January 28th the conference will be asked: Has the increase of products of industry within the last hundred years tended most to the benefit of capitalists and employers, or to that of the working classes, whether artisans, laborers or others? and in what relative proportions in any given period? Papers on this subject have been promised by Sir Thomas Brassey, Mr. Giffen, Mr. Hutchinson, Mr, Hyndman, Mr. Lloyd Jones and Miss Simcox. For January 29th the question under discussion will be: Do any remediable causes influence prejudicially (a) the continuity of industrial employment, (b) the rate of wages (4) the well-being of the working classes? Papers will be read on a and b by Mr. T. Ashton, Mr. Burnett, Mr. Dale, Mr. Houldsworth, Mr. Marshall and Mrs. Patterson; on c by Mr. S. Taylor, Mr. B. Jones and Mr. W. J. Harris. The final discussion on January 30th will be upon the question: Would the more general distribution of capital or land, or the state management of capital or land, promote or impair the production of wealth and the welfare of the community? The papers promised on this subject are by Lord Bramwell, Mr. Harrison, Mr. Morris, Professor Newman, Professor Nicholson and Mr. A. R. Wallace. It will be seen that the committee has made ample allowance for the expression of divergent views; and from the lists of those who are to read papers an animated discussion may be expected as soon as the rival theorists have thrown down the glove. Perhaps the final question may give rise to the liveliest encounters, when Mr. Morris and Mr. Wallace appear upon the same platform to expound their well known views.

THERE are nineteen known metals valued at over one thousand dollars per avoirdupois pound. The most costly is vanadium, which is said to be worth ten thousand dollars a pound. Of these nineteen metals only one is produced or used to any considerable extent, and that is iridium, which is valued at $1090 per pound. It is sometimes, but very sparingly, used in electrical experiments.

EMANCIPATION IN BRAZIL.-The heart-stirring appeals sent forth on behalf of the Slave by the eloquent speakers at the great Anti-Slavery Jubilee Meeting held in the Guild-hall on the 1st of August last, under the immediate presidency of the heir to the English throne, have not been unheard nor unmarked in the vast Slave-holding empire of Brazil. A responsive echo reaches me this morning from the province of Rio Grande do Sul, from which we learn with pleasure that the noble example set some months ago by the province of Ceara is being followed by some other provinces of Brazil.—Anti-Slavery Reporter.

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Help those women who stand to-night
Where the waves break low and the sands are white;
Where the palm-trees toss their feathery plumes,
And the jungles are bright with myriad blooms,
Where the scented air is alive with wings,
And the waters shimmer with sportful things;
Where, 'mid tropical glory of earth and sky,
Man only is vile as the beasts that die.

O men with mothers and sisters and wives,
O men who glory in their pure lives,
When you shut them into the peace and rest
Of a sacred home and a loving breast;
When you crown them queens of a noble blood,
With the royal chaplet of womanhood.
Remember that over the dancing waves
Is a land whose sons are lordly braves,
But whose dark-eyed daughters are pitiful slaves.
And, oh, when you bend with reverent lips
To delicate brow or finger tips,

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Remember that women with hearts like these
Have traversed mountains and plains and seas,
Accounting as naught the sweet content
Of a sheltered home-life idly spent,
While millions of their sad sisterhood
Are calling by river sands red with blood,
And let God's message and mandate be,-
Help those women who labor with me!"
O mother, with little ones by your side,
When you fold them safely at eventide,
And feel your eyes grow moist to see
The white-robed worshippers at your knee;
When you bow beside their low, soft beds,
And count the dear row of shining heads,
And leave them in sleep to the Father's care,
With a mother's sacred, trustful prayer,-
Look then to the Ganges' troubled tide,
With its greedy monsters gaping wide
Their cruel jaws for the dainty feast
Of babyhood's dimpled limbs! Oh, breast
Of motherhood! oh, mother-love!
Mothers like you have died to prove
How dear is a baby's soul to God,
Bought by the loving Christ-child's blood.
And the message to you comes solemnly,-
Help those women who labor with me!"

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Last at the cross and first at the grave!"
O woman, since joyful Gabriel gave
To the virgin mother his heavenly "Hail!"
When strong hearts grow weary and faint and quail;
When Iscariots betray and Peters deny;
When Pilates braid thorns and Jews crucify-
Thou cling'st to thy faith 'mid the hurtle of spheres,
And art grand in thy weakness and strong in thy tears.
Be glad, O workers gone on before;

Have hope, O sad hearts on the Orient shore!
Love spanneth the main; faith scales heaven's height!
Heart throbbeth to heart; and we pledge to-night
By the safe, sweet shelter of home and love,
By the light that shines from our home above,

By the ties of a common sisterhood,
By a common need of a Saviour's blood,
We will give of our womanly prayers and tears,
Of our means and toil, of our days and years;
We will hold up the heavily drooping hands,
Of every worker with God who stands
Before him pleading for pagan souls,
Till the tide of darkness backward rolls,
And the daughters of pagan lands are free,
Or till the workers fall, and we
Go over the Jordan, to find our hopes
Abloom on the Beulah upland slopes.

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

GREAT BRITAIN.-The town hall at Warminster in Wiltshire was the scene of an explosion on the evening of the 13th, which is believed to have been caused by gunpowder. The windows of the hall and of adjacent buildings were shattered, but the masonry was not damaged, and no person was seriously injured, though some were thrown down by the shock. A dispatch says it is believed to have been the work of a practical joker!"

It

A meeting was held in Birmingham on the 15th, attended by 5000 persons who are at present out of employment. A resolution was passed asking the city corporation to furnish them with employment. A procession afterward marched through the streets. halted before a bakery, and some shouts were heard of " Break in," but no such attempt appears to have been made. One man stole a loaf, and was arrested, but the baker declined to prosecute. The demonstration was renewed the next day. At a similar meeting in London, held in front of the Royal Exchange on the 17th, it is said that fully f0,000 persons were present. Radical pamphlets were largely sold, and loud cheers were given for several prominent Radicals.

The steamer Admiral Moorsom, from Dublin for Holyhead, was run down on the night of the 15th, a few miles from Holyhead, by the American ship Santa Clara, from Liverpool for New York. The latter vessel was little damaged, but the steamer partially sank in a few minutes. The Americans did all in their power to save those on board, but a heavy sea impeded their efforts. They carried to Holyhead 12 of the crew and two passengers. Another vessel the next morning found the steamer on its beam ends, and rescued four adults and a child. A boat belonging to the steamer, containing 11 persons, was found on the 19th, and they were saved in an exhausted condition.

Much agitation has existed for some time in the Australian colonies on account of the annexation of a part of New Guinea by Germany. Mass meetings to protest against foreign annexations in the Pacific Ocean are frequent in different places, and shire and borough councils also take occasion to record their objections, while the press is unanimous in denouncing all foreign attempts to gain a footing in Australasia. Earl Derby, Colonial Secretary, has sent a circular dispatch to the Australian governments, assuring them that the Imperial Government is taking action to prevent an extension of such annexations in the Southern Pacific. FRANCE. In the Chamber of Deputies, on the 14th. Premier Ferry said that acting on a previous vote of the Chamber, the Government had decided on the immediate and complete occupation of Tonquin as the only means to settle the difficulty with China. After some remarks by the new Minister of War, the Chamber by a vote of 264 to 234, adopted the order of the day, (equivalent to a vote of confidence in the Government).

Dispatches from Saigon state that the insurrection in Cambodia is caused by the popular hostility to the treaty with France establishing a French protectorate, and that the King is virtually a prisoner in his own palace.

An explosion occurred on the 15th in the great coalmine at Lieven. At the time 48 men were in the mine; 28 of these were killed, most of them by the falling of 800 metres of the galleries.

GERMANY.-The Prussian Landtag opened on the 15th. The royal speech stated that the estimated excess of receipts over expenditures for 1885 would not

necessary. The conditions of trade have improved, but agricultural interests are depressed. The Govern ment will endeavor to ascertain the causes of this depression, and to provide a remedy.

In the Reichstag, (Parliament of the Empire,) Prince Bismarck stated that to meet the demands of the farmers, the Government will require the duty on wheat to be increased to treble, and on rye to double the present rates, on imports from all countries except Russia, existing treaties with which prevent an advance.

AUSTRIA.-At Czernowitz, a series of land-slides have recently occurred on a hill behind the Greek Cathedral. A building adjacent to the Cathedral has been buried, and the Cathedral itself is in great danger.

SPAIN.-Earthquake shocks continue at uncertain intervals. A severe one was felt at Alhama, just as the King and his suite were leaving the city. A heavy snow storm and frost have prevailed in Granada and Malaga, in the latter the most severe since 1861. The sugar-cane is destroyed, and the orange and olive groves are damaged. The King has visited a number of the places devastated by the earthquakes, and distributed money. He has refused entertainments offered him, and directed the money to be given to the suffer. ers. The destitution and suffering in many places are

extreme.

ITALY. A flood in the Tiber has inundated some parts of the city of Rome.

DOMESTIC. An infirmary belonging to the Hospital for the Insane near Kankakee, Ill. was burned on the 18th inst. about 4.30 A. M., and 17 patients perished. A number who were bed-ridden were rescued, but many of those who could help themselves did not appear to comprehend the danger, and refused to cooperate with the efforts to save them, requiring to be dragged out and forcibly prevented from returning.

William Wagner of Philadelphia, founder of the Wagner Free Institute of Science, died in that city on the 17th inst., aged about 90 years. Having acquired wealth in mercantile business, he devoted it to providing the means of free scientific instruction for the public, first by giving lectures himself, and afterward by the endowment of an institution incorporated in 1855, under the name above given, and which is still in operation, two courses of free lectures on various branches of science being given yearly.

CONGRESS.-The Senate has passed a bill making provision for placing Gen. Grant on the retired list of the army, with the rank and full pay of General, and the Naval Appropriation bill. The House has passed the Senate bill relative to French spoliations; a bill authorizing the President to return to the Chinese gov. ernment $583,400.90 of the Chinese Indemnity fund, the balance to go into the U. S. Treasury; and the Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill.

COCOA BUTTER

Is the highly nutritious natural butter of the Cocoa Bean, possessing as much nourishment as the butter of cow's milk. This is extracted in many of the cheaper preparations of Chocolates, as being too rich, but is retained in ALKETHREPTA, which is so prepared as not to derange the most delicate stomach, affording a healthful beverage for both healthy and ailing, the young as well as adult.

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A QUAKER MAYOR.

Corporation Sunday at Darlington, was this year marked by a deviation from the routine path, which is, we believe, without precedent in England. The Mayor and Corporation attended divine worship at the meeting house of the Society of Friends. No fewer than eight of the sixteen civic rulers of "the Quaker town," have been members of the Society of Friends. The seventeenth, Councillor J. B. Hodgkin, seems to have been the first Quaker Mayor who thought of inviting his colleagues in the Council to accompany him to his own place of worship. It is noteworthy that every member of the Corporation, Churchman or Dissenter (except two or three only, who were absent from domestic reasons), accepted the invitation, and joined the Mayor at the Council Chamber yesterday morning. There was also a very large attendance of the Corporation officials.

Outside the town hall, and along the route, several hundreds of spectators were gathered. The procession left the town hall a few minutes before halfpast ten. The Mayor wore the chain of office.

Immediately following came Alderman H. F. Pease, Alderman E. L. Pease, Alderman J. Dresser, Alderman W. Foggitt, Alderman Wm. Robinson, and the borough magistrates. The procession was brought up by the Corporation officials. Arrived

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at the meeting-house in Skinnergate, the Mayor and his followers were conducted to seats reserved for them, in the body of the building, immediately in front of the minister's gallery.

The meeting-house, ordinarily well filled, was somewhat crowded by reason of the unwonted accession of visitors. After all were duly seated and the doors closed, several minutes of hushed silence ensued, broken at length by the sonorous voice of Isaac Sharp, of Middlesbrough, in fervent prayer. After another more prolonged interval of stillness, Thomas Hodgkin, LL.D., of Newcastle, known to Friends as a Friend and something more, to many readers as a scholarly historian, and to some who were present at yesterday's meeting, as the brother of the Mayor of Darlington, was the first to break silence. Rising from the seat of the elders on the men's side, he quoted, in a distinct, clear voice, at moderate pitch, these words: "Wherefore, putting away falsehood, speak ye truth, each one with his neighbor, for we are members of one another." Dwelling on the latter clause of the sentence, he called to remembrance how habitually its truth was experienced in family life, and in the life of the Church. In the former, when sickness and anguish are the lot of the suffering child, how all too vividly is it known that we are members one of another, in the sympathy of the sorrowing parent. In the Church our very

differences illustrate and enforce the same practical truth. The dependence of the members one upon another, was the conscious weakness whereby the whole body is made strong. Even so it was in our public life. Recognizing the qualities of endurance and self-reliance nurtured to their perfection in rustic life, not less truly was it theirs in towns to abound in labors and self-sacrificing endeavors for the public good-maintaining in righteousness and peace the religion of public life-asserting rights with faithfulness, as did he, who, laboring under bonds and wrongful accusation, exclaimed, "I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a citizen of no mean city; and I beseech thee, therefore, suffer me to speak unto the people." In every civic career there was the consciousness of the same temptations, of the same possibilities for usefulness, of the same necessities for humblest service and loftiest

inspiration. Enlarging somewhat on this theme, the speaker dwelt with thankfulness on the large measure in which the town communities of England

have been endowed with the virtues understood

to be comprehended under the generic term, public spirit. He fervently recommended a self-denying devotion to public duty, ever as in the Great Taskmaster's eye-bravely opposing wrong, even when it happened to enjoy the fitful homage of a fleeting popular applause-piously obeying the monitor within, whose monitions are to every man his highest law. These comforting words were followed by a period in which no word was uttered. Churchmen, Wesleyans, Independents, Baptistsall present—were as united as those disciplined in Quaker methods.

Then Isaac Sharp, of Middlesbrough, rose, and, in an evangelical address, urged upon all present their religious responsibilities. Then followed another season of the loneliness that may be felt, such as impelled the gentle Elia's commendation. "For a man to refrain even from good words, and to hold his peace, it is commendable; but, for a multitude, it is a great mastery."

But this complete abstracted solitude did not seem long to continue. Samuel Hare, uttering the words "Thy kingdom come," stood forth to speak. He dwelt on the familiarity of the phrase, lisped by many in days of childhood, at a mother's knee; and then on its deep significance, asserting as it does the perennial aspiration of the Church in all ages, prophesying as it does the eventual fulfilment of the purpose of God.

The address, listened to with that motionless intentness which is so characteristic of the Meetinghouse, was followed by another brief interval of eloquent silence. Then the assembly rose, as if by simultaneous purpose, and dispersed. No offertory took place, the collection usually taken on "Corporation Sunday" for the behoof of the Hospital, being, at the instance of the Mayor, omitted. Outside the meeting-house, the procession of the morning re-formed in its original order, and returned to the Council Chamber, where his worship and his escort parted company-all, for the nonce, Friends. Northern Echo.

THE SECRET OF POWER.

You will never know what true power is, until you perfectly learn the lesson of spiritual poverty, utter and constant helplessness in yourself_

"A broken and empty vessel,

For the Master's use made meet." The telegraph wire is never conscious of any the dispatch is running through it. In its helplessthing wonderful. It experiences no change when ness it is not aware of the wonderful things being spoken through it. It is nothing but a common wire, distinguished from other wires by only two things. In the first place, it is isolated from obthe next place, it is attached to a galvanic battery. jects that would draw off the electric motion. In And thus it is with the most powerful. They are body in the world, only they are detached from sin just as frail and void of all inward strength as any and earthliness, and united by simple trust to Jesus, the Infinite battery of strength. Jesus says, "Withthe wire can do nothing. The wire has no strength out Me, ye can do nothing." Without the battery, to speak, it simply conveys what is spoken by the battery. The greatest workers for God are never aware of what is being accomplished through them; neither are they anxious to know. It often happens that when people are full of blissful emotions, and think they have the power, and expect that their words and actions will be attended with wonderful energy, at these times they are fruitless.

And on the other hand, when they feel so utterly worthless, and a sense of spiritual poverty almost crushes them, they go forth to work, leaving results entirely to God, and not thinking much of either failure or success, but only that they may do actions or words are wonderfully accompanied by the present will of God;-then their slightest the Holy Ghost, and marvels of grace are wrought above and beyond their knowledge. This is the state that Jesus refers to when He says, "Abide in Me and go and bring forth fruit." The secret of great fruit-bearing is the death of self. "Except a grain of corn die it cannot bring forth fruit."Witness.

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THE LATE THOMAS HARVEY.

Of the faithful servants of God and devoted members of our Society whose passage from this life to the next we have had to record during the past year, none, we believe, will be more missed by the Church, or have left a more fragrant memory, than Thomas Harvey, of Leeds, who died in the afternoon of Christmas day, in his seventy-third year. With no written record of his life before us beyond a highly appreciative, yet, of necessity, hastily-written article in The Leeds Mercury for December 26th, we cannot at this late hour do more than issue a very meagre obituary notice.

Thomas Harvey was born in 1812; in 1822 he entered Ackworth School, where he remained for

three years. He served an apprenticeship to W. & T. Southall, of Birmingham, chemists and druggists, and whilst there Joseph Sturge and he became united in a very close friendship. In 1835 he accompanied Joseph Sturge on a mission to the West Indies, to ascertain the condition of the newly-emancipated slaves, then apprenticed to their former masters. The unimpeachable narrative of their visit, The West Indies in 1837, edited by Thomas Harvey, so aroused the anti-slavery feeling in England that in eight of the British islands, including Jamaica, full emancipation was proclaimed, August 1st, 1838, two years before the appointed time.

Scon after their return to England, Thomas Harvey engaged in business in Leeds, where he fixed his home for the rest of his life. Here his

unobtrusive yet solid worth was soon appreciated, and his unselfish devotedness to duty, sound judgment, loving disposition, and painstaking interest in young people gradually gained for him a high place in the esteem, both of those associated with him in Christian profession and his fellow towns

men.

In 1856, at the close of the Crimean war, he again accompanied Joseph Sturge on a mission of benevolence. This time to inquire into the condition of the Fins, who, whilst the British fleet was stationed in the Baltic, had suffered greatly from the war. Through funds raised in England our friends were able to afford substantial and muchneeded relief. In the autumn of 1867 Thomas Harvey accompanied Isaac Robson in a visit to various parts of the Continent, but especially to the Mennonites, in the South of Russia. In these sufferers for conscience' sake he has, ever since that time, taken a very warm interest, as the numerous letters which he, together with I. Robson, has sent to this journal, abundantly testify.

As a frequent correspondent of The Friend, we shall greatly feel his loss. There is no one on whose judgment we could more confidently rely in a difficult or delicate case than on that of Thomas Harvey, and we know of none who has taken a warmer interest in all that concerns the well-being of the Society and its true progress. Whilst keeping himself very much in the background, he has been a stay and encouragement to many active workers at home and abroad, some of whom will lament his death as that of a very near friend.

He will be greatly missed in Leeds Meeting, where for many years he has been an Elder well gifted to "labor in the word and doctrine." So, too, in Brighouse Monthly Meeting and Yorkshire Quarterly Meeting, where his wise and loving influence has so long been felt. And he will be hardly less missed in the Yearly Meeting itself, whose messenger (in company with three others younger than himself) he was to the divided Yearly Meeting in Canada this summer. In less

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than two months from his return home he was seized with the illness which in a few days removed him to higher service above.

Many will say that the present is a critical

period in the history of our Society, and that such men as Thomas Harvey can ill be spared. We respond to the thought; and yet ought we not to feel that nothing can make our condition more critical than dependence on man? The Church that truly leans upon her Lord need never be afraid.

Extract from the Minute on the State of Society of Kansas Yearly Meeting.

Our general conduct, as exhibited in our words and actions in every-day life, is the standard by which our neighbors judge us, and therefore it is largely the measure of our Christian influence upon them. Profession of religion and confession of Christian experience, without a Christian conduct and conversation resulting from such experience, will therefore receive

the brand of hypocrisy in the hearts of our neighbors, though they may be too polite to tell us so. But when our daily lives correspond with our profession, there is a demonstration to others of the reality of the religion of Jesus. They see beyond all doubt that there is such a thing as a change of heart, because they know that the issues of the life are from the heart, and that the steady and persistent flow of a pure stream can only be because the fountain itself is pure. Hence, we must not be satisfied with a superficial religion, and we have need to search ourselves closely and often, in the fear and in the light of the Lord, in order that we may not deceive ourselves, and become stumbling blocks in the way of others. There must be personal holiness, and this can only be obtained or attained by great personal earnestness and effort, in all patience, sincerity and perseverance. If we begin this work and then go back, we discourage others from ever attempting it. They fear that they, too, would only fail. There is no fact which Satan finds more helpful to his work than the defective life and example of Christians, as compared with their profession of completeness in religious experience--the exhibition of personal spiritual weakness and sin, in connection with an unhumbled and unblushing claim of a full personal salvation, and a complete personal deliverance. May the Lord help us to confess our sins, and preserve us from presumption. May we never encourage men to confess what they do not possess. May we never put words into their mouths for public utterance and profession, when the honest witness of their own hearts is that those words do not describe their actual condition. Our foundation, Christ

Jesus, is, in every respect, all that is to be desired. Let it be our part to build upon Him in a manner that is worthy of Him. Let the superstructure of our Chrristian character partake of the strength and solidity of our immovable foundation. So shall we be the salt of the earth with savor in it-saving power.

So shall we be the light of the world to scatter its darkness. So shall our Heavenly Father be glorified, because His Church becomes a reflection of Himself to

enlighten and to save the world. Let Christian practice go hand in hand with Christian profession and preaching. Let purity of life demonstrate purity of heart within. Let our own vineyards be well kept, as we try to help our neighbors to keep theirs. Let the concern which we have for other people's souls, be the outflow of an overmastering concern for our own. Then we will need no other argument to convince men that regeneration, and conversion, and sanctification are realities.

The attendance of our weekday meetings, when