forest each year. New England has more than forty (40) establishments already in which wood is turned into pulp for paper making. Yet this is almost a new use made of woody fibre. What will it be ten years hence? Years ago in this hall, the lecturer said, he had urged that timber land should, in say fifteen years, be exempted from taxation. In 1881 he had published his reasons for that opinion in the report of the State Agricultural Society. It was then regarded either as premature or as of small consequence in the interest of our remaining forests. Yet within a year the President of the Saginaw Board of Trade, in an address, gives as one reason why the pine must be cut "is because the taxes are high." Can anything be more conclusive than such a statement from a business man of known ability? Why should forestry receive this protection and other interests be allowed to shift for themselves? Because the State has to-day no interests which are in so precarious a condition as those depending on the perpetuation and increase of our forests. When we remember how regions once regarded as sanitary centres lost their reputation as such with the loss of their trees, we can well enough understand that the acres of foliage which those forests exposed to sift disease germs out of the air and to purify what we took into our lungs were not flung out to the breeze and the sunlight in vain, and that living foliage in the woods was as full of healing powers as when dead and compounded in drugs. A recent able paper by Dr. Adams, of Pittsfield, Mass., made the sanitary rela tions of trees clearer than before.-Prof. Rothrock.

For Friends' Review. THE WILL OF GOD.

Our God, whose love encircles us
Close as the yielding air,

By which we live, which lets us move,
Yet folds us everywhere,-

Teach us how most to honor Thee
And offer service meet,
While laying all we have and are
With joy at Thy dear feet.

We long for this, that we may know
And wholly do Thy will,

In life or death, by thought and act,
By words or keeping still.

Only Thy will. O may our lives
The full expression prove

Of Thy kind thoughts for us. The thoughts
Of wisdom and great love.

Then rule, and reign, and work Thy will,
Each moment of each day,

Granting this boon, that we may be
To Thy dear praise alway.

S. J. T.

They grow in the darkness, all hid in the night; They grow in the sunshine, revealed by the light;

Still they grow.

A SONG FOR MIDDLE AGE.

I am just a little weary to-night,
Sitting alone in waning light,

Alone in the silent room;

And my eyes are full of unshed tears,
For the hopes and dreams of sweet, dead years,
Years lost in a tender gloom.

Oh, to think how my memory strays
Back, and back to the beautiful days,

The days when I was young;
When hope and I were never apart,
When love made melody in my heart,
And melody on my tongue!

Never again shall I dream such dreams,
See such meadows and woods and streams,
Or carry a heart so glad.

I have crossed the hill at the turn of life;

I have borne the burden and heat of strife;

I'm tired, and a little sad.

I know that my hair is turning gray,

I feel I am growing old to-day,
And my heart sinks wearily.
When the sweetest rose of life is dead,
When song is over and beauty fled,
Ah! what has life left for me?

Hush! there are footsteps upon the stair;
Hush! there are sounds on the soft, still air,
And I forget to complain.

My sons and daughters are in the room;
And gone is the calm, regretful gloom;
I am glad and young again.

Polly and Kitty and Jack and Chris-
All of them wanting a mother's kiss,
All tenderly full of fears;

Then quite forgotten were youthful joys,
I was well content with my girls and boys,
Content with my fifty years.
LILLIE E. BARR.

-Selected.

SUMMARY OF NEWS. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.-Advices from Europe are to the 11th inst.

CREAT BRITAIN.-H. Labouchere, Radical, gave notice in the House of Commons on the 6th of an intended motion providing for a change in the relations between the House of Lords and the House of Commons, so as to prevent the Conservatives from impeding legislation. Another amendment to the address in reply to the royal speech was offered by an Irish member, urging that the criminal law of Ireland, especially as regards the composition of juries, shall be impartially administered. It elicited some violent debate. The Franchise bill passed second reading on the 7th by a vote of 272 to 232, and passed Committee of the Whole on the 10th without change; an amendment designed to prevent the bill from going into operation until a scheme of redistribution should be adopted, having been rejected by 149 votes to 109. On the 11th the bill passed third reading without a division. A member of the Government said that as long as the Conservatives refused to indicate their attitude in regard to Gladstone's proposals, the Government would be unable to introduce a Redistribution bill.

The Cabinet, it is said, have been unable to agree upon a plan for the redistribution of parliamentary seats, and they have referred the draft which had been laid before them to a Ministerial committee for amendment. The delay thus caused lessens the chances of the introduction of a bill for the purpose during this month. The Conservative leaders are preparing a scheme of their own for submission to Parliament; and some Liberal members outside of the Cabinet are said to be conferring with them on the subject of a compromise.

Lord Northbrook, First Lord of the Admiralty, has urged on the Government the addition to the navy of 100 first-class and 150 second-class torpedo boats; and the Admiralty Board has ordered the construction of four torpedo cruisers and a number of torpedo depot vessels for service in all important ports, home and colonial.

Virtual rebellion exists in the island of Skye, and the crofters threaten to resist the armed police. The Highland Reform Association has telegraphed, counselling them not to resist, but to protest by petition to Parliament. The trouble appears to have grown out of an effort of the proprietor of the island to dispossess the tenants of their little farms, in order to turn the land into sheep pastures, or ranges for deer to supply opportunity for hunting; a measure involving much hardship for the poor tenants, if not threatening absolute starvation for them.

On the trial for murder of the captain and mate of the wrecked yacht Mignonette for having killed an ap'parently dying boy, their companion in an open boat on the ocean without provisions, to sustain themselves on his flesh, the jury brought in a special verdict, reciting the facts, and referring to the Superior Court the question of law whether murder had been committed. They coupled with the verdict a recommendation to mercy. Pending decision, the prisoners were released on bail.

Henry Fawcett, Postmaster General for Great Britain, died on the 6th, aged 51 years. He was a remarkable instance of triumph over disabilities, having totally lost his sight by an accident at the age of 23, notwithstanding which, he was distinguished not only as a writer, especially on political economy and social science, but as an efficient and able manager of public affairs. His administration of the Post Office Department for nearly five years past was generally regarded

as admirable, and he had originated some important improvements.

FRANCE. It is asserted that the Governor of Algeria has been ordered to send troops to Morocco to support the French demands for reparation for the destruction of French property and maltreatment of French subjects.

Prime Minister Ferry has announced to the Tonquin Committee of the Chamber of Deputies that England had offered to mediate between China and France, but had not yet made any official overtures to the Chinese Government. Dispatches interchanged be tween Premier Ferry and our Secretary of State have been made public, showing that an inquiry whether France would accept the mediation of the United States was answered that the minimum conditions of such mediation would be an unreserved acceptance by China of the treaty of Tien-Tsin, and the payment of an indemnity, the amount of which could be fixed subsequently. It is asserted that M. Ferry has informed Lord Granville that if China accept mediation without delay or increase of expense by military operations, France will limit its claim of indemnity to $40,000,000.

The cholera has appeared in Paris, and is increasing. In 48 hours ending at midnight on the 8th, 186 new cases and 63 deaths were reported.

The Senate, on the 7th, passed the Senatorial Election bill without amendment.

The latest advices from Madagascar are that the blockade of the east coast continues, and that two French war-vessels have brought fresh troops to Ta

matave.

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.-The Minister of Finance has prepared a measure for submission to the Reichstag, the result of which, if adopted, will be the resumption of specie payments on a gold basis, throughout Austria and Hungary. Leading bankers indorse and ap prove the scheme.

GERMANY.-The Duke of Cumberland has issued a circular addressed to all the German sovereigns except the Emperor, demanding that his proclamation assuming the government of Brunswick shall be coun. tersigned by the Council of Regency of the Duchy; maintaining that the Constitution fairly establishes the validity of his succession; that his hereditary right is not contested; and that the Empire cannot refuse him this right without encroaching on the laws and justice which form the foundation of the German Empire, and imperilling the right of all other German sovereigns. The original manifesto was sent to the Council of Regency on the 18th ult., with a request that they would countersign it, but they declined such responsibility, and their decision was favorably received by the Brunswick Diet. The reason for not sending the cir cular to the Emperor also was that he had refused to recognize the proclamation referred to.

EGYPT.- No later or more certain information from Khartoum is published. The Khedive has given an official mandate conferring on Gen. Wolseley full power in the Soudan in place of Gen. Gordon. The difficulties attending the transportation on the Nile threaten to retard the advance from Wady Halfa southward until the end of First month next.

DOMESTIC.-The returns of the Presidential election held on the 4th inst. give, exclusive of the 36 votes of New York, 182 electoral votes for Blaine and 183 for Cleveland. The vote in New York was close, and the official count has not yet been made, but a plu rality of about 1000 for Cleveland appears probable. All the former slaveholding States, with Connecticut, New Jersey and Indiana, in the North, gave Demo. cratic majorities.

OUR LONDON LETTER.

Our Friend Mary Elizabeth Beck of Stoke Newington, London, has been liberated by her Monthly Meeting to pay a visit in Christian love to some of the meetings in Ireland, and more especially to our younger members.

The current number of the Modern Review contains an article on "Modern Quakerism," which may be perused with profit by those who have the interests of our Society at heart, although (as is so often the case in the writings of outsiders) it bears frequent indications of a superficial knowledge of the subject and of a biased judgment. The writer (Alexander Gordon) begins by alleging the difficulty of stating what Quakerism really is, owing to the divisions which, he says, exist amongst us. He notices the remarkable change which has taken place in the last generation-the infusion of greater zeal and activity, the occupation of new fields of labor. He traces this to the influence of the writings of the late Joseph John Gurney, and alleges that, to a considerable extent, the modern Friends have deserted the Quaker foundation for that of the so called Evangelical sects, that they reject the writings of Barclay, and the other founders of the Body, and the "fundamental postulate" of Quakerism, the "supremacy of the Spirit, speaking within." It may be of interest to follow out his

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line of thought, but we would not be understood as thereby endorsing all the opinions that he expresses. "There is," he continues, "little trace in modern Quakerism of the broad doctrine of the Light of the world, of Christ as the spiritual Illumi. nator who visits every soul in every age, in every clime, in every religion and non-religion, and abides with those who will receive Him and obey Him, quite independently of the intervention of historical knowledge or of a written Word of Truth. To the spiritual grandeur and the redeeming efficacy of this old conception the modern Quaker is strangely dull. He cannot trust himself to teach his ancient principles in the full sweep of their original power. And on the other hand the high doctrine of Christian perfection, on which Barclay is so nobly strong, is faintly heard if at all, scarce believed in, never preached with the unction and vigor of vital experience among present-day Friends.

Among the successors of Fox and Barclay, salvation is reduced to a miminum, and not only the Quaker breadth, but the Quaker height, is shrunk away."

In allusion to the readiness with which other bodies of Christians are fraternizing with the Society of Friends, A. Gordon is surprised that the latter do not perceive that this is really "on the precise ground that what is essentially distinctive of Quakerism they have practically abandoned."

Holding such opinions, it will hardly be surprising to find that the author is in sympathy with those little groups of Friends, here and there, who would fain have things as they were, who are pained at what they consider the departures from true Quakerism, and in silent protest stand aloof from participation therewith. These he regards as being the true successors of the early Friends, and so appreciatively does he write of their opinions that he ought, one would think, to be consistent, to join himself to them. He seems to suppose that they are a tolerably numerous and influential body, and not to be cognizant of divisions existing even among them, and he is apparently unaware that it is one thing to assume the peculiarities of dress and address and to censure and cast off those who do not subscribe to your own opinions, and quite another thing to be filled with the spirit of charity and meekness and true wisdom, which animated such a man as George Fox.

The writer gives a sketch of the life of one who will probably be recollected by many Friends on both sides of the Atlantic-the late John G. Sargent, by whose quiet exertions it seems that the little company of Friends at Fritchley in Derbyshire, was mainly gathered. Although of Quaker parentage he does not appear to have been strictly brought up, but, whilst working as a youth in Paris, to have come gradually to a personal conviction of our principles. "He sat in the silent waiting upon the Spirit which is at once the opportunity and the life of the faithful worship of Friends. No matter that oftentimes there was no one to join him. They who truly wait upon the Spirit are ready if need be to wait alone. It is a beautiful glimpse of calm resolved sincerity, this picture which we have of the London lad true to the quickenings of his conscience in a strange land, and, unattended by a sympathizing associate, holding amid the great world of Paris a reverent and joyful communion with the Source of life and light, unseen but inly felt." Surely a young man of whom this could be written might have grown up to occupy an honored position in the Society of Friends. That he somehow failed to do so; that he and some others like-minded with him, equally earnest and conscientious, have virtually separated from us, is, we think, to be much regretted. Probably there Probably there were mistakes on both sides at the time. There may have been a little lack of patience and charity, a want of true wisdom to preserve brotherly union and mutual co-operation.

Our author characterizes much of the recent development of Quakerism as "a limping congregationalism intruding on the trustful rest which waited patiently for the Spirit, a deliberate effort of missionary endeavor doing duty for the rush of the old freedom when the power of the truth came upon all-this is the new picture, this is what Quaker periodicals put upon record, sometimes with misgiving, often with satisfaction. . . . If the Quaker can no longer plead the immediate voice of the living Christ in the heart, what differentiates him from the religious public about him; and

where is the inward note of his spiritual succession from his forebears of the commonwealth ?"

"The Quakers," concludes Mr. Gordon, "have done great things in their day for us all. They have been a power in the development of the English people, both here and in the United States. Their power sprang from their principles. . . . John Barclay revealed the secret of their confidence when he wrote: Yet the blessed truth shall outlive it all and emerge out of the very ruins, if it must come to that.'"

London, Tenth month 26th, 1884.

Fourth Annual Report of the Committee on the Ministry of Indiana Yearly Meeting.

(Continued from page 226.)

As an illustration of the work, and difficulties connected with it, of a large class of ministers amongst us, we subjoin the following:

"While in school last winter I was engaged on First-days, principally at Fairmount and Jonesboro', frequently at Back Creek, and occasionally at other places. A part of the time, in addition to the arduous duties of the school, I spoke three times on First day, but soon learned that it was more than my physical strength would endure. I was frequently pained to have calls which I was unable to respond to, owing to my confinement to my business. During the summer just past, I have labored principally at Jonesboro' and Upland in our Quarterly Meeting; have gone to Upland every two weeks as a rule, and remained at Jonesboro' between times. By request of the Evangelistic Committee of Mississinewa Quarterly Meeting, I have spent several First-days in its limits, closing my work there last First-day by the opening of a new meeting-house at Maple Run. I have been called to attend many funerals, and in all my work feel that the blessing of the Lord has rested upon me. I am not satisfied with the work in one respect, i. e., my mind is so engrossed with the cares of my profession, that I am deprived of the necessary Biblical study and the physical energy with which I would desire to prosecute the work. But knowing the condition of our Society, I feel content to do as well as circumstances will permit, with the prayer that better opportunities may be opened up.'

In some of the newer portions of the country the labors of our ministers have met with great acceptance, especially those of women ministers; and our views of the simplicity of Gospel worship, the freedom of the spirit, the spirituality of religion, and the priesthood of believers, are received with great favor. From one of these places a dear friend writes:

"I held two revivals in the limits of our Monthly Meeting, and there were about ten conversions and twenty renewals. I have been holding meetings at those places this summer, and the interest is good, and I can say increasing. I have held meetings at different places in the county, and find a good opening for Gospel labor everywhere I go. The harvest is plenteous and the laborers few. I have just returned from Wexford county; held seven

meetings, and attended the opening of a Preparative meeting.

"We need some one here to engage in the work, situated so he can attend to all the calls for meetings at the different points, for surely there is a great opening for Friends here. I would be glad to be situated so I could spend more time in the work, but the cares of life which seem to be necessary in order to live, hinder me; but I intend doing all I can in spreading the Gospel in this part of the land.”

Another friend from the same field reports: "There is a wide field for labor here. The cry comes almost daily: 'Come and preach for us;' some saying that they have been in Michigan two, three, or four years, and have not heard a Gospel

sermon.'

The following interesting facts are communicated by our friend, Alida Clark, from Arkansas:

"There have been a series of meetings held at Southland, of ten days' continuance; one at Hickory Ridge, twenty miles away, for two weeks, and one at Beaver Bayou, fourteen miles from here, continuing a week, under a " brush arbor," in the woods. All of our recorded ministers have been more or less engaged in these meetings, and a large number of our students and teachers diligently gave themselves to the work, leaving their classes cheerfully several days at a time. At Southland there were twenty additions to the church; at Hickory Ridge, sixty-four; at Beaver Bayou there were several converts, who gave their names for membership to be presented to our next Monthly Meeting, the coming Seventh day. We are building a new meeting house there now. Morris Brown, one of our ablest ministers, lives there on his own land.

"There is a series of meetings going on this week at Hickory Ridge. I came from there Seventh-day morning, leaving Daniel Drew, and others, in charge. Some names given for our Monthly Meeting.

"In reply to thy question of the present condition of the work: It is simply, work, work, work. The needs of the church? Why the greatest need is money to bear the actual traveling expenses of the workers-not only the ministers, but the boys and girls, who have nothing in the world but themselves and Jesus. We cannot do without them in these meetings, for there always has to be so much personal work done amongst this people, and it is just the drill and training for these young persons. The cash expenses amount to about $65.00; we have received $50.00 from the Committee, and are now out, and for the next six weeks a great deal of work must be done. Our entire membership are very poor and hard run, and without outside aid in money the work must suffer. We need $25.00 more now to go upon for the coming six weeks, and the autumn campaign will require as much."

In quite a number of meetings the work of the Lord is hindered by divisions or petty jealousies, often of long standing, which always tend to death and poverty of soul. One friend, in speaking of

these, says: "Some differences of long standing between some of the leading members were settled. We did not try to settle them, but as the truth and the power of the Lord prevailed, they could stand it no longer."

The difficulties connected with the position of some of our ministers are graphically shown in the following extract: "There is much for one to do, especially when he has to help build turnpikes, school houses, run a farm, educate children and meet all financial obligations, as well as to help build all the new meeting houses and pay meeting taxes. I have carried the burdens of our own meeting largely myself, and have been blessed in it; but unless business prospects grow brighter, shall very soon have to quit it." Whilst we do not think that a proper share of the ordinary duties of life is any disadvantage to a gospel minister, and desire not to encourage a habit of too great dependence on others upon their part, we do feel from the united testimony of so many of our ministers that onerous and improper burdens are often imposed upon them. Their love for the cause and anxiety for the prosperity of the church often leads them to submit to greater privations than should be required. We especially feel that many of them should be exempt from the ordinary pecuniary support of the church, especially where they are called upon to contribute so largely of their time and means in the work of the Ministry.

The result of steady, continued and persistent work at one meeting is shown by the following extract:

"I have the pleasure of sending the following report: That my labors mostly have been at with good results. It was a small meeting when I commenced attending, but lately, I think, we have the largest meeting in this part of the Quarterly Meeting, and we have a good interest in the meeting. I have missed but few Sabbaths since I commenced meeting with the brethren at that point. In regard to our needs, I think that more unity would be beneficial, and more zeal, coupled with knowledge, also more patience on the part of some would be a good thing."

One dear friend of very limited means, after giving an exceedingly interesting report of his evangelistic labors in various places, says: "On the 28th of Twelfth month last, I commenced meeting at Dague, Paulding county, Ohio, which continued until 28th of First month. There were forty conversions, and thirty became members of our religious society. Since then I visited Middle Point and Dague alternately every two weeks, until my health broke down." Without murmur or complaint he says: "If I have been the means of doing any good, may the Lord have all the praise; as soon as my health will permit, I wish to resume work again." And yet he says: "I have received probably $25 altogether from different points." Surely in such case the church must have seriously neglected its duty. All our members should be taught the blessedness of giving, and be willing to aid in carrying on the work by liberal contributions.