FRIENDS’

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Great Physician.
best love to Betsy.”

A father’s tenderness, perhaps a father’s par-
tiality, is stamped upon the record he makes of
a fresh bereavement. ;

“My youngest child, William, who was fh
arms when he lost his mother, having entered
his tenth year, discovered much of her disposi-
tion, lively and active, yet sweet and obliging;
he was the darling of the whole family. He
was indeed a singular child, so careful to ob-
serve instruction, and to avoid everything he
thought wrong, that I seldom had occasion to
reprove him. ‘To please me, and to observe
everything I said to him, was so natural that
he seemed not to know he could do otherwise ;
and if I could have it for asking, I knew not
anything in his temper and disposition I could
wish altered. The dawning of his mother’s en-
dowments in such an infant mind, raised
wy expectations, and made him exceedingly
dear tome. But alas! in him I was taught
how vain to promise ourselves comfort in earth]
enjoyments. In the 10th month, 1767, whilst
I was absent from home, he was taken ill. He
often inquired for his dear father. On my re-
turn, [ found him very low, and in the evening
of the 20th he ceased to breathe. The loss of
this child, in whom I had fondly imagined his
dear mother’s excellencies were intended to be
continued to me, seemed to touch my heart as
closely as anything I had yet met with.”

The care of his five remaining children, vary-
ing in their mental traits, caused him much ex-
ercise and deep reflection, of which there are
instructive traces in his memoranda. He was
anxious to steer between austere restriction and
foolish indulgence, and to guard their innocence,
and secure their virtue, rather than to indulge
their pride or his own. ‘ With my daughters”
he says, “it was an invariable rule to know
where they were going, and though they might,
at the time, take this hardly, I believe at riper
age they have seen it in a different light, and
had cause to be thankful for the care.””

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“T know of nothing more acceptable to God,
nor more useful, instructive and strengthening
to the souls of men, than true silent worship and
waiting on God for help immediately from his
holy presence; nor of scarcely anything more
formal and lifeless than that dull, unfeeling
silence, which too many of our Society are sat-
isfying themselves with,—the year round, and
from year to year. Qh! it is the life, the life,
that is the thing ! and this is too little witnessed
or even rightly waited for by many. Some are
not content with such vocal services as God, by
his holy spirit, quickens and immediately quali-
fies for the performance of ; but are busily and
zealously doing a great deal of themselves, and
in their own puttings forth: all which brings

thee? follow thou me.”

 

them not a whit nearer to God, nor further on
in the true Christian experience and stability.
Others who see this pretty clearly to be so, are
yet sitting at ease, in a state as little profitable
to themselves as others. They see through the
emptiness of many outward performances, and
creaturely exertions; and therefore suppose
themselves much more refined and nearer the
true and spiritual worship; and yet scarcely
know anything of that burial by ‘baptism into.
death’ with Christ, and that rising with Him,
and in Him, in ‘the newness of life,’ wherein
alone true gospel worship, in spirit and in truth,
is performed. : No possible per-
formances in the oldness of the letter, and in
creaturely ability, will do. It is only in the
fresh spring of Divine life, and under its.
quickening influence, that any of our duties and
obedience finds full acceptance with God, or
advances us in substantial knowledge and good-
ness.”—Job Scott.
WAR AND CHRISTIANITY.
BY W. ROWNTREE.
(Continued from page 584.) ;

It is very common to enquire, “ What would
you do in case of invasion?” It might seem
enough to say to the individual Christian,—for
it is these that I address,—‘“‘ What is that to
John xxi. 22. It has
been said, “Duty is ours, events are God’s.”
But even in the present state of the world, how
rarely would quarrels between nations occur, if
statesmen and people showed as much anxiety to
settle their differences in the light of reason
and truth, as they do, when misunderstandings
arise, to excite feelings of irritation and distrust;
if an attempt were made to earry into practice
the golden rule of doing to others as we would
that they should do unto us. How many breaches
have been healed during the present century,
when, if differences had had to be settled by mili- _
tary law only, and by the partisans of a too often
venal press, war and bloodshed would have been
the result! Ein,

Have not we seen in the present day that
every species of misrepresentation and reproach
has been heaped on the head of a neighboring
monarch, . if it were the very object of the
writers to provoke a sanguinary war? There is

fat present a lull in the storm; how soon it may

again be lashed into fury by the unscrupulous

use of the same weapons no one can foresee ; but

so long as Englishmen allow themselves to be

duped, and their passions inflamed by hireling

and interested writers, that time is not far dis-
tant. Every feeling of irritation, of jealousy, and

revenge, was stirred up previous to the Russian

war; for it was well known that, in its sober

reason, the nation would never have engaged in

that war at all; misrepresentation of every kind
was employed, and facts were garbled and per-
verted.