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LOVE ALL.

BY C. D. STUART.

Love all! There is no living thing
Which God has not created;
Love all! There is no living thing
Which God has ever hated:
His love sustains the meanest life

What'er doth live or perishAnd man may not disdain to love What God has loved to cherish.

Love all! For hate begetteth hate,

And love through love increaseth; Love all! For hate shall faint and fail, While love like His ne'er ceaseth: Love is the law, the life supreme,

The goal where all are tending; The hate shall die, the strife shall cease, But love is never ending.

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

The steamship Washington from Liverpool arrived at New York on the 3d inst. She brings no news of importance. The Queen had returned to the Isle of Wight.

The government educational bill continues to occupy a large share of public attention, and the Catholic Bishops and Clergy are urging a scheme for their own University with much energy.

The Tenant League continues to agitate the country, and the meetings are fully attended by gentlemen of respectability and influence. The English and Irish papers supply details of many outrages, ending in robbery, murder, &c.

FRANCE.-The Moniteur publishes a decree of the President, by which he applies upon his own authority 25,000 francs to the payment of the costs of the declarations of the Legion d'Honneur.

The revenue returns for the past nine months have been published, and show an increase over the same period last year of 23,000 francs.

M. de Persigny has departed for Berlin, it is said, upon a political mission connected with the complication of German difficulties.

The Republican and Orleanist parties respectively, have become consolidated, whilst those who threaten the Republic, the Legitimists or Bonaparte factions, are daily becoming weaker. It is believed the stringent measures proposed by the Committee of Safety, in reference to the army, will have a desirable effect, in still further weakening the pretension of those parties to power. The efforts made to limit the duration of the President's reign to the original appointment are being strenuously increased, and as this is a point upon which legitimists and republicans can agree, it is thought by many that success will attend their efforts.

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.-Nothing new has occurred in the relative position of the armies, since the assault on Frederickstadt, and it is now confidently asserted that diplomacy will be called in to settle all differences. England and France are named as the mediating powers.

HESSE CASSEL. All the newly appointed Ministers are strong adherents to the Constitution, and the popular voice is said to be greatly in their fa

resigned their commissions in the army, which is now in a most disorganized state.

According to letters from Frankfort, it is said to be the intention of the Elector of Hesse to abdicate. The Prince of Cassel will succeed him.

In the last sitting of the College of Princes, at Berlin, M. de Radowitz, formally announced that the Prussian Government would not suffer the Federal Assembly, at Frankfort, to interfere by force in Hesse Cassel, and that any attempt to do so would be resisted by Prussia. Consequent upon division on the subject of Hesse Cassel, a ministerial crisis has taken place in Hanover, and Stuve and the Premier have retired.

GERMANY.-The two divisions of the Austrian army, upon their march for Hesse Cassel, have received counter orders and have stopped in their progress. This, it is said, has been the result of a joint remonstrance upon the part of England and Russia. Prussia still protests against the course adopted at the Frankfort Conference. On other matters there appears to be nothing to report.

ITALY.-News has been received of the final breaking off of the negotiations between Rome and Piedmont. Count Pinelli, the Envoy of the latter power at Rome, had received his passports and left for home, having accomplished nothing.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.A destructive flood has occurred in the western part of New York, causing much damage and loss of property.

It is estimated that nearly one thousand fugitive slaves have arrived in Canada since the passage of the Fugitive Slave bill. Many of them are suffering from want of the necessaries of life.

The Committee appointed by the citizens of New Orleans to make investigations relative to the proposed railroad across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, has made its report. It states that a contract has been made with Hargous, the assignee of the grant of the right of way, by which he has conveyed his whole title and interest to trus tees-citizens of New Orleans-on condition that they shall convey the same to a company formed on certain stipulated terms, or on the failure to form such a company, shall reconvey the same to him A large portion of the stock has been subscribed at New Orleans. The distance is stated to be 100 miles, and the cost is estimated at $6,000,000.

Howland & Aspinwall, of New York, have arranged to have a steamer to leave San Francisco and Panama on the 1st and 15th of each month. That of the first will touch at Acapulco, San Blas, Mazatlan, San Diego and Monterey-that of the 15th at Acapulco only. They will be connected with the Atlantic by the steamers Empire City and Cherokee, the former leaving New York on the 13th, and the latter on the 28th of every month.

A telegraphic despatch from New Orleans conveys the intelligence of the arrival at that place of the steamship Alabama, with two days later news from California. We regret to learn that San Francisco has been visited by another destructive fire, by which 100 houses were consumed. The loss of property is estimated at more than a quarter of a million dollars. Yet the greatest business part of the city appears to have escaped.

The financial crisis still excited much talk, but it was thought the worst was over. The accounts from the mines were of a favorable character. The health of the Isthmus was good. The exThe revolutionary feeling is said to be incitement relating to the attempted revolution in creasing. Upwards of two hundred officers have New Grenada had died away.

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their full unity and concurrence to visit the meetings constituting several of the Quarterly Meetings within our Yearly Meeting, and truly acceptable did this service prove to those whom she visited; many seals of her ministry being left behind, as well as much evidence of the sa

Price two dollars per annum, payable in advance, or lutary effects of her humble and devoted walk; six copies for ten dollars.

This paper is subject to newspaper postage only.

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

(Concluded from page 115.)

We come now to speak more particularly of her devotion to the cause of our holy Redeemer, and of her singleness in the work to which He was pleased to call her as a Minister of the Gospel. Her gift was exercised in great sweetness and circumspection. She was very conversant with the Holy Scriptures, which she was concerned diligently and carefully to peruse, and was thoroughly grounded and established in the doctrines of our holy religion. She was a firm believer in the efficacy of true prayer, and in much tenderness and deep solemnity was she at times engaged to bow the knee in opportunities for Divine worship; her words being few, and uttered with an evidence of the deep reverence and awe with which she approached the throne of grace on these occasions. In her ministry, she was acceptable and edifying, her manner being peculiarly persuasive, and the unction which attended, giving great weight and solemnity to her offerings. She was a thorough practical believer in the correctness of the views of our religious Society as to the nature of true worship; and the weightiness of her spirit in our meetings, when there were no vocal offerings, was sensibly felt by those who were gathered under the same baptizing power.

In her religious engagements, she was deeply concerned to move only as she was immediately guided and qualified by the alone Shepherd, who putteth forth his own and goeth before them; being very careful to take no step in her own strength and will, but trusting in and depending upon Him whom she loved, and was engaged above all things beside to serve.

In the year 1817, not long after her gift had been acknowledged by Friends, she received

her example of simplicity and meek dedication to the cause in which she was engaged being very instructive. And we may here record, as evincing her humility and love of the simplicity of truth, that in still earlier life, on returning from a religious visit with her honored father, she remarked to him that one thing she had coveted for herself above all others that had come under her observation during this journey,

that she might be possessed of the simplicity of a dear friend, whom she named, who was remarkable for his modest humility. She was frequently engaged, during the whole of her subsequent life, in visiting various parts of our land on religious service, always with the full unity of Friends, and to the comfort and edification of those among whom she travelled.

In the third month, 1845, she embarked for England, with the unity of the Church, to attend the Yearly Meeting of London, to visit, in Gospel love, such of the meetings within its limits as way might be open for, together with some of the meetings of Friends in Ireland. After spending a few months in this engagement, she felt released from further service in that land at that time, and returned in safety to her home. In a letter to two beloved friends in England, soon after her return, she thus expresses herself: "I think I have received from time to time, both on my passage and since my return, sufficient evidence of my coming being in the right time. The everlasting wing of Ancient Goodness. has been and continues to be mercifully extended over me, and under its shadow my soul takes delight. In looking back upon you, my dear friends, and many others may be added to the number, my heart is enlarged and warmed by the influence of that love which desires your preservation and advancement in the unchangeable truth, wherein there is no mixture, but where there are witnessed sweetness, harmony, and peace."

The following year she believed it required of her again to resign herself to visit, in Gospel

love, Friends and others in Great Britain and Ireland, and also to visit some places on the continent of Europe. Her feelings, in prospect of this engagagement, are thus set forth in a letter to the same valued friends: "It was truly cordial to me to find that you would be willing again to receive a solitary wanderer, who will come to your land, not at her own bidding, but drawn thither by those cords, which, if resisted, the mind sinks back upon itself, and is left in its own painful void. Deep baptisms have been my portion in this renewed trial of faith; but forever blessed be the adorable name of the author and finisher of this inestimable gift, his sustaining and life-giving presence has not been withheld, and, in the hour of need, fresh evidences have been received that He continues mighty to save. There have been some religious engagements resting upon me to perform, which have intercepted, in some measure, a clear view of the time for me to embark for your shores. They are now accomplished, greatly to the comfort and peace of my own mind; and it looks at present very much like my leaving all behind me, and taking passage in the same ship which conveyed me to your land in 1842. May every step that I take be under the guidance of him who leads about and instructs; who knows the end from the beginning, and will keep that which is committed to His care."

It appears by testimonials borne by the two months' meeting of Congenies, in the south of France, that she visited all the little meetings constituting it except two, whose members she saw in another place; that she also visited some families, and in some places had meetings with those who were not in profession with Friends, which were very satisfactory. It is stated in these documents that, "on many occasions, she was enabled to turn the attention of her hearers to the internal revelation of that light which is Christ, and through which we come to God."

The recollection of her " devout exhortations" is feelingly adverted to; and it is declared that "she had left an affectionate remembrance in the hearts of many." In this journey on the continent, she was accompanied by our beloved friends William Forster and Mary Forster. She thus writes at Sens, in France, under date of second month, twenty-eighth, 1844: "I am returning with a relieved mind, and with sheaves of peace. Great has been the condescending goodness of Him, whom I desire, unworthy as I feel myself to be, to serve in all the ways of his requirings. He truly is a merciful high priest, the keeper of His children, and the leader of His little ones. He has sustained me when no human arm could support. He has preserved me through the coldness of the winter, and protected me in exposures unknown by me before. It is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in my eyes. Let us praise Him for His goodness, and, through the aid of

His grace dwell under the influence of His Holy Spirit." And in prospect of returning home, she says: "I can now say that I have been mercifully helped to accomplish all that was before me, and feel not the weight of a feather upon my spirit as it regards any thing further to be done in this country, and my way is clear towards my native land. What a mercy! Return unto thy rest, O my soul, for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee."" She soon after embarked for home, where she arrived safely in the seventh month, 1844.

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In referring to her visit in Europe, she thus addresses a valued correspondent there: "A full release is granted me from your land, and my mind is in the enjoyment of sweet, enriching peace. It is my privilege to feel that my work is done up to the present time. I can look forward with confidence and joy, and retrospection affords me comfort. What more can I desire? But not unto me, not unto me, but unto Thy name give glory;' for, that Thy name is near, Thy wondrous works declare! May the light of life divine illuminate our paths, shining upon them more and more unto the perfect day." And, again: "My mind continues to rest in peaceful quiet, and to retrospect upon the time passed in a distant land with great satisfaction. I cannot readily describe the feeling of release and repose that at seasons I am favored to enjoy. Great is the loving kindness of the Lord. He keeps in perfect peace the mind that is stayed on Him. Of this, I can abundantly testify. Surely, goodness and mercy have followed my steps, all unworthy as I am. But after we have done all that it is our duty to do, we are truly but unprofitable servants.'

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Several times, during the three succeeding years, she was liberated by Friends to travel in the work of the ministry within our own and neighboring Yearly Meetings, and was favored on her return to be able to declare to the Monthly Meeting, that she had been enabled to attend to these religious engagements to the relief and peace of her mind.

In the third month, 1846, our dear friend was subjected to a very severe trial by the removal, from works to rewards, of her beloved husband. Near the time of his decease, she thus expresses her feelings to a distant friend: "It is only to those who are connected with me by the closewoven feelings of Christian interest and regard, that I could communicate at a time like the present. * * * His indisposition now assumes a more decidedly threatening appearance, and the probability is that he will sink under it. But the hand of mercy is evidently near, gently loosening the silver cord, and inclining him downwards into the valley, through which I unhesitatingly believe, he will be conducted to a mansion of everlasting rest. * * * "The Lord is my rock and my fortress.' Think of my children, and pray for us unitedly. Farewell, in the love

of the Ancient of Days. Farewell, in the unchangeable truth as it is in Jesus, our crucified and our glorified Lord."

Under date of fourth month, twenty-seventh, 1846, she writes as follows: "The sweet current of Gospel love is not obstructed in its course by adverse circumstances, but rather derives strength, and diffuses its enriching effects over that apparent waste of feeling which often succeeds those bereavements which bring the mind into a state of destitution, wherein all seems like a desolate void. But, my dear friend, I have great cause to commemorate the loving kindness of Him who said to his disciples, Lo! I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.' He has been my stay and my staff, my light and my preserver. In Him alone do I desire to trust, and to commit my all into his holy keeping. # * I feel

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it to be my allotment and privilege to keep very much in the tent."

thing appertaining to this life! I feel renewedly the excellency of having our day's work going on with the day. Then how clear and undeceivingly does the light shine upon our path, and we know indeed that we do not walk in darkness, but we have the light of life, and this is a lamp to our feet. * * * Thy letter, previous to your Yearly Meeting, was truly interesting and acceptable to me. I believe it had a tendency to strengthen me to yield myself to the disposal. of Him who requires nothing of His children but what He enables them to perform; though when I look forward, I am at times overwhelmed with fear and dismay. But, ah! this consoling promise-it is now brought strikingly before me - Fear not, for I am with thee; be not dismayed, for I am thy God."

On this third visit to England the feeling of responsibility devolving upon her as a parent, induced her, with the approbation of her friends, to take her children with her, and, locating them at Brighton, she attended from time to time to such religious service as she felt to be required of her; and although this was not extensive, we have cause to believe her gift was exercised to the satisfaction of Friends, they testifying by certificate on her behalf, that "her Gospel labors had been acceptable and edifying to Friends in those parts of the nation in which her lot had been cast;" that they "believe that, in much simplicity and watchfulness, and in humble dependence on the renewed putting forth of the Divine Master, she had endeavored to perform the service which had been required at her hands."

On the completion of a religious visit in the twelfth month, 1846, she again thus addresses the same friend: "Thy truly acceptable letter awaited my return from a religious engagement, upon which I had entered with my usual feelings of weakness and with fear. But by proceeding in it, step by step, it was evident, as in former times, that help is laid upon one who is mighty, and who condescends to go before and to make a way for his depending and humble children. I yesterday completed the service which has occupied me several weeks, having visited the families in our own meeting, and attended a number of meetings in a distant Quarterly Meeting. ** I have now most peacefully concluded the engagement, and it is with confirmed faith On the first of ninth month, 1849, with her and gratitude of heart that I look back upon the family, she embarked for America, where she artime thus devoted, and the feeling prevails, what rived safely on the twelfth, and felt great thankshall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits?' fulness in being again permitted to return, with ** Thou mayest contemplate me in the en- a peaceful mind to her native land. The followjoyment of all that heart ought to wish for, and ing extract from a letter written soon after, to that too which crowns every other earthly bless-valued friends in England, who were with her ing, a peaceful mind.

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at her embarkation, is indicative of the state of 'Give what Thou wilt, without Thee we are poor; her mind: "I now address you from my native Aud with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away.' shores, with feelings of the same interest and afIn the fourth month, 1848, she spread before fection as when sharing your hospitality, and enI feel our Meeting a religious concern, again to cross joying your valued society. the Atlantic to visit some of the meetings of like resuming my pen again to reiterate the reFriends in Great Britain, and to attend to such sponse which my feelings continually bear other religious engagements as might be requir-witness to, of pleasant and cordial recollecel of her, which received the full unity of Friends.

In prospect of this visit, she thus, in the seventh month addresses a transatlantic friend: "At the present time my mind seems to be at rest in a quiet dwelling-place. How long this privilege is to be continued, I do not see. In deed, any allotment appointed by Him who alone can confer peace, may be felt to be a privilege. How gentle and compassionate are the leadings of Him who knows our frame, who took upon him the form of a servant, and who knows what is best for us. How uncertain is every

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tions of you, my dear and valued friends. As you receded from my view, on the first of the present month, so are your images impressed upon my mind, and whether we ever again meet on this beautiful earth, is altogether hid from our frail capacities to discern. As it regards my own poor self, I feel increasingly every day, the desirableness of a release from a tenement of clay; and, laying hold of the hope set before us, to be transformed by the renewal of His Spirit; to be clothed upon with the righteousness of Christ, and through His precious blood to be admitted, through Him, the door, into that

heavenly fold where, with the adorable Shepherd and Bishop of souls, an unbroken rest may be enjoyed. But, Oh! how many may be the conflicts preparatory to this. It is the prayer of my heart, that the blessed Saviour may be my all in all; that His government may be established, and that praise and thanksgiving may be the clothing of my spirit."

be found that very little comes to his knowledge likely to encourage him, by showing the result of his endeavours, to be an advancement on the part of his charge, in the way he should go,' and in which he is or has been conscientiously engaged to train him; yet as there is a diligent and faithful endeavour, as ability is afforded, to urge a practical application of the doctrines and It was remarkably opened to our beloved precepts of the Holy Scriptures in life and confriend, that her day's work was nearly accom-versation, we may cherish the belief that our laplished, and she was diligent in doing every thing bour is not in vain, even now; and that it may that she desired should be done, in the arrange- hereafter prove as bread cast upon the waters, ment of her temporal affairs. On her passage across the Atlantic, she expressed to an intimate friend her full belief that her ministerial labours were nearly closed, and that her journey of life was near to its end, although then in the enjoyment of her usual health; and this was an abiding conviction with her, and was again and again repeated after her arrival home. She was construction had been wholly omitted, I doubt not stantly at our meetings, but her allotment was to wait in them in deep reverential silence before the Lord. Once only did she appear in testimony, and that was on first day, the week before her decease, in a solemn message, referring to the passage through the valley of the shadow of death, and sweetly dwelling upon the support then to be witnessed by the followers of Jesus from his immediate presence.

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On second day evening, the nineteenth of eleventh month, two ministering Friends, engaged in visiting the families of this Monthly Meeting, made a religious visit to the family of our dear friend; and on their returning to their lodgings in the evening, after this visit was accomplished, they expressed fully their satisfaction with it, and dwelt upon the sweetness and humility with which her spirit was clothed, and which to them had been comforting and edifying.

The family retired to rest at their usual hour, and by three o'clock in the morning, their house was found to be enveloped in flames, and our beloved friend, we reverently believe, although suddenly removed from this state of trial and conflict, was surely admitted to the presence of Him, who declared to his followers, "I go to prepare a place for you, that where I am, there ye may be

also."

For Friends' Review.

RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION IN SCHOOLS. (Concluded from page 120 )

"In turning my attention,' writes the principal teacher in one of them, 'to the results of Scriptural instruction, as exhibited in the character and conduct of those who have been, and are the recipients of it, I feel at a loss for want of data, from which to furnish information. In this department of a teacher's duty, it may often

which shall return after many days. In this, as in less important branches of their education, the application of the knowledge acquired by our charge, may not be witnessed to much extent till they enter upon the active duties of life; and yet were we able to see the school exactly in that state in which it would be if Scriptural In

the comparison would exhibit a result calculated greatly to encourage the teachers in the prosecution of this part of their important duties.'

"Though the results of Scriptural Instruction,' writes a teacher in the other school, 'in the conduct of the children appear at times discouragingly small, yet it is believed that knowledge thus acquired is often blessed in future years; and even as it regards the state of the school, should the question be repeated that was asked by a Friend some years ago, Would you be willing to relinquish the Scriptural Exercises, taking into account only their bearing upon the behaviour of the scholars? the answer, it is believed, would now be, as it was then, a decided negative.

"Another correspondent thus writes: 'A few words in regard to the results of Scriptural Instruction as imparted in this school; it is not easy to trace the motives of conduct in children, or to assure ourselves as to the causes which bring motives into action; yet it is my full conviction, grounded on pretty close observation, that the general results, as far as we can ascertain them, though they may not be great, are good. It is not unlikely we may often mistake effects for causes, and suppose that the child who from a sense of duty, diligently reads his Bible, and is attentive at the Scripture examinations, is so, from the influence of these examinations: but can we doubt that even in such a case, there is at least a beneficial reaction? or that such instruction is blessed to a mind so prepared! There are not a few exceptions both ways, but as a general observation, I may safely say that the children who most neglect this important part of their duty, are amongst our most disorderly scholars; whilst those who are most attentive and serious at the Scripture examinations, are those on whose general good conduct and good principle we should place most reliance.'

"In reply to our inquiries, one of our corres

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