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nity-is contemplated, and that those who sow pleasure in this world shall reap misery in the next, how trifling and insignificant do these momentary gratifications then appear!

O, my soul! though others dote upon these fading, transient pleasures, do thou soar above into the regions of light-the place of thy nativity and look down with pity and compassion upon these creeping insects of the earth. While they are striving after and destroying one another in the pursuit of polluted pleasures, do thou mount above them, and labor for heavenly riches -treasures which cannot be corrupted nor taken away; but which shall remain through the endless ages of eternity, as a river of pleasure-a fountain of joy-an inexhaustible source of delight; where thou mayest solace thyself, and adore thy Creator, with living praises to thy King and Redeemer. These are the riches and pleasures worth seeking the treasures worth coveting-a possession worth laboring for. It is the one thing weedful for us poor, dependent creatures to strive for.

If I had an assurance of this pearl of great price, what matters it how I fare during these few moments here? or what the trifling, vain world says or thinks of me? whether I am called a fine man-a rich man, a wise or powerful man, or the reverse? Is it not folly to be affected with a name? A pleasure that lives upon the breath of mortals can last but a few days, and will soon be annihilated, as to myself. But, Oh! when I am bidding adieu to time, and stepping into eternity, my ever-during habitation, then will appear the advantage of having treasure in heaven; then-then the smiles of conscience will be of more worth than millions of worlds. An age of labor will appear but trifling, for such a purchase. May the procuring thereof be my chiefest aim in all my labors. May it ever be my morning's earliest wish, and my evening's latest desire, to be in favor with Him that made me-a Being to whose mercy I owe all my blessings, and to whom may gratitude ascend for his fatherly compassion, in that I have not been cut off in my sins. And in my future life, may I live to his honor, that so praises may ever acceptably ascend-a tribute eternally due to the

universal Father from all his works.

DAVID COOPER.

for we see, though preaching abounds, pride, covetous practices, and many other vices superabound; and the reason to me is this; conformity to outward forms of worship being more taking with people than the strait gate and narrow way of self denial, hath, in our present age, gotten the name of Christianity, religion and true godliness, insomuch that should a man add to his faith, virtue and all other graces, by which an entrance into the everlasting kingdom of Christ is abundantly ministered, if there be not withal a conformity to some outward way of worship, he shall not pass for a godly man. Nay, though his conversation be never so heavenly, though he be humble, lowly, meck, patient, peaceable, though truth be in all his words, equity and faithfulness in all his deeds, though he visits the fatherless and the widow, and keeps himself unspotted from the world, if he be not in the exercise of some outward form of godliness, he shall not be counted religious, nor hardly a Christian.

FRIENDS' INTELLIGENCER. PHILADELPHIA SECOND MONTH 21, 1857.

A considerable time ago there appeared in the Intelligencer an expression of desire that interesting incidents in the lives of such of our predecessors as were eminent in their day, might not be suffered to pass into oblivion, but that some among us, in whose storehouses of memory they are now treasured, might write down and transmit them for insertion in its pages.

It is not recollected that this request has been responded to, to any extent, and we now revive it, in the hope that some of our elderly Friends, who are still left among us, will be willing to comply therewith, especially when they reflect how small the number now is, (and that it is every year becoming smaller,) of those who remember the bright and shining lights of the bygone generation, whom most of us know only by name and character.

We shall hope to receive from time to time such communications, which, though clothed in simple language, will have an intrinsic value as EXTRACT FROM Hugh turford's grOUNDS OF the record of facts new to our readers, and of

A HOLY LIFE.

My advice to all professors of Christianity, is, that instead of contending about forms of godliness, they take heed to that in themselves which leads to godliness; instead of searching the Scriptures for a right form, they would labor to live under the government of a right spirit.

Of this true self denial, I am apt to think we have much less than former generations had;

biographical interest.

of Thomas J. and Mary R. Husband, in the 15th year DIED, On 7th day the 7th inst., MARY, daughter of her age.

On the 23d of 12th month last, JOHN STUBBS, member of Little Britain Particular and Monthly Meeting, aged 71 years.

a month, EDWARD B. only child of Jacob and Jane E. In New York on 3d day morning, 3d of 2nd Capron, aged 9 months and 25 days.

For Friends' Intelligencer.

other meetings then belonged. (In the year The following rare document was found among 1702.) the papers of the late Lewis Jones, of Blockley,

The first permanent stone meeting house at and though it was written one hundred and fifty- Gwynedd was built in 1712, and the first Monthfive years ago, it is still in a tolerably good state ly Meeting was held there by the approbation of of preservation. The document will be interest- Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting in the year ing to the large families of Jones, Griffiths, 1714. The house at Gwynedd stood until Foulkes, Evans, Lewis, and many others, es- 1823 when it was taken down and re-built. pecially their descendants. At the suggestion Many of the Friends whose names are signed to of a number of the subscribers of the Intelli- the certificate became Ministers of eminence, gencer, I was requested to offer it for insertion, and some of them will be found in the collection should it meet with approbation. I have en- of memorials from that Meeting. I remember deavored to conform the spelling to the original, my father saying, that George Dillwyn said in and it would be desirable if the signers' names his hearing, that when the Yearly Meeting was could be kept in their respective columns. held at Burlington, and he a lad, he could remember the ancients of that day saying, that "Gwynedd was the school of the prophets." JOSEPH FOULke.

A venerable and worthy ancestry, who had settled at Gwynedd, left the church and joined themselves to Haverford Monthly Meeting of Friends, to which Merion and Gwynedd and

Gwynedd, 2d mo. 8th, 1857.

Whereas, Thomas Jones, of the Township of Merion, in the County of Philadelphia, And Anne Griffith of the aforesaid Township and County, Having declared their intentions of Marriage before Several Public Meetings of the People of God called Quakers in the Welsh Tract, according to the good order used among them, Whose proceedings therein, after a deliberate consideration thereof, and consent of Parties and Relations concerned, being clear of all others, were approved of by the said Meeting: Now these are to certify all whom it may concern, That for the full accomplishing of their said Intentions, this Twenty-third day of the Fourth Month, in the year according to ye English account one thousand seven hundred and two, They, the said Thomas Jones, and Anne Griffith, appeared in a solemn and Public Assembly of the aforesaid people, and others met together for that end and purpose, in their public Meeting House at Merion aforesaid, and in a solemn manner according to the Example of the holy men of God Recorded in the Scriptures of Truth, He, the said Thomas Jones, taking the said Anne Griffith by the hand, did openly declare as followeth, viz: In the fear of the Lord and in the presence of this Assembly, I do take Anne Griffith to be my wedded wife, and do promise with the assistance of God to be unto her a true, loving and faithful Husband until it please God by Death to separate us. And then and there in the said Assembly, the said Anne Griffith did in like manner declare as followeth, viz: In the fear of the Lord and in the presence of this Assembly, I do take Thomas Jones to be my wedded Husband, and do promise by the assistance of God to be unto him a true, faithful, obedient* and loving wife until it please God by Death to separate us. And the said Thomas Jones and Anne Griffith as a further confirmation thereof did then and there to these Presents set their hands. And we whose names are hereunto subscribed, being present amongst others at the solemnizing of their said marriage and subscription, in manner aforesaid as witnesses thereunto, have also to these Presents subscribed our names the day and year above written.

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LECTURES ON PALESTINE.
Jerusalem.

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tivity; but remembering how tenaciously the Hebrews hold to their traditions; observing, too, how the rubbish of ages has lifted the streets The streets of Jerusalem are unclean enough around, many feet, above the floors of their sancnow to justify all that Isaiah and Ezekiel declare tuaries, so that they must be reached by descendof the abominations cast out from holy places. ing steps, you may readily assent, that, for two On the side of Mount Zion, one feels forcibly the thousand years, at least, the prayers and chaunts, truth of David's complaint: "I sink in deep the law and the prophecy, have been delivered mire, where there is no standing." While the to the people Israel on this sacred spot. The rainy season continues, this mire is beyond rooms are four in number, somewhat differently fathoming, and every one, saint or sinner, the furnished, and apparently appropriated to the saint with flowing robes more than the scantily Jews of different national extraction. For it is clothed sinner, must needs carry "filth on the striking to notice at Jerusalem, along with the skirts of his garment." When the rainy season uniform characteristics of the Hebrew race, the is over, the annoyance of another kind is as great, aquiline nose, the arched eyebrow, the sad exand Jerusalem tries in vain to "shake itself from pression-along with these, the various complec the dust." Every thing is covered, and the tions and marks of the different nations of Euvirgin daughters can sit in the dust without rope; the blue eyes with the black; the auburn coming down from the house top. The supply with the raven hair; the pale hue of the North of water has not ceased, fountains play in the with the olive cheek of Italy and Spain. Overcourts of the Mosque, and the laden ass bears beck, the enthusiastic artist of the Roman church, upon his back full skins from the Pools of Siloam. has been faithful to this fact in his pictures, and But cleanliness does not go with godliness in has given, in his groups of Jews, all that variety Jerusalem, in the Moslem or the Christian, much of feature and color which you see on a Sabbath less in the Jewish quarter. More disgusting un- morning at the synagogues on Mount Zion. cleanness can be found in no city of the world, From the roof of their houses, the Jews can look not in Ireland or Egypt or Australia, than is over upon the opposite buildings, which cover found on the eastern side of Mount Zion. The the once holy hill of Moriah, now profaned to odors there are of the shambles; and the door them by its long devotion to the worship of the posts are besmeared with baser sprinklings than false prophet. A few things they may see to the blood of sacrifice. Of the various races which remind them of the glory of their great king. now inhabit Jerusalem, the Jews undoubtedly Across a narrow, vacant pasture, where thickets approach most nearly to the ancient people. of weeds and thistles hide the deep accumulaThey number about eight thousand souls. Their tions of ruins, and mask many a treacherous pitdwellings are compressed into a very narrow fall, are yet remaining the lower stones of that space, huddled together without regard to con- great arched bridge which once spanned the venience, and to the last degree wretched in Tyropeon, and connected the fort on Zion with their exterior. This outward show, however, the temple on Moriah, the upper and the lower does not always fairly indicate what you find city. It was reserved for an American Christian within. They are afraid, by an exhibition of to make discovery of this remarkable monument, wealth, to tempt the cupidity of their masters; which for ages the resident Jews had mistaken and it is said that some of the Israelites in the for the stones of the wall, thrust forward by Holy City have in their homes wealth, and the some natural convulsion. To one who looks show of wealth, enough to call upon them re- now upon it, it is incredible that the real charbukes such as their fathers received there in the acter of the stones should not have been found age of the kings-couches of silk and ivory, pur- before, so perfect and regular is their curving. ple and fine linen, and sumptuous daily fare. A Three courses of stones remain. Some of them stranger will not discover this. The Jews of are of great size, upwards of twenty feet in Jerusalem are bigoted and suspicious, and do length; and the bridge itself must have been at not, like their brethren at Damascus, invite or least fifty feet in width, with a span of three hunwelcome Christians to their dwellings. In their dred and fifty feet. The ignorance of the use ynagogue service, which on the early Sabbath of this arch may be accounted for in the fact morning Christians may freely witness, you see that it is not mentioned in the Scriptures, and no sign of ostentation or luxury: the splendor is that the works of Josephus, in which it is menantique and faded, the garb and countenance of tioned, are not regarded as of high value by the he worshippers are alike and sad, and the ritual Christian monks, who have chiefly kept the s simple and touching. Perhaps you will not legends of Jerusalem. A short distance from consent to the extreme age which they design to this arch, which springs from the southern wall the synagogues, or believe that they really stand of the Mosque, is another famous spot, known where David prayed with the people when he as "the Jew's wailing place." It is at the southhad fixed his throne on Zion, since there is no west corner of the wall. The area is about a account of synagogue worship before the cap-hundred feet long, and twenty or thirty wide.

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It is paved with flat blocks of the stone of the region, which are worn smooth as polished marble. The time to visit this place is on Friday, especially between ten and one, when the Moslems are at prayer within the Mosque. Then, without any explanation, the spectacle itself would shew you what are these stones in the wall, what the office of the people here. Old men trembling with the burden of four score years; mothers with their infants in their arms; the mechanies of the streets of Akra, who have left their trade to fulfil here their sad vindictive duty; bright eyed boys, who have come to practise the dark task of malediction; men gayly clad, who will defile their garments to the dust in token of sorrow; and the mendicants of the streets, whose hopeless want adds to the bitter energy of their lamenting; all ages and classes, rabbis, money changers, and hucksters, are all here together seated, some in eastern fashion, silent, gazing vacantly at the great blocks before them, others prostrate seemingly in agony; others close to the blocks, repeating rapidly passages from the open book, and striking at intervals the stone with their heads; others again wailing in low murmurs, all mourning, after their fashion, the downfall of their nation, the profanation of their temple, the wo of their hard lot, with only the joyful faith to relieve them, that the Messiah will come here at last to judgment. These blocks which now they kiss, and now strike with their heads, are the great stones which Solomon laid in the walls of the temple. Time, and the lips of the mourners, have worn smooth their bevelled edges; but they lie there massive and strong as when set in their place by the workmen of the royal architect, bearing above them the lighter weight of the Saracen wall, which casts its shadow on the pavement below. The spectacle is touching, full of meaning, far more than the mummeries around the Christian altars. It shows the persistent trust, along with the desperate humiliation, of the race that have so long pined for the day of the Lord to appear. The changes of feeling which mellow the Christian's youthful zeal to a calmer devotion, have no such action on the Jewish heart. But the boy who wonders now, perhaps, why he should repeat curses upon his enemies from the same book which he uses in the sanctuary, will come here when his eye is dim and his beard is gray, and his voice is harsh and broken, to repeat these same words more fiercely, with a bitterness of which age has only nourished the fires.

The Jews in Jerusalem are more numerous than the rest of the people; yet they have no political weight, hold no offices of trust, and their comfort, their safety, and their rights, are not considered by their Turkish masters, or by the Christian nations who are always interfering in the affairs of Jerusalem. They gain their livelihood partly from the trades which they ply, and

some of which they exclusively occupy, and partly from the contributions which are sent from their brethren abroad. Gifts go from the synagogues in London and Frankfort and Prague, even from New York and Charleston, almost annually, to the house and synagogues on Mount Zion. The Jew's hand shall forget its cunning, his tongue shall cleave to the roof of his mouth, when in a strange land he shall forget Jerusalem. The Jews of Jerusalem complain, indeed, that they are not remembered by their brethren as they should be; that more rights are not given to them with the alms that are forwarded; that the powerful members of their society do not intercede to save them from tyranny; that Rothschild will not use his power to confirm to them their property against the aggressions of Turkish governors. Many whom religious power has sent there as emigrants, become tired of their hard life, and sick in the debilitating climate, and come back again to their haunts in the cities of Europe. They have no common language of daily life, though most who have been long there speak Arabic like the natives of the land. German is frequently to be heard in their streets. Hebrew, of course, is the tongue of their schools and their synagogues. Their schools are small, and not so good as those of Tiberias, where they are able to study unmolested. On Friday (the day of their wailing), and on Saturday (the Sabbath), they do not work, and their shops are mostly shut. They keep all the festivals of their nation, kill the paschal lamb, spend eight days of the autumn in the feast of the tabernacle, and take notice in their homes of the renewing of the moon. They are scrupulous to avoid all connection, except in way of business, with their Christian and Moslem neighbors; eat no meat, contract no marriages with these, and though they have shops among the Christian convents, have their homes all on the eastern side of Mount Zion.

The Roman and Greek churches have enough to do in their own quarrels, without troubling themselves about the Jews. While all the elder Christian bodies seem indifferent to the condition of this ancient people, the benevolence of the Protestants has not passed them by. The English establishment have a fine new house of worship, a school, and a regular bishop, as parts of their work for the conversion of the Jews in Jerusalem; and sympathising travellers tell pleasant stories of what it has done, and what it will be likely to do. More recently a zealous Virginian, minister in one of the smaller Baptist sects, took upon himself a volunteer mission, and labored some years in Mount Zion with a truly self-denying and Christian earnestness, though to little purpose. There are dogmas of the prevalent Christian creeds which the Jews reluctantly accept; and we repeat only the admission of this missionary, when we say, that the

will;

faith which holds to God's simple unity will have | But yet I would abide my time, and do my Maker's most effect in persuading the Jews of Jerusalem to take Him for their master who was once persecuted there to his death.

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I fain would say, with thankful heart, "Thy will, I know he hath appointed all some measures to fulfil;

not mine, be done,"

Yet take me to those realms of bliss whene'er my

race be run.

BUILDING ON THE SAND.
'Tis well to woo, 'tis good to wed,
For so the world has done
Since myrtles grew and roses blew
And morning brought the sun.
But have a care, ye young and fair:
Be sure ye pledge with truth;
Be certain that your love will wear
Beyond the days of youth;

For, if ye give not heart for heart,
As well as hand for hand,
You'll find you've play'd the "unwise" part
And built upon the sand."

'Tis well to save; 'tis well to have
A goodly store of gold,

And hold enough of shining stuff;
For charity is cold.

But place not all your hopes and trust
In what the deep mine brings:
We cannot live on yellow dust

Unmix'd with purer things.

And he who piles up wealth alone
Will often have to stand
Beside his coffer-chest and own

'Tis "built upon the sand."

'Tis good to speak in kindly guise

And soothe where'er we can;
Fair speech should bind the human mind
And love link man to man.

But stay not at the gentle words;

Let DEEDS with language dwell:
The one who pities starving birds
Should scatter crumbs as well.

The mercy that is warm and true
Must lend a helping hand;
For those who talk, yet fail to do,
But "build upon the sand."

For Friends' Intelligencer.

TO A MOTHER ON THE DEATH OF HER IN-
FANT CHILD.

Aye weep, young mother-'tis the copious rain
Ah! heavy is the heart, and sore its pain
That clears the inner, as the outer sky;
When the blest fountain of its tears is dry.
E'en while the anguished voice of nature cries
From the submissive soul the prayer may rise
In bitter wailing for its cherished one,
"Father, thou knowest best-Thy will be done."
If thy poor stricken heart shall question why
The tender nursling laid upon thy breast,
Was only born to suffer and to die
Its little span one vision of unrest?
God's hidden purposes shall yet be clear,
"Hereafter" he will "justify His ways;"
The dispensation so mysterious here
Shall then compel thy gratitude and praise.
If thou beneath this stroke wilt meekly bow,
And to thy bleeding heart this cross wilt hold,
For every pang that it shall cost thee now,
Thou yet shalt reap of joy a thousand fold.

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