His companions adopted this rule of life, so, admirably exemplified in the conduct of their Master. Paul says, "I am the least of the apostles;" and writes to his brethren, "Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honor preferring one another."*"Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God."t "Let nothing be done through strife or vain glory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem the other better than themselves." "Let no man beguile you of your reward, in a voluntary humility." And he reminds the Thessalonian brethren, "Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ. But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children."|| And in the same spirit writes James,-"God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up."¶ "Feed the flock of God," says Peter, "neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock. All of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility; for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble. Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time; casting all your care upon him, for he careth for you."**-Essay on Peace. feel instructions of our Saviour, teaching us, when smitten on one cheek, to suppress all angry ing and turn the other to the smiter,—to forgive, even to seventy times seven,-to pray for and to do good to those who ill-treat and injure us. In short, I had studied the New Testament in special reference to this subject until I had become perfectly satisfied that the spirit of war, and the practice of war, were utterly inconsistent with the spirit and principles of the Gospel. Under the influence of these convictions, I sincerely asked, at the hands of conscience, what was my duty, as a Christian minister, as an embassador of the Prince of Peace. The result of this enquiry was, that I felt it to be my duty, and a duty too, which I felt myself under the most solemn obligations to perform faithfully and earnestly, to preach upon the subject, and to show that it was the solemn duty of all Christians to avoid everything which might encourage the practice of war, and to do all in their power to secure permanent and universal peace. Having arrived at this conclusion, I queried as to the most appropriate time to speak upon such a subject. For I was unwilling to strengthen what I supposed to be the wrong prejudices of the community upon so important a subject, by bringing it forward at an inappropriate time. Upon this question, therefore, I thought long and carefully. It was a time of peace, and I concluded that it was, on that account, a favorable time to speak upon the subject of peace, inasmuch as my hearers would be free from any excited feelings or strong I know not but that I must regard myself as political prejudices, to prevent them from hearpeculiarly unfortunate in my constitutional tem- ing candidly, weighing carefully and judging perament, or in my mental developement. For correctly, the remarks I might offer. I thereit seems to me that I am continually making fore preached upon the subject of Peace, in as blunders in my ministerial course; that I am of- calm and kind a manner as I was able. I deten mistaken in my choice of subjects, in my se-nounced no one, used no bitter or harsh language, lection of the times when to speak of them, or in my mode of treating them. My ministerial trials, on this account, have been many and great. There is one trial of this kind, in particular, which caused me much unhappiness at the time, and which I shall not soon forget. I speak of the trials to which I was subjected, in consequence of preaching upon the subject of Peace. There is no one view of my Saviour which has more deeply affected my own heart, than that suggested by his title, Prince of Peace. I have often dwelt in lonely musings upon the prophetic description of the times of the Saviour, as the period when "swords shall be beaten into ploughshares and spears into pruning-hooks, and when nations shall learn war no more." I have meditated upon the angelic song, with which the annunciation of the birth of the Saviour was accompanied by the heavenly host, "Glory to God "But, sir," said I, "will you have the goodin the highest, and on earth peace and good willness to point out the particulars in which my to men." I have delighted to muse upon the discourse was inconsistent with the teachings and spirit of Jesus, or say whether you think that † Ephes. v. 21.. + Phil. ii. 3. § Coloss. ii. 18. 1 Thess. ii. 6, 7. I have spoken upon this subject in an unchristian spirit ?" THE PEACE SERMON. Rom. xii. 10. James iv. 6. ** 1 Peter v. 2—4. but simply brought forward the plain instructions of the Saviour, and endeavored to show that the spirit and practice of war were utterly inconsis tent with them. Upon leaving the house of worship, one of my hearers, and one whom I had regarded as among my warmest and best friends, Col. H., accosted me somewhat roughly, as follows:— "Well, Parson, I am sorry, very sorry, that you are falling into these fanatical quaker notions. I thought you were a man of more sense. These peace notions will never answer. Your discourse to-day was adapted to throw contempt upon the Citizen Soldiery,' the right arm of our nation's defence. Our Militia system is falling into neglect, and even disrepute, full fast enough in these times of peace, without the influence of the clergy against it." "O, as to that, I am no theologian, that I should undertake to quote scripture to the Parson. But one thing I can tell you, and that is, that your stay with us as Pastor will be but short, if you allow yourself to fall into these fanatical quaker peace notions. For we regard you as answerable to your hearers, on whom you depend for your living, for what you preach." "Perhaps," said I, "we may differ in opinion upon that point. I feel that my first and most solemn responsibility is to my God and to my Saviour, in whose name I speak. My responsibility to my people is in perfect accordance with this higher responsibility to God and the Saviour. I am therefore answerable to my people and solemnly bound, as I would perform my whole duty to them, to declare to them all of Christian truth which may be revealed to my own mind, and to declare it in a Christian spirit. If, then, you will show me that I have uttered an unchristian sentiment, or if I have spoken in an unchristian spirit, I pledge myself to retract what 1 have said, and to apologize for the manner in which I have spoken, as publicly as I have now preached upon this subject. But, beyond this, I recognize no responsibility to my hearers, and, therefore, unless you can do this, I see not how I can modify or take back anything which I have said, or refrain from speaking again upon the subject, when moved to do it by the promptings of duty." "Well, Parson, you can do as you please. But one thing I can tell you, and that is, I have done with you if you are about to turn quaker, and you will find that I am not alone." So saying he left me in seeming ill-temper. As I was sitting in my parlour, on the evening after I had preached on Peace, and had held the above conversation with Col. H., Deacon Earnest called. For a time he seemed very pleasant, though under some restraint, as though he wished to say something and yet found some difficulty in commencing. At length he began by saying, "I hope, my dear sir, that you will pardon me for telling you, that, in my poor opinion, the subject of your discourse to day was very inappropriate to the wants of our people, and, although it is a subject which ought not to be wholly neglected, yet you have selected a wrong time to speak upon it." "But why so?" said I. Why?-why?" said he ;-"do you ask me why? Don't you know that our people are cold and dead upon the subject of religion, and that we need stirring discourses to arouse them from their indifference and awaken them from their spiritual insensibility? There is Parson Thompson, in the neighboring town, has so stirred up his people that they are having quite a revival, and he has done it by aiming directly at the heart, and not by addressing the intellect with essays upon individual or social morality." "My dear sir," said I, "you cannot lament gos the dead ways of the people upon religious subjects more than I do. But I have thought that my discourse to-day upon Peace was adapted to awaken them. I know of no other way to awaken men to a true interest in spiritual things, than by pointing out the requirements of the pel, and showing them wherein they are living in neglect or in violation of them; so that, being convinced of their sinful ways in one thing, they may be led back to the fountain of all sinful acts, in the alienation of their affections from God and his service." "Well, you may take my word for it, we must have a different course of preaching, or our people will never be aroused. Then, too, it is now a season of profound peace,-what need of such a sermon? If our people were all alive upon the subject of religion, or if there was war or a prospect of war, there would be some reason in your preaching upon such a subject; but at present it is very ill-judged." So saying he bade me good-night and went on his way homeward. Time passed-weeks, months, and years. My people had become quite interested in religious matters, and a war seemed upon the very eve of bursting upon us in all its fury. I preached again upon the subject of Peace. I had no sooner left the house of worship, than I was accosted by several who seemed very much excited. I could not at first understand what it meant; but their conversation soon led me into the secret. They belonged to the party in power, supposed to be the war party, and they accused me of preaching a political sermon, to disaffect my hearers toward the party in power. "But," said I to them, "did I say a word of disparagement to our rulers or their principles? Did I not speak of war in its most general aspects?" "We are aware," said they, "that you expressed yourself in the most general manner, and, if it had been at any other time, we should not have suspected its particular applications. But if you did not intend your discourse as a political sermon, you are certainly very unfortunate in your choice of the proper time to speak upon the subject.". In the evening after the above conversation, Deacon Earnest called again, and began in a very mild and pleasant way, by saying, "You gave us a very good sermon to-day, and one which, had it been delivered at any other time, I think must have done great good. But I fear that it is a little ill-timed." "But why so?" said I. "Why," he answered, "you know that there is, just now, a very deep and serious religious interest among our people, and many are enquiring what they shall do to be saved. I feared, when I heard your discourse, that it might turn the attention of enquirers from their own spirit ual condition to those mere moral speculations and might have a tendency to chill the religious interest which now pervades society." FRIENDS' REVIEW. PHILADELPHIA, FOURTH MONTH 1, 1854. "But," said I, "is it not important that those who are enquiring the way of salvation, and are told to repent and believe, should have pointed Our readers will find in the present number, an out to them clearly what the requisitions of the extract from the works of one of the most pureGospel are, that they may know in what particu-minded disciples of a crucified Saviour, whom lar they are to repent and reform? And is it the Society of Friends has produced in modern not important that those who are commencing a times. From the publicity which has been given religious life, should be led to think of all the to his journal and other works, some of our readprinciples of the Gospel, in their application to social as well as to individual sin; that they may so commence their course with high aims and broad views?" After he had left me, I spent some time in running over, in my own mind, the difficulties I had met with in preaching upon the subject of Peace, in order to form some conclusion for myself in regard to the time when it would be proper to speak upon this subject. And I drew the following inferences from the difficulties in which I had been involved, and the objections which had been made to my course. 1. I must never preach upon the subject of Peace, when my people are in a state of calmness or of indifference upon the subject of religion. 2. I must never preach upon the subject of Peace, when my people are in a state of earnest interest upon the subject of religion, lest I should cool their interest and give their thought, enquiries and resolves, a wrong direction. 3. I must never preach upon Peace when there is no prospect or danger of war, for then there is no need of it. 4. I must never preach upon Peace when there is a threatening prospect of war; for, as in all such instances one of the political parties will favor the course of policy which bids fair to bring on war- -the discourse will be regarded as a political discourse. 5. I must never preach upon the subject of Peace in so plain and direct a way as to bring into disrepute our militia system, or raise a question as to the propriety of the warlike preparations of our government. 6. In preaching upon the subject of Peace, I must be very careful not to follow the advice of Jesus so far as to be suspected of adopting Quaker or ultra notions. With these few and reasonable exceptions, I may preach upon this subject of Peace, at any time and in any way in which I may be prompted by a sense of duty and guided by a knowledge of the truth.-American Paper. The man who pursues, with unflinching integrity, the course dictated by an enlightened conscience, is sure to be respected even by those who are unwilling to imitate his example. ers may, perhaps, be ready to conclude that any extracts from them, introduced into the Review, may be regarded as little else than the repetition of matter already familiar to the generality of Friends. The Editor, however, considers the intrinsic excellence of John Woolman's writings, a sufficient justification of their frequent presentation to the view of our juvenile readers, especially when it is recollected that there are many subscribers to this periodical, whose remote situation must render the circulation of books much more limited among them, than in Philadelphia or its vicinity. It is also possible, that among those who have little leisure, and no very strong inclination for the perusal of a volume, there may be some who will find time and inclination to cast their eyes over the pages of a weekly visitor of 16 pages. Familiar as the name of John Woolman has long been to the members of our society, it is probable that his real character has been fully ap preciated by few. Though favored with a pious and guarded education, it is manifest, from the time and neighborhood of his birth, that his opportunities of literary attainments must have been very limited; yet, from the clearness of his views, and the strong grasp which his mind took of his subject, we can scarcely find a style more completely adapted for imitation than his. His language, clear of useless verbiage, is evidently the vehicle of his thoughts, equally adapted to the comprehension of the most elevated and most common understanding. When he arrived at manhood he found two practices generally indulged in with little exami nation, not only in the world at large, but in the the negro race, and the use of intoxicating liquors, society to which he belonged, viz., the slavery of particularly in the time of hay and harvest. The incompatibility of the former with the benign principles of the Christian religion was early impressed on his sensitive and penetrating mind. We have ample reason to believe that slavery never assumed its most repulsive form in New Jersey, where John Woolman resided, yet its intrinsic injustice was obvious to his view; but in bearing the testimony which he felt bound to support, either in his native province, or those further south, he appears never to have forgotten the meekness of the true Christian. His sympa thy with the oppressed did not harden his feelings toward those who from habit, education, and external circumstances, had been involved in the practice of slaveholding. While he supported his testimony against the enslaving of his fellow men, with the firmness of honest conviction, his labors were so evidently accompanied by an all pervading spirit of love for the whole human race, that his honest and pungent arguments appear to have seldom given offence. DIED. On the 13th ult., at her residence, near Carthage, Indiana, in the 26th year of her age, ELIZABETH L., wife of Elias Henby, and daughter of Bethuel C. 'White. She was a highly esteemed member of Walnut Ridge Monthly Meeting. Though young in years she had early given herself up to the serious duties of life, and was sweetly rewarded in the end by the peaceful as-. surance that all would be well, and was enabled to yield submissively to her lot, expressing to her relatives and friends her entire resignation to the Divine will. At her residence in this city, on the 24th ult., in the 79th year of her age, HANNAH PAUL, widow of our late friend John Paul, a valuable mem Though we find little among his writings on the ber and elder of the Northern District Monthly subject of intoxicating liquors, enough remains Meeting. She was one who, in the morning of her to show that he was one of those who, in that day, day, turned her back on the fascinations and allurements of fashionable life, and being strongly atclearly perceived the injurious effects of that spe-tached to the principles and doctrines of our relicies of stimulants. His friend and coadjutor, An-gious Society, she maintained, through a long life, thony Benezet, in the great cause of negro eman. with remarkable firmness and decision, the characcipation, took up also the subject of inebriating drinks, and by the labors of his pen assisted in the diffusion of light and knowledge on this momentous subject. What Woolman and Benezet labored, under the quiet influence of a gospel spirit, to impress on their cotemporaries, has, since their day, become a subject for the action of legislative assemblies. The presentation of the Grand Jury on the destructive effects of alcoholic liquors, is given to our readers under a conviction that the dreadful results which they have so vividly portrayed, are not by any means peculiar to Philadelphia or its vicinity. Surely it is quite time that the attention of the pub. lic was more effectually aroused in relation to this gigantic self-imposed scourge of the community. ter of an upright and consistent Friend; giving up a large portion of her time, and the powers of an energetic mind, to the services of religious society. WEST TOWN BOARDING SCHOOL. The Summer session of the school will commence on Second day, the 1st of Fifth month next. The pupils will be conveyed by railroad to West Chester, where conveyances will be waiting to take them and their baggage to the school, on the arrival of the morning and afternoon cars, on Second day, the 1st, and Third day, the 2d of Fifth month. The cars leave the depot, south side of Market street above Eighteenth street, (formerly Schuylkill Fifth street,) at 73 o'clock, A. M., and 4 o'clock P. M. The agent of the school will be at the railroad depot on Second and Third day afternoons, and will furnish pupils with tickets, and accompany them to West Chester. Those who go by the morning train will be furnished with tickets by a person in attendance. To those who procure tickets as directed, the fare from Philadelphia to the school, including baggage, will be one dollar, which will be charged to the scholar at the school. All baggage should be distinctly marked West-town, and with the name of the owner, and should be sent directly to the railroad depot. Applications for admission must be to Joseph Snowdon, Superintendent at the school, DIED.-At his residence, in Miami county, Indiana, on the 8th ult., of lung fever, after an ill- or Joseph Scattergood, Treasurer, 84 Arch st., Phila, The West-town office is at Friends' bookstore, ness of three weeks, ISAAC CARTER, an elder and No. 84 Arch street, where all small packages for the member of Pipe Creek Monthly Meeting, aged pupils left before 12 o'clock on the Seventh days, 46 years. He frequently stated, during his ill-will be forwarded. All letters for pupils and others ness, that he felt nothing in his way. MARRIED. On the 9th ult., at Friends' Meeting House, South River, Warren county, Iowa, JACOB Cook to MARY R., daughter of Thomas Carey, both of Three Rivers Monthly Meeting. On the 17th of Second month last, after seven years' illness of the heart disease, in Norwich, C. W., HANNAH, a wife of Benson Lossing, in the 53d year of her age, a member and elder of Norwich Monthly Meeting. In Burrillville, R. I., on the 5th of Second month last, after an illness of ten days, JOANNA R. wife of Moses Tasted, in the 22d year of her age, a member of Smithfield Monthly Meeting. At his residence, near Syracuse, Onondaga county, N. Y., on the 18th of Ninth month last, after a short illness, JOHN POWELL, a much esteemed member of Western Monthly Meeting, in the 59th year of his age. at the school, should be sent by mail, directed to West-town Boarding School, West Chester P. 0. Chester Co., Pa. Postage should be pre-paid, and packages should be distinctly marked and put up in a secure manner, so that their contents will not be liable to be lost by handling. The stage will leave West Chester during the Summer session, for the school, on Second, Fourth and Seventh days, on the the school to West Chester on the same days, to arrival of the afternoon cars from the city, and from meet the afternoon cars to Philadelphia. The fare for each passenger to and from West Chester by the stage, will be 25 cents. When special conveyances at other times are provided at the school, an extra charge will be made. West-town, Third mo., 1854. The committee having charge of Friends' Establishment among the Shawnee Indians, are desirous of employing two young men to labor on the farm, (practical farmers are desirable.)They also want to engage a teacher in the School, and a female to assist in the family; a middle aged man and his wife for teacher and assistant in the family would be preferable. Application to be made to Simon Hadley, or John Hadley, Jr., Sligo, Clinton County, Ohio, who will give any formation necessary. Friends of good character, and of religious experience are desirable. HAVERFORD SCHOOL. in The total number of patients in the Hospital during the year, was 406. The highest number at any one time was 248, the lowest was 214, and the average number under treatment during the whole period, was 229. The number of males in the house during the year, was 205, and the number of females was 201. The highest number of males at any one time was 128, and of females 122. While, generally, the number of men has been greater than of women, during the latter part of the this year has been reversed, and at its close we report 123 females to 112 males. During the entire year the Institution has been rather more than comfortably filled, the average number for the whole period, as shown above, being 229, while 220 is regarded as the capacity of the building. Anxious to receive all who desired admission, we have at no previous time refused any suitable applicant; but during a part of the year just closed, our number having become as high as 248, we were for a time compelled, although with great reluctance, to decline receiving patients, except under the most urgent circumstances. Of patients discharged during the year 1853, were-Cured, 88; Much Improved, 16; Improved, 38; Stationary, 14; Died, 15; Total, 171. Of the patients discharged "cured," thirtyeight were residents of the Hospital not exceeding three months; twenty-three between three and six months; twenty between six months and one year; and four for more than one year. Of those discharged "much improved," six The Semi-Annual Examination will commence were under treatment less than three months; on Second day 4th mo. 10th, and close on the fol- three between three and six months; three belowing Fourth day. Copies of the order of Exam-tween six months and one year; and four for ination may be procured at this Office and at the School. more than one year. Of the "improved," five were under care less than three months; eleven between three and six months; nine between six months and one year; and thirteen for more than one year. Of those discharged and reported "stationary." three were under care less than three months; two between three and six months; three between six months and one year; and six for a longer period than one year. Premature Removals.-The number of patients who were unquestionably removed without giving an adequate trial of treatment, during the past year, amounts to seven. Of these, five are included among those reported as "much improved;" and two among the "improved." Had they remained longer in the Hospital, five of the the "cured." seven would probably have been registered among Farm and Garden.--The experience of this Institution continues to confirm the results nearly everywhere else observed, that a farm and garden are necessary appendages of a Hospital for the Insane. Each year strengthens our convictions of the importance of the tract of land con |