Friends' Intelligencer Volume 12 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 Excerpt: ...bestow a doubly strict scrutiny on the yet far more important inquiry, whether she lives in the enjoyment and exercise of that grace which, in her own individual case, renders those acts of outward profession a true and genuine type of her interior. For Frlendi' Intelligencer. "Lino upon line, precept upon precept." This is a quotation with which we are familiar, and it is used in allusion to the multiplicity of concerns and of good counsel, which we often have in our meetings for business; especially our Yearly Meeting, when we have been sometimes reminded that "when a cup is full, it will hold no more." I recently heard of a short, comprehensive sermon, preached by Aden T. Corey, near the conclusion of New York Yearly Meeting, some years since, when, after there had been much good counsel given, he summed up all in these words: "Dear hearts, let us try to do all the good we can, and as little harm as we can, and then it will be well with us. Dear hearts, let us try." Another exemplification of "line upon line," was given in the case of a preacher in our Society, once living in Philadelphia, who repeated the same exhortation until it became tiresome to his hearers, and one asked him why he always delivered the same message. He replied "they had not yet learned that lesson; when they did, he doubted not his Master would give them another.' MALE AND FEMALE SCHOOLS. Some experience and long observation has convinced us that, for a very considerable portion of education, or what may be appropriately termed "School life," the sexes ought to be instructed together. The sexes are born in the same family. Their union in the marriage relation is their allotment for a long journey; and this indication of nature, ...