SOLD BY SAMUEL HARRIS AND CO., AND E. MARSH.
WILLIAM SESSIONS, 15, LOW OUSEGATE, YORK.
THOMAS EDMONDSON, 11, DAME STREET, Dublin.

1873.

Errata in last year's Volume.

Page 30, line 12, Joseph Bottomley, for 1853, read

17, Elizabeth Grace, add an Elder.
14, M. A. Knight died in 1869, not 1872.
19, Sophia Seekings, aged 72, not 73.
22, For Hannah Thurman, read Thur-

"THE EYE NOT DIM."

Memorandum made by Richard Allen of Waterford in 1871, when far advanced in years.

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By the light of a resplendent full moon, at twelve o'clock on the 29th of Eighth month, at midnight, I am recording the goodness of my Heavenly Father, in preserving me in clearness of intellect and without bodily ailment, now in the eighty-fifth year of my age.

He has been

Merciful condescension! pleased to renew His gracious promise: 'I have graven Thee on the palms of my hands: Thy walls are continually before me.' Blessed be His holy name!"

R. A.

TO THE READER.

"" GATHER UP THE FRAGMENTS THAT REMAIN,
THAT NOTHING BE LOST."

If the above quotation appear trite or cómmon place, we look upon it as very appropriate, in preparing another book of remembrance, of Friends whose day of probation on earth has ended during the past year. When our Lord fed the multitudes in the wilderness, making them to sit down in companies by fifties and by hundreds, -to prove the unlimited over-abounding of His resources, He called on His disciples to bring out their scanty provision; and having blessed it, He again placed it in their hands to distribute to the people, and all the thousands partook thereof and were well filled yet they themselves were in no way impoverished, but each found himself better furnished than at the beginning; each apostle had his basket filled. 66 They took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full." Our records do not, and cannot supply any due measure of the aboundings of the Saviour's compassion, in