pering and giggling. He paused, looked at strength could hardly move it, so that after the disturbers, and said: "I am always afraid tugging a quarter of an hour, it was abanto reprove those who misbehave themselves, doned. They then went down the stream, for this reason: Some years since, when I was gathering up the sticks of the old dam; the preaching, a young man who sat before me smaller ones were held above the water, the was constantly laughing, talking, and making larger ones towed up, the beaver holding by uncouth grimaces. I paused and adminis- the teeth, and swimming by the side. tered a severe rebuke. After the close of the service a gentleman said to me: 'Sir, you have made a great mistake. That young man whom you reproved is an idiot.' Since then I have always been afraid to reprove those who misbehave themselves in chapel, lest I should repeat that mistake and reprove another idiot." During the rest of the service, the story concludes, there was good order. Incisive and dry, as becomes its nationality, was the rebuke of the Scotch shepherd to Lord Cockburn of Bonaly. That nobleman was sitting on the hillside with the shepherd, and, observing the sheep reposing in the coldest situation, he said to him: "John, if I were a sheep, I would lie on the other side of the hill." The shepherd answered, " Aye, my Lord, but if ye had been a sheep, ye would hae had mair sense." Less epigrammatically neat, but more richly deserved, was the following rebuke to an unnamed lord, quoted in Shelden's "Table Talk." "A great lord and a gentleman talking together, there came a boy by leading a calf with both his hands. Says the lord to the gentleman, 'You shall see me make the boy let go his calf;' with that he came toward him, thinking the boy would have put off his hat, but the boy took no notice of him. The lord seeing that, 'Sirrah,' says he, 'do you know me, that you use no reverence?' 'Yes,' says the boy, 'if your lordship will hold my calf, I will put off my hat.""-All the Year Round. NATURAL HISTORY STUDIES. "There was standing on the bank, directly above the dam, a willow tree some twenty inches in diameter. They all gathered about this tree, one on the upper side, all the others on the lower side next the dam. Those below applied their teeth to the trunk like great gouges, all in turn as one became tired, so that in less time than a man with an axe would have done it, the tree tottered to its fall. All at once withdrew from the lower side, while the master mechanic began cautiously to cut away the remaining support. This was done, cutting a little here, and a little there, often looking upward, so that the tree fell with a crash squarely upon and across the crevice in the old dam. The tree was held several feet above the dam by its branches, and the beavers all disappeared in the water. I could not see what they were doing, but the tree began to settle and soon rested on the dam. They had cut off the branches which held it up. "Then commenced the process of closing the breach. A beaver would draw up a fair 'cord wood' stick upon the dam, raise it on end, hugging it against his shoulder and neck, letting it slide diagonally up stream, leaning against the fallen tree. In the meantime a beaver at the bottom was digging a post hole,' and guiding the post to its place. When this was done the digger would come to the surface to breathe, while the one on the log would cut off the stick if too long for fair work. When the sticks of the old dam were all used, they would go into the bushes and soon return, backing out and dragging along a stick, which was placed in the same manner. This was repeated until the whole gap was filled. The process of covering this woodwork with earth, leaves, bog, or whatever came to hand, was done as Collins described what he witnessed in Nova Scotia Habits of the Beaver.-George Daniels, while preparing subjects for the State Cabinet of Kansas, made some researches in the adjoining Indian Territory, where he found undisturbed beaver communities. After securing three specimens of the animal for the State Cabinet, he embraced the opportunity-hugging of observing its method of work. With two assistants the dam of an undisturbed family was broken down to the bottom, displacing a large log which formed its base. His companions then returned to camp; while he, secreted in the bushes close by, awaited the result. He says: "At early twilight five beavers came out from holes in the bank and looked the devastation all over. The first effort was to get back to its place the bed log. It was wet, heavy, and slippery, their united hugging a mass against chin and neck, and swimming with hind feet and tail. And thus, forgetful of time, I watched with ab sorbing and often with almost breathless interest, the progress of the work, so that when darkness faded into daylight the dam was completed, the tired workers had retired, and I left for camp, repeating the resolution, 'I have killed my last beaver, the very last.”” -Forest and Stream. STYLE is the gossamer on which the seeds of truth float through the world.—Bancroft. THE TRUE CROSS. The true cross of Christiandom, says Stanley, is not one or all of the wooden fragments, be they ever so genuine, found or imagined to be found by the Empress Helena, but in the words of Goethe, "the depth of divine sorrow of which the cross is an emblem. It is," as Luther said "that cross of Christ which is divided throughout the whole world not in the particles of broken wood, but that cross which comes to each as his own portion in life. Thou therefore, cast, not thy portion from thee, but rather take it to thee-thy suffering, whatever it be-as a most sacred relic, and lay it up not in a golden or silver shrine, but in a golden heart, a heart clothed with gentle charity." I PRAYED to God that He would baptize my heart into the sense of all conditions, so that I might be able to enter into the needs and sorrows of all.-George Fox. ITEMS. THE Tamaulipas, the first steamer of the Mexican Transatlantic line, has arrived at Vera Cruz. ONE of the Commission appointed by the President to investigate diseases among swine, has just returned from the West, and reports that "there is a great deal less disease among Western swine than has been reported." THE whistle of a locomotive is heard 3,300 yards, the noise of a train 2,800 yards, the report of a musket and the bark of a dog 1,800 yards, the roll of a drum 1,600 yards, the croak of a frog 900 yards and a cricket's chirp 800 yards On the 20th inst, the new cantilever bridge at Niagara Falls was formally opened. Its strength was tested by running on it twenty locomotives, and twenty-four cars loaded with gravel. The cars extended from one end of the bridge to the other, covering both tracks. The greatest deflection noted was only 63 inches at the centre. THE merchants of San Francisco assert that their trade with the North west has been already reduced 75 per cent. by the opening of the Northern Pacific Railroad. Four months ago three steamers a week were not sufficient to carry freight to Oregon and Washington Territory. Two months later two steamers per week were sufficient, and now one every five days is all that is necessary.” OUR Minister to Sweden informs the State Department that, on the 24th, of April next, direct steam communication between the United States and Sweden will begin. It will be continued monthly thereafter between New York and Gothenburg, under the auspices of the North German Lloyds. During 1882 Sweden imported $2,000,000 worth of wheat, mostly from Denmark. SOME useful applications have lately been made in England of luminous paint where it is desirable to render objects visible in the dark, such as life and mooring buoys, numbers of vessels, dangerous rocks and headlands, a large rock having recently been painted. Perhaps the most striking applications is the painting of the mariner's compass on board ship, by which means it is renderd clearly visible, and the course can be easily kept should the lamp be extinguished.-Iron Age. It is well known that during fogs the air is clarified by no currents, but, owing to its stagnation, becomes a receptacle for every foul and noxious gas and deadly germ that floats in the impure air above the confined and suffocating streets; and to such an extent is this the case that were it not for the fogs it is possible that pestilent and deadly dangers would hover about every household, and probably sweep awaythousands where now the yellow fog, with its train of asthmatic and chest complaints, claims its fifties. The reason of this is the “powerful antiseptic properties of the sulphurous acid formed by the burning sulphur," the fog becoming, therefore, a huge disinfectant, always, indeed, disagreeable, and at times offensive, but nevertheless possessing purifying properties possibly preventive of terrible and universal evils.-Good Words. At the Home for Aged and Infirm Colored Persons, corner of Belmont and Girard avenues, January 1st, 1884. The Board of Managers, at the present time, are struggling under a large debt, incurred by the new addition to the building, which is now on the eve of completion; and are greatly in need of means to meet the current expenses -having a crowded house of one hundred and twenty inmates for whom to make provision. Donations in money and goods will be most acceptable. Interesting exercises will take place in the afternoon, from 2 to 5 o'clock, consisting of addresses by Dr. J. M. Crowell, Bishop J. P. Campbell, and several others; and the old folks will take part on the occasion by singing several of their favorite hymns of praise. Donations may be sent to Israel H. Johnson, Treasurer, 809 Spruce st., Dillwyn Parrish, 1017 Cherry street, Thos. H. McCollin, 627 Arch Street, H. M. Laing, 30 N. Third street, William Still, 244 S. Twelfth street, or to the Home. Old muslin or linen, especially large pieces, such as sheets and table cloths, which are used in dressing serious burns, are much needed at the Pennsylvania Hospital, Eighth and Spruce streets, Philadelphia. Packages will be sent for if the Steward is notified. FRIENDS' INTELLIGENCER. "TAKE FAST HOLD OF INSTRUCTION; LET HER NOT GO; KEEP HER; FOR SHE IS THY LIFE. VOL. XL. PHILADELPHIA, FIRST MONTH 5, 1884. EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY AN ASSOCIATION OF FRIENDS. COMMUNICATIONS MUST BE ADDRESSED AND PAYMENTS MADE TO 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 CONTENTS. Co-operation of Parents and Teachers...... The Imaginative Element in Religious Ideas.... No. 47. Local Information. Scraps from Unpublished Letters............. 737 748 741 742 743 744 746 746 747 748 749 750 752 A Needed Reform..... Marriages-Deaths. Dr. Wayland's Benevolence.. Poetry: God our Strength-Progress.. Recollections of a Day at Concord...... The Norway Fjords....... Summer Sport in Nova Zemla.............. CO-OPERATION OF PARENTS AND TEACHERS. manhood or womanhood of which it is only Essay read on the occasion of some Exercises of the An English author wrote, "What the chisel is to the block of marble, education is to the human soul." Let us imagine two artists inspired alike with a lofty ideal of form and feature, carving chip by chip out of a shapeless block a statue of exceeding excellence that shall take an honored place in the gallery of art. With what self-forgetfulness would each labor that his work should harmonize with that of the other. How all mean ambition, vanity of conceit, pride of authority would be excluded by the absorbing thought of the finished beauty. Their hammers would strike in harmony, no discordant blows could be permitted, all their labors would sympathize and work toward the grand result. They would not dare to jar each other's chisels with a discordant blow. a most palpable counterfeit. They have indeed no mean task before them who are to take from the rude hand of nature a little, ignorant child, and by many deep impressions to lay in his infantile soul the foundations of character, and through the constant exercise of a patience and wisdom born of Heaven awaken and direct his growing powers and in the straight and narrow way of virtue lead him gently and safely up and up and up to the high plane of noble manhood. They who succeed in this work have something more to be proud of than has any worker in stone. They have done about the grandest thing mortals can find to do. Of all fine arts this is the finest. Indeed, the production of a higher type of manhood is about the only real business on this planet. All trades and traffics and enterprise with which the world is busied are only means to this end. It is said that the object of human And yet, although this may be a fitting life is to glorify God and serve him forever, symbol, how coarse and cold is the block of but the way to do this is to educate and definest marble compared with the immeasura-velop in our race the largest soul growth posble possibilities of an untutored human soul. | sible. How poor, dull and mechanical the sculptor's work measured against the fine, refining, and I may say Divine workmanship that must be done, if done at all, by the combined efforts of the parent and the teacher. How dumb and unlovely were the finest statue did it not suggest the glory of real Does not every thoughtful parent know that he is self-appointed to this high calling? That in his children his works shall follow him? That by virtue of the responsibility of parentage it is his first and largest duty and should be his most inspiring ambition to nourish not only the body, but the whole life H. S. KENT. of his child. And on the other hand must not | strengthens and thrills the soul of the teacher every true teacher realize that he too has un- with new life and loftier resolve. dertaken to chisel out of these blocks of living marble something better than statues-workmanship that shall expose the workman and bespeak his honor or his shame. And must the parent and teacher not feel that each is to the other his dearest handmate, that they are workers on one piece, and that any discordant effort will spoil their work, that they, of all workers, should cooperate with the most perfect harmony and the most tender sympathy, that the value of the attainment warrants the sacrifice of every selfish motive? But this needful, perfect, sympathetic cooperation can be realized only by parents and teachers of intelligence and culture. All high attainments depend on character. Streams do not rise above their fountains. The parents and teachers in this and in every school can and will co-operate if they belong (not nominally), but really to this class. Perhaps this is as good a soulometer (see Webster) as any other. In a low state of society there never was, nor can be any adequate or general co-operation of parents and teachers. Ignorance, selfishness, ungoverned impulse, unreasoning credu lity, indifference, laziness and the entire brood of mental fiends are against it, as they are against every other noble endeavor. Intelligence, patience, self-control, reasonableness and all those high qualities of mind which constitute true culture are most heartily for it. Every parent of this class says to the teacher, "I want your best effort in the training of my child; of course, you shall have mine. Let us, I pray you, keep close together in sympathy, for our task, though interesting and noble, is not light. We will need to give to each other of our best. We shall need to confer often that we may act in perfect concert. Why should we not be close as brothers, when the success of our work is so important to each of us, and neither can do it well alone. Let all considerations of social standing, of superior authority and the like be excluded from our minds by the all-absorbing thought of the work we have in hand.” And to this beautiful spirit on the part of the parent or guardian, whether manifested by speech or action, or both, I am sure every true teacher will immediately and heartily respond; respond as the lonely traveler responds to kindly salutations, respond as the heart in darkness responds to dawning light. What a flood of light and cheer such a parent carries with him on his visit to the school-room. How his word of appreciation and praise, where deserved, fills the hearts of the pupils with confidence and hope, and For Friends' Intelligencer. LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION." If our will should be subject to the Divine will (and I certainly think it should) then why this petition? If it is our Father's will to lead us into temptation should it not be our will to go? Rather I would translate its meaning (not by a knowledge of Hebrew, but by the spirit of it) in this way: Preserve us through temptation. In temptation we must be often, even as Jesus was, by the necessity of life in the flesh, but "the Father will not suffer us to be tempted above that we are able, but will with the temptation make a way of escape. Thus He will preserve us through temptation, if we will look to him, heed and obey him. This interpretation gives me most comfort, in the absence of knowledge of the exact language Jesus used. in our own language, may there not be in the There are such delicate shades of meaning Hebrew? Then Jesus did not write this prayer, and only uttered it once, so far as we have any account of it. There were no instantaneous reports, in those days, so far as we are informed. The hearer of this prayer must have recorded it from memory or impression, and we all know the difficulty of doing this perfectly. So where this or other sayings of Jesus seem not quite consistent with the evident spirit of his other utterances, may we not interpret, according to the evident spiritual interest? "If the Son (or Spirit) shall make you free, then are ye free indeed." H. A. P. TRANSFIGURATION. The Hebrew legend of the calling of Moses up into the mount is typical of the spiritual experience of man. Every thoughtful soul is at times called up into the mount of divine vision. And if a cloud covers the mount so that at first the soul cannot see, yet a glory breaks forth from the cloud and fills the spiritual world with light, and bathes the wondering eyes until they behold nothing but that divine splendor. And as Moses came down to make the tabernacle, and the ark and its furniture, and was commanded to do all according to the pattern shown him in the mount; even so do we not all come down from our ideal heights to work again at the common things of life, and do we not feel the inward aspiration to make all that we do according to the pattern which we saw in our Have we not seen faces that shone like the face of an angel? Need we go back to the apostolic age," or search the calendar of man-made saints, to find the faces of apostles, or the halo around saintly heads? mount of heavenly vision? This is the idealiz- | we read life's deeper language of symbols and ing of life-the raising of its hard realities motion. As the absence of motion marks up into a spiritual atmosphere which clothes the difference of sculpture from the living them with higher, holier and happier mean- form, so the perception of motion tells the ings. It is just this that the highest spiritual soul that the universe is alive, and not dead. teaching does for us. Take the beatitudes of Jesus, from that little book of sentences called, however unhistorically, yet so beautifully, the Sermon on the Mount. They certainly have no literal correspondence to the actual condition of humanity in any age of the world. But all intelligent religious sentiment must acknowledge that they do faithfully express man's ideal spiritual state. If we fail to realize such things, it is not because they are not true ideals. If we do not see the spiritual world around us, it is not because it is not there. The whole religious culture of man depends upon the opening of his eyes to those things which concern his highest nature-to the powers which support and gladden his better life. Solemnly, compassionately the seer of realities addresses those who are blind to the highest blessings and opportunities of existence: แ O ye who seek to solve the knot! Only they do not miss, but know and en This glory of God, passing into human souls, is reflected even in the poorest and weakest of our race. To clearest sight, it makes the earth a paradise. Even to dimmest eyes, it shows some sign of hope upon the weariest path of duty, the hardest trial way. And in human love and tenderness it gives ever some strong assurance of goodness and compassion infinite. Above the storm and strife of earthly existence it brings to view the eternal stars, portending truth and peace at last to every soul. The inward eye, seeing the true vision of the world that is, reads also the glowing prophecy of a better world to come. Looking back, the tranquillized spirit feels "That care and trial seem at last, joy these divine powers, who have learned to And with hope's promises answering to meidealize life both in thought and in conduct-mory's bright realities, it is enough to go up into the mount, and to form the common life upon the pattern there shown to them. We must idealize the real, and realize the ideal, in order to live our true life in the fullest way. All things have their unspoken languages, which the soul must learn. By understanding these silent interpreters, "we see into the life of things." Then come pleasing thoughts" of a past that was better than we knew, and assurance 'That in this moment there is life and food What "experience" of formal faith, what hope of a magic salvation, what trust in a religion not based on the eternal laws, can give the delight, the peace of that spiritual transfiguration of the world, of life, of death, of past, present and future, which brings God's heaven before our eyes in this the accepted time? So speak the silent languages of the Spirit. No formal phrases can bind them. No prescribed rules can convey their meanings. Spiritual life is a question, not of attitude, but of altitude. The high ascent, not the low cringing of the soul, shows its reverence of the unseen powers. Only from far heights can "That all the jarring notes of life Seem blending in a psalm; -J. H. Clifford, in the Sower. For Friends' Intelligencer. MEETING AT EASTLAND, LANCASTER CO., pa. Eastland is one of the three preparatives composing Little Brittain Monthly Meeting, and is situated about five miles north west of Rising Sun, Md., and eight miles west of Oxford. Pa., on the Philadelphia and Baltimore Central Railroad. The present stone meetinghouse was built in 1802, and the preparative meeting was established in the year 1803. For a number of years this Meeting grew in membership and influence, and was for a time largely attended by Friends and friendly people of the neighborhood. In latter years, however, there has been a decline in attendance, and interest, except indeed by the remaining few whose zeal for the support of the Meeting and the maintainance, spread and practical living out of the principles professed by Friends is marked and commendable. Similar evidences of decay in some of our long established meetings become a subject of sad interest to the observing and concerned mind. Accordingly we find Yearly |