"Blessed be the Lord who daily loadeth us with benefits." "The rich and the poor meet together." Standing in front of the statue, and looking round, one sees not a few other monuments of the bounty of the family, or as they would prefer to say, the bounty of God to the family. In front are two spacious almshouses, built and endowed by two of the brothers, providing a quiet home and a comfortable maintenance in separate apartments to a considerable number of deserving poor. To the right a beautiful orphanage has just been finished, for the reception and upbringing of orphan children. To the left some ranges of workmen's dwelling houses may be seen, the building of which has been promoted by the gentleman who has reared the orphanage. This, we hope, is to be followed up by other plans for the special benefit of the hands, through whose aid the vast wealth of the family has been realized. Benefactions to schools, chapels, infirmaries and other institutions could hardly be counted. And all this has been accomplished, we understand, by the application of a principle whose wonderful power many have hardly begun to dream of. We mean the principle of systematic beneficence of regularly allotting a certain portion of one's income to be expended on objects of religion and charity. Had it not been for this, these gentlemen might have contented themselves with a few ordinary benefactions while living, intending to leave large sums for pious and charitable objects at their death. In this case they would have missed the priceless pleasure of seeing the good done by their gifts; they would have lost the benefit of the principle of insurance, under which they have acted; their benefactions would, in all likelihood, have been much smaller in amount; and, most important of all, they would have been deprived of the inestimable advantage of systematic training in the feelings, and duties, and habits of stewardship; in the holy art of recognizing the Giver in all His gifts, and bearing in mind the awful responsibility of those to whom God has committed much, and of whom He will ask the more.-Sunday Magazine. PECULIARITIES OF FOREIGN TRAVEL. In England there is no checking of baggage, and unless you see that your trunks are properly marked and put into the baggage car, you are not at all sure that they will go through; nor even then are you sure of finding them when you arrive at your destination. In France each passenger is allowed fifty-six pounds, but on most of the roads for every ten pounds excess above that you are taxed thirty-five cents. If you have eleven pounds excess you must pay seventy cents. In Italy you must pay for all! It baggage except that taken in the hand. costs about one-half a fare to take a commonsized trunk through Italy-that is the first cost. Then comes the secondary expenses; every porter expects a fee. A coachman does not descend from his box to lift your trunk; it is not his business to handle trunks, but a porter is ready at the station door to take it from the coach to the car, for which service he will expect a half-franc. The man who weighs it will ask for a trifle; the clerk who registers it will not give you the baggage-ticket till you have placed a fee in his haud; the man who puts it into the car will politely tonch his hat and ask you to remember him. Arriving at your next stopping-place, the porter who takes it from the car and carries it to the coach will ask for a half-franc; the coachman will tell you that baggage is extra and will ask for a trifle that he may drink your honor's health; the porter at the hotel will make a similar request, and so on at every halting.place But worse than this leeching of the pocket is the bother of getting it registered at every station. First, you must purchase your passage ticket, then you make your way to the baggageroom to find three or four hundred other persons, pushing, crowding, treading on each other's toes-all shouting to the baggage men. It is an unintelligible jargon--Italian, German, French, English, and Spanish. There is al ways a crowd at the one little pigeon-hole where you present your passage ticket, for that must be done before you can have your baggage registered. You are enveloped in an atmosphere of garlic and other nameless and indescribable unsavory smells which arise from the unwashed of Europe. In many of the stations there is no order or method, and each passenger does what is right in his own eyes, and the strongest and most adroit is the most successful. Your baggage must be registered ten minutes before the departure of the train, and not unfrequently passengers have the mortification and vexation of seeing a train depart, leaving themselves and baggage behind. Those who intend making a rapid tour need but little baggage. A gentleman will need only a small carpet-sack. A merchant going from Boston to Chicago, and other western cities, on business, who intends to be gone six or eight weeks even, does not trouble himself with a trunk-but such a trip is quite as extended as that taken by most European travelers. Distances are short bere, when compared with those in America. Thin clothing will not be wanted. One good business suit will suffice for all places, and should any one need new clothing it may be obtained ready made in all the cities and large towns of Europe. A lady needs a travelling-dress of some stout, serviceable material-linsey or winsey, proof| against mud and water-also, one black alpacca, or silk, and, perhaps, one other dress. Underclothing of every desciption can be readily obtained, ready made or to order, at cheaper rates than in America, and it is much better to purchase an article when it is needed, than to pay the high transportation that is charged by railway companies. For outward wear, a cloth or black silk sack, a breakfast shawl, a blanket shawl, stout, thick soled walking shoes, will give an outfit sufficient for a journey through Eu rope. Unless Hotels. In a European hotel you may engage a room costing from fifty cents to two dollars per day, and eat what you please, in the house or out of it. But your bill, when presented, will have numerous items-twenty-five or fifty cents a day for service -- also items for fire, lights, boots, etc. In France, and on the continent. this minute division of the account is carried to the end, and the aggregate, to a traveller who has not learned the ways of continental hotel-keepers, is sometimes quite startling. The hotels of England do not compare with those of the United States for convenience or comfort. Very few of them have hot water in the chambers. If you wish for a bath, you may take it in your own room in a great, shallow, tin-pan. A person can be pretty comfort persons tarry long in one place they do not get into "society," and extra dresses for the drawing-room are not needed. One small trunk will suffice for a gentleman and lady making the tour of Europe, and if Switzer-able in an English hotel, but at an expense land only is to be visited, two carpet-bags will quite as great as in Boston. contain all that will be needed. Most persons who bring large trunks from America, leave them in Paris, and travel with the smallest possible amount of luggage. A person stopping long in London will find. it advantageous to take furuished apartments, purchase his own provisions, and employ his landlady to cook. A large proportion of the tradesmen of London live after that manner and are called lodgers, and it is proposed by the Liberals that they shall not be left out of the forthcoming reform bill. In Paris, and all over Europe, this is a common mode of life, and a party stopping a month in a city will find it much cheaper than boarding at a hotel. Money.-There are several ways of obtaining funds. The most commonly adopted is the deposit of securities with a Boston or New York banking house who give letters of credit on London and Paris; or, instead of this, one may bring United States 5 20 bonds, which are readily purchased, at their market value, in London, Paris, and nearly all the large European towns. They are not quite so readily dis- In Europe very few people travel in first class posed of in Italy as in other sections, but many cars. Men and women high in society, who travellers take them instead of circular notes care to be economical, take the second-class cars Bank of England notes are very convenient in of England. The second-class here are about Paris. French gold-ten and twenty franc three and a half cents per mile. The first-class pieces-is current everywhere on the continent is one-third dearer. Hotel bills will be high or -more so than English sovereigns. Some bank-low, according to the taste of the individual. ers issue what are called circular notes, which Three dollars per day in gold, while travelling, can be used as bills of exchange, and which is sufficient to give all necessary comforts. In not unfrequently command a premium. Most addition, there are the small fees to those who travellers prefer general letters of credit, avail-show you the grand sights, those who have the able everywhere. A person entering France will find a new but convenient system of coinage-immeasurably superior to that of England. The coin consists of centimes and francs. One hundred centimes make twenty sous, or one franc, equivolent to twenty cents United States coin; five centimes make one cent American money. The gold coin in general use are five, ten, and twenty franc pieces. Of silver coins, there are one-franc, half franc, (ten cents,) one fourth franc, (five cents.) Travellers will find it advantageous to have a good supply of small coins, for cabmen and porters. Those who intend to land in England will do well to take a few 80vereigas from America, to be used before reaching London. Those landing in France will find a few francs desirable, for railway fare and general expenses. Other than this, they can rely upon their general letters of credit. keys of the church doors, and the attendants at museums. A thousand dollars in gold will enable a person to see a great deal on this side of the Atlantic, not only the great exhibition, but to take a journey through England, Switzerland, and Germany. Rapid travelling is more expensive than that taken leisurely.- Western Christian Advocate. "Thou art my portion, O Lord!" Behold here the test of rectitude, of happiness, of a Christian. ERRATA. In "Friends amongst the Freedmen, No. vII.," page 139 of last week's Intelligencer, tenth line from the bottom of said article, for personal intimacy" read And on page 138, in the fifth line from the bottom, "personal interviews with the Freedmen," &c. "referring the guests," &c., should read "referring the querists to some of my pupils," &c. 6 days. 2 the 24 hours, Rain all or nearly all day,. Snow, including very slight| falls......... Cloudy, without storms,...... Clear, as ordinarily accepted TEMPERATURE, RAIN, DEATHS, &C. 1866. 1867. 66 deg. 54.12 deg. แ 80.00 38.00 "L 1.81 in. Mean temperature of 4th month per Penna. Hospital, 56.00 Highest do. during month 81.50 do. Lowest do. do. 37.50 Rain during the month,...... 2.93 in. Deaths during the month. being for 4 current weeks แ 1088 Although the temperature exceeded the average by nearly three degrees, the month just closed received but little credit for being a pleasant one. On the 24th we recorded here a few flakes of snow, but in other sections of the country a considerable quantity fell. At Bedford, Pennsylvania, they had four inches while more or less of it visited nearly every point along the line from Philadelphia to Pittsburg. The deaths appear to have been 54 greater than last year, and the rain one inch and an eighth less. Philadelphia, Fifth mo. 2d, 1867. ITEMS. J. M. E. The number of exbibitors at the Paris Exposition has been counted and found to be 42,247, of whom, about one-fourth are French; 3069 English, and less than one thousand Americans. Tue Commissioners having charge of the Exhibition have insured the building for $1,500,000 in Paris companies. As the Exhibition itself was at last accounts getting into something like order, there is a better feeling in Paris about it; but still the number of visitors is Lot near what was anticipated, high prices have deterred thousands from visititing Paris. Spain continues in an unfortunate condition being continually on the brink of a popular revolution. Letters from Spain state that the present Spanish government feels that its le tee of power is near an end. The Queen is said to have begun negotiations for the sale of her landed es'ates, and has besides sent the greater part of her jewels and personal valuables into France and England. The recent improvements in the transmission of news, by the completion of the cable, has placed China within one month of London. News is transmitted by telegraph from London to San Francisco, and thence by steamer to Hong Kong. China now can receive advices in a month from all portions of the civilized globe. THE ATLANTIC CABLE.-Large as its receipts have been, however, it is said that the company estimates that it has already lost fully $150,000 from the miserable condition of the lines across Newfoundland, which, by constantly getting out of order, have caused the public most vexatious delays. The Cable Company, to remedy this, are manufacturing another submarine cable, to connect the end of the oceanic cable at Heart's Content with the Provincial and American lines at Sydney, Cape Breton and Port Hood. This will be done by running a land line about 63 miles down the coast from Heart's Content to Placentia, along a good road, with every facility for construction and repair, and thence by submarine cable to Sydney, touching at the Island of St. Pierre, a small French fishing station, to which, in all probability, a French trans-oceanic line will hereafter run. From Sydney to Port Hood the Provincial lines will connect, and thence the Western Union Company will bring it to New York. Thus will be avoided the dreary wastes of Newfoundland, and the whole telegraphic line, which has now become a daily necessity to the commerce of England and America, will be thoroughly protected.-Ledger. Two things are noticeable in the third semi-annual report on schools for freedmen by the Rev. J. W. Alvord, general superintendent under the Bureauthe quite exceptional mention of disturbances once so common in almost every school district, and the increased participation of the freedmen in the support of their schools. The report extends only to January 1, and proves that a marked change had already been wrought in the conduct of the Southern people towards the teachers, and their work before the reconstruction bills had been passed and a miliand since the intelligence and political power seemed tary police appointed to preserve order. Since then, both about to lodge in the hands of the blacks, what school-house has been burned or teacher' maltreated? We have heard of none. The freedmen, at least, are not afraid to invest their savings in this Alvord, "623 schools sustained wholly, or in part, lately precarious property. "There are," says Mr. by the freedmen, and 286 of the buildings in which these schools are taught are owned by themselves." Another interesting fact: "15,248 colored pupils pay tuition, the amount of which per month is $11.377.93" (about the cost per capita in Massachusetts); "and these self-supporting pupils are mainly from the recently emancipated population. Only 2,302 of all the above (77,998) pupils, as reported, were free before the war."-Nation. Gen. Sheridan, under the military bill, has appointed a colored man one of the registrators of voters in New Orleans. The colored appointee is said to have passed the meridian of life and to be a man of excellent character. He has been for many years a commission broker in New O.leans-baving been a freedman before the war. In Delaware a Freedmen's Educational Society has been formed, and six schools were expected to be started last month. One of the schools was to be in Wi'mington and another a Odessa or Middletown. Of the location of the other teachers we have not been informed. An Association for the Prevention of Cruelty to Anim ls was organized in Philadelphia on the 6th inst. FRIENDS' INTELLIGENCER. "TAKE FAST HOLD OF INSTRUCTION; LET HER NOT GO; KEEP HER; FOR SHE IS THY LIFE." Open from 9 A.M. until 5 P.M. Residence, 809 North Seventeenth Street. TERMS:-PAYABLE IN ADVANCE The Paper is issued every Seventh-day, at Three Dollars per annum. $2.50 for Clubs; or, four copies for $10. Agents for Clubs will be expected to pay for the entire Club. The Postage on this paper, paid in advance at the office where It is received, in any part of the United States, is 20 cents a year. AGENTS-Joseph S. Cohu, New York. Henry Haydock, Brooklyn, N. Y. Benj. Stratton, Richmond, Ind. William H. Churchman, Indianapolis, Ind. James Baynes, Ballimore, Md. Night and Sleep.. Review of the Life and Discourses of F. W. Robertson....... 161 163 165 166 ..... 167 167 REVIEW OF THE LIFE AND DISCOURSES OF expression, limited in its application, meaning F. W. ROBERTSON. BY S. M. JANNEY. Continued from page 148. In several of Robertson's discourses, he for cibly states the great and leading purpose of the Messiah's mission, which was to bear witness to the truth," in accordance with his own memorable declaration. "To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice." John xviii. 37. This text is illustrated in a sermon entitled "The kingdom of Truth." often nothing more than a theological creed, or a few dogmas of a creed, which this or that party have agreed to call "the truth." It would indeed fritter down the majesty of the Redeemer's life, to say that he was a witness for the truth of any number of theological dogmas. Himself, His life, was a witness to Truth in the sense of reality. The realities of life-the realities of the universe-to these his every act and word bore testimony." This view of the subject, though it embraces a truth, does not reach the depth of meaning attached to the wold in the writings of our early Friends, when they speak of persons being "convinced of the Truth," or coming under the power of "the blessed Truth." In presenting selections, which I deem instructive, from the discourses of Robertson, I wish it to be distinctly understood that I do not The Truth, to which Jesus came to bear witconcur in all the doctrines contained in his ness, was that Eternal Word, or Divine principublished works. It could not be expected that ple in man, which comes from God and leads any one educated as he was, should be imbued to Him. It was in this sense he used the term with the doctrine of Friends, and it is only re- when, in prayer for his disciples, he said, markable that on many points of practical im-"Sanctify them through thy truth, thy word is portance he should hold views so nearly in accord-truth." And moreover, he said, “I am the ance with ours. way, and the truth, and the life.' He came In his exposition of the text above cited, the to manifest the Truth, the Eternal Word meaning be attaches to the word Truth, is not which dwelt in him in fulness. "Of his fulentirely satisfactory, although many of the re-ness have all we received" and "unto every marks and illustrations that follow are deeply one of us is given grace according to the measinteresting. "Truth," he says, "is used here ure of the gift of Christ." in a sense equivalent to reality, "-for "truth," substitutes reality, and it will become more intelligible. For the truth" is an ambiguous It is observed by Robertson, concerning the Messiah, "When it is said, that He was a witness to the Truth, it is implied that His very being here, manifested to the world Divine you." Prove that-by force, by authority, by realities. Human nature is but meant to be a argument-you cannot. It suffices that a man witness to the Divine; the true humanity is a manifestation, or reflection of God. And that is Divine humanity in which the humanity is a perfect representation of the Divine. "We behold," says the apostle, "in Christ as in a glass, the glory of the Lord." And to borrow and carry on the metaphor, the difference between Christ and other men is this: "they are imperfect reflections, He a perfect one of God." "In one alone has the Divine been so blended with the human, that, as the ocean mirrors every star, and every tint of blue upon the sky, so was the earthly life of Christ the life of God on earth." reply, "It is not so to me: it is more blessed to receive than it is to give." You have no reply: if he be not of the truth, you cannot make him hear Christ's voice. The truth of Christ is true to the unselfish-a falsehood to the selfish. They that are of the truth, like Him, hear His voice: and if you ask the Christian's proof of the truth of such things, he has no other than this, It is true to me, as any other intuitive truth is true; equals are equal, because my mind is so constituted that they seem so perforce. Purity is good, because my heart is so made that it feels it to be good. Brother men, the truer you are, the humbler, "Now observe that the perfection of human- the nobler, the more will you feel Christ to be ity consists in faithful imitation of, or witness your King. You may be very little able to borne to, the mind and life of God." Whoever prove the King's Divine genealogy, or to apprehas studied and understood the life of Christ, ciate those claims to your allegiance which will have remarked, not without surprise, that arise out of His Eternal generation; but He the whole principle of His existence was the will be your Sovereigu and your Lord by that habit of unceasing imitation. Listen to a few affinity of character which compels you to acinstances of this: knowledge His words and life to be Divine. "The Son can do nothing of Himself, but" He that receiveth his testimony, hath set to that which he seeth the Father do." "The words his seal that God is true." which I speak, I speak not of myself, but the Father which is with me, He doeth the works." Do we remember the strange and startling principle on which He defends his infraction of the literal legal Sabbath? "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work." God the Father works all the Sabbath day. So may man, His Son." This was the Saviour's title to be a King; and His Kingdom formed itself upon this law: "Every one that is of the Truth heareth my voice;" that Eternal Law which makes Truth assimilate all that is congenial to itself. Truth is like life whatever lives absorbs into itself all that is congenial. The leaf that trembles in the wind assimilates the light of heaven to make its color and the sap of the parent steminnumerable influences from heaven, and earth, and air, to make up its beautiful being. So grew the Church of Christ; round Him as a centre, attracted by the truth, all that had in it harmony with His Divine life and words grew to Him (by gradual accretions); clung to Him as the iron to the magnet. All that were of His Spirit believed; all that had in them the spirit of sacrifice were attracted to His Cross. "I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men unto me." He is qualified to be the subject of the king who does the truth. Christianity joins two things inseparably together-acting truly, and perceiving truly. Every day the eternal nature of that principle becomes more certain. If any man will do His will, he shall know of the doctrine whether it be of God. It is a perilous thing to separate feeling from acting; to have learnt to feel rightly withont acting rightly. It is a danger to which, in a refined and polished age, we are peculiarly exposed. The romance, the poem, and the sermon, teach us how to feel. Our feelings are delicately correct. But the danger is this: feeling is given to lead to action; if feeling be suffered to awake without passing into duty, the character becomes untrue. When the emer gency for real action comes, the feeling is, as usual, produced: but, accustomed as it is to rise in fictitious circumstances without action, neither will it lead on to action in the real ones. "We pity wretchedness, and shun the wretched." We utter sentiments just, honorable, refined, lofty,-but, somehow, when a truth presents itself in the shape of a duty, we are unable to perform it. It has been often remarked that there is a great difference between theological and scienHe taught not by elaborate trains of argu. tific controversy. Theologians are proverbially ment, like a scribe or philosopher. He uttered vituperative: because it is a question of veracity His truths rather as detached intuitions, recog--the truth of their views, their moral percepnized by intuition, to be judged only by being tions, their intellectual acumen. There exists felt. For instance-"Blessed are the pure in no test but argument on which they can fall heart for they shall see God."-"It is more back. If argument fails, all fails. But the blessed to give than to receive." "Blessed are man of science stands calmly on the facts of ye when men shall revile you, and persecute the universe- He is based upon reality. All |