days ago, after an illness of forty-eight hours, and his physician said his death was due to congestion of the lungs, caused by smoking cigarettes. ARBOR DAYS.—The Governor of Nebraska makes proclamation of a tree-planting day for the State on the 18th of this month. There have been Governors' proclamations about less important matters of State. PAPERS have been filed at Albany organizing the Globe Telephone Company with a capital of $10,000,000 for doing a telephone business throughout the United States. The company purpose "to use instruments that will overcome all the present obstacles and talk over the longest distances.' A HOSPITAL for Mussulman women, presided over exclusively by Russian female doctors, has been established by General Tchernaieff at Tashkend. This it the first time that Russian women have been admitted to separate and independent medical practice. OUR Consul General at Calcutta informs the State Department that there will be an International Exhibition in that city, beginning on the 4th of December next. Mr. Mattson, the Consul General has secured 1,000 feet of space for general articles of American manufacture and for machinery. FIVE steamers, each with a large number of passengers, arrived at Victoria, British Columbia, during last week. The immigrants had no difficulty in finding employment. Two thousand Chinese will shortly arrive from Hong Kong. They were engaged to work on the railway before the contractors knew that white labor could be procured. THERE arrived in the Dominion of Canada during March 8,598 immigrants, and during the first three months of this year 20,646, against 20,191 during the first quarter of last year. There remained in the Dominion during the first quarter of this year 11,690 immigrants against 9,844 in the first quarter of 1882. of cheap coffee: "Red earth, flour, coffeegrounds, caramel, talc, plumbago, vermicelli and semolina powder, bean-dust, ground peas and lupines, bread-crusts, acorns, grilled figs, beetroot, carrots, red ochre, sawdust brickdust, ashes, mahogany shavings, vegetable earth, fered from this sample only in containing an sand." Some more expensive specimens difadmixture, greater or less, according to the price, of adulterated chicory. Of ninety-one samples of coffee analyzed in February, only thirteen were pure. NOTICES. TEACHERS WANTED. Friends' Elementary and High School, Clerk of Baltimore Yearly Meeting The Quarterly Meeting's Committee have FAIR HILL MEETING. First-day, Fourth month 22d, 1883, at A. Ogden's, 1117 Lehigh avenue, at 3 P. M. The Bucks Co. First-day School Union will hold its regular semi-annual meeting at Newtown, Fifth mo. 5th, 1883, at 10 o'clock A. M. Members of other schools will be cordially welcomed at the meeting and its deliberations. HUGH B. EASTBURN,, CYNTHIA S. HOLCOMB,} Clerks. Circular Meeting at Whitemarsh, on Firstday, Fourth mo. 29th, 1883, at 3 P. M. Friends in city and along the line of North Pennsylvania Railroad, take cars at Third and Berks streets at 1.15 P. M. for Fort Washington. Return 6.25 and 6.52 from Fort Washington. THE Secretary of the Treasury has decided to grant a request of the Hawaiian Government for the coinage of its silver money in the United States mints. The coinage will be ton. The coinage will be done at San Francisco, and the dies probably made in the Philadelphia Mint. The Hawaiian silver coins are of the denominations of one dollar, half a dollar, quarter of a dollar, and eighth of a dollar. THE RAT, says Professor Huxley, has no place in a well built city house. The mouse is harmless, but the presence of rats means a connection with the rat's place, the sewer. Hence, when he knew that there were rats in the basement of his house, Mr. Huxley had the floor of the room taken up, and found an opening into the sewer where the builder had omitted to close up the opening to a side drain, designed, but abandoned before using. During all the years that the house had been occupied, this opening had been in unsuspected existence, and had given open passage to the emanations from the sewer. THE Director of the Paris Municipal Laboratory, in his report for February, gives the following list of substances found in a sample have been received since last report as follows: Subscriptions to Fair Hill Meeting-house Joseph L. Jones... James C. Willis. Edwin R. Hawkins........ Daniel Neall. David Pancoast.. Samuel S. Bunting. Harriet DeB. Keim.. $20 5 10 25 100 10 50 50 50 10 10 15 5 5 50 10 SPENCER ROBERTS, Treasurer. 421 N. Sixth struct. FRIENDS' INTELLIGENCER. "TAKE FAST HOLD OF INSTRUCTION; LET HER NOT GO; KEEP HER; FOR SHE IS THY LIFE. VOL. XL. PHILADELPHIA, FOURTH MONTH 28, 1883. No. 11. EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY AN ASSOCIATION OF FRIENDS. CONTENTS. COMMUNICATIONS MUST BE ADDRESSED AND PAYMENTS MADE TO Samuel Bownas (continued).......... JOHN COMLY, AGENT, AT PUBLICATION OFFICE, No. 1020 ARCH STREET. TERMS:-TO BE PAID IN ADVANCE. The Paper is issued every week. The FORTIETH Volume commenced on the 17th of Second month, 1883, at Two Dollars and Fifty Cents to subscribers receiving it through mail, postage prepaid. SINGLE NUMBERS SIX CENTS. It is desirable that all subscriptions should commence at the beginning of the volume. REMITTANCES by mail should be in CHECKS, DRAFTS, or P. O. MONEY-ORDERS; the latter preferred. MONEY sent by mail will be at the risk of the person so sending. AGENTS:-Edwin Blackburn, Baltimore, Md. Benj Strattan, Richmond, Ind. Entered at the Post-Office at Philadelphia, Penna, as second-class matter For Friends' Intelligencer. (Continued from page 147.) Samuel Bownas attended a meeting appointed for John Bowstead and Peter Pearson at Kendal. After it was concluded, some objections were raised by a young schoolmaster in the audience, to an exposition, which, he said, made the text express more than the truth warranted. A Remarkable Experience... Correspondence............ Scraps from Unpublished Letters. 161 104 164 164 165 165 165 166 168 minister leaving the room in a rage and without ceremony. The schoolmaster at whose request the discussion was held, became deeply interested in Friends. He asked the loan of books treating of subjects in which they differed from other denominations, which his brother schoolmaster, John Jopson, of Kendal, supplied, and he became thoroughly convinced. One more journey (to Scotland) remained to be accomplished before Samuel Bownas set sail for America. He had worked again in the harvest field, through the summer, going to meeting on First days, and growing in the gift of the ministry, as he "could see and discern," but he checked such thoughts, feeling they had no proper place in his heart. This led to some discussion which drifted into the question of baptism, and the sprinkling of infants. The schoolmaster being concerned for the truth, asked that a conference might be held in his schoolroom, to which he would invite the minister of the parish, who, he had no doubt, "would be able to answer every point in relation to the subject." Samuel and his friends consented, provided The journey to Scotland was begun in the the schoolmaster at Kendal, who was ac- Eighth mo. of 1701, when Samuel was about quainted with both Greek and Latin, would 25 years old. He had, for his companion, be present. The narrative of this interview | Isaac Thomson, a young minister, who "had is deeply interesting. The minister is repre- a fine gift." On their way to Dumfries they sented to have been a comely, white-haired fell in with James Dickenson, who was bound person, with great show of politeness, but in for Ireland. The company of this experienced the discussion that ensued he lost his temper, and worthy minister was very helpful to our and where he was worsted in argument by young travellers. His tender and fatherly the ready scholarship of the Kendal school-care, and advice encouraged them, and the master, gave vent to the most approbious epithets. Not being able to defend his own doctrines, as was acknowledged by his companion, the conference was ended by the recital of his own trials, and weaknesses enabled them to see that they were not alone in such provings. The query has often, perhaps, arisen in the minds of those who read the autobiographies of the early apostles of our | in a sweet frame of spirit, being in dear unity profession, how they obtained a hearing among people who were entire strangers to them, and knew not of their coming. The only parallel in the present time is to be found in what is known as the "Salvation Army." I was passing down one of our principal streets a year or more ago, and as I crossed a short street I observed a little commotion at the upper end; looking more intently I saw a young man standing in the street who wore the garb of that organization, I turned and walked up on the other side that I might hear what he was saying. His words were simple, and very earnest, entirely within the comprehension of the common people who gathered around him and listened with quiet attention. This scene recalled what I had read of the early Friends and their journeyings from place to place in the work of the gospel, and explained to my own satisfaction the method adopted by them. This is not written with any intention of endorsing the proceedings of the Salvation Army, but as giving a practical illustration of how "Quakerism" became so widely dif fused in so short a time. What a force and power must the Gospel of Christ have exerted upon the intelligence and the understanding of those who embraced it, after the manner, then, as before, and since, called heresy, enabling them to face the opposition and contempt of the people to whom they carried the glad tidings of the soul's emancipation from priestly tyranny and oppression. When our travellers arrived at Dumfries, their number having been increased to five, James Dickenson, after some refreshment at their inn, said to the others, "Lads, I find a concern to go into the street, will you go with me?" To this they assented, and the little company "walked forth." It was seldom that so many (C Quakers were seen together in that town, and many of the people followed after them. James, who had thought it might only be required of him "to show himself," now "lifted up his voice like a trumpet among the people, who were very quiet and attentive." The next morning, James Dickenson and his companions pursued their journey towards Ireland, and our young travellers started for Glasgow, visiting the small meetings in the way, and being refreshed at finding" a small handful of living Friends.” At Glasgow, the people were rude, but not so uncivil in the streets as at former times. Going northward, they attended Aberdeen Quarterly Meeting, where they found Friends with one another. Pursuing their journey still further north, they had some meetings at Inverury and other places, returning to Ury by Aberdeen and thence to Edinburg, visiting the small meetings, and some places where were no meetings. Only one little meeting was held in Edinburg. Going from thence to Kelse, where two meetings were held on a first day, they were encouraged to take Jedburg, on their way back to England. Upon reflection, they concluded to go, not considering the exercise that might attend them, and with Samuel Robinson for a guide, they started the next morning. Arriving at the town, the landlord at one inn refused them entertainment, but going to another, they were received, the innkeeper telling them how indecently the minister had railed against the Quakers, the day before, repeating much that he had said about them. Samuel Bownas' mind was under so much concern that he could neither eat nor drink but giving their horses and saddle-bags into the custody of the host, prepared to go into the street. This gave such distress to him that he trembled as he begged them for his sake, as well as their own, that they remain in the house and preach to his family. To this Samuel made reply, telling him "they thought it their place and duty to preach to the inhabitants of the town; and thinkest thou," he said to him, "we shall be clear in the sight of God, whom we both fear and serve, by preaching to thee and thy family, what we are required to preach to the people of the town?" "If this is the case," he replied, "then go, and God preserve and bless you, but I fear the mob will pull down my house for letting you have entertainment, and kill you for your dence in the Divine protection, they set forth, good will." After some assurances of confithe landlord following at a distance, to see how they were treated. lic auction place, but having nothing to do They traversed the chief street to the pubthere, returned to the market cross, at the foot of the hill, and sat down. Soon a man with a bunch of keys came up to them, and taking Samuel by the hand said he must go with him "to the Tolbooth" (prison). On inquiring why, he replied, "For preaching." Samuel answered, "We have not preached." "Aye, but the Prevost has ordered me to put you into the Tolbooth," was his answer. Remonstrating that they did not know whether they should preach or not, and it was soon enough to make them prisoners when they did preach, the executor of the law made answer, "Aye, I ken very weel that you'll preach by your looks," at the same time struggling to pull him off the seat by force, | he "hoped they would not be guilty of using but he was not so easily moved. violence" to put him there. At this point one of the sentries who guarded the entrance advanced, presenting the butt end of his musket, and addressing the guards, said "his countryman has spoken right," and dared them to proceed further without legal authority. Samuel Robinson, the guide, who, only one week before, had been there with two other ministers, thought they had better go, as an opportunity would be offered to preach to the people in the prison. A "great assembly" had by this time congregated, and hoping that it would be as their guide had said, they allowed themselves to be conducted to the prison, which was near by. But now they saw their mistake, for since the week before when the two Friends spoken of by Samuel Robinson had preached from that place, the windows had been nailed up with boards, and the iron gates barred, so that it was impossible for them to be heard from within. They had been incarcerated but a little while when, as of old was the experience of the apostles, they were offered their liberty if they would depart without preaching, and like them, they chose rather to "obey God." Next day, "a country gentleman coming into the town interceded for them, and the Prevost (or Mayor), knowing he had no authority to keep them there, released them unconditionally. It was market-day, and the town was full of people, so after going to their inn to "refresh" themselves, they set out for the marketcross, which they found so surrounded with people selling their wares, that they walked on to the place where they had before stopped, at the head of the street. Here they stood up before a concourse of people looking out from the windows and balconies of the houses and gathered in the streets, estimated to be as many as five thousand, though Samuel expresses some doubt as to the number. Samuel "being filled with the spirit and power of grace," began to speak, taking for his text the words of the old Scripture, "Fear God and keep his commandments, who by his servants said, I will put my laws in their minds, and write them in their hearts; and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people." This sermon called upon them to obey these laws, and pointed out the happiness of all those who yielded ready and willing obedience thereto. After a period of waiting to give opportunity to his companions, which was not embraced, Samuel knelt in supplication. Soon two men took him by the arms and led him towards the prison while he yet prayed. The people behaved with great respect, and followed to see the result. Arrived at the prison door, Samuel refused to enter again, unless committed by due process of law, and said At this they released their hold upon Samuel, who at once ascended the steps of the prison and began to preach to the large concourse that had gathered. It was a "good opportunity," the people taking sides with the Friends, which was evinced by their remarks, and the orderly manner in which they conducted themselves. When they returned to the hotel, their host received them with "great kindness,' expressing his "good liking to what had been said, and adding he never "saw the people so struck," nor such a multitude that heard so intelligibly. Samuel hinted at his former fears, "putting him in mind that their duty in preaching to that multitude could not possibly have been discharged by preaching to him and his family," which he willingly acknowledged. In the evening several "gentlemen,” (possibly persons of distinction) sent to request an interview with our travellers, who desiring to meet them, the landlord offered a very large room in his house for their accommodation. They came presently, and were "very full of talk about religion, and tenacious of their opinions upon it.' This interview lasted until some time after midnight. In the course of the discussion the query was put, "By what authority do your preachers come by their ministry?" which led Samuel to relate his own experience in the matter, as the best answer he could make. He began with his father, who and what he was, relating his own early orphanage and the poverty of his mother, whose small patrimony it was necessary to supplement by the little that his brother, who was seven years older than himself, could earn, and that as soon as he was old enough he added his mite by tending the sheep of a neighbor. In this narrative he repeated briefly his religious experience, and the circumstances attending his call to the ministry. When he had done, one of the company inquired, "If all the preachers among Friends came by their ministry the same way?" To which Samuel replied he could give no account how another man might receive his ministry, but he had given them | “ a faithful and candid account of how he had received his." When they parted, the "gentlemen" took leave of Samuel and his companions "with great affection," one of them (the same as had procured his liberation from the Tolbooth) offering them the hospitalities of his house. Reflecting afterward upon this interview, Samuel was led to believe that in answering the query in regard to "How Friends come by their ministry?" it was necessary that he should begin where he did, that they might see from the humble condition of his parents, that he had “no dependence upon literature." They left Jedburgh the next morning, and pursued their homeward journey, holding meetings only in places where Friends were already established. They reached London in the latter part of Tenth mo. (To be continued.) A REMARKABLE EXPERIENCE. From the "Memories of Stanley Pumphey" lately published, is taken the following account of the religious experience of Thomas H. Dana, an Oneida Indian and a recognized preacher in the Methodist Church. It is given in his own words. He says: never heard of Christ or of the bible, and knew nothing of prayer. On my return to the camp my friends at once recognized the change in me, and one of my relations said, The Great Spirit has been speaking to him.' These words made a great impression on them, and when, soon after,a Christian teacher came round, he found us in a prepared condition to receive the gospel." "At twelve years of age he received a call to the ministry, the inward moving of the Holy Spirit and earnest love for the souls of men being the evidence of the commission. For thirty-five years he has been laboring among the indians, chiefly the Oneidas and Senecas of New York State. His uncle, who lived to the age of 106, told him of pious indians of the Oneida tribe, who lived before white men came among them, and he believed the Lord had gathered many into his garner from among them." ANXIETY ABOUT THE FUTURE. This Do not dwell upon remote events. anxiety about the future is contrary to a religious state of mind. When God bestows "From my earliest recollection I well re- any blessing upon you, look only to him in member that the Great Spirit strove with me, the comfort that you receive; and take every condemning me when I did wrong and ap- day the manna that he sends you, as the proving when did right. At seven years Israelites did, without making yourself any old-my mother being dead, and my father provision for the morrow. A life of faith having forsaken me-feeling desolate, I was produces two things: First, it enables us to going into the woods to die. It was dark, and see God in everything; secondly, it holds the I halted to wait for the dawn. As I sat in mind in a state of readiness for whatever may the hollow of a hemlock tree, the Great Spirit be his will. We must trust to God for whatsaid to me, 'Sunrise (this was my name), get ever depends upon him, and only think of down on thy knees and look up.' I did not being faithful ourselves in the performance understand what this meant, but I obeyed, of our duties. This continual, increasing got down on my knees and remained silent. dependence, this state of entire peace and I rose, and the Great Spirit said to me again, acquiescence of the soul, in whatever may Sunrise, get down upon thy knees.' I again happen, is the true, silent martydom of self. knelt down and waited till I was weary. Then It is so slow, and gradual, and internal, that I rose, and the Great Spirit said to me again, they who experience it are hardly conscious 'Sunrise, put off thy crown, and strip thyself of it. When God deprives you of any blessof thy ornaments.' I had on my head an ing he can replace it, either by other instruindian crown such as were worn by the chil-ments, or by himself. The very stones can, dren of chiefs, and many other ornaments, a in his hands, become the children of Abrachild's tomahawk, knife, and bow and arrows. ham. Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof; I stripped all off, took my crown, crushed it the morrow will take care of itself. He who up, put all the things together, tied my bow has fed you to-day will take care of you string round them, and tossed them out of the to-morrow. hollow of the tree. The Great Spirit again said, 'Sunrise, go down on thy knees.' While waiting in profound silence, there seemed a light like lightning shining around. It came into the tree and lighted on my head, going all over me and through me. After this I was in perfect peace and rest; I loved everybody; my troubles were all gone. 1 rose and returned to the camp. Ever since I have lived in this peace and rest. At this time I had We shall sooner see the manna fall from heaven in the desert, than the children of God shall want support. EXTRACTS. FENELON. "The wise mother is one who carefully studies the character of her children; who knows how to gain and keep their confidence; who is their best friend, to whom they go for counsel. She is cautious, but not too |