the same God who worketh all in all." And may we ever be impressed with the deeply instructive and encouraging truth, that this working of the Spirit produces in each the same blessed result; that, whereas in our fallen state by nature, we are all "the servants of sin," those in whom this transforming power is suffered effectually to operate, become "servants to God," have their "fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life."

The object in this compilation is not to eulogise the dead, but to magnify the goodness and mercy of "Him who loved" them, "and washed them from their sins in his own blood;" and to excite survivors to use all diligence to make their calling and election sure, remembering the solemn injunction: "Be ye also ready, for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of Man cometh."

MEMORIALS.

JOSEPH WHITE. In reading the memorial of JOSEPH WHITE, of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, we have been forcibly impressed with that declaration, "The memory of the just is blessed." Prov. x. 7. And as it will probably be new to many of our readers, and is calculated to prove deeply instructive to all, we consider it desirable to give it a place in this collection.

He was born at the Falls, on the 28th of the eleventh month, 1713. Being young when his father died, he was brought up under the care of his relations and friends: and through the extendings of heavenly regard whilst young, and attending to the teachings of Divine grace, he was preserved from many of the follies and extravagancies incident to unthinking youth. About the twentieth year of his age, he spoke as a minister in our religious meetings, and, continuing in a good degree faithful to the measure of light and grace communicated, he grew in his gift, and became a lively and able minister of the gospel of Christ.

He was naturally of an open and cheerful disposition, and honestly concerned for the promotion of piety and virtue, and for the support and maintenance of good order in the church; for which service he was eminently gifted, being often concerned that the authority of Truth might be kept up in all our meetings for discipline. He was

exemplary in his life and conversation, a diligent and timely attender of our religious meetings, when health of body permitted; and was often favoured therein in public testimony and supplication, much to the comfort and edification of the truly humble worshippers. And although he had a large gift in the ministry, he many times sat meetings in silence, waiting upon the Lord; not being hasty or forward in the exercise of his gift; but careful not to minister without the heavenly life and power that first raised him up in the rninistry, whereby his public service was greatly to the consolation and refreshment of many.

He was, at different times, engaged in the love of the gospel, to visit his friends in his own and several of the adjacent provinces; also in Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina. And having, for some considerable time, been weightily impressed with a sense of duty to pay a similar visit to Friends in Europe, he, with the concurrence and unity of his brethren, took shipping for that purpose in the year 1758, and after a short passage, landed in England; and having pretty generally visited Friends' meetings in England and Ireland and some parts of Wales, he returned to his beloved family, having been from home in that service nearly three years. He produced certificates of Friends' unity and good satisfaction with him, and his public labours amongst them. He was divers times engaged in visiting families, being well qualified for that weighty service. He much enjoyed the company and conversation of his friends, was a loving and affectionate husband, a tender parent, and a good neighbour; generally

beloved by those who knew him; being in several respects useful in the neighbourhood where he lived.

He was from his youth subject to frequent attacks of indisposition, but as he advanced further in age, intermissions of health grew short, and pains increased, which brought on other bodily infirmities, which he bore with patience and resignation; often craving he might not be off his watch when his pains were exquisite, nor his faith fail in the time of trial. He believed it to be through the goodness of God, that he was thus dealt with, in order more and more to wean him from all outward connexions and nearest ties of nature, that, being as the pure gold refined through the furnace, he might with triumph join the redeemed that were gone before, which he at times had a foretaste of; but the time when, as he himself sometimes expressed, he did not then see, believing it to be consistent with Divine wisdom to keep it hid from him. During the latter part of his time for several months, he slept but little in the night season, being at times engaged in reverent intercessions and divine contemplation, and appeared to be waiting for the solemn moment.

He lived in the compass of the Falls particular meeting until a few years before his death, and then removed to Makefield, (a branch of the same monthly meeting;) and having for a considerable time felt strong desires (if favoured with health) to go to the Falls meeting, on a monthly meeting day, he set out for that purpose, but the weather being cold, and he in a weak state of health, he soon found himself unable to perform the journey, and returned home. But some time after, feeling his bodily health somewhat restored, and love re

newed, he set out, in company with his wife, one First-day morning and got to the meeting, where he was favoured with an open time in public testimony much to the satisfaction of those present.

After the meeting was over, and Friends gone out, a Friend being desirous of speaking to him, not seeing him out of doors, returned into the house, and found him sitting on a seat unable to move without help; and he was taken to the house of a Friend. The attack, being of the paralytic kind, continued ebbing and flowing for some hours, in which time he uttered many weighty expressions; some of which being taken down, are nearly as follows:

Being asked by his son how it was with him, he answered, "I do not know but that I am near my end. My desire at this time for thee is, that thou seek unto the Lord for assistance, to govern thee in thy conduct in this fluctuating life; for I have found Him to be a sure help and counsellor to me. If thou follow after Him in truth and sincerity, as I have endeavoured to do, He will be unto thee a sufficient director, a teacher that cannot be removed into a corner. I have not been anxious to gather a portion of this world, nor make to myself mammon of unrighteousness; for I think I have seen a snare that has attended many young people on these accounts. I have ever from my youth had a desire to be more in substance than in show; let me appear as I might in the sight of men, their praise I sought not for; but I have sought the honour of God, and there is a place, where no trouble shall annoy, prepared for me. You that stay, be more humble, and when trouble awaits you, look not upon, nor trust