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Ninth month. "Refreshed in silence; afterAbout her fortieth year, she gave up to appear wards animated by hearing a living testimony, as a minister of the Gospel, on which she writes. and, in the ability vouchsafed, poured forth supThird month 17th, 1823. "After consider- plication to Him who remains the guide of youth, able exercise of mind, accompanied with fear, the guard of middle age, and the staff of declinand sorrow from not having yielded in two meeting years, for the attractive influences of His ings, to what I was ready to apprehend required, love, that so, steadily looking unto Him, we might I went to meeting yesterday morning in much bowedness of spirit, and a desire to be obedient to manifested duty. Very soon after taking my seat, the exercise returned; and in awfulness and fear, I was strengthened publicly to bow the kuee, and vocally to supplicate on behalf of myself and friends. My spirit was bowed in the prospect of such awful service."

be healed; but not until the wound has been | and that now, through the rich bounty of my probed to make a perfect cure."

Sixth month 4th. "O Thou, who only knowest my present state of weakness, be pleased, in thy unmerited compassion to raise up a thankful belief, that, as thou art sought unto for preservation from the power of the enemy, thou wilt deliver my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling, for truly, I desire to be thy servant, and in and under all to give thee thanks."

Ninth month 17th. "Favored with a little of that calming influence which quiets the emotions of nature, and prepares to say, 'Thy will be done."

Tenth month 26th, 1839. "Whilst permitted to have moderate exertion, and spared any material weight of anxiety in regard to circumstances or things, be pleased, O Lord, to preserve from sinking into indifference, or taking up a rest short of the true rest; keep me alive, I pray thee, to the importance of the day's work keeping pace with the day, and suffer not the frequent, reiterated claims of the poor by whom I am surrounded to obtain no further notice than limited pecuniary aid; keep to a willingness to sympathize with them under their complicated trials, and grant ability, as opportunity may be afforded, to direct their attention unto Him who, for our sakes, became a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief,' who died for our offences, and was raised again for our justification."

30th. "After a struggle between flesh and spirit, relinquished the idea of bestowing a trifling gift that I had anticipated with some degree of pleasure, under the apprehension that it might afford the means of decorating the table of a beloved relative, to the lowering of that standard which she with myself is called upon to uphold. I desire to appreciate both the restraining and constraining love of my Heavenly Father, and both as regards the little or the much, to say, to strive to say, 'Thy will be done." "

Eleventh month 17th, 1839. Being on an appointment for visiting her fellow members, she writes-"Shared with the Friends engaged in the service, in the flowings, I trust, of Gospel love and power; but very awful is the consideration, that the mind of the Spirit may not be clearly developed, if there be any error in dividing the word. O Lord, impart the how, the when, and the where, that so, in the way of thy appointment, the wounded may partake of healing, and those captivated by the delusive pleasures of time be arrested, and experience deliverance therefrom, and close in with the offers of thy love and mercy.".

Ninth month 18th, 1840. "My sight increasingly weakening, so as to give me to feel I must relinquish pleasing myself by my own performances. Instead of repining, may I gratefully bear in mind how this invaluable blessing has been lengthened out to me in a remarkable manner,

Heavenly Father, I have wherewith to remunerate those whom I may need to employ; so that with the knowledge of these things, the privation may be accepted as a memento that the day of life is declining, and the curtains of the evening are drawing around me. O Lord, cut short the work in righteousness, if it be thy blessed will!"

Sixth month 28th, 1844. Alluding to moving into the country, she writes,-" O, that in settling into my anticipated home, it may be accompanied with watchful care to keep the earth under my feet, to be more loose from the things of time, and my eye looking straight onward to the end of the race; putting on strength in the name of the Lord, relying solely on His righteousness for the purchase of the crown immortal."

Ninth month 1st, 1850. "My heart much contrited in the remembrance that, by the days of the week, the present was the returning one, twelve months since, when our beloved friend, Elizabeth Dudley, for the last time at Peckham, was so solemnly and fervently engaged, remarking emphatically,- Man has no to-morrow that he can call his own,' &c., &c. And when congregated with the little company at -, my spirit seemed in measure attracted to unite in the Holy, holy, holy;' but the solemn consideration had much place in my remembrance, that the seraphim veiled their faces before the Majesty of Heaven; nevertheless, in gracious condescension my lips were touched, so as to partake of a degree of preparation to sound the praises of Je hovah, whilst still an inhabitant of earth."

Eleventh month 19th. "Engaged with a friend in reading and handing an epistle issued by the last Yearly Meeting to our junior members. Unworthy as I feel, I am bound to avow the humble belief, that this small service has been owned by him who is Head over all things to his church, and is a liberal rewarder of all who are willing to spend and be spent for his sake."

First month 20th, 1851. "Going heavily on my way, but through merciful, protecting care, I humbly trust, not out of the way; but the unmerited favor of the feeling of adoption, enabling to cry, 'Abba, Father,' being in a measure restrained, causes a void that no terrestrial good can satisfy. Sustain, O merciful God, I pray thee, all the appointed time, until my change come;' and preserve from every attempt to make any substitute, whilst my spiritual Moses may be long withdrawn."

Sixth month 29th. "Sat two meetings in a state of dryness, may I not say deadness, as regards the spiritual life; but, inasmuch as my condition is cause of sorrow of heart, be pleased, O gracious God, to remember my soul in adver sity, and in thy own time return and leave a blessing behind thee."

Seventh month 27th. "A good meeting, partaking somewhat of the character of a holy solemnity."'"

exempt, her assistance and sympathy were afresh called forth, and in various ways she was brought to feel with the mourners in affliction.

She attended our meetings until within a few days of her close. A bronchial affection which at first only appeared to be a slight cold, increased so rapidly, that her remaining strength was soon prostrated, and almost before it was apprehended that she was seriously ill, the redeemed spirit was liberated from its earthly tenement; gathered, as we undoubtedly believe, to join the just of all generations in ascribing praises to Him who had sustained her to the end, and who made her a pillar in his temple that she should go no more out.-An. Monitor.

Sixth month 20th, 1852. "Soon after con-, gregating with my friends, my mind was attended with a solemn awe, a reverential stillness that led to contemplate the silence in heaven for the space of half an hour, recited by the apostle John, when writing to the church, relative to what he felt and saw in holy vision; and I was instructed and comforted in believing, that if we were attracted to the Supreme Being as the object of spiritual worship, we should not be disregarded; that whether it might please the Most High to fill the temple with His glory, so as not to leave room for the priest to minister, or to preside himself as the minister of the sanctuary and true - tabernacle, which He, the Lord, hath pitched, and not man, evidence would not be wanting, that, whilst members of His church militant, we are also objects of his kingdom, who reigns king Jonathan Dymond, the celebrated author of of kings and Lord of lords. The purport of the the "Essays on Morality," was born in Exeter, foregoing was set forth under the solemn remem-in 1796. His father, who was a member of the brance of the admonition- God is in heaven, and thou upon earth; therefore let thy words be few. Under the feeling of humble gratitude, the desire prevails, that the sense of gracious condescension experienced may not be effaced from the table of my heart."

Tenth month 11th. "Favored to attain my 70th year; gratefully to commemorate that goodness and mercy have followed me all my life long; that my merciful Heavenly Father has neither rebuked in anger, nor chastened in hot displeasure, but by touches of his love has enabled to hear the rod and Him who hath ap; pointed it;' who has vouchsafed the influences of his Holy Spirit, to convince of sin and to convert to righteousness, and to afford the humble hope, through grace, of finally obtaining the victory through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Oh, that the remaining portion of my days, either few or many, may be more devoted to his praise and glory."

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Her residence, during the principal part of her life, was in the borough of Southwark and its neighborhood, from whence she removed, about eight years previous to her decease, to Croydon, being sensible of the decline of her bodily powers, and believing it right to withdraw from that active sphere in which so large a portion of her life had been spent, whilst the exercise of her mind continued unabated.

In the Ninth month, 1852, she was appointed on a committee of our Quarterly Meeting, to visit in Christian love its several meetings. She entered on this work, which may be regarded as closing her religious labors, with even more than her usual diligence, as if sensible of drawing near to the end of her days. She visited most of the meetings, and labored, in those for worship as well as those for discipline, greatly to the comfort of Friends.

Towards the close of the year, illness prevailed to a serious extent in the town and neighborhood of Croydon, and her own household was not

JONATHAN DYMOND.

Society of Friends, was a linen-draper, of that city, and brought up his son to the same business. Of course, he did not receive what is called a "liberal education;" but he possessed that without which a liberal education is worse than useless; for the sound moral and religious principles which were carefully inculcated by his parents at home laid the foundation of that high and stern standard of morality which has placed him at the very head of English moralists. On leaving school, he found employment in his father's business, in which he afterwards became a partner, and in which he continued until the close of his life. He early evinced a disposition for quiet reflection, and in his conversation, for which he had a great talent, he manifested just and enlightened views of the progress of mankind, and that freedom of thought which enabled him to go forth in search of truth, to disregard the opinions of his contemporaries, and of those who had gone before him, and to bring his strong intellect, and his very sensitive and enlightened conscience, unfettered, to the investigation of the Divine will in the government of the world.

In 1822, he married Anna Wilkey, of Plymouth, who survived him nearly twenty-one years; their family consisted of a daughter and son, the latter of whom died at the age of seven years. In 1823, he published his "Enquiry into the Accordancy of War with the Principles of Christianity," a work composed in the momentary intervals of business, and in his early morning hours-time rescued from sleep by his habit of early rising. This work, from the energy and earnestness of its style, and from its high standard of Christian morals, immediately attracted very great attention, and soon ran through three editions. Of course, it met with censure from those who deem human butchery professionally right; but it was the means of opening the eyes of many to the atrocities of war, and of raising up many supporters to the cause of peace.

During the time occupied in publishing the

WIRE DRAWING.
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It is a brave affair to make an electrotelegraphic cable. We are accustomed to such things now; but two or three years ago they were won

"Enquiry," he was frequently engaged in laying the foundation of his other work-that on which his fame chiefly rests-his "Essays on the Principles of Morality." This, he hoped, would prove even more extensively useful than his first work, and he soon devoted himself fully to it-ders to be marvelled at. When Messrs. Newall a work that was to exhibit the only true and produced the wire-work, and the Gutta Percha authoritative standard of rectitude, and to esti- Company produced the gutta percha work, for mate, by that standard, the moral character of the Anglo-French submarine telegraph in the human actions. He was never of a strong con- summer of eighteen hundred and fifty-one, the stitution; and early in the spring of 1826, ap- achievement was worthily recorded as an honor peared the first symptoms of that disease which, to our age. Many of those who now read this in two years, was to send him to his grave. A sheet will remember that the cable was twentyfrequent cough and great weakness of the throat four miles long; that it consisted essentially of gradually increased upon him, and he was soon four copper wires insulated in a bed of gutta compelled to give up conversation altogether, and percha; the strand or cord thus formed was to express his ideas by writing on a little slate bound round tightly with spun yarn; and round which he carried in his pocket. This continued this strand, as a central core, were twisted ten to be his only means of conversation until the galvanised iron wires. A huge mass it was; close of his life. As recommended by his friends, for when all completed, it formed a coil thirty he went to London to consult some eminent phy- feet in diameter on the outside, fifteen on the sicians there; but all to no purpose. His disorder inside, five feet high, and weighing a hundred -pulmonary consumption-continued to make and eighty tons. A great work was the manurapid advances, and after trying two or three dif- facture of this cable. In the first place, at the ferent situations in the country in hopes of bene- Gutta Percha Company's works, about a hundred fit, he returned to his native place, where he re- miles of copper wire, in fair equal lengths, were mained still employed, as his small remaining coated and coated again with this singular gum; strength would permit, in preparing for the pub- and then they were transferred to a cable-maklication of his "Essays;" and he might be seening factory at Wapping. The four coated wires surrounded by his papers until a few days before his death, which took place on the 6th of May, 1828. Throughout his lingering illness, he evinced a perfect resignation to the will of God, and a full confidence in his promises, and manifested on his death-bed his deep conviction of that great truth with which he has concluded his "Essays"-that "the true and safe foundation of hope is in the redemption that is in Christ Jesus." If "that life is long which answers life's great end," few men have lived to a greater age than Jonathan Dymond, though he died at the early age of thirty-two-for few men have done more good. His Essays on the Principles of Morality" is undoubtedly the best book upon the subject; and it is worthy of remark that, though learned scholars, profound civilians, celebrated divines, and famous moralists, had all before written upon the same subject, a humble individual of the Society of Friends, bred in no academic halls, should have eclipsed them all. The plain, simple reason is that he takes the Word of God as his infallible standard of rectitude by which to weigh all actions, and that, with a clear head and an honest conscience, he follows his principles wherever they lead, knowing that they can never lead wrong. It is amusing as well as instructive to see with what ease he overthrows all the previous standards of rectitude which various men had set up as utility, expediency, &c., and establishes the great central truth, that the Will of God is the only infallible standard by which to judge the wright or rong of actions.-Cleveland's Literature of the 19th century.

were grouped, and were bound round with hempen yarn steeped in a solution of tar and tallow, by the aid of a machine. This rope, if it may be so called, was passed vertically up a tube, around which were ten large bobbins filled with galvanised iron wire; and while the rope was travelling upward, and the bobbins were busily rotating on their axes, the wire, unwinding from the bobbins, coiled itself in a hard twist around the rope, compassing the hemp and the gutta-percha closely, without allowing the allimportant copper telegraphic wires in the centre to come in contact one with another.

And so again, in eighteen hundred and fifty. three, when the still more remarkable "line of thought" was prepared to stretch from England to Belgium. The Calais cable has four copper telegraphic wires, but the Belgian cable has six; the Calais cable is encircled by ten twisted wires, but the Belgian cable is encircled by twelve; the length of the former is twenty-four miles, but of the latter the length is upwards of seventy miles; of the former the weight is a hundred and eighty tons, but of the latter not much less than five hundred tous. For aught that is yet known, the wire-drawers and wire-twisters could do their part towards the construction of a submarine telegraph across the very Atlantic itself, if the difficulties in other directions can be surmounted. The internal copper wires for these and other telegraphs are sometimes coated with gutta percha in a singular way. The engineers whe, about six years ago, laid down four or five hundred miles of telegraph from Berlin to Frankfort-on