let us rejoice the more in God for our being| deprived of that which we used to rejoice in. P. Henry. THE SECRET OF SUCCESS. The basis of success in all occupations which involve the relations of an employer and employed is, that the employers should have an accurate knowledge of the work then to be done, how to do it, and how long it should take. A man of business who neglects this places his interest entirely in the keeping of irresponsible agents, and, human nature being what it is, arrives in due time at insolvency. This is why the self-made man, who has been sternly initiated into the whole mystery by having himself stood in the ranks of the employed, outstrips those who seem to start so fair from the vantage ground of education and capital, and builds a fortune where these kick one down. And the mistress of a household, who understands what a servant's duties are (except, perhaps, those which, affecting her own comfort, force themselves upon her notice,) still less how and when they may be best fulfilled, will certainly not get them fulfilled in the best nanner, or by the smallest number of hands, and hence will manage, or rather mismanage, her income in a wasteful, ineffectual manner. This is an inevitable result. ITEMS. DESTITUTION IN THE SOUTH.-The Private Secretary of the Governor of Alabama says there are in that State 60,000 persons in indigent circumstances who need aid; and the State Commissioner for the relief of the destitute says there are 45,000 persons in the State whose stores are exhausted and who will suffer seriously, and perhaps starve, if relief is not afforded them soon. Reports from other sections all unite in saying that the destitution is very seriThe Relief Commission bas received thus far about $165,000. Mr. H. A. Meetz, of Lexington, Lexington District, S. C., writes as follows: ous. "The destitution in our district is immense, and unless our friends at a distance will act promptly and continuously, for some time to come, human life I fear in many cases will be lost. We hope that God will give us a good yield of wheat; but this cannot be gathered before the middle of June. I am now receiving the 200 sacks of corn sent through General Scott, and the applicants are without number almost. I am sure if you could see, as I do, poor women coming, some as far as from fifteen to twenty mil-s, on foot, to carry half a bushel of corn or meal back, and the thankful expression of countenance with which they receive it, you would surely conclude that God will bless those engaged in a charity like this. In the name of our suffering peop'e, I return to you and your noble associates our heartfelt gratitude for your generous efforts, and in the name of suffering humanity may you continue them."Moravian. CLIMATE OF RUSSIAN AMERICA.-Lieutenant BENT, an officer of the United States navy, who accompanied the Japanese expedition, reported that through the softening influence of the Gulf stream of the Pacific The winters are so mild at Puget Sound, lat. 48 degrees, that snow rarely falls there, and the inhabitants are never enabled to fill their ice-houses for the summer. Vessels trading to Petropaulouski and Kamtschatka, when becoming unwieldy from the accumulation of ice on their hulls and rigging, run over to a higher latitude on the American coast, and thaw out in the same manner that vessels frozen up on our own coast retreat again into the Gulf stream until favored by an easterly wind. Direct evidence of the general correctness of this theory is furnished by the meteorological records of the Russian Government, kept at Sitka, in latitude 57.03 degrees, the mean temperature for a period of ten years being in spring 44 5 degrees; in summer, 57.5 degrees; in autuma, 47 degrees; in winter, 36.5 degrees, and during the year 46.4 degrees. This indicates colder springs, summers, and autumns, but milder winters than we have in Philadelphia.-Press. THE FIRE EXTINGUISHER.—An experiment with the Fire Extinguisher was made at the country residence of Jay Cooke, near Philadelphia. A large number of petroleum oil barrels, completely saturated with that inflammable substance, were piled one on the other and then set fire to, producing quite a respectable conflagration. When the flames were at their height, and it was thought nothing could subdue them while a vestige of the material of which the fire was composed remained, a gentlemen present strapped the extinguisher to his back, took his position in front of the burning mass, presented the end of a small gutta percha tube, connected with the apparatus, at the fire, turned a small stop-cock, which forced a thin stream of water, strongly impregnated with carbonic acid gas, through the tube and on the flames, when, in the short space of ten seconds, what was a densely burning mass was transformed into charred and blackened half-consumed oil barrels, without a vestige of fire remaining. The experiment was repeated several times with even increased success, and the entire affair gave the greatest satisfaction to the witnesses present. The French Legislative body has passed the first article of a bill abolishing capital punishment, by a vote of 136 to 92. The health of the French Prince Imperial is said to be delicate. It is a singular fact that for over a century and a half no monarch of France has been succeeded by his son. Rhode Island, the smallest State in the Union, has the densest population per square mile of any, and in this particular exceeds any nation of continental Europe except France, which it nearly equals; and sixty per cent. of this population is located on eleven per cent. of her area. Of her inhabitants one in every nine over fifteen years of age cannot write, and more than one in thirteen can neither read nor write. The amount of capital invested in manufactures is $33,000,000, which produced since the the last census $130,000,000 worth of products, and the labor of the State shows the annual production of each man, woman and child to be $601, while in Massachusetts it is only $408. Coal has been discovered in India, and it is reported by the Friend of India that the coal fields in Chindwarra extend over a surface of upwards of fifty miles, varying in thickness of good coal from three to thirteen feet. There can be little doubt that these coal fields are the most important discoveries that have been made in India for years. The official report gives a very high opinion of the coal as a fuel, its freedom from pyrites and the great facility in working it. MADE TO EMMOR COMLY, AGENT, At Publication Office, No. 144 North Seventh Street, Residence, 809 North Seventeenth Street. TERMS:-PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. The Paper is issued every Seventh-day, at Three Dollars per annum. $2.50 for Clubs; or, four copies for $10. Agents for Clubs will be expected to pay for the entire Club. Henry Haydock, Brooklyn, N. Y. William H. Churchman, Indianapolis, Ind. REVIEW OF THE LIFE CONTENTS. Review of the Life and Discourses of F. W. Robertson...... 129 Dr. Simeon Abrahams... The Writings of Richard Cobden.. 132 134 135 ... 136 Extract from a Lecture delivered by Prof. Agassiz on the An Extraordinary Member of Parliament. 141 ........... 142 ........ 143 144 What was thought of Railroads Fifty-six Years ago....... 143 ITEMS. AND DISCOURSES OF Man is come to seek and to save that which is lost.' F. W. ROBERTSON BY SAMUEL M. JANNEY. "Christ's estimate of Sin," is the title of one of Robertson's very instructive discourses, and the text prefixed is, LUKE xix. 10.- The Son of Man is come to seek and to save that which is lost." "The other view is one of laxity "These words occur," he says, "in the history which tells of the recovery of Zaccheus from a life of worldliness to the life of God. and false liberalism. When such men speak, Zaccheus was a publican; and the publicans prepare yourself to hear liberal judgments and were outcasts among the Jews, because, having lenient ones; a great deal about human weakaccepted the office, under the Roman govern-ness, error in judgment, mistakes, an unfortument, of collecting the taxes imposed by Rome nate constitution, on which the chief blame of upon their brethren, they were regarded as sin is to rest-a good heart. traitors to the cause of Israel. Reckoned a de-wanted, in this mysterious struggle of a life, graded class, they became degraded. It is hard only consolation. But we want far beyond comfor any man to live above the moral standard fort-Goodness; and to be merely made easy of his own class; and the moral standard of the when we have done wrong will not help us to that! publican was as low as possible. "Into the house of one of these outcasts the Son of Man entered. It was quite certain that such an act would be commented upon severely by people who called themselves religions; it would seem to them scandalous, an outrage upon decency, a defiance to every rule of respectability and decorum. No pious Israelite would be seen holding equal intercourse with a publican. In anticipation of such remarks, before there was time, perhaps, to make them, Jesus spoke these words, The Son of "Distinct from both of these was Christ's view of guilt. His standard of Right was high,-higher than ever man had placed it before. Not moral excellence, but heavenly, He demanded. Except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the Scribes and Read the Sermon on Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into te kingdom of heaven.' the Mount. It tells of a purity as of snow rd.ting on an Alpine pinnacle, white in the blue holiness of heaven; and yet, also, He, the All character; as markedly different as the rough English truthfulness is from Celtic brilliancy of talent. Now, these peculiar nationalities are seldom combined." "Now this is the universality of the Nature of Jesus Christ. There was in Him no national peculiarity or individual idiosyncrasy. He was not the Son of the Jew, nor the Son of the Carpenter, nor the offspring of the modes of living and thinking of that particular century. He was the Son of Man. Once in the world's bistory was born a Man. Once in the roll of ages, out of innumerable failures, from the stock of human nature, one Bud developed itself into a faultless Flower. One perfect specimen of humanity has God exhibited on earth." pure, had tenderness for what was not pure. He who stood in Divine uprightness that never faltered felt compassion for the ruined, and infinite gentleness for human fail. Broken, disappointed, doubting hearts, in dismay and bewilderment, never looked in vain to Him. Very strange, if we stop to think of it, instead of repeating it, as a matter of course. For generally human goodness repels from it evil men; they shun the society and presence of men reputed good, as owls fly from light. But here was purity attracting evil; that was the wonder. Harlots and wretches steeped in infamy gathered round Him. No wonder the purblind Pharisees thought there must be something in Him like such sinners which drew them so. Like draws to like. If he chose.. their society before that of the Pharisees, was it not because of some congeniality in Evil? But they did crowd His steps, and that because they saw a hope opened out in a hopeless world for fallen spirits and broken hearts,-ay, and seared hearts. The Son of man was forever standing among the lost; and His ever-predominant feelings were sadness for the evil in hu man nature, hope for the Divine good in it, and "The universality of His sympathies; for, the Divine image never worn out wholly. compare Him with any one of the sacred char"I perceive in this description three pecu-acters of Scripture. You know how intensely liarities, distinguishing Christ from ordinary men. "I. A peculiarity in the constitution of the Redeemer's moral nature. "II. A peculiarity in the objects of his solicitude. "III. A peculiarity in his way of treating guilt. "I. In his moral constitution. Manifested in that peculiar title which He assumed-The Son of man." "Let us see what that implies. เ "As if the life-blood of every nation were in his veins, and that which is best and truest in every man, and that which is tenderest and gentlest and purest in every woman, in His character. He is emphatically the Son of Man. "Out of this arose two powers of His sacred humanity, the universality of His sympathies, and their intense particular personality. national they were, priests, prophets, and apostles, in their sympathies. For example, the apostles marvelled that He spake with a woman of Samaria;'-just before His resurrection, their largest charity bad not reached beyond this, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore the kingdom unto Israel? Or, to come down to modern times, when His spirit has been moulding men's ways of thought for many ages;— now when we talk of our philanthropy and catholic liberality, here in Christian England, we have scarcely any fellow-feeling, true and "1. It implies fairly his divine origin; for it genuine, with other nations, other churches, is an emphatic expression, and, as we may so other parties than our own; we care nothing for say, an unnatural one. Imagine an apostle Italian or Hungarian struggles; we think of St. Paul or St. John-insisting upon it per-Romanists as the Jew thought of Gentiles: we petually that he himself was human. It would speak of German Protestants in the same proud, almost provoke a smile to hear either of them wicked, self-sufficient way in which the Jews averring and affirming, I am the Son of Man; spoke of Samaritans. it would be unnatural, the affectation of condescension would be intolerable. Therefore, when we hear these words from Christ, we are compelled to think of them as contrasted with a higher Nature. None could, without presumption, remind men that He was their Brother, and a Son of Man, except One, who was also something higher, even the Son of God. "Unless we bring such matters home, and away from vague generalities, and consider what we and all men are, or rather are not, we cannot comprehend with due wonder the mighty sympathies of the heart of Christ. None of the miserable antipathies that fence us from all the world bounded the outgoings of that Love, broad and deep, and wide as the heart of God. Wherever the mysterious pulse of human life was beating, wherever aught human "Nothing in the judgment of historians, was in struggle, there to Him was a thing not stands out so sharply distinct as race, national | common or unclean, but cleansed by God and character; nothing is more ineffaceable. The sacred. Compare the daily, almost indispensaHebrew was marked from all mankind. The ble language of our life with His spirit. ComRoman was perfectly distinct from the Grecian mon people?'-Point us out the passage where "2. It implies the catholicity of His Brotherhood. A Son of Man he called any people, that God His Father | if I have taken anything from any man by false mide, common? Lower Orders?'-Tell us accusation, I restore him fourfold.' when and where He, whose home was the work- "He was reclaimed to human feeling by shop of the carpenter, authorized you or me to being taught that he was a man still; recog know any man after the flesh as low or high? nized and treated like a man. To Him who called Himse f the Son of Man the had come to seek him,' the lost. link was manhood. And that He could discern even when it was marred. Even in outcasts His eye could recognize the sanctitics of a nature human still. Even in the harlot, 'one of Eve's family;'-a son of Abraham even in Zaccheus. "Once more, out of that universal, catholic Nature rose another power,--the power of intense, particular, personal affectious. He was the Brother and Saviour of the human race; but this because He was the Brother and Saviour of every separate man in it. "II. Peculiarity in the objects of Christ's solicitude. "2. By the exhibition of Divine holiness. "The holiness of Christ differed from all earthly, common, vulgar holiness. Wherever it was, it elicited a sense of sinfuluess and imperfection. Just as the purest-cut crystal of the rock looks dim beside the diamond, so the best men felt a sense of guilt growing distinct upon their souls. When the Anointed of God came near, Depart from me,' said the bravest and truest of them all, for I am a sinful mau, O Lord.' "But, at the same time, the holiness of Christ did not awe men away from Ilim, nor repel them. It inspired them with hope. It "He had come to seek and to save the 'lost.' was not that vulgar, unapproachable sanctity . And, oh, the untold world of which makes men awkward in its presence, and agony contained in that expression-'a lost stands aloof. Its peculiar characteristic was, Soul-agony exactly in proportion to the that it made men enamored of goodness. It nobleness of original powers. For it is a' drew all men unto Him.' strange and mournful truth, that the qualities "This is the difference between greatness that which calculate to shine are exactly those which is first rate and greatness which is second-rate, minister to the worst ruin. God's highest-between heavenly and earthly goodness. gifts,-talent, beauty, feeling, imagination, pow-The second rate and the earthly draws admiraer-they carry with them the possibility of the highest heaven and the lowest hell." "It was His work and His desire to save such; and in this world a new and strange solicitude it was, for the world had seen before nothing like it." "In Christ's treatment of guilt we find three peculiarities sympathy, holiness, firmness. tion on itself. You say, 'How great an act,how good a man!' The first-rate and the heavenly imparts itself,-inspires a spirit. You feel a kindred something in you that rises up to meet it, and draws you out of yourself, making you better than you were before, and opening out the infinite possibilities of your life and soul. 1. By human sympathy. In the treatment "And such pre-eminently was the holiness of of Zaccheus this was almost all. We read of Christ. Had some earthly great or good one almost nothing else as the instrument of that come to Zaccheus' house, a prince or a noblewonderful reclamation. One thing only,-Christ man, his feeling would have been, What conwent to his house self-invited. But that one was descension is there! But, when He came whose everything. Consider it: Zaccheus was, if he every word and act had in it Life and Power, no were like other publicans, a hard and hard-such barren reflection was the result; but, inened man. He felt people shrink from Him in stead, the beauty of holiness had become a the streets. He lay under an imputation; and we power within him, a longing for self-consecraknow how that feeling of being universally sustion. Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I pected and misinterpreted makes a man bitter, give to the poor; and if I have taken anything sarcastic, and defiant. And so the outcast from any man by false accusation, I restore him would go home, look at his gold, rejoice in the fourfold.' revenge he could take by false accusations; felt a pride in knowing that they might hate, but could not help fearing him; scorned the world, and shut up his heart against it. At last, one whom all men thronged to see, and all men honored, or seemed to honor, came to him,--offered to go home and sup with him. For the first time for many years, Zaccheus felt that he was not despised, and the flood-gates of that avaricious, shut heart were opened in a tide of love and generosity. Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and "3. By Divine sympathy, and by the Divine Image, exhibited in the speaking act of Christ, the lost was sought and saved. He was saved, as alone all fallen men can be saved. 'Beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, he was changed into the same image.' And this is the very essence of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We are redeemed by the Life of God without us, manifested in the Person of Christ, kindling into flame the Life of God that is within us. Without Him we can do nothing. Without Him the warmth that was in Z.cche us' heart would have smouldered uselessly away. Through Him it became Life and Light, and the lost was saved." In this beautiful exposition of the course pursued by the "Son of Man" in order to reclaim the erring and elevate the degraded, we have an example that is applicable to our own time and country. Among the millions of our fellow creatures recently enfranchised, a large proportion have been subjected to brutalizing treatment and shut out intentionally from the benefits of knowledge. They have a strong claim upon our sympathies, and happily there is a disposition on the part of many to aid them by benevolent efforts and liberal contributions. We should not however restrict our religious labors, or benevolent efforts, to those whom we may deem deserving of our sympathy; but like the holy Messiah, we should endeavor to reclaim the erring and encourage the prodigal to return to his father's house. Perverseness or ingratitude on the part of some should not abate our desire to benefit all, for every service in the course of humanity proceeding from pure motives will bring the reward of peace. "The fields are white already to harvest; he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal." (To be continued.) SOLITUDE. Solitude bears the same relation to the mind that sleep does to the body. It affords it the necessary opportunities for repose and recovery. In the respite thus afforded to thought by solitude, the soul seems to retire within herself, to close her portals against the world, shut out the garish lights of day, exclude all noisy clamors of the crowd, and, in a temporary withdrawal from the strife, so to recruit her strength, as to go forth to a renewal of the conflict with new strength for its necessities, and new hopes of its result. and feeble state of those that have a love for the cause of Truth, and the short-comings of most of us, depresses me. Those who live within the hearing of the shouts of the Philistines, are taken and perhaps disturbed by them. I trust, such as however, know better than to give up to every "Lo here" and every hue and cry, or to be afraid with any amazement. We must keep low,-keep quiet ;— minding our particular calling, our inward condition, and feel the Lord inwardly as the Rock and Sanctuary, where none can make afraid. Undoubtedly it is a trying day, a sifting time, and I think must be yet more so; for though a few leaders of faction and of error have left us, and have swept away a number of followers, whom they have deluded, and who were not settled in the faith, and some of these hardly knowing why they belong to us;-yet of those who remain, O! what a remnant really are one with us! And unless wonderful mercy, wisdom, and strength, be manifested towards the unstable, as towards all of us,what can hinder their being scattered and driven away. Though the Society seems somewhat relieved, yet grievous exercises remain to be borne,and a great deal to be worked through and worked out, before this once self-denying and redeemed people, can be reinstated to their former brightness and ancient purity. The Lord waits to be gracious, and I believe will hasten this work in his time. And O! that we may be so preserved and strengthened, as to be made willing, through all baptisms, to be instrumental in our day, in ever so little a way or degree, to bring about the period, when the salvation of Zion shall go forth as a lamp that burneth! J. B. To STOKE NEWINGTON, Third month, 1837. Time rolls on, and manifests things and persons apace. So many matters have transpired, even since I replied to thy letter of Eleventh SELECTIONS FROM THE WRITINGS OF JOHN month, that I can hardly recur to circum BARCLAY. (Continued from page 118.) To 6th of Second month, 1837-When the will is slain,-when we can say, "It is no more I," then how easy is the task of dedication, and how clear are the pointings, how light the burden of the cross of Christ. Then self is of no reputation indeed, and all crowns are laid down; nor does any snare of the enemy prevail. The most unanswerable arguments we of this day can give to the gainsayers, is, to live down their misrepresentations: and the best argument perhaps for the early Friends, as was the case with the primitive Christians, is their life and conversation. At times, the low standing stances; but may we not say, dear friend, that all our views and feelings have been fulfilled and realized, or are fulfilling, as to the state of our poor Society. The conflict and contest is pretty well over, with what was called Beaconism; but there are those still remaining, who oc casion the true Friends great exercise; being unwilling to go the whole length with our ancient primitive worthies, but can readily find them in fault. O! I trust this also shall in due season be broken up, and the testimony of Truth, in all its completeness and simplicity, rise and shine over all opposition. Modified Quakerism cannot stand the fire. May we, or such of us as are permitted to continue in the warfare, be preserved firmly |