3, but now, owing to the earnest labors of some Friends, the attendance on First-day mornings is over 40; in the evening, 70; and in the week-day meeting, about 40; and there is evidence of the Lord's work going on there. It did my heart good to meet with them, mostly from the lower ranks of life. Faithful ministry, liberty, and life, and the presence of the Master, have wrought these results. I have felt, while meeting with you, that there are many earnest hearts amongst the young and those approaching middlelife. May these go forward as the Lord may direct, to advance His kingdom amongst men.

(To be concluded.)

CANADA YEARLY MEETING.

Canada Yearly Meeting of Ministers and Elders was opened on Fifth-day, Sixth mo. 24th.

After a time of silent waiting and earnest vocal prayer, counsel was given by our visiting brethren.

The same Clerks were re-appointed. During the past year there have been four removals by death. Two were ministers; Ira Clark and William Spencer : whose loss was much felt by the meeting.

A proposal was made by Pelham Quarterly Meeting to advise subordinate select meetings to invite the overseers to meet with them. The suggestion was approved, and subordinate meetings are advised to do so if it seemed best.

Two sessions of this meeting were held, and they were times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord. In the evening a Gospel Meeting was held in the Methodist church, addressed by Seth Rees, D. B. Updegraff and others. Many prayers were offered up for individual blessing at the very beginning of the Yearly Meeting, and that the blessing of the great Head of the Church might descend upon the gathering to assemble on the morrow.

Sixth-day, 8 A. M.-The morning devotional meeting was addressed by Seth Rees, M. J. Weaver, J. T. Dorland and others in brief and earnest words on prayer and consecration. A blessed season of testimony followed. John T. Dorland sang the hymn, "I am Thine, O Lord."

At 10 A. M. the Representative Meeting met and transacted routine business. Benj. Cody was ap pointed Clerk.

At 1 P. M. the Yearly Meeting opened for the transaction of business in joint session. Seth Rees led in prayer for the Divine blessing on the Yearly Meeting. As we know there is a day of reckoning, may each member so act at this hour and at this meeting that we may have no regrets in that day.

Mary J. Weaver in earnest, loving words exhorted all to be consecrated for the Lord's service; to keep our eyes off each other; to so speak and act that others may take knowledge of us that we have been with the Saviour.

Others followed in prayer and thanksgiving. After the opening minute had been read and the names of the Caretakers and Representatives were called, the credentials of Friends in attendance from other Yearly Meetings were read. From Ohio Yearly Meeting. Seth and Huldah Rees; from Indiana, Amos Hill and companion Joseph Binford, and Susan Ratcliff; from North Carolina, Jeremiah and Levi Cox. Mary J. Weaver, from New York, stated that she was present unaccredited, because she had not been able to return from a service in our Eastern Quarterly Meeting in time to lay her concern before her own Monthly Meeting.

Cordial words of welcome were given to all these servants of the Lord.

A committee was appointed to prepare certificates of attendance and produce to a future session.

The London General Epistle was read, and a committee was appointed to secure the reprint of 800 copies for distribution among our members. J.T. Dorland spoke of the value of the London Epistle, its words of encouragement and its clear statement of the truth as it is in Jesus and as held by us.

A joint committee was appointed to consult with the visiting ministers and make all necessary arrangements for Gospel service, and to consider the advisability of changing the times of holding the public meetings of the Y. M. Committees so as to allow of more time for Gospel meetings.

A standing Nominating Committee was appointed. A letter from our venerable friend, Thomas Clark, was read. It contained the following suggestions for the deliberation of the Yearly Meeting: "The publication of a portion of the evidence of the Bloomfield lawsuit; that the Yearly Meeting record its profound regret at the troubles that have occurred in the northwest portion of our Dominion; that we exhort all our members not to compromise our peace principles by being present at any warlike demonstration; that we record our gratitude that the House of Commons has rejected the amendments to the Canada Temperance Act proposed by the Senate." The letter was referred to the Representative Meeting for their action.

The Clerks were constituted a Printing Committee, and instructed to procure 800 copies of the Yearly Meeting's minutes.

The Caretakers having proposed that we meet as much as possible in joint session, it was decided to have a separate session on Seventh-day morning for the reading of the Epistles, and one towards the end of the Yearly Meeting for the answers to them, and the remainder of the Yearly Meeting, as far as possible, to be conducted in joint session of men and women.

The Representative Meeting met at 4.30 P. M. The College Committee produced a report of the financial position of Pickering College, and the subject of the maintenance of our school was discussed, with a view to bringing a definite proposal before the Yearly Meeting. The subject was laid over for future consideration.

In the evening a Gospel meeting was held, addressed by M. J. Weaver, Amos Hill and David B. Updegraff, The first speaker dwelt on the blessings of full salvation. We should be where God can use us. The Jews, travelling on horses, chariots, mules and litters, illustrate the positions occupied by Christians. Some are in litters, and thus a burden; some are on mules, the beast that sometimes travels well and sometimes not. Let us choose a chariot or a horse, a swift and sure conveyance. Let us live that we may go up freighted with sheaves and have an abundant entrance to the Father's house.

Seventh-day-The morning devotional meeting was addressed by Seth Rees and D. B. Updegraff.

At 10 A. M the Yearly Meeting assembled in joint session. On the report of the Representatives Howard Nicholson was appointed Clerk, and W. V. Wright Assistant.

The Epistles from the various Yearly Meetings were then taken up. A minute from London Yearly Meeting. acknowledging the courtesy and kindness with which the deputation sent out last year had been re ceived, was read along with the London Epistle.

J. T. Dorland said his heart was warmed at this loving recognition at this time from the Mother Yearly Meeting. Though he had been absent most of the year, he had constantly thought of and prayed for his own Yearly Meeting. He felt there was a place for Friends,

and he had not that broad charity which allowed him to love other denominations as well as his own. It is not well for members to be constantly criticizing the doings of our own church. It was extremely comfort. ing to have this evidence of love from London.

An Epistle was read from Dublin Yearly Meeting and addressed to all who bear the name of Friends in Canada. After some discussion as to whether, or in what manner we should reply, it was decided that this year we reply in the usual manner. The Epistles from the American Yearly Meetings were then read.

Amos Hill said that this epistolary correspondence was always interesting to him. He would have the London General Epistle well read and pondered.

It was decided to send a separate Epistle to each Yearly Meeting and to have the Epistles received printed along with the minutes. The certificate of Stephen Cartland and wife, who had just arrived, was read.

At 2 P. M. Friends met in separate session. An overture from Westlake Quarterly Meeting regarding the expenses of the lawsuit in that Quarter was referred to a committee of four, who are to confer with the Yearly Meeting's Committee on the case now before the courts. Women joining :-A large committee on correspondence was appointed. Edmund Wright was appointed correspondent. Wm. Howard was appointed to draft a minute of advice, embodying the exercise of the meeting on the answers to the Queries.

The Queries and answers from the different Quarters were read. Much pertinent counsel was given by the visiting members and others.

Mary Jane Weaver said we are apt to look for speeches at this time, and listen and get little good. When answers are deficient each one should ask him. self, "Am I to blame?" She would speak on family worship. She could not think what might have been the results to her family but for family prayer. She could as well think of living in a house without a roof as in a home without an altar. Too many look upon family worship as a duty and not as a privilege. She would encourage parents to be faithful in prayer, it will help us over the rough places and soften down the asperities of life. Prayers should be definite, right to the point, and brief. The blessing comes when we pray with our children.

Seth Rees spoke on the Query, "Are Friends pre

served in Christian love one to another?" He was not surprised that the answers were lame. It is a Query that cannot be answered for him by another. We cannot be preserved in Christian love unless we have God's love in our hearts. Our life is two-fold-the external, as we appear to one another-the internal,

First-day-The 8 o'clock meeting was well attended, and many testimonies were given for Christ. There was a good attendance at the meetings during the day at the various places of worship in the village, kindly placed at our disposal. Seven meetings were held in the village and two at outlying points. The Gospel was preached with earnestness and power. (To be concluded.)

From the Huddersfield (England) Examiner.
ISAAC ROBSON.

Mr. Robson was a good business man, and found time to devote attention to public matters. Thus we find that he was for some years a member of the Moldgreen Local Board, prior to the incorporation of the borough of Huddersfield. In 1868 Mr. Robson was returned to the Town Council, for the Moldgreen Ward. Mr. Robson was for a long time an active member of the committee of the Huddersfield Temperance Society, and since the death of Mr. Schwann, has held the post of president; he was a vice president of the Huddersfield Auxiliary of the Bible Society, and some years ago he served on the Infirmary Board, and was a subscriber to the Huddersfield Technical School and Mechanics' Institute. With the late Mr. W. Willans, J.P., and the late Mr. Thomas Firth, of Greenhead Lane, he took a very active part in the management of the British School at Outcote Bank, and the Infant School in Spring Street, both of which were afterwards handed over to the School Board. Along with Mr. Godfrey Sykes, he also exerted himself in the establishment of a British School at Moldgreen, which was turned over to the Huddersfield School Board in 1872. Mr. Robson was a member of the Society of Friends, and took great interest in the Society's schools at Ackworth and elsewhere; and when in 1857 the adult Sunday-school at Paddock, connected with the Society, was established, Mr. Robson became superintendent, and he only relinquished the office about eight or nine years ago. He was one of the recognized ministers of the Society, and was a diligent attender of the various meetings in which the affairs of the Society were transacted. About the year 1865 Mr. Robson, accompanied by the late Mr. Charles Fox, of Falmouth, went to

S. Ratcliff said our Christian life should be such that we can be instant in season and thus do our children and those about us incalculable good.

Huldah Rees said that the form without the life is the result of neglect in our meetings. In mission and temperance work we plan and work to make the meetings interesting and thus profitable; why should we not do the same in our public meetings for worship? Earnest exhortations from others followed, and the meeting closed after a protracted and valuable session. At 8 P. M. a Gospel Meeting was held, addressed by Huldah Rees and others.

the Protestant churches and schools there. Two years later he went with the late Mr. Thomas Harvey, of Leeds, to the south of Russia on a visit to the Mennonites, and some other bodies of Russian Dissenters, whose views on some points were in harmony with those of the Society of Friends. The Mennonites had during the last century migrated from Germany, having been induced to settle in Russia by a guarantee from the Czar that they should not be called upon to take up arms. 1870 and 1871 Mr. Robson was absent from home for a year on a'religious visit to the congregations of Friends in the United States and Canada. Robson was a Liberal in politics, and was always to be relied upon for a consistent line in political as well as all other matters with which he had to

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deal; and as a member of the great Peace party, he had a thorough hatred of war in any shape, whether military or naval. Of late years, owing to declining health, he has taken very little share in the political life of Huddersfield, and a considerable period has elapsed since he was last seen on a public platform. He performed a useful part in his day and generation, and his memory will, we have no doubt, be revered by large numbers with whom he came in contact.

THE UNCERTAINTIES OF SCIENCE.

The Sunday School Times gives an instance: "A good illustration of the tendency of scientists to dogmatize beyond their knowledge, even in their own realm of research, was given in the discussion among the geologists at the recent sessions of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, as reported in the daily press. Two wellknown geologists referred to two fossil shells as found sometimes side by side in the same rocks. Thereupon the State geologist of New York, who had never seen those two fossils side by side in the same rock, and whose pet theory of geology would not admit the possibility of their being there, rose and dogmatized, in behalf of his theory, after the type of the narrowest theological bigot.

"If any one will show me the two spirifers side by side in the same rock,' he exclaimed, ‘I will sacrifice my life's work. I will give up my reputation, eat my hat, and make the person who shows me the rock a present of my coat and boots.' "Instead of dogmatizing on the other side, the defied geologist, who was thus charged with heresy, took the first train to his University, and shortly there came back a heavy box addressed to the de fiant dogmatizer, containing a piece of rock with the two fossils imbedded side by side, and a note reading somewhat as follows:

"The enclosed rock contains the spirifer dis juncta and spirifer mesostrialis side by side. You can have it. Please eat your hat, and send me your coat and boots by express.'

"And this gives a good opportunity for the State geologist of New York to compare himself with the persecuted and maligned Galileo; while the entire skeptical world can groan in chorus over the bigoted hostility of men of science."

ITEMS.

FEW among those who listened to the eloquent words of the late Bishop Simpson would have dreamed that the master-speaker who stood before them was, in his early youth, marked out from his fellows by his lack of power to speak attractively. Yet so it was. And the Bishop's words, in telling of that period and of the way in which he acquired the gift which was in his subsequent life so markedly his, are so suggestive that they are worth repeating here. 'At school," he said, "the one thing I could not do was to speak. It cost me unspeakable effort to bring myself to attempt it, and I was invariably mortified by my failures. At length, having felt called to the ministry, I sought to

forget myself as far as possible, and, banishing all thoughts of oratory, to give myself absolutely to the task of saying things so that people could really understand them."

Two scientific investigators, one Swiss and the other French, have been analyzing the Alpine air. They ascertained that entirely pure air is not found until an altitude is reached of from 6000 to 13,000 feet above the level of the sea. The atmosphere around the lakes below that level, however pure and beautiful apparently, was found to contain bacteria. Nevertheless it was pure enough by comparison with that of the French capital, where the bacteria contained in a square foot of air are 7000 times more numerous than those in the same quantity of air in one of the Swiss valleys.

PAUL KRUGER, the President of the courageous little Transvaal Republic in South Africa, during his recent tour through Germany, visited the Mission House in Berlin. The students were surprised at the earnest Christian tone in which he spoke to them. "Young brothers," he said, "I beseech you to know and preach nothing but our Lord Jesus Christ, and Him crucified. I did not seek Him, but He sought me, and, God be praised, found me. Some from your midst are now in the Transvaal, making known the Saviour, and two of my children are receiving instruction in the mission school. I assure you that my government will sup. port the mission in the strongest manner, and seek to remove all obstacles out of its way."-S. S. Times.

THE American railway companies have expended in Mexico altogether, up to the present time, the sum of at least $40,000,000, not to speak of the expenditures made abroad for material brought hither. They have thus added incalculably to the wealth and resources of the country. In return they have received thus far from the Government not over $4,000,000 all told. Meanwhile in the last four years they have directly caused an increase of revenue from something like $18,000,000 to over $33,000,000, with prospects of enormous increase in the future. Does not that look like a pretty good financial operation for Mexico?Industrial News.

THE "Big Trees" of California, it has been found, are surpassed by the gum trees of the State Towers of the colony of Victoria [Australia]. There are only four of the California trees known to be above 300 feet high, the tallest being 325 feet, and only about sixty have been measured that exceed 200 feet in height. In the large tracts near the sources of the Watts River, at the mouth of which Melbourne is built, all the trees average from 250 to 300 feet in height, mostly straight as an arrow, and with very few branches. One huge specimen was recently discovered and cut down which measured 450 feet in length and 22 feet in diameter at

base.

IN the animal and vegetable kingdoms are found two distinct forms of fellowship in which dissimilar organisms live constantly together. In one form-that of parasitism-one of the associated organisms lives at the expense of the other, as, for instance, the mistletoe on the apple tree. In the other form, the advantage of the companionship is mutual, as in the case of the well-known hermit crab, one species of which picks up an empty shell for an abode, and shares this and its food with a sea anemone, which in turn protects its host by means of numerous long threads charged with a stinging acid which it shoots out on the slightest alarm. By experiment at Naples it has been proven that the compact between these two partners is so close that one is indispensable to the

other. A still more remarkable illustration is drawn from the candle-nut tree of South America, which forms an alliance with a species of small black ant, to their mutual benefit. To this curious partnership, which appears to exist among many animal and vege table species, but which naturalists are only just begin. ning to study, the name of symbiosis has been applied. At the last meeting of German naturalists, Professor Hertwig pointed out that such inter-dependence of organisms may have played an important part in the development of species.

A BILL has been proposed in Illinois, and is favored by the Trades and Labor Assembly, which seems to us to throw some real light on the problem of convict labor. Its object is to devise means by which convicts can be kept employed without underselling the products of free labor, and so reducing the wages of the free laborer. The bill enacts that the product of prison labor shall not be sold at less than market rates, that not over ten per cent. of the convicts shall be employed on any particular industry, and that a certain percentage of the revenue shall be set aside for the support of the convict's family. The condition of the convict labor question in the State of New York is as bad as it can be; for the contract labor has been abolished, and no other has been substituted. The Prison Reform Association could not do better service than to frame a bill-at least to agree upon the principles which should underlie a bill, and urge them upon the people of this State, who certainly do not want to support convicts in idleness, and who are in a real perplexity as to what ought to be done in the premises.— Chr. Union.

THE RECENT DISCOVERY of a nickel mine in California has opened up a new mining industry. The new mines lay for years in plain sight of the stage road, but no one took the trouble to make the proper investigation. Several samples, assayed in San Francisco, yielded 65% and 66% per cent., being the richest nickel ore ever discovered in the world.-Industrial News.

"NO PART."

BY HANNAH CODDINGTON.

" Nay, Lord, what doest thou to wash my feet?
Thou shouldst not stoop to menial offices,
Or tendance such as this. A servant's place!
O Master, Lord, forgive! this cannot be,

Thou'lt never wash my feet." Thus speaks the fond,
Yet ignorant heart, in its humility.

Gently, as mother's loving touch upon

Her heedless little ones, so fall his words.

"My child, disciple, friend, thou knowest not What I do now; hereafter thou shalt know.

But if I wash thee not, thou hast no part

With me." "No part!" O then, wash thou me, Lord—
I dare not turn from services of Thine,
Or draw myself from the encircling strength
Of Thy omnipotence. What love would give
I sure may take. Hold Thou my life, as Thou
Once held disciples' feet-within Thy hands-
And do Thy holy will to make me clean.

O King of kings. O matchless crown of thorns!
Sceptre, love-held toward a needy world!
What is my lowliest doing unto thine!
Master, print deep the lesson taught me here,
That seeing Thee so humbly serving us,

I may with shame lay down my foolish pride,
And follow where my loving Lord doth lead.

-S. S. Times.

SUMMARY OF NEWS. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.-Advices from Europe are to the 7th inst.

GREAT BRITAIN.-Parliament reassembled on the 6th. In the House of Commons, C. Bradlaugh, escorted by two Radical members, advanced for the purpose of taking the oath. The new Chancellor of the Exchequer objected, and moved that C. Bradlaugh be refused permission to swear, and that the Sergeantat-Arms exclude him from the House unless he engage not to disturb the proceedings. A Liberal member moved an amendment in favor of legislating as quickly as possible respecting oaths of office. Gladstone supported the amendment, saying that he believed the House had acted unconstitutionally and illegally, and had grievously wronged the electorate of Northamp ton; and that it should legislate in the direction of removing an existing grievance. The original motion was adopted, yeas 263, nays 219. Bradlaugh then said he would obey the Speaker's order and with draw; but he appealed to the various constituencies against the injustice done him.

In the House of Lords, the Marquis of Salisbury made a statement to the effect that the Government would take up the policy of their predecessors in the negotiations with Russia respecting the Afghan fron

tier, and endeavor to carry it to an issue consistent with the public interest. The negotiations, so far as he could judge, had been conducted with an earnest desire to attain an adequate settlement; but too much importance must not be attached to them as final and conclusive, even when concluded, as the whole condition in Central Asia is unsatisfactory and uncertain. He hoped for an amicable settlement of the difference respecting the Zulficar Pass, which England had promised the Ameer would be included in Afghanis tan; and the promise must be kept. In any case, measures for the defence of the Indian frontier must be skilfully devised and vigorously carried out. In Egypt, the difficulties are great and various. One momentous issue is the defence of the frontier of Egypt by the Egyptians themselves, with English aid, against fanaticism and barbarism. It is necessary to establish such a state of things that if English protection be at length withdrawn, Egypt shall be left safe. Most important of all is the financial question, which is yet unsettled. There is no other alternative than between a steady, cautious and circumspect policy, and a course which would cover England with shame, namely, to abandon Egypt to her fate. In domestic matters, the Government intends to avoid contentious legislation, and to promote only necessary measures.

The workingmen of Wolverhampton recently addressed a letter to the Prime Minister, complaining that they were in a starving condition. Lord Salisbury, in his reply, expressed grief at the suffering of the working classes, and promised that the new Government will carefully consider the whole question of the prevalent depression of trade throughout Great Britain, and take such measures for relief as shall be found most advisable. It is announced that a bill will soon be introduced into the House of Lords, embracing the chief recommendations of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the sanitary condition of the homes of the poor, and to report upon the best means of housing them.

IRELAND.-The Catholic Bishops of Ireland, in session at Maynooth College, have protested against the exclusion of Catholics from the educational endowments unless they accept the Government system of education, which has been condemned by their church. They call upon the Irish members of Parliament to seek to have this grievance removed.

Lord Carnarvon, the new Lord Lieutenant, has entered upon his duties. The municipal authorities of Dublin abstained from participation in the ceremonies on his state entry into that city.

The summer assizes in Ireland opened on the 6th inst, with a remarkable decrease in the number of cases to be tried. There are no agrarian crimes on the calendars, and very few ordinary cases of crime.

FRANCE.-The Senate on the 2d adopted the convention with Cambodia.

The French Government has withdrawn its demand for a fixed date upon which the English troops shall evacuate Egypt, and offers to leave the time to the discretion of the English Government, if Lord Salisbury will admit the principle of evacuation. The French Minister to London has also made conciliatory overtures respecting the question of control of the Suez Canal.

GERMANY.-The Federal Council has decided against the claims of the Duke of Cumberland to the succession of the Duchy of Brunswick.

TURKEY.-The Porte has notified the Embassies that foreign printed matter coming through the post-offices will be subjected to censorship.

ANAM.-The French force occupying Hué, the capital, was suddenly attacked on the 5th by the

Anamite garrison of the citadel, and a severe conflict ensued, which ended in the repulse of the assailants, the French gaining possession of the citadel.

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