and the Meeting seemed to conclude under the uniting evidence of Christian fellowship; many dear friends expressing near sympathy with us, poor pilgrims, in our going forth, and G. D. closing with solemn supplication for the continuance of gracious protection.

"As no packets leave Harwich regularly, but on fourth and seventh days, our proceeding thither seemed not desirable till near the time; we therefore rested at our comfortable lodgings fifth day, and on sixth went to Manningtree where a Meeting had been appointed for ten o'clock; the house is small, and few Friends reside here, but it was pretty well filled with a solid, quiet, company, and was to me the best meeting since my leaving home,a time of enlargement in true love and productive of peace. After dining at a friend's in the town we went on to Harwich, and had a meeting there at six in the evening; the house (a new small one) was soon filled with fashionably dressed people, and a considerable number were in the yard; they seemed rather unsettled in time of silence, but quiet when any thing was offered: my beloved S. G. and G. D. were afresh anointed with gospel oil, and I was comforted in beholding good work well done.

"My poor mind is under discouragement from various causes; remarkable anxiety has attended me for several days about home, and faith is indeed low, though I thankfully remember having been enabled to surrender all I have to the disposal of unerring wisdom.

"Seventh day, 22nd. The wind contrary, and no prospect of sailing. I feel very low, and almost in danger of casting away hope.

"First day. So ill that I could not get up till about noon. Our company went to meeting, where I think only about seven attended. In the evening a solemnity covered us, under which dear G. D. revived the query put to the disciples, when I sent you without purse and scrip lacked ye anything? And they said nothing' again, they that have left all, shall receive an hundred fold now in this time and in the world to come eternal life.' This seemed so peculiarly applicable to my tried state, that while my soul was as though it refused comfort, I could not but taste a little renewal of hope. We just broke up when a summons to go on board was sent us.

"There being but little wind, and that not quite fair, we had a tedious passage, but were favored to experience holy protection, and landed about eight o'clock on fourth day evening at Helvoetsluys, where we got to a clean inn, kept by two English women. While in the boat going on shore, a sweet calm covered my mind, accompanied by the fresh application of that gracious promise I will be to thee mouth and wisdom; this, after the tossings I had been tried with, for many days, tended to renew

my confidence in divine sufficiency and goodness.

"Fifth day, 27th. Left Helvoet this morning in a carriage wagon, and travelled on a very deep road-often in danger of overturning, to the Briel, here we crossed a ferry about a mile over, went again by land to another ferry, and thence to Maasslandsluys. In this place we seemed as gazing stocks to the people, many following us, though all behaved civilly, and had they understood our speech would probably have helped us. I felt, what I think was the love of the gospel, my heart being so filled that I could have spoken to the people as I walked along the street, and while in the house where we stopt to get a little refreshment; but I felt what I was, and who I was with, and had not courage to query whether we might not as well remain awhile; therefore with the heaviest heart I ever remember feeling at leaving any place, we went on board a treckschuyt for Delft, whence we proceeded to Rotterdam, and there got to the house of an English woman that night.

(To be continued.)

EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS WRITTEN BY SAMUEL FOTHERGILL, 1756.

A time of deep poverty and leanness, in which it hath pleased the heavenly Father, I should be much exercised since my return, might plead my excuse were I silent. But I wish to assure thee of my very near regard, however poor and worthless I am; and indeed, I think, at times, I see a wisdom unutterable in the most stripping times which are allotted, when we sit alone and hold our peace, for our houses would never be so carefully swept and searched, if we had the ten pieces of silver in constant possession and view. I am, however, humbly content; I dare not complain; it is not lawful. There is a just occasion administered by the inadvertence of the past, or for the instruction of the future part of life.

It consists with His wisdom, who is perfect in knowledge, to balance our steps in righteousness; He wisely ascertains the bounds of day and night; the hilly, rugged path and painful steps, the smooth part also of our race, are all dispensed in a knowledge too great for our present comprehension. Here may we reverently acknowledge our incapacity for choosing ought for ourselves, and commit our all into his hands, as into the hand of a faithful and good preserver. In the midst of his attributes of glory and majesty, there is to be read the excellent name of most Merciful Father; but this only when he gives vision to the eye he has formed; until then, who is so poor and blind as his servant?

May that Hand, which hath led and sustained thee hitherto, in slippery paths, from thy youth upwards, for such hath thy pilgrimage led through, be thy staff during the residue of thy passage;

that by His help, thou may offer an evening sacrifice of praise, and say, Oh Lord! thou hast been with me from my youth to this hour.

1758. I received thy acceptable letter, and as I am often anxiously thoughtful about you, and solicitous for your establishment in the best things, the account thou gave me, of the gracious continuance of best help toward you in the last Yearly Meeting was truly acceptable. May the wisdom which is from above, with all its train of divine companions,-faith, meekness, stability and charity, be more the clothing of our spirits; and then shall we know a right improvement of mercies past, and a meetness for those yet within the veil. And when I consider the extent of unmerited condescension toward our Society in general, and to many particulars in an especial manner, for their own help, and the substantial edification of the body, my heart almost dissolves within me, and fervently begs protection and preservation for all within the heavenly hierarchy, that they may bear, without a mixture, in their countenances, the resemblance of King's sons, waiting for the renewed discovery of their part in the universal tribute of obedience and praise, and strength to yield it; that nothing may ever prevail, either in the latent source of our conduct, or be admitted at all to tincture it, that is not of the Lamb, or distort our features, with the emotions of passions_repugnant to those of the heavenly family. I know we have great need often to have recourse to the pool, and to come under the turning of that hand, that hath distinguished us from many of our brethren. Oh! let humility be our dwelling place, and the uniform rule of our conduct, so shall the slippery path through time be tred with safety, and our feet at last stand firmly within the gates of salvation.

In all cases where contrary sentiments occur, and where we are required earnestly to contend for the faith, the more the meekness of the Lamb is adopted and abode in, the more indisputably He is known to be the Lion of Judah's tribe, going forth conquering and to conquer. I sympathize nearly with such amongst you, who dare not turn aside from the directions of Heaven, but follow the ark into Jordan. May the holy covering of peace and meekness be upon them, and it will be in the end a garment of praise. S. F.

A Memorial of Oswego Monthly Meeting, concerning our esteemed friend, BETHANY BARE

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penter, members of the Society of Friends, were concerned to imbue her mind with the love of piety. And they had the satisfaction of finding their solicitude rewarded, by the clear perceptions of the importance of living the life of the righteous. And she often expressed the benefit it had been to her of having the counsel and example of religiously concerned parents.

She was frequently heard to remark, that when young she loved to attend meetings in the middle of the week as well as those on first days.

In the 19th year of her age she united in marriage with our friend, Henry Baremore, to whom she proved an affectionate and faithful helpmate, both in spiritual and temporal concerns. The law of love and kindness appeared to be the governing principle of her mind, and shone conspicuously in her as a mother and a Christian.

She was the mother of thirteen children, eleven of whom survived her, and though ever tender and sympathising toward them, yet she was careful in guarding them against improper indulgence. Having the important charge of so large a family, domestic concerns necessarily occupied much of her time; yet these were not allowed to prevent her from the diligent attendance of religious meetings, and she was careful to have her children with her, evincing by her solid deportment that she was sincerely engaged to gain an inheritance in that "City whose builder and maker the Lord alone is."

Her love to God was such as to produce love to man; and which she found, in times of trial and deep proving, to be "as an anchor to the soul, both sure and steadfast."

She was very useful in our meetings for discipline, and also as an overseer, in which capacity she had served most of the time for thirty years, much to the satisfaction of her friends, and had filled the important station of an elder upwards of twenty years.

She was very useful in times of sickness, ever ready to impart the soothing balm of sympathy and extend the hand of relief to the afflicted. She was an example of piety and virtue to her neighbors, adorning her profession by her upright walk among them, by whom she was much re-. spected, and her loss sensibly felt.

She was naturally cheerful, and in her conversation and remarks often edifying and instructive.

"Bless the poor children who haven't got any beds to night," prayed the little boy, just before he lay down on his nice warm cot, on a cold, windy night.

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As he rose from his knees, his mother said, "You have just asked God to bless the children-what will you do to bless them ?" The boy thought a moment. "Why, if I had a hundred cakes, enough for all the family, I'd give them some."

"But you have no cakes; what are you willing to do ?"

"Why, when I get money enough to buy all the things that I want, and have some over, I'll give them some."

"But you haven't half enough money to buy all you want, and perhaps never will have; what will you do to bless the poor now?" "I'll give them some bread?"

You have no bread; the bread is mine." "Then I could earn money and buy a loaf. "Take things as they now are; you know what you have, that is your own; what are you willing to give to help the poor?"

The boy thought again. "I'll give them half my money; I have seven pennies, and I'll give them four. Would'nt that be right?"

For Friends' Intelligencer. THOMAS STORY.

(Continued from page 360.)

To the sufferers under the King of Babel, and To the sufferers under the King of Babel, and his Ministers, his captains of thousands, of ten of thousands, and of multitudes innumerable The Lord arose and gave battle to all nations; the Lord thresh'd, and the nations of the earth were turned into blood.

The strength of the earth was cut off at one blow; the foundations thereof were shaken, and Princes brought to nought.

Now reigns the God of power (our God he is) alone; our God is all in all, and in him we are one.

A Prayer.

"Oh! Lord, take pity on a perishing soul, borne down under a multitude of vile affections, trodden under foot by the insolence of the wicked one. I faint under the yoke, O thou most faithful and true! and have no hope but in thee."

"My heart is weary with sighing under troubles, and my pains increase as a woman in hard travail. When shall my day come, O Redemption of the just! and when shall I see the seal of my salvation?"

"O work in me the law of everlasting love, and fix my boundaries there forever and ever. thou who saidst unto the worlds, be ye finished, and it was so, say unto my soul, Be thou perfect, and it shall be done."

"Purify me, O God, by the judgments of thy right hand, and let thy mercies ever be before me, that I may exalt thy name in the midst of the nations."

The humility of Jesus is the exaltation of the just; and the exalted in the earth are farthest

from the Lord.

Another.

"Oh! Lord, do thou, who art the Creator and Disposer of all things, create me anew after thine own image, and dispose of me according to thy will; that I may set forth thy praise in the midst of the nations, and do good in thy power to many people. Raise thy standard, O Lord, over the height of the mountains, and let all nations flow thereunto; for thy children groan with daily oppressions, and the teeth of the wicked are made bare against them. The earth also groans with the burthen of the polluted, and the seas roar aloud with the cries of the wound

ed; the Heavens echo with the voice of destruction, and the air is darkened with smoke from the pit."

"Break in, O Lord, as an everlasting Redeemer to thine own seed, and as a fire to destroy the works of the wicked one."

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Then sang the saints high praises before the Lord, and every kindred blessed his holy name. What power is to be praised like that of the Lord our God? or what love on all the earth like that of a bleeding Saviour?

Surely the power of the world is but vanity and a lie, and the love of the world, enmity against the Lord.

After all this, a deep consideration returned upon me, and entered into my mind, concerning the states of many persons in the national way of worship, as also among the dissenters from it, of divers denominations; some of whose preachers I had occasionally heard, particularly Dr. Richard Gilpin, of Scaleby Castle, an able physician, and ancient celebrated preacher among the Presbyterians; and I had observed many