38 FRIENDS’ REVIEW. reached home on the 22d, pleased that I had given up my time to advocate the cause of that oppressed people.” And well might they all be pleased and peace- ful, in having devoted a portion of their time for such an object! Let us dwell for an instant on the names composing this committee of nine, as also the New York committee of five, and we shall feel that this band of fourteen comprised a total of large mindedness, and moral and relig- ious worth, such as ought to impress the servants of the people whom they visited. Respecting David Cooper, Wm. West, (brother to B. West the painter, ) declared in Timothy Matlack’s par- lor, that he “was fit company for Princes.” And the names of all or nearly all the others are familiar to many of our readers, as princes, and great men in Israel. And such men as these abounded in our society in those days. Thanks be to the Head of the church, he has not left his name without witnesses, advocates and champions in our own times. From these and such as these, (remembering those in bonds as bound with them,) remonstrances against slavery and its attendant iniquities have fol- lowed each other through:generations, blending together in one grand monotone of protest against this stupendous crime. Truly an _illus- trious catalogue we might present, of heroic Quaker abolitionists, whose fidelity to their Father whom they had not seen, was evinced in faithful and self-sacrificing efforts for his op- pressed and outraged children, : “ of a skin not colored like their own!” yet not the less objects of that amazing love which induced the inheritor of ineffable glory “’Mid sin, and pain, and grief, and fear to move— With lingering anguish and with shame to die.” Could they have read the future, would they - have abated their testimony? Peace to their memory, “‘ they rest from their labors and their works do follow them.” They were not blind or deaf’ to “the steps of doom Along our future treading ;” and some of them in the very spirit of the olden prophets, foretold the horrors which now dismay a nation. Conspicuous among these was that beloved saint of the Lord, Stephen Grellet, who often testified against slavery, and was, on vari- ous occasions, signally prophetic of the fearful scourges which the iniquities of the people would bring upon our land. On one occasion, in the hearing of the present writer and of a number of his readers, alluding to war then raging in distant parts, he warned us not to flat- ter ourselves that it would not come nigh us :— “We shall not escape,” he continued, in an ago- ny and awfulness of exercise which agitated his whole frame,—‘‘ The sword shall devour :—I tremble as I see it in the vision.” Not many days after, ina public meeting in Burlington, he was mightily exercised in prayer that the sword (which as yet was sheathed,) might be stayed. Shall not thcse “who are alive and remain,” take up the testimony of those who have “ fought the good fight, kept the faith, and finished their course,” and, humbling themselves before the . Ruler of nations and of the universe, crave that he will restrain the remainder of wrath ? (To be continued.) ISAAC SHARP’S VISIT TO THE FAROE ISLANDS. (Continued from page 24.) 5th month 25th, First-day—A meeting in the “Thing House,” at Thorshaven, at six, about 166 persons present; it proved to be a time of heaviness, and one of the least satisfactory sea- sons we have had. 5th month 26th.—Between eight and nine this morning we left our quarters for Skallevig, on the island of Sandoe, and arrived about eleven. At half-past twelve a small meeting was held at the house of a peasant, and another at Husevig, between three and four; from this place we went on foot to Dahl, with a female as guide, the men being absent at the fishing. On calling at the house of one of the peasants we were invit- ed in, where sat the proprietor, an old man, busily employed in knitting a large vest, with four heavy needles and two balls of spun wool of different colors. The valley of Dahl, with its sandy bay, looked bright and beautiful in the evening sunlight. 5th month 27th.—A small meeting at half-past seven in the morning.