PRIENDS’

REVIEW.

A Religions, Witerary and Miscellaneous Journal,

 

Vou. XVI.

PHILADELPHIA, FIRST MONTH 3, 1868.

No, 18.

 

EDITED BY SAMUEL RHOADS,
To whom all Communications may be addressed.

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For Friends’ Review.
NOTICES OF DAVID COOPER.
wet. NO. XEL.
Caspar W. Haines, to David Cooper.
- Third month Ist, 1792.

Dear Uncle,—Thy truly acceptable token of
kind remembrance I duly received. It was the
more pleasing as it was entirely unlooked for,

and thy acknowledgment of my late visit far|

exceeds what I apprehend it merits: although
I believe that, however poor and destitute we
may feel, by giving up to little acts of faith we
are favored with a degree of peace and satisfac-
tion. Several times that morning thy name
came with sweetness before my mind, and in-
duced me to the visit which I am very glad I
did not put by.

My dear Hannah and I have spent a week in
Chester county, with our beloved friends, Mary
Ridgway and Jane Watson, attending Concord
Quarter and divers particular meetings in that
neighborhood. They were generally remarka-
bly close, searching, although much favored
meetings, so much so as to impress me with a
sense of the great awfulness which must attend
the least prospect of being called to so truly
weighty a service as that of the ministry. And
I am sometimes led to admire that any whose
warfare may be nearly accomplished should let
in somany discouragements asis frequently the
case. How different is your case from that of
those young and tender minds who have but
little experience, and are in some degree made
sensible of the low state of things in our So-

 

ciety, and the necessity of coming under the
oke. ak
It is indeed very comfortable and satisfactory
to recollect the friendship that has so long sub-
sisted between our families, and thy desire that
it may not be lessened meets my feeling unity.
I also join thee in thy belief respecting our dear
friend Thomas Scattergood, who, I believe, has
a large share in the hidden paths of sorrow to
tread in this city. His reward will, no doubt,
fully compensate. Oh that many more were en-
gaged to follow him, as I believe he follows
Christ.
Sister Caty will give thee family accounts,
and also send a small treatise on the use of rum
and sugar. In near and dear love, in which
Hannah and my little boys join, I am very af-
fectionately, thy nephew, Ses
Caspar W. HAINEs. —

David Cooper to Catherine Haines,
Fourth month 26th, 1792.
Dear Caty,—TI received thy affectionate letter
of the 14th, which was the more acceptable from
the enclosed account of Wm. Rotch, (whose
very name I love to hear,) as also thy kind at-
tention, so often repeated, of sending what thou
expected would amuse and please me. In my

situation, dear Caty, such instances of feeling _

regard are truly endearing, but with this alloy,
that my debts of friendship increase without th
power of making any returns, or even acknow-
ledging them as I ought. Well, dear niece, I
need not tell one who hath so often experienced
it, that virtue is its own reward : the conscious-
ness of doing good gives a sweetness and pleas-
ure which those only who have tasted can fully.
know. Therefore, though there’s no prospect
of returns, I greatly hope thou’lt not withhold
thy affectionate regard the few days I may still
have to linger here. es
It would be pleasing indeed to see both S. E.

and 8. H.* before they take their departure,
: * basa phair and _— mriot ee for

mn; in this year. e former on hi relig-
ieee visit to toca: Britain, (his sixth mt on

 

sion to that nation being undertaken in 1796.) The™
latter was wife to that devoted, intrepid and success-