FRIENDS’

REVIEW.

S Aeligions, Xiterary and Miscellaneous Journal,

 

Vou. XVI.

PHILADELPHIA, ELEVENTH MONTH 22, 1862.

 

No, 12.

 

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

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For Friends’ Review.
NOTICES OF DAVID.COOPER.
NO. XXXV.
David Cooper to Catharine Haines.
Woodbury, 8th mo. 2d, 1789.
Dear Caty.—I received thy favor of the 18th
past, which verified thy observation that a
pleasure, next to the society of an absent friend,
is afforded by a letter from such an one. More

especially is this true with one whose hours are
often lonesome. The days of youth, however

Clouded, are consoled, as Hope at 3 breaks
through, with a possibility of better days; but

age is cut off from this comfort, each day in-
creasing the languor and gloom of decay, like a
cask with the wine nearly expended and little
but the lees of life remaining: the only hope of
age lies beyond the grave. The joys of this
world refusing commerce with the aged, they
have only to look forward and thirst after those
above. May we so guard our words and ways
during those few moments allotted us in this
scene of trial, that no retrospect may damp our
confidence in His favor who is the dispenser of
those joys. This will bear the stamp of wis-
dom. However the world may style us fools,
the time swiftly approaches that will undeceive
them. Then, all we shall have suffered here as
2 preparative, will appéar but as the drop of the
bucket, or small dust of the balance compared
with the exceeding and eternal weight of glory
revealed to the righteous. Then bear with pa-
tienee, dear Oaty, and with a truly resigned
mind, what unerring wisdom may still permit,

memoir, and his two sisters, Ann

 

knowing assuredly that all things shall work to-
gether for good-to those who love and fear
Him, =

As to my health, it is exceedingly enfeebled
within the last six months. On my return from
Philadelphia I became so weak I could hardl
walk about; am now evidently better, are
my whole frame seems relaxed. Thus my time
moves heavily on toward that hour, the touch-
stone of past conduct, and the release from
earthly sorrows. Brother James lies very low;
appears sensible, but has not spoken for some
time. He is not likely to survive many hours.

In near love to thy dear mother and self, I
remain thy affectionate uncle,

_James Cooper, his last surviving brother, here
alluded to, died on the day after the above letter
was penned; and we learn from other sourees
that he departed in a good hope, leaving to his
friends that consolation which mitigates the
pang of bereavement. He was born in First
month, 1720, and at the age of twenty-six was
married to Deborah, daughter of Richerd and
Rebecca Matlack. He was the father of ten
children, of six of whom his second wife, Mary
Jessup, was the mother,

ee “On the third of this month, about
7 o'clock P. M., my brother James departed this
life after a long sickness which came upon him
in Fourth month. A few weeks before his de-
cease he had so far recovered as to ride ont,
and was three times at meeting. He was in his
70th year. Our parents had eight children, of
whom James was the fourth. He was nearly
five years my senior. But three of us now re-
main, and my state of health admonishes me
that the final period is nigh. May it be in
peace with thee, oh mj ; then will it be a
joyful release. Amen.” Pa

The three survivors were, the subject of our
Whitall, who-
died 9th mo. 23d, 1797, in her eighty-second
year, and Hannah Cooper, who died 6th month
20th, 1804, in her 79th year. A friend who.