do, so great. Oh! the horror and amazement I lay under, to think how to endure the torment I deserved. Let the thoughts of this sink deep into the heart of every one who reads these lines, that they may become prepared, and truly fitted for the kingdom of rest and peace when pale death looks them in the face. Then it will be easier with them than it was with me, for no mortal can tell the disquiet I lay in for sever-ed me, 'Go to the Quakers;' but still I lingeral nights and days, looking for that dreadful sentence, Depart hence, for time to thee shall be Oh! the fervent cries and prayers I put up to the Lord at this time that he would be pleased to spare me this once more. I begged all who came near me to pray for me. My cry was spare me a little longer, and try me once more, and I will become a new creature." Well and faithfully did she henceforth fight the good fight, and the Lord sustained her in the conflict.

no more.'

gible it was to my understanding, as if I had
heard an outward voice. But I was not hasty
to give up to that motion, fearing and doubting
lest it should be the enemy of my soul to deceive
and beguile me, and lead me into errors, and so
I continued going to the public worship of the
Church of England. At last no peace nor com-
fort could I find there, but still the voice follow-
ed for the aforesaid reasons. Then came into
my mind that passage in the tenth of the Acts
of the Apostles, concerning Cornelius, who had
continued a long time in prayer and alms, and
an angel from God was sent to direct him to
send for Simon Peter, who should tell him what
to do. These Scriptures opened plainly in my
mind, but notwithstanding I had enough to rea-
son within my heart saying-As for Cornelius
an angel directed him, but as for me, what do I
see; (not then knowing what an angel was;
which is a ministering spirit). I only hear as
it were a voice within me saying, 'Go to the
Quakers,' and I may be deceived if I heed it.
So I strove against the motions of the spirit of
Truth, not knowing I was under that dispensa-
tion, "Wherein God speaks now to us by his
Son in the hearts of his people."

"Oh! the bitter whisperings of Satan, and the thoughts that passed through my mind, such as my very soul hated: yet such were the suggestions of the enemy that he would charge them upon me as if they were my own. But the Lord in his own due time gave me to see that he was a liar from the beginning." "Indeed had not a secret power supported me in this my bewildered Yet such were the mercy and love of God to state, I had surely fainted and lain down in theme that in this time of my ignorance and infandepths of despair. Day and night were alike unto me; there was no flying from the presence of the Lord and his righteous judgments that pursued me, and were now poured upon the transgressing nature in me, which had long continued and taken deep root. Now was the refining fire very hot in order to burn up the dross and the tin. Oh! happy man and happy woman that doth thus abide the day of his coming; for sure I am, his fan is in his hand,' and if men will but submit when he appears he will thoroughly do that for them which no other can do, purge the floor,' which is man's heart, where the chaff is to be burnt." "This is the baptism that doeth people good; may the Lord bring thousands more through this inward experience, to make an offering to God in rightcousness; for nothing short of it will do or stand in the great and notable day of the Lord." In this state of conflict and suffering, and while yet a diligent attender of the public worship of the Church of England, she was in a striking manner called to forsake her formal observances, and to walk henceforth in that sim ple, but as we reverently believe, that purer, higher and holier way marked out for the Society of Friends to follow.

cy, he was pleased in great mercy still to follow me; so that I can truly say I witnessed the Scripture to be fulfilled where it is said, 'In the day of thy power thy people shall be willing.' It was no less than the power of God that constrained me to go and hear what sort of doctrine was preached by them, for I had never but once heard any of those people preach, and that was five or six years before. And after long struggling and reasoning I enquired for a Quaker Meeting, and was informed of the place and day. I went, not acquainting any body where I was going; neither had I opened my condition to any one, nor could I. When I came to the meeting, there I saw a small number of people waiting on the Lord, and after some time a servant of God stood up and declared such things as I had never before heard from any, whereby my state was fully spoken to; so that I could set my seal to it, that it was the truth. The power that attended the testimony reached to the witness of God in my heart, and a zeal for him was raised within me by the hopes that were begotten through the preachings of the word of truth. When meeting was over, I went away with joy and gladness of heart, and my understanding was in some measure opened, and Her account is, "If any should question and a faith raised in me, forasmuch as my condition say, 'How camest thou to have these people was so plainly opened by a handmaid of the discovered to thee by the Lord as thou sayest?' Lord, whom I had never seen before. The Lord Truly I give thee this answer and in much sim-alone knew my condition at that time; and as I plicity and integrity of heart: as I continued in continued faithful to what he made manifest unthe aforesaid exercise it frequently ran through to me, it pleased the Almighty one to make my mind, Go to the Quakers,' and as intelli- bare his powerful arm for my deliverance

through the many and various exercises that I, met with for the Gospel's sake."

Persecution, and the estrangement of her nearest friends, were the result of this change in her religious views. Even her husband, whom she dearly loved, threatened to forsake her. "This," she (6 says, came close to my very life; and then came also the saying of Jesus into my mind,' He that loveth anything better than me, is not worthy of me.' Then was I brought to the very proof, whether I loved Christ Jesus or my husband; for one of the two must have the preeminence in my heart. Now was the time come indeed for the full proof of my love to God, whether I could leave father and mother, brothers and sisters, yea, and the husband that I had loved best of all, for Christ, and the Gospel's sake. This was a trial none can tell but those who experience the same; for those relations are very near; and without an invisible support the soul cannot be upheld under such trials; but they whose hearts are true to God, being sanctified and made clean by the washing of regeneration, are enabled to deny themselves, not of unlawful things only, but also of the dearest lawful things for Christ's sake and the Gospel.

and to meet with the Lord there; but much more joy will it be to my soul to meet with him in Heaven, and to have a place in his kingdom." A few days before her death, some Friends of Tottenham sat down to wait on the Lord God with her; his love was largely manifested, and sprang up as a fresh spring, and after a Friend had been concerned in supplication, she broke forth and said, "Oh! love; this is love that may be felt; my God, thy goodness is wonderful; my soul praises thee for the overflowings of thy love at this time, an opportunity unexpected." She tenderly acknowledged the kindness of her friends in that visit, and taking leave in brokenness of spirit desired "the Lord to be with them and to strengthen them to be valiant for his truth, and to keep their meetings in his name and power," saying, "Oh what comfortable times we have often had in our week day meetings; how have our cups overflowed with the love of our Heavenly Father."

She desired those about her when they should see her going to breathe her last, "to be very still, and inward with the Lord in their spirits breathing for her easy passage," saying, "All will be well; I am going home; I have done Passing over many remarkable experiences with the world and all that is in it; but breathe, recorded in her memoirs, our limits require that that the Lord may pour out his spirit upon a we turn to the closing scene which crowns all, young generation, that they may serve him in and is a seal to the truth of that to which she cleanness of heart." "My beloved is mine, and was called, for the Lord knew her as one of his I am his; he is my all in all." And then praychildren, and received her into his fold of ever-ed sweetly, "Oh! everlasting God and mighty Jelasting rest and peace. hovah, send the angel of thy presence and powBecoming a member of the Religious Society er, to conduct my soul unto thy heavenly manof Friends, she was long a valued and faithful sion, my holy King, where there is joy and reminister among them; and it was while attend-joicing and singing of praise for evermore. ing the Yearly Meeting in London, in the year to thy arms, Lord Jesus Christ, I offer up my 1720, that she was taken with the illness which soul and spirit." proved her last.

Some Friends visiting her she said, "Oh, love one another and the Lord make you a living people unto himself, and preserve you in perfect love and unity." "I am willing to die, and I hope it will not be long, but oh! I would go exactly in the Lord's time; and all that I desire is that the Lord's presence may be continued to me, and then I fear not the pinching time the hour of death." "I do wait on my God, and he is a God of everlasting loving kindness, and hath been good to my soul all my life long," and then said; "Friends, do not put off making your peace with him till you come upon a dying bed. Here is enough to do, to labor under the afflictions of the body; I would not be without the favour of God now for all the world."

In

The last words she was heard to say, her voice being low, were "The Lord my God will help me."

month, 1720, aged about 63 years.
She departed this life on the 8th of the 7th

For Friend's Review.
SCRIPTURAL MUSINGS.

A remarkable characteristic of the Scriptural history, is the fidelity and impartiality with which the conduct, whether good or bad, of those who are the subjects of the narrative is described. We find here no traces of the friendships or enmities with which other histories are usually marked. The object of the historian evidently the characters portrayed, but the exhibition of appears to be, not the exaltation or depression of truth, without disguise or concealment.

Several young people being with her at another time, she tenderly advised them "to be good, and serve God faithfully, and not put off This renders the Scripture narratives peculiarthe great work of their day to the last; but time-ly interesting and instructive, when regarded ly prepare for a dying hour; that" said she, you may have oil in your lamps, and be in readiness whenever that time shall come. It hath been the joy of my heart to go to a meeting,

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merely as historical records. In no other history can we find such an amount of practical wisdom presented in the dress of narrative. The lives of Jacob and Joseph will be found, upon examina

tion, remarkably fruitful of interesting incidents. nativity. This, his unele probably knew, and The declaration of the Most High to Abraham, was therefore emboldened to act toward him as that in him and in his sced all nations of the he did. Hence, we may perceive that the bick earth should be blessed, was unquestionably un-erings and jealousies which marred the comforts derstood, in the patriarchal family, to imply that of Jacob's family, were the result of the fraud a personage of an exalted character was to arise at a future day, among the descendants of Abraham, in whom all the nations of the world should be blessed; and Abraham was clearly informed that this promise was to be verified in the posterity of Isaac and not of Ishmael.

The information given to Rebecca that the elder of her sons should serve the younger, might readily be considered as an intimation that the promised Messiah, in whom all nations should be blessed, was to arise in the family of the younger and favourite son. This may furnish at least, a plausible explanation of her anxiety to secure to this son the blessing which his father was disposed to confer on the elder of the two.

that was practiced upon the aged parent. What were the relations subsequently exising between Rebecca and her elder son, we are not informed; but we may fairly presume they could not be of the most friendly complexion. And whether she ever had the satisfaction of welcoming her favourite son to his father's house, is uncertain; as we hear nothing respecting the time of her death. If the separation was to her a final one, from the son whom she particularly loved, and the alienation of the remaining one the consequences of her deceptive proceedings in relation to the blessing, her reflections must have been painful in the highest degree.

To return to Jacob's family. We find the bickerings which marked the intercourse of the mothers, renewed in their posterity. That the son, and for a number of years, the only son, of the wife whom he chose should be the peculiar favourite of the father, was a matter of course. We are told that Jacob loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, or in other words, his youngest son; an evidence that this partiality appeared before Benjamin was born. This was unquestionably the reason, but not the only reason for this partiality. The mother of Joseph would no doubt have been Jacob's only wife, if he had not been compelled to flee from his father's dwelling. The consequence of the hatred excited among the sons of Jacob by their father's fondness for his younger son was the cause of the iniquitous transaction by which Joseph was suddenly torn from the paternal embrace, and consigned to Egyptian

Whatever may have been the moving cause, we readily discover in the conduct of Rebecca, not merely the mother's partiality improperly indulged, but a secret distrust in the certainty of the Divine purposes. She ought to have known that if the blessing which her blind husband was preparing to utter, could be available to the person or posterity of the recipient, it must be indebted for all its efficiency to the authority under which the blessing should be pronounced. The father's attachment to his elder son could not change the purposes of an Almighty Power, nor divert the blessing from its intended object. We may, therefore, safely infer, that the fraud and falsehoods by which the blessing was apparently diverted from the elder to the younger son, had no effect upon the divine purposes, nor upon the appropriations of wealth which were prophetically dispensed to the descendants of Esau and Jacob. The blessing was certainly neither pro-slavery. Here a shaft was fixed in the bosom of cured nor prevented by Rebecca's contrivance.

But while we conclude that the divine determination, in regard to the posterity of Isaac's sons, was not influenced by the unjustifiable actions into which the mother and son were betrayed, we cannot fail to perceive the consequences which followed in its train, and which embittered a great part of their subsequent lives. The resentment of Esau giving Rebecca reasonable cause to fear for the life of her son, she was reduced to the painful necessity of sending him as an exile, to a distant land, where he was exposed to the artifices of an avaricious uncle. Instead of procuring a wife on the easy and honourable terms which his father had received, he was subjected to a seven years' servitude and a wife imposed upon him, whom he did not choose. The impositions of Laban may be fairly traced to his unprotected condition; and that condition was the consequence of the resentment which he had excited in the mind of his brother. For, however injurious his treatment at Padanaram, he could not venture to return to the land of his

the aged patriarch which rankled there till near the close of his day. When questioned by Pharaoh respecting his age, he declared that few and evil had been the days of the years of his life; and we may readily conceive that those evils were rendered more poignant by the reflection, that they were the fruit of his own actions.

However gratifying to the patriarch may have been the elevation of his favourite son to an exalted position, in the most wealthy kingdom in the world, his satisfaction could not fail to be embittered by the conviction that one link in the chain of events, by which, under divine disposal, that wonderful result had been accomplished, was an act of remarkable cruelty, in which a number of his sons participated.

Of the life of Joseph, little is known, except that portion of it which was passed in Egypt. Though he was unquestionably fully sensible of the injustice and cruelty with which he had been treated, and therefore could hardly be expected to feel much cordiality towards any who took part in his servitude, he was evidently actuated

CANALS AND RAILROADS.

We know of nothing that shows the greatness of our State Canals, to better advantage than the annexed table, and the note thereto, which constitute a part of the report of the State Engineer and Surveyor. We commend them to general

attention.

Statement of tonnage from and to tide water, from 1836 to 1850, and estimated amounts during the next five years, with rate of increase.

by a noble determination to perform the duties
of the station in which he found himself placed,
with unflinching fidelity. His integrity was too
deeply founded on religious principle to be im-
paired by slavery itself. The confidence reposed
in him by his Egyptian master, was evidently
the result of the skill and fidelity with which his
duties were performed. That the Lord gave him
favour in the sight of his Egyptian master and
in the sight of the keeper of the prison, is un-
questionably true; but this was done, not by
miraculous interposition, but through the opera-
tion of natural causes. Their confidence was
gained by his vigilance and fidelity. His con-
duct was evidently regulated by a deep and abid-
ing sense of religious obligation. However inju-
rious the treatment received, we have no intima- 1839,
tion that he ever resorted to means inconsistent 1840,
with the utmost integrity, to extricate himself 1841,
from his difficulties.

Year.

1836,
1837,
1838,

1842,

1845, 1846,

1848,

1850,

1851, 1852, 1853, 1854, 1855,

143,595 836,861

980,456

176,737 1,019,094

1,195,831

195,000 1,204,943

1,339,943

213,815

1,362,319

1,575,134

The narrative of his life furnishes a remarkable | 1843, illustration of the accomplishment under divine 1844, direction, of great events by apparently inadequate means. When Joseph was cast into prison, on a charge from which he had no means of 1847, clearing himself, what could appear more improbable than that this should become a link in the 1849, chain of events, which should transplant the Hebrew captive from a prison to the chamber of state? Yet so it was; he was transferred at once from the prison to a condition inferior only to that of the monarch on the throne-to bind the princes of Pharaoh at his pleasure, and to teach his senators wisdom. What was written aforetime by the sacred penmen, was written for our instruction, and we scarcely find a narrative which more forcibly impresses the wisdom of labouring assiduously to perform the duties, whatever they may be, of the station in which NOTE.-In order more fully to impress upon we find ourselves placed, by the direction or per- the mind the present magnitude of the canal mission of an overruling Power, and trusting to trade, and the capacity of the canal when enlargthe same Power for the eventual removal of ex-ed, let us imagine its business transferred to a isting evils. railroad.

When the patriarch Jacob was constrained to The tons arriving at tide water last year, were send his youngest and favourite son with his 2,033,863; all performed in the space of 226 brethren to Egypt, greatly fearing the stern se- days. A railroad, operated six days in the week, verity of the Governor of the land; when in the will have 313 working days in a year. If the bitterness of his spirit he exclaimed, "God above business should be divided equally throughAlmighty give you mercy before the man, that out the year, then the arrival at tide water would he may send away your other brother and Ben- be 6,498 tons daily; average loads of 100 tons jamin; if I am bereaved of my children, I am of freight per train, would require the arrival bereaved," little did he imagine that the man daily of 65 trains; equal to one train every whose sternness he so dreaded, was his own son, twenty-two minutes throughout the twenty-four the beloved son for whose supposed early and hours. A railroad performing a large passenger violent death he had refused to be comforted, and fast freight business, and having a double determining to go down mourning to the grave; track with usual turn outs, could not, I suppose, the very man who probably bore him a stronger perform one-sixth of the above, as additional busaffection than any other of his numerous descen-iness, by slow trains, even admitting that the vadants; the man who was preparing to nourish him and his family through the remaining years of famine. So true it is that our greatest blessings are sometimes dispensed through the medium of the deepest afflictions. E. L.

riations of trade at different seasons of the year, could, by increased loads, be accommodated by the number of trains stated. In other words, it would require six double track railroads, having other traffic from which to earn dividends, to

perform the business of the Erie canal during, the past year, and some 8 or 10 for the business which the enlargement can command. The above business would require an outfit of at least 10,000 cars and 400 engines, costing say $9,000,000; and if confined to one road, would require the daily arrival of 44 miles of trains to be unloaded, loaded and sent back, supposing that each train and each car should be fully loaded.

All the railroads now built and in process of construction, to connect Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and Boston with the west, would be overburdened with business, if freights equal in amount to that of the Erie canal, should be thrown upon them.-Utica paper.

FRIENDS' REVIEW.

PHILADELPHIA, EIGHTH MONTH 2, 1851.

visit for which they have been liberated by New England Yearly Meeting.

From information previously received, they had ed to go, would not sail until the early part of the apprehended that this packet, in which they intend8th month, but on Second day evening, the 14th, telegraphic information was sent them, that she would get off on the 20th of the then current month.

Notwithstanding the short space of time to prepare, they were enabled to make such arrangevessel while she was waiting a few miles below the ments as appeared necessary, and they reached the city. The barque is one of the Baltimore clippers, of 350 tons. She usually makes the passage in about 35 days. The Captain has the reputation of being a skilful seaman. He came originally from Camden, Penobscot Bay, Maine. He and the first mate are said to be all the whites on board, except our dear friends.

There is a small cabin on deck divided into two apartments, one of which, a room about ten feet square, with state rooms in it, is appropriated exclusively to Eli and Sybil's use.

Between sixty and seventy coloured emigrants were on board. It is said that among the passenThough the solar eclipse, which forms the sub-gers were two Methodist ministers and one physi

ject of the lecture copied into this number, is now past, and exhibited here no appearance out of the ordinary range of partial eclipses of the sun, it is apprehended that the description which the lecturer has furnished, will be interesting to some of our readers. A total eclipse of the sun, though frequently occurring in some part or other of the world, is a phenomenon which few individuals have an opportunity of witnessing twice. Even the astronomer, however familiar with the theory of the science, can scarcely observe the apparent extinction of the sun, without a feeling nearly allied to fear.

cian, who have gone out for the purpose of obtain ing information respecting Liberia and the condi

tion of the settlers.

The packet is bound to Monrovia, and from thence she is to proceed south, touching at several places along the coast, until she arrives at Cape Palmas.

Eli and Sybil are to have the privilege of staying on board during the night, and are to have liberty ligious concerns as way may open for it. After of going on shore by day, and attending their rearriving at Cape Palmas, the packet is to leave for Baltimore, probably by way of Monrovia, and our friends will be left to pursue their visit, and will proceed towards Sierra Leone.

A few Friends accompanied them on board, and they all sat down a short time in silence in the cabin, when Sybil briefly and solemnly expressed her very great desire that the little company then together, might be more and more engaged to take up their cross, and follow their blessed Saviour in the way of his requirings, and not shrink from making any sacrifice called for at their hands, that ed them to do, and in the end meet in that blessed they might all be enabled to finish the work assigncity where there shall be no parting,

At page 650 of the present volume, notice was taken of the liberation, by New England Yearly Meeting, of our beloved Friends, Eli and Sybil Jones, to perform an extensive religious visit to Friends and others in Great Britain and Ireland, to some parts of the continent of Europe, and if way And now she says "tell our friends at home that should open for it, to extend the visit to some places during the short time we have been on board the on the African coast, particularly to Sierra Leone, being here is in accordance with, and in the ordership we have had such a sweet evidence that our and the republic of Liberia, and some of the adja- ing of our Heavenly Father's will, that we have no cent islands, and to a few of the West Indian Isl- wish nor desire that we were any where else. ands. We find, from the subjoined communication, This is my feeling most fully and entirely, and I which was furnished by a friend who accompanied band also." Eli in going down the bay had express very fully believe it is the feeling of my dear hus them on board the Liberia Packet, and was presented himself to one of his friends in language of a at the parting opportunity, that they have embark- similar import. ed on their arduous and hazardous service; and are in all probability now rolling on the broad Atlantic on the way to the African coast.

The serenity and peacefulness which pervaded their minds, were comforting and instructing to the friends present, who, after taking an affectionate leave of them, left the vessel.

Our beloved Friends, Eli and Sybil Jones, from The Captain thought they should be clear of the China, Maine, arrived at Baltimore, on 7th day eve- Capes and out to sea by morning, a distance of near ning, the 19th ult., and the next morning embarked 200 miles. The wind was fair and there was a on board the barque Liberia Packet, Captain How, good breeze, and before their friends reached the for the coast of Africa, to commence the religious I city they were under sail.