well mouth, rolls round it a moment as though coquetting with the invisible power. Then, with the sound of a sudden, sullen clap of thunder, an immense flame leaps into the air, and the landscape, previously obscured by the gathering shadows, stands out strangely defined in its most minute details for miles around. The top of the pipe which receives the gas, a six-inch one, is seventy-five feet from the well mouth; by instruments the height of the flame is found to be eighty feet, thus making from well mouth a total jet of 155 feet. The flame leaps from the top of the derrick into the clouds like a great fiery plume, blue at the base, white in the centre, and red at the extremity, and is accompanied by a roar like that of a miniature Niagara. It is possible to read by its light almost a mile away. It is the largest well ever struck, and will prove a source of great delight and benefit to the people of the East end. It is said to be equivalent in heat and light to 20,000 bushels of coal per day. The excitement over the matter is on the increase, and Mr. Westinghouse has already contracted with the Gillespie Tool Company for the drilling of two other wells. Pipes are now being laid to carry the gas some distance away, and this will entirely do away with the noise and other annoyances attendant. The gas is turned off at midnight in order to give the people in the neighborhood a chance to sleep. It is the intention of Mr. Westinghouse to leave the derrick stand and beautify it with trailing vines, and thus instead of marring it will increase the beauty of his grounds. A JUST VIEW OF EMERSON.-A. B. Alcott wrote thus of R. W. Emerson in 1837: "Emerson idealizes all things. This idealized picture is the true and real one to him; all else is nought. Even persons are thus idealized, and his interest in them and their influence over him exist no longer than this conformity appears in his imagination. Beauty, beauty-this it is that charms him. But beauty has pure and delicate tastes; and hence all that mars or displeases this sense, with however much of truth or goodness it may be associated, is of no interest to the mind. Emerson seeks the beauty of truth. With him all men and things have a beauty, but this is the result of his point of vision, and often falls wide of the actual result. To give pleasure more than to impart truth is his mission; what is beautiful in man, nature, or art, this he apprehends, and with the poet's power sets forth. His genius is high and commanding; he will do honor to his age. As a man, however, this visit has somewhat modified my former notions of him. Fame stands before him as a dazzling award, and he holds himself somewhat too proudly, nor seeks the humble and sincere regards of his race. His life has been one of opportunity, and he has sought to realize in it more of the accomplished scholar than of the perfect man. We should carry up our affections to the mansions prepared for us above, where eternity is the measure, felicity the state, angels the company, the Lamb the light, and God the inheritance and portion of His people forever.-Jeremy Taylor. WHAT we are afraid to do before men we should be afraid to think before God.—Foster. APPEAL. BY MARGARET E. SANGSTER. I plead with those whose lives are bright, for those who dwell in gloom, On whom there breaks no starry rift of hope beyond the tomb; I plead with those whose homes are fair, for those whose homes are dim ; O guide them in the way of Christ, that they may learn of Him. Borne far across blue-rounding waves, a wailing voice I hear, "Uplift us from this place of graves, alas! so vast and drear!" That call from China's crowding host blends with the Hindu's cry, "O sisters of the blessed life, come hither ere we die!" Turn eastward still; the rising sun looks down on eager bands, Sweet daughters of sea-girt Japan, who stretch imploring hands, And beg with eager hearts to-day, for Christian knowledge fain; It cannot be their earnest plea shall come to us in vain. O woman! honored of the Lord, thrice happy at His feet To lay thy clustered talents down, returning homage SUMMARY OF NEWS. considers that at present it would be premature. When FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.-Advices from Europe the shares of the subjects of Germany and the other are to the 2d inst. GREAT BRITAIN.—It is said that the Government is preparing a bill to modify the Land law of Scotland for the purpose of protecting the crofters from summary eviction. A committee appointed by a meeting of merchants engaged in the trade with the East, has obtained a legal opinion on the right of France to prevent vessels carrying munitions of war from entering the treaty ports of China. Their counsel holds that until war has been formally declared, France has no right to prevent such entrance. An earthquake shock, lasting, it is said, thirty seconds, was felt in the island of Jersey on the 26th ult. The steamship Faraday has laid the first deep-sea portion of the second Bennett-Mackay cable, connecting Ireland and the United States, and is returning to Woolwich to receive the remainder of the deepsea portion and the American shore end. The Government is hastening the departure of increased reinforcements for Egypt. It has been decided to increase the expedition for the relief of Gen. Gordon to 7000 men. Gen. Lord Wolseley has been appointed to the chief command of all the forces in Egypt, and the direction of the relief expedition to Khartoum. He hopes to reach Dongola with the latter by the 9th of Eleventh month. The Government has asked Lord Northbrook, High Commissioner to Egypt, not to extend his mission beyond the end of Tenth month. His first report is intended to be ready for presentation to Parliament during the winter session. All discussion with other Powers on Egyptian affairs will be suspended meanwhile. The Canadian Government, to which the Privy Council referred the memorial of Western ranch holders in the United States asking for freedom to export cattle to England through Čanada, has refused the request, on the ground that disease might thus be introduced into Canada and Great Britain. FRANCE. The trial of the directors and managers of the Bank of Lyons and Loire, which failed two or three years ago, was concluded last week. One director, regarded as the chief offender, an ex-Deputy and at one time Under Secretary of State, was sentenced to five years in prison, a fine of 20,000 francs, and suspension for ten years of his civil and political rights. He has fled from the country. The Manager was sentenced to five months' imprisonment and 8000 francs, fine, the sub-Manager to four months in prison and a fine of 5000 francs. The others were only fined, the amount varying from 1000 to 10,000 francs. A delegation of the Extreme Left (Radical) party has sent a letter to President Grévy pointing out that France is conducting a war without a vote of the Chambers and expending money without their sanction; demanding the convocation of the Chambers, and appealing to President Grévy's high political probity. He simply acknowledged the receipt of the letter. GERMANY. Dr. Schloezer, Prussian Minister to the Vatican, will return to his post on the 15th inst. notwithstanding the demand of the "Irreconcilables " in the Diet for the withdrawal of the Prussian Legation. Advices from Madeira received in London state that Dr. Nachtigal, the special German Commissioner for the West Coast of Africa, has annexed the coast line south of the Cameroons river as far as Battana, and has also hoisted the German flag at Malimba and at Little and Great Batanza. An international Conference to discuss matters respecting the Congo country | has been proposed, but it is said that Prince Bismarck Powers interested in settlements in that region have been better defined, he will assent to a convention on that question. He approves of the suggested Federation of the Free States of Central Africa. DENMARK.-The meeting of the Evangelical Alliance was opened at Copenhagen on the 31st inst. BELGIUM.-A great Liberal demonstration took place in Brussels on the 31st., by a procession of 90,000 perThe proceedings were quiet. The Burgomaster had previously issued an order forbidding the holding of Clerical meetings on the same day with Liberal meetings, to avoid possible collisions. sons. RUSSIA. The Czar was expected to visit Warsaw on the 6th, remaining until the 9th. Five hundred select police from St. Petersburg were sent to Warsaw to protect him during his stay. TURKEY.-The Porte has decided that the indemnity due to Russia shall have a prior claim on the revenue of the Turkish provinces. SPAIN. The clergy have commenced a demonstration in every church throughout the country, in favor of the temporal power of the Pope. The first signers of an address on the subject were the leading prelates and nobles of Spain. The incentive to the movement was a speech in the Chamber of Deputies, by the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce, in which he spoke slightingly of the restoration of the temporal power. Cholera has appeared in the city and province of Alicante, a family from Cette, France, which reached the city by way of Algiers, though subjected to a week's quarantine, having been afterward attacked by the disease. Several cases have occurred at Novelda, 16 miles west of Alicante. All the other provinces of Spain will maintain a quarantine of ten days against Alicante. ITALY.-At La Spezia, 25 deaths from cholera occurred in thirty-six hours prior to the 2nd inst. Soupkitchens have been opened, the shops are closed, and the military confined to their barracks. The official bulletin from Rome on that day announced cases and deaths in a number of places, including Genoa, Turin and Naples. EGYPT.-The latest letter. it is said, received from Gen. Gordon bears date Sixth mo. 15th, and says that Khartoum can hold out till the middle of Tenth mo. The rebels make frequent attacks on Suakim. CHINA.-Admiral Courbet is reported to have destroyed the Chinese forts on the river Min below Foo Chow. No formal declaration of war by either party has yet been announced. DOMESTIC.-The amount of public debt less cash in the Treasury was reduced $8,542,000 during last month. The bonds redeemed and canceled amounted to $7,300,000, and in the two months of the current fiscal year, to $15,500,000. Henry B. Anthony, U. S. Senator from Rhode Island, died on the 2nd inst., in his 70th year. He was the senior member of the Senate, having held his position in that body for twenty-five years. The International Electrical Exhibition at Philadel phia was formally opened on the 2nd inst. CANADA. The 54th annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science opened at Montreal on the 27th ult. Lord Rayleigh of Cambridge, Eng., President, delivered the annual address. On the following day, the various sections met for business, when a large number of papers on different subjects were read. The members were invited to attend the meeting of the American Association in Philadelphia on the 4th inst. and many of them would accept the invitation. THE Friends' Review. A RELIGIOUS, LITERARY AND MISCELLANEOUS JOURNAL. THE CHRISTIAN'S PRIVILEGE. ISSUED BY THE CENTRAL BOOK AND TRACT COMMITTEE OF FRIENDS, RICHMOND, IND. "But now being made free from sin and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life."-Rom. vi. 22. What is it that keeps the Christian from entering into the condition here described by the apostle? Why is the complaint so general on the part of the children of God, that they are not made free from sin, and that they do not bring forth fruit unto holiness? Why is it that their spiritual experience is not as growing and steadfast as it should be, that they do not realize that abiding union with Jesus, and that constant victory over sin which brings true rest to the soul? They see God commands them to be holy, that the apostles held up a sinless life as the true life of the Christian, and in their own hearts the Holy Spirit sets before them a standard, which they fall far short of attaining. They make vigorous and determined efforts to have it different; they form resolutions and cry unto the Lord, but still their souls are tossed about as on a sea of unrest, and they ask themselves, Why? The Apostle Paul answers the question when, speaking of the Israelites, he says, "And to whom Sware He that they should not enter His rest but CONTENTS. The Christian's Privilege.. Practical Lessons No. 6. Our London Letter... Hospitals for Insane Abroad Richmond Tract 81 M. H. G. 82 .... 83 ..Indianapolis Times 84 Extract from F E. Willard's Annual Address... Religious Intelligence.. 84 85 ..Ill. Christian Weekly 86 86 87 Social Problems.. Science Notes.. EDITORIAL.-Approving Letters-Moderation and Neutrality-Voting-B. S. Coppock on Dakota Indians-Piegan Indians Starving-Wm. Taylor's Transit Fund-Mebarry Medical College.. 88 DEATHS.... Ohio Yearly Meeting... Temperance Notes......... ..... 90 ........ 90 ....... 92 ..... 93 CORRESPONDENCE-Wm. Taylor's Offer-Southland College-Modoc Indians.. International Lesson. 94 Eleventh Cominandment......... .......... The Christian 94 POETRY.-Watching for the Boats-Eastward....... SUMMARY OF NEWS... ...... 95 ...... 95 96 Items ..... to them that believed not, so we see they could not enter in because of unbelief." It was unbelief, therefore, that kept the children of Israel wandering for forty years in the wilder ness, when they might at once have entered the promised land. As the redemption of the Israelites from Egypt and the crossing of the Red Sea is typical of the redemption of the sinner from his bondage to Satan, and of his new birth unto... righteousness, so is the passage of the Jordan and the entrance into the promised land, typical of the entrance of the Christian into that rest and peace he experiences when he knows an abiding union. with Jesus and a deliverance from the power of sin. Now we know that the children of Israel might have entered the promised land long before they did. It was God's plan that they should, and He led them by a short and easy journey to its very borders. They had proved His power in bringing them out of Egypt and across the Red Sea, and yet they were afraid to trust Him to lead them into the promised land. They said, there are giants in the land, and the cities are walled and very greatand so, looking at the strength of the enemy and their own weakness, they began to doubt the power of the Lord, and His promise to give them the land. Thus, through unbelief, they turned back, missed of getting their inheritance, and wandered in the wilderness for forty years. Can not we find a parallel to this in the case of many Christians? Has not God in His mercy to them through Jesus Christ, brought them "from darkness into light, and from the power of Satan unto God?" Has He not brought them to the borders of the promised land? Has He not revealed to them by His Spirit that there are higher heights and deeper depths of the love of Christ to be experienced than they have yet reached? that there is a more continuous victory to be gained over sin than they have yet known? And what does He set forth in the Scriptures as the way to enter into this blessed experience? "I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord." "He which hath begun a good work in you, will perform it." "Who gave Himself for us that He might deliver us from all iniquity." "He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him." "For this purpose the Son of God was manifested that He might destroy the works of the devil." "Faithful is He that calleth you, who also will do it." Now what is the way to get hold of this -how does this wonderful salvation become available to the Christian? By faith. It was by faith the children of Israel crossed the Red Sea, trusting in the power of the Lord to deliver them from the Egyptians. So it is by faith the sinner is converted unto God, and made accepted in the Beloved. And so again, as it was faith in God which was to take the children of Israel forward into the promised land, so it is faith in Christ which will bring the Christian into that large place his soul shall delight in. In the realization of this experience faith and consecration go hand in hand. It is as, like Caleb and Joshua, we are willing wholly to follow the Lord, that we can have faith. It is as we yield ourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and our members as instruments of righteousness unto God, that we can take this step in the dark. Let us, then, planting our foot upon one of His promises, trust Him with a real, active, living faith a faith that is ready in His strength to meet giants, to subdue kingdoms, and stop the mouths of lions. Thus yielding and thus trusting, we realize in a new and living sense, that His strength is made perfect in our weakness. We find He does give us the land, He does "perfect that which concerneth us." As the Israelites of old were commanded: "Believe in the Lord your God, so shall ye be established," so to us in this day comes the word of the apostle, "God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth." Faith is our part, the work of the Spirit is God's part. As we believe, we co-operate with the Holy Spirit which is waiting to lead us on, and thus we come to realize, in the words of the Apostle Paul, that "we which have believed do enter into rest.' Many Christians have in part realized this. They have trusted Jesus to deliver them from sins in particular, but they have failed to trust Him for the destruction of the "body of sin;" they have failed to cast themselves upon Him for the cleansing of the very center of the heart, so that not only this or that sin, or the other sin shall not overcome them, but that thus trusting, all sin is overcome for them by One who is mighty to save, and out of a pure heart flows forth good and not evil. "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all iniquity." Let us grasp this truth by faith. Believe it because God has said it-go for. ward because we believe it. Thus shall we know the obedience of faith, and shall recognize in our selves an inward purity of heart wrought by the Spirit, and realize a union with Christ that shall satisfy our souls. • N. For Friends' Review. PRACTICAL LESSONS NO. 6. The question of honesty, with which our last lesson was closed, is more generally treated in the Seventh Query, which asks: "Are Friends careful to live within the bounds of their circumstances, and to keep to moderation in their trade or business? Are they punctual to their promises, and just in the payment of their debts? and are such as give reasonable grounds for fear on these accounts, timely labored with for their preservation or recovery? The spirit of speculation-undue venturing in business, producing anxious watching for the uncertain result--is an evil from which our church seeks to guard its members. The temptation thus to seek gain, instead of working steadily along for the fair returns of labor by hand or brain, arises partly from love of excitement, but primarily from covetousness. And the very decided way in which this common and commonly excused fault is placed with gross sins in the Bible, is very striking. Even in the Mosaic law, we find "Thou shalt not covet as one of the ten commandments. In Mark vii. 22, our Saviour classes covetousness with thefts, murders, and other sins, as the evil things that come from within, and defile the man. In Luke xii. 15, he warns to "Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth." Paul spoke in the same way in Romans i. 28-32. See also Eph. v. 3, 4; Col. iii. 5; and I Tim. vi. 10. Exhortations to honesty are frequent. Read II Cor. vii. 21; II Cor. xiii. 7; and Rom. xiii, 7, 8. In the first epistle of Peter, he said: "Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts (longings for earthly indulgences) which war against the soul; Having your conversation (intercourse) honest among the Gentiles; that, whereas they speak against you as evil-doers, they may by your good works which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation." Alas! how seldom do we find a man living in the midst of his business associates as a stranger and pilgrim; diligent in business, yet also fervent in spirit, manifestly serving the Lord first, himself afterwards. And what an eloquent testimony is such a life to the reality of religion! See Rom. xii. 10-13, and II Cor. v. 14, 15. There only remains the eighth and last of these Queries, which more concerns the overseers of the congregation than the general flock, as it asks whether they are careful, in the spirit of meekness, to look after all offenders, whether the offense is in morals, or in religious views and practices: and whether, if this labor is ineffectual, the offending member is severed from the church, so as not to harm others. Our membership coming by inheritance, differently from that of most other Christian denominations, we have many on our lists who never professed either experimental religion, or belief in Friends' views: therefore disownments have occurred, where such, who never were really of us, have made their disunity manifest by decided acts. This does not bring reproach on themselves or the Church, as would be the case if they went back from what they had solemnly professed. It is right for the members of a church to watch over one another in love, and there are apostolic exhortations to submit to such help. See Hebrews xiii. 7; I Pet. v. 5. The Apostle James exhorts to "Confess your faults one to another." James v. 16. There is also authority for putting out of the church persistent offenders. I Cor. v. 11; Matt. xvii. 17. The latter verse, saying "if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as a heathen man and a publican," sounds somewhat harsh let us remember then that a heathen man merely indicates one outside of the Jews, and a publican, a Roman tax-collector; and that it was to such our Lord offered the gospel, in some cases effectually. Matthew had been himself a publican. M. H. G. OUR LONDON LETTER. A few thoughts on the supposed place of art in general, and of music in particular, in the worship of God, may be of especial interest to us. For they are the expressions of one so highly placed as Dr. Barry (the present Bishop of Sydney and Primate of Australia), and were uttered in no less a place than Westminster Abbey. After saying that the powers of art have been made, in the services of the sanctuary, to minister through the imagination to the worship of God, he continues: "So long as they only minister, we thank God for them; but we remember that they must not lead. The imagination is a good servant, but a bad master. Woe be to us if it ever usurp the leadership, which belongs to thoughtful, sober, reverent devotion! . . God forbid that our worship of God should ever become a thing to be gazed at, or listened to, with artistic interest from without, instead of being joined in with all the heart and soul. And in these days, perhaps, this thought may be carried one step further; warning us to beware lest our devotion become really dependent on these same accessories, which art so lavishly supplies. If ever we find that we care not for the worship of God, unless it be enshrined in noble architecture, or enriched by the beauty and the exciting power of music-if we cannot worship as our Christian ancestors worshipped, by the river side or in the plain upper chamber, if the prayers uttered in bare simplicity, and the praises of God sung in rough and hearty unison, wake no echo in our hearts, then be sure that all is not well with us. Our worship is of the imagination, not of the spirit. In the temple of our devotion there hangs a veil,-rich, perhaps, and beautiful,-but still a veil, between us and the presence of God, which has been opened to us by the atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ." In the Friends' Review of Fifth month roth, reference was made to the discovery of an alleged ancient text of part of the Old Testament. Dr. Harkavy, of the Imperial Library of St. Petersburg, has now communicated to the Imperial Russian Academy of Sciences the result of a careful examination of the documents. They consist at present of fifty-one rolls or pieces of parchment in various handwritings and different states of preservation. Both the ink and the vellum are of a peculiar kind; but still more so are the characters used-some of them being of a very ancient form of Hebrew, whilst others are (says Dr. Harkavy) of a form wholly unknown. Hence (if the MS. be genuine) we must conclude that it belonged to Jews who had very early separated from the parent stock, and, remaining in isolation, had gradually developed an alphabet peculiar to themselves. The professor does not consider himself competent to pronounce a definite decision as to the genuineness of the manuscript. There still remains (in his opinion) much that is very doubtful, if not suspicious, in the circumstances. For example, the sailor's story of the finding of the MS. by his late father during a fire has a somewhat romantic appearance, and looks as though it might be intentionally vague. Moreover Rhodes, the alleged scene of this discovery, is by no means an out-of-the-way place, but had an important position upon the highway of commerce. It was inhabited by Jews who were in frequent communication with the outside world. Still more strange does it seem that (according to the sailor's account) this discovery was kept secret for thirty years, and at length divulged in a foreign country (a South Russian seaport). Of the contents of the MS. little can be said at present. The most noteworthy feature is the insertion of an original elegy on the Downfall of Jerusalem by "Jacob the son of Isaac." It succeeds the Lamentations of Jeremiah, but is written in another hand and with different ink. It is in pure Hebrew rhyme, but unfortunately is for the most part quite illegible. London, Eighth mo. 21st, 1884. FAITHFUL are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. |