Unitarians and the Society of Friends." In the full of immortality. But of all worldly blesscourse of his remarks he says that "the selec-ings, an honest reputation is to many the most tion of the object of this unity of faith' has precious, and he who robs another of it is among not been such as to afford much encouragement the worst persecutors. The denial of our Christo the liberal spirited and kind-hearted projec- tian character by fallible and imperfect men, tors. A Hicksite union was suggested, but this gives us no uneasiness, so far as regards our reproposition was coldly received by the Society lation to the Divine Mind. This cannot be dishere, and promptly repudiated by the Hicksites solved by the breath of man, but it is astonishin America." ing to us with what assumption our fellow professors anathematize us because of a difference in opinion in some of the most subtle and difficult subjects of theology. Both Scripture and reason teach that the only standard of character is the life.

teacher of elocution well qualified to impart instruction in schools or to private classes.

AN APPEAL FOR THE INDIANS.-The deep interest felt by many in the welfare of the Indians, induces us to give publicity to a portion of a letter recently received by a Friend in this city from Benjamin Hallowell, Secretary of the Indian Committee of Baltimore Yearly Meeting. He says,

MARRIED, on Fourth-day evening, First mo. 15th, 1868, under the care of the Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia, HENRY S. KIRBY, son of Robert and Maria Kirby, members of Upper Springfield Monthly Meeting, N. J., and MARY H., daughter of Joseph B. and Sarah B. Conrow, members of the first named Meeting. Twelfth month, 1867, JONATHAN, son of Win. Binford, to ANNA, daughter of Nathan D. and Mary Wilson.

at Fairmount Meeting, Ind., on the 25th of

at his late residence, (John B. Bartram's,) Darby, Pa., on the 7th of First month, 1868, SAMUEL BUNTING, in his 85th year.

DIED, on the evening of 16th of First month, 1868, in the 63d year of her age, MARY D., wife of Benja"Bishop Whipple, of Minne-min Borden, of Norristown, Pa. sota, who delivered an interesting address in relation to the Indians, at our meeting-house in Baltimore, during the week of our late Yearly Meeting, and who has been for many years the devoted friend and advocate of the Red Man, writes to me, under recent date:

"I am feeling deep anxiety about the removal of the Chippewas of Mille Lacks, Wis., of which I wrote to you in a former letter." This compulsory, unexpected and hasty removal of these Indians, to a new and distant location, just at the commencement of a severe winter, is the infliction of a very oppressive hardship upon them, and will render them extremely destitute in the spring of all kinds of seeds with which to commence gardening operations in their new home, and to raise things for their families to subsist upon. He says, therefore, that if the Friends whom he has always found ready to lend an attentive ear to the cry of suffering humanity, and the only people he has known who never failed to respond to the demands of the wronged Red Man, would send some boxes containing garden seeds, of any or all kinds, pumpkin seeds, of a hardy variety, &c. &c, it will be the means of affording great relief to these people. Blankets will be gratefully received."

Those disposed to respond to this call may send their contributions of seeds, blankets, or money to purchase blankets, to B. Dorsey & Sons, No. 923 Market street, Philada.

A continuation of a "Review" of "Among the Indians," by S. M. J., came to hand too late for present number. It will appear in our next issue.

ERRATA. In the article "Friends amongst the Freedmen," of last week, by a typographical error, the extract from letter of Sarah M. Ely locates the town of Langley as "ten" miles from Lewinsville. This should read two miles.

on the 8th of First month, 1868, CHARLES, son of Joseph S. Hance, in his 24th year; a member of the Monthly Meeting of Friends held at Green St., Philadelphia.

on the 8th of First month, 1868, at Pensacola, Florida, HANNAH T., wife of Frederick Robinson, and daughter of Townsend and the late Hannah K. Hilliard; a member of the Monthly Meeting of Friends held at Green Street.

infant daughter of S. Fisher and Caroline A. Corlies; members of Philadelpia hMonthly Meeting of

on the morning of the 13th inst., FLORENCE,

Friends.

, on the morning of First month 17th, 1868, JOHN SAUNDERS, JR., in his 23d year, son of Sarah and the late Macpherson Saunders; a member of the Monthly Meeting of Friends held at Green Street, Philadelphia.

on the evening of First month 19th, MARTHA, wife of Samuel Thomas, in her 70th year; a member of the Monthly Meeting of Friends held at Green St., Philadelphia.

A. GOVETT, in his 71st year; a member of Philadel on the evening of First month 20th, ROBERT phia Monthly Meeting of Friends.

-, on the morning of First month 20th, at the residence of her nephew Henry B. Fussell, West Philadelphia, MARY LUKENS, in her 83d year.

on the morning of the 25th ult., SAMUEL PARRY, aged 59 years; an Elder of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting of Friends.

MOTT, in his 80th year; an Elder of Philadelphia
Monthly Meeting of Friends.

on the 26th inst., in Brooklyn, N. Y., JAMES

FRIENDS' PUBLICATION ASSOCIATION. The undersigned acknowledges the receipt of $15 from Friends at Macedon and Farmington, N. Y., through Geo. O. Fritts.

Jos. M. TRUMAN, JR., Treasurer,
717 Willow St., Philadelphia.

An adjourned Meeting of the Conference of Friends
for the purpose of providing a Meeting-House for the
Indulged Meeting under the care of Green Street
Monthly Meeting, will be held at Hall, No. 1914
Coates Street, on First-day, 2d proximo, at 3 o'clock,
P. M.
JAMES GASKILL, Clerk.

PRAYER.

Strive to preserve a praying mind through the day; not only at the usual and stated periods, but everywhere, and at all times, and in all companies. This is your preservative against error, weakness and sin.

Always remember you are in the midst of temptations; and never more so, than when

most pleased with outward objects and inter

course.

Pray and watch; for if the spirit be willing, yet the flesh is weak.

THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS.
No. 5.

INTERCOURSE BETWEEN OLD AND YOUNG.

forms and peculiarities which are repulsive to them, and yet involve no essential principle, or who unreasonably restrain them in the enjoyment of youthful pleasures and amusements, abuse their authority; and the penalty is apt to be the loss of it. Though we as a people have doubtless improved much in this respect within a few years past, is there not yet in many places too much of what is called strict

It is a subject of constant regret as to many of our smaller meetings, that the young, es pecially, so seldom attend, and take so little in-ness on the part of some Friends? The effect terest in them. We have been accustomed for years to lament this state of things, with scarcely a thought as to whether there may not be some fault on the part of those who are older as well, and as if to lament it, and to make appeals to those delinquents was all that we could possibly do. May we not take a more rational view of this subject, and derive some instruc-actions. tion from following out the thoughts which it suggests?

It is of course impossible that any society or organization can continue to exist if there be not a succession of young persons to take the place of those who are annually removed by death. We have for the most part ceased to add, or to attempt to add to our numbers by proselyting or conversion; and now to hold fast at least upon our children, to whom we assign a birthright membership, is to us a vital necessity, if we would continue to hold up our stand ard, for their good, and for the sake of what we regard as truth.

of parents and elderly persons maintaining habits of this kind is to produce estrangement on the part of children and young persons, who cannot harmonize with anything so antagonistic to their own social and sprightly natures. In the past, many families of children have been wholly driven off from us by over-rigid ex

It is by making concessions to the young in all proper cases, and equalizing ourselves with them, and guarding against unnecessary restrictions, that we alone can preserve that intimate and confidential relation with, and influence over them, that is alike necessary for their good and ours. To grant them occasional indulgence even in things that we cannot wholly approve, tends to blunt the edge of curiosity, and prevents the growth of a morbid longing that may end in stealth and prevarication, or open disobedience.

Evil tendencies in young persons are best checked, not by blunt refusals, or peremptory commands, but by being young with them, sharing their harmless pleasures, and gently carrying them along, and diverting their attention to nobler objects.

May there not be some cause for that want of interest in our meetings, and in our Society, which seems to prevail so generally on the part of the young in many places? We are, in some respects a peculiar people. So far as we But it is not only in the purely social relamay be peculiar by reason of the intrinsic ex- tion that we often fail in our duty to our youthcellency of our principles, our good works, and ful companions, and make ourselves responsible the integrity and purity of our lives, it is well; in part at least for their want of interest. We, but beyond this, in view of our relations with as a Society, make religion too rigid and gloomy and dependence upon the rising generation, a thing for their sprightly natures. They have peculiarities are dangerous things. There is, on the part of the young, an instinctive aversion to anything that may make them appear odd, or that imposes undue restraints upon their youthful pleasures and enjoyments. Gayety and hilarity are to them natural, and therefore cannot be sinful. They naturally look for guidance in the first instance to their parents, and those who have the care of them, in whose hands they are, under judicious treatment, much as clay in the hands of the potter; but they have minds of their own, and must socner or later act for themselves, and, except in extreme youth, it is only gentle guidance that they re quire, rather than subjection to the will of older persons, which, besides often defeating its own object, prevents the formation of habits of discrimination and self-reliance.

Parents who attempt unduly to urge or en force upon their children a compliance with

to attain a certain advanced stage of gravity and seriousness rarely reached much short of middle age before they can feel free to take part in our business meetings, or are ever expected to do so. And this excessive gravity extends to the ways and manners and sentiments of the more strict of our elderly Friends, rendering them uncompanionable to the young, and by which the healthful influence of each upon the other is greatly impaired.

There cannot be in true and rational religion anything incompatible with the qualities and mental characteristics which the divine hand has assigned to youth, or with the maintenance of a medium ground upon which old and young may meet each other half way, and move together hand in hand, upon familiar and equal terms. This is obviously the true and proper relation of the one to the other. The desires and inclinations of the young will seldom run

A writer over the signature of R., in the Intelligencer of First month 18th, takes exception to the views that have been presented in these communications, and does not appear to be able to see any good, but only evil in them. It may be so. The writer can only claim sincerity of purpose, leaving others to judge of his efforts, and will not engage in any controversy. Though our views may be different on many points, may we not still labor together for the same end, in love and harmony, having charity, forbearance and toleration one toward another. No one is responsible for the views that have been or may be presented but the writer, and this it is desired may be particularly understood as to the editors, who, by their liberality in admitting these articles, are not to be understood as thereby endorsing all the sentiments they may contain. Would not a more general expression of views in this way be greatly advantageous? The writer had hoped ere this, further to have heard from P., whose valuable article appeared in the Intelligencer of Tenth month 19th, 1867. T. H. S.

to extremes, or induce them to discard paternal | tiful, picturesque villages in the valleys and on precepts and example, unless parents take the the slopes of the mountains and on the heights, opposite extreme by maintaining an antiquated with their churches, gave a perpetual human and uncongenial manner. It is for the elderly interest to what would otherwise have been a class of Friends and parents to lay aside their very wild landscape. The vineyards were so strict and over-sanctified ways in and out of frequent that we could not but regret we were meeting, and make the advance toward meeting so late. We seemed to have entirely missed the the young upon familiar and equal ground, and vintage, but we see how beautiful it must have until they do this, to withhold their censure of made this mountain scenery. I do no justice, the young for their want of interest in our by these hints, to the picture, to the panorama meetings. which this day's ride has painted in my chamber of imagery. The mountains really seemed to me as beautiful as anything I saw in Switzerland last July, for the snow already covers the summits. The foliage has mostly fallen, and the landscape is russet and golden, with occasionally a tint of rose; what man has done for the landscape seems to have been always just what it needed, as if there was a recognition and consent of nature with him to make as much beauty as possible. The churches, chapels and shrines are multitudinous, having generally dark red spires, sometimes black; one was green. The color always seemed exactly right. But it is really a mystery to me, why the snow peaks should have such a ravishing effect upon me. I never fail to feel a sort of rapture whenever I see them, and they do not lose their charm by repetition. When the sun shines on them I can only liken the effect to the most brilliant tones of the human voice rising above the harmories of the organ. Botzen is surrounded by mountains, and there is one snow mountain that lies behind the rest, and is seen between them. Its distance makes it seem lower than the others. There is a most brilliant moon shining over it at this instant, and nothing can be lovelier than the whole scene. To-morrow we go into Italy-and the soft air, which is still enspirited, if I may so say, with the cold of the mountains, seems to be a salutation from the beautiful land. But of that by and by. And now having relieved myself by saying even this little of the beautiful Tyrol, with its churches telling of peace and love, and its castles which (some of them in ruins) tell of war and violence as well-I feel free to look back to our week in Munich, which astonished me with its luxury of art. That old king Ludwig the First, who is still alive, (at eighty-three years of age,) was the builder of the Walhalla, near Ratisbon, and also of a temple of Glory in the environs of Munich. This temple is an open gallery, forming three sides of an oblong, and is built of marble with forty-eight Doric pillars, to which one ascends by marble steps. There are in it two rows of marble busts of seventysix distinguished Bavarians. In front, on the fourth side of the oblong, is a colossal female figure holding a crown of laurel above her head at arm's length. The head of this colossus is large enough to hold six persons, and is reached

EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENCE.

No. 15.

BOTZEN IN THE TYROL, Nov. 9th, 1867.

I left Germany yesterday for the Tyrol, and had a lovely ride to Innspruck; the country constantly growing more beautiful as we came more into the mountains, but it was too dark to see the beauty of Innspruck, and this morning when we left, the mist enveloped the mountains which surround it. If we had been at a pleasant hotel we might have stayed a day in order to see it, but it was not a good one, though of great pretentions, ("The Austrian,") and besides it did not bid fair to be a pleasant day. In the middle of the forenoon, however, it cleared, and certainly there never was a more splendid day's ride than from Innspruck to Botzen, where we arrived between 3 and 4 o'clock. There were mountains on either side for the whole distance, closing in front of us, and the highest peaks were snowy; the Inn or one of its tributaries was perpetually in sight. Much of the road was parallel to the old Diligence road first made by the Romans. The people looked hardy and laborious, and we saw but one woman at work; but she was cutting stone with the men. Beau

with characteristic scenes and portraits of the great artists of each city over its coat of arms, as, for instance, over Rome the death of Raphael and the picture of the Transfiguration on the wall beside his bed. The arched ceiling of this arcade is painted with exquisite medallions, and not a square inch in which it was possible to put anything beautiful but was used for the purpose. The new Pinacothek is devoted to modern paintings and living artists. There are about twenty-five halls in this marble palace, all lighted, (as the other buildings are,) from the top. Around the outside of this immense building, (from half way up, to the eaves of the roof,) are immense pictures in fresco. On one side are portraits of all the distinguished modern artists, at full length, and larger than life. I should think there were thirty. At the two ends are beautiful allegoric pictures representing the genii of Poetry; of Painting in fresco; of Painting on glass; of Painting on vases; of Sculpture; of Architecture; of Casting in bronze; all conceived in their relations to each other in the most beautiful taste. The rest of the pictures are more elaborate groups, and some of them are humorous. There is King Louis at Rome, surrounded by artists, (all the heads portraits,) each presenting his claims; some are holding in their hands their best works in miniature; some are receiving commissions from him; others are turning away disappointed. In another picture artists on bended knee present to Louis an album. The painting of all this is superb, and in one room of the Pinacothek are the original sketches of these pictures quite beautifully finished up in miniature, so that the whole can be easily examined. I think these works of the modern artists in the new Pinacothek very fine, and that an excellent taste presides over the choice. If it is that of King Louis himself, it shows him to be a true connoisseur. He allows nothing that has not merit to come into his collections. I saw artists copying both in the old and in the new Pinacothek. I do not mention any particular pictures, because to do so would do injustice to the rest, and then I did not stay long enough to do justice to them in any way.

by a winding staircase of sixty six steps within | as fourteen halls. The building itself, of marble the body; persons can look through the eyes and throughout, is a splendid work of art. mouth over the wide plain which is in front, arcade on one side is frescoed with the coats of and see the city of Munich beyond, which I arms of every city in Europe which has afforded suppose may in course of time cover this plain great artists, and above in the Loggie is painted also. This colossus, which is named Bavaria, in fresco a sort of history of art-its progress has a beautiful, happy countenance, with lips slightly parted. It was cast in bronze in Munich, and is a masterpiece of Schwanthaler. We walked out to see it one afternoon, but did not ascend it; there are sixty six steps in the pedestal as well as the sixty-six-inside the figure. I visited afterwards what is called Schwanthaler's Museum, a place where are casts of his works, and among them one of the head of Bavaria. I said to an old artist who shows the Museum to strangers that "Bavaria looks happy; is she so?" He said, He said, "We are satisfied." It is very pleasant to visit this Mu seum after seeing so many of Schwanthaler's works as I have done, and examine them closely, though of course they are only in plaster. His portrait busts and statues are very interesting, as well as his ideal works, and there are a great number of them; among the rest a likeness of himself. The Goëthe of Frankfort-onthe-Maine is his work; also, a beautiful Mozart, and a Jean Paul, all of gigantic size, for public places. I advise everybody who visits Munich to go to this Museum. It is in the new city, in Schwanthaler street, through which one can pass to see the Bavaria. Munich is especially rich in sculpture. In the Glyptothek there is a large collection of genuine Greek statuary, (a whole room full of it, brought from Egina,) and an Alexander, which Winckelmann pronounced a genuine likeness, done in Alexander's own time. It is a nude figure, and certainly the perfection of manly beauty as to form, and as stern, unsympathising and cold as he ought to look, but not consciously cruel or fierce. It corresponds well with the masterly delineation in words of Alexander's character and career, by Grote, in the last volume of his History of Greece. There is much Roman statuary in the Glyptothek, as well as modern. I should think there were a dozen halls; all the Roman Emperors are there, and many of their female relatives; many celebrities besides; also, fine basreliefs, Greek and Roman. The building itself is beautiful and beautifully ornamented, both within and without. On a parallel street are the old and the new Pinacothek. The old is devoted to paintings beginning with Byzantine art, and having a large collection of the Cologne masters, and continuing from them up to the present time. There is a small hall nearly full of Rembrandt's paintings. All the masters are well represented. In many of the rooms are seats where one can sit and enjoy the pictures in comfort. But instead of two days one wanted two months to see this fine gallery of as many

Besides these great marble buildings devoted to art, are many large and elegant buildings devoted to schools of science, and to the city's schools for boys and girls. I saw in the streets young people of both sexes with their books under their arms. The best schools in Germany for the study of engineering and architecture