weeping and breaking my heart," R. V. Paul deeply felt their entreaties. I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die. Clearly believing it was his duty to go, nothing could keep him back, not even the probability of death. We do not know what impelled Paul to this course; many probable reasons have been assigned, but it seems unnecessary to say more than that he felt it was laid upon him (Acts xx. 22) to go to Jerusalem, and he wished to be there by the day of Pentecost (Acts xx. 16).

14. We ceased. Feeling that further words would be useless. The will of the Lord be done. This may be a reference to the Lord's Prayer. Matt. vi. 10; xxvi. 42; Luke xi. 2; xxii. 42.

SUGGESTIONS.

1. Wherever we may be in our travels we should always seek out our fellow-Christians, especially those of the same household of faith. Verse 4. 2. It is well to commend our parting friends and ourselves to the care of our Heavenly Father. 3. God is no respecter of persons; He pours forth of His Spirit on His servants and on His handmaidens that they may prophesy (preach) (Acts ii. 17, 18). It is a glorious privilege that in Christ Jesus there is neither male nor female (Gal. iii. 28). May the Society of Friends never waver in their adherence to this precious Gospel truth. The Holy Spirit divides His gifts as He pleases. We are told to covet earnestly the best gifts; to desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may pro phesy. I Cor. xii. 31; xiv. 1.

4. Known duty is paramount.

From The [Boston] Christian,
JOHN WESLEY'S CONVERSION.

John Wesley prayed and labored and preached for years before he had the assurance that he himself was a child of God. He says, "I went to America to convert the Indians; but, oh, who shall convert me?" And though he afterwards expressed himself as not sure that he was not then a Christian, yet his life was apparently without power, or fruit, or blessing, and his service was that of a servant rather than a son. This condition of things caused him great unrest and anxiety, and he groped long in darkness and found no settled peace.

On the 24th of May, 1738, at five in the morn ing, he opened his Testameut at these words, "There are given us exceeding great and precious promises, that by these ye might be partakers of the Divine nature." On leaving home he opened the book again, and his eye fell on the text, "Thou art not far from the kingdom of God."

After at

tending service at St. Paul's cathedral in the afternoon, he went in the evening, quite unwillingly, to a society-meeting in Aldersgate street, where a person read Luther's preface to the Epistle to the Romans, in which Luther teaches what faith is, and also that faith alone justifies. Possessed of it, the heart is "cheered, elevated, excited, and trans

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ported with sweet affections towards God; having received the Holy Ghost through faith, the man is renewed, and made spiritual, and is impelled to fulfil the law by the "vital energy in himself."

"About a quarter before nine," says Wesley, "while he was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ,, I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, in Christ alone, for salvation; and an assurance was given me that He had taken my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death and I then testified openly to all there what I now felt first in my heart."

Towards ten o'clock, a troop of friends took him to his brother Charles, where they sang a hymn with joy, and parted with prayer to God.

life. Eighteen days later, he preached at St. Mary's This was the beginning of a new era in Wesley's in Oxford, before the University, on the text, "By grace are ye saved, through faith." It was the echo of the word, "Now the just shall live by faith," which came so mightily to Luther's heart Rome; and though Wesley for some time afterward while climbing the stone steps of the church at struggled with doubts and fears and sins, yet this night may be noted as the hour of the revelation

of the divine life to his soul.

deceivers, but blind seekers after God, or servants How many there are to-day, not hypocrites, nor possessed with the spirit of bondage unto fear, who need the Holy Ghost to come upon them as the Spirit of sonship, whereby they cry, "Abba, Father." The Lord is very near them, yet they see Him not, for their eyes are holden. Oh, that He may so reveal Himself to their despondent souls, that they shall feel His quickening power, and say like the apostles, who were begotten again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, "Did not our hearts burn within us while He talked with us by the way, and while He opened to us the Scriptures?"

CORRESPONDENCE.

FROM A PRIVATE LETTER.

more than eight weeks ago, in which he spoke of his health having been much restored, and indeed of his feeling better than when he set out for Canada. I greatly rejoice that his beloved wife can now look back to these eight weeks of quiet since his return home. It will be always a sweet retrospect to her.

I know that thou and our other friends will unite in sympathy at the great loss which we have sustained in the removal of one so dearly loved and so eminently qualified by his mature judgment and right spirit and long experience for his place of peculiar usefulness in our little church. In a consideration of all these qualifications I am ready to say, "When shall we see his like again?" And yet ought we not rather assuredly to believe that He who raised him up and endowed him with so many qualifications will, in His great mercy, still continue to provide for the service of His church, and choose those who shall be equal to the exigencies of the church's need from generation to generation? This is my humble faith, and in this I remain, with much love to thee and other dear friends near thee, thy truly attached friend,

J. B. BRAITHWAITE. P. S. I trust that I am still making good progress, though suffering much from my arm and obliged to keep very quiet.

SCIENCE NOTES.

THE NEW SYSTEM OF SYNCHRONOUS MULTIPLEX TELEGRAPHY, which was one of the exhibits in the International Electrical Exhibition, has been in practical use between Boston and Providence for more than two months. A number of messages are by this means transmitted without confusion over the same wire in what appears to be the same time, though in reality the impulses travel in quick succession. About six Morse circuits can be worked at commercial speed and a much larger number at a speed suited for printing instruments. After the instruments had been tested between the main stations, an experiment was tried of extending the circuits to separate wires at the terminals, and it was demonstrated that it was possible to connect say six cities around Boston with Providence by a wire common to all between the principal cities. Another experiment was tried, which is vouched for by Professor Houston, who publishes an account of it in the Franklin Institute Journal, but which seems almost incredible. The several circuits on the one wire were so connected at Providence and Boston through the receiving and transmitting instruments that a message sent from the No. I instrument at Boston was repeated automatically at Providence back to No. 2 instrument at Boston, was thence repeated to Providence, and so on until it had traversed the single wire six times, and was finally received at the No. 6 instrument in the office from which it started. That experiThat experi ment having been successful, No. 6 was then connected with No. 1, and a dot having been made on the latter, it travelled the circuit back and forth until, being automatically retransmitted from No. 1, it again started on its ceaseless round. Timing the intervals of the return of the signal, it was found that it travelled 30 times between Boston and Providence (or about 1500 miles) in a

second. At that rate it would girdle the earth at the equator in less than seventeen seconds. To obtain such action requires, of course, nearly the same thing as absolute synchronism.-Philadelphia Public Ledger.

BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS RECEIVED.

To our great regret, unavoidable want of time has so far delayed our intended review of the fol lowing publications, accumulating upon our table:

A More Excellent Way to Heaven; or, the Way to Holiness. By Prof. O. L. Carter. Willard Tract Repository, Boston, New York and Philadelphia.

Friends in Burlington. By Amelia Mott Gummere. From the Penna. Magazine of History and Biography. Philada: Collins, Printer.

James and Lucretia Mott. Life and Letters. Edited by their Grand-daughter, Anna Davis Hallowell. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.

Report of the U. S. Commissioner of Education, 1882-83. Washington: Government Printing Of fice. 1884.

Beasts and Birds: four beautiful illustrated ju venile books, one for Europe and Asia, one for Africa, and two for America. Published by the American Tract Society, 150 Nassau Street, New York.

Striking Providences and Touching Incidents. By David Tatum. Fifth Edition. Published by the Author, Cleveland, Ohio.

Christian Unity; or, the Evangelical Alliance and the Society of Friends. Darlington, England. Messiah's Ministry: The Apostolical Commission: The First Preaching of the Gospel to the Gentiles; and the Vital Principle of Christianity. By W. Blackley, M. A., London, 1880.

The Baptisms of the New Testament. I. John's Baptism. II. The Apostolic Baptism. III. The Holy Spirit's Baptism. IV. Baptism with Fire. V. Baptism for the Dead. VI. Baptism into Christ. London: S. Harris.

Free Gospel Ministry. From Chapter XIX. of "State Churches." By John Allen. Published by the Central Book and Tract Committee of Friends, Richmond, Indiana.

The Lost Tribes of Israel. England and Amer ica. The Throne of David. The Kingdom of Stone. The British Empire. Their Identity Maintained. By E. K. Tulledge, 266 Schermerhorn Street, Brooklyn.

Vivisection: A Prize Essay. By James Macaulay, A. M., M. D. Reprinted from the London Edition. Philadelphia, 1002 Walnut St. 1884.

A Discussion of the Meaning of the Scriptural Doctrine of Eternal Judgment. By a Member of the Society of Friends. London: Elliot Stock. 1884.

Protection and Frée Trade To-day. By Robert P. Porter. Boston: J. R. Osgood & Co. 1884.

The Protestant Episcopacy of the Revolutionary Patriots. Lost and Restored. A Centennial Of

Christian Conversion. By William Nicholson, M. D. Published by Nicholson & Bro., Richmond, Indiana. 1884.

Report of the Superintendent of Indian Schools to the Secretary of the Interior. Washington, Government Printing Office. 1884.

Were the subscription list of Friends' Review so large and profitable as to maintain a large editorial staff, or to pay trained writers in all its departments, the above and other publications would have been fully reviewed already in our pages. Will not some of our literary friends aid us in this task, for love of the cause and for the interest of our readers? Who will volunteer to write for us one, two or three column "Book Notices" of such of the above works and pamphlets as we shall send ?

HEALTH.

THE FRENCH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, according to a cable despatch of a few days ago, has received and published the report of a Committee, appointed at the request of M. Lesseps, upon quarantine. The Committee reports its conclusion, that quarantine affords no protection against cholera or other epidemic diseases, while it is very damaging to commerce. It ought, therefore, to be entirely abandoned, at least so far as the detention of persons is concerned. Such a conclusion being arrived at by these learned men, immediately after an opportunity to study the conditions accompanying an epidemic of cholera in France, Italy and Spain, is important. Not that any such body as the French Academy can make or settle the truth on the subject; facts must do that. But the Academy, having apprehended the facts rightly, may do much toward extending the knowledge of them, and towards promoting the removal of the odious and utterly useless, often very injurious, restrictions of personal quarantine.

Dr. Robert Koch, of Berlin, while he has shown much skill and praiseworthy diligence and perseverance in minute investigations, even at the peril of his life, in Egypt and India, as well as in his own laboratory, has yet, on the whole, done much more harm than good upon the question of cholera. By false reasoning upon a few new observations, in almost entire forgetfulness of many long before known, he has, with those who implicitly follow him, given a new impulse to the acceptance of the idea of the personal contagiousness of cholera, and so, quite oppositely to the French Academy, of quarantine. It is well to remember that Pasteur, the most eminent of living investigators of such subjects, and Pottenkofer, of Munich, a veteran leader

in sanitary science, are strongly opposed to Koch's conclusions. If the latter had been correct, indeed, his prediction, made when cholera invaded France last summer, that the disease would visit Germany and pervade Europe, would no doubt have been fulfilled. As it is, Koch's theory of cholera should be set aside as altogether unproven, if not disproved.

THE Massachusetts Board of Health has published a recent paper by Professor Edward S. Wood, showing the existence of arsenic in dangerous quantities in the commonest articles of household use; in wall papers of all colors and patterns, in calicoes, in paper boxes containing food and confectionery, in paper collars, in the inside bands of men's hats, in common cambric, and in cretonnes. A common paper used for covering confectionery boxes contains on a square foot of surface forty five grains of arsenic, or enough to kill fifteen men. In wall paper this poison varies in quantity from half a grain to nearly seven grains in a square yard. What will arouse the greatest public indignation is an authentic statement that this arsenic is to be found in children's toys-building-blocks, rubber balloons, painted balls, rubber dolls, children's books, and especially in the glazed papers so largely used in Kindergarten schools. Some of these papers contain from twenty to fifty grains of arsenic in the square yard. European legislation prohibits the employment of arsenic in such articles, and it is clearly time for us to follow the example of the European States in this matter.

LOOK TOWARDS THE LIGHT.

A weary and discouraged woman, after struggling all day with contrary winds and tides, came to her home, and flinging herself in a chair, said:

"Everything looks dark, dark."

"Why don't you turn your face to the light, aunty dear?" said a little niece who was standing

near.

The words were a message from on high, and

the weary eyes were turned toward Him who is the Light and the Life of men, and in whose light alone we see light.

"Turn your face to the light," O weary watcher; you have looked, and longed, and struggled in the darkness without avail; now turn your glance the shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to other way!" God, who commanded the light to give unto us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ," and if we will look toward the light, and walk in the light, we shall find blessing and peace all along our way, and even amid darkness and shadows shall rejoice in hope of the glory of God, the light of an unsetting day. The Common People.

A MAN cannot be a faithful minister until he preaches Christ for Christ's sake—until he gives up striving to attract people to himself, and seeks only to attract them to Christ.

THE FIRST LAW OF NATURE.

At the London City Mission Jubilee, Mr. Dunn, in speaking of his missionary labors among the public houses in Shoreditch, told how one day in a public house a man who was there began to talk with him and said,

"What book is that you have?" "The Bible."

"But I don't believe in that."

fare of their employés, not in a formal and perfunctory manner, but with the same zeal and interest with which they always seek to perfect the equipment and physical condition of their road. We also recommend that, when Sunday work is necessary, care be taken that one day's rest in seven be secured to every man. And we give the like advice to all railroad managers in the State. Above all, we recommend not only that no unwilling employé shall be compelled to labor habitually on Sunday, but that all employés be effectually assured that they shall not be exposed to risk

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first law of Nature?"

After some shuffling and hustling the answer given was,

"Why, to take care of yourself." "May I ask if you keep that law ?"

The man had no shirt on, and his toes were peeping through his boots. The others who stood by and listened understood the point of the question, and they said,

“Tom, put that in your pipe and smoke it." The man could not but admit that I was better clothed and fed than he, and I said,

"Then I am the best Materialist; now I will tell you how that is. This book has taught me how to be a good Materialist; let me read a little bit to you. Godliness is profitable for all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.'"

The result was that I was able to preach the gospel to them. Tom shook me by the hand, and said,

"I shall not forget what you said. You touched a chord in my heart when you spoke about home. If ever there was a good man it was my father.". Selected.

ITEMS.

OF 4000 JEWS in Marseilles, only seven died of cholera during the recent prevalence of the disease; the evident result of their obedience to wise sanitary laws.

IN regard to Sunday railroad work the Massachusetts Railroad Commissioners say:

"We recommend that the managers of the Boston and Albany Railroad Company carefully consider the question whether there is any need of many of the freight trains which now are run on the Lord's day, with the object of greatly reducing their number; that to this end they confer with the management of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad and other connecting roads, so that in delivering freight to the Boston and Albany, regard may be had to this object, and that live stock arriving on Saturday, may be, so far as possible, delivered in whole trains, and not in parts of trains, composed largely of general merchandise, so as to reduce the number of trains which humanity requires to be forwarded on the Lord's day. And we recommend that they pursue this end of lessening Sunday work, and thereby promoting the wel

objection to such labor. For the commonwealth will not endure that the corporations, which are its crea tures, shall inflict anything resembling punishment upon any man because his conscience forbids him to work on the Lord's day."

A WEALTHY furniture dealer in Bombay, India, has recently offered $10,000 for the establishment of a dispensary for women and children, to be superintended by lady physicians.

DURING the past year, 21,110 houses were built in London, forming 361 new streets, covering a distance of 56 miles.

THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE "Fresh Air Fund," from its receipts of $21,437.76, enabled 6253 poor children of that city to visit the country the past summer, being

2000 more than last year.

AT a meeting of the Senate of the Bombay Universary, on September 23, it was proposed by a Brahman, that in the regulations the pronoun "he" and its derivatives should be deemed to denote either sex. An Englishman seconded the motion, which was carried without a division. Many Hindus, Parsis, and Mohammedans were present. This will have the effect of throwing open the learned professions to women in the Western Presidency.-London Times.

DR. R. C. TRENCH, Archbishop of Dublin, has been compelled by ill-health to resign his position. His writings, both in poetry and prose, have made his name familiar in this country as well as in England. As parochial clergyman, professor of divinity, Dean of Westminster, and Primate of Ireland, he has borne himself in such a manner as to win the respect and love of non-conformists as well as of the members of his own church. He has given away a large part of fe his official income, and now on retiring surrenders the whole, though, under the circumstances of his retirement, he would be entitled to retain it. It is commonly reported that Lord Plunket, Bishop of Meath, will be chosen to succeed him.

WHILE we have inclined to the view of Harnack, who assigns the "Teaching of the Apostles" to about 140 or 150 A. D., the evidence would put it earlier, rather than later, as argued by "J. W.," in The Guardian. If it is later than Barnabas, that would put its earliest possible date at about 80; but if, as seems probable, it is earlier than Hermas, its lowest date would be near the beginning of the second century. Among negative evidences for a very early date are the simplicity of the style, the absence of legendary setting, the transitional character of the ministry, the transition from the order of apostles to stationary bishops, the simple arrangements for the care of the poor, the absence of reference to Docetic, Gnostic, and Montanistic controversies, and, especially, the absence of traces of the writings and theology of John. The apostles and prophets still come around to visit the churches; the Jews are still hypocrites, as in Matthew's Gospel; the Gospel seems quoted as a poken word rather than a written book; it is not men

tioned as Scripture, nor is its reading commended; the theological position is that of a disciple of James or Matthew, perhaps, but wholly ignorant of Paul; the doctrine of the person of Christ is undeveloped, and Christ is still the "Servant of God," of the Church of Jerusalem; the prophets are called "high priests," and "first fruits' are required. The writer in The Guardian is inclined to a date scarcely later than 100, and possibly Greece or Macedonia as the place, or some region where the unassuming Christianity of Peter and James had combined with that of Paul, giving a practical type, undisturbed by serious heresy, though feeling the dangers of antinomian heresy.Independent.

THE QUEEN newspaper reports the fact of a young lady of title having taken a room in the East-end, London, with a view of devoting her whole life to the care of the poor women and children of Bethnalgreen. Her first and foremost object is said to be the promotion of cleanliness; hence she makes it her business to provide every room she visits with soap, scrubbing brushes, a pail, and a broom. She then sets the women to work with these in cleaning their domiciles, while she looks after the children, or whatever else requires attention. When the work is done she pays them for the time it has taken at regular wages rate, and tells them to expect her again in a short time. Such a case of self-sacrificing surrender to the work of social reform is indeed rare, and its practical adaptation to the material needs of the case is beyond all praise. Only let an army of such workers be raised up, and the reform of the homes of the poor would soon be secured.

PHILIP VON STERNBERG.

BY CHRISTOPHER P. CRANCH.

One Christmas Eve, in mediæval times,
Philip Von Sternberg, one who strove to know
The enigma of the worlds of Fact and Thought,
Sat in the midnight, while his lamp burned dim,
Like his own unfed spirit. To the east
A window, frosted, in the wintry night,
With ghosts of plumy flowers and tropic ferns,
Seemed, of a sudden, lighted by a beam
Which was not dawn or moonlight, but a star
Unseen before; and, gliding through the glass,
An angel stood, more radiant than the morn.
"Surely this is Athene," thought the sage
In his mute wonder." Will she give to me
The key to unlock the secret of the world?"
Lowly he bowed his head, and waited there
The word divine, philosophers of old

Gave their life's strength to hear, but never heard.
“Philip ”—the Presence seemed to say to him—
"One of that choir am I who once announced
The birth of Him whose life was Love Divine;
And this command from Him I bring to thee:
Seek not to solve the riddle of the world,
Shut in thy labyrinth of circling thought.
Life, life alone, in deeds of use and love,
Can free thee from the dungeon of thy thoughts.
He knoweth the truth who doth the Master's will."

Thenceforth, the scholar, self-involved, was lost;
Philip, the working saint, appeared-and lived
A life which was a steady train of light,
Whose radiance drowned the darting swarms of doubts
As the sun drowns the meteors' earthward fires.
-Christian Union.

FLOWER AND WEED.

BY RUTH HALL.

Not far from my lady's bower,

All growing so brave and tall,
The milky seed of a common weed
Blew idly against the wall;
And close where my lady's footsteps,
In her walking to and fro,

The plot may pass through the rustling grass,
Stood a lily white as snow.

One night there came wind and tempest,
And the garden showed at dawn
Destruction wide on every side;

The lily lay on the lawn,

While, the only thing left standing,

The wall-plant raised its head;
Alas that the weed still drops its seed!
Alas that the flower is dead!

PRESENCE OF MIND IN A DOG.-The Boston Journal mentions that on First month 23, 1884, Elmer Wier, aged ten, while skating on the millpond at Salem, Mass., ventured out too far on thin ice, near a sluice way, where there is a powerful current, and fell through. A Newfoundland dog, who had followed him to the shore, at once perceived his danger, and ran to aid him. Meanwhile, he had been drawn by the current under the ice. The dog made a large space of open water, and diving quickly, brought the boy to the surface, and dragged him thence to the shore. Some men who witnessed the accident tried to rescue him, but were unable to reach him, on account of the thinness of the ice. He would have been drowned, but for the prompt action of the dog.

ARTFULNESS and duplicity are treacherous associates. Remember Haman.-So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai.-Esther viji. 10.