Express on week-days, 3.20, 4.35, 5.00, 5.45, 6.50, 7.30, 8.20, 8.30, 11 and 11.15 a.m. (Limited Express 1.14 and 4.50 p.m.), 12.44, 3, 4, STRAWBRIDGE & CLOTHIER Exhibit at all times a most extensive and comprehensive assortment of every description of DRY GOODS. The stock includes Silks, Dress Goods, Trimmings, Hosiery and Underwear, Gloves, House-Furnishing Goods, Ready-Made Dresses and Wraps, and everything that may be needed either for dress or for house-furnishing purposes. It is believed that unusual inducements are offered, as the stock is among the largest in the American market, and the prices are guaranteed to be uniformly as low as elsewhere on similar qualities of goods. 5, 6, 6.30, 7.10, 7.40 and 9.16 p.m. and 12.01 night. On Sundays, N. W. COR. 8TH & MARKET STS., 3.20, 4.35, 5, 5.45, 8.30 a.m., 12.44, 4 (Limited Express, 4.50), 6.30, 7.10 and 7.40 p.m. and 12.01 night. For Brooklyn, N. Y., all through trains connect at Jersey City with boats of "Brooklyn Annex," affording direct transfer to Fulton Street, avoiding double ferriage and journey across New York City. Express for Boston, without change, 6.30 p.m. daily. For Sea Girt, Spring Lake, Ocean Beach, Ocean Grove, Asbury Park and Long Branch, 8.00 and 11.30 a.m., 2.44, 3.30 and 4 p.m. on week-days. Saturdays only, 5 p.m. Sundays. 8 a.m. (does not stop at Ocean Grove and Asbury Park). For Freehold, 5 p.m., week-days. Daily except Sunday: Express for Easton, Delaware Water Gap, Scranton and Binghamton, 8.00 a.m., 12.01 noon and 6.00 p.m. For Scranton and Water Gap, 4.00 p.m. FROM KENSINGTON STATION, FRONT AND NORRIS STS. For New York, 6.50, 7.40, 8.30, 10.10 and 11.15 a.m., 12.05, 2.10, 3.15, 4.55, 5.35, 6.10 and 11 p.m. on week-days. On Sundays, 8.25 a.m. Daily except Sunday: Express for Easton, Delaware Water Gap, Scranton and Binghamton, 7.40 a.m., 12.05 noon and 5.35 p.m. For Scranton and Water Gap, 3.15 p.m. FROM MARKET STREET WHARF. Express for New York, via Camden and Trenton, 9.00 a.m. on week-days. Express for Long Braneh and intermediate stations, 8.30 a.m. and 4 p.m. Sundays, 7.30 a.m. Trains for Trenton, connecting for New York, 6.20, 7.30, 10.30 a.m.. 12 noon, 2.30, 3.30, 4.30, 5.30 and 7.00 p.m. On Sundays, 6.45 p.m. PHILADELPHIA, WILMINGTON AND BALTIMORE On Sunday, 12.20, 3.45, 7.20, and 9.10 a.m., and 6.03 p.m. For Baltimore only, 11 p.m. For Richmond, 12.20, 7.20 and 12.05 noon (Limited Express, 12.30 p.m.) On Sunday, 12.20 and 7.20 a.m. sleeping-car tickets can be had at Broad and Chestnut Streets, College and Class Invitations, Fine 838 Chestnut Street and Broad Street Station. The Union Transfer Company will call for the check baggage from hotels and residences. Time-cards and full information can be obtained at the station and at the following Stationery. FRIENDS' BOOK ASSOCIATION, No. 1020 ARGH STREET, PHILADELPHIA. THE UNION TRUST COMPANY, AUTHORIZED CAPITAL, annum. 611 and 613 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Acts as Executor, Administrator. Assignee, etc., alone or in connection with an individual appointee. Executes trusts of every description known to the law. All trust assets kept separate from those of the Company. Burglar-Proof Safes to rent at $5 to $60 per Wills kept in Vaults without charge. Bonds, Stocks and other valuables taken under guarantee. Paintings, Statuary, Bronzes, etc., kept in Fire-Proof Vaults. Money received on deposit at interest. JAMES LONG, President; JOHN G. READING, Vice-President; MAHLON H. STOKES, Treasurer and Secretary; D. R. PATTERSON, Trust Officer. DIRECTORS.—Jas. Long, Alfred S. Gillett, Joseph Wright, Dr. Charles P. Turner, Wm. S. Price, John T. Monroe, W. J. Nead, Thos. R. Patton, John G. Reading, Wm. H. Lucas, D. Hayes Agnew, M. D., Jos. I. Keefe, Robert Patterson, Theodore C. Engel, Jacob Naylor, Thomas G. Hood, Edward L. Perkins, Philadelphia; Samuel Riddle, Glen Riddle, Pa.; Dr. George W. Reiley, Harrisburg, Pa.; J. Simpson Africa, Huntingdon; Henry S. Eckert, Reading; Edmund S. Doty, Mifflintown; W. W. H. Davis, Doylestown, R. E. Monaghan, West Chester: Charles W. Cooper, Allentown. This Company furnishes ALL DESIRABLE FORMS of LIFE and ENDOWMENT INSURANCE at actual NET IONS. INTELLIGENCER. Vol. xlii. No. 34. } UNITED WITH The Friends' Journal. BE TRUE. PHILADELPHIA, TENTH MONTH 3, 1885. MAN, in common with the inferior animals, has often humored, and the child is allowed to have its own way, even when the parent knows it is wrong. The consequence is it becomes disobedient and exacting. Not having the experience of life the parent has, it cannot be expected to know what is best. Being too young for reflection it has not learned the necessity of self-control. As it grows to manhood or womanhood it learns to despise the god-given authority of the parent, and runs into every excess of pleasure or dissipation to which it may be allured by temptation or evil companionship. The result is that the parents who failed in the discharge of their duty are often permitted to live to see the consequences of their folly in beholding children ruined in body and soul. O, the love of those mothers that clings to these outcasts of society in their degredation, hoping against hope for a reformation of the fallen! How it awakens our sympathy for the stricken one! implanted in him by the Creator an instinctive desire to care for his young, but, as he is gifted with reason, the desire with him is not a mere animal instinct, but assumes a higher power. The intellectual and moral forces become involved. He has not only to provide for their animal wants, but to attend to the development of mind and character. This assumes the nature of a duty which no parent should shirk. The trust a child reposes in a parent and the confident manner in which it looks to him for counsel and direction are wonderful to behold. Notwithstanding the prevarications so often used to deceive them, the rebuff so unkindly given, the neglecting them a fortune, that he has no time to devote to to which they are subjected, and the ill treatment meted out to them, children still cling to the parent as the sheet-anchor of safety. Where the latter is possessed of a wise intelligence to direct, and a degree of moral firmness that will not yield to the mere animal instinct, they gain an influence that will command obedience, and the child will be well governed. Thus love and wisdom being blended in the mind of the parent, reverence and respect is the resultant in the mind of the child. The relations of the two are natural and conform to the divine economy. When the time comes for the child to enter into an independent existence the authority of the parent ceases, but his counsels are never disregarded. In family government in past ages, an implicit obedience was exacted of the child without that manifestation of love for it which wins the heart and makes it willingly subservient to parental control. Of late years there is a tendency to run into the opposite extreme. The whims of the very young are But when looked upon in its proper light does it not clearly appear that the suffering they endure is the fruit of their own folly? They sowed to the wind in permitting the dear one intrusted to their charge to grow up without proper instruction in the ways of life; they reaped the whirlwind in seeing the fond object of their idolatry become the cause of their sorrow. The father is so engrossed in the pursuits of business, flattering himself that he is providing the means to make his children happy by leav their moral and religious instruction. His sons grow up as best they may, or are intrusted to the care of some tutor in a boarding school where they have a chance to learn more from boys neglected like themselves than from the teacher in charge. Having all their wants supplied without inquiry or examination they form expensive habits that do not fit them for the struggles of life. When the time comes for them to assume its duties and responsibilities they are ill prepared for the work; their expensive tastes must be gratified; their powers of labor and endurance, not having been cultivated by use, are weak; their more active competitors get ahead of them in any work in which they engage; and they either lose the fortunes left them or they are frittered away among their descendants. Now if the father had spent a little less of his energy in making money and a little more in training his sons to some useful occupation they would both be the better for it. The declining years of the one would not have been filled with sorrow by his blasted hopes, nor the life of the other embittered by his failure to make an honest and useful man. Or the mother, who has made pleasure the work of life by indulging in social dissipation, leaving her daughters. to the care of ignorant or careless attendants, would not have to mourn for the wreck she has made. A girl, devoid of the traits that make life lovely may be accomplished and beautiful, but if she have nothing better, though she may win, will not hold the love without which marriage is a curse and not a blessing. A family to be happy must have a home, but a home without a competent mistress is a place where a man may live but not enjoy life. If he be a Christian he may bear with its discomforts, but his self-respect will prevent his inviting friends to share them with him. But without a certain amount of social intercourse what is life? If a man live in the city he may join a club where wine and play will eventually prove his ruin; if in the country he becomes sour and crabbed. The wife, if neglected, may plunge into greater social dissipation, or spend her days in vain regrets, a fretful and unlovely woman. When the traits of character that render the marital relation desirable and pleasant are wanting, is it any wonder that marriage becomes a yoke too heavy to be borne, and that its victims seek relief in divorce? Hence we see the way to win the respect and confidence of a child and fit it for the work of life, is not by yielding to its whims and caprices, but by a firm exercise of wise and intelligent direction. Are parents aware of the immense amount of responsibility resting upon them? When the question comes, "Where are these lambs I have entrusted to thy care?" will the answer be "here they are, O Lord, spotless and pure." Happy the father and mother who can make it. If it is requisite for us to be on the watch-tower, always to guard the heart, out of which are the issues of life, for our own good, is it any less incumbent on us to watch the young and tender vine we are training not only for time but eternity also? Does not every concerned parent know in the lines of their own experience that, much trouble as children often give in infancy and childhood, it is as nothing compared to the travail felt by them as the time approaches for them to enter on an independent career? When the bud unfolds what will the flower be? The master said "Ye cannot gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles." If the substratum of character be not properly laid, in vain we look for wise and virtuous living. O, ye parents, who claim to be followers of the lowly Nazarene, look to it that you strive to fasten on the minds of your children those lessons of truth and righteousness he came to teach the children of men. They rise superior to all else. Fortune and fame are nothing compared to these. Will you then sacrifice on the altar of worldly pleasure the christian virtues of plainness and simplicity? Will you sneer at those earnest men, who, in past ages, bore a testimony against frivolous amusements, calling them narrow and bigoted? Do not the records of early christianity teem with warnings against the deceitfulness and allurements of the world? Did not the early Friends come out from that which they testified against as being inconsistent with the purity of morals taught in the gospel of Christ? One by one we Friends are letting our noble testimonies fall to the ground. Our badge of discipleship, by which we knew each other, and which so often proved a mantle of protection in the hour of temptation, has been laid aside because it prevents our following the foolish and changing fashions of the world. Our language, noted for its beauty and correctness, is no longer heard. Our testimony against frivolous and hurtful amusements, that tend to wean the mind from the serious business of life and launch it into an ocean of unrest, where the imagination dominates all thought, has become a dead letter. Where wealth has invaded our homes it must needs be allowed to introduce into our families the instrumental music that lulls the mind to repose, regardless of the time and money spent in gaining a knowledge of it, and of the precious hours and talents wasted in its performance. The dance and the card table follow in its wake, and the hours devoted to that social dissipation that exhausts the physical and weakens the mental powers are yearly increasing. Perhaps when our daughters become mere dollbabies, unfitted for wives and mothers, and our sons lose their manhood and sink into dudes and fops, we shall awake from the delusion. Already the decline in our numbers is opening our eyes to the fact that as an organization our society is dwindling, and must soon cease to be, unless there is an awakening on the part of our members. We cannot serve God and mammon, and whichever of these two we serve shall become our master. If we believe christianity to be "the way, the truth and the life" we shall be concerned to obey the injunctions of its founder. And the command is clear and easily understood, "If any man would come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow me." The same lesson we ourselves learn, we should be concerned to teach our children. And we may rest. assured that Solomon was right when he said, “Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it." The spiritual life that once so abounded in our society has gradually been weakening until its attendant light has almost ceased to illuminate our souls, and this is the true cause of our decline. In vain will the inventions of men, whether they be crusades against social, or moral evils, or any other wrong, avail to renew this life so long as we put our trust in man and not in God. The reformations that Friends, at various times, have been instrumental in introducing into the world had their birth-place in the minds of the highly spiritual dedicated sons of God, and not in the minds of the more intellectual and worldly-wise men of the time. Loudoun Co., Va. W. W. To have what we want is riches, but to be able to do without is power.-George Macdonald. LOVE peace and pursue peace, love mankind and bring them near to the law.-Hillel. |