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answered that the Prophet did not go naked, so er would not stay, but went into another room; as to put off all his garments; but only his pro- for he must have craved a blessing (as their phetical robes and then turned to some pages phrase is) if he had stayed and dined: but dinof a large book in folio, the author whereof had ner being near over, he returned; and, when we pretended to explain that, and many other pas- had dined, they put him upon giving thanks; sages of the Holy Scriptures; and he read seve- but he refused, saying, "It is not proper for me ral of them and, when he had done, he began to give thanks for what I have not received; I to reproach George Fox, and said he called him- did not eat ;" and so to evade his grace, he lost self the light within, saying "I the light within, his dinner. Friends, I the light within." Also that a Quaker once brought a written paper to him and desired him to try it; to whom (said he) I answered Friend every work must be tried by fire ;" and so I put it into the fire in his pre

sence.

After dinner they fell again to discourse about religion among themselves, (for my mind was in great peace, in a sense of the divine presence still remaining, and I was silent,) in which the Independent said, that, according to his experience, there was a great deal of difference between the performance of religious exercises, as prayer, &c., in one's own strength, and by the help of the spirit; for, without the spirit, it was like rowing against wind and tide; going more backward than forward. Then said the Episcopalian, "I never like such, as in their prayers to God, use abundance of formal words, and much whining and cant." Now this happening to be that

All this time I sat silent, under the load of that dark spirit; and the gentleman was silent likewise but as my mind was toward the Lord, at length his Divine Presence opened in me, and his holy fear came over me; and then I perceived that dark power overthrown in the foundation, and the Priests power bound and chained, and my spirit at liberty and in dominion: and then I said with much freedom and authority, Presbyterian's practice, he took it as done on purwho is this that darkeneth counsel by words with- pose, and was much offended. The other averout knowledge? (Job, xxxviii. 2.) Thou sayest red he had no view to him in what he had said, in opposition to the plain text of scripture, that but, in general, as a thing he did not think deIsaiah the Prophet, did not go naked, but only cent in any. But I mediated a peace, and reput off his prophetical robes. What authority conciled them; and so the conversation ended. hast thou to say he had any such robes? The My eldest brother being Priest of the parish, scripture imports quite another thing: and as and likewise Deacon of Connor, (afterwards of to thy interpreter, he is as ignorant as thyself; Limerick) in Ireland, had one of the Scot's Episand has left those passages of scripture, which copal Priests for his Curate, (or journeyman,) who he pretends to open and illustrate, perplexed had been turned out at the establishment of and confounded, and darker than he found them, Presbytery as the national way in Scotland. And by advancing many and various opinions about them, and determining nothing.

Then as to what he said of George Fox and the other Friend, I appealed to the other two, whether he had dealt candidly, and sincerely with them; for it could not with any truth, or reason, be understood by such a phrase that George Fox (whom I never saw) called himself the light within, but that people should eye it, that is, look towards the divine light and grace of Christ in their own minds, and follow the teachings and leadings of it, and not look out to the teachings of men only.

this Priest being poor, my father took him into his house for better accommodation; which proved some occasional exercise to me, we being so very different in our sentiments in some things relating to religion. And, one day there being a goose on the table at dinner, he intending to disappoint me of a part, whispered to me, so loud as that all about the table heard him, "This is a tithe goose ;" and then fleered. I replied, "Let him look to the evil of that, to whom it is tithe, but to me it is no tithe, but a goose only; and, with my father's leave I will take a share." And after this we had much dispute about the And as to his trial of the paper, it imported a maintenance of ministers of Christ: I alleged, levity and derision inconsistent with his pre- that when Christ sent out his disciples to preach tensions to a Christian ministry; for the man to the people, he said, Freely ye have received, might mean well and religiously, and there freely give; and did not allow them neither might be some very good things in the paper, gold, silver nor brass in the purses, nor scrip, which he had disdainfully destroyed. And then nor two coats, nor shoes, nor staffs, but to depend the other two blamed him for it. This being on divine providence only for their subsistence; very much unexpected, surprised him and made eating such things as should be set before them; him silent; though he had, during the time of for the workman is worthy of his meat.-(Matt. my silence, triumphed as if I had not had any-x. 8, 9, 10.)

thing to say; or, being young, would not take To this he answered, that Christ and his Aposupon me to oppose a man of his years and char-tles received money for preaching, otherwise acter for a preacher. where did they get the money they had in the Then dinner coming upon the table, the preach-bag; for they were poor men, and had nothing

At another time my father had a mind to discourse me on that subject; and after he had moved it, I desired leave to ask him a question, before I entered the dispute with him: he grant-investigation, and elevated by the sublimity of ed it; and then I asked him, " If it were not for his reputation among men, and the law of the land, would he himself pay any tithe?" upon this he was silent a little, and then replied, with an oath, "That if it were not for the laws, he would pay no more tithe than myself." Then, said I, there is no need for any further dispute, and it ended thus; for he never offered any argument

his feelings will rise until they defy the power | in the study of these sciences without unwearied efforts. If originality and independence rendered Shakspeare the first of dramatic writers, perseverance made Newton the prince of philosophers. New Haven, Conn.

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FOR THE CHILDREN.

of expression; and think you that they will then subside? with the stars that light up and spangle the firmanent, his inspiration will kindle and burn; and will it be quenched at thoughts directed to that connexion which exists between the revolution of the heavenly bodies and the swelling of the waters? Philosophy is the hand-maid of poetry, for it unfolds those truths My little friends, "see that you fall not out which, by sympathy, give birth to the purest, by the way." Be gentle, loving and kind, to the sublimest, and the most delightful of his your brothers, sisters, and playmates, and let not emotions. And here let it not be said, that in differences arise among you. Try to form amiathe ardor for the discovery of natural truth, ble habits, and to cherish only the good, and moral truth is neglected or obscured. The study you will have the reward of peace and joy in of nature is in a measure the study of the mind, your own breasts. I will tell you a story of a for the animal is the threshold of the intellectual little boy who lived many, many years ago, and world and when it is recollected that from the who grew to be a good and great man. Jacob animalcula to the mammoth, from the atom had twelve sons Joseph, one of the youngest, was that floats on the gale, to the mountain that is a lovely boy, and his dear old father made him a unmoved by the whirlwind and the earthquake, coat of many colors. His brothers, instead of that from the drop that distils from the clouds, feeling glad that their father loved their brother to the ocean that encompasses the world, there Joseph so tenderly, grew envious of him and is not an object that does not bear those marks hated him, as if there was not love enough in of wisdom and design that point us to the Crea- the world for them all. These men had flocks tor, who will tell us that the study of nature is of sheep and goats which they kept in pastures not the study of God? Intellectual pleasure is a great way off, and Jacob sent Joseph to see another motive for the pursuit of these sciences, how the men and flocks were faring, and to a motive which is just and proper, for they keep bring him word again. While Joseph was the mind in health by perpetual activity; they wandering about in the field a man met him and tranquillize it by leading it to contemplate the asked of what he was in search. "I seek my majestic order and calm happiness of the world brothers," answered the boy, "tell me, I pray of nature, and to the man of reflection are a you, where they feed their flocks." The man perpetual source of delight; to him the revolv- pointed out the direction they had gone, and ing year is a round of pleasure, and the change Joseph set off full of glee to find them. His of seasons but a change of joy. Ask such an brothers saw him coming. Are they glad to see one, why with returning spring his heart glows, him, and to hear from their home? No they are and his countenance presents the index of in- not. Envy filled their hearts and love found ward satisfaction; and he will answer that in no place there. Come now, they said among all that is going on around, he sees something themselves, let us kill him, and throw him into that is to minister to his happiness. Ask such a pit, and then say some wild beast ate him up. an one why, when autumn disrobes the groves See how one sin follows another. Joseph's of their beauty, and the falling fruits present a brothers first gave way to envy, then hatred, striking emblem of human frailty, he seems then unkindness, until their hearts became so pleased and gratified with the scene; and he dark they even proposed to commit murder. will tell you that these marks of desolation, But Reuben, not so hard-hearted as the rest, though they remind him of his own separation would not agree to this, and that part of the from home, and love, and friendship, yet breathe plot was given up. When the poor boy, full of a spirit congenial with his own, while they create | love and joy, reached his brothers, he met only within him a calm and pensive state of mind, a strange looks and cold words; they soon stripped deep-toned feeling that seems to raise him above off his beautiful coat of many colors, and cast the influence of surrounding objects, and asso-him into a pit without anything to eat, and left ciate him for a season with purer and happier, him there to die. and more exalted beings. The benefits and pleasures, which have now been mentioned as arising from these pursuits, cannot, it is true, be experienced without great exertion. Genius, where it exists, deservedly commands our respect, but its blind admiration is a siren that lulls us to repose, that paralyzes the arm of exertion, and leaves dormant those energies of the mind, which if called into action would do honor to their possessor. Nothing can be accomplished

While they were taking their dinners a company of traders came along, and Judah said, Come it is cruel to leave our brother to die in the pit; let us sell him to these men; and they went to the pit and dragged out their poor brother, and sold him to the traders for twenty pieces of silver. The men carried him off with them into a far country, where he never thought to see the face of his dear old father again. Poor little boy, how sadly he must have felt; he

She has also left a very large number of other rela- | fested especial pleasure in the company of his friends, tives, and friends to whom she was endeared by many | a pleasing evidence that his love and sympathy grew acts of kindness, that will cause her to be remembered with approaching death. His complainl, which was and lamented. But they have consolation in believ- an affection of the head, commenced about three ing that although her indisposition was of short dura- months previous to his decease, and although from tion, she was not entirely unprepared for the final the first he was conscious he would not recover, he summons, and we doubt not but she is now in the en- was eutirely resigned. His physical suffering, which joyment of happiness. For although she was one that was at times considerable, he bore with Christian "looked well to the ways of her household," and "eat fortitude and patience. He gently passed away, leavnot the bread of idleness," she was not unmindful of ing us the consolation that his end was peace. her religious duties and devotion to her Heavenly Father.

DIED, At her residence in Hockessin, New Castle County, Delaware, the 7th of 9th mo. 1857, HANNAH CHANDLER, relict of Philip Chandler, in the 65th year of her age, a member of Hockessin particular, and Centre Monthly Meetings.

"Death loves a shining mark," after a brief but severe illness she passed away from "works to rewards," leaving a large circle of friends and relatives to mourn her loss. Age had never palsied her energies, nor dimmed her intellect, and she moved among us until the last, a ministering angel in every time of need, and now that the call has gone forth, and she has passed from our sight, we miss her-miss the sound of her voice, the light of her countenance, and her coming feet. concerned mother, striving to train them in the way of usefulness, and they can truly "rise up to call

Towards her children she was ever a kind and

MEMOIR OF JOSEPH PIKE.
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While he was engaged in business, many opportunities of enriching himself, by speculative enterprises, were offered to him; but everything of this character he steadily declined, being unwilling to burden himself, or set an ill example for others to follow. On one occasion, a proposal was made to him, to purchase a large quantity of tobacco, when there was a likelihood of making a great profit, and no apparent danger of losing; but, on considering the subject, he felt it to be his duty to decline it, that the way of truth might not, through his agency, be evilly spoken of. Another person, who had not the same scruples, or did not obey them, availed himself of the opportunity, by which he made several thousand pounds. In relation to his own "I conduct, on this occasion, Joseph Pike says, never repented it; for if it were to do again, and that I was sure of getting the same profit which the other did, I would still decline it, for the same reasons." And upon this subject he adds Even while the tear of sorrow bedews the cheek, we cannot wish her back to scenes of trial and proba- these weighty remarks, which are worthy the tion, through which each one of earth's children must consideration of all who are tempted to engage pass, for her work was accomplished in the day time, in hazardous enterprises, or to embark in any buand "blessed are the dead who who die in the Lord."siness of a character to overcharge and burden

her blessed."

Her grand-children were ever objects of her love and solicitude, and they know the indelible impress upon their hearts of her anxious care. Towards the one who now pens this brief but heartfelt tribute to her dear memory, she ever acted the part of a sympathizing friend, and impartial counsellor, striving to train in love and restrain in kindness.

H.

At his residence near Laporte, Third mo. 3d, after an illness of four years, ELIJAH QUINBY, aged 47 years. His disease was scrofula in its worst form,

causing great suffering; but through all he was remarkably patient. He was a minister of the Society of Friends, and in all his dealings with his fellow men strictly followed the Golden Rule. He was of a social disposition, a kind husband and father, and a good neighbor. Throughout his sickness he expressed his entire resignation to the divine will, and seemed filled with love for every one, saying it was nothing he had done that made every one so kind to him, but the Lord put it in their hearts.

the mind. "But notwithstanding," he says, "I have often declined the prosecution of prospects that carried a fair appearance of profit, yet I will not and dare not say, that they would have answered accordingly; for the Lord having blessed me in moderate dealing, He might have turned His hand against me, and frustrated my expectation, if I had overcharged myself with business, to the hinderance of that little service I had to do for Him. And I can say, in the sincerity of my heart, that I never inclined or strove to be rich, or to make my children great At Maiden Creek, Berks Co., Pa., on the 11th or high in the world, seeing the ill effects of it of Ninth mo., JACOB LIGHTFOOT, in his 65th year, a in others." Indeed, it may truly be said of Jomember of Exeter Monthly Meeting of Friends. seph Pike, that he was a man "fearing God, and In the decease of this dear friend, the small meeting of which he was a valuable member has sustained hating covetousness." Against this evil, which a loss. He was a regular attendant of meetings, both often increases in old age, he bore a strong testifor worship and discipline, and during his sickness mony, and in the latter years of his life, he frequently expressed his regret that any should be so makes these remarks in reference to it: "Oh ! negligent in this important duty. Many can testify this spirit of covetousness! where it prevails, to his benevolence and hospitality, for he was ever ready to relieve the indigent and distressed. As a how it darkens and clouds the understanding, citizen he was highly esteemed, and in business of a and eats out all that is good! The zeal of the public character, with which he was frequently en- Lord burns in my soul against it; and I believe trusted, he gave great satisfaction to the community. there are few greater evils in the sight of the He was careful to maintain the principles and testi-Lord than this, though there are few evils that monies of the Society. His social feelings were always strong, but during his last illness he mani- have more cloaks and coverings than this hath.”