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to see more clearly that there was a mansion prepared for her. Her desires were very strong that her patience might not fail. She asked her parents and others to pray for her that she might be enabled to endure all, saying, "It has pleased my Heavenly Father to afflict me, and I desire to bear all patiently." She desired her parents to disengage themselves more from the things of this world, and to prepare for the final change, and further said to them, "you must not spoil Eleanor as some do who have but one child. You may have to give her up too, and if you must do so, do it freely."

On the twenty-seventh she said to her mother, "I have told you all. I do not feel as if I had any thing more to say." About three o'clock in the morning of the 28th a change was observed, of which she appeared quite sensible, and observing the cold perspiration, enquired if it was not a sign she was going. On being answered in the affirmative she manifested no alarm. It pleased the blessed Saviour at this time to hide his face from her for a short season, which was a fresh trial of her faith, but soon the veil was in great mercy withdrawn, and a calm serenity again rested on her countenance. About 11 o'clock, her physical sufferings having greatly increased, she said to a friend, "will it be long, will it be an hour?" he replied "Thou must wait the Lord's time;" she calmly answered "Yes," and after a pause said, "Oh blessed Saviour come and take me, if consistent with thy will; blessed Jesus take me; come and take me quickly if consistent with thy most holy will; mercy, mercy."

Her sufferings then appeared to cease, and she spoke a few words to her mother. Her breath ing grew shorter and shorter, until she quietly and sweetly closed her earthly pilgrimage, leaving no doubt in the minds of those who witnessed her peaceful close, that her petitions had been granted, and her purified spirit permitted to enter within the pearl gates of that city, which hath no need of the sun, neither of moon to shine in it, for the glory of God doth lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.

The exercise of the faculties of the mind, the quickening of apprehension, the strengthening of memory, the forming of a sound, rapid and discriminating judgment, are ef more importance than any store of learning.

Knowledge, economy and labor are the virtues of a civilized man; they form the most durable basis of society, and the sure spring of individual welfare. Riches consequently are the fruit of knowledge, economy and labor.

To be truly polite, exhibit real kindness in the kindest manner-do this and you will pass at par in any society without studying the rules of etiquette.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER TO J. C. LETSOME ON HIS MARRIAGE WITH N. M.

Dear Friend:-I was duly favored with thine by my sister at Lea Hall, and should have written sooner had ability and leisure united; for there hath lived in my mind a salutation to thee, the object of my tender solicitude, and to thy wife, thy companion in every tender sense; the joint object of my affectionate well-wishing. I consider you as now entering the more arduous scenes of life, and filling more important stations than in your single state. And most earnestly desire you may in your first entrance into the more arduous path be wisely directed, for much depends on this important crisis. With a heart replenished with the warmest affection, I recommend the Psalmist's words, representing the wise in all ages, "In the name of our God we will set up our banners." This is a proper election to your state, who have associated together in the most delicate and tender bonds of union, to be each other's helpmate, to soften every care, to enhance every comfort, to divide every burthen reciprocally, and mutually to help each other in every temporal respect; and not only so, but to go up hand in hand to the house of God, and the mountain of his holiness; and in order to obtain this permanent felicity of the conjugal state, in the name of your God now set up your banners. Let nothing divert your minds from an humble attentive care to put yourselves under his protection; implore his guardianship and tuition; he alone can help you in times of probation and defend you in the perilous hour, guard you from the dangers of unsanctified seeming prosperity, and place his everlasting arm underneath in the time of adversity. Place here your confidence that you may not be moved; the world with a variety of blandishments will present its schemes of happiness and make large promises of a good that it hath not in its power to bestow, but you may carefully remember, that in the world or under the prevalence of its spirit, you will find disappointment and trouble; but in the name and under the banner of God peace flows as a river, and all the cross events and painful allotments are sanctified and sweetened ;-beware, therefore, my dear friends, of rushing into the world of dissipation which often attends a circumstance similar to yours; beware of a vain confidence in the smiles and caresses of men and women of this world's spirit; beseech the protection and guidance of Him who placeth the solitary in families, and buildeth up a sure house to those who in all their ways acknowledge him, and cast themselves into his protection. holy visitation hath given you an understanding, I trust, what it is which makes for true peace; enter not into selfish deliberation how to avoid plain duty, protract not your stay in a land of jeopardy and danger, by taking counsel and not [of God, and covering yourselves, but not with

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the covering of his spirit. The state of the winds, and then flows beyond without a boat or
church in that city requires of you to endeavor causeway to effect its passage. The bridge is,
to come up to the help of the Lord, against that however, constructed of fragile materials, and it
mighty inundation of folly and forgetfulnes depends upon how it is trodden whether it bend
which prevails; there are no wages equal to those or break. Gout, apoplexy, and other bad char-
he gives his servants, for surely the reward of acters are also in the vicinity to waylay the
the faithful laborers is exceedingly great; peace, traveller, and thrust him from the pass; but let
tranquillity and glory are upon their heads for him gird up his loins, and provide himself with
ever. Thus my beloved friends, my soul travails a fitting staff, and he may trudge on in safety
for you, for your present and everlasting welfare, with perfect composure. To quit metaphor,
that the solemn engagements you have mutually "The Turn of Life" is a turn either into a pro-
entered into may be truly fulfilled, and your hap- longed walk, or into the grave. The system and
piness established upon a most durable basis. powers having reached their utmost expansion,
The eye of passion in the short lived fervor of the now begin either to close like flowers at sunset,
mind, sometimes improperly called love, flatters or break down at once.-One injudicious stimu-
itself with objects of imagined amiableness and lant, a single fatal excitement, may force it be-
beauty: this is transient and mutable, but af- yond its strength; whilst a careful supply of
fection founded on mutual esteem for an object props, and the withdrawal of all that tends to
religion and virtue have rendered truly estimable, force a plant, will sustain it in beauty and vigor
it hath a permanency in it equal to the cause until night has entirely set in.-The Science of
which produced it; it is not in my mind to de- Life by a Physician.
scend into every particular point of conduct
necessary for your happiness, these will be clearly
opened as occasion requires, and help administer-
ed to come up in every duty, to render you truly Cast your eyes upon the earth that supports
comfortable and helpful to each other; useful us; raise them to this immense vault of the
and honorable in the church and in the world, heavens that surrounds us; these fathomless
and objects of divine favor and acceptance; but abysses of air and water, and these countless
allow me to recommend a close attendance of stars that give us light. Who is it that has
meetings, both for worship and discipline; in this suspended this globe of earth? Who has laid
most reasonable duty, the soul hath often been its foundations? If it were harder, its bosom
unexpectedly replenished with good, and its could not be laid open by man for cultivation;
strength renewed to step forward in the holy if it were less firm, it could not support the
path; dare not to live without God in the world, weight of his footsteps. From it proceed the
lest he withdraw his blessings, and then who most precious things; this earth, so mean and
can make up the deficiency? Warm affection unformed, is transformed into thousands of beau-
fills and strengthens my mind you-ward, in which
I wish you prosperity, your present and everlast-
ing welfare, with a tenderness as nearly paternal
as I am capable of.

S. FOTHERGILL.

THE TURN OF LIFE.

GOD THE CREATOR.

tiful objects that delight our eyes. In the course of one year it becomes branches, buds, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds; thus renewing its beautiful favors to man. Nothing exhausts it. After yielding, for so many ages, its treasures, it experiences no decay; it does not grow old; it still pours forth riches from its bosom.

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Generations of men have grown old and passed Between the years of forty and sixty, a man away, while, every spring, the earth has renewed who has properly regulated himself its youth, If it were cultivated, it would nourbe conmay sidered as in the prime of life. His matured ish a hundred fold more than it now does. Its strength of constitution renders him almost im- inequalities add to its beauty and utility. The pervious to the attacks of disease, and experience mountains have risen, and the valleys descended has given soundness to his judgment. His in the places where the Lord has appointed! In mind is resolute, firm and equal; all his functions the deep valleys grows the herbage for cattle. are in the highest order; he assumes the mastery Rich harvests wave in the champaign country. over business; builds up a competence on the Here, ranges of little hills rise like an amphitheafoundation he has formed in early manhood, and tre, and are crowned with vineyards and fruit-trees; passes through a period of life attended by many there, high mountains lift their snow-crowned gratifications. Having gone a year or two past heads among the clouds. The torrents that pour sixty, he arrives at a critical period in the road from their sides, are the sources of the rivers. of existence; the river of death flows before him, The rocks, marking their steep heights, support and he remains at a stand still. But athwart the earth of the mountains, just as the bones of this river is a viaduct, called "The Turn of Life," which, if crossed in safety, leads to the tion to champaign, (shampain',) the wine of ChamProperly pronounced sham'pain, in contradistincvalley of "old age," round which the river paign.

the human body support the flesh. This variety | heat. If it were smaller, the earth would be all makes the charm of rural scenery, while it is ice, and could not be inhabited by men.

also the means of satisfying the different wants of man.

Every thing that the earth produces, is decomposed, and returns again to its bosom, and becomes the germ of a new production. Every thing that springs from it, returns to it; and nothing is lost. All the seeds that we sow in it, return multiplied to us. It produces stone and marble, of which we make our superb edifices. It teems with minerals, precious or useful to man. Look at the plants that spring from it. Their species and their virtues are innumerable.

Contemplate these vast forests, as ancient as the world; those trees whose roots strike into the earth, as their branches spread out towards the heavens. Their roots support them against the winds, and are like subterranean pipes, whose office is to collect the nourishment necessary for the support of the stem; the stem is covered with a thick bark, which protects the tender wood from the air; the branches distribute, in different canals, the sap which the roots have collected in the trunk. In summer, they protect us with their shade from the rays of the sun; in winter, they feed the flame that keeps us warm. Their wood is not only useful for fuel; but it is of a substance, although solid and durable, to which the hand of man can give every form that he pleases, for the purpose of architecture and navigation. Fruit-trees, as they bow their branches towards the earth, seem to invite us to receive their treasures. The feeblest plant contains within itself the germ of all that we admire in the grandest tree. The earth, that does not change, itself produces all these changes in the offspring.

Who has stretched over our heads this vast and glorious vault? What sublime objects are there! An All-powerful hand has presented this grand spectacle to our vision.

What does the regular succession of day and night teach us? The sun has never omitted for so many ages to shed his blessing upon us. The dawn never fails to announce the day; and the sun, says the holy book, knows his going down. Thus it enlightens alternately both sides of the world, and sheds its rays on all. Day is the time for society and employment. Night folds the world in darkness, finishes our labors, and softens our troubles. It suspends, it calms every thing. It sheds around us silence and sleep; it rests our bodies, it revives our spirits. Then day returns, and recalls man to labor, and reanimates all nature.

But besides the constant course of the sun, that produces day and night, during six months it approaches one pole, and during the other six, the opposite one. By this beautiful order, one sun answers for the whole world. If the sun, at the same distance, were larger, it would light the whole world, but it would consume it with its

What compass has been stretched from heaven to earth, and taken such just measurements? The changes of the sun make the variety of the seasons, which we find so delightful. The spring checks the cold winds, wakens the flowers, and gives the promise of fruits. The summer brings the riches of the harvest. The autumn displays the fruits that spring has promised. Winter, which is the night of the year, treasures up all its riches, only in order that the following spring may bring them forth again with new beauty. Thus nature, so variously adorned, presents alternately her beautiful changes, that man may never cease to admire. The hand that guides this glorious work, must be as skilful as it is powerful, to have made it so simple, yet so effectual; so constant and so beneficent.-Fenelon, translated by Mrs. Follen.

For Friends' Intelligencer.

TAKE HEED TO THE GIFT THAT IS IN YOU." We highly estimate the gifts bestowed by our earthly parents; we think them precious, we use all care to secure them from injury, and to add to their value, for our own benefit and that of our children's children; they are far more dear to us than if they came from any other

source.

Then how much more highly ought we to prize the precious gem bestowed by our heavenly Father, and placed in a cabinet of his own preparing, which no one has access to but himself and us. The inner chambers are all our own; here we may admit the highest of all guests and close the door against every intruder; and thus take sweet counsel together. He will instruct us how to use this pearl, in order to increase its value and add to its lustre. He will show us that it is his oracle, and if repaired to and heeded, its smallest intimations will be sufficiently clear and impressive to remove doubts, to unfold duties, and to show the consequences resulting from neglect.

Take heed to the gift that is in you; the word spoken by it is "quick and powerful." It salutes the inward ear, and arrests the attention; and however small and still, we feel that it comes from above, bearing either a call, a command, or an admonition from the Holy One. O! let us heed its lowest whispers ; it will remove from this inner sanctuary everything that is impure, it will clothe us in the livery of heaven, and bring us immediately into His presence, before whom angels and archangels bow.

Precious children heed this gift; it is the good Spirit, the grace of God, it is in you: it shines in the heart as the outward sun shines in the outward and material world, revealing to the senses all that is lovely. By its light we see how to do our work, we see also what would

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FRIENDS' INTELLIGENCER.

harm us, and are enabled to avoid what is per- |
nicious. As it is far more pleasant to range
the flowers, than among thorns and briars;
so those who are amiable and kind are not only
happy in themselves, but diffuse comfort and
happiness arround them; and these dispositions
are far more precious than the perfumes of
Arabian spices, wafted far and wide by eastern
gales.

Take heed to this gift; it will be a constant companion, a friend to the friendless, and as children heed it, and love it, it grows with their growth, and strengthens with their strength; it is an all-pervading principle, guiding them through life's intricate windings, in ways of pleasantness and paths of peace. In times of danger when evil is near, it will gently intimate, beware; when good presents, it will say, embrace, pursue and

grow strong.

It is a heavenly monitor; take heed to it in childhood, listen attentively to it in youth, obey it in manhood, make it a constant companion. In every period of life its instructions are of infinite value to frail mortals. How invaluable is such a companion through a life beset with various temptations and trials; how like a golden sunshine lighting up the inner temple; renewing hope, inspiring faith in God our everlasting Father, and assuring us that safety is ours, when he in wisdom guides the helm.

IMPORTANCE OF ACCURATE MENTAL

HABITS.

It is essential that our children should be early instructed in the all-important lesson of learning what they do learn well. If we sacrifice this object to a mere spread of information, we shall inflict an injury on their minds which in all probability will be found incurable. A child who, from day to day, is allowed to be inaccurate in construing his Latin lesson, will be prone to act in the same manner with respect to the other branches of his learning, and his carelessness will even extend to his play. But these are only the smaller parts of the mischief. The bad habit of inaccuracy once formed, will infect his mode of conversing, undermine his attention to truth, and weaken him in his moral duties; nay, it will follow him to the place of public worship, and mar the early fruits of his religion and piety.

The principle, that whatsoever children learn, they should learn exactly, is of equal importance, whether their lessons be addressed to the memIf the business in ory or the understanding. hand be to get by rote a passage in the Latin grammar, or the declensions of a Greek verb, that business ought not to be passed over until it is perfectly accomplished. The memory must not be oppressed by too large a demand upon its powers; but the short and easy lesson must be so learned as to be repeated without a fault, and

without difficulty. If, on the other hand, the
tutor's object is to explain a rule in grammar, he
must take care so to handle the subject, as to
leave the understanding of his pupil in a con-
dition of perfect clearness.

When an eminent person, remarkable for his
achievements in science, eloquence, and busi-
ness, was asked by what means he was enabled
to effect so much, he answered, "By being a
This is an
whole man to one thing at a time."
expedient to which our young people ought to be
familiarized even from childhood. If their at-
tention is scattered and divided, nothing will be
learned effectually, or executed well; but if they
put forth their native energy to each object in
succession,-if they bestow their whole minds
first (for example) on their Scripture reading;
secondly, on their classical lessons; thirdly, on
their arithmetic or geometry; and fourthly, on
their game of trap-ball or cricket-every thing
in its turn will be mastered; and by the whole
process, the mind itself will be greatly strength-
ened.

A second rule which this person mentioned as having been of great use to himself, was never to lose the passing opportunity-a rule which, like the former, is closely connected with the faculty of attention. Our young people should be taught to be always alive to the circumstances which surround them; and in the only good and happy sense of the term, to be time-servers. It is desirable that they should be observant, not only of their books, but of all things not sinful which meet their perception in the passing scenery of life. By this means they will greatly increase their store of knowledge, and will be gradually prepared for usefulness in their day and generation.

The well known tale of the two lads who took the same walk in succession, the one seeing nothing, the other seeing every thing, affords an apt illustration of the advantage of an observing eye, and of the blank occasioned by its absence. In an especial manner, ought our children to be led both by precept and example, to be attentive readers of the book of nature; to delight in her charms; to examine her wonders; to investigate even for their amusement, her animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms, and to trace the hand of God in every thing!-J. J. Gurney's Thoughts on Habit and Discipline.

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the vegetable acids, the deliquescent salts, the sulphates of potassa and silver, the alkaline salts of morphine, strychnine, brucine, veratrine, the sulphurets of potassium, lime and iodine, the iodides of sulphur, potassium and mercury, the salts of quinia, &c. Beside its extensive usefulness in diseases of the skin and ear, it is used internally as a substitute for cod liver oil; and also, in its purity, for dissolving calculi, by being ejected into the bladder. It is a substitute for syrups in preserving fruits and vegetables, and for certain medical preparations. Fresh meats are kept in it for any length of time; and both animals and vegetables are preserved in it without changing their color, however brilliant. Vast quantities can be manufactured from every variety of oils, and at very low prices, compared to what it is sold at now; and it seems to promise well for combustion, both for heat and light, in certain combinations.-Memphis Med. Recorder.

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Daniel Waldo, Chaplain to the House of Representatives, is now in his ninety-fifth year. He is, nevertheless, erect, hale and vigorous, and discharges his duties with eloquence and ability. He has a son, who is sixty-five years of age, and whose head is white with the frosts of time. There is, however, a wonderful difference in constitution, as well as in the modes of living. Among our own citizens are not a few who, although seventy and eighty years of age, are as active as most persons at sixty. The art of life is rarely practised. Many individuals cannot pursue the course that is dictated to them by prudence and experience, because of the necessities of their position. They are compelled to subject themselves to exposures of various kinds, in order to secure the means of livelihood for themselves and families. Others again, who have enough and to spare, shorten their lives by idleness and its many temptations. The equable in temper, the contented in spirit, the moderate in ambition, and the reasonable in mind, are, generally speaking, the longest lived. They regard the world as full of anxiety and care, and thus they exercise as much philosophy as possible, when misfortune waits upon their footsteps. There are others, who fret themselves to death. "The sword of the spirit wears out the scabbard of the body." Not a few persons are in a constant state of irritation and excitement. They dash through the world with the utmost impatience, exercise little or no reflection, and come into constant collisions. No wonder that life is thus shortened. There are others, again, who appear to think that they are immortal, or nearly so, and hence they task and tax both body and mind, as if both were inexhaustible. Of late years, more than ordinary attention has been

paid to the best means for the preservation of life. The Boards of Health of our great cities have given due consideration to the subject of Hygiene, and have suggested and carried into effect many commendable precautionary measures. And thus the duration of life, in a general sense, has been considerably prolonged. But the field is a wide one, and much remains to be done. The health department of a great city should be regarded as of vital importance, and its officers should be selected with the utmost care. They should understand the subject, and have the leisure as well as the means to make all necessary investigations, and carry out all enlightened reforms. According to the testimony of one of our most distinguished physicians, at least one-half of those who die every year in Philadelphia, perish prematurely, and of diseases or causes that might be avoided. This is a start ling statement, but a thorough investigation would no doubt prove its accuracy. In this country especially, the priceless blessing of health is greatly undervalued. Nay, life itself is often trifled with. We are a reckless race, and so eager and impulsive, that we commit many acts of imprudence. This is the case everywhere, but is emphatically so in the wilds of the West, and particularly in the new settlements. An anecdote is related by an individual who some time since attended an execution in California. He looked around among the crowd, and then stepping up to a stranger asked who was about to be hung? The reply, and given in the coolest manner, was-"I believe I am the person." Look, too, at the extraordinary rush to Nicaragua. It is estimated that up to the present time, five thousand Americans have left the United States, to participate iu the attempt to revolu tionize that country, and not two thousand are now alive. The others, at least three thousand in number, have been swept away by the ball, the bayonet, or the diseases of the climate. Nay, since the arrival of the news by the Tennessee, which announced that the adventurers were in a truly precarious condition, several hundred young men have taken their departure from New York and New Orleans. The very dangers of the expedition seem to have imparted a new relish to it. So, too, during the war between the United States and Mexico. Volunteers poured from all quarters, and among them, not only penniless adventurers, but men of fortune, who were living at ease upon large incomes. They participated in the impatient spirit of the American character, and thus they subjected themselves to every possible privation, and not a few left their bones to whiten a foreign soil. Others became enervated by disease, returned broken in constitution, lingered out a few years, and then sank into untimely graves. A similar condition of affairs would occur again under like circumstances. Life, we repeat, is not sufficiently appreciated in

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