GRAHAME INSTITUTE.

A Boarding and Day School for girls of all ages, will reopen ninth month 28th, 1885.

JANE P. GRAHAME, PRINCIPAL, 1202 Race St.

MONTGOMERY COUNTY MILK, HORSHAM

Dairies, The delivery of pure unskimmed milk a specialty Office, Smedley St. above Tioga. E. B. WEBSTER.

Young men prepared for college or business. Degrees conferred upon young lady graduates. Timid and backward pupils privately tutored. Careful attention to little boys and girls. JOSEPH SHORTLIDGE, (Yale College), A. M., Principal. ARTHMORE COLLEGE.

SWARTE

Thirty minutes from Broad Street Station, Philadelphia. Under the care of Friends, but all others admitted. Full college course for both sexes; Classical, Scientific and Literary. Also a Preparatory School. Healthful location, large grounds, new and extensive buildings and apparatus.

For Catalogue and full particulars, address,
EDWARD H. MAGILL, A. M., PRESIDENT,

Swarthmore, Pa.

TEACHER WANTED FOR A FRIENDS'

school. Address, with reference, Elizabeth E. Hart, 15th and

Race Streets, Philadelphia.

FRIENDS' ACADEMY,

Locust Valley, New York.

removed all his negatives to his studio at West Grove, Penna. Orders for duplicates received by mail, or by R. A. Tyson, at the store of Friends' Book Association, 1020 Arch Street. Customers will please call on her before sitting elsewhere, as she is prepared to supply all their wants in any branch of the Art.

courses preparing for admission to any college, or furnishing a good English education. Two courses leading to graduation. Terms $175 per year. Thirty miles from New York. ticulars address, ARTHUR H. TOMLINSON

For par

Locust Valley, Long Island, N. Y.

ANNA W. BARNARD'S TRAINING CLASS

FOR KINDERGARTEN TEACHERS, open Oct. 5th. 1885. 205 N. 35th St., West Philadelphia. Send for Circulars.

E. & M. E. COPE, PLAIN AND FASHIONA

ble Millinery, 446 Franklin Street, (formerly 212 Arch St.) Philadelphia. Moderate prices.

LEHIGH AND SCHUYLKILL COAL.

Best Quality, Carefully Prepared. Delivered in Chute Wagons. AQUILA J. LINVILL, (late of Truman and Linvill), 1244 North Ninth Street.

FOR SALE. ONE OF THE FINEST FIVE

Acre Building Sites in the vicinity of Media. Situate on the Providence Great Road, half-way between Wallingford and Media. No improvements. Apply to

ISAAC L. MILLER,

705 Walnut Street, Philadelphia.

LADIES' FINE SHOES, HAND-SEWED. OR

ders taken and executed with promptness.

S. DUTCHER,

915 Spring Garden St.; Phila.

A FRIENDS FAMILY IN THE NORTHERN

part of the City, will take a few young lady students as boarders. Home instruction in various branches will be given if desired. Reference Given.

Address M. B. Office of Friends' Intelligencer.

FLOWERS, FRUITS AND

VEGETABLES.

fifty-sixth annual display. Horticultural Hall, Broad Street. Opens Tuesday, October 6, 8 P. M. Wednesday, 10 A. M. Thursday, 10 A. M. Closes Friday, 10 P. M. Music every evening. Tickets, 25 cents. Membership Tickets, good for one year, $3.

FRIENDS IN NEED OF DOMESTIC SERVICE

if willing to take a woman with her babe, can find at the Maternity Hospital, 734 South 10th St., Philadelphia, the very best of help at, of course, a low rate of wages.

Any desired information will be most gratefully given by the Matron or resident Physician at the Hospital, or by letter to Rachel C. Baker, Jenkintown, Pa.

THANKSGIVING.

LORD, for the erring thought

Not into evil wrought;
Lord, for the wicked will
Betrayed and baffled still:
For the heart from itself kept
Our thanksgiving accept.

For ignorant hopes that were Broken to our blind prayer: For pain, death, sorrow sent Unto our chastisement;

For all loss of seeming good, Quicken our gratitude.

-W. D. Howells.

SERMON AT WEST CHESTER MEETING. BY LYDIA H. PRICE, TENTH MONTH 3D, 1885.1

How

OW are we, or shall we be, saved from sin? Is there any other way, my friends, than by obedience to the light which makes manifest in our own souls? That obedience shall keep pace with the light and knowledge which we have received. What is sin to one person may not be such to another, at least in different ages. I have remembered during the silence the sacrifice which Abraham felt required to offer in the day in which he lived. Now we can not conceive of his Heavenly Father requiring such sacrifices. We know that it would be sin for us in this day to make such offerings or sacrifices, to take the life of a beloved child or any living being. Even to destroy animal life without a purpose we know to be wrong. But we will remember that in that day it was considered necessary to make sacrifices and burnt offerings of animals and even human lives, to please the Lord or appease His wrath. Not having a higher conception of the divine will, and feeling desirous of doing right, to stand acceptable in the divine sight, there was some great offering conceived of. The greatest sacrifice that could be made was to give up his beloved son. So this dwelt with him until he felt it was the divine command. He thought it was righteousness; we cannot judge him otherwise, because he acted from the standpoint from which he knew and understood the divine will; and was endeavoring to do that which was right. But he was 1 From a stenographic report made for the West Chester Repub

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spared from making the sacrifice because his heart was in the right and he desired to do right.

But while we believe that the same light was shining then that shineth now, we comprehend, as we turn back over the pages of history, that it has shone deeper and deeper, and that there has been a more intelligent invitation to receive it from generation to generation. Even though men have not minded this light, have not obeyed it, yet has it been shining. Now during all these early ages there were prophets, wise men, who desired to be found acceptable and doing righteousness; like unto Isaiah, who understood that the divine requirement did not lay in the way of burnt offerings, and felt that the divine language was contrary to these things, and that they should be no more offered unto Him.

If we are to turn away from these things, we must lift up our minds and spirits to a more firm foundation, and seek to know the divine will more thoroughly, and put away evil; cease to do evil and learn to do well. This was the sacrifice that was required in that day, and is still the same that is required today. He wanted them to wash and become clean. This was, figuratively speaking, in spirit. That though their sins might be as scarlet, they should be white as wool; as white as snow. Not that sin and evil may become so; but where sin had abounded, good and truth should much more abound; where there had been impurity, there should be purity, like unto wool and snow. This is to be through the putting away of evil, learning to do well. And yet the command was given in olden time to get wisdom, understanding and knowledge, so that when this light shone, there would be a foundation on which to act, that it should not end merely in ignorance and superstition. It did not find open channels in those early days. Then they lived merely upon the tradition of the past, and did not seek to know Jesus as the son of God, or worship God as a spirit, and not the great Jehovah, the God of War, whom they stood in fear of, and felt that they must continue to do something to appease his wrath.

Not so do we learn the lesson of life to-day. How thankful we should be for the growth and advancement of intelligence and understanding. We are to make an addition from time to time, to add to our knowledge, to get wisdom, to add patience, and temperance, and godliness, and brotherly kindnsss, so that we can dwell together in life like children and of one Father.

Now how are we to be free from sin? Is there any other way, dear children and dear friends, but by seeking to know the divine will and then to do it? This divine will likens unto the knowledge which we have received, the light that makes manifest unto us, that we may yield cheerful and implicit obedience to all that is made known. This has always saved in the past; it saves in the present; and will save us evermore. Jesus said he came not to call the righteous, but sinners, unto repentance; to save men from their sins. Now my friends is there one of us present here to-day that would not desire to save men from their sins, and save ourselves from sins, and desire, in a practical manner, to serve his Heavenly Father and mankind? As Jesus felt that his mission was to call all men unto righteousness and to do his Father's will, so shall we, just so far as we enjoy the spirit of his love; as we are inspired by good and true and prayerful desires to be found filling our measure of usefulness, be doing our duty to God and our fellow men. I believe there is not one of us but will desire, deep down in our hearts, to save men and women from sin.

How shall we do so? In the first place it must be by the true example of living righteously ourselves; to unselfishly be willing to make sacrifices; intelligent sacrifices; wherein no one is injured, but helped and blessed thereby. If any one is the loser it will be ourselves, but not in any way that tends to harm, but rather to help us in the true course of righteous living. Taking thought for others and placing ourselves in their stead; putting our light where it could be seen and not under the bushel; acting honestly in all our transactions on every side of life, are good examples of righteous living.

And then a word of counsel, not by those who may be called preachers, is the greatest good always accomplished, because there may be those who are not thus titled, who may do more good in the world than many who are. But by being truly humble and watchful and desirous to speak a word just at the right time and in the right spirit, notwithstanding the fear of man whose breath is in his nostrils, to always carry with us the sense of responsibility and accountability for the gifts conferred upon us, that which we have received of knowledge regarding the better welfare of mankind, and endeavoring to carry out that knowledge and light unto others; shall we remove the obstacles from the channels through which the light of righteousness may shine. Let us remember to remove the obstructions of superstition, bigotry and prejudice. Protection against these is one of the ways we have of saving men from their sins.

You may all do it, my friends, according to the measure of the light that you have. It may be compared to a little taper or it may come to be a brilliant light, like the stars in the firmanent. There those stupendous bodies, the planets, give forth their light so brightly that, to the vision, all others are very meagre, but the little star sheds its light just as surely as the greater luminary. They hold their places on high and fulfil their mission, each one in its given place and proper manner, not one interfering with

the other. So shall we each shed our little light, and be glad and thankful that we can do it; do it for the good of others. I believe that this is the very same nature, or conferred power, that Jesus had. He had it in a larger measure; we have it in our measure. He came to save people from sin, through his perfect, beautiful and faithful life, just as we may help to do it by our faithfulness, by our confidence and by our example. But my friends, if we only could come, more and more, to understand the individual responsibility of every act, we could do more good. No man can save his brother without divine help, but he can be instrumental in doing it. Salvation itself must come from the Father but our instrumentality may consist in leading men to the Father; in showing them the way. But there is a great Teacher who taught as man never taught. Jesus called the people in his day to the Father. It seemed to be his mission to teach men to call upon their Father; not a far off, austere, and unforgiving Father, but one of tenderness and love. His mission was not to stand between us and an unforgiving and hard hearted Father, but to draw us to him, that we might enjoy his sympathy and his love. How earnest such teachings. Oh, that the children of men might all come to realize that there is no need for any mediator: but that all of us may approach the Father, and feel that he is in the spirit, a God of love. Through the teachings of Jesus and the instrumentalities of their blessed influence over mankind, we are coming closer and closer to the Father year by year. We feel to almost clasp his hand, and yet we cannot, but the light does not grow dim, because we realize that he is still our Father, and is very near unto us, and although he is a spirit, and we but mortals, he is always present, and that sooner or later we shall be unclothed of flesh, that our spirits may commune with the Father of spirits and be added to him.

I believe this is no myth, but a reality. I know that some seem to have more of this spiritual life than others, but be not discouraged because you do not feel it, do not realize it. But believe that the Father is just as near to you as to others. If you are seeking for him, rest assured he understands all our different organizations. He loves the children who feel that He is far off, just as well as He loves those who feel that He is near. He is the God of all; He comprehends every seeking mind, even though they speak a language which we cannot comprehend. He has an all comprehending and infinite mind. Oh, if we could only feel this and know that no danger can ever come to us, save that which comes from our own doing through disobedience; and if we do His will, we are doing well; are acting acceptably in his sight. Angels can do no more.

We must not sit in judgment over others; our Father would not have us do so, simply because they do not see just as we see. We should leave the judgment unto him. How beautiful would be our relations here in this earthly life, if we only thus made way for other lights than our own. How very different, my friends, have been our early associations, training and education; our surroundings, and the influences of friends. We should have compas

sion. We should be watchful over the children now. We see how much better our children would have been if we had only been more watchful, if we had been desirous of living nearer our Heavenly our Heavenly Father, instead of living for a selfish purpose, and desiring all good things for ourselves. We should remember our responsibilities and guard well the lives of our children. Can we not see how their lives may be blessed through the faithfulness of their parents.

Now are we to make no account of all these things? Shall we not learn, and shall we not to-day endeavor to live nearer to the Lord, to let our light shine and help others to live truer and nobler lives ? At the same time that we are keeping ourselves from sin, we are keeping others from it, and I know of no other way by which men and women and children can ever be saved from sin, but by learning this; by learning to put away evil; by washing and being made clean; by more intelligent living: by knowing and doing that which shall make them free; free from the bondage of the flesh and also the customs of the world. At this time there are so many privileges, so much of experience brought to bear, how favored we should feel. We can better comprehend the responsibilities of life. Those who come upon the stage of action in the coming generation, should do their work better than we have done it. They should remember that a greater responsibility rests with them, because there is more knowledge. Obey then this light, live up to the knowledge that has been imparted and we shall be saved, and it will help to save the children, and they shall live to make greater advancement. There are some people who say that the world is worse to-day than it ever was. If it is so, (but I can scarcely believe that it is) then I firmly believe there is more truth and goodness than there ever was before, and that in coming generations it will prevail more than it does to-day. And I firmly believe also, that there must be advancement, that truth is mighty and will prevail, and the general standard of morality will become higher. There is a mighty conflict between good and evil, but good must and will triumph. Let us help to make this triumph. It is an individual work. It rests with you, young men and young women, what the coming time shall be, and whether or not the spread of evil shall be arrested. You may be a power for good, a centre of light in your neighborhood if you only live according to the light that makes manifest. Others will be attracted by your light. As a nucleus they will gather around you, and the influence will spread until we know not where it will end. All will be virtue, goodness; all temperance. Oh, let us set the example of temperance, and do away with that poison which can only injure and destroy, and thereby bless ourselves and others, even unto coming generations.

Never cherish a thought of which thou oughtest to be ashamed; never utter a word for which thou wouldst have to ask God's pardon.—Persian.

Let us do our work as well, Both the unseen and the seen.

For Friends' Intelligencer and Journal. AUTHORS AND THEIR INFLUENCE.

THE story, or the poem, that pleases us,-that reaches after and discovers our springs of thought and feeling, and turns them into channels bordered by sweetness and beauty, cannot fail to leave the aroma of its influence upon the heart and the affections for all time. We instinctively ascribe to the author the same emotions and aspirations that his words have awakened in ourselves, and if, on more intimate acquaintance, we find the warmth and color of the book are the reflection of his inner self, there is a bond of sympathy and interest at once established between us. No author, that is not imbued with the spirit of his theme, can ever take that hold upon the reader that should be the aim of all true effort; and no book is worthy the time consumed in its perusal that does not add to the general stock of knowledge, or lead on to higher levels of best endeavor.

The books that do us good must have their origin in minds that are pure and true; we cannot too strongly emphasize this thought. Remember these words of an apostle, "Doth the fountain send forth from the same opening sweet water and bitter?" and again, this lesson from the lips of the Master, “Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh." The fountain that refreshes must be limpid and sweet. The heart that unlocks its treasury of fact or allegory must disclose only the riches that endure. And the lessons of life thus presented, whether of personal narrative or from the wider range of fiction, must have a definite purpose that carries with it a conviction of sincerity,

Authorship, so far as it deals with the incidents and occurrences of individual life, is successful in proportion to the power the author has of putting himself in the place of those whose life-experiences he seeks to present to the reader, and it is his power to do this effectively, that gives to his book its chief attraction. Our individual experiences are like the songs which are set to music. The scale of musical sounds has its highest and its lowest notes; between these, are produced all the gradations of harmony and all the jarring tones of discord. The measure and the arrangement, or the lack of these, mark the differences; and what a range and latitude of expression they are capable of! It is the same with human life. All are endowed with similar gifts and have corresponding likes and dislikes,-our hopes and aspirations have the same origin, our fears and our doubt are a common heritage. It is the relative place and share that each sustains to the other which produces the apparently endless variety, so that it may be said with truth, there are no two precisely alike. The author who would be true to that which he knows, must present those phases of life that have become his through experience or sympathy, and the truth of what is written is verified when the reader finds his own thought or feeling portrayed, and that which he can corroborate and bear testimony to opens the way to lines of thought heretofore unfamiliar.

The power for true and helpful teaching that lies within the realm of the imaginary is very great, and its boundaries are widening with the progress of the race. The lessons that fell from the lips of Jesus found ready entrance into the hearts of the listening multitudes, as he drew point and application from the sentient life around him. The story of Dives and Lazarus, of him who had "much goods for many years," and of the unjust steward, are life pictures as vivid and real now as when they were given forth, eighteen centuries ago.

We may not agree with the author in his estimate of the quality and value of that which he portrays, we may differ widely respecting the varying shades of thoughts and feeling that give tone to the inner life, yet there must be no doubt concerning that inner life or the hold it has upon his own best self. Upon this one point the artist who draws pen pictures of what men and women feel and do in the ever shifting drama of human life, must make no mistake.

We cannot afford to miss the smallest ray that shines down upon us from the eternal source,—to disregard the faintest echo of the voice of good cheer and hope, that was and is, and will be forever, and forever the heart's best solace.

The life-pictures that will be most helpful have an underlying basis of trust and confidence in the Power that controls and regulates the universe. We can pass by much that is speculative and visionary as regards social and national questions. Most thinkers have their own sovereign balms for every ill that society is heir to, and these go for what they are worth, in the mind of every intelligent reader-but no infraction of that which is the best that has been reached by the civilization of the age, can be condoned, nor any thought encouraged that if carried out in the smallest particular would subvert or set aside any enactment intended to uphold the purity and permanency of social life.

Then there is a healthy moral and religious sentiment to be encouraged by those who attempt to portray life as it is. It is a great mistake to place in our own or our friends' hands books that make light of any obligation upon which the perpetuity of the best there is in living, is insured. Whatever upholds social order and keeps inviolate those relations of home and family, through which all that is truest and most worthy of honor is developed, must have prominence; nor is the picture true to reality without its shadows of wrong and hatred, but these may not be so hidden under the guise of some generous impulse, that the wrong will appear the less a wrong, or the hatred the less hateful. The true and the false may be companions along the self-same journey, but the true must be so true that it will shame the false.

There is a higher moral tone prevailing among the writers of fiction now than formerly, and the power of increasing the demand for a purer, healthier moral tone, in this line of authorship, lies with the authors themselves. Given ideals-types of what the race may become by patient persistent effort and unfaltering trust-through there may be failures without number, the victory of achievement will be an incentive that, unconsciously to the individual, as he reads,

is shaping his thought and moulding his life into closer harmony with whatever is truest and best in human character. L. J. R.

For Friends' Intelligencer and Journal.
THREE PIONEER ABOLITIONISTS.

IN the spring of 1828, the National Philanthropist, a small weekly newspaper advocating temperance, issued in the city of Boston, was in the charge of William Lloyd Garrison, a young journeyman printer, who had come from Newburyport to the city, a few months before. To Garrison's boarding-house there came, ono day in the Third month, a stranger from the South. Garrison had never before seen him, but had known of him as the editor of a newspaper published in Baltimore, the Genius of Universal Emancipation, and having estimated him by the vigor of his editorial articles, was somewhat disappointed at his small stature. He had expected "a Hercules in shape and size," able to deal tremendous blows against oppression, and he saw before him a slightly built, plainly if not poorly dressed little man, thin of voice and hard of hearing.

This visitor, however, notwithstanding his physical deficiencies, was deeply in earnest. He was already a veteran in his labors against Slavery. He had walked over most of the Union, exploring nineteen of the twenty-four States that then composed it, and, distributing tracts, circulating his newspaper, laboring with all who would listen, holding meetings, organizing anti-slavery societies, getting up petitions, had made his journeys on foot, with but a pittance in his pocket, trusting in the excellence of his cause. To Hayti he had sailed, in the enthusiasm of a plan to colonize the American slaves on that island, and had returned to Baltimore to find his wife and her two new-born babies dead, his other children scattered, and his house desolate.

This picturesque little man of forty, struggling to reform a nation, and grappling with an institution intrenched in the selfish interests of millions of people, was a "Quaker," named Benjamin Lundy. He was born at Handwich, (Sussex county), New Jersey, in 1789, and at nineteen went to Wheeling, Va., where he learned the trade of a harness maker. In that town he witnessed the cruelties of the internal slave trade, and built up a life-time stock of pity for the poor black victims, who were driven in chained "coffles" from their Virginia homes to the tobacco and cotton lands of the South. "My heart," he said, was deeply grieved at the gross abomination; I heard the wail of the captive; I felt his pang of distress; and the iron entered my soul." After learning his trade, he worked at it as a journeyman for a time and then married and settled at St. Clairsville, Ohio, a few miles west of Wheeling, where by diligent industry he accumulated some property. There he organized an anti-slavery society, wrote an appeal to the philanthropists of the United States, and began his life-work of endeavor to bring about emancipation.

Not distant from his house at St. Clairsville, there was, at this time, (1817-18), another Friend,