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heard of thy bereavement. I cannot doubt thou feelest thy loss greatly, at times perhaps too much, though I hope not so. Surely sufficient support and consolation will not be want

and truly bound to the good cause, as we have ever received it from the beginning; and may we be perfectly knit and united together in the same mind and in the same judgment; even though we be left as a little remnant, and asing, if thou dost not "refuse to be comforted." spectacles to the world. I want thee, my dear friend, to endeavor as much as may be, to look beyond thy loss, at the tribulated state of the church, stript of many a son and daughter-promising and once thriving branches, but now withering and corrupt, more or less dying and dead, yea, twice dead! J. B.

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TUNBRIDGE WELLS, 16th of Ninth month, 1837. May you be strengthened and animated from time to time, and your drooping faith sustained and increased, to run with all patience and quiet confidence, the wearisome journey that is yet before us. In due season our reaping time and shouting time will come, for which we have sown in tears; laying down as it were our all, (O! that it may be our very all,-) surrendering everything that the Lord calls for at our hands,-casting into the treasury even our mites, of our penury,

STOKE NEWINGTON, 31st of Third month, 1837. How many and awful have been the warnings and the tender chastenings of the all-wise hand of Divine Providence of latter times; all (I sometimes think) concurring with, and bearing upon, and bespeaking somewhat in relation to the spiritual aspect of things in the church and in the world. "The wine of astonishment" indeed is given us to drink, in various ways; yet the meek and patient followers of the Lamb, who know in whom they have believed, and that he is able to keep their all, which they are engaged to commit to his keeping, are not left desolate,―are not suffered to be swallowed up of overmuch emotion of any kind; they cannot be unduly "afraid with any amazement:"-nay, truly, "all these things,", they well know, "must needs be, or come to pass;" and they are so far from saying with being content to see ourselves to be very one, "This evil cometh from the Lord, why poor, helpless, worthless, fit to be pitied, mere should I wait for the Lord any longer," that pensioners and dependents on the Lord's free they rather feel, "It is the Lord,-let him do mercy and renewed blessing. O! this is the what seemeth good to him;" and so in patience state that draws down the Divine regard, and, are engaged to possess their souls. May then as it were, commands the rich outpourings of the peaceable and peaceful fruits of righteous- those good and perfect gifts, which dignify and ness, be more and more brought forth in us, adorn poor fallen human nature;-which raise my dear friend, through and by means of up the brother and the sister of low degree, from all the losses, crosses, overturnings and humili- lying among the pots, among the things that ations; so that not only we may be rendered perish with the using, yea, from the dunghill more meet for, and more earnest after, that of pollution;-and from sitting like poor Job fruition of the end of our faith, which is end- among the ashes of despondency, to reach forth, to less, uninterrupted, and perfect, but even mount up towards that inheritance incorruptible, here below may be the better qualified to fill undefiled, and which never fades away. It is up our measure of service, and glorify the prepared, it is reserved, it is laid up in store, good cause and blessed name of our holy Redeem- for those that are faithful unto death, who are er. There is indeed great occasion to believe, kept by the power of God through faith, and though the evidences and tokens are, now as are not moved away from the blessed hope of ever, sufficiently obscure to try the faith of the gospel; continuing steadfast, immovable, God's dear children,-that His glorious cause not soon shaken in mind, nor shrinking from is, through all discouraging circumstances, still suffering, nor afraid of temptations or aboundgoing forward; and that His wonderful and all-ing tribulations ;-but enduring to the end. righteous purposes are fulfilling in the earth. That this is substantially the case, should and must be matter of joy to us; and even make us at times, when we are given to see and appreciate it,-excdingly "joyful in all our tribulation;" even though we should be pressed almost out of measure, beyond strength or hope, having fightings and fears without and within. This has been the portion of the faithful, more or less in all ages; and I believe it will be so, till the end come.

Be assured, my dear, I do much sympathize with, and have often thought of thee in several respects, both before and since wel

I have been much comforted, while from home, in reading many precious letters of our primitive worthies of the first rank, who loved not their lives unto death, but gave up all, that they might keep a conscience void of offence, and be clear of the blood of all. I hope (if life be spared, and strength given,) to hand some, yea, many of these, for the perusal of such as can receive and profit by them.

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J. B.

STOKE NEWINGTON, 27th of Eleventh month, 1837. My Beloved Friend,--My poor and often tribulated spirit does salute thine, even as deep

answers to deep; for I am ready to think, thou hast from time to time to drink into that cup of suffering, which the livingly exercised every where up and down, in this day of treading under, of rebuke, and of scattering, have more or less to partake of. For, indeed, how can it be otherwise, when those who have been as leaders and way marks to the flock, and have seemed to be pillars in the house of the Lord, are ready to stagger and to stumble, to be snared, and to be broken. But I must not here expatiate on my feelings, as to the state of things in regard to our still favored Society; but I will refer thee to my Preface to Pike's and Oxley's Journals, to other parts of J. Pike's Journal, but especially to his letters, and some of Deborah Bell's, which show that times of trouble have befallen our poor Society before now, in rather a similar way and degree. Ah! the same power can rescue his tribulated remnant, and restore the waste places; nor will He ever own proceedings which are not according to Truth and uprightness.

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DR. SIMEON ABRAHAMS.

Dr. Simeon Abrabams, who recently died in the city of New York, has left nearly the whole of his large estate to charitable purposes. The N. Y. Tribune says of him :

I am inclined to think that many have been, and are, endeavoring uprightly to retrieve their "Though of the Jewish persuasion, he never outgoings; seeing the palpable extremes and was sectarian in his charities or his good will; consequences of the track they have been on and in his endeavors to confer a benefit, he but others seem not sufficiently warned and in-never stopped to consider whether the recipient structed to return, in honesty and in earnest, was Jew or Gentile. to original principles and practice, but are feignedly, and in part only, doing so; retaining so much of the wisdom of the flesh, and so much of self in a refined form, as they think will make the Truth more palatable to our own people and to others; thus shuuning the shame of the cross, and the humiliating process thereof. It will not do:-our all conquering Cap-rich men generally deprecate the idea of invest tain will discover and make bare all coverings, and find out all his enemies, and pursue and overtake them in all their retreats in the precincts of and backways to Babylon.

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"His acts of disinterested kindness were numberless. Even in the distribution of his means in a business way, he always adhered to principles which were most likely to benefit those with whom he dealt. No single individual in the City of New York ever held more small bonds and mortgages than he.

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ing their means in small sums, Dr. Abrahams made it a principle if a poor man needed his means for the purpose of improving a lot in some out-of-the-way place, to advance it to him in sums of $500, or $1,000, in pref rence to loaning it in larger sums to those who would find less difficulty in obtaining them. In numberless instances, too, when such applications have been made, and the means not at hand, and the need urgent, has he deposited securities and borrowed at bank to accomodate his needy ap plicant. His kindness to them did not end here, for while he was ever ready to lend them, he was as willing to receive the payments in small amounts of $50 and upwards, as the abil ity of his beneficiaries enabled them to make them."

29th of Eleventh month, 1837.-I may truly and sincerely say, that we participated in a sense of the loss, which many (doubtless) even among the more distant connexions and friends of the deceased, feel they have sustained. Do I say loss, do I speak of deprivation, when those who have humbly endeavored to love and follow their dear Redeemer on earth, are taken from suffering and probation, as we trust, to their resting place in glory? Ah! we have them still, if the Apostle's language applies to us, if we are indeed come to Mount Zion, the After providing for his brother and sister, heavenly Jerusalem, the innumerable company, and directing his body to be disposed of for to the spirits of the just made perfect, to Jesus scientific purposes or for burial, according to our Mediator. May we then not sorrow as the wish of his family, he bequ athed to the those, who have no such substantial enjoyment" Hebrew Benevolent Society, $25,000; Jew's of things hoped for, and evidences of things Hospital, $25,000; Lying-in Asylum, Marion not seen. May we be quickened on our way, St., $3,000; American Female Guardian Soci. and animated by the cloud of witnesses ety, $5,000; Orphan Asylum, Bloomingdale,

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$5,000; Eye and Ear Infirmary, $3,000; Fire- | wealth in the hands of a few individuals or famimeu's Fund Association, $1,000: Deaf and lics is a deplorable evil, which is fortunately Dumb Institution, $3,000; Old Ladies' Home, being arrested, not only by various political and Twentieth St., $20,000; Blind Asylum, Ninth social influences peculiar to the United States, Av., $5,000; Juvenile Asylum for Reformation but by the humane and generous disposition of Delinquents, $2,000; New York Dispensary, that animates many of the rich men of Amer$1,000; Northern Dispensary, $1,000; East- ica." ero Dispensary, $1,000; Demilt Dispensary, $1,000; Western Dispensary, $1,000; North Eastern Dispensary, $1,000; North-Western Dispensary, $1.000; New York Ophthalmic Hospital, $2,000; Juvenile Asylum, $3,000; New York Society for the Relief of Widows and Orphans of Medical Men, $5,000; Nursery and Child's Hospital, $3,000; Colored Home, $5,000; Association for Benefit of Colored Orphans, $5,000. All the rest, residue, and remainder of his property to the New York Hos. pital; to which institution he also gives all the property of which his brother and sister have the use while living (house included) after their

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A lady called into a house and found a little girl sitting by her mother knitting. "What are you kuitting, Bessie ?" asked the lady.

"A stocking for me," said Bessie. "A stocking" cried the lady, "how do you expect to knit a stocking?"

O," said Bessie, "by just taking one stitch, and then another."

And is not that just the way every good thing is accomplished, by quiet, patient doing day by day?

One brick upon another

And the highest house is made;
One flike upon another,

And the deepest snow is laid.

THE WRITINGS OF RICHARD COBDEn.

The widow and family of the late Richard Cobden have made an appeal to this country, which there is every reason to believe will prove a singular success. They appeal not, of course, for money, for they have all and more than they or the late Richard Cobden ever sought. The family property must be worth nearly half a million of our currency. But the widow appeals to the United States for a full appreciation of her late distinguished husband's character, life and labors as a statesman, and for the good of mankind. She has done us the honor to publish, not any panegyric, nor even a life, but the works which he wrote, and which show what the man himself was. They have been published by the family, simultaneously in London and in this country, in two remarkably handsome volumes, by the Appletons, with a most judicious introductory chapter, introducing them to the American reader and student, by W. C. Bryant.

"While our laws permit each individual en-
tire freedom of choice in the disposal of his
property, that very liberty redounds in many
cases to the public benefit. The ambition to
found a family prevails extensively and almost
universally among the rich men of Europe. It
there holds out the temptation of perpetuating,
with the aid of a title and an entailed estate,
fame and fortune. Here such aspirations are
rudely checked. There are no hereditary titles
to be purchased, and no laws of primogeniture
to concentrate and preserve family wealth.
There are so many instances of the children
of toil and poverty acquiring honorable po
sitions and vast possessions, while the families
and heirs of wealthy men of a past generation
are sinking into a melancholy decadence, that
many rich men are naturally induced to devote
a large share of their wealth to public purposes.
The public spirit and keen sympathy with all
that affects the general welfare, which are gene-
rated by our free institutions, also tend to arouse
sympathies that in other countries remain dor-
mant. Christian charity is probably becoming The fact is, that though Richard Cobden
better developed here, where all religious iusti- was an Englishman by the accident of birth
tutions, instead of being supported by the and position, he was, in all the great and warm
State, are dependent solely upon voluntary sub- principles of his noble heart and eminent intel-
scriptions, than elsewhere. While wealth is, ligence, thoroughly American, and not afraid or
in many instances, easily acquired, a sense of its ashamed to avow this beyond any man of his
responsibilities in reference to the poor, the ig-day during a public career of more than thirty
Dorant, the suffering, the helpless, and the op- years. He was the great advocate of American
pressed, is becoming more and more general, and principles of statesmanship. In 1835 he made
the conviction that abundant private means should a tour of the United States, and published the
be used for beneficent public purposes is quietly results of it in a work that enlightened Europe
spreading among the rich men and women of our as to the rising power and greatness of this
land. The maintenance of the inviolability of the country. All his predictions have been more
rights of property is an incentive to industry es-than verified. At the time of our deepest mis-
sential to civilization, but the concentration of fortunes, while all the Powers of Europe were

threatening and plotting for our destruction, he | selves these volumns of his works will be found stood up in the House of Commons, fighting our a ready authority in regard to the principles battles as if they had been his own. When that cannot be contested successfully in Engour cause seemed low his spirits were deeply land, and which will yet be friendly and fair affected, but his heart and voice never for one for us.-Ledger. moment wavered. In fact, he wore out his life to the last almost as much for America as for England.

FRIENDS' INTELLIGENCER.

PHILADELPHIA, FIFTH MONTH 4, 1867.

We ask the attention of our readers to the advertisement in another column of the forthcoming History of the Religious Society of Friends, by SAMUEL M. JANNEY.

DIED, at his residence at Germantown, Pa., at noon on the 18th of Fourth month, 1867, WM. STEVENSON

Monthly Meeting.

In doing all this there was an amount of mental and moral power displayed; a profound statesmanship, that will be the study of future ages, for on it have turned the destiny of nations. A poor lad, whose family had declined in fortune, his own mental power gave him his first start in life. Travel and observation, coupled with a wonderful power of generalization, were to him the secret of that profound knowledge which he displayed ever at the right NOBLE, in his 35th year; a member of Green Street time, and with sufficient energy to carry his point without leaving enmity in those he converted, rather than conquered, to his views. His life was a gigantic success in all he undertook. The anti-Corn Law League against the most powerful landed aristocracy in the world left no ill feeling against him; but his country raised a fund for him, personally, of three hundred thousand dollars, after having raised near a million and a half to carry through his great object; and his former opponents offered him a seat in the English Cabinet two or three times.

He was the great harmonizer, not only of his own nation, but of Europe, because he never found fault until he could find and point out at the same time a practical remedy. He exposed the corrupt practices on three or four occasions, when the British Ministers regularly got up a war panic for party purposes, and really kept the peace between France and England, the present French Emperor and Great Britain, until his name became as much respected in Paris as in London. He visited successively France, Spain, Italy, Germany and Russia, and was received with marks of joy and enthusiasm as a sort of public benefactor wherever he went and was known. There was bardly a civilized nation on the globe that he did not benefit, and in such a way as to raise the honor and character of his own country, and unite the nations of the earth in closer social ties. In all that he did his principles were truly American, and there was no country for which he felt so high a degree of hope in the future, or to which he labored so assiduously to conform the institutions of his own country.

His writings are worthy of the closest study. No doubt more of his speeches will be collected, but it was by what he did, wrote and thought, rather than by any mere power of oratory, that he effected so much greatness and renown for his age and honor for himself. In all future controversies between Great Britain and our

on the morning of the 21st of Fourth month, 1867, at the residence of her father-in-law John Bancroft, Philadelphia, ANNA, wife of Joseph W. Bancroft, in her 30th year.

on the 23d of Fourth month, 1867, at his

residence, 246 N. Twentieth St., Philada., SAMUEL YARDLEY, in his 68th year.

The Committee of Management of Friends' Library Association will meet in the Library room on Fourthday evening, Fifth month 8th, 1867, at 8 o'clock. JACOB M. ELLIS, Clerk.

FRIENDS' PUBLICATION ASSOCIATION.
The following works are for sale by the above
Association at its office, 144 N. Seventh St., Phila-
delphia, at the prices annexed:
Gibbons' Review of the Causes of the Separa-

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50 cts.

25

25 " 40" 30 "

Poems and Essays of E. M. Chandler............ 75 “
Letter to a Presbyterian, by Dr. Parrish, p. doz. 50"
It is designed to add to the above list as the funds

of the Association will allow.

Friends interested are invited to contribute ac

cording to their means to extend the usefulness of this newly-formed organization. Address

JOSEPH M. TRUMAN, JR., Treasurer, 717 Willow St.

publications, which will be issued for THE BOOK ASThe attention of Friends is called to the following sOCIATION OF FRIENDS during the early part of Fifth mouth.

TALKS WITH THE CHILDREN, Part I., price 25 cts. TALKS WITH THE CHILDREN, Part II., price 50 cis. BIBLICAL HISTORY, FAMILIARIZED BY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. Price $1.00.

The books are designed for use in families and schools, as assistants to teachers and others, and they will, we trust, be found to supply a want long needed among us

Orders for single copies or by the dozen filled by the Publisher,

T. ELLWOOD ZELL,
Nos. 17 and 19 S. Sixth St., Philada.

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JOHN PENINGTON.

to respect. The sound judgment which characterized him in his private business was not lost in other things; and in political and public matters his advice was always safe. He was frequently called upon to assist members of Congress in framing such parts of the successive tariffs as were within his special business knowledge, and his recommendations were never biassed by his own interests. The loss of such a

making himself dear to his friends, is at all times a great one. Particularly in this the case now and here, when study and scholarship are taking their accustomed places, from which they had been seriously disturbed by five years of war. The trade of book selling in his hands was elevated to the dignity that it really acquires in the hands of competent men. Such men are rare everywhere. Here, unfortunately, they are growing rarer every day. In growing great rapidly we are not always growing wise, and the men who mean to study, and want a book shop and a bookseller to furnish them with the tools they need, will look long and vainly for such help as they always got from John Penington, of Philadelphia. It is beside our present purpose to speak of him except as a bookseller; but we should do wrong to forget that patriotic Philadelphia during the last five years, contained no man more sincere, aud few men more forward, in every good work that civil war imposed upon lovers of the country.— The Nation, March 28.

Mr. John Penington, of Philadelphia, who died on the 18th inst., was the last, if not the only, American bookseller who represented the old traditional booksellers. A scholar of fine parts, thorough in his knowledge of bookselling, with judgment and skill, a biographer in its broadest and best sense, he was an honor to the craft, and he took pride in it. He was a man of fine taste, of large reading, and of ex-man, capable in his business, proud of it, and haustless service to all who were curious in scholarship, or earnest in the study of letters. Descended from one of the old, respected, and wealthy Quaker families of Philadelphia, it was accident that made him a bookseller. His father's large fortune was suddenly lost. During his youth, Mr. John Penington had gathered a valuable collection of books, and had frequently contributed to the literary proceedings of the various learned societies of his native town. Not caring for general mercantile pursuits, and suddenly thrown on his own resources, he quietly turned his library into his stock in trade, and with it opened one of the best bookstores of the country. Proud of his books, and contented with his shop and the fair profit which it brought him, he never allowed himself to be tempted from his chosen pursuit. His shop became the gathering place of scholars and men with a taste for letters, and one generation after another grew up almost under his eyes in the various branches of literature which he supplied. His business did not stop with supplying books to his customers; they were all his friends; they knew that to him they could turn for help in everything that related to books, and that his knowledge was only surpassed by his readiness to impart it; and his help was never refused to the earnest seeker after knowledge, no matter how small his requirements of Mr. Penington's services as a bookseller. Bookselling with him was not so much a trade as an art; books with him were valuable for their real, substantial merit; the book buyer was precious in his eyes who knew what he wanted and why he wanted it. He never got rid of his old love of boks for their own sake, and that love was too well founded in a knowledge of books ever to be lost in a poor ambition to become a great bookseller-a mere trader in so many thousand volumes of which he knew nothing and thought less. One of the matters of his trade in which he took pride was the fact that his list of subscribers to the new edition of Brunet was the largest outside of Paris, and thus he brought together the oldest biblographer of the Old World, and the youngest student in the New. With Brunet and with Bossange, as with all the other leading booksellers in Europe, his relations were intimate, and ripened always into fast friendships, each man finding in the other much to like and

For Friends' Intelligencer.
FRIENDS AMONGST THE FREEDMEN.

NO. VII.

Letters and Reports from our Teachers, from which the following extracts are made, show their continued faithfulness in the good work.

CAROLINE THOMAS, at Leesburg, Va., in allusion to having found it impossible to procure board in any white family, cheerfully remarks: "Suffice it to say, I succeeded in getting a home amongst good, kind people, and the only fear is they will spoil me, for there is nothing they can do for me that is not done. They seem to understand by a kind of intuitive perception what I would like to have, which is all owing to their kind hearts; and the more I see of them, the more I wonder how any one could treat them unkindly.”

In reference to her school, she says: "I have one class in Short Division, one in Multiplication, one in Subtraction, and three in Addition. With a very few exceptions, most of these children could not make a figure when they first came to school. I have one class in Definitions; have some very good readers and spellers, and think my first class is now prepared to take some other studies--either Grammar or Philosophy, or both."

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