world, by her union, holiness and love. It can-, struction laborious and painful in the beginning, it not be doubted that there are many, very many, " contending" for what they call "the faith once delivered to the saints," who are only wronging their Master and his cause, and their own souls. FRIENDS' REVIEW. PHILADELPHIA, SIXTH MONTH 16, 1849. The Editor would willingly recall the attention of his juvenile readers to an article published in the Review last week, under the title of Self Instruction. The writer of that article illustrated his becomes agreeable as they proceed ; and the greater the progress the more engaging it appears. Pope has compared the pursuit of knowledge to the ascent of the Alps, but forgot to inform us, that the higher we climb, the more varied and extensive will our prospect become. The letter from our valued correspondent H. B., which we published last week, may well suggest more serious reflections than the subject is accustomed to receive. From what we know of the writer, we have no doubt he has always been justly regarded as a reputable and exemplary man yet he tells us that he smoked away as many views chiefly by a reference to geography, a very segars as cost $600; and found, upon abandoning proper subject to engage the attention of youth. the practice, that he was actually better with But the leading remarks are perhaps equally appli-out them. Now let it be seriously asked whether cable to various other objects of rational pursuit. There are few situations, or employments, which do not afford numerous intervals of leisure, which, if suffered to slide away unimproved, scarcely leave a trace on the memory. And it is not unworthy of remark, that where the pursuits of business are duly restricted, and the desire of needless acquisitions discarded, those intervals are likely to become more considerable. If, then, the habit is early acquired of regularly and systematically devoting the time, which can be snatched from the usual occupations, to the attainment of useful knowledge in any of its departments, it will be surprising to find how much can be gained from those fragments which are usually thrown into the gulf of oblivion. site. this could be right? And if not right for him, can it be right for others? According to the last census, there were in the United States, in 1840, white men over fifty years of age, 593,444. Now supposing one in ten of these men to have consumed tobacco to the amount of $600, we shall have an amount of $35,606,640. When the Bank of the United States* was broken down, the crash was heard throughout the Union; yet here we have its whole capital in tobacco smoke. for which smoking tobacco was a remedy. He therefore had a conclusive reason for using some tobacco; yet he was jealous that he was using too much. A man whose health did not demand it, if equally conscientious, would probably judge best not to use any. When that valuable minister, John Churchman, was sinking towards his grave, Jacob Lindley, then a young man, paid him a visit, and upon enquiring into his health, was answered, that he was very weak in body, and in great poverty of spirit; that he had been trying to search into all things from It is no uncommon supposition, that to acquire a the beginning, and could find nothing in his way, knowledge of science, the aid of a teacher is requi- unless it was smoking a little too much tobacco,† which There can be no doubt of the advantage, he was then striving to reduce. This Friend, it when it can be attained, of a judicious living in- may be remembered, was subject to a singular structor; but there are many to whom that is im-cough, which sometimes nearly strangled him, and practicable, who can still have access to well written books. Probably every person who has made any considerable progress in scientific attainments, has been in great measure self instructed. To the energetic student who has learned to exercise his own powers, the difference between having a living instructor and being without one, is that in the latter case he must work a little harder, and employ a little more time, in mastering the difficulties which arise. And this very exercise must necessarily develop his own resources. Besides, it is observable, that what a student discovers himself, or deduces, with considerable labour, from the researches of others, is pretty sure to be remembered. The capital of that Bank was $35,000,000. One important advantage arising from the haThis may probably recall to the memories of some bitual pursuit of useful knowledge, is that it pre-readers, the story told in page 655 of our former vents the formation of a taste for light and unin-volume, of the pious woman who dreamed that her name, written in the book of life, was so obscured by structive reading, or other trifling amusements. tobacco smoke, that the angel could hardly see it. Even to those who find the acquisition of solid in- This anecdote I believe is literally true. LONDON YEARLY MEETING.-Our latest communication from England was dated on the 23d ult., from which we are informed, that three sittings of the Yearly Meeting of Ministers and Elders had been held, which were solemn and favoured sea sons, there appearing to be an increase of unity among them. Two sittings of the public Yearly Meeting were held on the day it commenced, (23d ;) both which in the men's and women's meetings were satisfactory. Our American Friends, Arnott, Anna A. Jenkins and Susanna Howland, were acceptably present. Thomas cording to opportunity and the means in her power, to visit such and administer relief. When quite young, she was sensibly reached by the manifestations of the Holy Spirit, by which she was often broken into tenderness of heart, and such as were reputed worthy Friends. was led to a love for the truth, and an esteem for They generally had at her father's house, the company of Friends travelling in the ministry, A friend from the East, highly recommends the who visited that place; towards whom she manitemperate and quiet habits of the Adams House, in fested an extraordinary attachment for one of her Boston, as a suitable place for members of our So-years, taking great satisfaction in their company ciety to stop at, when they have occasion to visit that city. DIED,-On the 17th of Ninth month last, at her residence in Burford, Canada West, SUSANNA, wife of Jeremiah Moore, and daughter of the late John Sutton, formerly of Orange Co., New York. She was an esteemed member of Norwich Monthly Meeting, and in the 45th year of her age. This dear Friend attended meeting apparently in usual health, on First day, the 16th, only one week previous to her decease. Soon after returning home, she was taken seriously ill, and expressed in the course of the evening an apprehension that it would be her last sickness, for that she had never before so fully experienced the incomes of Divine love as in the meeting that day. On the day of her decease she again recurred to that precious season, remarking that the feelings then vouchsafed to her remained with her, and she had faith to believe they would safely bear her through the valley and shadow of death. At his residence, Middletown, Delaware Co, Pa., on the 12th of last month, JOSEPH PENNELL, in the 71st year of his age, a member of Chester Monthly Meeting. A Testimony of Sandwich, N. H., Monthly Meeting of Friends, concerning HULDAH B. HOAG. Our beloved friend, Huldah B. Hoag, wife of Lindley M. Hoag, of Wolf borough, in the state of New Hampshire, having been recently removed by death from the Church militant, and leaving an evidence behind her, of having been made meet through sanctification of the Spirit, for better inheritance, we have believed it right to note a few particulars respecting her, if haply others might be encouraged by her example to that dedication of heart, by which they might be enabled to glorify our Father who is in Heaven. She was born on the 5th of First month, in the year of our Lord, 1801. Her parents, Joseph and Hannah Varney, of Wolfborough, were members of our religious Society, who, though situated in a small meeting, were concerned to be watchful over their children, and to train them up in the way they should go. This, their eldst child, was blessed with good intellectual endowments, and an affectionate and benevolent disposition, with a heart disposed to compassionate the needy and afflicted; which was evinced by her readiness, ac and conversation, often withdrawing from her juvenile associates, to avail herself of the instructive remarks of those of riper years. With much vivacity, she possessed an amiable disposition and a capacious and lucid mind, and being intelligent and interesting in conversation, and of engaging manners, she was much sought by a large circle of fashionable acquaintances, by whom she was surrounded; and being situated in a small meeting, at a distance from any other neighbourhood of Friends, and having an inclination for gay society, the temptation to shun the cross was great, and through inattention to the "light of Christ," she departed in some measure in her appearance, from the simplicity of the truth; for which she manifested deep regret in after life; yet through all her deviations, she retained a continued regard for the honour and reputation of the religious society of which she was a member, and to which she felt bound by the firm conviction that theirs was the profession of the truth as it is in the Gospel; and she was careful to do nothing that she thought would bring a reproach upon it; and subsequently remarked that she never departed from the plain Scripture language in her social intercourse, on any occasion. In 1824 she was married to Jonas M. Varney, and settled in Wolf borough, in the neighbourhood of her parents. Their prospects in life appeared flattering, and she now gave herself more liberty in imitating the vain fashions of the world. But He, who in infinite mercy watcheth over the children of men for good, was pleased to appoint to her a dispensation of affliction, and to mar the beauty of temporal things in her view; for within two years from their marriage, she was bereft of her beloved husband, and left a widowed mother in the 25th year of her age. Under this afflicting dispensation, which she esteemed a divine appointment, designed in mercy for her good, she was led to take a retrospect of her past life, and to look into her spiritual condition, and through the influences of divine grace, she saw that, by the love of the world, she had been too much alienated from the love of Christ; and that her mind was unreconciled to the will of her Lord and Saviour, and under a sense of her unworthiness, she was brought into great sorrow and contrition, and, for a time, was almost overwhelmed with dismay and despair;-in this state of feeling, she saw the emptiness of worldly pleasure, and the vanity of trusting to uncertain, riches; and was made willing to sacrifice whatever she saw conflicted with her peace, and to covenant with the Lord, that if he would receive her into favour through his pardoning mercy, she would serve him in "the obedience of faith;" and the God of peace, in his own gracious time, was pleased to arise for her consolation, in granting her an earnest that she was reconciled to Him by the death of his Son; though not without having to pass through many conflicts in succeeding time, both in an outward and spiritual sense. And as she patiently submitted to the baptism of Him who baptizes with the Holy Ghost and with fire, she received a gift in the ministry of the gospel, that is not of man, nor is learned but by the revelation of Jesus Christ; and became deeply impressed with a sense of duty to communicate to others, what the Lord had done for her, and to exalt His name in the congregations of His people; but looking too much at her own imperfections, for a while she stumbled at the Cross, which involved her in deep sorrow of heart, and learning obedience by the things that she suffered, she was made willing in the day of the Lord's power; and in the thirty-first year of her age, she came forth in the important service into which she was called, greatly to the relief and peace of her own mind. In 1831, she was married to Lindley M. Hoag, and in the relation of wife, she was a worthy example, being a true help meet, both spiritually and temporally. Notwithstanding she had been brought up in comparative affluence, yet she readily conformed her temporal wants to the circumstances of her husband, exemplifying in no ordinary degree the virtues of industry, economy, true moderation and Christian contentment, and often she would find means from their small resources, to relieve the wants of the indigent and afflicted, saying, "If I am not faithful over a little, I should not be faithful over much." She was hospitable to strangers, and took great delight in entertaining her friends, especially the messengers of the Gospel. She frequently observed that it was the summit of her temporal desires, to be able to entertain her friends comfortably, and to give her children a good education; more than that she did not ask. She was deeply concerned to bring up her children in the way they should go, maintaining parental authority with firmness, yet through the benign influence of the law of love, often seeking in humble prayer, divine aid, that she might discharge her duty towards them in a suitable manner. She freely gave up her husband to travel abroad in the service of truth, whenever he apprehended it right, taking the charge of their family in his absence, and managing their temporal affairs with great discretion. She was concerned to occupy the precious gift committed to her charge, and at different times visited most of the meetings in our own Yearly Meeting, and some parts of New York and Philadelphia Yearly Meetings, to the acceptance and satisfaction of Friends, and to the peace of her own mind. And it may be said that in the performance of her religious visits, she was an example of dedication, surmounting difficulties, and encountering apparent dangers from feeble health in a remarkable manner. She was sound in doctrine, and her religious communications were clear and impressive, rightly dividing the word to those amongst whom she labored; and as she drew near the close of life, she was frequently led forth in her Gospel labours in a remarkable manner. She attended the Quarterly Meeting, for the last time, in the autumn of 1842; after which, her health failing, she went out but little. In the first month, 1843, feeling very desirous to attend meeting once more, way was made for it, and she was led in an interesting and impressive manner, to communicate to the meeting, although she was unable to stand upon her feet during the exercise. In the early part of her confinement, she was introduced into close and deep investigation of her spiritual condition, in which she was baptized into great travail of soul for a time, as "in the cloud and in the sea," during which she was much engaged in prayer, and frequently vocally, that the Lord would strengthen her in the faith and in the patience, to endure all that, in infinite goodness and wisdom, was laid upon her. And He who keeps covenant with the night as with the day, was pleased to arise in his own time, as a morning without clouds, to her unspeakable joy, by granting her an undoubted assurance that her name was written in the Lamb's Book of Life. In relation to which she observed to her husband, "I have passed through more in my mind, than I could describe, so great has been my anxiety to know that nothing remained in my way, and my Heavenly Father has given me a clear and undoubted evidence that he has accepted me. For my Saviour's sake all is forgiven me." A few days after, she remarked in conversation, with other weighty expressions, "I would not exchange the peace I feel, and the assurance I at times am favoured with, that a glorious immortality awaits me, for all that this world affords." She derived great consolation from retirement, and often desired to be left alone for that purpose, expressing on some occasions, that it seemed like a Sabbath to the mind. Notwithstanding her great bodily debility, she continued to take the oversight of her family, and to give the direction of her domestic affairs, until very near her death. In relation to which, she observed to a friend, "I do not know but some may think it strange that I should take so much thought about my temporal concerns, but I be lieve it is my duty to look after my family as long as I can. I feel as though it is a part of the age. And having, by patient continuance in well. doing, sought for immortality, we doubt not that she now inherits eternal life. From the London Quarterly Review. work that is left for me to do. It is not for the, of Sixth month, 1843, in the 43d year of her love of worldly things; I feel weaned from them." On the opening of the Spring, she recruited a little, so that she was able to ride out, and some of her friends indulged a hope that she would again enjoy a more comfortable state of health: respecting which she observed-" It was hid from her whether she should continue a long or a short time; that that was something that she had never been able to see," and added, "I do not know as that is an evidence of Divine disapprobation, We hope there are few specimens left of the for I have read the account of a number of wor- sensual school who overlooked the highest part of thy Friends, who had no sight of their approach-man, and denied the utility of everything which ing change; of whose acceptance into the kingdom of glory, there can be no doubt. The great point is, to be in a state of readiness for death at all times, both in health and sickness." The prospect that her children would ere long be deprived of a mother's care and watchful concern, caused her much anxiety, and at times seemed to draw a cloud over her mind. A few days before her death, her husband inquired of her in relation to that subject, having known her solicitude: she replied, "Oh! my Redeemer has been with me to-day, and as well as I love thee, and thou never appeared more lovely to me, I have been enabled to give you all up. There can be nothing more glorious, than the prospect I have had, of departing and being with Christ: and were it not for the little service that I am able to render my family, I should not desire to remain here any longer." The day before her death, a friend observed that her sufferings appeared to be great; she replied, "I have never looked upon any of the sufferings which this poor body has endured, as hard. I do not know that I have ever felt impatient, but have received them as from the hand of the Lord." After giving some direction relative to her children, addressing her family she said, "Now I have given you all up. I feel as though my work is done." Next morning she appearing to be failing fast, her children and friends were called in, of whom she took her last farewell, embracing her near relatives in an affectionate and tender manner, imparting salutary admonition to them, through which her mind was serene and composed. And turning to the company about her, she said, "I think I may safely say, that my Redeemer has given me an undoubted evidence, that he has accepted me." She asked her physician if he thought she was dying. Being answered in the affirmative, she said, "Can this be death? If this is death, it has lost its sting. The grave will have no victory. My work is finished. I have no fear of death." After a pause she said, "Come Lord Jesus, lift up the light of thy countenance." Shortly after, she expressed a desire to be released, saying, "Now I should be glad to go:" then added, "but I am willing to wait all the Lord's appointed time "-and being removed from her chair to her bed, she fell into a quiet sleep and gently breathed her last, on the 17th did not minister to bodily comfort. It is inconceivable that any one of them could be consistent in the doctrine; could only see in a noble tree the materials for boards; food for cattle in the verdure of the field; and medicinal properties in the flowers of the garden; or, if such a man did really exist, he was a subject for compassion, not for argument. Tried by the mere test of pleasure, intellectual gratification is a deeper delight than corporal luxury. But natural philosophy combines both advantages in the highest degree. It has helped on the useful arts to that extent that there is hardly a philosophical speculation which has not yielded, sooner or later, a substantial result, and added to the convenience or the indulgences of life. What can appear to concern us less than the eclipses of Jupiter's satellites, or the thousands of stars, which merely look like spangles in the sky; and yet both one and the other are made the means of determining the longitude at sea,* of finding the road to any given place over the wide and pathless waste of waters. The niceties of astronomical observations are not within the compass of popular science. But without travelling out of our beat, it would be easy to show that an ordinary knowledge of philosophical truths has filled the world with substantial products. The greater part of the history of scientific civilization is lost, of course, in the night of time. The aggregate result of improvement is apparent. From a rude hut, and a few rude utensils, we have advanced to a pitch of refinement in which the common possessions of the poor, outstrip, not rarely, the former luxuries of kings. But the circumstances of the discovery, and the name of the discoverer, are rarely preserved. "In vain," says Dr. Watson, "shall we inquire who invented the first plough, baked the first bread, shaped the first pot, wove the first garment, or hollowed the first canoe." The authors alone of the vast array of mechanical The writer of this article has been a little too hasty in his declaration. The eclipses of Jupiter's satellites furnish a convenient method of finding the longitude on land, but telescopes of sufficient power to bring the immersions and emersions of those bodies into view, require a steadier support than a floating vessel. The English Astronomer Royal, N. Maskelyne, tried to overcome this difficulty, but gave up the trial as hopeless.-ED. contrivances which are concerned in the produc- All may aspire to assist in the work of improvement, when we see the issue of small advances and humble talents. The slow and gradual accumulation of generations of improvement may rival the proudest monuments of genius in the ultimate result. It happens here, as in other things, that what is beneficial to the world is not always that which brings glory in its train. The simplest contrivances are the offspring of the ordinary experience of natural laws; for science is often only common experience with a prouder name. Our ancestors had not made a formal classification of the varying degrees in which different bodies conducted heat, but they had discovered that wood confined it longer than stone. For the sake of the warmth it was extensively employed in the construction of houses, and for the same reason many of the finest mansions in St. Petersburgh are composed of it still. That Russian houses should be some day burnt, is almost as much a matter of course as that those who occupy them should some day die. But mankind will always run a great risk for a great advantage, and it required the Fire of London to wean our forefathers from their fondness for timber edifices. mercury, which combine in definite proportions and crystallise on the glass. The date of the discovery is uncertain, but according to the best evidence it proceeded out of Venice, at a period when the Alchemists were busy with metals in the wild expectation to transmute them into gold. In searching for a chimera they lighted upon a beautiful domestic invention. Their science had many similar results. Of them might have been written the fable of the dying father, who bid his sons dig in the vineyard for a deposit of gold. Invention is not exhausted. Every year something is found out, and we have often less reason to wonder that the discovery has been made than that it should never have been made before. Newton met Bentley accidentally in London, and asked him what philosophical pursuits were going on at Cambridge. "None," replied Bentley, "for you kill all the game; you leave us nothing to pursue." "Not so," said Newton, "you may start game in every bush, if you will but beat for it." bered. Lord Bacon assigns to science a two-fold object, the relief of man's estate, and the glory of the Creator. There has never, in this country, been a disposition to underrate its last, and most honoured use. Maclaurin heard Newton observe that it gave him particular pleasure that his philosophy had promoted the attention to final causes, and his followers, who could not rival him in his genius, have not degenerated from his piety. It has been their delight to dwell upon the fact, that though a casual survey of the world proclaimed a Maker marvellous in goodness and in power, yet every hidden law which was brought to light afforded additional evidence of design, and showed him beyond what man could conPatients long bed-ridden with disease suffer ceive, "wonderful in counsel and excellent in from the continued pressure on the skin, till at working." With us the exceptions at least have length the slightest movement is pain, and sick-been few, and none of them deserve to be rememness is denied its own poor privilege to toss. Dr. Arnott provided a preventive in the waterbed, which has saved many hours of agony to lingering illness, and would save many more if patients had always the strength of mind to conquer the first repugnance to its use. But though every one is familiar with the properties of fluids upon which the value of the water-bed depends, it is very unlikely that the thought would have occurred to Dr. Arnott, unless he had been a scientific man. Such instances are numerous. The contemplation of nature draws attention to resources which, ordinarily unobserved, are courting the notice of watchful eyes, as a man who walks upon the shore may tread, without perceiving it, upon a precious pebble that is picked up by another who searches for what he can find. But science has chiefly assisted art in the appliance of the less conspicuous powers of nature, which are little known save to those who make them their special study. Mirrors are silvered by a mixture of tin and Man, with respect to corporal comforts, is the creature of habit. To whatever he is accustomed, that he enjoys. The Greenlander, with his wretched hut and barren soil, believes himself the most favoured of created beings, and pities the lot of nations which are destitute of the luxury of seals. In like manner it is probable that the early inhabitants of Britain were as satisfied with a cave or a cottage of clay, as we with our mansions adorned with all the products of the arts. So, too, in the same age the king would think himself meanly accommodated in the house of the gentleman, the gentleman in the abode of the peasant-and yet custom has adapted each to his own. It is not the absolute degree of refinement that confers the pleasure; it is the improvement on what we are used to, the addition to what we already possess and this pleasure has been common to every period in which the wants of mankind were sufficiently keen to excite invention and summon art to the |