ing his diary for that purpose; but becoming suspicious that actions of his own were being held up to admiration, he asked to see the M. S., and ruthlessly tore out all such pages, utterly refusing to let them be published.

After his return from China, he was stationed for six quiet years at Gravesend; years which he used to say were among the happiest of his life. All his substance, all his spare time, were devoted to serving others. He had a large garden, but he never used any of its vegetables and fruits, allowing poor people to cultivate plots in it for them. selves. The Workhouse and Infirmary knew him well, and the dying would entreat for his presence, and never in vain. Tender to all children, his especial joy was in rescuing poor outcast boys. He would have them in his own house for weeks, and at last under his own supervision send them to sea, following them with his counsels and his prayers. The same spirit is manifested through the years (1874-1879) that he spent in the Soudan, part of the time as Governor-general, sent by the Khedive of Egypt. Here, amidst gigantic labors for the sup

pression of the slave-trade and removal of abuses, we find him, when nearly all of the little band of Europeans with him were ill from the climate, and

he himself, he said, "well, but a shadow," nursing and doctoring his companions in addition to all his other cares; with the same "heart at leisure from itself," as on another occasion found time to be deeply interested in saving the life of a little. neglected black baby. And this unselfishness

OUR LONDON LETTER.

Henry Richard, the indefatigable Secretary of the Peace Society, has just made an earnest appeal to the Nonconformists of England that they may use their influence to stop, if possible, the prosecution of an aggressive war in the Soudan. He urges them to forward memorials from all parts of the country to our Prime Minister, in the hope of strengthening his hands on behalf of the cause of peace, to which we believe that he is at heart át"It is impossible," says Mr. Richard, "not to feel appalled at the prospect opening before us in view of the new-aggressive policy proposed in the Soudan." He points out that as the hot season has now commenced, there will probably be a considerable interval during which active military operations must be suspended, and in feeling terms he urges that we may at once avail of this opportunity, "in a spirit of friendliest anxiety to

tached.

save a Minister whom we honor and revere and the

party to which we belong from a policy which may prove fatal to both."

At the Meeting for Sufferings in its session yesterday (which was attended by an unusual number duty in relation to the present crisis was brought of Friends from the country) the subject of our

before its notice by minutes from two of our country meetings. After an earnest consideration of the question, a committee was set apart to prepare a short address to our fellow-members, expressive of our concern in the matter, and urging them individually to watch for every opportunity of bringing their influence to bear in the promotion of the cause of peace.

We are hoping to have the company of some of our Friends from Melbourne during the next Yearly Meeting. Edward Sayre is on his way with a certificate from his meeting liberating him for re

This soldier could and did forgive all personal wrongs. His trust in God was absolute. His courage was the courage of one who could fear no evil, because he believed that God was with him at all times and under all conditions, and over-ligious service amongst us. John A. Horsfall, and ruling all circumstances. Thus he writes in one of his letters: "All I can say is, that amidst troubles and worries, no one can have peace till he thus stays upon his God; it gives a man a superhuman strength."

Can we doubt, would it not be treason to our faith to doubt, that this "superhuman strength" was continued to him through the long, lonely hours of intense anxiety, not for himself, but for others, which marked the close of his career? Can we doubt that it was with him to the very end, even on that last fatal day:

"The day which like the rest begins,
With Fear not; I am still with thee;
And ends, beyond the clouds and sins,
With Evermore His face to see."

also William Benson and his wife, who are likely to
be with us in the course of the spring, are, we be
lieve, mainly contemplating a social visit to their
Friends in the old country. Their company, also,
will be doubtless welcome to all.
London, Third mo. 7th, 1885.

THE WAR SPIRIT.

In a recent communication to the N. Y. Nation, dated in Dublin, Ireland, upon "The British War Spirit and its Effect upon Character," the following passages occur :

Although Disraeli's proclamation of the Queen as Empress was smiled at by so many of her subjects, the idea of British empire has latterly taken possession of the public mind in Great Britain as it never did before. The empire' is now spoken of where the term 'kingdom,' or 'kingdoms' was formerly used. And with the new conception has come a strengthened, at least more openly expressed, belief that any means would be justifiable for the maintenance of the power and prestige of that empire. This spirit is patent not only among the 'Arrys'

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HOW TO BUILD UP A MEETING.

NO. II.

and 'Jingoes,' but among the highest and most cultivated class of spiritual teachers in literature and the pulpit. This spirit may yet lead to any depths of cruelty and despotism toward other peoplés where it is not curbed—as it was in our late dealHaving thus (No. 1) prepared for work, so far ings with you and other nations by respect, not as comprehending the real bond of unity, the inunmixed, perhaps, with fear, and in our dealings quiry occurs-In action how shall we best show the with the Boers by a common religion and historical power of God upon us? Emphatically by thorough, sympathies. The teachings of the New Testament hearty and prompt cO-OPERATION in the work of are gossamer threads with the British Lion when the church. We know that the church at large what he considers his rights or his honor is con- grants this, and teaches and exhorts its members to cerned. Formerly, tolerably steady and consistent act together in matters of detail, as well as more protests on the side of humanity and peace might broadly. But our point now is to direct our attenbe expected at least from the Society of Friends. tion as Friends to the "field days" of the church But now that Friends are swarming into the pro-to the set public occasions when the Lord's chilfessions and into the magistracy, that they wear Lord Mayor's robes, and attend levees, in the scarlet costumes of Deputy Lieutenants, with a sword by the side, the rank and file of this Society are as little inclined to 'embarrass the Government' as other men.

dren are before the world to freely give of those things they have so freely received.

The Headship of Christ and the priesthood of believers obviate the necessity with us, as with others, that there shall be a single person upon whom the work all devolves, granting him who "sits beside" only the privilege, and often even not that, of saying Amen. We have no controversy with those denominations which have worked out the problem on that line and are doing so grandly for God and their fellows. But we simply recognize that the Quaker idea does not lie in that direction. Hence, to be successful, we must be true to our conception of this fundamental practice of the Apostolic church. Hence our proposition, that all our public services should be upon the plan of co-operation. We say plan because there will be an infinite variety in detail, also in the greater or less prominence of particular persons according to the ability which God giveth and a proper courtesy to strangers. But always in the line of the priesthood of believers and the filling of the Spirit.

The illustrated papers and the letters of war correspondents must play no inconsiderable part in fostering a warlike spirit and the idea of empire. Formerly war seemed in the main distant and vague. Money and men had to be sent out, and in return, after long weeks or months, came dry dispatches and convoys of wounded. Now it is graphically and freshly brought before us, day by day, and hour by hour, in all its details, by facile pencils and brilliant writing. The cartoons are large enough now to show us the glare in the eye of our townsman or schoolmate (in the inevitable white helmet) as he gives the fatal thrust, and the death horror of the naked savage receiving it, who had not the wisdom to gauge the power and acknowledge the manifest destiny of our empire and our race. These illustrated papers must have a powerful effect, Mark you, however, there is a wide distinction especially upon children. For the very few who between this idea of co-operation and the miscelshrink more and more of late years from opening laneous character and freedom of social meetings: them and there are such-thousands are attracted when every one hath a Psalm-hath an exhortation, to them by the manner in which they minister to &c., without any reference to a leading thought their pride, and the love of the horrible, not un- and only from a direct personal impulse. But let mixed with that interest which few can avoid taking it be such "acting together as shall present a in the portrayal of the heroic endurance and the compactly built and buttressed Gospel message, ilindomitable pluck which high education, and breed-lustrated from reality and human experience and ing, and civilization appear to induce and favor to rounded out with exhortation and appeal a simple a remarkable degree. sermon, with a definite line of thought stuck to and enforced and vitalized by the best mental and spiritual power of each speaker. Such preaching is not only vitalizing, but has the element of sustained power and interest in it, because many heads and hearts and Christian experiences stand before God's great concave mirror, and these many lights and much heat are focalized on the points at issue.

All I have written is with the full consciousness of the many noble protests against a pursuance of the bloody work in Egypt, by Mr. Morley, Mr. Courtney, and the provinical press here and there. There are as yet no signs that the mind of the British public generally is working toward a higher state of feeling that would prevent a recurrence of such a succession of warlike complications as we have had of late years."

[We hope and believe that the allusion to the "rank and file" of the Society of Friends in Great Britain, does not fairly represent their position in regard to the war spirit.-Ed. Friends' Review.]

THE oil of the lamp in the temple burnt away in giving light; so should we.

Practically then here is a way out of the dilemma in which so many of our meetings find themselves, as they suppose, in not having some one to preach for them. Why, dear brethren, we are all priests unto God and should minister in the ability which He giveth. Many small lights if concentrated into a single beam will as effectually reveal the breakers and danger-points as a single large light in the same position will.

Now we are ready for the further inquiry as to how this can be brought about. It is in the old way-be simply and promptly obedient. Use common sense and discretion. Sink self out of sight, and be filled with Christ-love and love for your fellows. Go to meeting under these conditions, and with a purpose and habit of doing, and then let your light shine. After such opening exercises as the Spirit indicates, let some one suggest a leading thought, and possibly skeletonize it; then concentrate on some particular phase of it, leaving it purposely unfinished, which will stimulate and give B." the opportunity to look at it from his standpoint; "C." then will be moved to illustrate it from nature, and D. and E. from human experience, and F., gathering up these fragments, will hurl them with persuasive force or powerful appeal in the ever-recurring refrain, "Come, come !" "Come to Jesus." This joint work in sermonizing means condensed thought, to be expressed in the shortest possible time, so that it shall be done decently and in order. From 15 to 20 minutes will be the longest time used-oftener 5 to to to each person. Do not be afraid to let your thoughts and actions be linked together, but refer to one another personally, giving to each, so far as may be, credit for the precious thoughts to which we are to attach what we say; so that the subject shall have the combined spiritual momentum of the half dozen speakers. OLIVER WHITE.

Nevertheless, the "consecrated cobbler" toiled on, and lived to see the gospel of Christ preached among other nations, where His name had been unknown.

lay unopened before them, said in his broad Scotch, "Moderator, rax me the Bible, wull ye?"

Opening the volume, he turned with his feeble, trembling hands to our Saviour's last command and read, "Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature;" and then followed with the prophecies aud promises which foretell the preaching of the gospel among all the nations of the earth, thus pouring the light of divine truth upon the question which was before them.

The words fell like a thunder-clap on the Assembly, and produced an impression which could not be effaced, for they were the words which might well mark the incoming of a new era of Christian thought and action: " Moderator, rax me the Bible, wull ye ?"-The Common People.

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LIVING TO THE GLORY OF GOD.

How can frail man, who is "of yesterday, and knows nothing," glorify that all-glorious Being, who is infinite in power and wisdom, and "inhabiteth eternity?" By fulfilling the object of his creation in loving his Creator with all his soul, and his fellow-men as himself. If he truly desires to so love God and man, his love will manifest itself to the glory of God in many ways. He will be thankful to God in all his prosperity, and sweetly resigned in adversity, and will "bless the Lord at all times." He will reflect the goodness of God, and thereby glorify Him, in all his actions toward mankind, by relieving, to the extent of his lawful ability, the sufferings of the afflicted, by weeping with those that weep, and rejoicing with those that rejoice; by kind and pious counsel to the erring and ignorant; by sweetly forgiving injuries; not resisting evil in a proud and vengeful spirit; by overcoming evil with good; by of his life, by praying and striving to possess following peace with all men; and as the perfection always and everywhere, "that mind which was in Christ Jesus," and like Him, as He did on earth, "go about doing good."

Every person should remember that no one can In an address before a London Missionary Soci- properly glorify God by being merely harmless and ety, Dr. Wallace of Glasgow alluded to the first doing nothing. A useless life of doing nothing bad, great debate on missions in the General Assembly cannot be glorified by His intelligent beings living is a greatly wrong life of sinful omission. God of the Church of Scotland, about the beginning of lives so full of selfishness as to do no good in the this century; when two Presbyteries sent up a pro-world, and only in being careful to do nothing posal imploring the Assembly to send out the gospel among the heathen. The proposition was denounced as " visionary, as presumptuous, as dangerous, and, strange to say, as democratic and absurd," and old Dr. Carlyle of Inveresk, the Jupiter Tonans of the assembly, exclaimed,

outwardly bad. The more we rightly deny our
selves for the best good of our fellow-beings, for
time and eternity, the more we please and glorify
God.
JOHN HEMMENWAY.

Minneapolis, Minnesota.

WHOLEHEARTEDNESS finds a righteous rewardAnd in every work that [Hezekiah] began in the service of the house of God and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.-2 Chronicles xxxi, 21.