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attaches to the peace principle; in the unparal-
leled circumstances in which so many thousands
of the nation’s freedmen are suddenly placed,
with such earnest need of Christian aid and
counsel, is there not presented a case in which
the Friends of every congregation might properly
meet, and confer, in the love of humanity, and
in the fear and love. of the blessed Redeemer,
whose freedmen they themselves are, if indeed
they have attained, and if the truth hath made
them free?

[Diary.] “On the 30th of 4th mo. Iset off, with
John Tatum, to Egg Harbor. Next day, (the
7th of the week,) we reached Samuel Leeds’ at
the upper end of the shore, and attended their
meeting on First-day, and in the afternoon one
appointed for us at the other end. Second-day
morning, 5th mo. Ist, at their select meeting,
their whole number being three men and four
women. Then came on their Monthly Meeting,
where there was a considerable number of solid
young Friends, especially young women. — All
these meetings were to satisfaction. I felt a
draft to go into the women’s meeting. This
was indeed a melting season not soon to be for-
gotten, Although they are in a weak, low state
in that Monthly Meeting, I thought I felt more
encouragement of a growth among them, than I
ever had before. After meeting we dined at
the widow Scull’s, where we lodged the night
before, and bad a sitting with her children and
some other young people, which was a crown to
our labor, by an uncommon covering of Divine
love. We then rode a little distance to Joseph
Mapes’ and lodged, and next day returned home,
rejoicing that we had given up to go and see our
Friends in this remote corner; though at the
expense of a long and tedious ride, which our
reward abundantly overpaid.”

We have now been contemplating David
Cooper particularly in his character as an elder ;
and by what has been and what may yet be pre-
sented it will appear that he was no neutral or
negative character, such as a late popular writer
described as ‘ valued chiefly on account of their
talent for silence;”’ but rather one of such
“living stones” as Peter described, “ built up,
a spiritual house, to offer up spiritual sacrifices
acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.” Doubt-
less there are in the present day many recipients
of like precious gifts, who, by the same simplicity
and entireness of dedication, might be instru-
mental in rescuing the church from further
schisms, and promoting its growth “into Him
ia all things which is the head, even Christ,
trom whom the whole body fitly joined together,
and compacted by that which every joint sup-
plieth, according to the effectual working of the
measure in every part, maketh increase of the
body, to the edifying of itself in love.”

 

Where judgment has wit to express it, there
is the best orator.—Penn |

 

REVIEW.

Communicated for Friends’ Review.
JOEL BEAN TO FRIENDS IN INDIANA.

On Board the ‘ Cornet,’ Pacific Ocean,
6th month, 1862. }

Dear Friends,—Our last letter to you was
from Hilo. We were there two weeks. On the
second First-day we held a meeting with the
choice little band of foreigners in that place.
The same company, or most of them, were after-
wards invited to take tea with us at T. Coan’s.
We had a sweet parting with our dear Hilo
friends. "

We were three nights on our sea-sick
schooner-passage to Honolulu, arriving there on
the 19th ult. We found it unusually sickly at
Honolulu, as well as at Lahaina and Hilo. The
bark Cornet was about to sail for San Francisco,
but being detained several days, we had an op-
portunity to attend the opening of the General
Meeting, and to make such calls as we particu-
larly desired, and by closely filling the time, we
were in readiness at the time of sailing on Sev-
enth-day the 24th. While in Honolulu I felt
drawn to pen a short farewell address to the
General Meeting,* a copy of which I feel is due
you.

‘Beloved Brethren and Sisters of the Hawaiian
Mission:

“ Having surrendered ourselves to a call which
successive years had matured and clearly de-
veloped in our hearts as our Heavenly Father’s
will, to visit these ‘Isles of the sea,’ in the love
and service of the Gospel of Christ; and having
received the approbation and full liberation of
our department of the Church in this mission,
and now having in the mercy of God been
brought to your shores, and spent nearly a year
among you, and visited many of your homes and
fields of labor, and partaken largely of your
Christian liberality and kindness; as the time
draws near for us to leave you, we tender you
our parting salutation in the love and fellowship
of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. _

‘‘ We have mingled with most of you in your
scattered and isolated homes ; we have held sweet
converse together on heavenly themes, and
around your family altars have had many pre-
cious seasons of worship and prayer, ‘sitting to-
gether in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.’ We
haze witnessed the scenes of your labors, and
the fruits of your toil; we have visited cham-
bers of sickness, and the graves of your departed
ones, and have learned in a measure the story of
your lives, and the dealings of the Lord with you;
and our hearts are bound to you in that love
which overleaps the little boundaries of sect,
and acknowledges that ‘one is our Master, even
Christ,’ and that ‘all we are brethren.’

“We would acknowledge with especial grati-_

 

*This “General Meeting” alluded to, was an an-
nual meeting of the missionaries of those Islands.