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earnestly, and desired to know if he had any objection against any part of what I had said? if thou hast, said I, (speaking with an audible voice, that stopt many of the company) this is the most proper place, the people being present; for they thronged about us very much. made him confess, that what he had heard was sound, and according to scripture, being very well proved from the text; but he desired some private discourse between ourselves at my quarters, if I would permit it. I told him he might, I quartered at Richard Fry's, and Richard being present, told him he should be welcome to come to his house, and so we parted. And when I came to Richard's he said we should hear no more of him, for that he had in his discourses amongst his hearers spoken many very unhandsome things against the Quakers, endeavoring to unchristian them, and prove them heathens in denying the ordinances: (a common plea used by all our adversaries ;) but this upstart carried the matter farther than some others did, by adding, that we denied the scriptures, and also would not allow of a Bible in any of our meetings, nor did our preachers ever use a Bible to prove any thing therefrour, that we preached to the people; (with more to the same purport) and as many of his hearers were there, my appearing with a Bible, and so often referring to the text for proof, did no doubt put him and them also upon a thought, what had been preached before by him, amongst them, concerning the Quakers, which now appeared to be a manifest untruth by what they had both seen and heard that day: however, to be short, as Richard Fry thought, soit proved; for he did not come at all near me, and so that went off well, and truth was exalted above lies and falsehood.

which afterwards became my wife, had strong | some conversation with me: I looked at him hold of my affections, and I had acquainted her parents therewith, and had liberty from them to lay it before their daughter, which I did; although at the same time it was upon me to visit America before I entered into the state of wedlock, which I also gave her to understand; for I had reasoned in my own mind, that it might be better to let it rest until my return, if I lived; but in answer to that, thus it appeared, that I might have some offers there that might be a snare to me, and by this prior engagement I might be freed from all temptations or offers of that kind; for if it once was known there, that I was already engaged, even that would command silence on that account; so on this consideration I made my suit to her, who received it with such modesty and sweetness as was very engaging and obliging to me: but she had an uncle, on whom she had some dependence, who seemed much averse to it, and would have his niece left at liberty, that if any thing offered in my absence she might embrace it; which I very readily complied with; then he was pleased, only he would have me leave it under my hand, which also I was very ready to do; and more, that is, to stand bound myself, and leave her at liberty to which she objected, as unreasonable on her part to desire such a thing from me. So we parted, and I went to Street, Glastonbury, Burnham, Sidcoat, Clareham, and Bristol, having let slip out of my memory the old Friend's sickness at Sherborne; but I had not been many hours in Bristol before a messenger came to desire Benjamin Coole to attend the funeral, and Benjamin came to me at Brice Webb's, where I lodged, and told me how it was, and desired me to go; but I pleaded sundry excuses, first, my horse was not fit, with other objections, which were all removed. And accordingly I went to Bruton next day, being the Seventh-day of the week, and was at that small meeting on First-day. The funeral was on Second-day, which was exceeding large, John Beere from Weymouth being there had something to say, but not much: then, as it was with me, I pulled my Bible out of my pocket, and opened it; upon which the people gave more attention than they had done before, and I had a very acceptable time, often in the course of my matter referring to the text for proof, and giving an ample testimony of the value we put upon the Scriptures, earnestly pressing the careful reading of them, and advising to consider what they read, and to seek the Lord, by prayer, for assistance and power, that they might practice what they read, which was the ultimate end of reading, as well as the hearing of preaching, for without practice, it would avail but little; with other advice to the same effect. And there being sundry teachers of several societies, one of them a Baptist, took hold of me after meeting was ended, and desired

I returned back to Bristol well contented, being filled with peace and consolation. At my return I gave my friends Benjamin Coole, and some others, a relation of my conduct, and Benjamin was much pleased I went there, and repeated what he had said before to persuade me to go, adding, he was pretty much assured it was my place to go, but that if he had known how it came into my mind to preach with the book in my hand, although in the sequel it proved right, yet he should have been afraid that more of imagination than revelation was in it; therefore that would rather have backened him, than have been any argument for him to have pressed my going so much as he did, by reason that he had found some mistakes committed from such sights, which proved to be but imaginations: and he gave me very suitable advice, to take care how I too easily embraced such things for truth, without a due trial, and that it was not displeasing to heaven to try the spirit from whence such things proceeded.

(To be continued.)

ANN WARING.

(Continued from page 134.)

She was strongly impressed for a long time before her death that this was her last sickness. and frequently prayed the Lord that she might have patience given her to support her present affliction, and a disposition to submit entirely in every respect to His holy will, and strength to overcome all evil. She frequently mentioned it as a favor that her Holy Father had enabled her to resign and give up such and such worldly things-and to be separated for a season from her near and dear relatives; and said she had received strength to give them up, one after the other, far beyond her expectation; but when she came to her husband and darling infant child, she found the trial exceedingly great; she ac cordingly one morning, about two months before her death, expressed to her husband her great anxiety respecting the child, who, if she should live, would go forth into the world without the overseeing eye and helping hand of a mother. Her husband informed her that the grand-parents of the child wished to take her under their charge, and in that case the child would have the same persons to bring her up that she herself had, and himself likewise, if life was spared. She burst into tears and exclaimed, "into his hand will I commit her, who has promised to be

a father to the fatherless."

assure you, my friends, that reflection affords me sweet peace of mind."

She expressed a wish to leave her child in the care of her parents and husband jointly, with the injunction of her being brought up in a plain manner, and taught the principles of Friends, knowing that her husband also thought they were a people whose principles were better calculated to impress gospel truths on the minds of children than any other; and further desired that she might be restrained from reading novels and romances, which she believed to be very pernicious, particularly to female youth-adding, she was sensible that her time here was drawing towards a close, and had no confidence in any physician, and had consented to have one called for no other reason than to satisfy her dear husband who was so anxious for her recovery, that he might not reflect on himself that anything could have been done that had not been done for her comfort, for which tender care she hoped he would be rewarded by Him whose reward for well-doing was sure-besides many other expressions of love and ardent wishes for the future well being of her near and dear connections, very affecting to all present.

At another time her little daughter was brought to her, and she being very feeble took little notice of her; she was asked if the child should be carried home to its grand-parents, and cheerfully replied yes, adding, "if she should the hands of her Maker, who was able to do more never see her more she had resigned her up into for her than she could if continued with her, and

She had much to say respecting the cross of Christ, saying, she had been favored to live to see the vanity and folly of professing christianity without possessing it, and that it appeared extraordinary to her that people who were consid-earnestly prayed that he would be pleased to take ered to have good sound sense, should seem to turn their whole attention to heaping up riches, which they were not certain of enjoying one day, and neglect entirely to prepare for death, which they are sure and certain must come.

When the family were sitting round one day, she observed how apt we were to indulge ourselves in small things, and the excuse sometimes given in such cases to the judge in our hearts was, “some of my acquaintances do things much worse, but we must be sensible that such excuses cannot be of any use, because it is hardly likely that other people's faults should be any advantage to us. Every one must do his own work, and that in the day time, and strength will undoubtedly be given to make the work easy and the burden light."

She expressed an opinion that fashion, luxury and dissipation had risen to a very mournful height; that we were surrounded with snares and temptations to entangle those who were not constantly upon the watch. She considered play houses as one of the most wicked and unprincipled sources of corruption, and although she had frequently been importuned to go there, yet she had never entered the door, and added, "I can

her under his care and protection, and again expressed her desire that she should be brought up in a plain manner both in speech and apparel."

Perceiving those present much affected, she took her father by the hand, and with an expressive and smiling countenance said, "My dear father, give me up, why cannot thou give me up?-My heavenly Father has given me the fullest assurance that He will receive me into his glorious kingdom, where I shall enjoy that which far surpasses anything this world can afford, and why should thee wish me to continue here?" Adding, that her peace of mind could not be expressed, it was such that all this world could neither give nor take from her.

She at another time expressed that she longed for the time to come when she should be released, but hoped she would be favored to wait with patience, saying," the Lord's will be done in all that concerns me, for I can truly say I have none of my own, and he in whose hands I am, knows best when to take me," adding, that she was prepared to meet him, and expressed how necessary it was to be prepared for such an awful change before laid on a sick bed; that although the mercies of our heavenly Father were unbounded, it was the greatest imprudence to put

off a work of such importance until the eleventh hour.

On hearing of a number of sudden deaths, she said, "these were loud calls, and it appeared to her they were more frequent than usual, and she hoped it would have its proper effect in warning us to shun the many vices which so sorrowfully abounded," adding, "O that the people would humble themselves as in the very dust-for dust we are indeed, and unto it we must shortly all return" and observed the great need there was of living a life of duty, and that these considerations had of late very frequently and forcibly brought to her mind the resolution of good old Joshua, "Let others do as they may, but as for me and my house we will serve the Lord.

She seemed sensible of the approach of death, but her mother who had been with her the night before, wishing to remain with her that night, also, fearing she might decease in her absence, she insisted on her going home to take her rest, saying she should be favored with sufficient time to send for her parents and friends before she departed.

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not compel him to come, leave him to God, the
the judge of all.-John Wesley-

THE LITTLE MEMBER.

There is nothing more likely to do mischief than
an unruly tongue. Its movements are so quick
and sudden that the first notice we have of the
mischief is-that it is done. It is not like a fire,
which gives warning first by the smell, then by
its smoke, and then by a little blaze which may
be extinguished before much evil is done; but it
is like lightning, which gives no warning till it
strikes. A bad tale, an oath uttered, a harsh
word spoken, a scandal, an obscene jest, or a
hasty promise thrown out, cannot be recalled.
Like the fang of a poisonous serpent, it gives
the fatal stroke in the twinkling of an eye, and
is then quiet. It is a great and most useful
attainment that is made when one can control
the tongue.

Pythagoras required a youth to keep silence
five years before he would admit him to the
study of philosophy. This gave evidence of that
self-command which was a certain presage of
eminence. No progress can be made in wisdom
without the command of this unruly member.
That sense of propriety which reigned among
the Spartans was owing to their being sparing of
their words. They would banish the loquacious,
who boasted that they could harangue a whole
day on any subject which could be proposed.

A fool is full

The night before she died she seemed quite restless, and wished to be moved often. As she lay dozing about the middle of the night, she suddenly roused up a little and said, "I cannot be with you always; whither I go ye cannot come, but I pray the Father to send you another comforter that he may abide with you forever." In the morning, being sensible that it was In the Bible the same sense of propriety is near her last, she desired that her father and more forcibly inculcated. "He that hath knowmother and near friends might be sent for. After ledge spareth his words, but a prating fool shall a little, perceiving those around her were weep-fall. A fool uttereth all his mind; a fool's voice ing, she said, "Mourn not for me, but for your- is known by multitude of words. The words of selves, and prepare to follow me.' After a lit- a wise man's mouth are gracious, but the lips of tle while, she enquired the time of day, and a fool will swallow up himself. being answered eight o'clock, replied, "at eight of words."-Y. P. Gazette. last evening I was struck with death." She appeared perfectly composed in mind, and her countenance the whole time was perfectly mild, serene, and pleasant, appearing fully sensible of what she had expressed to us a little before, that our loss was her gain. After lying still a few minutes, she exclaimed with a strong voice, "O what glorious prospects;" then calling her relations to the bed side bid them all affectionately farewell; and after a little pause cried out, "Lord Jesus receive me into thy holy arms," and with a triumphant countenance in a few moments breathed her last.

NOBLE SENTIMENTS.

Condemn no man for not thinking as you think. Let every one enjoy the full and free liberty of thinking for himself. Let every man use his own judgment since every man must give account of himself to God. Abhor every approach, in every kind or degree, to the spirit of persection. If you cannot reason, or persuade a man into the truth never attempt to force him into it. If love will

THE BRUISED REED.

Per

"A bruised reed will He not break."
haps the imagery may be derived from the prac
tice of the ancient shepherds, who were wont to
amuse themselves with the music of a pipe of
reed or straw, and when it was bruised they
broke it, or threw it away as useless. But the
bruised reed shall not be broken by this Divine
| Shepherd of souls. The music of broken sighs
and groans is indeed all that the broken reed can
afford him the notes are but low, melancholy
and jarring; and yet he will not break the in-
strument, but he will repair and tune it, till it is
fit to join in the concert of angels on high; and
even now its humble strains are pleasing to His
ears.

DAVIES.

"Blessed old age! happy home! where domestic bliss is hallowed by exalted piety, and where we are taught how even earth may yield pure enjoyment, if only the spirit of God dwell (and rule) within us."

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THE CERTIFICATE OF JOSEPH WANTON AND SARAH FREEBORN.

1689-90. This is to certifie The truth to all people, That Joseph Wanton, son of Edward Wanton, of Scituate, & Sarah Freeborn, daughter of Giddeon fireborn, of Rhode island, haueving Intentions of marriage according to ye ordinance of God and his joyning, did Saye it before ye men's and women's meeting at Rhode island, before whom theire marriage was propounded and then the meeting desired them waight for a time and Enquiry being made betwixt the times wheather they were boath ffree and clear from all other, they appearing ye second time all things being clear and they Published according to the Laws and customs of this place. A meeting of said people being assembled to geather at the house of Jacob Motts, the twenty-ninth dave of the Eleaventh month, called January, in the year one thousand six hundred eighty and nine, wheare Theye Tooke one another in ye presence of God and in the presence of us his people, whose names are hereunto wrigton, according to the laws of God and ye practise of ye holy men of God in ye Scriptures of truth, they both then promising before God and before us his people to live faithfully to geather Husband and wife till death separate them according to ye honorable marriage which is of God, they then setting Both their hands unto it. God in Heaven is witness to what you say, and we also are witnesses.

ELIZABETH MOTT,
BETHIA MOTT,

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RACHEL HODGSON,
LEDY HOWLAND,
MARY MANCHESTER,
ELIZABETH ALLEN,
MARY HODGSON,
CASSANDRA MOTT,
MARY FFREBORN,
HANNAH MOTT,

MARY MOTT.

JOSEPH WANTON,
SARAH WANTON.
ALICE ANTHONY,
MARY MOTT,
JACOB MOTT, Junr.,
EDWARD GASKILL,

This is copied from the Records of Rhode Island Monthly Meeting, and the ancient spelling preserved.

THE CHURCH OF CHRIST.

man as Fenelon, for instance, finds its way into There is, however, a grander church, to which the souls of scattered millions. Are not he and I now ask your attention; and the consideration they of one church? I thrill with joy at the of this will peculiarly confirm the lesson on name of holy men who lived ages ago. Ages do which I am insisting, namely, that there is but not divide us. I venerate them more for their one essential thing, true holiness, or disinterested antiquity. Are we not one body? Is not this love to God and man. There is a grander church union something real? It is not men's coming than all particular ones, however extensive; the together into one building which makes a church. Church Catholic or Universal, spread over all Suppose, that, in a place of worship, I sit so lands, and one with the church in heaven. near a fellow creature as to touch him; but that That all Christ's followers form one body, one there is no common feeling between us, that the fold, is taught in various passages in the New truth which moves me he inwardly smiles at as Testament. You remember the earnestness of a dream of fancy; that the disinterestedness his last prayer, that they might all be One, as which I honor, he calls weakness or wild enhe and his Father are one.' Into this church, thusiasm. How far apart are we, though visibly all who partake of the spirit of Christ are admitted. so near! We belong to different worlds. How It asks not, Who has baptised us? Whose pass- much nearer am I to some pure generous spirit port we carry? What badge we wear? If in another continent, whose word has penetrated baptised by the Holy Ghost,' its wide gates are my heart, whose virtues have kindled me to opened to us. Within this church are joined those emulation, whose pure thoughts are passing whom different names have severed or still sever. through my mind whilst I sit in the house of We hear nothing of Greek, Roman, English prayer! With which of the these two have I churches, but of Christ's church only. My church union? friends, this is not an imaginary union. The Do not tell me that I surrender myself to a seriptures, in speaking of it, do not talk rhetori- fiction of imagination, when I say, that distant eally, but utter the soberest truth. All sincere Christians, that all Christians and myself, form partakers of Christian virtue are essentially one. one body, one church, just as far as a common In the spirit which pervades them, dwells a love and piety possess our hearts. Nothing is uniting power found in no other tie. Though more real than this spiritual union. There is separated by oceans, they have sympathies strong one grand all-comprehending church; and if I and in dissoluble. Accordingly, the clear, strong am a Christian I belong to it, and no man can utterance of one gifted, inspired Christian flies shut me out of it. You may exclude me from through the earth. It touches kindred chords your Roman church, your Episcopal church, and in another hemisphere. The word of such a your Calvinistic church, on account of supposed

defects in my creed or my sect, and I am content to be excluded. But I will not be severed from the great body of Christ. Who shall sunder me from such men as Fenelon, and Pascal, and Boromeo, from Archbishop Leighton, Jeremy Taylor, and John Howard? Who can rupture the spiritual bond between these men and myself? Do I not hold them dear? Does not their spirit, flowing out through their writings and lives, penetrate my soul? Are they not a portion of my being? Am I not a different man from what I should have been, had not these and other like spirits acted on mine? And is it in the power of synod or conclave, or of all the ecclesiastical combinations on earth, to part me from them? I am bound to them by thought and affection; and can these be suspended by the bull of a pope or the excommunication of a council? The soul breaks scornfully these barriers, these webs of spiders, and joins itself to the great and good; and if it possess their spirit, will the great and good, living or dead, cast it off, because it has not enrolled itself in this or another sect? A pure mind is free of the universe. It belongs to the church, the family of the pure in all worlds. Virtue is no local thing. It is not honorable, because born in this community or that, but for its own independent everlasting beauty. This is the bond of the universal church. No man can be excommunicated from it but by himself, by the death of goodness in his own breast. All sentences of exclusion are vain, if he do not dissolve the tie of purity which binds him to all holy souls.

found a home? How much, too, have other churches to boast! In the English church, we meet the names of Latimer, Hooker, Barrow, Leighton, Berkely, and Heber; in the dissenting Calvinistic church, Baxter, Howe, Watts, Doddridge, and Robert Hall; among the Quakers, George Fox, William Penn, Robert Barclay, and our own Anthony Benezet, and John Woolman; in the Anti-trinitarian church, John Milton, John Locke, Samuel Clarke, Price and Priestley. To repeat these names does the heart good. They breathe a fragrance through the common air. They lift up the whole race to which they belonged. With the churches of which they were pillars or chief ornaments, I have many sympathies, nor do I condemn the union of ourselves to these or any other churches whose doctrines we approve, provided that we do it without severing ourselves in the least from the universal church. On this point, we cannot be too earnest. We must shun the spirit of sectarianism as from Hell. We must shudder at the thought of shutting up God in any denomination. We must think no man the better for belonging to our communion; no man the worse for belonging to another. We must look with undiminished joy on goodness, though it shine forth from the most adverse sect. Christ's spirit must be equally dear and honoured, no matter where manifested. To confine God's love or his good spirit to any party, sect, or name, is to sin against the fundamental law of the kingdom of God; to break that living bond with Christ's universal church, which is one of our chief helps to perfection.—Channing.

WARDROBE-WEBS AND TABLE-TIES OF BROTHER

HOOD.

I belong to the Universal Church; nothing shall separate me from it. In saying this, however, I am no enemy to particular churches. In the present age of the world it is perhaps best, that those who agree in theological We wonder if our young friends have ever opinions should worship together; and I do not taken any lessons in the physiology or anatomy object to the union of several such churches in of the great earth on which we live, and seen one denomination, provided that all sectarian what a surprising provision has been created to and narrow feeling be conscientiously and scru- make one country dependent upon another for pulously resisted. I look on the various churches its luxuries, comforts and even necessaries. If of Christendom with no feelings of enmity. I they have not done this, we hope they will begin have expressed my abhorrence of the sectarian to make it a regular study. It is the most inspirit of Rome; but in that as in all other teresting department of science that we ever churches, individuals are better than their creed; tried to look into; and we are sure they will find and amidst gross error and the inculcation of a it so. Suppose, then, we take a lesson together narrow spirit noble virtues spring up, and emi- in this study, which has not yet been introduced nent Christians are formed. It is one sign of into common schools. We will begin with the the tendency of human nature to goodness, that geography of the dinner-table, and the wardrobe. it grows good under a thousand bad influences. These shall be our maps and illustrations. You The Romish church is illustrated by great names. have seen maps for blind people, with raised Her gloomy convents have often been brightened letters, figures, &c.? Well, the dinner-table, by fervent love to God and man. Her St. Louis, with all its different dishes, fruits, condiments, and Fenelon, and Massillon, and Cheverus; her &c., shall be our chart, with raised letters and missionaries who have carried Christianity to the figures which we can feel, too. With this chart ends of the earth; her sisters of charity who before us, we may get at a clearer meaning, perhave carried relief and solace to the most hope-haps, of that sublime declaration of St. Paul, less want and pain: do not these teach us, that "God hath made of one blood all nations of men in the Romish church the Spirit of God has for to dwell upon all the face of the earth.”

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