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attended the funeral of James Cooper notes:
“the meeting was very large, and favored with
Divine help. Daniel Offley and Ebenezer Miller
were largely exercised, to edification.”

[Diary.] ‘I attended -Pilesgrove Prepara-
tive Meeting on Fifth-day, 8th month 27th.
On Seventh-day was at Select Meeting at Sa-
lem, where there was an afflicting time in an-
swering the Queries, by reason of the want of
unity at Greenwich Meeting. On Second-day
I was gt Salem Monthly Meeting, in which
much harmony appeared among Friends respect-
ing the disuse of spirits. Joshua Evans was at
this meeting; he proposed going into the wo-
men’s meeting, but several Friends objected on
account of his appearance. On Third-day I re-
turned to my home, well satisfied that I had
given up to this service.

‘¢Ninth month. At our Yearly Meeting
this year, the two Quarterly Meetings of War-
rington and Fairfax were taken from our Yearly
Meeting and added to that of Maryland, and
the Quarterly Meeting on the Eastern shore of
that Government was added toours. A large com-
mittee was appointed to attend at the next
Yearly Meeting at Baltimore. An address to
President Washington was agreed upon, and
another to Congress, on account of slavery, and
separate committees to deliver them. On each
of these three committees I was appointed.

“On the 12th of 10th month, I set off with
daughter Martha and my niece Katy Haines for
New York, &. The address to the President
was delivered on the 13th. We staid there till
the 19th, on which day we returned to Rahway.
On the 20th Samuel Emlen, (who came with us
from N. York,) went with me in the forenoon to
call upon Governor Livingstone, who received
us very respectfully. In the afternoon attended
Select Meeting, and next day (fourth of the
week) went with Friends to their Monthly
Meeting at Plainfield. Nextday we returned to
Stony Brook, where we remained till Second-
day the 26th, and then returned to Samuel Al-
linson’s. "We were two weeks from home, and
had pleasant weather and an agreeable journey.”

From the excellent Wm. Livingstone, Gov-
ernor of New Jersey, such a man as David
Cooper, intelligent, Christian gentleman as he
was, would be certain to meet respectful regard.
Between him and D. C.’s son-in-law, Samuel Al-
linson, a cordial friendship subsisted, and an in-
teresting correspondence between them lies on
the table before us, in which Livingstone
evinces a just appreciation of S. A. and of his
Quaker associates, and correct Christian views
respecting slavery as a great moral and political
evil. Anthony Benezet, David Cooper, and
Samuel Allinson found in him a ready listener,
and, could a stroke of the Gubernatorial pen
have expurgated the Statute book, these Friends
and other patriotic philanthropists would have
had occasion to raise peeans of thanksgiving that

 

New Jersey had rendered justice to the African
as well as to the Indian.

Our readers will understand that the Samuel
Emlen mentioned above, was the elder S.-H.
who was a minister of extraordinary gifts, and
of whom many. memorable traditions are sti
cherished. From Elizabeth Town to Stay
Brook he rode in D. Cooper’s wagon, delighting
the interesting little party with his spiritual and
most instructive conversation. Among other
themes, they conversed about that faithful am-
bassador for Christ, John Woolman, his holy
life; and the acts of singularity and self-denial
by which he bore his testimony against the pride
and degeneracy of his generation. Samuel
Emlen read to them a letter from a young wo-
man in England, who spoke of him as a “ heaven-
ly minded man.” And the choice little band
of pilgrims in that homely Jersey wagon, as they
were sometimes drawn along through deep and
heavy sand, and sometimes jolted over ruts aud
ridges and rough cross-ways, ignored fatigue
whilst they happily illustrated Cowper’s lines :
“‘ Conversation, choose what theme we may,

But chiefly when Religion leads the way,

Should flow like water after Summer showers,
Not as if raised by mere mechanic powers.”

These four precious souls,—in a double sense
“homeward bound,” all loved the appearing of
their Lord, and we cannot doubt that from him
they received “right to the tree of life,” and
that they found a place prepared when they
were favored to “enter through the gate into
the city.”

We find in the diary this note, made in
Eleventh month, 1789: “I may remark that in
the forepart of this year I perceived in my left
hand and arm a tremor or shaking palsy, which,
toward spring, increased fast. My friends were
concerned, and pressed me much to use remedial —
means. Some little matters I did, but wasmost —
easy not to tamper much with it. Considering’ —
my age, I am not likely to be here long, but |
regard it a great favor that I have the full use
of my right arm, so as to write.’ The chirog-
raphy of the above mémorandum gives no evi-
dence of tremor. et

On Fourth-day, Twelfth month 5th, D. Cooper
attended the first week-day meeting held at
Cropwell, where he very weightily revived our
Lord’s words: ‘ Blessed are the poor in spirit;
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed
are they that mourn ; for they shall be comfort-
ed. Blessed are the meek, for they shall in-
herit the earth. Blessed are they which do
hunger and thirst after righteousness, for tl
ant be filled.” “Strive,” he added, “to be
of the number of the in spirit, and righ:
hunger and thirst site dihicamenaes | . "

[Diary.] Third month 10th, 1790, I joined
John Hunt, Elizabeth Collins and Grace R 1,
in a visit to the families of Friends, at Mullica
Hill, within the compass of Upper Greenwich