FRIENDS’ REVIEW. 4 Religions, iterary and ¥liscellancons Sournal, Vou. XV. ~~ EDITED BY SAMUEL RHOADS, To whom all Communications may be addressed. PUBLISHED WEEKLY, At No. 109 N. Tenth street, Philadelphia. Price, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE, Two dollars per annum, or six copies for Ten dollars. Postage on this paper, When paid quarterly or yearly in advance, 13 cents per annum in Pennsylvania, and 26 cents per annum in other States. For Friends’ Review. NOTICES OF DAVID COOPER. NO. XII. The truly pious, in all ages, have found that their way to the blessedness prepared for them through the mercy of God in Christ Jesus, was through tribulation. “ Evil shall slay the wicked.” ‘The face of the Lord is against them that do evil: but ‘The righteous ery, and the Lord heareth.”’ ‘‘ Their reward,” said Solomon, “is with the Lord, and the care of them is with the Most High.” ‘“ Many are the afflictions of the righteous,” quoth David, who spoke of what he had realized; “ but,” he im- mediately added, “the Lord delivereth him out of them all.” And how many times he was eloquent with unmeasured praises, and how the hundreds of thousands of Israel sang in chorus, and how, through an hundred generations, the races of men have echoed his oft-repeated ex- hortation, “ Praise ye the Lord.” Surely, then, the desponding Christian, though his soul be cast down and disquieted, may rejoice in the guardianship of one who ‘ shall neither slum- ber nor sleep,’’—saying, “1 shall yet praise Him, who is the health of my countenance and my God.” : “In the winter of 1780,” writes D. Cooper, ‘“T very sensibly felt the effects of the many difficulties and exercises, both inward and out- ward, with which I had met during the present convulsion of the land, some of which I have already noted, which had pressed very hardly upon me, and in some of them the enemy had been permitted to work. And now, a prospect of being stripped of all my children, by marriage, PHILADELPHIA, SIXTH MONTH 14, 1862. -jearthly enjoyment and comfort. No. 41. _ was more than I could well bear. My consti- tution was muth impaired. To lose my daugh- ters, who had tenderly cared for my weakly frame, seemed to threaten a train of difficulties with which I was till now unacquainted. In the forepart of summer, Elizabeth,* my second daughter, was married; and in the fall, my second son, Paul, and my youngest daughter, Ann.f And though they all married with my consent and among Friends, yet parting with my daughters seemed to leave me destitute of What with the buffeting of Satan, the death and poverty within me and the gloomy prospect without, I felt as if, like Jonah, I was ‘in the belly of hell:’ and that not for a week or a month, but year after year. Oh, how did the waves roll over me, and the floods cover me, and leave me without hope, in which seasons temptations were presented, the mere remembrance of which raises horror, and in much truth I can say with Jeremiah, ‘I forgot prosperity. I said m strength and my hope is perished from the Lord. Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall; my soul hath them stillia remembrance and is humbled in me. This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.’ It was truly a time wherein the loftiness of man was brought down, and the haughtiness of man laid low, and the Lord only exalted. Now appeared the inability and de- pendence of man; how poor, destitute and miserable when cast off from divine favor, which appeared to be my case. I sat in meet- ings like a dry tree, without sap or life, and as a dead weight on the life in others. Oh that it were with me as in days past ! (this was often my mournful breathing,) when my loved ones were about me, and the Lord shone upon my tabernacle! But now I was like the heath in the desert, that knew not when good came. Life seemed a load to myself, and I thought only a trouble to my friends, who used to be pleased with my company: indeed, love was so * Elizabeth Cooper was married to John, father of our late beloved friend, Josiah Tatum. + Ann Cdoper became the wife of Richard Wood.