stand to give some account of his trip and work among his own people in the mountains of California and Oregon. He gave an interesting history of his manner of conducting meetings among the wild Indians that he first sang to them some song from Gospel hymns, then prayed with and for them, then sang again, then told them the story of Christ as the Saviour of all men, and that where he now lives he was with friends, good people that do him and his people good. He learned from them the way to be happy, and at last go to heaven. All his preaching and singing were in his own native language, and that astonished the people who heard him talk so in their language. Those of his own nation who had not seen him before dressed like white people, could hardly be made to believe he was the same man they used to know. The result of his appearance among them and his preaching was, that many said they would do and live as he said-they would remember what he had told them.

Fourth-day morning, Tenth mo. 15th. — Devotional meeting as usual in the lower room; meeting of the ministers and workers of this meeting was held up stairs, where, like the disciples of old met in an upper room, they were blessed by our Heavenly Father greatly. All engaged in silent prayer for a time before vocal utterance was given to the petitions and praises of full souls.

A sister endorsed the sentiment first uttered here by M.T.Hartley, that in living silence there was great power. M. T. Hartley quoted George Fox: "O Friends, hold your meetings in the power of God." There is a manifestation of the power of God in individual cases, why not in a congregation in a collective capacity? To hold a meeting in the power of God, we must get the nearer to God ourselves, and we may do so in silent prayer. In revival work it would be better could we begin our meetings in silence. The object of this meeting is not to teach doctrines, but that we may all be the better workers. Let us be careful of imitation of imitating others—be natural-be ourselves. We should engage in secret prayer first before going before a congregation. Then when we are led out in public we shall meet the wants of the gathered company, and then it is best that others who feel drawn to pray vocally do not repeat what has preceded.

E. C. Siler endorsed what M. T. H. had said. In the regular meeting for worship, beginning at 10 o'clock to-day, there was great power manifested and clear teaching of truth by several of the visiting ministers.

In the afternoon session the subject of Evangelistic work was taken up, and its consideration continued, In order to make the work more effective the meeting decided to appoint two persons, a male and a female, in each Quarterly Meeting, to have the care of the work as Superintendents, in connection with two members to be appointed in and by the Quarterly Meetings themselves.

The subject of supporting the ministers while at work was again taken up and discussed, the result of which was that the meeting decided to recommend liberality in that direction by members of all the subordinate meetings.

One speaker referred to the small amount of money spent the past year ($1000) to help the work of leading 500 persons to conversion, about $2 to the convert.

D. Mendenhall said that "we should not lay back and let the Lord furnish us, but be faithful to go and help ourselves with what He has given us. on our duty, the Lord will provide."

If we go

All the ministers spoke to a similar purport who spoke on the subject, that the church ought to secure the funds to help all to fill their mission.

The meeting then took up a subscription and a collection of money for the prosecution of evangelistic work, and the sum of about $800 was made up.

The report on Education was next taken up, and like others, it was incomplete, in consequence of failure on the part of several of the Quarters to report.

Two Quarters reported that a new academy in each had been erected the past year, and will soon be opened; and a verbal report was given that Glen Elder academy was in session and doing well. There is a growing disposition manifest among Friends of this Yearly Meeting that the rising generation shall be educated in our own denominational schools, and under teachers in membership with us; and that disposition has resulted in the erection of a good house by Friends of Hesper and Springdale Quarterly Meetings.

The Indian Committee presented a very interesting synopsis of their work in a report to the meeting. But as we have already referred to some of it, and as it will appear in full in the minutes of the Yearly Meeting, we deem it not desirable to present more at this time.

The minute prepared by the meeting of Ministers and Elders and Overseers for the Yearly Meeting was presented, read and accepted by the meeting and ordered to be printed with the minutes of the Yearly Meeting.

A youths' meeting was held up stairs while the devotional evening meeting was going on down stairs. This was opened as is usual with the devotional meetings. The burden of prayer was for the conversion of the children. Several young persons vocalized their needs and wants in prayer, and a large number praised God in song.

M. T. Hartley delivered a very affecting and loving appeal to the assembled congregation of youth from the words of David, "Is the young man Absalom safe?" Seventy-three persons, mostly young people, testified to the goodness of our Heavenly Father to them, or praised Him for what He had done for them particularly.

After a few of the ministers addressed the children in a few words, Eli Jones took the floor, and spoke of visiting Mount Lebanon in Syria and a girls' school, ("I love those girls") where he asked them what became of the water of the river Jordan that was constantly pouring into the Dead Sea in a great volume. They sat silent for a time; then up went one hand, and that one was asked to tell it. She replied, "The sun drinks it up." By the question and answer he got the attention of the girls, then addressed them on other

matters.

After he had closed, a call was made upon the young people in the audience who were yet unconverted to gather to the "altar." Several responded, and left there happy.

In the meeting below'there were several conversions. Tenth mo. 16th, 1884.—Devotional meeting held as usual, with similar results to former morning meetings, several awakened to their real condition as lost sinners, and led to accept Jesus as their Saviour.

In the morning session for business a certificate was read for John Fry, a minister.

A proposition was made to have the printed minutes of the Yearly Meeting so corrected that they should be preserved as a proper record of its proceedings, without having to re-write them in a book of record, which proposition was referred to the Printing Committee. The importance of the subject of correct legal records was shown, when it was found that the trustees of many of our meetings, and as was stated even those for the Yearly Meeting, were not legally constituted; and the Printing Committee was to take the whole

subject under consideration, and see that everything is legal.

The Committee on Returning Minutes for ministers from other Yearly Meetings reported a copy for each one present, which was endorsed by the meeting after one sample was read.

A subscription was taken up to help Samuel Lloyd bear his expenses in his proposed Western visit; $56.15 was raised.

Reports from the committees on Indian affairs in general; on Education, and on Bible-schools were read, accepted, and ordered to be printed in the minutes.

E. C. Siler spoke of the organization of a Women's Foreign Missionary Society for the Yearly Meeting, and advised it. He also stated that a small paper was about to be started in the interest of the foreign missionary work.

This Yearly Meeting recommended the organization of auxiliary associations in each of the Quarterly Meetings.

The report of the Representatives in regard to finances, &c., was read, and with the exception of $500 recommended to be raised for evangelical work, which was rejected, was adopted. The recommenda tion was rejected on the ground that a large sum of money had already been subscribed voluntarily in the meeting, and that a large part of last year's subscription was not yet paid up; and, further, that it is quite likely that more than $500 will be raised in the home meetings by voluntary subscription.

Afternoon Session.-The request in Spring River Quarter's report that the Yearly Meeting appropriate $100 of the evangelistic fund of that meeting to assist in paying expenses incurred by the workers among the Indians under the care of that Quarter, as the subject was reported back to the Yearly Meeting from the Representatives, was called up by the recommendation of the Representatives that the $100 be not taken from the evangelistic fund, but be taken from the Yearly Meeting's stock, which was adopted.

The minute on the State of Society was read, considered, and with a few verbal changes adopted, and ordered to be incorporated in the printed minutes.

While considering the report from the Temperance Committee, presented at this time, it was proposed and concluded to authorize the Clerks, as a committee on behalf of this meeting, to memorialize the Legislature of this State on the subject of requiring instruction in the schools of the State on the evil effects of alcoholic beverages on the human system. Also in regard to selling tobacco in any form to minors,-that the existing law be made more effective.

The committee appointed to have the care of the devotional meetings, mornings and evenings, and on First day, made report that they had been conducted in good order with but little exception, and many were blessed in them, which was satisfactory to the meeting.

The minutes of the Representative Meeting were presented and read, and their work during the past year approved.

Epistles to other Yearly Meetings were presented to the meeting by the committee, which, after reading a sample, were adopted and directed to be signed by the Clerk of the meeting.

The meeting then in a solemn manner closed to meet next year, if the Lord permit.

A devotional meeting was held as heretofore at night, in which much pertinent counsel and teaching were delivered by the workers who have come amongst us from other places. Some of those whose names appear in the list of ministers have come to spend, possibly, the winter here in religious labors.

WM. F. HARVEY.

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A NATIONAL STUDENTS' CONGRESS is to convene at Eisenach on the 17th and 18th of October next, at which reforms are to be discussed. The Universities of Berlin, Leipsic, Tübingen, Heidelberg and Jena have agreed upon a programme, which includes a condemnation of duelling.-Daily Paper.

THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE of Charities and Correction, held in Tenth mo. at St. Louis, Mo., was composed of more than 200 delegates, from 22 States. The Christian Union says:

"There was a remarkable exhibition of the fellow

ship of philanthropy, a fellowship that knows neither social nor religious distinction, but which is based upon the common needs and common impulses of humanity. Hebrew rabbis sat side by side with Ro man Catholic prelates, and most orthodox bishops of the Episcopal Church compared experiences with noted radicals and unbelievers. The one spirit of the meeting was unity of effort to promote the welfare of unfortunate humanity. The spectacle was in itself the most significant fact of the meeting."

Philip C. Garrett, of Philadelphia, was elected to preside over the next year's Conference of the same kind.

underground Naples, and gives so vivid a description A correspondent of the Nation has been exploring

of the terrible conditions under which two-thirds of the

Population of that city live, that one is no longer surprised at the death-rate which has lately been reached there. According to this writer, at least 200,000 Neapolitans live in underground holes, dens, caves, and cellars, huddled together in darkness and dampness, without distinction of sex, and infested with vermin and surrounded by refuse to a degree which does not even bear a suggestion of description. The cavern known as the Rampe Di Brancaccio is divided into about fifty imaginary apartments by nails driven in the wall and strings tied across from the dripping roof. In this den fifty families, numbering 200 persons, exist without light, without retirement, with but a single cesspool, and with not a drop of water nearer than a half mile. No one ever visits these regions save landlords or the tax-gatherer; even the priests do not go there. And yet these people are courteous, cheerful, and even humorous; keep lights burning day and night at the shrine of the Madonna, and even club together to pay the rent of an old paralytic man who has been turned away from the doors of the hospitals. Italy cannot afford, if she desires to be numbered among civilized nations, to allow such a state of affairs to continue in Naples; and even the terrible cloud of death now hanging over the beautiful city will not be without its silver lining if it secures the thorough cleaning of this Augean stable of misery and disease.

-Christian Union.

THE Digger Indians were, until a few years ago, considered the most ignorant and least intelligent human beings on the Pacific coast. Those who live on Rancho Chico have now been educated in civilized ways. They have learned to read and write almost as well as white people, and some of them have even become musicians. They recently gave an entertainment in San Francisco, under the care of their instructors.-American Missionary.

ALTHOUGH it is widely taught from manuals of history, it is not true that Augustin introduced Christianity into England; a Christian Church flourished in Britain long before Augustin was born. Under him the Anglo Saxons became Roman Catholics. The Britons had already been driven to Wales, and Cornwall, and

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THE COMPOSITE PHOTOGRAPHS of members of the [American National] Academy, exhibited by Prof. Raphael Pumpelly, was in the line of research inaugurated by Francis Galton and described in his "Inquiry into the Human Faculty and its Development." He exhibited several of these compound photographs of members of the Academy and others; the most numerously compounded picture having thirty-one ingredients—¿. e., the photographs of so many members were copied on the same negative, and gave a resultant typical picture of the Academy in which individual features are blurred or obscured and those common to all become prominent. The compound picture shows what any one would recognize as a highly intelligent countenance. The edges fade away gradually, like the aureole about pictures of saints, because, of course, the outline of the face does not come to the same line in the different faces thus superposed and combined. Interesting results are obtained by this means of getting type faces of various classes. This is the first time that a high intellectual type has been secured. Before dropping this subject, I notice what was not mentioned in the paper, the great preponderance of blue eyes among the academicians. Only two or three black-eyed men were seen among the two dozen members in attendance.-Nation.

THE Boston Traveller states that on August 28 the largest cargo of New England rum ever shipped from the United States left for Africa. No less than 150,000 gallons of this fiery spirit were exported from Boston to this newly-opened field of enterprise. Thus do human greed, Satanic influence, and heartless indifference to the moral welfare of the African race, combine to obstruct the path of progress in the regeneration of the Dark Continent. The African Trading Company of the Zambesi and the Shire will not allow liquors to go in on their ships. Would that all shipping companies were of the same mind. As it is otherwise, these efforts to demoralize the races of Africa must serve to stimulate to greater zeal all branches of the Church, in striving for their evangelization. The [London] Christian.

In their young hearts, soft and tender,. Guide my hand good seed to sow, That its blossoming may praise Thee Wheresoe'er they go.

Give to me a cheerful spirit,

That my little flock may see
It is good and pleasant service
To be taught of Thee.
Father, order all my footsteps;
So direct my daily way,
That in following me the children
May not go astray.

Let Thy holy counsel lead me

Let Thy light before me shineThat they may not stumble over Word or deed of mine.

Draw us, hand in hand, to Jesus,

For His word's sake, unforgot :Let "the little ones come to Me, And forbid them not."

FREEDOM.

BY SUSAN COOLIDGE.

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I would be free! For Freedom is all fair,
And her strong smile is like the smile of God.
Her voice rings out like trumpet on the air,

And men rise up and follow; though the road
Be all unknown and hard to understand,
They tread it gladly, holding Freedom's hand.
I would be free! The little spark of Heaven
Let in my soul when life was breathed in me
Is like a flame, this way and that way driven
By ever wavering winds, which ceaselessly
Kindle and blow till all my soul is hot,
And would consume if liberty were not.
I would be free! But what is freedom, then?
For widely various are the shapes she wears
In different ages and to different men ;

And many titles, many forms she bears-
Riot and revolution, sword and flame-

All called in turn by Freedom's honored name.
I would be free! Not free to burn and spoil,
To trample down the weak and smite the strọng,
To seize the larger share of wine and oil,

And rob the sun my dayligh! to prolong,
And rob the night of sleep while others wake-
Feast on their famine, basely free to take.

I would be free! Free in a dearer way-
Free to become all that I may or can ;
To be my best and utmost self each day,

Not held or bound by any chain of man,
By dull convention, or by foolish sneer,
Or love's mistaken clasp of feeble fear.
Free to be kind and true and faithful; free
To do the happy thing that makes life good,
To grow as grows the goodly forest-tree.

By none gainsaid, by none misunderstood,
To taste life's freshness with a child's delight,
And find new joy in every day and night.
I would be free! Ah! so may all be free.
Then shall the world grow sweet at core and sound,
And, moved in blest and ordered circuit, see

The bright millennial sun rise fair and round, Heaven's day begin, and Christ, whose service is Freedom all perfect, rule the world as His.

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SUMMARY OF NEWS. FOREIGN INTelligence.—Advices from Europe are to the 25th inst.

GREAT BRITAIN.-In the House of Commons, the motion of H. Labouchere for a reform of the House of Lords was rejected by a vote of 145 to 74. Lord Salisbury and Sir Stafford Northcote, the Conservative leaders in their respective Houses of Parliament, held a conference with the members of the Cabinet on the 22d, respecting the proposed compromise on the Franchise bill, but what passed was not made public. Later, it was understood that a definite agreement had been attained. On the 24th, Gladstone gave notice in the House of Commons that he hoped to introduce the Redistribution bill on the 1st prox. and move its second reading on the 4th.

Lord Northbrook, the British Commissioner to Egypt, has made his report. In it he advocates: Ist. That there shall be no reduction of interest upon any of the loans. 2d. The sinking fund of the unified stock shall be suspended, in order to cover a new loan of £8,000,000 to be advanced by England. 3d. The loan shall be principally used in paying the Alexandria indemnity, and in repaying advances which have been made by the Rothschilds and the local banks, leaving £1,000,000 for the expenses of irrigation of the lands of Lower Egypt. 4th. A large reduction shall be made in the taxation of Upper Egypt, and a slight reduction in that of Lower Egypt. 5th. To establish an equilibrium between the army and police estimates, reducing them by £350,000, England to bear the whole cost of occupation; and certain deficits to be abolished by the help of England. It is asserted that the Cabinet is divided in opinion on these propositions, Premier Gladstone and J. Chamberlain, President of the Board of Trade, refusing to support them; and it is thought that Lord Northbrook will be obliged to modify them. The Times of the 24th stated that the Cabinet had rejected Lord Northbrook's proposals as a whole. It is said that new financial proposals respecting Egypt have been sent to the Powers. W. E. Gladstone stated in the House that the Government does not intend to propose a second conference of the Powers on the subject.

The distress among ship-building workmen is increasing. At the ship yards on the rivers Tyne, Clyde and Mersey, scarcely one-fourth of the possible working force is now in effective operation. The Admiralty Office has invited designs and tenders for the building of new men-of-war, from the ship-building firms on those rivers, among whom orders will be distributed to remedy the present depression.

Police and marines sent to the Isle of Skye on the 18th, marched through the districts which had been most disturbed, meeting no resistance. The crofters remained within doors, and displayed flags in token of loyalty. No arrests were made.

FRANCE.-The Council General of the Department of the Seine has adopted a resolution in favor of a universal exhibltion to be held in Paris in 1889.

The Congress of Agricultural Associations has passed a resolution demanding that the Government shall fix the duty upon foreign corn at 5 francs and on flour at 9 fr. per 100 lbs. A Cabinet Council held on the 21st discussed the question of an increase of the duty on grain, and agreed to it in principle.

A meeting of unemployed men, held in Paris on the 23d, was attended by 5000. Violent speeches were made against the rich, and revolutionary songs were

sung.

The cholera in Paris has ceased to be considered an epidemic, though some deaths still occur daily.

In the Chamber of Deputies, on the 22d, the Minis

ter of Finance, in defending the budget proposals against objections, intimated that it was the intention of the Government to impose a tax upon intoxicating beverages, and to reduce the railway passenger duty. He expressed perfect confidence in the 'resources of the country.

It is asserted that the negotiations which Earl Granville, Foreign Secretary of England, was said to be carrying on with the Chinese Ambassador, the Marquis Tseng, with a view to the settlement of the diffi culties between France and China, have failed, Prime Minister Ferry having ascertained that the Marquis was not authorized to offer more acceptable terms than those which were refused through the French Minister at Pekin; but a London dispatch of the 24th said that the French Ambassador to England and the Marquis Tseng were negotiating through Earl Granville, with apparent promise of a peaceful settlement. GERMANY.-The Reichstag was opened on the 20th by the Emperor in person. His speech called attention to the satisfactory progress of social reform, and announced that bills would be introduced extending the system of working- men's accident insurance and savings banks. In regard to foreign relations, he expressed a strong confidence in the maintenance of peace for a long time to come.

In the Congo Conference, on the 19th, a programme of proposals was presented on behalf of the German Government, for which the sanction of the Conference was asked. It was referred to a committee composed of the delegates of Germany, England, France, Spain, Belgium, Portugal and America. The committee was expected to occupy a week in discussing the matters laid before it. It has been hearing testimony from delegates and assistant delegates, including H. M. Stanley, the African explorer. The German proposals are said to favor free trade for all nations in the Congo basin, and co-operation in endeavors to suppress slavery and to promote the work of missions and all institutions tending to civilize the natives. It w stated on the 24th that the committee had agre unanimously that free trade should prevail in the western part of the Congo basin; and had also resolved to favor the extension of the basin both eastward and westward, while still preserving the existing rights of sovereignty.

DOMESTIC.-The official canvass of the vote of the State of New York at the Presidential election w completed on the 21st. Cleveland's plurality w 1149 on the Democratic elector receiving the high vote, and on the one receiving the lowest vote, 10 The 36 electoral votes of that State, added to the already known, make a total of 219 electoral votes for Cleveland and 182 for Blaine.

A slight earthquake was felt in several places al the St. Lawrence river, on the 21st; and two sho the second being the heavier, at Concord, N. H., a in other parts of the State, on the 24th.

For Friends' Review. TITUS COAN.

A MEMORIAL, BY LYDIA BINGHAM COAN.

This book has just been issued from the press of Fleming H. Revell, 148 Madison St. Chicago.

The readers of Friends' Review were made ac quainted with Titus Coan years ago through accounts of his work and some of his letters published in its columns. Some of them, when he and his dear wife, Fidelia Coan, visited this country in 1870, saw their faces and grasped their hands.

Ever since the visit of Daniel Wheeler to the Pacific Isles, these Missionaries have had a claim upon the affectionate and grateful regard of the Society of Friends. I think every member of our Society, who since that time has made a like visit of Gospel love to the Hawaiian shores, received their cordial welcome and hospitable kindness.

Some of these became bound to them in a lifelong friendship, and fellowship in the Gospel of Christ. Titus Coan will be remembered also, as a faithful and consistent advocate of the principles of

Peace.

The following extracts from the Introduction by S. J. Pumphrey, Dist. Sec. A. B. C. F. M., will give an idea of the rich contents of the volume:

"The heritage of the Church in her missionaries grows richer with each new generation. The gains

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are not only in the roll of distinguished names and the record of grand achievements, but also in a wide diversity of peculiar gifts. Some have wrought at foundations out of the sight of man. have left monuments of long-suffering toil in languages reduced to writing and in translations. ' of the Word of God.' To others it has been given to illustrate in some heroic way, the 'patience of hope.' It is said that at the opening of the American Board's work in India, more Missionaries died in the first twenty years, than there were converts made. The men sent by the London Missionary Society to the South Seas spent fourteen years of self-denying service before a single na tive's voice was heard in prayer, and it was only after twenty-two years' toil that they were made glad by the baptism of the first convert.

"The subject of this Memorial was permitted through the abounding grace of God to enjoy a wholly different experience. He entered upon his mission to the Sandwich Islands on the eve of a mighty out-pouring of the Spirit, and he seems to have been divinely fitted for this crisis of the work by a large endowment of evangelistic gifts. In three months from the time he first set foot on the shores of Hawaii he began to preach in the native tongue. Before the first year closed, the audiences drawn to hear the Word by his peculiar power, reached many hundreds. And in six years