hands, and who are good enough to dedicate it to the service of their fellow-creatures.

"I do not think that ever any series of services were arranged for with more good feeling between all denominations, executed with more unity or zeal, or crowned with greater success. For two months before we started, the ground was thor oughly prepared, so that for about ten months Mr. Paton has worked like a galley-slave in the midst of an energetic and devoted body of helpers. Among those who helped us very materially were converts who joined us at Cambridge. There never was a place that I approached with greater anxiety than Cambridge. Never having had the privilege of a university education I was nervous about meeting university men. But I think I had a better time at Cambridge than I had in any other provincial town, and many of the graduates who were brought in there rendered noble service in our London campaign. Some of the best cricketers in Cambridge-some of the best in England, in fact-have been with us heart and soul. We have experienced the advantage of the Cambridge visit through the whole of our London campaign."

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"There is much more brotherly feeling, more Christian union among the various denominations, than in 1876. The number of ministers, Estab lished and non-Established, that co-operated with us all through has been much greater, and their fervor and brotherly feeling were all that could be desired. Another great change, very welcome to us, is the increased spiritual life of the churches. There is still, no doubt, a great deal to be done; but there has been a great awakening, and the Church of England especially is much more alive than it used to be. Then there is another improvement that is very perceptible, lying on the surface of society; I mean the enormous advance you have made in Temperance. Eight years ago it was difficult for me to mix in your society without being constantly pressed to drink wine. Now I may say, broadly, I am never asked to touch it, and at many places where I go it is not even on the table. This is a great change, and brings you nearer to the American level in that matter, for in our country Christian people have been ahead of you in recognizing the mischief of drink. Side by side with the increasing zeal of the churches there has been a most remarkable absence of abuse, and the last improvement that I notice is a diminution of caste feeling. There seems to me to exist in England a greater sense of our common humanity, permeating all classes. The rich and the poor seem to feel that there is no longer that great gulf between them which was formerly there."

from place to place. A man may be in a room today, and out of it to-morrow. There is no sense of permanence of ownership such as we have in America, where nearly every man owns his own house and has his own bit of land. There are more people who live from hand to mouth in Eng. land than in America, and I sometimes wonder how you would pull through in the event of a prolonged period of depression. The home was founded before the Church, and you in England stand more in need of homes than you do of churches. There are no homes in the world so well found and so beautiful as English homes; but, on the other hand, the extremes meet, and there are none so destitute or squalid, or lacking in all that makes home home like, as the homes of many, many thousands of your countrymen. In America the sense of ownership is a great stimulus to the development of manhood; and I think our institutions also contribute to sharpen the intelligence of the working man. He has a vote, and so he reads the papers to see which side he should vote upon, and the result is that, upon the whole, I think our working classes are more intelligent than yours. But the great thing that you are behind in is, after all, the home. Keep hammering away at the dwellings of the poor' question, and keep moving on against the drink.

"The great defect, if I may be permitted to say so, of your services in England, especially of the services of the Church, is that they alienate the masses by their excessive length and their lack of interest and vitality. None of our meetings exceeded one hour in length, and they were always broken up with plenty of singing. Long services are a mistake. You want prayers short and to the point, with straightforward addresses from the heart of the speaker to the hearts of the listeners. In short, the great need of the Church here, as elsewhere, is sanctified common sense."

THE GLORY OF THE CRUCIFIED.*

BY WILLIAM ARTHUR.

When the eye of Paul was lifted up to contemplate his Lord in the seat to which He had as cended, did it find Him as the head of the martyrs? of the apostles? of the prophets? of the angels? None of those titles could answer to the place He occupied. Even a name which should indicate the combination of all these dignities into one would not correspond with his place. He was "Head of all things;" there being placed lower than He, not merely angel, prophet, apostle, and martyr, but worlds and systems of worlds, forces and systems of forces, organs, functions, dominions, principalities, and powers. He was far above" all these; above them, with the superiority, not merely of preeminence, but of command. They were put, not merely on less elevated ground, but "under his feet"-language strongly expressing a

subject condition (Eph. i. 22). At his name were to bow and to confess, not only things in heaven and things on earth, but also things under the earth. He in whom dwelt all the fullness of the Godhead bodily took his own place as "over all, God blessed for ever. Amen." In the language of the writer of the Epistle to the Hebrews, the various views set before us by Paul seem most naturally to express themselves: "Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever ; sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom." And again: "Let all the angels of God worship Him."

Yet this divine glory never obscured the Cross. The Christ whom the princes of the world crucified was the Lord of glory. And so the Christ whom the Eternal Father honored as Lord of glory was ever and always Christ crucified. He had entered into the excellent glory, not alone with the tokens of life, but also with those of death. He had not entered without blood. It was through his blood that were proclaimed our redemption and the forgiveness of our sins. It was around his death that centred all the reconciling forces. He was "set forth" by God, not merely as our Light and Helper, but was "set forth to be a propitiation through faith by his blood."

Here we find the two principles exhibited face to face, that whereas, on the one hand, the offending creature cannot be cleared in any wise that shall enfeeble law or obscure it, but only in such wise as shall magnify it and make it honorable; so, on the other hand, must the pardoning act of the Creator be justified in the view of universal conscience; else law itself would fail for want of a foundation in conscience, were it once possible to believe that wrong was as safe as right, and offending as certain of ultimate acceptance as humble obedience. The Judge of the whole earth will constrain all to say that He does right; that, as in punishing his goodness never is absent from his justice, so, in forgiving his justice is never absent from his goodness. He will be justified when He speaks, He will be clear when He is judged; so that in being, in their turn, judged of Him, all shall confess that they stand before the Holy and the True, all whose judgments are right.

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In the midst of the throne, looking down upon all created glory, like the sun looking down upon his own beams;" in the midst of the throne, pouring out the flame of his eyes into all the earth, which flame is the fire of "the seven spirits of God sent forth into all the earth;" in the midst of the throne, standing while all creation bows; in the midst of the throne, from it sending forth the very Spirit of God, while all creation looks up to it every supply-He is not as He was when John the Baptist saw Him as the Lamb by the waters; He stands not now without spot, for the mark is upon Him that He bare sin in His own body on the tree. He is here standing, a Lamb not incapable of death, but actually a "Lamb as it had been slain." Strange, above all strange things! The marks of death, the marks of sin's own wages, the marks of a curse amid all the lights that radiate

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outwards from the central point of thy majesty and blessedness-O Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty the High Priest amid cherubim, law and Shekinah; but not without blood.

Even so, Amen! Thou art the First and the Last! Thou art He that liveth and was dead. Thou hast redeemed us with Thine own blood. Our happy brethren on high are there because they have washed their robes and made them white in the Blood of the Lamb. In the same manner shall we attain at last unto the same victory. Then, with all who have gone before, will we take up the song which sings: "Unto Him that loveth us and loosed us from our sins by his blood; and He made us to be a kingdom, to be priests unto his God and Father; to Him be the glory and the dominion for ever and ever. Amen."

OUR LONDON LETTER.

At the Meeting for Sufferings on the 3rd instant the Committee appointed with reference to the war in Madagascar reported that the subject was under care and that they were earnestly looking for some way of bringing our views before the French nation. After considerable expression of feeling on the part of different Friends the meeting settled into a short time of silent exercise of spirit, and then prayer was offered to our Heavenly Father, that he might be pleased to turn the hearts of the oppressors, and that we ourselves might not be carried away, by our sympathy with the oppressed, into hasty language or even unkind thoughts toward those who were doing the wrong.

Our late friend Eliza Barclay, of Darlington, has bequeathed £5000 to be devoted to the training of female teachers in the Society of Friends, or to promoting the cause of education in such other ways as her trustees may determine. The Meeting for Sufferings, whilst not appointing the original trustees, nor exercising any control over the administration of the fund, has agreed (in accordance with the desire of the testatrix) to fill up any vacancies that may occur in the board of trustees in future.

The list of our members and attenders of meetings in Australia and New Zealand which was printed about seven years ago is now found to be in considerable need of revision. It has been of frequent use to ministers and other Friends when going out to the Colonies, and the copies that were forwarded to the several meetings have been of service in acquainting our friends with the existence of many fellow-members who were scattered up and down the country.

The "Continental Committee" of the Meeting for Sufferings is authorized to revise this list, and will be glad to receive the names and addresses of any Friends who have recently gone to reside in the Colonies.

Dr. Parker, the Chairman of the Congregational Union, in the course of an address on the "Larger ministry" recently made the following remarks on Evangelical Theology: "No greater mistake of

a speculative or controversial kind can be made than to suppose that the evangelical creed is narrow or exclusive a statement which I make the more distinctly in the face of a common impression, that to be evangelical is to be conceited and illiberal. "Unitarianism does not uphold the true humanity of Christ more thoroughly than it is upheld by evangelical doctrine; Rationalism does not more distinctly recognize human reason than it is recognized by evangelical philosophy; Agnosticism cannot rebuke intellectual pride more completely than it is humbled by inspired revelation; Secularism cannot be more industrious than Christianity calls upon its followers to be. The evangelical rod swallows up all the other rods and yet is greater than all. I have all things in Christ-my Lord and my God-a solid earth, an infinite and resplendent sky. I have come to see (he continues) that it is of more importance that a man should believe in God than that he should accept any particular, and perhaps variable, theory of God, and that it is of infinitely greater consequence that he should believe in Immortality than that he should select some special theory because of its temporary intellectual fascination."

Speaking of the ministry, Dr. Parker said that the Christian is at liberty to consider from which of two widely separated points-the theological in doctrine or the philanthropic in action-it should be begun. "Christ always began at the point of social pressure. Christ asked the people what they wanted, and began His ministry at the point of their reply. 'And Jesus said, what wilt thou that I should do unto thee?' Personal need must determine Christian service. Into whatsoever city ye enter heal the sick that are therein, and say, The Kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.' Begin at the material and go on to the spiritual."

London, Tenth mo. 12th, 1884.

ELLICE HOPKINS.

In the noble efforts made in our day to rescue the perishing, to care for the homeless, and to re dress iniquitous wrongs, some women lead the van. Among such, a place-and that no mean one-is filled by Ellice Hopkins. Even in her teens Miss Hopkins began the work to which she has consecrated her later life. She got hold of some girls and gathered them into a Bible class she held at her father's house in Cambridge. Her influence was great and was used well. From them she learned that their fathers and brothers seldom went to church. This pained her much. She firmly believed that only so far as a man is imbued with the spirit of Christ can he be in the true sense of the word a man. Here were many with the form but without the substance of manhood. What could she do to raise them to a nobler life? This was the question she asked herself. She found an answer, and im mediately she resolved on a course of action.

She secured a cottage in a district inhabited by It was in the neighborhood of "Gaslane"-a far from pleasant part of the town. There

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she held a meeting on the Sabbath evening. Sixteen rude and careless men came to it, drawn more by curiosity than by any real interest. Words so gentle and helpful were spoken to them that the tears ran down their rough cheeks. They went away in a strangely softened mood, to come back on the following Sabbath with some friends. Soon the room was crowded. A hall was taken; it also quickly filled. Men flocked to hear what they would not listen to in church. The Abbey schoolrooms were thrown open, and to them hundreds of working men gathered from far and near. As time rolled on their interest did not decrease; rather it increased. Their lives showed the power of the bracing truths taught them. Their homes were lit up with a new happiness, and they themselves felt the awakening impulses of the manhood long latent in their breasts.

Months sped by in this work of faith and labor of love till the indefatigable Miss Hopkins was laid aside by illness. For many years she lay helpless and suffering. At last the time came when she could leave the chamber of sickness and enter the busy world again. She began a new and needed enterprise. With characteristic ardor she devoted herself to the rescue and reformation of her fallen sisters. Brighton was her first field of labor. The work thus begun has been carried on in the face of much prejudice and many difficulties. Miss Hopkins is brave, and she needs bravery; she is passionately in earnest, and her labors need earnestness to sustain them. She has written much and lectured often about the duty and methods of reclaiming fallen women. Mainly through her efforts the White Cross Army has been established to help on this good movement. The age of chivalry is not gone.

Wherever the Cross has been exalted deeds of knightly heroism have been done; whoever has been filled with the Spirit of Christ strives to "Clear the dark places, and let in the law, And break the band it holds, and cleanse the land."

The evils which Ellice Hopkins battles against menace alike the sacredness of the home and the strength of the country. Here, then, is an enterprise for knights good and true. With God for their inspiration, and purity for their motto, let them go forth and fight against the wickedness which darkens our land !-Christian Leader.

ARBITRATION.

In a speech at Evansville, Indiana, Tenth mo. 22, James G. Blaine expressed his views as follows:

"A very respectable member of the Society of Friends spoke to me in Indianapolis, yesterday, in warm commendation of the proposition for a peace congress of American nations, as originally designed under the administration of President Garfield. Such a movement as that I consider, myself, to be the basis of a sound and wise foreign policy. We seek no intervention in the struggles and contentions of European governments, but we do seek expansion of trade with our American neighbors, and, as the prerequisite thereto, we

seek friendly and peaceable relations with all the countries of North and South America. [Cheers.] We seek more than that. We desire not only to be peaceable and friendly with those nations, but we desire that they shall be. peaceful and friendly with each other. I confess that I can imagine no more impressive spectacle than would be presented by all the nations of the new world meeting in the capital of the Great Republic, and solemnly agreeing that, as between themselves, war shall cease, and that every difficulty that may arise shall be submitted to impartial arbitrators for just and friendly settlement. [Cheers.] Almost every republic of North and South America has indicated its desire to meet in such a congress in the city of Washington, and every instinct of justice, every consideration of philanthropy, every teaching of Christianity, sug gest that such a congress should be held. Though it would embrace in its membership only the nations of America, it could not fail, if successful in its grand design, to affect favorably the public opinion of the world. I confess I should wish no prouder distinction for the United States of America than to initiate a movement that might, in the wide sweep of its beneficent influence, incorporate the principle of friendly arbitration as a permanent part of the international code of the world. Without intermeddling in the affairs of other nations, we can exert upon them the influence of a lofty example and commend to them a policy based on the eternal principles of justice." [Prolonged cheering]-Indianapolis Journal.

A STRANGELY INTERRUPTED SERVICE. Mrs. Sturge of Petchaburi, Siam, tells in a recent letter, of a strange interruption to the evening service in their chapel.

"Every thing grows rapidly during the rainy season, which is now fairly upon us. Vines planted a week ago now tower above our heads, flowers are in great profusion; four different kinds of the most exquisite and fragrant lilies are now blooming in our garden, and in the ponds is the lovely lotus, "queen of lilies" and royal flower of Siam.

"But with the first rainstorm come the large winged white ants. This year they made their debut while we were holding our services in the chapel or in the schoolroom adjoining, attracted by the lights. They came literally by millions, and swarmed for a full hour in that way. Fortunately our prayer meeting was nearly over. We were completely covered with them while we sang one verse of a hymn in closing. The singing was not very vociferous, for we feared their flying into our mouths. It seemed like a heavy snow storm; the air was actually thick, and the noise of their millions of wings reminded one of the approach of an army. Disgusting though it was, it was a sight well worth witnessing. I think the floor would soon have been several inches thick with them, but that the people stuffed their pockets full and then filled their shawls with them, without making any apparent diminution in their numbers. Many of the na

tives, then ran home and brought baskets and pans, and these were soon filled. The natives consider these ants a great luxury, so you see they had a grand feast. They prepare them in various ways, and the next morning at breakfast-time they brought us a dish of the little creatures fried, but we declined them with many thanks. Some of the foreigners have tried them and pronounce them very good, but we have not yet progressed so far. The chapel floor, in spite of vigorous scrubbling with sand and soap, was one huge grease spot when we assembled for prayers the next morning.

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"No one can walk through a few schools in different districts of London, and with different rates of payment, without being impressed by the wide interval in health and development that separates children in the best from those in the worst. latter are puny, dwarfish, pale, and feeble, when compared with the former; and to judge a teacher who is laboring among them by the same standard that is applied to another whose lot is cast among larger limbed and larger-headed children, with richer blood and more constitutional vigor, is to do him a manifest injustice, and incite to overpressure."

Starvation is pronounced a larger question even than dulness. Bread and weak tea form the only nourishment of many of these children, and one boy was found studying geography who had had no breakfast, and whose dinner consisted of two rotten oranges. Others neglect their breakfast in their eagerness to get to school in time to secure the red mark. Some of the results of these evils are very striking. "It is now certain that more than onethird of the children attending elementary schools in London suffer from habitual headache. I have examined 6,580 children in elementary schools in London on the subject of headaches, and have found that 3,034, or 46.1 per cent., profess to suffer from them habitually. Great pains were taken to secure accurate returns." In one school containing 381 boys, 129 were sleep-talkers and 28 sleepwalkers, this being a school in which home lessons were insisted upon. In a school of 432 girls there were 17 somnambulists, and in another of 382 there

were 20. Tabulated statistices show, furthermore, that 53.4 per cent. of the boys and 55 per cent. of the girls suffer from neuralgia and toothache; and short-sightedness increases so rapidly that it threatens to become a national infirmity, as in Germany. A remarkable contrast to this state of affairs is offered in the schools of Scotland. "Only 23 children (9 boys and 14 girls) out of 335 complained of headaches, which gives a percentage of 6.5 against 46.1 for London. One child, a nervous girl, out of the 335, complained of sleeplessness, and there was just one instance of short-sightedness, while not a somnambulist was to be found; the reason being that "they are well fed on porridge and milk as the staple articles of diet, with broth, potatoes, butter, tea, and occasionally a bit of meat or bacon. They are warmly clad, and wear stout clogs in winter and go barefooted in summer. They are much in the open and uncontaminated air."-Nation.

RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE

PERSECUTION IN SWITZERLAND.-The Pall Mall Gazette of 9 mo. 3, contains a letter from Josephine Butler, partly as follows: The foreign Salutistes are now almost all expelled, and the persecution rages against the Swiss Christians themselves who are carrying on the work of revival, initiated by English Salvationists. You probably heard of the affair at Bienne, where the house where a few worshipers were gathered was "more completely destroyed than if it had been set on fire," and whence the inmates scarcely cscaped with their lives. The incident of this outbreak has had such an influence with the Federal Government that they have continued to limit more and more the small amount of freedom and peace before enjoyed by the Salutistes. Their action has culminated in the decree of the Berne Government proclaiming that no meetings whatever of the character of Salutism, public or private (not even in the most intimate fashion in family circles). shall be henceforward permitted, and that, moreover, it shall be penal to speak in favor of the Salutistes! In order that you may estimate the enormity of this decree, I must remind you that these poor Salutistes have never in Switzerland provoked opposition, as they have done in erland provoked opposition, as they have done in England, by displays, processions, noisy music, &c.; on the contrary, they are driven to pray and speak, like the Covenanters of old, in forests and caves, and quiet places where they may be uninterrupted.

What is the secret of this hostility against them on the part of the rabble and the authorities? I have known the social life of this country well for many years, and am able to give you the answer. It is because the Salutistes have not confined themselves simply to preaching Christian doctrine (which, indeed, is very assiduously taught by the churches here), but have pitilessly attacked the vices of the people, high and low, rich and poor. Those vices have enormously increased of late years; and the drunkards, the impure livers, the

gamblers, with the egotists and materialists of every kind, have banded themselves together to annihi late the messengers of the higher and purer life. They cling to their vices with the dogged tenacity which the Swiss have formerly manifested in the pursuit of good or the overcoming of difficulties. The salvationists have been pelted and mobbed in England, but in England the magistrates and our chief judges have taken the part of order and justice, and have not applauded the assailants. It is the sympathy of the authorities here with the roughs which has brought the country to such a pass, and that sympathy is based on the.common desire to be let alone in their evil habits. "Let us alone; why art thou come to torment us?" was the cry of the Gadarene devils. It is very much the same cry which we hear now. M. Cornaz, Minister of Police and Justice (!) at Neuchâtel, who is the Judge Jeffreys of the present persecution, has declared in a public speech that not only must the Salutistes be silenced, but the members of the British and Continental Federation (for higher morality) must be expelled; and for the same reasons: because we of the Federation say to M. Cornaz and all men in authority, "Have done with your vices, and set a decent example to the people." There are men in the different cantonal governments who would do better, but they are weak enough to be carried along by the muddy tide.

Meanwhile the violences continue, private correspondence is opened and read, women are beaten in the streets in daylight. The youngest daughter of M. Aimé Humbert, coming from a meeting in the country a few days ago, was struck on the head by a stone thrown by one of the protégés of the Neuchâtel Government, and has remained stunned by it for several days. The motto of the persecuting party seems to be to deChristianise Switzerland. What the end of it all will be, politically, it is difficult to foresee. It is clear, however, that the great power of modern days-public opinion should be brought to bear on the matter. These tyrants in Switzerland should be made to feel that civilized public opinion in Europe is against them.

special prayer for Syria and those engaged there in THE Jewish Intelligencer for September invites spreading the Gospel of Christ. Rev. C. P. Sherman, writing from Zahlet on 7 mo. 29, speaks of the great anxieties by which Christian workers in and around Damascus are beset. There are very ominous political signs of danger, which threaten a repetition of the massacres of 1860. Fanatical outrages incited by European emissaries have led to quarrels between Christians and Moslems, the lat ter vowing vengeance. Papers have been posted on several churches, calling upon the Moslems to rise and slay all Christians.

THE FRIENDS of the American Missionary Association will be glad to learn that its financial year was closed, 9 mo. 30, with $287,594.19 as a total of receipts, of which $69,653.80 came in during the last month. The receipts from collections and