was in my soul? He believing in the love of God in Christ, made him desirous of being with him, and seeing the joy that was set before him, thought the time long to be with Jesus, as knowing that then he would be out of all misery and pain. His heart was full of love to his relations, acquaintance and friends, who came to see him in his illness; and full of tender sweetness and divine love, he took his last leave of them, which greatly affected many. This was one of the most pinching exercises I ever met with; but as he said in his illness, so I now write: The wisdom of the Lord is wonderful. One time in this dear child's sickness he said, Oh! the good hand of the Lord help me, give me ease, and conduct me safely, i. e., to God's kingdom, uttering this verse: Sweet Jesus, give me ease, for mercy I do crave, Out of the treasury of wisdom, things both "old and new" may be brought forth, and prove refreshing to the seeking soul, the old being as well adapted to the present need as the new. With this impression, some of the experiences of Samuel Scott are presented to the readers of the Review. In the testimony of Hartford Monthly Meeting respecting him, they say "He was a man fearing God and hating covetousness, of a humble mind and benevolent disposition, extensive in Christian charity and unfeigned love to the brethren; very useful in the discipline of the church among us, for which he was well qualified; yet very diffident of himself, ready to forgive, and seek forgiveness even of the meanest. "" In the preface to his Diary, it is stated, that he was "above the common rank in natural abilities and versed in literature, but be counted these as of no value in comparison with the unsearchable riches of Christ, with a fellowship in his sufferings, with being made conformable to his death, and experiencing the power of his resurrection." Although a melancholic temperament occa sionally prevailed, and perhaps produced sadness, when joy might well have been the covering of his spirit, it is encouraging and instructive to observe, how, through all the conflicts and baptisms to which such a disposition appears more peculiarly liable, there lived that which many waters could not quench, or the grave retain." It was usual for me to advise his mother not to set her affections too much upon him, thinking he was too good to live long in this world, and too ripe for heaven, to stay long on earth, in this world of sorrow and misery. This dear and tender youth, when reading, to which he was much inclined, if he met with any thing that affected him, either in the Sacred Writings or other good authors, would write it down and get it by heart. He was more than common affectionately concerned for his mother, doing whatever he could freely and cheerfully to serve her, and told her "This at times beautifully broke through the not to do some things which he thought too much dark clouds, and showed that all beyond was for her, saying, Mother, let me do it; if I were a harmony and light; of which there is no doubt man thou should not do any thing at all, mean- his afflicted anxious soul at length gained pering as to labor. She being affected with his filial manent possession, when the work was finished love and care for her in his father's absence, it and the tempestuous waves forever ceased to rage. caused her sometimes to turn about and weep. I'Oh thou afflicted, tossed with tempests and not thought a little memorandum of the life and death of this religious lad was worthy of recording, in order to stir up other youth to obedience and love to their parents, who carefully and tenderly nourished and brought them up; and also to love and obey God, from whom they have their life and being, and to believe in Christ, who died for them; who is the glorious light of all the nations of them that are saved, and walk therein, according to the Sacred Writ. He got several pieces by heart out of the Bible and other religious writings, first writing them with his pen. One which much affected my mind, was the fifteenth verse of the fifty-seventh chapter of that evangelical prophet, Isaiah: "For thus saith the high and lofty One, that inhabiteth eternity, comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colors, and lay thy foundations with sapphires, and I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones." " Here, reader, pause, and wisely consider that although "many are the afflictions of the righteous, the Lord delivereth them out of them all." For "the Lord redeemeth the soul of his servants." By repeated trials and afflictions permitted or dispensed, they are induced to look at and duly appreciate the things that can only be discerned by the spiritual eye of the regenerate, the things that are eternal; and are also prepared to receive and retain the unsullied joys of heaven. As afflictions and trials, well endured, produce the peaceable fruits of righteousness, with quietness and assurance for ever, though grievous when they prevail; how will they be estimated when the work is finished? when faith is lost in fruition, and uninterrupted rewards are possessed. "A few days before his decease, he expressed himself to a friend, in these words, 'I have done with all things but one, and that is, working out my soul's salvation with fear and trembling, through Him that worketh in me, both to will and to do of his own good pleasure.' He departed this life on the 20th day of the Eleventh month, 1788, aged near 70 years, a minister about 36 years. its operations.' All boasting of supposed rectitude and self-ability, is excluded by the law of faith; if the most perfect compliance with its requisitions was attained, the reward would not be of debt, but of grace only; but every devia tion from the line of duty, merits death, and that condemnation which is most justly and rightfully the sinner's portion, as it is written, 'the wages of sin is death.'' Fifth month 19th, 1791. "Mental prayer and reading the Holy Scriptures, have of late been practised; it is true that the bare 'letter killeth,' but a diligent, and I think, almost a daily attention to these sacred records, is the duty of all; not so much with the view of immediate satisfaction and sensible comfort, neither with the view of laying up any stock in our memory, but in a dependence on the Spirit that quickeneth. The ministers in our Society are particularly recommended to be conversant with them by the Yearly Meeting 1702 and 1706. Never"De-theless, they ought to have no treasury but the Divine gift, the well of water springing up into everlasting life."" It was but a short period before his decease, that his record commences, but with the humble dependence of a Christian disciple, he attributes no merit or usefulness to his own matured experiences, but only "if it please the Lord to look upon it with approbation," he trusts that "new wine may be found in the cluster," and the Watcher and the Holy One may say, stroy it not, for a blessing is in it." Diary. Sixth month 12th, 1780. "I am convinced from a daily heartfelt sensation, stronger than ten thousand arguments, that until we cease to do evil we cannot learn to do well. No acceptable worship can be either internally or externally offered to the God of truth, while we are acting contrary to the dictates of truth in our own consciences." Ninth month 30th. "From my being first convinced of sin, righteousness, and judgment, I have been shy of receiving either doctrinal or practical truths upon trust, or only because others have received or believed them; my concern having rather been to try them by the law and the testimony, the law of God after the inward man,' and the precious testimonies of Holy Writ. If all who profess the truth, as held forth by us who are called Quakers, were built upon the rock of Divine and internal revelation, the rapid inroads of libertinism would be repelled and deism extirpated. But the law written on the fleshly tables of the heart, the Scriptures of truth, and the advices of our brethren contained in this Yearly Meeting minutes, would, a twofold cord unite, and not easily be broken." as Tenth month 8th. "At the forenoon meeting, truth measurably prevailed in silence. I have often been fearful lest, in our Society, human reason and the works of a mere moral and creaturely righteousness, should be substituted in the place of the law of faith and the new creation work; for according to the testimony of our truly learned and deeply experienced friend, Isaac Penington, God is all in redemption, God doth all as fully therein as in creation; it is a new creation; yet the creature quickened and renewed, is in unity with him in Seventh month 13th "Unprofitable disputations grievously prevailed; we should never speak anything but truth; and frequently no advantage accrues from speaking of what we most firmly believe to be the truth; speaking often is folly, when in silence there is strength.' "I have lately perused, to my satisfaction, and I hope spiritual advantage, sundry treatises published in the last century, composed by Roman Catholics and Puritans. I am glad to reap the grape gleanings of the vintage from every quarter, considering the Lord's vineyard to be of great extent, and his commandment to be exceeding broad: These standing before the throne, of all nations, kindreds, tongues, and people, clothed in white robes, and having palms in their hands, ascribing salvation unto God and unto the Lamb.' It is a great weakness in the Calvinists, and perhaps in some others, that they reject every thing that is not coined in their own mint, and reduced to a standard of supposed orthodoxy: they may indeed narrow and limit themselves, and their fellow-creatures, but they cannot limit the Lord of Hosts; his ways are illimitable, and his thoughts are not as their thoughts,' 'the glorious Lord being a place of broad rivers and streams.' (To be continued.) NEBRASKA. The German emigrants are pouring into Nebraska in crowds. Seven hundred and thirty passed through Cincinnati one day last week, on their way to the territory. With such emigration, and the question of slavery left free to the inhabitants of the territory, there will be but little chance of the "peculiar institution" extending itself into the new territories. THE QUAKER SETTLERS OF PENNSYLVANIA. your may find the noblest traits of humanity combined with the talents of the philosopher, the states"An example of true wisdom and fortitude man, and the Christian. Penn's object in seti no less conspicuous in the venerable founder tling Pennsylvania sprang not from any motives of the province of Pennsylvania, the truly great of idle curiosity, adventure or love of gain. He and worthy William Penn, than in many of the aimed at nobler purposes. He fondly hoped celebrated sages and legislators of former ages; that his persecuted brethren might here find who, in opposition to the vulgar notions of the peace and quiet, and that he might be enabled times in which they lived, have seemingly suf-literally to realize the angel's song over the crafered in their own particulars, to benefit man- dle of the Messiah, of giving "Glory to God kind-this will appear both with respect to his in the highest, on earth peace, and good will religion in joining with the people called Qua- towards men." kers, and likewise in settling the province itself. In both of which his engagement for the happiness of men was not unattended with a large share of that difficulty and opposition, to which the most excellent undertakings are generally exposed—but minds of such exalted virtue are actuated by motives above morality, and indispurably are influenced by something divine; without which, as Cicero says, there never was a really great and good man."-Robert Proud. In viewing the characters of the early settlers of the North American Colonies, one is forcibly struck with their dissimilarity in manners, tastes and religion. The Puritans were distinguished for their bigotry, firmness and indomitable courage; the founders of "New Amsterdam," the homes of cocked-hats and the Knickerbockers, for their industry and sobriety; the forefathers of Virginia for their gay and chivalrous bearing, We now turn to the character of those who and who of all others were the least fitted to pi-assisted him in founding the Keystone State.— oneer the march of empire-being clothed in These rough and sturdy pioneers sprang from the gay habiliments of aristocracy, instead of the the middle ranks of English society-many also rough garments of yeomanry. Amid the pal- being gathered from the high-ways and the bypal-being metto groves of South Carolina ascended the prayers of the persecuted Huguenots, who, though light-hearted without losing their faith, there found a safe shelter from the storms of religious oppression in the old world. "The rise of the people called Quakers," says Bancroft, "is one of the memorable events in the history of man. It marks the moment when intellectual freedom was claimed unconditionally by the people as an inalienable birthright. To the masses in that age, all reflection on politics and morals presented itself under a theological form. The Quaker doctrine is philosophy, summoned from the cloister, the college and the saloon, and planted among the most despised of the people." These hardy pioneers, so totally unlike every other sect, possessed the industry and perseverance of the Puritans without their bigotry and obstinacy, and were equally as sincere and cheerful in their religious belief as the Huguenots, though their doctrines were essentially different. When William Penn held his treaty with the Indians in the primeval groves of Coaquannock, he performed an act as novel as it was sublime. The world had never before witnessed such a spectacle, and the mind reverting through the long vista of years, to his memory and character, But "Put trust in God, and keep your powder dry," was the cry that ran through the Puritan camps in Old England. That passage of Scripture which says, "Ask of me and I will give the heathen for thy inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession," they interpreted as peculiarly adapted to themselves; and combining the two for their motto, they made sad havoc among the red men Penn, who was fired with a holier zeal, and animated with purer motives-who disdained to use carnal weapons, acted towards the Indians with the forbearance and kindness of a brother. As his feet pressed the virgin sod of the future city, he extended to them the hand of friendship, and greeted them with a smile of love. His only emblem, if emblem it could be called, was the unassuming dress he wore. ways. They were a stout and hardy race, having for the most part been cultivators of the soil. They possessed all the vigor of youth without its fervent enthusiasm. They had repeatedly passed through the fiery furnace of persecution, but came forth like tried gold; knowing full well that if they bore no cross,' they would in the end have no crown.' A sense of their past sufferings and the arduous enterprise they were about to undertake, endeared them tenderly to each other. And more than all of these, they were sustained and animated with the vital, though unpretending doctrines of George Fox, which they declared to be "primitive christianity revived.” With all these qualities combined, they were admirably adapted to undergo the rigors and hardships in the settlement of a new country. Let us go back in our imaginations to the scenes of 1682, and a few years following. We are in the wilderness, now the most thickly settled part of Bucks or Chester county. 'Tis a fine spring morning; we ascend an eminence, and behold the country far and near, robed in the most luxuriant forests. Here and there wreathes of smoke may be seen curling above the foliage, issuing from the wigwams of the peaceful Lenape. The streams purl gently along, bathing the rocks on their shores, whose bold fronts stand in solitary grandeur,-the awe of the poor Indian who firmly believes that the Great Spirit dwells within them. The smiling valleys lie open to the invigorating influence of the sun, and small patches of long Indian grass wave beautifully up their slopes. A peculiar stillness-a deep and solemn stillness, to be found only where the white man has seldom trod, reigns throughout the scene; and nature rejoices in her wild sublimity. Such was the picture which this part of the country presented, when opened to the view of the settlers. Selecting a large and spreading tree near a cool spring or stream, with its branches for a shelter, and the earth for a bed, they arranged their goods around. For a considerable time this was their only abode; but they feared not, for He who had guided them over a trackless ocean, would surely protect them in the lonely wilderness. Here were grouped men, women and children; men whose noble hearts beat with confidence, with hands ready for arduous toil, with kind-hearted wives to cheer them on, and to lighten their rude homes with their presence and their smiles. Firmness and resolution, coupled with sternness, are graven on their features.They are eager and impatient to undertake the mighty task before them. Night comes on, and with alternate watches they sink into deep repose. Morning again rolls around. Soon a strange sound is heard-a sound never before known in these primeval forests. 'Tis the echo of the first step of the march of Empire; 'tis the ring of the axes of these hardy pioneers. Thus they toil on, day after day, until trees that have stood for centuries, fall by their well directed blows. The brush is burned off, the earth levelled, and a small clearing is seen through the Its But their energies do not fail-the march of empire, ever vigorous, ever ready for its arduous duties, knows no cessation. ery is onward; a rude log cabin now stands in place of the spreading tree, and affords its inmates a securer shelter; its interior is as primitive as it can possibly be; the fire-place occupies the width of one end; the hearth is made of large rough stones. The furniture consisting perhaps of two or three benches, as many high straight-backed chairs, and a spacious chest, is arranged irregularly round the room; on the rough shelf over the fire-place is a time-worn Bible and one or two volumes of the writings of early Friends. Smile not gentle reader at this extreme simplicity; what we would now spurn with disdain, they esteemed as great luxuries. Though far beyond the reach of bigoted monarchs and cruel jailors, they have not forgotten the hand that led them to a place of safety. Accordingly they assemble for worship in one of these cabins, as they have not yet been able to build a meeting house. While the Puritans resorted to their meeting houses armed, and ready to shoot down the first Indian that showed himself, with prayer on their lips but murder at their hearts, the Quakers groped their way through the wilderness to their meetings, with a protection far more potent than gunpowder, that of the Invisible Arm. Let us enter and behold them at their simple devotions. A solemn silence reigns throughout this little assembly. Each one sits as though transformed into a statue. The men are clad in rough homespun, of that plain, Quaker color, the drab; their broad felt hats, save in two or three instances, shield their bronzed and honest countenances; the women, the faithful "mothers in Israel," clad in homely guise, likewise sit motionless and thoughtful. This deep silence lasts a long while, but is at last broken by the rise of one of these fathers, who preaches words of comfort and solace to his brethren and sisters-though not delivered in the most graceful style, or his sentiments clothed in beautiful language, yet his sermon falls heavily on the hearts of his hearers. He is arrayed in no robes but the robes of the spirit; there is no altar but the altar of the heart. The speaker has finished; he sinks into his seat noiselessly and apparently unheeded. A few moments elapse, two hands are firmly grasped and a hearty shake is given the meeting adjourns. Kind words and kind looks are changed, and each family then disappears through different parts of the wilderness to its own humble abode. The Sabbath afternoons are not spent in idle conversations or light behaviour, but in solemn meditation and inward praise. Evening rolls around-the sun is seen through the thick foliage and no sound is heard save that of the night bird or the lingering breeze. How quiet must have been a Sabbath of the olden time in the wilderness! Yea, almost bordering on the quietness of the grave! Conclusion next week, LORD ELGIN AND THE MAINE LAW. ex The following extract from a speech recently delivered by Dr. Guthrie at Edinburgh on the new Public House Bill, shows the deep interest felt by those in authority respecting the operation of the Maine Law, and that its effects in diminishing crime and repressing many of our social evils will speedily lead to a great alteration in our licensing system, and ultimately secure the entire prohibition of the traffic in strong drink: "As to the Maine Law, he (Dr. Guthrie), might mention, that at a party consisting of noblemen and gentlemen, which he attended not long ago in London, Lord Elgin, the Governor of Canada, said there was nothing he was watching in America with so much interest as the working of the Maine Law. The conversation of that party had been turned upon the history, the growth, and success of total abstinence so the colonists and the native races. The settlements in New England commenced about sixty years before William Penn or his agents set foot on the shores of the Delaware; and the intercourse of the Puritan fathers with the aboriginal tribes was marked with blood from an early period of the colony, until peace was established by the extinction or expulsion of the red man from his native forests. cieties in our country, and the good which they | with the native tribes. Virginia was colonized had achieved. This led to the remark from nearly three quarters of a century before the charLord Elgin to the effect already mentioned. 'Iter of Pennsylvania was granted; and wars of an believe,' he said, that it is destined to work a exterminating character had been waged between change on the face of society; I wish the cause the utmost success. They have adopted it in New Brunswick, and I am watching its operations with more interest than that of any cause under the sun.' A gentlemen who was there said, 'Oh, but is that Maine Law just, Lord Elgin? I understand, from what you say, that a gentleman can have his pipe of wine, and a merchant can have his barrel of whiskey; they can go and enjoy their fermented liquors, while the poor man who could only get his refreshment at the public house is denied the opportunity. Is that not unjust to the poor?' Lord Elgin had a very good answer to this: The poor man,' said he, is the best judge of what is justice, and that law in the State of Maine, and in our province of New Brunswick, was passed by the votes of the poor. laboring men themselves."Bristol Temperance Herald. . FRIENDS' REVIEW. PHILADELPHIA, SIXTH MONTH 24, 1854. Our readers will find in the present number a portion of a lively article copied from a Philadelphia paper, respecting the early settlement of the noble State, the only one in the Union which bears the name of its founder, * which has offered to the world a complete practical demonstration of the safety of founding a government, even in the midst of savage tribes, upon principles purely pacific. Though the picture here exhibited is partly drawn from imagination, the essential facts are those of authentic history. It is a remarkable circumstance, that while the religious doctrines of William Penn have been adopted by comparatively few, and that while the principles of his government have scarcely ever been reduced to practice in the establishment of subsequent States or Provinces, the government of Pennsylvania has received the plaudits of statesmen and historians, from the days of its founder to the present time. In several respects, Pennsylvania was settled under circumstances which might have been con sidered unfavorable to the maintenance of peace When William Penn commenced the work of colonization in Pennsylvania, the Atlantic coast, from New England to Carolina, was sparsely occupied by colonial establishments, which, though nearly independent of each other, were all dependent upon a common government in Europe, and consequently were liable to be involved in such controversies as might arise between the mother country and any of the neighboring nations that held colonies in America. The native races were often engaged in war with each other; and with their wild, wandering habits, and their dependence, in great measure, on the products of the forest for subsistence, wars were to be expected. Yet amidst these discouraging circumstances, William Penn and his coadjutors, relying on Divine protection, and the efficacy ful habitations in the midst of the roving Lenni of pacific principles, ventured to erect their peace. Lenape nations, without fortification or arms; and they found their confidence well founded. Du ring the seventy years that the government of of its founder, the tomahawk and the scalping Pennsylvania was administered on the principles the province. Even to our day the memory of knife of the Indian, do not figure in the history of William Penn has hardly vanished from the traditions of the Red man, and where the name is remembered it is remembered with reverence. It may excite surprise that the successful establishment of the government of Pennsylvania, on principles purely pacific, should be permitted to remain, as a theory on the pages of the statesman and historian, the object of high wrought eulogy, but without practical imitation. But the the principles of inviolable peace constituted an mystery is readily solved by the reflection, that essential part of the religion of William Penn and his coadjutors. They regarded the doctrines and maxims of the New Testament as paramount to permanently settled, was assigned to the Province by all the inferences of a timid expediency. Fully Charles II., in commemoration, not of the proprietor, believing the truth of the doctrines they held, the but of the Admiral Sir William Penn, and he positive-safety of their adoption in practice was readily ly refused to allow the name to be expunged. Posterity will probably not regret this manifestation of ob- deduced. The principles which led to the rejecstinacy. tion of military defences, led also to the mainte *William Penn himself was very unwilling that his family name should be incorporated in the designation of the Province. He used considerable effort to procure an erasure of Penn from the title. The name as |