to the united judgment of our Yearly Biblical, more Apostolic views on this point than Meeting in 1875. [this meeting] advises all their predecessors." our meetings to refuse to receive, as acceptable Ministers of the Gospel, whether members of other Yearly Meetings or our own, those teaching doctrines or practising_rites contrary to the above-named 'Declaration of Faith' and minute of the Yearly Meeting, The minutes or certificates of such should not be read in our meetings; nor should meetings be appointed for them in our meeting-houses, nor should they be encouraged to labor within our borders."

Commenting upon the action taken by New York Yearly Meeting against water baptism, etc.,

open to the

That Barclay and Penn should be "6 charge of unsoundness," from the standpoint of Friends, must strike us as a rather entertaining suggestion, but there can be no doubt that many of the "Orthodox" body, in this country as in England, are obliged to so regard them. And, indeed, when the doctrine of the "Inner Light" is disowned it seems hardly worth while to hesitate at whatever else may be

needful to satisfy the theological demands of the many ladies among us who can tomatoes and peaches Evangelical position. for domestic use, and do not realize that they are indebted for this art to the people of Pompeii.

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Delaware College, at Newark, Delaware, which has BEDLOE'S OR BEDLOW'S ISLAND, New York, where received young women for several years, has now the Liberty statue is to be erected, has a curious history, which makes it an appropriate place for a memorial decided to abandon the co-educational plan, and will to Liberty. Its owner was Isaac Bedlow, and in 1670 hereafter receive only young men. The explanation | the Governor of the State issued an instrument, degiven for the change of policy is not very clear, but claring that for and in consideration of valuable imsubstantially it is that the experience of co-educa-provements made by Mr. Bedlow on his island, it should in the future be known as Love Island, and tion has not been satisfactory,-which, of course, should be a privileged place where no arrest could be might be inferred. It is quite true, we think, that to made or warrant served, except by special consent of educate young men and women under one roof the Governor. The people did not take kindly to the requires several favorable conditions, and that with- Bedlow's, and this has been in recent time misspelled change of name; the island continued to be known as out these present it should not be attempted. Prob- Bedloe. In looking up the history of the island deeds ably the experience of Friends is as satisfactory as can were found to the most valuable part of New York reasonably be hoped for, but we must not forget that on both sides of Broadway which was sold to Isaac Bedlow about two hundred years ago for one dollar it is attained by having, in the outset, pupils of a an acre.—Public Ledger. selected class, whose training has been good, whose tastes and inclinations are in the direction desired, and that these are under an unrelaxed oversight throughout the whole of their stay in school. No one must imagine that the results at Swarthmore are possible everywhere, or that they are attained without patient and assiduous care. We would not advise co-education everywhere and under all circumstances; it is a maturity of favorable conditions.

just published advance copies of its report on the THE second geological Survey of Pennsylvania has anthracite coal region, which gives important information about the production and shipments of 1884. During that year there were 377 producing collieries. Nearly one-half of the whole number shipped their products over the Reading railroad, that line carrying about thirty-six per cent. of the shipments. Six collieries had an annual production of over 300,000 tons each. The largest production of any one colliery was 506,631 tons from the Susquehanna No. 5, at Nanticoke, operated in the interest of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The total shipment in 1884 was 30,718,293 tons and the total production 32,641,499 tons, or a million and a third less than in 1883. More than half of Wyoming coal fields, while the Pottsville coal field total product came from the Lackawanna and which, up to 1857, produced more than half the anthracite coal sent to market, produced in 1884 less than ten per cent. of the total. Two-thirds of all the anthratice coal mined is consumed in Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey. Only sixteen per cent.

The good work done by graduates of Swarthmore is one of the gratifying evidences of the success of that institution. The Howard Collegiate Institute, for young women, at West Bridgewater, Mass., established two years ago by Helen Magill and her sisters, held very satisfactory closing exercises on Fifth-day, the 18th ultimo. One of the essays, by Marion Magill, contrasted the Anti-Slavery poems of Whittier and Longfellow, and recitations from the former followed.goes to the New England States, less than nine per Addresses were delivered by Edward Everett Hale, Ex-Governor Henry B. Long, (who is a Trustee of the institution), and others. The school, it is stated, "is now in a very promising condition." There are some 40 scholars, of whom 18 are from a distance, 22 from the neighborhood.

ITEMS.

WOMEN manage 20 dairy farms in Iowa. Nearly 1,000 farms in that State are owned by women. GOVERNOR HILL, of the state of New York, has signed the bill that provides for the punishment of those careless builders, who, by failing to furnish secure scaffoldings, ladders, and other necessary contrivances for the safety of their workmen while at work, imperil their lives. The purpose of the law is good, as it is designed to prevent those accidents which are so often due simply to the wanton carelessness of buil

ders.

WE are indebted to Pompeii for our great industry of canned fruits. Years ago, when the excavations were beginning, a party of Americans found, in what had been the pantry of a house, many jars of preserved figs. One was opened, and they were found to be fresh and good. Investigation showed that the figs had been put into jars in a heated state, an aperture being left for the steam to escape, and then sealed with wax. The hint was taken, and soon after fruit canning was introduced here, the process being identical with that in vogue at Pompeii twenty centuries ago. There are

cent. to the West and a little over four per cent. to the of anthracite have been mined since 1820, when operSouth. Five hundred and seventy-five million tons ations commenced. When the recent war broke out the product was just about one-fourth of what it is today, and the business has about doubled within the last fifteen years. All these facts and many others are clearly set forth in the report of the Geological Survey and an admirable map which accompanies it.

The

THE Trenton correspondent of the New York Tribune says: "The State School Fund has received more attention than usual of late, owing to some unusually large investments by the commissioners. fund amounts to three and a quarter millions, derived from the sale and lease of riparian lands and is protected by the constitution from diversion to any pur pose except the support of free public schools, for the only charge upon it was an annual appropriation which the increase alone may be used. Heretofore, of $100,000 for the schools, distributed by the State Board of Education. Last winter shares amounting to nearly $90,000 were added and the fund is not likely to increase for the present. The original intention was to pile up a large sum the income of which could be disposed of to assist the schools in poor districts. The readiness with which communities, amply able to support their own schools, called upon the State for aid, showed after a time that the best policy to increase interest in education was not to be found in the exercise of charitable aid, and the fund has lost favor. Investments in mortgages to the amount of a million proved unfortunate and have been a source of difficulty and at present the money is placed in Government bonds, State bonds and the bonds of school dis'tricts."

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