ing resolutions, and quicken our souls to run with patience the race set before us, and to hold out to the end in well doing. (To be continued.) J. B. When we are fully delivered from the influence of selfish considerations, and have become conformed to the desires and purposes of the infinite mind, we shall drink the cup, and drink it cheerfully, whatever it may be. We shall THE PUIR MAN'S BED." "Hide me in thy pavilion." this we have most painful instances now around us; and even some, who have deservedly stood high in our Society, as teachers and examples to the flock, but who have even come to question, or have lost, all their former impressions and tendering convictions,-these are, it seems all gone, and almost forgotten, as the early dew that passeth away,-and they have turned, as the dog or the sow, to that which they once loathed and rejected. And truly it is a striking and unanswerable fact, that there has not been one individual, who has risen to any emi-be submissive and happy in all trials; not benence for religious dedication in our Society, cause we are seeking happiness as a distinct but has had to tread the narrow and strait object, but because the glorious will of Him, path; and has had to attribute his progress to whom our souls love supremely, is accomplished giving up, in the ability received, to obey the in us.-Upham. secret monitions of the Spirit of Christ, even in little things nor has there I believe, been one who has swerved from this course, that has ultimately turned out better than the salt that In days gone by it was the custom of all in has lost its savour. "The fashion of this the Scottish Highlands, who were themselves world," my dear does indeed pass away; above want, to keep in some loft or shed, aland as thou sayest, custom is capricous and ways ready for use, what they called "The changeable; but truth is the same that ever it puir (poor) man's bed." It would have been a was unchangeable, and never faileth; and it public disgrace for one whom God has blessed will always stand by and bear out those, who with a home to turn any fellow creature away; are of it, and who keep to it. "Wisdom," we to shelter and feed the needy was looked on as read, "is justified of her children," and of few simply acknowledging and manifesting gratitude or none else; and the natural man cannot un- for God's favor. Many most touching and derstand and receive the things that relate to the beautiful instances of the reward of this ho-piSpirit and kingdom of God, they are mere fool-tality are left for our encouragement. ishness unto him, while in that state; for they ye ha' visits fra' angels, spread sheets on the are ever hid from the wise and prudent of this puir man's bed," was verified a thousand world, and revealed unto babes. Therefore, times in the dark days of persecution, when may not fitly wind up, by subjoining to that scripture with which I commenced, the language which follows it,-" Be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your minds, that ye may prove what is that good, acceptable, and perfect will of God." "Wad the blood of the holy was scented by the royal soldiery from rock to glen, and from castle to cot. One of those who had made himself obnoxious by his refusal to submit to the king's edict, and who had signed the solemn league and covenant, considered himself safe because he was neither a preacher nor a prominent I would earnestly urge thee to press through leader among his brethren. So he went on any indisposition or inertness of mind, and to quietly plowing and sowing his fields, and, in sit down at thy vacant moments to read Penn's the meantime, feeding and clothing the outcasts, No Cross, No Crown ;-redeeming thy time and going secretly to their meetings in those from idle gossip, avoiding occasions of exposure caves and glens made immortal by their unto unsuitable conversation, and either retire flinching fidelity to Christ. One day he was and go aside, or boldly and simply take up such startled by hearing that a band of the king's a book, and go through it perseveringly; enter- men were in search of him, and in a few mining into the spirit of the writer, and bending utes would be at the farm! His wife, white thy mind to the subject. The latter part of with the fear that the very name of Claverhouse Jaffray, which contains the history of Friends inspired, besought him to flee for his life. She in Scotland, is another book which would really suggested the barn, the graveyard, and the adinterest thee. But after all the helps to be de-jacent grove as places for hiding; but the old rived from books or instruments, I trust, my man said, "Na, I'll go nawhere fra my ain dear thou reedest not to be reminded of hame; gin my hour has na' come, they canna the inexhaustible unfailing source of all kill me; but gin it has, I'd rather go to heaven strength and goodness; who alone, if applied frae this bonnie spot than any ither! Our God, to, and the mind truly turned to Him in secret Janet, is a covenant-keeping God, and I'll exercise and breathing desires, is able to solve prove him now! Sin iver we've had a hame, all our difficulties, to relieve us of our doubts, we've spread a pillow for the wanderer, as to deliver us from temptation, to aid our droop-weel as welcoming every ane at our ingle side. Blessed is he that considereth the poor; the Lord will remember him in time of trouble.' I ha' considered the poor, and this is the day o' trouble, sa there can be na doubt o' deliverance! I'll na run a foot, but just lay my head on the puir man's pillow, whence sa monie prayers ha' risen for me and mine; and see if the angel o' the Lord do no' encamp around me!" Scarcely had he stretched himself out in his humble hiding place, when, with jeer and curse, the blood thirsty soldiers galloped up to the door and demanded of the terrified Janet, her husband. "He's na by me," she replied, "and ye can na expect me to do the work yer master pays ye for doing; go yer way and seek him if ye will; but ye'll not find him. He's hidden by ane as has more power in the Highlands than has yer master, the king!" They thought some nobleman in the region had given him shelter, and were about going away, when one of their number insisted on searching the premises, lest they might be accused of going on a fool's errand. is present to them in the fulness and perfection of His nature,-just as much as if they were the only beings in the universe.-Upham. HENRY WARD BEECHER ON LOVE. On earth there is nothing more beautiful than the first breaking of the ground of young, strong, new, pure love. No flower that ever blossomed, however fair; no fragrance that any flower ever emitted, however sweet; no bravery of the sky; no witchery of art; nothing that man ever invented or imagined, is to be compared with the hours of dawning love in the young soul. And it is a shame that men should be taught to be ashamed of that which is the prophecy of their highest being and glory. Alas, that it should ever perish in the using! Alas, that men should not know that to endure, it must rise higher and higher, since it is only by growing into its full and later disclosures that it may be saved from quick mortality. It must grow or die; for that which suffices for a beginning is not enough for all, and for all time. Every room has been invaded, and barn and Love, therefore, should be a schoolmaster, cow house explored, when, coming back through carrying its pupils up from room to room, a shed to threaten the poor wife, one of them through the whole university of the mind. saw a ladder leading to the "puir man's loft." As the lower begins first, it ends first. The Mounting it he stood in the room with low, higher, beginning latest, lasts the longest. dark rafters, whose only furniture was a chair And, hence, true affection is strongest in the and a bed, in which last a man was lying. later periods of being. Perhaps it is less Never once thinking that the farmer himself witching, perhaps it is less attractive in could be there, he returned to his companions novelty, perhaps it is less stimulating, than saying, "There's nane there but a vagrant asleep; seek him at the castle where the gude wife said he'd gone for shelter." Ah! the strong pavilion in which God had caused him to hide was beyond their ken! They went their way-those men of blood-and then he came forth to praise God for his great deliverance. The shelter he had prepared for others had changed from a poor room in a loft to a high tower into which he had run and was safe. He had considered the poor, and the Lord remembered him in trouble. He lived through all the dark days of persecution, till he saw peace upon Israel and heard religious liberty proclaimed on all those fair Scottish hills. If we desire angels for guests, we must prepare for them, and look for them. If we would have a high tower for a refuge in the time of danger, we must build one for those now in terror, and then when our own dark day comes it will be ready, and we can find shelter there. -Era. young love; but the popular impression that we love strongest, when we love earliest, is not found in truth or analogy. No one knows the whole lore of love, that does not know how to love with the reason, the imagination and all the moral sentiments. It is the most interior school that the soul can know. Men may know how to deal with numbers and solve problems; but that is the rarest, the innermost, the deepest knowledge that comes with loving by all the parts and faculties of the soul. They only can love greatly or fruitfully who are good, since the line, the direction, is from the flesh toward the spirit. It is from the low toward the high. It is from the substantial toward.the invisible. And none can truly love except those whose life is the unfolding of their whole nature on the plan of Christianity. How pitiful it is to see men build too low! I cannot bear to see the young gathering together and building their nests as the birds do. On my lawn I see the larks and other birds building in the grass, and know that before the Those whose souls are so far renewed that they young are fledged the remorseless mower, with can be said to have entered into the Divine revolving strokes, will sweep the ground, and Union, find that, in every season, they have the nests will be utterly destroyed, and the evidence of God's nearness and intimacy. And young cut and wasted. And do I not see men it adds to their happiness to know that He building their nests just so? Do I not see love beginning to nestle in the flowers? But the | draw forth the occasional expression of those flowers themselves are rooted in the dirt down low, close to the foot that easily shall crush them. I mourn when I see a mother loving her children for time, and for time only. I mourn when I see two natures that should be eternally affianced loving each cther within the horizons of time. There must be something higher than the circlings of this world. No love is fit to be called by the name of love that has not in it something of the other world, and much of immortality. It must rise above an instinct or passion. It must have in it faith and hope. It must be a love that is served by the reason, by the imagination, by all that there is in the soul. are trials and doubts, and those hopes and aspirations which arise in the sensitive young minds, providentially placed under their guidance. Thus they may often be learners, rather than teachers. The intuitions of childhood singularly pure and beautiful, and wonderfully adapted to revive and strengthen the faith of those whose moral sense may be blunted by carelessness or disobedience. Instances were related of little children who have felt in silent meetings that Divine influence which is promised to the few that are gathered in the name of the Master. The view was expressed that parents may sometimes mar, rather than pro FRIENDS' INTELLIGENCER. mote the growth of a healthful religious senti PHILADELPHIA, FOURTH MONTH 27, 1867. NOTICE. As it is desirable that the Representatives and other Friends attending our approaching Yearly Meeting should be comfortably provided for during their stay in our city, those Philadelphia Friends who have room, and are willing to accommodate strangers, are requested to leave word at the office of Friends' Intelligencer, 144 North Seventh St., or with Samuel Pine, No. 152 North Fifteenth St. TRAINING OF YOUNG CHILDREN.-At the twelfth meeting for reading and conversations (the final one of the season), held at Race St. Meeting-house, Philadelphia, on Fourth day evening, 10th inst., A communication from Friends of Poughkeepsie, N. Y, who have met for mutual improvement, acknowledging the advantages derived from their association during the past year, was read. According to previous arrangement, the claims of children to that moral and religious training which is calculated to promote their spiritual growth and usefulness, were considered. It was thought that children were apt to be misunderstood by those who are older and more experienced. They often have desires after communion with the wise and good, but are naturally timid, and unwilling to expose their secret thoughts to others. Parents should never allow the confidence which their children naturally repose in them to be lost by harsh or discouraging words; they should invite and ment in their childreu, by too many precepts and restrictions. The young should not be discouraged in innocent amusements appropri ate to their time of life; they should be allowed to enjoy the period of childhood, and be trammelled by no other restraints than those which the law of moderation and right enjoins. Much of that discipline which aims at "breaking the will" of children, is calculated to give them false ideas of parental authority and of the Divine government. Obedience is best secured by the power of sympathy and love,—a force far stronger than that of the rod, or of any other kind of punishment. In view of what is called the "discipline of schools," which in many instances is most unequal in its operation and barbarous in its mode of enforcement, the thought was expressed that it is wonderful so many really good characters are found in society. The experience related by some of those present, of being repeatedly whipped when young for the most trifling and innocent manifestations of youthful feeling, or perhaps for offences they did not commit, showed how roughly the tender plant is liable to be bruised in its early efforts at development, and how easily we may account for much that is generally attributed to native depravity. The custom of cultivating the selfish feeling of rivalry among children in school, as a motive for diligence in study, is believed to be more pernicious in its moral, than advantageous in its educational effects; by it we encourage in the forming character of the young what in mature life it is one of the great objects of moral and Friends were doing their part in lending a helping hand to these, by pointing out such deviations as they witness in their daily walks, and endeavoring by Christian gentleness to win For Friends' Intelligencer. CAUTION. religious efforts to subdue and control. Now to their moral development; and it was queried that the rod has been nearly banished from whether, as members of a religious Society, schools, is this system of emulation any real improvement? The preference given in schools to those who excel their fellows in the recitation of lessons, rather than to those who display the purest and most virtuous characters, is such to a more correct course of conduct. in singular contrast to the almost universal animus of the domestic circle. Few parents love the smartest and most apt of their children better than those who are less ready in acquiring knowledge. A wisely ordained instinct leads the loving mother to seek to counterbalance the natural disabilities of her offspring by greater tenderness and care. She will instinctively hide the defects which arise from natural weakness, and repress the assumed superiority of those who manifest precocity. It is desirable that extremes on either hand should be avoided. Some Friends expressed their views as to the nature of paternal government, and the obligations which rest upon those who occupy that responsible position. It is very important to study the disposition and character of each of our children, and to seek for a qualification to administer to their intellectual and moral wants. The necessity of systematic religious instruction in the domestic circle, in First day schools and Bible classes, an accurate knowledge of the letter of Scripture, and an acquaintance with the writings of Friends and others who have been eminent for piety and virtue, are all important aids to religious growth. During the minority of children, parents occupy a most responsible position; and if they are favored, by a firm and consistent course of training, to nip the buds of frivolity and vanity when they appear in youthful minds, they may be instrumental in laying the foundation for that Divine government which is essential to the full development of manhood. In considering these important subjects it is obvious that example must go before precept,-that we cannot expect our children to grow up with the heavenly virtues developed in their characters, unless we go in and out before them in the fear of the Lord. I notice in the last paper a caution from Samuel Willets and Thomas Foulke, touching an impostor who has been collecting money in this vicinity, professedly for a Freedmen's School in Maryland. When he called at my door for aid, notwithstanding he had surreptitiously possessed himself of signatures with which I was familiar, and which I knew were genuine, my misgivings of his integrity induced a correspondence which in a few days de termined his real character. Three similar cases have come to my knowledge; and my object in writing this note is to desire all the friends of the freedmen to avail themselves of one of the many reliable channels which insure a and on no account whatever to trust them to the safe transmission of their gifts in aid of this people; itinerants who are passing through the country, and collecting money under false pretences, and yet, withal, bearing as their recommendation the genuine signatures of some of our best and most esteemed citizens. I refused my aid to the above impostor, and immediately on my getting an answer from Maryland (Third month 20th) I procured a cautionary advertisement in the Anti-Slavery Standard. Yonkers, 4th mo. 16. N. BARNEY. DIED, on the 30th of Eighth month, 1866, at her residence at Concord, Belmont Co., Ohio, RACHEL BERRY, widow of Thomas Berry, (deceased,) in the 82d year of her age; a member of Concord Monthly Meeting, and a diligent attender of meetings. -, on the 9th of Eighth month, 1866, MARY ANN, wife of Allen Lukens, in the 42d year of her age; a member of Fall Creek Monthly Meeting, Indiana. on the 2d of Third month, 1867, after a short illness, CHAS. W. SWAIN, of Pendleton, Ind., formerly of Newtown, Bucks Co., in the 59th year of his age. In the departure of this excellent man and true Christian, the Society of Friends, the community in which he lived, and his extensive family circle, have lost a devoted and valued member; one who was diligent in business, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord." To the truth of these expressions as applied to him, the hearts of all who knew him will at once' respond. A firm believer in the principles of this Attention was called to the much neglected Society, and a faithful laborer in its cause, he filled children who throng our streets, and who have and adorned the station of Elder in the body for a number of years. A kind neighbor, a useful citinever been surrounded by influences favorable, zen, a genial and interesting companion, a most The Law, faithful and affectionate husband, father and brother, | Telegraphing, DIED, at her late residence, in Rochester, N. Y., on the 16th of Third month, 1867, FANNY FROST, in the 82d year of her age; a member of Rochester Monthly Meeting. ་ at Danby, Vt., on the 31st of Third month, 1867, BENAJAH COLVIN, in his 78th year; a worthy and respected member of Danby Monthly Meeting. He was a steady attender of our little meeting, and is very much missed there, as well as in the neighborhood and home circle in which he moved. Surely be was a peacemaker: and Jesus has pronounced such blessed. The day before the close of his valuable life, he took his axe and went into the woods, and in felling a tree received an injury on the head, from which he died the next day. on the 17th of Fourth month, 1867, CHARLES GRANVILLE, Son of Joshua and Tabitha A. Clendenon, members of Green St. Monthly Meeting, in his 12th year. After five years of belplessness, during three of which he was deprived of sight, the spirit of this dear child has been released from earth, to mingle with the "angels who do always behold the face of my Father in Heaven." on the 17th of Fourth month, 1867, ISABEL MARY, only child of Gulielma M. and the late Geo. Dillwyn Jones, in the 13th year of her age. on the 18th of Fourth month, 1867, at Germantown, EMMA L., daughter of Pierson S. and Emma L. Peterson, aged 2 years and 13 days. Friends' Association for the Aid and Elevation of the Freedmen will meet on Fourth-day evening, Fifth month 1st, at 8 o'clock, at Race St. Monthly Meeting Room. All who feel interested are invited. J. M. ELLIS, } Clerks. The Executive Committee of Friends' Publication Association will meet at Race St Monthly Meeting Room on Sixth-day afternoon, Fifth month 3d, at 3 o'clock. LYDIA H. HALL, Clerk. Foreign Cities and Scenery, by Henry Bentley. "Dr. J. G. Hunt. "Dr. J. G. Hunt. Galvanism and Magnetism as The Mission of Youth, "Nath'l E. Janney. H. Ryland Warriner. "Wm. H. Farquhar. "Dr. S Pancoast. "John E. Newport. "Edward Parrish. We feel assured from the evidences before us that during the past season the Lyceum has prospered to an extent hitherto unequalled. While there has been a decrease in the number of exercises in some departments, there has been a marked increase in others, and the general tone of the Lyceum is perhaps higher than at the close of any previous term. The exercises have been more generally distributed than heretofore, which has given an increased interest and participation on the part of members. The number of persons in attendance during the past season has been greater than our room could conveniently accommodate. The recess for social intercourse, near the middle of each meeting, has been a prominent Extracts from the Fourth Annual Report of and valuable feature, extending the acquaintthe Secretary of Friends' Scial Lyceum, ance of our members, and broadening and deepPhiladelphia, for Winter Term of 1866-67.ening the influence of those professing the The first meeting of Friends' Social Lyceum same social and religious views; and we feel for the Winter Term of 1866-7 was held in the that this social element is one destined to work Library room, Race St., Philadelphia, on the great good in our Society. 2d of Tenth month, 1865. From the growing interest felt in our meetSince that time there have been twenty-eightings, by all classes of Friends, we are encour meetings held (being one each week) to the aged to hope that at no very distant period we will be able to erect a hall suitable for the use present time. of the Lyceum, and which may also be used for scientific and other lectures for the promotion and diffusion of knowledge. jects,-viz.: On behalf of the Lyceum, NATHANIEL E. JANNEY, Sec. Meekness is the silent submission of the soul to the word of God. The word is then an "en5 grafted word," when it is received with meekness. It is a grace that cleaves the stock and holds it open, that the word, as a shoot, may be 20 The Lectures were upon the following sub-grafted in; it breaks up the fallow ground, and makes it fit to receive the seed; captivates the |