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means by the expressions used-is "now all but surrendered." There may be-and probably there are amongst us-though unknown to me-individuals who hold unsound views on this as on other subjects, but I feel sure that no authoritative ground has ever been given for such an assertion.

Perhaps no better answer can be given than to insert the following Query and Advice, which are from time to time read in our meetings, and which passed the large and very representative committee for the late revision of our Book of Discipline," I think with perfect unanimity :

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Do you maintain a faithful allegiance to the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ as the one Head of the church and the Shepherd and Bishop of souls," from whom alone must come the true call and qualification for the ministry of the Word?

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THE deputation of Friends from London Yearly Meeting held a meeting on Fifth-day the 3d ult., just after the close of Canada Yearly Meeting, in the old Friends' Meeting-house at Pickering, for both the Friends and those who have seceded. They gave much excellent advice. A Friend writing says: "So far we can see no definite results from this meeting." The Friends there have rented and hold their meet. ings in the Bible Christian meeting-house. evening the English Friends went to Toronto and attended the regular week-day meeting, in which the Lord's blessing was received, J. B. Braithwaite and others being engaged in vocal service. William Robinson remained at Toronto till Second-day, while the other Friends went to Pelham, where they spent Firstday the 6th. The First-day Meeting at Toronto, both morning and evening, was well attended, and much favored. In addition to Wm. Robinson, Lida G. Romick was present. On Second-day W. R. proceeded to join the other Friends at Norwich. We have no report of the meetings at Pelham.-Chris. Worker.

RURAL.

For Friends' Review.

ALTHOUGH many months have passed since I left your county, I still have interest there, and write to tell your readers how to make poultry raising a profitable business. The demand for early chicks, when from eight to ten weeks old, is very great, and in large cities, like New York, New Orleans, Chicago, St. Louis and Denver, they find a ready market at from 50 to 60 cents per pound; but to obtain these high prices, they must be hatched early-February, March and April being the best months. As hens are not setting by instinct that early, you must use incubators. They will hatch a larger per cent. of chicks than hens, and the chicks are very healthy, they being entirely free from lice. I have two incubators that I made myself. They cost me $5 each, and hold 480 eggs. Any one can get directions for making an incubator like mine by writing to J. Bane, New Concord, Ohio, enclosing stamps for postage. My incubators are a complete success, and being so cheap, are

within the reach of all, and any lady can run them. I have 212 hens, and since March 1st, I have sold from these 212 hens and my two incubators $1,427 worth of chicks and eggs. Now is the time to prepare for winter and spring trade. Make your incubators at once, and give them one trial this fall. Then you will be ready to work intelligently. I run my incubators the year round, and think there is no business requiring so little capital that yields such large profits. I will soon write you another article, on "Which are the most profitable varieties of poultry to raise," and on other poultry topics if you wish. POULTRYMAN.

THE ARTILLERY FERN, or flower, as it is sometimes called, is a curious and beautiful plant which is not very generally known outside of rare collections or of florists' greenhouses. It acquires its singular name from the military and explosive fashion with which it resists the action of water upon it. If a branch of the fern, covered with its small red seed, be dipped in water and then held up to the light, there soon commences a strange phenomenon. First one bud will explode with a sharp little crack, throwing into the air its pollen in the shape of a small cloud of yellow dust. This will be followed by another and another, until very soon the entire fern like branch will be seen discharging these miniature volleys with their tiny puffs of smoke. This occurs whenever the plant is watered, and the effect of the entire fern in this condition of rebellion is very curious as well as beautiful. As the buds thus open they assume the shape of a miniature, Geneva cross, too small to the naked eye to attract much attention, but under a magnifying glass they are seen to possess a rare and delicate beauty.

THE session of the National Educational Association at Madison, Wis., was a great success in every point of view. A year ago, when the Association met at Saratoga, there was a small attendance, and considerable doubt was expressed as to the success of the meeting this year; but all doubts have been dispelled by the great numbers, general enthusiasm, and many discussions of value and interest. Among many other facts made clear to those present at Madison was the fact that the popular interest in education is more general in the West than in the East; State systems of education, including common, normal, and high schools and State Universities, are more complete and general than in the East; and of the four professorships of pedagogics, or teaching, which have been established in this country, three are to be found in connection with Western State universities. Five thousand teachers were present and all the meetings were crowded to the full. Among those who took part were Dr. G. Stanley Hall, of the Johns Hopkins University; Dr. Harris, of the School of Philosophy, who was for many years a leading educator in the West, and many other teachers of prominence from all parts of the country.-Christian Union.

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DYNAMITE, it is suspected, is being employed against fish, as well as against good order and the safety of society. Great quantities of dead fish have been found in the Niagara river, and they are supposed to have been the victims of dynamite, exploded under the water by "pot hunters." There have already been complaints from rivers in the West, where, in sparsely settled places, dynamite may be used without much fear of detection, and it is easy to foresee that, if this method of catching fish for the market should come into use, the destruction of all fisheries will be only a matter of a few months, instead of years. The destruction is enormous, and may affect the public health, not only by filling the streams with decaying animal matter, but by depriving the rivers of some of their natural purifiers. In the economy of nature fish are just as essential to the preservation of water as growing plants, and the dynamiters, by killing the fish, may spread disease and death along the banks of the streams.-Daily Paper.

THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION, just being organized, is to hold its first meeting at Saratoga, Ninth mo. 9th, 1884. Among its founders are the Professors of History in Cornell, Michigan and Johns Hopkins Universities.

THE Christian Union says: "An Inter-Ecclesiastic Congress, composed of clergymen from different Protestant denominations, will be held in New Haven in May, 1885. This movement took form June 18th, at Pittsfield, Mass., a meeting being held in response to a circular issued by the clergymen of that place. A committee, composed of Dr. J. H. Seelye, Rt. Rev. Thomas M. Clark, D.D., and Joseph Anderson, of Waterbury, reported recommendations, which were adopted, to the effect that the new organization should be The American Congress of Churches,' and its object to promote Christian union and advance the kingdom of God by the free discussion of the great religious, moral, social questions of the time, and that it should assemble at intervals of two years. The movement is regarded as significant as showing that the differences in doctrinal points, which formerly served as complete barriers between the different denominations, have been to a great extent removed by a larger toleration and more united spirit in working to promote the essentials of Christian faith."

THE Mayor of Oakland has ordered the revival of the old custom of ringing the curfew beil at nine o'clock every evening, with responses from all the bells on the engine-houses, and all the police are ordered to arrest all boys under fifteen years of age that are in the streets after that hour, and lock them up. "The city is interested to a certain extent in every boy living within its limits," he says, "and therefore the city must take cognizance, when necessary, of every boy's proneness publicly to form idle and vicious habits, and the aid of the law should be invoked as far as possible, to compel every boy to eschew all practices that would result in making him a bad citizen."

THE sixtieth anniversary of the American SundaySchool Union was held at the First Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, May 22d. The President, the Hon. Wm. Strong, LL.D., gave the address of welcome. The summary of mission work from March 1st, 1883, to March 1st, 1884: Schools organized (new), 1979; teachers in them, 8681; scholars in them, 71,624; schools aided (not before reported), 1503; teachers in them, 12,585; scholars in them, 123,590; schools

aided (previously reported), 2902; teachers in them, 17,589; scholars in them, 171,158; Bibles distributed, 6239; Testaments distributed, 9835; family visits, 31,844; addresses delivered, 8613. A large number of churches are reported as the outgrowth of these pioneer schools. In the South much attention is given to the spiritual wants of the colored people.-Pulpit Treasury.

THE Legislature of New York amends the Penal Code by holding any person guilty of a misdemeanor who shall sell, give away, exhibit, or offer for sale to any minor child any book, pamphlet, magazine, newspaper, or other printed paper devoted to the publica. tion of, or principally made up of criminal news, police reports, or accounts of criminal deeds; or who of any minor child any such publication. shall exhibit on any street or highway within the view

THERE is great force in Spurgeon's pithy saying: "If God's providence is our inheritance, we need not worry about the price of wheat."

SUMMER WIND.

It is a sultry day; the sun has drunk
The dew that lay upon the mountain grass.
There is no rustling in the lofty elm
That canopies my dwelling, and its shade
Scarce cools me. All is silent, save the faint
And interrupted murmur of the bee,
Settling on the sick flowers and then again
Instantly on the wing. The plants around
Feel the too potent fervors: the tall maize
Rolls up its long, green leaves; the clover droops
Its tender foliage, and declines its blooms.
But far in the fierce sunshine tower the hills,
With all their growth of woods, silent and stern,
As if the scorching heat and dazzling light
Were but an element they loved. Bright clouds,
Motionless pillars of the brazen heaven-
Their bases on the mountains, their white tops
Shining in the far ether-fire the air
With a reflected radiance, and make turn
The gazer's eye away. For me, I lie
Languidly in the shade, where the thick turf,
Yet virgin from the kisses of the sun,
Retains some freshness, and I woo the wind
That still delays his coming. Why so slow,
Gentle and voluble spirit of the air?

O, come and breathe upon this fainting earth
Coolness and life. Is it that in his caves
He hears me? See, on yonder woody ridge,
The pine is bending his tall top, and now
Among the nearer groves, chestnut and oak
Are tossing their green boughs about. He comes;
Lo, where the grassy meadow runs in waves!
The deep, distressful silence of the scene
Breaks up with mingling of unnumbered sounds
And universal motion. He is come,
Shaking a shower of blossoms from the shrubs,
And bearing on their fragrance; and he brings
Music of birds, and rustling of young boughs,
And sound of swinging branches, and the voice
Of distant waterfalls. All the green herbs
Are stirring in his breath; a thousand flowers,
By the roadside and borders of the brook,
Nod gaily to each other; glossy leaves
Are twinkling in the sun, as if the dew
Were on them yet, and silver waters break
Into small waves, and sparkle as he comes.

BRYANT.

SUMMARY OF NEWS. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.-Advices from Europe are to the 6th inst.

GREAT BRITAIN.-The Egyptian Conference met on the 31st ult. and again on the 2nd inst., but failed to attain any agreement, provisional or otherwise, and adjourned indefinitely. This action is generally regarded as tantamount to a dissolution. W. E. Gladstone stated in the House of Commons that the Conference had failed to attain the objects for which it met. The delegates were unanimous in their views respecting the prospective changes in Egypt and the necessity of a fresh loan, but England and France differed irreconcilably respecting the charges and receipts. France refused to assent to any diminution of the dividends payable under the law of liquidation. England was unable to accept any plans which did not provide for the necessary charges of administration. He said the idea that the Government had pro. posed an international control in Egypt similar to the dual control [of England and France] might be dismissed. The Government could not consider any plan incompatible with the just and moderate, though firm, government of Egypt. The Government had as yet no proposals to submit to the House. The AngloFrench agreement has ceased to be in force, and England's responsibility in Egypt has been greatly increased.

In the House of Commons on the 29th, W. E. Gladstone said in reply to a question, that the Government had no intention of again moving the second reading of the Franchise bill, though the House of Lords had not formally rejected it. It is said that the agitation on this subject, outside of Parliament, is increasing. Meetings of Conservatives and Liberals are held daily, both parties making great efforts for their cause.

Three men, named McDonnell, Egan and Daly, have been tried at Warwick as dynamiters. McDonnell, who pleaded guilty of treason-felony, was released on bail to appear if called for. The other two were convicted, and Egan was sentenced to penal servitude for 20 years, and Daly for life.

It was stated in the House of Commons on the 29th, that the Government had not decided to recognize the International African Association in connection with the Congo country.

The Earl of Derby, Colonial Secretary, has advised the Government to consent to the federation of the Australian colonies.

The Irish Constabulary bill passed the House of Commons on the 2d inst. The Parnellites objected to the provision charging certain districts in Ireland for extra police, and urged that the extra force be removed or their maintenance charged equally on the whole country; but the objection did not avail.

IRELAND.-A return has been made to Parliament respecting the operation of the Arrears of Rent act, showing that since 1882, the sum of £2,570,000, owing to landlords by farmers, has been wiped out under the act. The Nationalist papers say that the Land act has already secured to the farmers a permanent reduction of rent exceeding £500,000 yearly. The Commission for considering the condition of education in Ireland state that the curtailed rents were better paid last year than at any time since the agitation began. The relations between landlords and tenants are amicable; primary schools, established for the benefit of the tenants, are everywhere appreciated, and the Government has resolved on a large reduction of the forces

in Ireland.

FRANCE.-The Chamber of Deputies, on the 31st ult., by a vote of 294 to 191, adopted the bill for the revision of the Constitution as passed by the Senate.

On the 4th inst. the Congress composed of both Chambers met at Versailles to undertake the revision. The session was very disorderly. The standing orders of the Assembly of 1871 were adopted. Prime Minister Ferry then attempted to introduce the scheme of revision, but some members protested, insisting that bureaux ought first to be elected; and the tumult was so great that the President suspended the sitting. In the next day's sitting, a committee was chosen by ballot, to which amendments to the Constitution were referred. The committee is composed entirely of supporters of the Ministry. The extreme Left, (Radical) party refused to vote. This session also was "violently uproarious."

The time allowed for negotiations between France and China has expired, but accounts as to the present condition of affairs are not very clear. The London Standard asserts that negotiations are broken off; it is reported that Prime Minister Ferry has sent his ultimatum to Pekin; and a dispatch from Foo Chow says that China offered an indemnity of $700,000, which the French Minister refused, and that twelve Chinese gun-boats had been placed in position there.

The cholera continues to decline at Marseilles and Toulon, and many fugitives from those cities have returned home. It was feared that this return to unhealthy quarters might cause a fresh outbreak, but this does not appear to have occurred as yet. The total number of deaths from cholera in Marseilles to the 2d inst. was 1248. The disease has appeared in several villages previously exempt, and at Garfagnana, Pancalieri and other places, in Italy.

ITALY. It is said that 6000 persons are now detained in quarantine at various places on the frontier and along the coast.

HOLLAND. Both Houses of Parliament met in joint Congress on the 1st inst, and passed, by a vote of 97 to 3, a bill making on the King's death, Queen Emma Regent during the minority of the Princess Wilhelmina,

GERMANY.-The principal German colonization societies have decided to ascertain from H. M. Stanley, the African explorer, his views on the proposed German emigration to the Congo, and the best means of carrying it out. Germany has asked the African International Association to dispose of land in the Congo country to German traders and colonists on favorable terms. The directors reply that their territory is open to the world, and they are willing to negotiate with Germans seriously intending to found a settlement there.

TURKEY.-The Powers represented at the Porte have all declined, in an identical note, to agree to the abolition of the foreign post-offices.

DOMESTIC.-The public debt statement for the Ist inst. shows a reduction of $3,993,239 during last month. The vessels of the Greely Relief Expedition arrived at Portsmouth, N. H., on the 1st inst., bringing the survivors of the Arctic expedition and the remains of the dead. On the 4th, a public reception was given to them under the auspices of the municipal authori ties, in which the Secretary of the Navy and the officers and crews of the North Atlantic Squadron participated. The rescued men, though still very weak, are all gradually improving.

A fire originating from a gas explosion, on the night of the 4th inst. destroyed a large part of the Pennsyl vania R. R. depot at Jersey City, opposite New York. The loss is estimated at $250,000. No lives were lost. Such temporary arrangements were made during the progress of the fire, that travel was scarcely interrupted. On the same night, a part of the extensive Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia was burned, caused, it is supposed, by lightning.

THE

Friends' Review.

A RELIGIOUS, LITERARY AND MISCELLANEOUS JOURNAL.

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A Sermon, Delivered by Joseph John Gurney, in Philadelphia, Eighth mo. 27th, 1837.

The memory of the just is blessed, and will not decay.

I can truly say, that when I came into this meet. ing, I had nothing in view as to any particular words that I should utter. I knew not what the Lord might require of me on the present occasion. My mind had no inscription upon it. But as we have been sitting together in silence, these words, with out any seeking of mine own, have been impressed upon me,―The memory of the just is blessed, aud will not decay.

I apprehend that it is one of the frequent devices of the adversary of our souls, to throw a slur upon the character, upon the doctrine, and upon the works of just men in days of old, who have long since paid the debt of nature, and who were faithful servants in their day, in order that we who are now living and walking on the earth, may be prevented from following them as they followed Christ. And I think we need not be told that many things of this kind have been said, and unfairly said, of our forefathers in the truth. I may acknowledge, that in taking my seat among you in this large assembly of my brethren and my sisters, in this deeply interesting place, fraught as it is with such precious memorials, my spirit hath been bowed before

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the Lord, in remembrance of the faithfulness, the Christian integrity, the fervor in spirit of our forefathers in the truth; and I have heartily wished that we may all be enabled to live, to move, and to act on the same noble principles, that we may be Christians indeed, and Quakers indeed; that we may do credit, as they did, to our holy profession, though we may be esteemed among men as the dregs and offscourings of all things, though we may be counted as fools in the estimation of the wise in this world. For after all, no min can be truly wise, unless he is willing to become a fool that he may be wise, and no man can be truly exalted, unless he is enabled to come down in the first place from all that is high and lofty-even those, who, like the eagle, have built their nests in the tops of the rocks, even these shall be brought down. As said the Lord, "The day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up, and he shall be brought low; and upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan, and upon all the high mountains, and upon the hills that are lifted up, and upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall, and upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures. And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low; and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day."

And so it was, my brethren-it cannot be denied by all those who take an impartial view of the history of the church of Christ-so it has been in all ages, that the Lord hath called a people for Himself in every age of the world. He hath put forth His humbling power, He hath laid low the pride of the creature, He hath broken the high things and the hard things in the dust, He hath poured forth of his Holy Spirit, He hath created a people for His praise through many humiliations, through baptisms of suffering, through sore tribulation, through the purifying influence of the furnace of affliction. “I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction." Verily, beloved friends, it was even so with the patriarchs and prophets of old who walked by faith. It was so with our father Abraham when he went into a strange land, not knowing whither he went; and when in obedience to the word of the Lord he carried his son Isaac to Mount Moriah and bound him there for a sacrifice. It was so with Moses, when he esteemed the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt. It was so with the prophets, when they were made as iron pillars and as brazen walls against a gainsaying people, when they had no rest in their spirit or in their bodies, because the fire of the Lord burned within them. "I am pained at my very heart," said the prophet, "my heart maketh a noise in me: I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war." It was so with the primitive disciples of our holy Redeemer, when they gave up their families, their friends, their property, their ease in life, their reputation, their old habits, and their very lives, in order to proclaim to a guilty world the message of our reconciliation and eternal life, through a crucified and risen Lord. And the gospel which they preached, and which, being applied to the hearts of their hearers by the power of the Holy Ghost, was found to be the power of God unto salvation, is the same, the very same in every age. And although a dark night of apostasy did afterwards overtake the professing church, we cannot doubt, that in every age, the Lord had a people for His praise; even a hidden people, those who knew what it was, apart from their fellow-men, to wait upon Him and worship in the silence of all flesh; those who knew that all their hope and all their refuge were to be found in Christ alone.

And doubtless, my beloved friends, it was even so with the founders of this religious Society. Through much tribulation, through humiliation of the pride of man, through the crucifixion of a worldly spirit, the idolatry to which we are prone by nature, through the honest taking up of the cross of Christ, through a participation, according to their measure, of the cup which the Saviour drank of, and of the baptism wherewith He was baptized, they were qualified of the Lord to bear a noble and an upright testimony to the eternal truth-to the truth as it is in Jesus, my brethren; the truth that never did change, that never will change, that cannot in its nature change, because it partakes of the

nature and character of its author; for though all flesh is as grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field, though the grass withereth, and the flower fadeth, the word of the Lord shall stand forever. Yes, I am bold to assert, that if there ever was a people raised up on the only true foundation, even Jesus Cbrist, and Him crucified, this was a people so raised up. Notwithstanding all the cavils which abound in the present day among the disputers of this world, we are assured, we know of a truth, we are furnished with abundant evidence, that these just men were built on the Rock of ages, and their very name is blessed, and shall not decay. They could set their seals to the apostolic declaration, "For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ." Christ Jesus, my beloved friends, not a mere phantom of human speculation! No: the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, the eternal Word of God. This was their foundation, even the Word of which the apostle spake, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt amongst us." Yes, friends, here was the sign in days of old, of a false spirit and a true spirit. If any man confessed that Jesus Christ was come in the flesh, even that the eternal Word had taken upon Him the nature of man, He being born a child into the world, and having died on the cross as a propitiatory sacrifice for the sins of the whole world-here there was a toker of a true spirit. And if any man turned the Word of God, as it were to an airy vision of man's speculation, and denied that He was come in the flesh for the salvation of man, here was a token of a false spirit. And truly the foundation, on which our worthy predecessors did build, was the Word, the eternal Word of God, that was come in the flesh, that was given for the sins of the whole world; that was risen from the dead, that sat on the right hand of the Majesty on high, there to make intercession for His people, and there to rule His universal church by the immediate and perceptible influences of His Holy Spirit. And not only so, but to rule over the universe itself, for the church's sake; because He is the "Head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him that filleth all in all." And our forefathers in the truth

did know Him to be for a "crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty unto the residue of His people." And when they were gathered together for the solemn purpose of worshipping Almighty God, they knew an omnipresent and an omnipotent Saviour to be with them to bring them into solemn silence, to reign over them by His mighty power, to preside over all their assemblies, and to spread over His people the canopy of His love; so that the language of the church in that day was, "I sat down under His shadow with great delight, and His fruit was sweet to my taste."

(To be concluded.)

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