It was between four and five in the afternoon, that I came upon this view, and I gazed, and gazed, and gazed, almost wishing that I could spend as many day's as there were minutes in the same position, and full of regret to leave a spot of such glorious beauty. The splendor was almost blinding. A brilliant sun, a few fleecy clouds around the mountain, a clear transparent atmosphere, the valley invested with the richest verdure, range after range of mountains retreating behind one another, tints softening from shade to shade, the light mingling with, and as it were entering into the green herbage, and forming hazy light, and at the close of this perspective of with it a soft luminous composition, dim ridges of magnificence, Mont Blanc sheeted with snow, and flashing like a type of the Celestial City.

Who among us is there, but in the glowing aspirations of his early life has felt that to visit Mont Blanc, and the wildest and grandest of nature's upheavings around it, must be among "Coming suddenly upon such a scene you think the achievements of his future days! Who, that no other point of view, can possibly be equal even in matured and sobered thought, after his to this, and you are tempted not to stir from the spot brow has become wrinkled, and his cheek fur- till sun down; but looking narrowly, you see that rowed with the cares and perplexities of a busy the road scales the cliff's at some distance beyond, life, does not, occasionally, still cast a longing be in full view; so you pass on, plunging for a few at an overhanging point, where Mont Blanc will still look to Switzerland, and while he partly acmoments into a wood of chestnuts, and losing Mont knowledges the impossibility of visiting it, clings Blanc entirely. Then you emerge, admiring the to earlier hopes, and reluctantly admits the con-rich scene through which you have been advancing, viction that this must indeed be among the unrealized visions of boyhood! Next to the enjoyment of actual observation, is a vivid and graphic description of the object, from the pen of one who can appreciate its beauties, and who, after having drunk them in himself, possesses the happy faculty, not only of drawing a faithful outline, but also that of filling its details so as to create in your own mind, a full picture of what it is your lot only to imagine.

I take the following extract from Cheever's Wanderings under the shadow of Mont Blanc, and apprehend it will be read with a lively interest by such as are not familiar with our author. T. U.

"Almost every separate view of Mont Blanc, from different vales and mountains, has some peculiarity to characterize it. I never obtained so complete an idea of the vastness of its slopes of snow, and the immensity of its glaciers, as when gazing on it in a fine day from the summit of the Flegére in the vale of Chamouny.

"The view from this point, from the Breven, and from Col De Balme, might each seem, under favorable circumstances, so sublime and glorious that nothing could exceed them, or cause any increase in their sublimity. But Mont Blanc from the Italian side, from the Val d'Aoste, is presented to the eye in a greater unity of sublimity, with a more undivided and overwhelming impression, than any other point. In the vale of Chamouny you are almost too near; you are under the mountain, and not before it, and from the heights around it there are other objects that command a portion of your admiration. But here Mont Blanc is the only object, as it were, between you and eternity. It is said that on this side the mountain rises in almost a sheer perpendicular precipice, thirteen thousand feet high; an object that quite tyrannizes over the whole valley, so that you see nothing else, and in a day of such glowing brilliancy as I am writing of, you desire to see nothing else, for it seems as if heaven's splendors were coming down upon you.

until you gain the point which you observe from a
distance, where the road circles the jagged outjut-
ting crags of the mountain at a great distance above
of glory bursts upon you.
the bottom of the valley, and there again the vision
What combinations!
Forests of the richest, deepest green; vast masses of
foliage below you, as fresh and glittering in the sun-
light, as if just washed in a June shower; moun-
tain crags towering above, the river Doire thunder-
ing far beneath you, down black, jagged, savage
ravines; behind you, at the end of the valley, a
range of snow-crowned mountains; before you the
same vast and magnificent perspective which at-
rested your admiration at first, with its infolding and
retreating ranges of verdure and sunlight; and at the
close, Mont Blanc flashing as lightning, as it were a
mountain of pure alabaster.

"The fleecy clouds that here and there circled and touched it, or like a cohort of angels, brushed its summit with their wings, added greatly to the glory; for the sunlight reflecting from the snow upon the clouds, and from the clouds upon the snow, made a more glowing and dazzling splendour. The outlines of the mountains being so sharply defined against the serene blue sky, you might deem the whole mass to have been cut out from the ether. You have this view for hours as you pass up the valley, but at this particular point it is most magnificent.

"It was of such amazing effulgence at this hour, that no language can give any just idea of it. Gazing steadfastly and long upon it, I began to comprehend what Coleridge meant, when he said that he almost lost the sense of his own being in that of the mountain, or that it seemed to be a part of him and he of it. Gazing thus, your sense almost becomes dizzy in the tremulous effulgence. And then the sunset! The rich hues of sunset upon such a scene! The golden light upon the verdure, the warm crimson tints upon the snow, the crags glowing like jasper, the masses of shade cast from summit to summit, the shafts of light shooting past them into the sky, and all this flood of rich magnificence succeeded so rapidly by the cold grey of the snow, and gone entirely when the stars are visible above the mountains, and it is night!"

FRIENDS' REVIEW.

PHILADELPHIA, NINTH MONTH 4, 1847.

quested to come forward and claim their several proportions of the said vessel and cargo, and that his father, who was part owner of the ship which took the French vessel, was a Quaker, and did not desire to hold their property, as it was inconsistent with his conscientious scruples. They made inquiry respecting the principles of Friends, and found them much the same as their own."

In the year 1788 they appear to have received their first visit from members of our Society; Sarah Grubb, in company with George Dillwyn, Mary Dudley and others, having been engaged in this service. They were followed by William Savery and David Sands in 1797. The account which these Friends have left us of their simple habits, Christian tenderness and glad reception of the truth, is very touching, and is, we trust, familiar to a large portion of our readers. Since that period they have been frequently visited by Friends, and under va

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preserved in a good degree of consistency as regards the support of most of our Christian testimonies. Amongst the most prominent of these faithful confessors, Lewis Majolier has long been conspicuous, and those who have read the instructive narratives of the Friends who have travelled amongst this simple people, will have recognized in him one of their most assiduous fellow-laborers in the service of Truth. The Testimony concerning him, which occupies a portion of this paper, will be found to possess much interest, as the record of an humble and devoted Christian.

The Yearly Meetings of London, New York, and New England, have all been held since that of Phi. ladelphia. Through the medium of the London Friend, we have received an account, considerably in detail, of the proceedings of the Yearly Meeting held in that city. The printed minutes of those held at New York and Rhode Island have furnished a specific notice of the subjects which have claimed the attention of those meetings, and the result of their deliberation. From the information thus received the following abridgment has been made. From these sources, and from private letters, we rejoice to learn that a more than ordinary degree, not of harmony only, but of Christian love and fellowship, was felt to pervade these assemblies. It is a cause of reverent gratitude when any of our meetings are owned by the Divine presence; and amid the many discouraging circumstances which surround us, we may find occasion to take fresh courage, when Yearly Meetings, representing so large a portion of our religious community, are permitted to be held under a sense of that Heavenly influence which draws individual members nearer to each other, and unites them in a sincere

The little body of Friends in the south of France have long been regarded with affectionate interest by their fellow professors in this land. They seem, like our forefathers, to have been drawn out of the forms of an external religion to the immediate teaching of Christ in their own hearts, long before they had any knowledge of our Christian profession. Hence they were called Inspirants; and it would seem that something of a religious organization, with a code of discipline very simple in its character, but analogous to our own, existed amongst them at an early period. "Their attention," says William Savery, "was first turned to Friends by information in the public papers, by a young man who came to Paris and advertised that the owners of a vessel and cargo which were taken by the British in the war with America and France, were re-desire to promote the cause of Truth. The unity

of this religious body is dear to every true member | Quarterly Meeting. This statement is also subof it; and whatever indicates its increase must be a stantially confirmed, by a minute in the reports cause of rejoicing to all who can duly estimate those from Scipio. spiritual truths which it is our privilege to uphold and to promulgate.

Yearly Meetings.

The Yearly Meeting of London was unusually short, having closed on Fifth day evening of the second week. One reason which may be assigned for this circumstance is, the absence of propositions from the Quarterly Meetings and of Appeals; but there is another cause which has probably contributed in a still greater degree to this result, we mean the unanimity which

has marked all its deliberations. We cannot recall, in our limited experience, a season in which there has been so unbroken a harmony of sentiment, and, at the same time, so large a measure of true liberty, a liberty accompanied by a deep and extensive desire for the main tenance of primitive simplicity, both of doctrine and practice.

deliberation of the Meeting, and resulted in ap"This affecting subject claimed the serious pointing a committee to take the whole case into consideration as it is presented by the documents which have been brought to this Meeting, and report their judgment of the best way to dispose of it, to a future sitting."

At a subsequent sitting the following report was received and adopted:

"The Committee appointed in the case of Scipio Quarterly Meeting, after deliberately considering the subject submitted to them, have that a solid Committee be appointed to attend concluded to propose to the Yearly Meeting Scipio Quarterly Meeting and its subordinate branches, as the case may appear to require. That such Committee be, by the Yearly Meeting, constituted a component part of the Quarterly, Monthly, and Preparative Meetings; and espeVarious subjects were brought before the meet- the directions of the Yearly Meeting; that the cially instructed to endeavor to carry into effect ing, by means of the selected minutes of the Meet-right order and subordination to the superior ing for Sufferings. The little company who profess with Friends in Norway, have been placed in a near relation with us, and will in future, as it is expected, return answers to the queries once a year. Their religious condition excited much interest; and two of the Friends who visited them last summer, gave the Meeting some interesting recollections of their journey.

The chief part of one sitting was engaged with the subject of Capital Punishment. We do not remember to have heard a more animated and general discussion, or one in which there has been a greater concurrence of expression. The practice was condemned, as it may be supposed, with one voice; and it was treated by many Friends as identified with that of war, and therefore as coming within the proper scope of our testimony to the peaceable nature of the gospel dispensation. Friends were encouraged to apply themselves in their respective neighborhoods to the enlightenment of the public mind; and the Meeting concluded to have a paragraph upon the subject introduced into the General Epistle, and to leave it to the attention of the Meeting for Sufferings.

The New York Yearly Meeting commenced on the 24th, and closed on the 28th of 5th month last. "The Meeting for Sufferings having learned that the Quarterly Meeting of Scipio had declined to comply with the requirement of this Meeting last year, to read and record certain documents which had been forwarded to it; appointed a Committee on the occasion to visit that Meeting, by whose report an affecting statement is presented of the insubordination that prevails in many of the members of that

Meetings may be restored, as enjoined by our discipline: and also to endeavor, in the spirit of restoring love, to heal dissensions and promote that love and unity that becomes Christian

brethren.'

The following Minute from Farmington Quarter was received, and referred to the Meeting for Sufferings:

We are

"The Committee on the subject of promoting our testimony against slavery report, that they have been renewedly and deeply affected with the consideration that slavery has been extending its limits from time to time, and thus increasing its evils and cruelties in our country for many years past; but more especially are we affected with the consideration of the fact, that the Nation is now engaged in a war of aggression and conquest, apparently for the farther extension of this institution. therefore united in believing that these deeply affecting circumstances present a fresh claim upon the Society for the adoption of measures to lay before the Government and the Nation a testimony against slavery in all its influences and bearings, and especially against the acquisition of new territory for its farther extension. And that our members be pressingly invited to a deep and weighty consideration of the responsibility that rests upon them, and cautioned not to lend their influence in any way to the extension or support of the slave power."

The Yearly Meeting of New England convened at Newport, on the 14th, and closed on the 18th of 6th month last. From their printed minutes the following extracts are made.

school he was placed with a notary at Ambraix, | were many errors to be extirpated among those where he remained many years, and where he with whom he felt called to labour. He was acquired, in a remarkable degree, the esteem often discouraged, but, to use his own expresand entire confidence of the family in which sion, an irresistible power impelled him, and he he resided. received strength to persevere; and although young at that time, he was the instrument of a favourable change amongst the Friends. His trials were great from within and from without, and his faith was often ready to fail; yet when he did not trust to his own strength, he was permitted to make some progress in the work to which he was called; but from what he says himself, if he at all went before his guide he involved himself in still greater difficulties.