to the various Yearly Meetings for which they were prepared.

The Women's Meeting organized a Women's Foreign Missionary Society, with Sarah E. Jenkins, President, and Esther B. Tuttle, Corresponding Secretary, and Vice-Presidents from the different Quarterly Meetings. It seemed to have an auspicious beginning. Before the adjournment, all the Friends from other Yearly Meetings expressed their gratification at having been present at a Yearly Meeting of unusual life and interest, and many of them testified to having received great benefit. John Butler said he had attended sixty Yearly Meetings in Ohio, and had never seen such a manifestation of the love of God, or so much interest among the young people. He wanted to leave his testimony to the goodness of his Heavenly Father. D. B. Updegraff blessed the Lord for turning the hearts of the fathers to the children and of the children to the fathers. The Clerk was directed to acknowledge the receipt of a copy of the new London Discipline. The minute of the.exercise of the meeting upon the answers to the Queries was read, and the meeting adjourned to meet at Mt. Pleasant next year, if the Lord permit.

IOWA YEARLY MEETING.

On the evening of the 9th of Ninth mo. the Execu tive Meeting met to transact the business that devolves upon it; a part of which is to appoint a committee to see to the proper holding of all meetings in connection with the Yearly Meeting. This includes the devotional meetings mornings and evenings, and also the meetings in the various places of worship in the city of Oskaloosa, which for many years have been offered to Friends on First day of Yearly Meeting, and also the large overflow meetings held in the shady yard of the meeting-house lot, where many thousands collect.

Fourth-day, Ninth mo. 10th.—The meeting of Min. istry and Oversight was held at 8 A. M., in the upper room, and a devotional meeting in the lower room. Much good counsel was given in the former, and in the latter the 148th Psalm was read, in which praise to God was prominent, and praise to Him was the prominent theme from many full hearts, for blessings to the Church and for temporal and spiritual blessings to individuals.

In the meeting for worship, at 10, J. H. Douglas, after a season of prayer, expressed the near feeling he had to Friends of Iowa, and his desire that all might live near to the Lord.

David J. Douglas spoke from Malachi 3, 10: "Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse," &c. The Lord wants to do the best that He can for us and with us, but before we are fit for His service we need to be regenerated and baptized with the Holy Spirit. For near an hour the meeting listened to his earnest entreaties to comply with the conditions that God had made in order that we might be brought to Him and prepared, by the baptism of the Holy Ghost, for His work, and thus prove Him if He "will not open the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing that there shall not be room enough to receive it."

There were several short testimonies from other servants of the Lord, whose hearts seemed to be filled with love. It was the heartfelt expression of many hearts that we had a glorious opening of the Yearly Meeting.

In the Business Meeting after the opening minute was read, our aged friend John Allen prayed for the leading and guiding of the Holy Spirit, and the bless

ing of God upon us as a collected church, and as in dividuals.

Ministers from other Yearly Meetings were: J. H. Douglas, Mary P. Moon, Joshua Trueblood, Eunice Furnas, E. R. Walton from Indiana: David J. Douglas, Nelson Hull, Rebecca W. Narrimore, from New York Noah C. McLean, Thomas Hiatt, Rachel H. Washburn, Sarah E. Jenkins, Charles W. Sweet, from Ohio Nathan B. Baldwin and Willet Dorland, from Western; Ervin G. Taber from Tennessee; Anna J. Winslow from Kansas. A cordial welcome was extended to the ministers, and also to some not in that position, among which was John Cass of England. Some of them responded by expressing their appreciation for the warm feeling of sympathy and unity towards them and for them.

J. H. Douglas said that he had labored so much in Iowa, that he felt much at home among us, and he blessed the Lord for the old men present who are happy and strong in Him, and he blessed the Lord for the presence of the middle aged men, who have laid asside their business pursuits of life, to attend to the greatest business of earth. He was thankful too for the presence of so many young men who are as much interested as any. From the oldest to the youngest let us do the very best we can, and be the best fitted up for the Lord's work, and have direct communication with the Head of the church.

The Clerk, Dr. Hinchman: May the Lord be a spirit of judgment to those who give judgment, and a spirit of strength to those who turn the battle to the gate.

David J. Douglas was here several years ago. Many who were then with us have gone to join the church triumphant. There is evidently much more spiritual life among us now than there was then.

Fifth-day, 11th. In the devotional meeting in the morning many gave testimony of the goodness and mercy of God to them, and a few received a definite spiritual blessing.

At the opening of the Business Meeting we were reminded that a Friends' Meeting was unlike any other meeting in several particulars. The time has been when there was much said about our spiritual views. Now there is much said about our spiritual experience, which is closely related to our views. A man who has not a good experience is unfit to attend to the business of the Church. In all our movements let us recognize the Headship of Christ.

A nominating committee was appointed, whose duty is to propose names for standing committees, so as to more diffuse the business among our membership.

A proposition came from Bear Creek Quarterly Meeting for the establishing of a Quarterly Meeting in Dakota, by the name of Mount Vernon, to be held at a town of that name, and to be composed of Mount Vernon and Harmony Monthly Meetings, which are 50 miles apart, and about 400 miles from Oskaloosa. We were informed by J. F. Hanson, who lives at the former place, that they have no serious schisms among them, but much love to God and one another. There is a large field for usefulness there. In many district school-houses in that new country the people are glad to have Friends hold religious meetings. The request was granted, and a committee appointed to attend the opening on the 27th inst.

From Greenville Quarter a proposition came for the establishing of a Quarterly Meeting at Springbranch, Nebraska. There appears to be much spiritual life among them, but after due consideration it was not thought best to grant the request, as there was at present but one Monthly Meeting there.

After the reading of the London Epistle, Caleb Johnson said: How the Word was made flesh was a mystery; but in the union there is an efficacy, in His blood, found nowhere else.

D. J. Douglas: It is an impossibility to have a good experience on a rotten theology. We need to know what regeneration is, and the theology of it.

J. H. Douglas: We have with us professional men, farmers, mechanics, &c., rich and poor. We need each other. Jerusalem is a city compact together; a type of the Church. Let a man turn against the church and he is gone! God established His Church, which was purchased by the precious blood of Christ. The beauty and excellence of our families have been made so through the church. As it prospers and we work in harmony with it, our families are blessed. Go back to Pentecost, and we find that the gospel has been preached by servants whom Christ sent into the world to preach after they received power by the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Thank God for the Church. Iowa Yearly Meeting has done better the past year than ever before, and you expect to do better next year. It is the will of God that all who have been converted should be sanctified, and they should become fathers and mothers, not because of their age and good appearance, but because spiritual children are through their instrumentality brought into the fold of God.

The Queries and a summary of the answers were read; by which it appears that ten ministers have been recorded during the year, and that there are 165 ministers in the Yearly Meeting; 611 have been received into membership by request, and the total member. ship as reported is 9.597; but this was shown to be incorrect by some of the meetings not counting those who lived at a distance.

It was remarked that if souls have been saved through our instrumentality, it was because we have been saved. Give God the glory. We travail in birth, and go down, go down, with the seeking and repenting sinner, and it is often through pain and weeping with them, and oh! how we come up with the converted one as he realizes that his past sins have all been forgiven. All the church has a part in this. The young children and the young men and women all have their places to fill. The Lord selects the workers and the work. We cannot tell how or why some of us were selected to preach the gospel, but God did it, and we know it, brothers. When a man is called to the ministry, let it have the first place with him, and not tack on business of various kinds that will cripple in any way his service for God.

This latest charity in behalf of aged and infirm blind persons was formally organized during the present year. It was incorporated in 1882. It has one inmate who is deaf and dumb and blind; another blind and lame, a lady of 73, and another 86 years old. There is room in the Retreat for more inmates, but none can be received without additional means.

This is the only charity prepared to receive the aged, infirm and homeless blind; a class, many of whom have seen better days, now in their extremity and poverty without relief. Contributions will be kindly received by Levi Knowles, Treasurer, No. 126

N. Eighteenth street; H. L Hall, Finan. Agent, 3518 Lancaster av., or by the undersigned,

WM. CHAPIN, V. President,

2000 Summer street.

VASSALBORO', ME., Ninth mo. 9th, 1884. Ed. Friends' Review-Although it has been twentysix years since I have walked, it was my privilege yesterday to cast my vote for Constitutional Prohibition; and ere this reaches thee, the wires will have flashed the intelligence of the large majority which marks us a favored State, having forever constitu tionally prohibited the manufacture or sale of intoxicants therein. And happy the day when the other States of our fair Union and all the nations of the earth shall have followed our example and unite with us in suppressing the most gigantic evil to mankind, the prime cause of nearly all crime and pauperism. When this shall have been accomplished, certainly we shall be nearer the millenium, have it almost in view. And jus we are individually responsible for our efforts or otherwise in hastening that day. At the approaching Presi dential election, I hope it may be my privilege to vote the Prohibition ticket, believing it the duty of all, irrespective of creed or political distinction, who would hasten the coming of the good day spoken of, to do so, even if there are no hopes of success in electing this time, being sure there can be no accomplishment until the commencement is made, and the accomplishment worked up to; and it is a question of right or wrong, whether we should longer delay its commencement, which I would have all the readers of the Review carefully consider and settle in their own minds.

ITEMS.

GEO. TABER.

PROSPERITY AND DISASTER.-According to an exchange, the failing of the Comstock mines brings hope. less ruin upon Virginia City. This place and Gold Hill, which is practically a part of the same town, had 35,000 inhabitants eight years ago; merchants with $1,000 000 capital, a score or more men worth from $300,000 to $30,000,000 each, private homes that cost $100,000, and hotels and everything else to match. Now there are but 5000 inhabitants, nearly all miners and gamblers; the fine houses are all carried away or abandoned; real estate cannot be sold for the amount of the taxes; nothing can be sold which is not worth carrying away; and in a little time the gorgeous city, must entirely disappear. There have been $285,000,000 worth of gold and silver taken from the Comstock mine, and this within a distance of half a mile.Scientific American.

THE treaty signed by England and Portugal, in regard to the control of the latter power over the lower Congo river in West Africa, has been withdrawn. It was strongly opposed by the British and Foreign AntiSlavery Society, the Baptist Missionary Society, and Henry M. Stanley. The International Association, started by the King of Belgium, and represented in Africa by H. M. Stanley, offers a much better prospect of safe and beneficial arrangements for commerce, as well as for the discouragement of the slave trade.

THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT appointed a committee to verify M. Pasteur's experiments in the treatment of hydrophobia, and their preliminary report is most favorable. The committee took twenty-three dogs inoculated by Pasteur with his "attenuated virus," and found that they resisted the strongest virus that could be given. On the other hand, eight non-inoculated dogs were inoculated with virus by opening a vein,

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and five by trepanning, and all became mad; and six others were bitten by mad dogs, of which three became mad. The committee will now inoculate a large number of fresh dogs with the attenuated protective virus, and compare them with an equal number not thus inoculated. We suppose the next step will be to inoculate men with the protective virus, and see if they will resist the poison of a mad dog. As a number of medical students have volunteered themselves as subjects for the experiment, for the good of the world, there is a chance of its being made. Question: How far does such a self-sacrifice come short of being Christian ?—Exchange.

SIR ERASMUS WILSON, a distinguished British physician, was as great a philanthropist as surgeon. Among patients whose ailments were induced or ag. gravated by poverty and its attendant evils, he often gave, with marked effect, such a prescription as this: "Sume (take) the inclosed pound (£), and call for another dose every week until well."

For Friends' Review. THE OUTLOOK.

Fair glows the morn; not dazzling yet, dews lying On meadow flowers, just waked from summer sleep; Over blue hills white mists are upward flying:

Glad shining streams wind, broadening, toward the deep. ?

Eyes that behold such beauty, can you weep

Yes! In my heart, half-slumbering, dwells unrest: Dreaming of days when comes nor storm nor drought, Of valleys where no serpent-dangers creep, Of unwalled cities, where go in and out

All Muses and all Graces, I their guest; Love-Edens, where Lust's siroc never blows;

Where Hate lives not, and friendships never die ! O sweet unrest! Hence dearest comfort grows: God's bow of promise spans both earth and sky. Susquehanna Co., Pa., Eighth mo. 28th, 1884.

THE KING'S DAUGHTERS.

H.

A sudden look of tenderness shone on the king's dark face,

As he set his little daughter in the dead queen's vacant' place;

And he thought, "She has her mother's heart-ay, and her mother's grace.

"Great love through smallest channels will find its surest way;

It waits not state occasions, which may not come, or may:

It comforts and it blesses, hour by hour, and day by
day."
M. VANDEGrift.
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SUMMARY OF NEWS. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.-Advices from Europe are to the 16th inst.

GREAT BRITAIN.-The Government bill for the redistribution of seats in Parliament is in course of preparation for introduction at the next session, and the officials of the Home Office have been ordered to furnish reports showing the population and area of the different electoral divisions. It is said that W. E. Gladstone intends to give a statement of the scheme of redistribution, at the opening of Parliament, but that he will insist that the Franchise bill shall have precedence. Parliament has been convoked for the 23rd of Tenth month, for the transaction of Government business and the discussion of the Franchise bill. A meeting in favor of the Franchise bill was held at Kilmarnock, Scotland, on the 13th. Fully 20,000 persons took part. A procession of the trades, numbering 8000 men, was a feature of the occasion.

The cotton industry of Lancashire is suffering the severest depression which has occurred for some years.

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Working on short time and only four days in a week, is general, while many mills have closed altogether.

The Rajah of Tenom, in the island of Sumatra, has acceded to the request of the British Government, and released the remainder of the crew of the British steamer Nisero, held captives by his subjects.

The Earl of Dufferin, at present British Ambassador to Constantinople, and formerly Governor General of Canada, has been appointed Viceroy of India

IRELAND.-Earl Spencer, the Lord Lieutenant, has just made a tour in the south of the island, and expresses himself well satisfied with his visit, and his reception generally. He found in each place visited a solid body of loyalists, which he thought a hopeful 'sign in view of the wide-spread misrepresentation of the Government.

FRANCE. A second experiment with the new balloon steering apparatus was only partially successful. The aëronaut was able for some seconds to sail against a strong breeze, but could not rise or return to his starting point. After ten minutes the propeller ceased to revolve, and he soon descended.

At a Cabinet Council held on the 13th, Prime Minister Ferry said that China had not declared war. Dispatches from Admiral Courbet stated that he would resume operations as soon as he received reinforcements and provisions. Premier Ferry, after consultation with the Ministers of War and Marine, telegraphed to him to do so at once. The Minister of War refused to assent to the dispatch of more troops from France unless war should be declared against China. He advised to limit the reinforcements to 1000 men, and to send these from Algeria. Admiral Courbet, it is stated, on receiving the Minister's dispatch, left Matson with his entire fleet and went northward.

Some of the Paris journals assert that negotiations are still in progress between France and China. The Tsung-li-Yamen or Council at Pekin, in replying to the French ultimatum of Seventh mo. 12th, deplores the refusal of France to accept the American offer to mediate, and says that China is willing to submit her case to any friendly Power. It also declares that China is prepared, according to the Tien-Tsin treaty, to withdraw her garrisons from Tonquin after the expiration of a month; and protests against the French demand for indemnity, as contrary to that treaty.

A Paris journal published on the 15th an article understood to express the views of the Government, in which the idea that France should accept arbitration in the Chinese difficulty was indignantly rejected. France, it said, is determined to settle her differences with China herself.

BELGIUM.-The King has signed the Educational bill, which puts the schools virtually under the control of the church. The animosity between the Liberals and the Clericals continues. Riots have occurred in several villages, where the country people have been hunting out the Liberals.

GERMANY.-The Voss Gazette says that the German Foreign Office ignores the right of the Cape Colony Government to annex any portion of the west coast of Africa. It is reported that official communications have passed between the German and British Governments on the reported annexation by Germany of the African coast from Cape Frio to Angra Pequena, and that Prince Bismarck repudiates the authorization of such annexation.

RUSSIA. The Emperors of Germany and Austria both arrived at Skiernevic, Poland, on the 15th inst. meeting the Russian Emperor there.

The Czar has pardoned 42 Nihilists sentenced to Siberia, and commuted the sentence of 73 others. During their visit to Warsaw, the sovereigns have been

closely guarded, and access to them has been very difficult, but some persons have contrived to present petitions to them personally. The Czarina granted one of these upon the spot, to the gratification of the populace.

İTALYA letter is published from the Pope to the Archbishop of Florence, in which he objects to the ad. vocacy by "Father" Curci of the reconciliation of the Italian Government and the Vatican, and maintains that the only basis of reconciliation will be the recognition of the rights of the church.

The ravages of cholera in Naples have been most distressing. In 24 hours ending at 9 P. M. on the 11th, 966 fresh cases and 328 deaths were reported, and from midnight of the 12th to 4 P. M. on the 14th, 1299 cases and 687 deaths. Heavy rains fell on the 15th, and a notable decrease in the number of cases followed. The total of deaths from the beginning to the 14th, was 3927. The King returned to Rome on the 15th, directing that a report of the situation at Naples should be telegraphed to him twice a day. He advised that the poorer families should be quartered in the barracks. The Minister of War has placed 10,000 tents at the disposal of the authorities for shelter for the poor. The Pope has made another gift of $6000 to the relief fund, the General Steam Navigation Co. has given $1000, and the American Minister $1000. The municipal authorities of Naples, with the approval of the Archbishop, prohibited all religious processions. Two hundred volunteers offered their services to the hospitals.

The paper will be filled with strong, short, compact arguments in favor of prohibition.

The subscription price of the paper for the eight issues is 25 cents.

All friends of the cause are urged

1. To forward their names as subscribers and to help to form clubs.

2. To forward reports on the following points : (a) The name and size of the local Prohibition organizations.

(b) What is the prospect of an increased Prohibition vote in each locality.

(c) What are local hindrances to a successful campaign. Address,

R.

FUNK & WAGNALLS, Publishers, 10 and 12 Dey St., New York City.

S. ASHBRIDGE and L. V. SMITH, Family and Day School, with Kindergarten, will re-open Ninth month, (Sept.) 24th, at 1833 Chestnut St., Phila'delphia. 5-31

The writer was once in a large, well-filled meeting-house, when an esteemed minister of our Society, in a brief, solemn exhortation, alluded to

some who, he feared, in their intellectual pride even despised their Saviour. The words were startling, and probably brought tears very near the eyes of many, with, perhaps, the thought-"I have slighted Him, forgotten Him, doubted Him, grieved Him, disobeyed Him, even denied Him; but-despised Him?-never, never!"

The great Apostle gloried in the remembrance that to his Divine Master was given a name above Every name, and that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, and every tongue confess that He was Lord; and doubtless there were those present on the occasion referred to above who could humbly yet fearlessly unite in Paul's rejoicing. For is it not the case that in every age of Christendom the best men and women-though wide as the poles apart on some other matters of religious belief-are one in their love to Christ? When we get at their deepest thoughts of Him, all distinctions vanish away. We might take passage after passage of their spoken and written words on this theme, and it would be impossible to tell thereby to what divis

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ion of the Church militant they belonged. Protestant and Roman Catholic, Quaker and Ritualist, Episcopalian and Nonconformist, Churchmen High, Broad and Low-(even sometimes the Unitarian) -all speak of Him as the Name above every name. That stands unchanged behind the clash and din of warring arguments.

lian the Apostate did not say that the Galilean had Thomas Hodgkin has remarked that, though Juconquered. yet that he might truly have said so, and

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"The one dearest wish of his life was foiled. The pagan theologian emperor had made no enduring impression upon his age. Once more had the full wave of imperial power dashed against the calm figure of the Christ, and once more it retired, not a fold of the seamless vesture disarranged."

There is this consolation for His faithful followers, baffled and disappointed though they may seem to be, yet they are-unless all our hopes are vainupon the winning side. Let us hear Ruskin on this point; he says:

"It was spiritual death which Christ conquered, so that at the last it shall be swallowed up-mark the word—not in life, but in victory. As the dead body shall be raised to life, so also shall the defeated soul to victory, if only it has been fighting on its Master's side, has made no covenant with death, nor itself bowed its forehead to its seal."