on her young mind, and she felt a disposition to partake of its gayeties and fancied enjoyments; but deep filial regard for the wishes of her pious father and grandfather, tended to restrain her from an indulgence in its vanities; and the merciful visitations of divine grace being extended to

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Testimony of Providence Monthly Meeting concerning ANNA A. JENKINS, deceased.

It having pleased our Heavenly Father to remove from the Church militant our beloved friend, Anna A. Jenkins, we feel it incumbent upon us, for the benefit of survivors, to bear our testimony to the efficacy and excellency of that Power, and to the practical operations of that Grace, by which she was qualified and enabled to adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour, and to declare of his righteousness and his mercy, to our edification and instruction.

measure, to turn from its fascinations, and to yield herself meekly and humbly unto Christ; being brought to view the pleasures of time as unworthy of her pursuit, and inconsistent with His precepts and example; realizing the truth of the Apostle's declaration, "the friendship of the world is enmity with God."

Many were the conflicts and baptisms witnessed by our beloved friend thus early in life, in order that she might be purified and prepared for that station in the Church to which she was called by the holy Head. We believe that her first public appearance in the ministry was at a small meeting at Seabrook, in the State of New Hampshire, when she was about twenty-two years of It is not for man to scan the purposes of In- age, uttering the words of our adorable Saviour: finite Wisdom, or to attempt to comprehend the "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall ways of Him who giveth not account of any of see God." It was probably in reference to this his matters; but, humbled under His dispensa- important event in her life, that she wrote, soon tions, it becomes us meekly to bow and to adore; after her return home, under date of Eleventh and it is under a chastened feeling of our own month, twentieth, 1812, as follows: "I have nothingnesss and of his Almightiness, that we re- ofttimes cast my thoughts back upon you, since cur to the manner of her transition from the my visit at Seabrook; and may perhaps consider present to an eternal state of being, on the morn-it the best part of my life from that time to the ing of the twentieth of the Eleventh month, 1849, by the burning of her dwelling-house in the city of Providence; she, with her eldest, affectionate and beloved daughter, Sarah B. Jenkins, being unable to escape from the destroying flames. This event also very much deprives us of the records of her experience and of the dealings of the Lord with her, as penned by herself; her diary and numerous valuable papers having been destroyed.

present. I had at that season, and have had at some transitory ones since, to 'rejoice in the Lord and joy in the God of my salvation,' who is indeed ready to pardon the contrite in heart for omissions, when caused by a fearful hesitancy, yea, even unfaithfulness, when it originates from a fear of doing harm. He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness. * * * Let the soil of thy heart be entirely submitted to the operation of the great, the holy HusbandShe was the daughter of William and Sarah man; permit it to be cultivated according to His Almy, and granddaughter of Moses and Anna pleasure; though he may sit as a refiner with Brown, and born in Providence, Rhode Island, fire, and as a fuller with soap, yet, nevertheless the first of Ninth month, 1790. Her mother my beloved, shrink not at the effects; for though died while she was very young, and the care of He cometh with the fan in his hand, thoroughher devolved upon her father, by whom she was ly to purge the floor, to burn up the chaff with most assiduously and tenderly guarded and care-fire unquenchable, but the wheat he will gather fully educated. As she approached to the state into his garner; and if we can be made pure, fit of womanhood, it appears that the attractions of vessels for his divine service, it is immaterial to the world for a short season had their effect up-l us what prepares us, or it ought to be so, if done

by Him. May we become obedient children, | carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant willing to be taught of the Lord. His grace we stones.' Let us take courage, and do our work shall find to be sufficient for us. in the day time." "May you, my endeared young friends, individually choose the Lord for your portion, and the God of Jacob for the lot of your inheritance. He will be your protector, your preserver, through every vicissitude of life. By attending to the inspeaking word of His truth, which is near you, even in your hearts, and as a law written in your minds, you will be qualified to serve Him in the morning of your days. You will be sweet solaces to your excellent parents, holding up their feeble hands, and supporting their declining years; causing joy to spring in their devoted hearts, thanksgiving and praise to our Heavenly Father on your accounts."

Again twelfth month, Twenty-seventh, 1812, she writes: "Though the world may appear to thee darkened by impending clouds, and agitated as it were by tumultuous blasts from the north, yet be not dismayed, be not discomfited. It is all in wisdom, infinite wisdom, that shadows and glooms should at times envelope the sphere, and even eclipse the benignant, soul-enlivening rays of the Sun of Righteousness; yea, should the life-inspiring smiles of our beloved be withdrawn, then, Ô then, how necessary to invoke patience and faith to our aid; then if pestilence or death seems suspended over us by an attenuated thread we can with confidential calmness and Christain Under date of Eleventh month, twenty-seventh hope, wait in stillness for the dawning of a bright1812, she writes: "The language of encourage-er day, when the stars sing together, and the ment still accompanies my better feelings when children of God our Father shout for joy. Our turned towards thee. This expression has arisen blessed Lord very emphatically proclaimed the since thus silently conversing: Fear not: great- efficacy of faith; and patience seems also essener is He that is in thee, than he that is in the tial in our progress towards the land of promise. world.' Be of good cheer; look up to our Hea- May they be availingly resorted to by us; may venly Father for protection and support. De- we not admit doubts, discouragements, and fears sire of him oftener than the morning, strength to pervade our minds; they perplex, bewilder, and ability to do whatever he may please to ap- and enervate. Let us be strong in the Lord, and point for thy portion to perform in this militant in the power of his might, possessing our souls state; and consider nothing too small, no ser- in patience, endeavouring to cultivate a disposivice too trivial, if it contributes towards the great tion to suffer with cheerfulness; for if we expect work. May our love for Him, and His beloved to reign with our Redeemer, we must be baptizSon, our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, individ-ed with his baptisms, and drink of the ually increase. May we crave an addition there- he drank; then shall we rise into newness of life of each returning day, and at the evening's close and experience all old things done away before commit our spirits to His care endeavoring so to we behold all things to become new and all of live that whether the succeeding dawn returneth God." for us, yea or nay, all will be well."

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First month, seventh, 1813, she writes: "Thy sisterly sympathy is grateful to thy Anna, who feels like a solitary wanderer in a desert land.*** But O, my love, how pleasant is this path, even though it be through the wilderness. Here we sometimes meet with broad, delightful rivers, where no gallant ship hath passed, nor galley with oars, from which we are favored to view, in prospective, the haven of rest, the port of peace. Let us pursue with diligence, keeping our eye single; then can we discover our Heavenly Leader, whose going forth is as the morning, and his return as the former and the latter rain."

The sixteenth of Twelfth month of the same year, she thus writes: "I think much of you at, particularly those who seem inclined to submit to the precious yoke of Christ. The aspirations of my spirit arise for your progress in the path of dedication and humility. May you proceed and cull, as you go, the sweetest of flowers, enjoying the perfumes exhaled from the Eden of the Lord, the garden enclosed of our God. Thou, my much esteemed friend, mayest continue to feel solitary and oppressed, yea, mayest be led where briars and thorns perplex thy way, yet remember that thou art not alone, but Third month, ninth, 1813: "We never exhast many companions. She who is now wield-perience moments of more calm, unalloyed de

ing her pen, is accquainted with sensations like

these. Yea, the heavens to her often seem as brass, and the earth clad in iron, and no temporal consoler near. Yet, let us trust in the Lord, for in his arms there is strength. The mountains shall depart and the hills be removed, but His kindness will never be withdrawn from those who love Him, who endeavour to serve Him. 'O, thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, thy foundations with sapphires, and I will make thy windows of agates, thy gates of

light, or participate more sensibly in a foretaste of heavenly joys, than after conflicting scenes, when the spirit is ready to cry out, my way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God!' provided we can be favored to dwell in patience, and maintain that confidence which is an indispensable requisite in the Christian character. I am renewedly confirmed in the belief that all things work together for good to them who love the Lord."

Eighth month, twenty-third, 1813: "The nearer we live in conformity to the dictates of

the guide within, the more freely will His sus-, taining light and life circulate within our borders, and replenish our ofttimes exhausted spirits, calling for grateful acknowledgments therefrom, and obtain acceptance by Him who anointeth our heads with oil, and causeth our cup to run over. We thus become partakers of that food that satisfies, that gives strength to go forth to the battle, even against the mighty. Be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might: gird up the loins of the mind, and have confidence in the all-sufficiency of His outstretched arm, which will make way for the faithful, where there appears none prepared, and lead the blind in a path they know not of."

distressed. The cause which she knew not, she searched out; and those that asked aid of her, went not empty away. She instituted, and for many years supported at her own expense, a school for the instruction of colored children in Providence, and subsequently was chiefly instrumental in establishing a "Shelter" for destitute orphans of this class, to which she freely contributed of her means, where a large number, taken from abject destitution are now enjoying a comfortable home, and receiving an education to fit them for usefulness in life. Numerous and varied were her private charities, known only to the recipients and those to whom they gave a knowledge of them and multiplied and emphatic were the declarations heard from these at her decease, "the poor have lost a friend." These now gratefully revere her memory,

In the year 1823, she was married to our late valued friend William Jenkins, and returned to reside in her native place.

(To be continued.)

Under date of first month, first, 1814, she thus writes: "Though occasional depressions seem inseparable from the mind engaged in the noblest of warfares, yet experience, I believe, To the sick and the afflicted she was a welcome will confirm us, that equanimity is much to be visitant; her spirit clothed with Christian charidesired, and amply repays for striving therefor, ty, was often qualified to enter into sympathy even until the day breaketh. There is a pleas-with them, and to administer counsel and consoing attraction accompanying a cheerful serenity, lation; and her prayers were frequently put up inspired by the operation of the invisible Power, on their behalf. the alone Supreme, who governs and guides his children, that the beholder observes, the worldling approves, and the uninitiated would willingly imitate. It annihilates the idea that is cherished in the untaught mind, and too tenaciously adhered to by the credulous among mankind, that the followers of the Lamb are enveloped in gloom, no rational enjoyment allowed them, and the path they must pursue circumscribed within The establishment of an electro-telegraph comso narrow a compass, that satisfaction and they,munication across the Straits between England cannot walk side by side. Is it not desirable and France has been for a considerable time forethat these prejudices be removed, that the Chris-seen, as one of the most natural in the train of tion graces conferred on her votaries should consequences resulting from the modern applicashine forth with their benignant lustre, diffusing tion of electricity to the transmission of intellitheir complacent meekness and ease, which faith-gence between distant parts. If a line of wire fulness to the dictates of the Master alone inspires. With this disposition an humble acquiescence is wrought, and every crown of nature falls submissive at His feet. We bend with resignation to the yoke, and the inscription of the cross is our most conspicuous ornament."

Having made full proof of her ministry her gift was acknowledged by Friends in the year 1816.

EXTENSION OF THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH TO

IRELAND AND AMERICA.

could convey the impulse for thousands of miles over the surface of the earth-as it is done, and is doing-there could be nothing in the nature of things to prevent it from being equally efficacious if carried under the earth or even under water; granted always, what no one has been heard to dispute, that it is in the power of art to protect the wire from whatever antagonistic influences it may be exposed to when laid down About this time her father removed to Crans-under earth or water. Trials of submerged lines ton, a few miles from Providence. For several years she continued to reside in this quiet country retreat with her father, richly enjoying its seclusion and exemption from the interruptions incident to a residence in the city. Here she had opportunity for that retirement, that meditation and private devotion which she highly prized; the effects of which were strikingly manifest in the gentleness of her manners, and in a calm benignity in her intercourse with others, that were peculiarly characteristic of her through life.

Possessed of ample pecuniary means, she counted it her privilege to do good, and to administer to the necessities of the poor and the

of wire had, in fact, been made with perfect success across the Thames and the Hudson-both tolerably broad rivers; and it was not to be doubted that what could be accomplished in this way for one mile, could be accomplished for thirty or fifty, or indeed, any number of miles. It was but, in any case, to make the line of submerged wire longer-to sink it, perhaps, deeper and, if deeper, to protect it better The simplest of things, however, when carried on a large scale, require often, as in this instance, for the doing of them, qualities of a higher order-great enterprise, great perseverance, great executive powers of construction and direction. It was a

great thing, assuredly, to undertake to underlay, ed. We assume, of course the battery power

sufficient to transmit the electric impulse through a wire of some 2,000 miles long is at our command; but though we are not aware of any recorded experiments that would justify us in taking the possibility of this for granted, we know that the recently invented receiving magnet of Morse is founded on the principle of counting for nothing the mere distance the electric message has to be transmitted; and at all events the fact is one capable of tentative determination on land before a single yard of an Atlantic line need be laid down. The Old and New Worlds being thus united, we should then see the dream of the poet even more than realized; the earth "girdled round"-not in "forty minutes'—but in a thousandth part of the time-in a single beat of the clock. What would all the other triumphs of human genius be to this? Time and distance literally annihilated throughout the bounds of the planet which we inhabit! A triumph only to be transcended when the planets shall themselves begin to telegraph one another, which is one of the very few things which, in this age of art-miracles, one would venture without hesitation to say will never happen.-Mechanics' Magazine.

AN AERIAL VOYAGE.
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a sea of some thirty miles wide with one continuous line of communication—a single break or flaw in which would be fatal to the whole; there was a risk of failure to be braved, and, in any event, much expenditure of money, time, and trouble, to be adventured on the issue; and beyond all doubt or question, it is a great thing to have successfully accomplished. To all such honor as belongs to the performer of a great undertaking well, Messrs. Jacob and John Brett, the engineers of the Dover and Calais line of telegraph, are richly entitled. The newspapers say that they have obtained "the exclusive right of electric communication between this country and France for ten years." We do not well see how this can be, looking at the legal difficulties in the way; but we are sure that no reward they can have secured to themselves will be too great for the prodigious advantages which they have secured, by their individual exertions, not only to both England and France, but to the world at large. For an electric telegraph to Calais, is not a thing which will stop there. It is a telegraph to Vienna, to Moscow, to Constantinople, to Ispahan, to Delhi, to Calcutta, to the remotest bounds, in short, of Europe and Asia. A few years ago people laughed when Lord Palmerston predicted at the Southampton meeting of the British Association, that a time might come when the Minister of the day being asked in Parliament, "Whether it was true that a war had broken out in India?" would reply, "Wait an instant till I telegraph the GovernorGeneral, and I will tell you." What was thought but a good joke in 1843, is now, in 1850, in the course of being actually accomplished, and ere a few years more, is likely to take its place amongst the sober realities of the age. Nor to the Old World alone need our views of the ultimate progress of electro-telegraphy be confined; for since the English Channel has been crossed, the crossing of the Irish must follow next, as but a matter of course; and Ireland once reached, there lies but a couple of thousand miles of water or so between the Old World and the New. We say, "but," for after all where To explain the catastrophe which at this mois the practical difficulty? Not in producing ment, and at nearly 20,000 feet above the surthe length of wire required; for any length of face of the earth, and about a mile above the wire can be spun-not in covering and insu- highest strata of the clouds, menaced the voylating the wire; for thousands of miles of wire agers, we must recur to what we have already can be covered and insulated just as readily and stated in reference to the balloon and the netsurely as one-nor yet in laying down, as the work. As it was intended to ascend to an Dover and Calais experiment has fully shown.- unusual altitude, it was of course known, that in The only real difficulty in the case, we appre- consequence of the highly rarefied state of the hend, will be to find ship-room for the enormous atmosphere, and its very much diminished prescoil of wire that would be required; but this is sure, the gas contained in the balloon would have an objection which vanishes before the recollec- a great tendency to distend, and consequently, tion of such leviathan structures as the Canada space must be allowed for the play of this effect. and Great Britain. Besides, means may be found The balloon, therefore, at starting, was not nearto effect on board the laying-down vessel a per-ly filled with gas, and yet, as we have explained fect junction of different lengths of wire, so as to it, very nearly filled the net-work which inclosed allow of two, three, or more reels being employ it. Is it not strange that some among the scien

It was within one minute of eleven, when the observers finding the barometer cease the upward motion, and finding that the machine oscillated round a position of equilibrium by noticing the bearing of the sun, they found the epoch favorable for another series of observations. The barometer there indicated that the balloon had attained the enormous height of 19,700 feet. The moisture which had invested the thermometer had frozen upon it, and obstructed, for a moment, observations with it. It was while M. Barral was occupied in wiping the icicles from it, that, turning his eye upward, he beheld what would have been sufficient to have made the stoutest heart quail with fear.

tific men present did not foresee, that when it, with terrible force from the balloon, and the should ascend into a highly rarefied atmosphere, voyagers found themselves involved in an atmoit would necessarily distend itself to such a mag- sphere of it. nitude, that the netting would be utterly insufficient to contain it? Such effect, so strangely unforeseen, now disclosed itself practically realized to the astonished and terrified eye of M. Barral.