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and still, seeing you so poorly, I did not know | old, which at the time he was not, he would how to do it; for I'm afraid it will flurry you rather be a freeman than a slave.

So."

"Speak, speak, Cecil! What has happened to the child?"

"Oh nothing, sir; but all yesterday he was very dull and heavy, and would not eat: his father watched him all night, and early this morning brought the doctor to see him, and he says the child has got the small-pox; and when I asked him if he could not be removed to another house, he said it would risk the boy's life to do so. However, I'm sure I don't know what we 're to do; for we could not endanger Madame Perier and her darling children for the sake of a beggar's brat."

Pascal thought, for a moment. "No, Cecil," he said, "their health must not be risked, nor shall poor little George be removed. I will go to my sister's; I know her rooms are all occupied, but I am sure she will spare a small one, good enough for me during the short time I shall want it."

Madame Perier soon came, and the arrangement was made according to his wishes. After providing amply for the comfort of the sick boy and his father, he left his quiet house and airy apartment, never to return thither again. With much pain, and suffering greatly from exhaustion, he was borne to his sister's house. There, on the 19th of August, 1662, at the age of thirty-nine years, the gentle and holy spirit of Blaise Pascal returned to Him who gave it, leaving to the world a name which will live as the representative of splendid talents, united to self-denying benevolence and ardent piety.

Though it was then evening, and the residence of the master was several miles distant, he was not free to let the case pass unnoticed. His companions not fully entering into his feelings on the subject, he set out accompanied by a young man who kindly volunteered his services, and rode to the house where the slave was held. Upon conversing with the master, he readily prevailed upon him to emancipate his old negro in case he should desire it. The slave was accordingly brought in, and informed that his master had agreed to release him from servitude, and that he was from that moment a free man. As soon as the old man was made to comprehend his new situation, he gave vent to the most rapturous indications of joy. He declared that he had expected to die a slave, but now, said he, I am free. This seemed to him like the summum bonum of happiness. Our friend inquired of him if he had not a good master, and whether his wants were not fully supplied. These questions he readily answered in the affirmative. What, then, he was asked, would he do, now he was free? After a little pause he answered, "Master will want work done yet, and I will stay and work for him.” If any of our southern brethren, who insist that the emancipation of their slaves would necessarily lead to a war of races, which must terminate in the extirpation of one of them, had been present to witness this scene, we should suppose they must have been convinced that in this case at least, the life of the quondam master was in no great danger from his manumitted slave.

E. L.

For Friends' Review.

AN OLD SLAVE SET FREE.

Among the Friends who were zealously engaged, eighty or ninety years ago, in labouring to prevail upon their fellow professors to emancipate their slaves, Isaac Jackson, of New Garden, Pa., was one who devoted no inconsiderable share of his time and talents to this righteous cause. When on a visit, at some distance from home, in company with some others who were united in the service, to Friends who had not abandoned the practice, he was informed of one who held a single slave, about seventy years of age, who was kindly treated, and sufficiently furnished with the necessaries of life. Under these circumstances it was supposed the slave would hardly wish to be free; and it might even be questioned whether, at his time of life, his freedom would not be an injury rather than a favour. But Isaac Jackson, adopting the Christian principle, to judge of the feelings of another by considering what his own would be, in case he was himself the slave, was not long in coming to the conclusion, that even if he was

PRACTICAL HINTS TO BUSINESS MEN.

ACQUISITIVENESS.-Nothing is more common in the mercantile experience of this country than for men to start in life poor, but, overcoming all obstacles, to rise into high credit and affluence. It is unhappily quite common, also, for the same men, when arrived at this elevation, to put every thing at hazard in the hope of more rapid gains, and, missing their object, to lose all. Strange that men should do so, the spectators say, and yet if they ever reach the same point of elevation they will very likely pursue the same course. It is not very strange, perhaps, in such a community as this, that it should be so. Our merchants are pressed so severely with business that they have time for little else. Their thoughts are engrossed constantly with business and its gains, and in this way the desire of acquisition, which is implanted in every bosom for useful purposes, is nourished into a passion, and breaks away from reason. For its improper action there is always at hand a ready gratification. Besides, a man who has

to his desires from the outset of his acquisitions. Not by fixing a definite sum, perhaps, beyond which he will not accumulate, but so far at least as not to allow the fact that he has reached the point to which he first aimed, to be merely a new starting point for new plans much larger than the first. Then dwell much upon the inestimable value of peace of mind. Think how dearly millions are earned at the expense of anxious days and restless nights. Think how short life is; too short for its days to be eaten out by useless distress. Put in practice the adage, "keep what you've got," and only act upon the other part of it, "get what you can " in a way consistent with the first. Give away money freely if you are prosperous. This may not cure the passion of acquisitiveness, but it will counteract and tame it, and if done in true benevolence will be a source of more true happiness than wealth can buy in any other way.

by steady application obtained property and credit, gets to feel as if it would always be so with him. He comes to think more of his own sagacity and less of his steady plodding than he ought; and, having more credit, and perhaps more money, than his present business requires, spreads out his plans in a disproportionate enlargement. Men so situated do not really expect to be materially happier or better for the large increase of wealth which they strive for. It is the passion for acquisition which urges them on. Some may indeed hope to set up a carriage and enter the fashionable world, and so become the slaves of postillions and the bon ton. But in general it is acquisition which fills and controls the mind. In sober seriousness, men all know that they want but little here below, nor want that little long. They know that such an amount of property as makes them easy in their affairs, and leaves them to labor steadily for the maintenance of their families and the perform- Consider that, in truth, the surest way of ance of other duties, is enough, and that more arriving at great wealth is never to be in a hurwill but increase care and perplexity, without ry. Set it down as a fixed principle, that you any compensating enjoyment. If their thoughts will never depart from your regular business are accustomed to reach on to the end of life unless it be by the mere use of surplus funds. and beyond it, and to cherish the feeling that Study the book of the Proverbs of Solomon until some heart-work is to be done by way of prepa- your mind is full of those old truths; truths ration for the future, they confess to themselves which live in constant youth and beauty, though that more property would rather be a hindrance they be six thousand years old. Go fully into than a help in that matter. Yet they love to the considerations drawn from morality and remake money. One says, I wish I had five hun-ligion, and you may find more powerful motives dred thousand dollars. What would you do than any we have presented.-N. Y. Journal with it? No matter; I should like to have it. of Commerce.

Most men believe that the possession of some property is very desirable as a means of rational enjoyment and usefulness. They would think that the first thousand dollars which a man should acquire would be worth more to him than the next two thousand; and that all his additional gains sink proportionably in value. Some would run along by this rule until they would at no distant point pass by the summit of increase, and count further gain nothing but loss. It is, any how, a remarkable fact, staring us all in the face continually, that very rich men are seldom reputed happy; though others will continue to think if they could gain the wealth they would contrive to avoid the anxiety.

How shall business men protect themselves from the danger we are considering? Certainly, it is a great danger. The danger is evidently not to be avoided by simple reliance upon one's own superior wisdom and prudence. It is among those who have been longest in the exercise of prudence that the most conspicuous examples of imprudence are to be found.

If we may be allowed to suggest remedies for so great a danger, we would say that in the first place every business man should feel that he is in danger. Then he should cultivate other faculties besides that of acquisitiveness. That will cultivate itself. Then he should set bounds

A NOBLE CHRISTIAN MINER.

At a meeting of the Wesleyan Missionary Society, the Rev. R. Young, of Truro, mentioned a very remarkable fact that had taken place in Cornwall:

"Two men were working together in a mine, and having prepared to blast the rock, and laid the train, the latter became by accident lighted. In a few minutes a tremendous explosion they knew was inevitable, and the rock must be rent in a thousand pieces. On perceiving their danger, they both leaped into the bucket, and called to the man on the surface to draw them up. He endeavoured to do so, but his arm was found too feeble to raise the bucket while both the men were in it. What was to be done? The burning fuse, which could not be extinguished, was now within a few feet of the powder; a moment or two and the explosion must take place. At this awful crisis, one of the men, addressing the other, said, 'You shall live, and I will die; for you are an impenitent sinner, and if you now die, your soul will be lost; but if I die, I know that, by the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, I shall be taken to himself.' And so saying, without waiting for a reply, he leaped out of the bucket, and prayerfully waited the result.

On the other reaching the surface he bent over
the shaft to ascertain the fate of his companion.
At that moment a terrific explosion was heard;
a portion of the rock was thrown up and smote
him on the forehead, leaving an indelible mark
to remind him of his danger and deliverance.
But the man of God, when they came to search
for him, was found arched over by the fragments
of broken rock in the mine, uninjured and re-
joicing in the Lord! This magnanimous miner
exhibited in this act an amount of disinterested
love and charity which has seldom been equalled,
and is never found but in connexion with the
love of Christ. Here is none of that unholy
daring of which we see instances among the
heroes of Greece and Rome, who, actuated solely
by a love of notoriety, inflicted upon themselves
tortures, and even death; but that Christian
pure
charity which, at all hazards, even at the sacri-
fice of life itself, seeks to save the immortal soul
of man."-S. S. Journal.

AWFUL DEATH.

A Boy carried over Niagara Falls.—The following melancholy occurrence, which took place at Niagara Falls on Sunday last, is the only incident of the kind that has been reported since the region around the falls has been settled. It is told by the Rochester Advertiser :— We learn from Col. John Fisk that a melancholy accident occurred at Niagara Falls on A fine lad of the name of John Sunday last. Murphy, aged about thirteen years, in the employ of Judge Porter, in crossing to Chippewa in a canoe, was drawn into the rapids on the Canada side, and into the great Horse Shoe Fall. When he was first discovered, he was beyond the reach of all earthly assistance. The youth did all that his courage and strength could do, holding his slight canoe for nearly twenty minutes almost stationary, and when tired nature gave up contending any longer, with the wind and tide both against him, the little fellow plunged overboard, and, with for some the courage and perseverance of a man, time breasted the current. But alas, too late! though within one hundred yards of the shore, he was in the embrace of the rushing cataract, which never releases its victims!

The broken fragments of the frail bark were all that were found of the little mariner. A widowed mother and three children mourn the loss of a son and brother, and many strangers lament the fate of a noble and excellent boy.— Farmer and Mechanic.

BE IN TIME.

It was a good play upon words by which a lazy, unpunctual man, was greeted on his happening to be early at an appointed meeting one day: "Why, you are first at last; you have always been behind before!"-Penny Mag.

Selected for Friends' Review.

THE CONTRAST.

See you this picture? Such the once bright look

Of that worn aged woman, bending low
O'er the large pages of that Holiest Book,
With dull fixed eye, and pale lips moving slow.
What earnest find you in that ruined shrine
Of weary, wasted, poor humanity,
Of the full loveliness, so like divine,

Of form and face, she wore in days gone by?
Is this the figure wrought in truest mould,
Whose natural graces owned such power to move?
Is this the brow-the glance-whose mirror told
Nought dwelt within, but joy, and truth, and love?
And more than all, is this the mind that drew
Thought, feeling, fancy, from the meanest thing?
And its own mystery of enchantment threw
O'er other hearts, till echoed every string?
This is strange contrast-but how such things are
Bewilder not thy watchful, wondering heart;
For I will show thee contrast deeper far
And more enduring-yet thou wilt not start.
Amid the spirits of departed worth,

Who now, in sainted glory lifted high,
Look down upon the busy scenes of earth
From their effulgent chambers in the sky,
Methinks, already throned in light I see
That feeble matron's soul to heaven upborne,
A floating seraph, blessed, pure, and free-
A golden cloud upon a summer's morn!

And even when dazzling in her life's best hour,
Bloom on her cheek, and beauty on her brow,
Oh! was she not a weak and worthless flower
Compared with all she is in glory now?

That form so peerless once, was but of clay;
That heart, tho' warm, was mortal in its feeling;
But radiant now in Heaven's eternal day,

Each moment, as it flies, is aye revealing

More and more clear, the spirit's perfect mind;
Whose holy eye our noblest darings here
Views but in sorrow and compassion kind,
And o'er their stain lets fall an angel's tear!
Oh endless mystery of Almighty power!

That from the acorn rears the giant tree,

And grants to Faith, for a triumphant dower,
The crown that never fades-of Immortality.

"THE CHURCH."

"His church is universal love,
And whoso dwells therein
Shall need no custom'd sacrifice
To wash away his sin;
And music in its Isles shall dwell
Of lives upright and true,
Sweet as dreamed sounds of angel harps
Down quivering through the blue.
"They shall not ask a Litany,

The souls that worship there,
But every look shall be a Hymn,
And every word a prayer.
Their service shall be written bright
In calm and holy eyes,

And every day from fragrant hearts
Fit incense shall arise."

LOWELL.

FRIENDS' REVIEW.

VOL. I.

A RELIGIOUS, LITERARY AND MISCELLANEOUS JOURNAL.

PHILADELPHIA, TENTH MONTH 23, 1847.

EDITED BY ENOCH LEWIS.

Published Weekly by Josiah Tatum, No. 50 North Fourth Street, corner of Appletree Alley, PHILADELPHIA.

Price two dollars per annum, payable in advance, or six copies for ten dollars.

This paper is subject to newspaper postage only.

For Friends' Review. LIFE OF WILLIAM ALLEN;

(Continued from page 52.)

About the beginning of 1803, we find William Allen, notwithstanding his engagements as a public lecturer, taking an active part in promoting an institution for vaccine innoculation. The wonderful discovery of Dr. Jenner, which at that time attracted the attention of the medical world, and encouraged a hope that one of the worst maladies of our race might by its means be banished from the earth, could not escape so active a philanthropist as he was; and upon the formation of the association for extending the benefits of this momentous discovery, his name was enrolled on the board of managers.

Near the same time, he was placed in the presidential chair at Guy's Hospital, and upon taking his seat there, was favoured, he says, to keep his place as a member of our Society, for which he felt thankful; gratefully acknowledging the superiority of one beam of the Divine countenance over the smiles and applause of the world.

In this part of his diary, we find him assisting the labours of the Jennerian Society; successfully exhibiting, at Guy's Hospital, the astonishing effects of galvanism; ranging the fields upon botanical excursions; and yet making his temporal and scientific pursuits give way to his religious engagements; putting off his lecture to attend Quarterly meeting; and manifesting a mind no less ardent in the pursuit of spiritual, than natural truth.

No. 5.

is become of that dazzling star, surpassing Venus in brightness, which shone out all at once in 1572, and determined Tycho Brahe, to become an astronomer?* It retained its brightness about three weeks, then gradually faded, and at the end of fifteen months was wholly invisible. Several stars in the catalogues of Hipparchus, Ulugh Beigh, of Tycho Brahe, and even of Flamstead, are no more to be seen; they are gone and left no trace."

In the beginning of 1804, William Allen undertook, on the invitation of Humphrey Davy and others, to take part in a course of lectures at the Royal Institution. His performance of the duty assigned to him in this Institution, obtained the approbation of those among his auditors who were most competent to judge of their merit. On this subject he remarks: "I hope I have been hitherto favoured to conduct myself consistently in my public situation at the Royal Institution. May I be preserved, and never give up my principles for the empty applause of the world, which, in a trying hour, will yield no support."

The solicitude of William Allen to render his public engagements subservient to the advancement of his auditors in virtue, as well as in science, is manifest from the subsequent remarks which he addressed to the medical students, at the close of a course of lectures at Guy's Hospital.

"Several of you having now finished the course of your studies in this place, are about to enter upon the wide theatre of this world. Having carefully studied the nature of our frame, you have undertaken to soften the miseries to which it is liable. May you, though in an inferior degree, endeavour to imitate the great example

From this expression we should suppose that Tycho Brahe was first induced to become an astronomer by the appearance of this remarkable star: but that was not the ease. His attention was turned to the subject by an eclipse of the sun in 1560, which appeared nearly as it had been predicted. Young Tycho, astonished at the coincidence of the phenomenon with the prediction, became, from that time, an ardent admirer

On closing a course of lectures at the hospital, the last of which was on the subject of Astroand cultivator of astronomy. But being afterwards nomy, he remarks: "I showed that the sustain-caught by the dreams of the alchemists, he divided his ing hand of God is still necessary, and the pre-attention between the examination of the heavens and sent order and harmony which He has enabled us to understand and admire, are wholly dependant upon his will; its duration is one of the unsearchable measures of his Providence. What

the labours of the crucible. In 1572, the appearto abandon the futile attempt to transmute the baser ance of a star, not previously observed, determined him metals into gold, and direct his undivided energies to the cultivation of astronomy.

of Him who went about doing good, healing all | be known, are puffed up with imaginary consemanner of diseases. In a world so full of wo, quence, and deserve our pity. to a noble and generous mind, the opportunity of soothing the brow of care, and drying up the tear of sorrow, are the most gratifying offices which it is called upon to fulfil. Upon you will the anxious eye of the maternal head of a family be fixed, in all the anguish of grief, while the support of herself, and helpless infants, is stretched upon the bed of languishing; and if poverty be added to her affliction, I trust you will rise nobly superior to sordid views, and find your richest recompense in the approbation of your own minds, in the sweet satisfaction of attempting, at least, to diminish the weight of that misery, which, perhaps, from the nature of things, you cannot wholly remove.

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If gentleness of manners and polite behaviour be esteemed ornamental in society at large, they are more indispensably requisite in the medical character. It is natural for the human mind to associate with this character the idea of power; and what can be more soothing to those under affliction, than to meet with power and benevolence combined in the medical man!

“I am aware that, in the line of your profession, you will be sometimes placed in difficult and delicate circumstances; but never, I entreat you, sacrifice your sense of propriety, your feeling of the eternal obligation of right and wrong, that on which your present and future peace of mind depends, to any prospect of sinister advantage. Consider only what is your duty to do, and leave the consequences to Him who never fails to approve every honest endeavour to perform it. So will you, in your different circumstances, be the instruments of most extensive good; you will be a blessing to your country, and honoured by those whose good opinion is of value."

The following observations at the close of his first course of lectures, at the Royal Institution, clearly indicate that, with him, the pursuits of philosophic truth, and the contemplation of the wonders of creation, operated to deepen his reverence for the great Author of nature, and to infuse more strongly the conviction how little we actually know.

"In this general outline of some of the departments of natural knowledge, we have abundant opportunity to remark the traces of a wisdom past human comprehension, in the wonderful adjustment of all the parts of creation. How exactly are the moving powers balanced among each other! how admirable the order which results from their equilibrium! The agency of the supreme intelligence is every where displayed in characters so strong that he who runs may read. Those who have most closely exercised their faculties in exploring these magnificent works, see the least occasion for exaltation, the least incitement to pride; while they who know a little but are ignorant how much remains to

"We see that in the works of nature there is ample scope for the exercise of our rational faculties; and limited as these faculties are, they are strengthened by use, and worthily employed when we endeavour to acquaint ourselves with as much of the wonders of creation as its Author has permitted us to comprehend. As we proceed, new discoveries reward our search, the sources of intellectual enjoyment pour an increasing stream of satisfaction upon the delighted mind; while sensual gratifications, perishable like their objects, tend only to enervate the soul, and sink us far below the level of that high station which man is designed to fill in the scale of created beings. The pursuits of science, properly conducted, tend to enlarge our views, to banish narrow prejudices, to increase our love of truth, and give tone and vigour to the mind. Not more distant is heaven from earth than false philosophy from the true. A set of wild and extravagant notions is not philosophy, though in a neighbouring country they have been dignified with the name. These pretended philosophers have gloried in denying the fairest deductions from reason-the most obvious truths; but the direful consequences of this perversion of intellect will long afford an awful and instructive lesson to mankind.

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"True philosophy is nothing more than real wisdom, the proper application of our faculties, directed solely to the discovery of truth, which brings beauty, order and excellence, harmonizes the minds of its votaries, teaches them to set a proper value on all the productions of the Creator, and leads them to feel even for the least of his animate beings. These will not put one of his sensitive creatures to unnecessary pain; and, rising from the simple polype and the worm to their fellow man, will be more anxious to employ their knowledge in diffusing comforts, in diminishing the misery which many have brought upon themselves; and, on the broad scale of universal benevolence, will imitate, as far as in their power, Him who is constantly diffusing good. These are the dispositions of the true philosophers; this is the temper of heaven.

"In such an age as the present, it may be deemed superfluous to urge the accumulated evidence we now possess, in favour of the fundamental truths we most surely believe; but on the juvenile part of the community, who are now forming their opinions, and beginning to reason for themselves, I wish to impress this important consequence, deducible from the subjects which have passed in review before us, that in all the great powers of nature we observe such marks of contrivance, such adaptation of cause to effect, and the whole executed by means so sublimely simple, that we cannot avoid concluding, with Archdeacon Paley, such designs must have had a designer; and that designer must be God."

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