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FRIENDS' REVIEW.

VOL. VII.

A RELIGIOUS, LITERARY AND MISCELLANEOUS JOURNAL.

PHILADELPHIA, NINTH MONTH 17, 1853.

EDITED BY ENOCH LEWIS.

PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY SAMUEL RHOADS,

No. 50 North Fourth Street,
PHILADELPHIA.

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An account of MARY HEARSON, of Spalding, England, who died 26th of 3d month, 1852, aged 72 years.

She was seriously inclined from her childhood, and for thirty-five years, a member amongst the Wesleyan Methodists. During this period, she held the situation of housekeeper in two or three different families; and afterwards rented a cottage, and supported herself by the sale of a little grocery, &c., until the failure of her health obliged her to discontinue it.

Brought, in good measure, to the experimental knowledge of the truth, as it is in Jesus, her connection with the Methodists appears to have been mutually cordial. She was much esteemed by them, and, to use her own words, they were, "a people whom she much loved;" so that when her mind was drawn towards Friends, and she felt it to be her duty to unite with them, in their simple mode of worship, "it was a very great trial to her." It does not appear by what means her attention was first directed to a serious consideration of the religious views of the Society of Friends, but, for some years, she was much exercised in regard to them, and, "lest she should hurt the mind of any one, she long kept her feelings to herself," till her health became sensibly affected. "I prayed," she remarks, "to my heavenly Father, that he would be pleased to shew me clearly, what he would have me to do, and that I might be made willing to do it." Thus, humbly seeking for preservation and right direction, the path of duty "was made clear" to her; she became fully convinced that "she must look more inward, to Him who is a Spirit, and who helpeth those who worship him in spirit and in truth;" she felt assured, that, "waiting upon the Lord, in stillness, she should have her reward." Henceforth she could find no rest, till she "gave up" to pursue the course which appeared to be

No. 1.

"By

in accordance with her Christian duty.
divine assistance," she remarks in one of her
memoranda, "I took up my cross, and went to
Friends' Meetings;" nor had she been many
times there, when to her "great joy and comfort,"
that the path she had been enabled to choose,
she was remarkably confirmed in the persuasion,
was the right one for her to walk in. This was
in the Eighth month, 1828, and, being strength-
ened by the ministry of James Haworth, who
vice, she became a regular attender of Friends'
was about that time at Spalding on religious ser-
Meetings, and was received as a member of our
religious Society in the year 1831.

It was instructive to notice how steadily this dear friend was strengthened to hold on her course. Possessed of a very affectionate and feeling mind, and having passed through severe trials, which it is believed, were sanctified to herself, she was enabled deeply to sympathise with others when under affliction, and she was made helpful to some of her friends by her counsel and encouragement.

She had, for many years, suffered from a cancer in the eye, and at the commencement of the year 1851, she was reduced to a state of great bodily weakness, through this painful complaint. Both her friends and she herself apprehended, that her continuance in her afflicted tabernacle could not be long; but it pleased Infinite Wisdom to order otherwise; and her faith and patience, during a time of great suffering, protracted for more than a year, were deeply instructive, evincing to beholders the power of religion, and the reality of that "strong consolation" which the Gospel of Christ affords to the believer, even in the hour of greatest need.

Some friends who called to see her, Second month 3d, 1851, and to read a letter to her, found her very weak, and unable to speak to them. After they had sat a while by her bed side, she requested to be raised up, saying, she then felt able to hear the letter read. After she had heard it, she expressed herself, in a clear distinct voice, nearly as follows. "I have a firm hope, under my sufferings, that soon the end will come, and I shall be admitted into glory, to sing hallelujah to the Lord God and the Lamb, for ever to adore and magnify the loving kindness of my Saviour and Redeemer. I have an unshaken belief that the arms of his love and mercy are round about

me continually, by night and by day; though there are times when the sufferings of the body overpower every other feeling. But, I can testify to his great goodness to me, unworthy me!"

to go, but willing to stay and suffer. Her weakness now became so great, that she no longer had the power of expression. After a few more hours of suffering, succeeded by some of comparative ease, it pleased her heavenly Father to grant her a gentle dismissal on the morning of the 26th, to receive her, we humbly trust, into one of those mansions which she had faith to believe her Sa

Fourth month, 14th. After being confined to her bed for several days, under great suffering, she said to a friend who called on her, "I am favored to feel my mind sustained in sweet peace."viour had prepared for her. It is not, indeed, given I enjoy much inward comfort, and have a happy prospect before me; but I desire to wait all my appointed time. Last night my cup of inward consolation overflowed; the joy I felt was unspeakable.'

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Fifth month, 29th. She expressed herself nearly in these words, "Though very ill, I have much inward joy. I feel an evidence that Jesus Christ has forgiven my sins, and cleansed me from my defilements, and that he hath put on me the garments of his righteousness; that he is very near to me and will never leave me, but will soon take me to glory."

Sixth month, 23d. She said to a friend that she felt ready to depart, and that she was only waiting the summons of her Lord, at whatever hour he might see fit to call her hence. Yet she survived nine months, and continued to evince much patience and resignation, during her protracted sufferings, on one occasion remarking, "O, how good is the Lord, I see his goodness in all things;" and at another time, under great suffering, she said, "It is hard work, but it is the Lord's will," and she desired to bear it patiently, repeating

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My rest is in Heaven, my rest is not here," &c.,

to every believer,-and no true believer need be discouraged, if it be not given to him, to exhibit so much of the "holding fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end;" and we are not to measure the ground of his safety, or the reality of his preparation for heaven, by the warmth of his feelings, or the amount and clearness of his expression; but it is the Believer alone who can thus show forth the praise of God, "who causeth him to triumph in Christ." The annals of sceptisim and infidelity show only the gloomy, cheerless, hopeless contrast.-Annual Monitor.

From "Progress of Creation."

THE GEOGRAPHY OF PLANTS, AND LAND
BREEZES.

(Continued from page 807, vol. 6.)

The Parasitic Guacco is indigenous to the wildest parts of South America, amid scenery such as Europe has not to boast. This plant may be seen twined up the highest trees, and throwing its graceful branches around their giant trunks; it uniformly makes known the vicinity of poisonous serpents, yet such are its specific virand added, "I feel the time is drawing near. My tues that the Indian does not fear to fill his hand faith fails not; but I feel assured that with its leaves, and then to pick up even the Saviour my is waiting to receive me; O, the glorious pros-seen to change its color immediately on coming deadly cobra capello. The reptile has often been pect!" At one time, when in acute pain, she exclaimed, in contact with the leaves, and to remain quiet, "O, that it would please the Lord to cut the work as if in a fainting state. short, and to say 'it is enough;"" yet soon added, "but not my will, but Thine, be done. O, grant me patience unto the end!" She then repeated the whole of the hymn

"Comfort take thou child of sorrow,

All is ordered well for thee," &c.

At another time she said, "O, I feel it needful to be constantly on the watch, for the Son of Man cometh at an hour when ye think not." With uplifted hands she prayed, that strength might be given her to bear what was the divine will; and then, turning to those about her, she said, O, help me to pray, all that can pray; pray and sing praises to the Lord; glory, glory, glory!"

Not long before the close, when suffering greatly, her niece asked her, if she felt her Saviour near, she replied, "Yes, I feel his arms round about me; he is supporting me; he is waiting for me. I shall soon sing glory to the Lamb, and have on the white robe, with a palm in my hand." After this she said to a friend, that she was ready

Colonel Hamilton re

lates, that the virtues of this extraordinary plant in one of the vast forests of Antioquia, in Cowere first discovered by an Indian, while working lumbia. A combat was going on between a small bird, called a snake-hawk, and a snake, and, while watching them, he observed that whenever the bird was bitten, he immediately flew to the guacco, and eat some of its berries. He then returned to the combat, and again availed himself of the virtues of the friendly plant. But the snake had no such antidote, when wounded by the sharp bill of the enraged hawk; he grew weaker and weaker, and was at length killed by his antagonist, who presently consumed him. It has been said, that the whole creation beautifully sets forth, in visible characters, those things which are invisible. The Christian reader may discover in this incident, a shewing forth of one of the most affecting truths, which revelation has unfolded.

We may also briefly notice a solitary plant, which is invaluable to the wandering Arab, and

his "mute companion." This is the Camel's Thorn, a bitter shrub, which beautifully exemplifies the merciful care of Providence. Its everlasting verdure refreshes the eye of the traveller, and its deep-searching tough roots collect the scanty moisture of these arid plains. This property the Arab applies to the production of a grateful and necessary refreshment. He removes a little of the sand, and having made an incision in the stem, as near the root as possible, he inserts a single seed of the water-melon in the fissure, and then carefully replaces the sand. The seed becomes a parasite plant, and the nutriment, which the brittle succulent root of the melon would be unable to collect in the midst of a parched desert, is abundantly supplied by the deep-searching and tough fibres of the camels' thorn. An abundance of good water melons are thus grown in a soil which is incapable of culture. The plant itself produces small oval leaves for a few days only during the spring, which are succeeded by crimson-colored flowers.

Travellers gaze with astonishment on the pyramids of Egypt, on the fountains and columns of Rome, on the works of men, who are now for. gotten, and whose structures, though calculated to overwhelm the mind with astonishment and admiration, can lay claim to no real utility; yet they too frequently forget that all around them are traces of the footsteps of that great Being, whose goings forth have been from all eternity: that they are impressed on the summit of the mountains, in the oozy bed of ocean, amid pathless deserts, as well as in scenes of fertility and beauty. He has caused grass to spring forth, and herbs and fruitful trees for the use of man, and has admirably adapted them to every country, and to the necessities of its respective inhabitants. I can even believe, so great is the beneficence of that Almighty Being, by whom the universe is framed, that every country has some plant peculiar to itself, which thrives best, and appears more beautiful than it would do in any other part of the world; some tender and convincing proof, that as a father pitieth his children, so the Most High condescends to sustain and pity those whom he remembers to be but dust. Let us extend our researches of this subject as far as the discoveries of various travellers enable us to ascertain the important fact.

Caribbee islands, its absence is compensated for by a general or easterly wind, that blows from one end of the country to the other, and serves instead of a land-breeze. In other portions of the globe which are not refreshed by sea-breezes, a general wind answers the purpose. This is very obvious on the western coast between the tropics.

Thus beautifully has the poet, Bryant, referred to the refreshing night-breeze; to whom, perhaps, that breeze recalled, as it passed across his fevered brow, the thought of home, and friends, and those green pleasant fields, where he had first gathered the cowslip and the primrose, in the sweet fresh gales of spring.

Spirit that breathest through my lattice, thou
That coolest the twilight of the sultry day,
Gratefully blows thy freshness round my brow;
Riding all day the wild blue waves till now,
Thou hast been out upon the deep at play.
Roughening their crests, and scattering high their
spray,

And swelling the white sail. I welcome thee
To the scorch'd land, thou wanderer of the sea.
Nor I alone,--a thousand bosoms round

Inhale thee in the fulness of delight,

And languid forms rise up, and pulses bound,
Livelier, at coming of the wind of night.
And, languishing to hear thy grateful sound,

Lies the vast inland stretch'd beyond the sight.
Go forth, into the gathering shade-go forth,
God's blessing breath'd upon the fainting earth.
Go rock the little wood-bird in his nest,
The wild old wood from his majestic rest-
Curl the still waters, bright with stars, and rouse

Summoning from the innumerable boughs,
The strange deep harmonies that haunt his breast.

Pleasant shall be thy way, where meekly bows The shutting flower, and darkling waters pass Between the overshadowing branches and the grass. The faint old man shall lean his silver head

To feel thee; thou shalt kiss the child asleep,

And dry the moistened curls that overspread
His temples, while his breathing grows more deep;
And they who stand around the sick man's bed,
Shall joy to listen to thy distant sweep,
And softly part his curtain to allow

Thy visit grateful to his burning brow.
Emblem of one who owns no earthly change,
With sounds and scents from all thy mighty range,
Thee to thy birth place of the deep, once more.
Sweet odors in the sea-air, sweet and strange,

Whose hand in all things seen shall soon restore,

Shall tell the home-sick mariner of the shore, And listening to thy murmurs, he shall deem He hears the rustling leaf and running stream.

We have, in some countries, a breeze that Equally pleasurable, in their different modificablows alternately from the sea and land during tions, and useful, are those winds which now howl certain hours of the night and day. This wel- fiercely through our woods, and again breathe in come breeze is commonly felt in the morning the breath of spring. Were it not for their about nine. At first it proceeds slowly in a fine active ministry, the circumambient fluid, the atblack curl upon the water, which increases gradu-mosphere, which encircles our globe, and now so ally till twelve, and then dies away about five. When it ceases, a contrary breeze springs up, which increases in freshness till midnight, and is again succeeded in the morning by the former breeze.

In countries where the land-breeze is wanting, as for instance the Brazils, and many of the

greatly conduces to our health, would become unfit for respiration; but the perpetual agitation which they produce, renders it both pure and healthful.

Neither are these agitations beneficial only to the health; they add greatly to the pleasure of mankind. Witness the gales that fan us during

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