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The Family lines descended from EDWARD and ELEANOR FOULKE, OF GWYNEDD, are given in the volume— HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS RELATING by Howard M. JENKINS. First Edition, 1884, out of print. Second Edition, 1897. 450 pages. $4.00. By mail, $4.23. The Foulke Genealogy occupies 50 pages, and is as complete as can well be made in the generations near to Edward Foulke. Address HOWARD M. JENKINS, Publisher, 921 Arch Street, Philadelphia. ENGLISH BOOKS. First Lessons In The Hebrew ProphETS. By Edward Grubb, M. A. Price 50 cents. Mailed, 55 cents. THE QUAKER IDEAL. By Francis Frith. Cloth, 60 cents. Paper, 35 cents. 5 cents extra on each for postage. THE QUAKERS. By F. Storrs Turner. Price, $1.75, 15 cents extra for postage. QUAKER PICTURES. Two volumes. By W. Whitten. Price $2.00. 20 cents extra for postage. FRIENDS' Biographical SerIES, comprising Elizabeth Fry, John G. Whittier, William Allen, John Bright, Peter Bidford, and Daniel Wheeler. Paper, each 27 cents. 3 cents extra by mail. 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SUCH AS TEACHERS, GOVERNESSES, BRAINY" ASSISTANTS, TUTORS, STENOGRAPHERS, CLERKS, MATRONS, COMPANIONS, ETC., supplied without charge. Telephone 1-41-63 D. CARPENTERS, Builders, and Contractors. JOHN FABER MILLER, 325 SWEDE STREET, NORRISTOWN, PENNA. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Practicing in Montgomery and Philadelphia counties. JOSEPH T. FOULKE, OFFICES: ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, 623 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. YOUNG FRIENDS' ASSOCIATION ROOMS, 140 N. FIFTEENTH STREET. re-opened NINTH MONTH 27TH, 1897. The rooms are open daily, except First-days, from 8.30 a. m. to 9.30 p. m., and Friends are cordially invited to avail themselves of the facilities afforded, those from without the city and young Friends boarding in the city being particularly desired to do so. The rooms are designed to be A Centre for inFORMATION ON ALL FRIENDLY From his letter, on departing for Pennsylvania, 1682, ad- sympathetic with our darkened souls in their struggles, dressed to his wife and children. LOYALTY. Two friends I have, long loved, and trusted long. The second, looking up toward heaven's light, THE ACCEPTABLE OFFERING.' BY ELIZABETH POWELL BOND. We have not come to any pageantry of flowers and music in celebration of this memorial day. But flowers would soon fade; and music live only in the memory of its harmonies. Only that which cannot fade or die away is fit celebration of the life that spent itself in the "Father's business." It is in the power of our souls to make any place blossom with unfading thought of that life that was given a ransom for all such as receive its ministry. The Christian world makes flowers and music its symbols to-day of rejoicing in the life and death and resurrection of Jesus. All the great cathedrals of the Christian world are resounding with his praises; the humblest chapels are made to bloom as gardens in his memory. It seems a beautiful providence that this day should come as a pause in the midst of the terrible threatenings of war, to bring vividly before our souls the great soul that lived among men to teach them the things that make for peace. All the kings and queens and emperors and presidents and legislators and generals and naval 1 Read before Swarthmore College Students, Fourth month 10, 1898, by Dean Bond. merciful in its judgment of our frailties, loving with that love which is the sweet center of all things, and the life of all things! Will it be possible to-morrow for the Christian world to transfer in its thought, this shining soul away from the right hand of the Father, to a place at the head of a Christian army whether Christian according to the standards of Spain, or Christian according to the measure of United States civilization? Is it possible to conceive of this shining soul bending in benediction over the armed men who must come face to face with other armed men with no other alternative than to kill? Is it possible to conceive of this shining soul guiding the hand that directs the terrible engines of war upon the sea? Not so have we learned Christ! But well I know that not one day's wrapt contemplation of Christ can avert the threatened war. War is like a disease of the blood passed on from one generation to another. We cannot meet in convention to-day and pass resolutions that there shall be no more sufferers from cancer. Only wholesome living, that allowed no foul place in the blood for cancer germs to fasten upon can do away with the dread malady. So this day's adoration of Christ cannot kill the germs of war that generation passes on to generation in erring thought and speech and action. From Christ we may learn, if we will, the things that make for peace, the unselfishness, the thought for others' welfare, the complete justice between man and man which alone make war impossible. Instead of roses and lilies and organ notes shall we make it our offering to-day, to try to lift our own souls toward the shining soul, to catch as much as we can of his justice and mercy and loving-kindness; to try, if we cannot avert to-morow's war, to begin anew to-morrow to make our lives the promoters of peace! This, I believe, is the offering sweeter to him than roses and lilies and organ notes! "BEWARE of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues. It is good to abstain, and teach others to abstain, from all that is sinful cr hurtful. But making a business of it leads to emaciation of character, unless one feeds largely also on the more nutritious diet of active, sympathetic benevolence." For Friends' Intelligencer. “KEEP SILENCE BEFORE THE LORD.” For the advancement of the Society of Friends, as a peculiar people, there appears to be a necessity that we go back to this first principle of "keeping silence. before the Lord." Our auxiliaries, the First-day Schools, Young Friends' Associations, numerous philanthropic movements, more attentive study of the Bible, etc., have been zealously engaged in; but in order that all this good work may strengthen and advance our Society, we should endeavor to strengthen our meetings for Divine worship. The place to stimulate the growth, and to shape a tree, is at its root. Pruning, spraying, and other devices are helpful in destroying the enemies to its healthy fruitage ; but, should not enrichment be applied to the roots? else the fruit, if there be any yield, will show its degeneracy. Silent meetings and a waiting Ministry is the foundation on which the Society of Friends is built; and it is in a silent, waiting state that a Gospel Ministry has its birth. In many places the meetings held for Divine worship are much neglected, and some members may claim that the First-day School and Young Friends' Association are substitutes for those meetings for worship. If we take out the foundation, can the building stand? It is not from men, or books, neither the study of theology, but from the silent meetings that a pure gospel ministry will spring; it is here that the Spirit Divine operates, "filling the soul with the unction of grace to be diffused in other hearts, who are in a state of receptivity, often more efficacious than words to replenish the soul." Then I will say to the younger members, do not let your interest in these auxiliaries abate; but above all else, acquaint yourselves with the meetings for Divine worship, as this knowledge will make you truer Friends and better citizens. About a quarter of a century ago a concern was felt (in the minds of a few Friends) for First-day schools to be established among us, that the children might be drawn more generally than they were, to attend meetings with their parents, and be made better acquainted with the principles and testimonies of the Society. This concern spread throughout our borders, and now we are reaping the harvest from our labors. "New occasions teach new duties," and many concerned Friends and earnest laborers in the auxiliaries above mentioned are yearning for a higher plane for the Society, claiming that our great weakness is shown in the death of ministry among us. Would some who feel this concern most but turn their inquiry and research within, the unfaithful servant might thus be discovered. I cannot but believe that the call "to enter into my vineyard and labor," is as free and clear in this age as it ever was, and I believe there are many among the young within our fold whose minds have been visited with convictions of truth; if these are obedient to the heavenly vision, they will become as lights to the world, and as instruments in the Divine hand in calling others to behold the beauty of the truth as it is in Jesus. A FRIEND'S JOURNEY IN WAR TIME. (Concluded from Last Week.) WE arrived in New York on the 3d of 7th month (1782), where our friends rejoiced to see us, and received us with great kindness. But there being no vessels that we could be free to go in, we were detained there and in Long Island several months. We were not easy to go in a ship carrying guns, or that had been taken and made a prize, or that was concerned in the war; believing we were called to bear our testimony to the coming of the peaceable reign of the Messiah, and against all wars or fightings, or being in any manner concerned therein. During my stay on Long Island I joined with my friend David Sands in having meetings at divers places amongst those of other societies. I also diligently attended the meetings of Friends, both on Long Island and in New York, and passed through many deep sufferings and inward conflicts known only to the Lord. And toward the latter part of my stay a Westbury I was often led to declare of the Lord dealings with me, of His judgments and of His mercies, for their encouragement. I was also engaged with others in visiting families, in which service my mind was often drawn into a deep, inward and sensible feeling of the state of the seed, and favored with suitable matter to communicate to the refreshing of some drooping spirits. On the 13th of 12th month, way opening for my getting along towards England, after a solemn, hearttendering season with Thomas Seaman's family, where I had mostly made my home, and several other Friends who had come to take their leave of me, in which supplication and prayer was offered to the God of all grace for each other's preservation. I parted with them in much love and near fellowship, and rode to New York, where I met my companion, John Pemberton, who informed me he had taken our passage in the ship "New York," Charles Grant, master, bound for London; at which I was glad, having some months before been on board, and then thought I felt an evidence of its being right for me to go on that vessel. ་་ On the 21st of the 12th month we took a solemn leave of many of our beloved friends, and went on board, and fell down that evening to the watering place, where we lay until the 23d; then sailed to Sandy Hook, and there waited till next day for the rest of the fleet: Next day went to sea, being about fifty-eight sail in all, going under convoy of three ships of war, for which they had long waited. which they had long waited. I was favored with a quiet, resigned mind, committing myself to the protection of an All-Wise and Faithful Creator. On the 25th, at night, came on a violent storm, which separated us from the rest of the fleet, and we saw them no L ང་ more the whole of the voyage. That night I was taken sick, and continued for twenty-five days closely confined to my bed, and was brought very low indeed, to all appearance nigh unto death. The weather, also, was very stormy, so that, to all appearance, we many times seemed likely to be swallowed up in the great deep. But, through Divine mercy, I was favored with. a calm, resigned mind; often remembering I came not in my own will, nor with a view after the gain of this world, but in obedience to the will of Him who ruleth both sea and land, and is indeed mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea. One night, as I lay considering my manifold trials since I left my outward habitation, and the great danger I then was in, the waves passing over the ship, and at times seeming as if they would dash it to pieces, this language was as clear and intelligible to me as though a voice had spoken to my outward ear : "Trust in the Lord; for in the Lord Jehovah there is everlasting strength." I Being thus confined by sickness, I had not the opportunity of seeing the hardships which the poor sea-faring men pass through; but my sleep often departing from me, so that I seldom got any rest before they set the four-o'clock watch in the morning. often heard the difficulties they were in, which were great and many. It being stormy most of the voyage, made it desirable to see the land; which on the 26th of the 1st month, 1783, we did, being near the Isle of Wight. They got me on deck, supposing the sight and smell of land would refresh me; which it did. But, alas, how uncertain and very precarious are all sublunary joys! For, as we were sailing pleasantly along, viewing the English shore, and a fleet of men-of-war which lay at anchor a little ahead, a small vessel bore down towards us, which our seamen supposed to be a tender coming to press men, which made them afraid, and they sought to hide themselves. She passed by and spoke to us; then tacked, came up on the other side, and fired several muskets at the men as they walked on the deck, but did not hurt any one. They then hoisted out their boat and boarded us in a furious manner, cursing and swearing what they would do to us, and running about the ship with drawn swords in their hands. They took our seamen on board their vessels; in doing which they overset the boat, the sea running high, and drowned one of them. Thus were we, in a few minutes, brought from a state of joy to that of sorrow. But my companion and myself, going into our cabin just as they came up and fired at us, remained quietly there without any molestation. Next day I sent for the prize-master, who behaved civilly to us, and said he knew what we were, and we need not be afraid, for we should not be plundered; which we were not. During the time of the great commotion in the ship, my mind was inwardly retired to the Lord, and great was the peace and quiet I was favored with; which I mentioned to my companion, who expressed the same. Blessed be the name of the Lord, who is, to those that are resigned to his will, whether to do or suffer, "a shadow from the heat and a covert from the storm ; that in the midst of dangers and trials they can say, Thou art my strength and place of refuge; therefore will I trust in thee. Being now under new commanders, and night coming on, they hoisted sail, and made toward France. A time of great trial it was to most of the ship's company. The night proved very stormy, the sea being boisterous, and they but poor navigators, carrying much sail for fear of being pursued and re-taken; as they expected, should that be the case, they should suffer death, being mostly Englishmen who had deserted from the British service, and got a commission from the French to make prizes of English vessels. They were, I think, as wicked men in expression as I ever heard. That night it seemed likely we should be swallowed up by the mighty waves; but the Lord was graciously pleased to bear up my mind under all, making my present state of confinement much easier than I could have expected. Being sick and very weak, I kept my bed mostly until we came into Calais-road, where we came to anchor in the evening of the 28th; but the sea running high, and the wind boisterous, we could not land. Next day a boat came off to us, and brought the remainder of the privateer's men on board our ship. They gave us an account of all our men, (except the one that was drowned), being safely landed at Calais. The most of the passengers that remained in our ship went to Calais in that boat; but my companion and myself being weakly, I was not able to get into the boat in time, and the lieutenant of the privateer advised us to stay on board; which advice we found to be for benefit, as by being there we saved our things; for the crew plundered all the night, and seemed afraid of each other's getting more than themselves. Such rogues they were, that when one broke open a chest or trunk and got anything, and hid it, others, if they could find it, would steal it away, and hide it in another part of the ship. Thus they continued while we stayed on board, which was until the 30th of the month; for when they all got on board, they slipped the cables and sailed for Dunkirk. When we came into that road, the wind and sea continuing tempestuous, we had to remain two nights and part of two days before we could land. A boat was sent to bring us on shore, but it was such a tossing, trying time, that there appeared danger of our being driven out to sea again, and our provisions were spent ; for the privateer's men had made great waste of them after they came on board, but now they seemed surprised at the prospect of want. My mind was mercifully supported and borne up, though greatly oppressed with their filthy conversation. and abminable oaths. I believe I heard more thereof in the space of thirteen days among them, than I had done in so many years in any other period of my life. One sorrowful, and to us, affecting case happened while we remained on board the ship: two of the privateer company quarreled, and grievous were the oaths and imprecations they used. One of them, after re |