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ANNUAL MONITOR 

For 1886, 



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OBITUARY 



OF THX 



UEMBEBS OF THE SOCIETT OF FBIENDS 
in 6reat Sritatn anti Irelantf, 

FOR THE YEAR 1885. 



LONDON : 
Sold bt Samuel Habbis & Co., 5, Bibuopsoatk Wituout ; 

AND BT 

William Bbssionb, 15, Low Ovsbgatk, Tobk; 

ALSO BT 

John Gouoh, 12, Eustace Street, Dublin. 

1885. 



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GIFT OF 
HAVEiJFOlii) COLLEGE LIBRARY 

MAY 2 1935 



LONDON : 
BARRETT, SONS AND CO., PRINTERS, 
BEER LANE, E.G. 



PREFACE. 



After tbe turmoil and bustle of party and 
political strife with which the land has been so 
filled of late, it may be not unprofitable that we 
should be reminded by a glance at this little 
volume, that " the world passeth away and the 
hist thereof ; but he that doeth the will of God 
abideth for ever." It is not often that the pages 
of the Annual Monitor have borne a clearer tes- 
timony to the assurance of hope that there is in 
the Lord Jesus Christ, and to the practical reality 
of that faith in Him, in which it is so good to live 
and so blessed to die. How many have of late 
felt that faith shaken to its very foundations, as 
Reason has been asserting hexsd^j ^^^ loudly 
demanding to be heard ! In v^^vr TK^^tny heatts 
is there still the hidden yet j^y^ . ^^v^ cx^ ^ '''^\^^\^ 
is truth V "I am the Way ^^^ rpss!^'^ ^^ ^"^ 
Life," is the answer of a c^^ \\>^ ;o^^^^ ^«^^«^^ 
to this cry of the troublect\^/ .^^^^^^'^^ 



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iv PREFACE. 

Him is to find the truth. But how shall we 
know Him whom the outward eye can no longer 
see, and the outward ear can no longer hear ? 
Not by searching can we find out God. Not hy 
our finite reason can w^e comprehend Him who 
is infinite, or understand and explain His pur- 
poses and methods. " The natural man receiveth 
not the things of the Spirit of God; they are fool- 
ishness unto him ; neither can he know them, be- 
cause they are spiritually discerned." And again, 
** God hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit; 
for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep 
things of God." So wrote one who, without 
Christ, had thought that he knew the truth of 
God, and had been very zealous for it, whilst 
all the time he was fighting against it in the 
ignorance of unbelief. It was when Saul of 
Tarsus saw Jesus, not by outward vision only, 
but by a revelation that pierced to the very depths 
of his spiritual being, that the pride of human 
wisdom was broken down, and all that was of 
self was surrendered in his cry, "Lord, what wilt 
thou have me to do?" From that hour Saul 
knew the Lord, and in that knowledge found 
life eternal. Would we, too, possess this blessed 
knowledge of Him ? Let us " be still, and know 
that He is God." Let us wait and pray, taking 



PREFACE . V 

courage from the words of Him whom we long to 
know, " When He, the Spirit of Truth, is come, 
He will lead you into all truth ; " and, " if ye 
then, being evil, know how to give good gifts 
unto your children, how much more shall your 
Father which is in Heaven give the Holy Spirit 
to them that ask Him.'* 

W. Robinson. 

West Bank, Scarborough, 

Twelfth month, 1885. 



LIST OF MEMOIRS. 



Mary Burtt. 
Charles Doncaster. 
C. S. Farrington. 
Alfred Lloyd Fox. 
Rachel Collier Fox. 
Hannah Goad. 
Hannah Hamilton. 
Thomas Handley. 
Thomas Harvey. 
Ann Haw. 



Alice Howitt. 
Hetty Pearson. 
Mary E. Penney. 
Richard Pike. 
Isaac Robson. 
Sarah Robson. 
Joseph Tyler. 
John Fry Wilkey. 
Elizabeth Wilson. 
Endre Dahl. 



THE 

ANNUAL MONITOR, 

1886. 



OBITUARY. 



Ac". Timp of Decease. 

Dorothy Adltngton, 78 10 11 mo. 1884 

Mansfield, An Elder. Widow of William 

Adlington. 
Benjamin Allen, 69 25 2 mo. 1685 

Finsbury Parky London, 
Henry Allen, 83 21 10 mo. 1884 

RathmineSf Dublin, 
Elizabeth Allerstone, — 6 6 mo. 1885 

Bridlington. 
John Argo, 68 17 1 mo. 1885 

Mill of Cavill, Kinmuck, 
Martha S. Armitage, 59 22 3 mo. 1885 

Wakefidd. Wife of William ATia'^tage. 
Elizabeth Ashby, 76 2 ^ "^^- ^^^"^ 

Sidcot. Widow of Aaroiv a \\^^^' 



2 annual monitor. 

Hannah Elizabeth Ashby, 

Croydoii. 35 19 1 mo. 1885 

Daughter of Rebekali M. and the late Amos 

Ashby. 
Hannah Bailey, 59 13 7 mo. 1885 

Hereford, Wife of Charles Bailey. 

William Bailey, 59 13 6 mo. 1885 

« 

Notting Hilly London, 
Edith Emily Baker, 9 3 7 mo. 1885 

Leominster. Daughter of Richard Baker. 
John F. Baker, 33 3 7 mo. 1885 

Dunlavin, Co, Wicklow, 
Hannah Wakefield Barcroft, 

Redford, Grange,Tyrone. 56 16 12 mo. 1884 

Widow of William James Barcroft. 
John Barringer, 80 28 4 mo. 1885 

Little Houghton, Northampton, 
Elizabeth Barritt, 74 1 7 2 mo. 1885 

Gosfield, Halstead. Wife of Earn Barritt. 
Lucy Barritt, Maldon, 66 8 3 mo. 1885 

Wife of James Barritt. 
Jane Baynes, 54 27 10 mo. 1885 

Bearpark, Garperhy, Wensleydale, Wife of John 

Baynes. 
Jacob Green Bell, 29 15 7 mo. 1885 

Belfast, Son of Edward and Jane Bell. 
Sheppabd Bell, Alton, 72 29 5 mo. 1885 



ANNUAL MONITOR. 3 

James F. Bennis, 7 28 6 mo. 1885 

Limerick, Son of Joseph and Emilie Bennis. 
Ellen Best, Shildon, 52 6 10 mo. 1884 

Wife of George Best. 
John Beverley, 56 7 9 mo. 1885 

Oldham, 
Mary Ann Binns, 71 25 4 mo. 1885 

Harrogate, Widow of George Binns, of Brad- 
ford. 
Mary BrnKETT^PlymouthSb 8 1 mo. 1885 
William Blundell, Jiin., 

Aiiudale, Southport, 18 11 9 mo. 1885 

Son of William and Elizabeth Bhindell. 
Mary Boadle, 78 1 2 mo. 1885 

Ozton, Birkenhead, An Elder. Widow of 

William B. Boadle. 
Celia Maria Boardman, 

Brislington,near Bristol. 72 6 5 mo. 1885 
William Bott, 69 10 4 mo. 1885 

Broomfield, Chelmsford, An Elder. 
Lucy Bradley. 82 15 12 mo. 1884 

Edgend, near Marsden, Widow of Richard 

Bradley. 
Isaac Bradshaw, 73 15 1 mo. 1885 

Lancaster, 
Robert Bragg, 52 15 4 mo. 1885 

Lancaster. 



4 ANNUAL 3I0NIT0R. 

Sarah Jank Bragg, 17 19 5 mo. 1835 

Lancaster. Daughter of Robert Bragg. 
Maria Bramley, 83 2 8 mo. 1885 

Nottingham. Widow of James Bramley. 
Lydia Breckon, 75 1 7 mo. 1885 

Famdale, near Kirbymoorside, Widow of John 

Breckon. 
Charles Sydney Brown, 

Bradford. 2 19 8 mo. 1885 

Son of Thomas and Virginia A. Brown. 
Ellen Brown, Kingston. 33 11 1 mo. 1885 

Daughter of the late Hannah Brown, of 

Bishopsgate Street. 
Stephen Brown, 78 25 11 mo. 1884 

Weston-swper-Mare. 
JiIartha Bonn, 89 2 12 mo. 1884 

Tashurghy Tivetshall. 
Hannah Burgess, 85 15 3 mo. 1885 

Leicester. An Elder. 
Mary Burtt, 85 30 12 mo. 1884 

Fulheck, near Grantham. A Minister. Widow 

of Joseph Burtt. 
Mary Burtt w^as the daughter of Simon Maw 
and Anne Bowen of Gainsborough, where she 
was born on the 28th of Third month, 1800. 
From childhood she was surrounded by powerful 
Chriet'an influencfs, and very early in life she 



MARY BURTT. 5 

experienced the convictions of the Holy Spirit, 
and the visitations of heavenly love, under which 
her desires grew earnest after a willingness to 
give herself up fully to the guidance and service 
of the Good Shepherd. In her seventeenth year 
the impression laid hold of her mind that the time 
would come when she would be called to stand 
forth publicly as a witness for the Lord and for 
His truth. It was about this time that she com- 
menced the writing of a journal ; in it she records, 
under date Eleventh month 10th, 1817 :— " Our 
dear friends Hannah Field, Elizabeth Fry, and 
Jonathan Hutchinson, left us after a season 
of solid retirement, in which they were much 
favoured, especially H. F. in supplication. Surely 
I shall never forget this opportunity. A little 
before parting H. F. came to me when alone, and 
in a very affectionate manner bade me farewell ; 
* Oh,' said she, * I love thee, and I believe the 
Lord loves thee, and He hath a work for thee to 
do if thou art hut faithful.* These last words weie 
uttered so forcibly as to make, I think I may say, 
a lasting impression on my mind. Then, return- 
ing to me again she said, * I believe thou wishc st 
to be faithful.'" 

The conviction thus wrought in her miiid. 
W.18 an abiding one, but a not unnatural diffi<leii^^ 



6 ANKQAL MONITOR. 

held her back, and for years she passed through 
much conflict before she was made willing to 
yield to this call of Him who loved her, and whom 
she loved, but in this thing feared to follow. 
Again a servant of the Lord, the late Joshua Tref- 
fry, in a meeting held in the quaint old meeting- 
house at Brant Broughton, was made a messenger 
to her soul, as he spoke of Gideon asking signs of 
the Lord with his fleece of wool, and expressed 
his belief that in an experience present the fleece 
was being tried, and there was a longing to be 
assured that the call was indeed divine. Very 
soon after this she opened her lips publicly in 
testimony for her Lord. She was recorded as a 
minister of the Gospel in the Seventh month, 
1863. 

Very instructive it is to ponder the teaching 
of this simple record. The Lord graciously strives 
with the child whom He loves, and whom He 
would draw into a close following of Himself, and 
into loving and cheerful obedience to His mani- 
fested will. He gives a sense of that will to one of 
His trained servants, who by words of sympathy 
and love establishes the conviction in the heart 
of the child ; but she is fearful and dare not obey, 
and has to suffer conflict and often distress for 
lon^ years, for want of trustful faithfulness. 



MARY BURTT. 7 

Again, a tried servant of the Lord, baptised by 
the Holy Spirit into a sense of the suflferer^s con- 
dition, is entrusted with his Master's message, and 
faithfully delivers it. The word does not return 
void, but accomplishes the Master's will, and 
brings the shrinking disciple into the courage 
and obedience of true faith. How good it is for 
servants to be faithful ! 

Whilst still remaining in the home of her 
childhood, Mary Bowen had to experience sore 
bereavements in the death, within a short time, of 
her only sister and her two brothers. These were 
occasions of deep sorrow to her ; but she found 
the Lord whom she loved a true comforter, and 
a sure refuge in time of trouble. 

In the Third month, 1827, she was united 
in maiTiage with Joseph Burtt, of Fulbeck, and 
this happy union remained unbroken for fifty- 
seven years. In their long pilgrimage together 
J. and M. Burtt were closely united, not only in 
sharing the cares and joys and sorrows of earth, 
but as disciples of the same Heavenly Master 
and servants of the same Lord. 

In the meridian life of J. and M. Burtt 
works of benevolence and philanthropy were not 
so much gathered up into organised action as is 
now the case, nor attended with so much of th.e 



8 ANNUAL MONITOR. 

attraction of publicity ; but none the lesd did 
they seek the good of their poorer neighbours, 
frequently visiting them in their cottage homes, 
and occasionally on First-day evenings opening 
their own house, where a considerable company 
frequently came together to listen to the reading 
of the Scriptures and other books. In reference 
to such engagements Mary Burtt writes : — 

"Second month Sth, 1864. — Our kitchen read- 
ing this evening was attended by more than fifty. 
After my dear husband closed the Bible, it 
seemed right for me to bend the knee and ask 
a blessing on the occasion, and that we also 
might be of the number of the righteous, made 
ready to meet in that glorious city prepared for 
those who love the Lord Jesus in sincerity." 

" Fifth month 22nd. — The brightest part of 
this day was in visiting the poor. After reading 
in three families we were returning home, when 
we observed a poor woman coming out of her 
cottage, and looking after us. Walking on a 
few yards, I felt as if we might have grieved her 
by thus passing her by. My dear husband 
proposed our return. Both she and her husband 
thanked us very kindly, the man saying his wife 
could not get out, and was glad to be read to. 
We felt much satisfaction in having turned back." 



MARY BURTT. 9 

Villagers and neighbours thus came to feel 
the master and mistress at the old farmstead to 
be their true friends, to whom they could look 
for sympathy and help in their troubles, and 
from whom they could feel sure of obtaining 
wise counsel in their difficulties. 

It was their earnest endeavour to train their 
children in the love and fear of God, and to 
picture to them the Christian's path as a way 
of pleasantness and peace. From early life 
Mary Burtt learned the exceeding value to the 
Christian disciple of that communion with the 
Lord which is found in frequent retirement and 
prayer. One of her children writes that when 
they were quite young, and missed their mother 
from the family circle, they often knew that she 
had gone to be alone with the Lord ; and as they 
grew older they came to know that many of her 
pleadings with Him were on their behalf. 

The home at Fulbeck was four and a-half 
miles from their meeting-house at Brant Brough- 
ton ; but throughout their long life together they 
were very diligent in attending meetings ; in the 
earlier years sometimes driving forty miles to 
be present at one of their Monthly Meetings. In 
1878, when Joseph Burtt was in his cighty-fourtli 
year, and his wife in her seventy-eighth, she 



10 ANNUAL MONITOR. 

writes : — " We frequently get to our little meet- 
ings together. Sometimes after a restless night I 
feel unequal to it, yet after breakfast I. venture 
again, and often feel hard things made more easy 
than I anticipated on first rising." 

How many in far younger life might now 
often find, in regard to the Christian duty and 
privilege of being present at public worship, that 
" where there is a will there is a way." 

Many will remember the genial hospitality of 
J. and M. Burtt, and the cordial welcome which 
awaited triends travelling as ministers of the 
Gospel when they alighted at their door. 

These dear Friends were by no means exempt 
from trials during their earthly pilgrimage ; but 
these served to draw them closer to Him whom 
they loved and served ; and when, from the 
infirmities of age, they could no longer be actively 
working for Him, He gave them a rich increase 
of quiet trust in the love and mercy of their God 
and Saviour. Joseph Burtt passed away in the 
Fourth month, 1884, and Mary Burtt in the 
Twelfth Month following, to be, it is reverently 
believed, " for ever with the Lord." 
Mart Ann Burtt, 77 4 1 mo. 1885 

Nottingham. An Elder. Widow of Samuel 
Burtt. 



ANNUAL MONITOR. 11 

Petchell Burtt, York, 67 31 3 mo. 1885 
Mary Butler, Bristol 80 17 6 mo. 1885 

Widow of Peter Butler. 
John Capper, 73 12 9 mo. 1885 

Tullygally, Lurgan. 
Alfred G. B. Carter, 2 18 12 mo. 1884 

Weston-super-Mare, Son of George B. and 

Mary H. Carter. 
Cblia Catterall, 19 mos. 18 1 mo. 1885 

Leeds. Daughter of John and Selina Catterall. 
Sarah Maria Chambers, 53 11 1 mo. 1885 

TFest Smithfield. Wife of William Chambers. 
Ann Chandler, Staines, 83 17 9 mo. 1884 
Thomas R. Cherry, 81 27 10 mo. 1884 

Waterford, 
Thomas Choat, 64 6 7 mo. 1885 

Stamford Hill^ London, 
Henrietta Clark, 24 8 12 mo. 1884 

Doncaster, Daughter of the late John Clark. 
Margaret Wigham Clemitson, 

10 5 9 mo. 1884 

Lorton, near Cockermouth, Daughter of Thomas 

and Mary Jane Clemitson. 
Frances Sophia Coar, 92 27 3 mo. 1885 

Brighton, 
James Coates, 64 26 7 mo. 1885 

Burgh-hy-Sands. 



12 ANNUAL MONITOR. 

Wilfrid W. Collinson, 5 13 11 mo. 1884 

Halifax, Son of Thomas and Emily CoUinson. 
Nicholas Cooke, 67 19 5 mo. 1885 

Liscard. N. C. had gone to London to attend 

the Yearly Meeting as a Representative, but 

died very suddenly before the first sitting. 
William Cowlin, 76 29 10 mo. 1884 

Bedruth, 
Mary Crane, Sudbiiry. 88 9 2 mo. 1885 
Mary Creeth, 89 5 4 mo. 1885 

Goolhill, Grange, Tyrone, 
Sarah Cunningham, 56 21 3 mo. 1883 

Belfast Widow of Thomas Cunningham. 
Jane Elizabeth Curtis, 

-4/^071. 79 5 4 mo. 1885 

AVidow of William Curtis. 
Adam Davidson, 53 5 4 mo. 1885 

Hillsborough. 
John Hogarth Davies, 77 21 11 mo. 1884 

ThirsL A Minister. 
Margaret Anne Davies, 

Almeley, Hereford. 28 13 8 mo. 1885 

Wife of James Davies. 
William Dawson, Cabra. 81 1 4 mo. 1885 
Rachel Deane, 86 6 4 mo. 1885 

hleworth, Surrey. Widow of George Deane, of 

Adelaide, South Australia. 



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CHARLKS D0NCA8TER. 13 

Amy Jane Dell, 44 8 3 mo. 1885 

Highgate. Wife of Henry Dell. 
Mary Dell, T^n's^o^. 64 13 6 mo. 1885 

Wife of Isaac Dell. 
Harriet Dickinsok, 44 1 7 mo. 1884 

Mauldeth, near Manchester. 
Jane Dickinson, 74 17 7 mo. 1885 

Maryport. 
Henry Thomas Dix, 15 18 1 mo. 1885 

Wells. . Son of Richard James and Caroline 

Dix. 
Isaac Dixon, TValcefield. 53 12 4 mo. 1885 
Rebecca Dixon, 49 15 10 mo. 1884 

Nottingham. 
Charles Donc aster, 43 24 12 mo. 1884 

Totley, near Sheffield. An Elder. 
Charles Doncaster was born on the 11th 
of Fifth month, 1841, in a house at Upper- 
thorpe, Sheffield, and was the fourth child and 
third son in a family of ten children. His 
parents, Daniel and Maria Doncaster, were 
members of the Society of Friends, and will 
long be remembered in their native town of 
Sheffield for their active Christian benevolence. 
In their large circle of intimate friends they 
will still live in memory as a true father and 
mother in the Church, whose wise covmsel, 

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14 ANNUAL MONITOR. 

loving sympathy, and unselfish regard for others, 
caused their home to bea circle of blessing to many. 

Daniel and Maria Doncaster early trained 
their children in habits of industry, order, and 
exactitude ; they also cultivated in them the 
observation of natural objects. Little gardens 
were given to them, and these they were en- 
couraged to attend to themselves, their parents 
teaching them the names of the flowers they 
grew, and those found in pleasant walks into 
the country. Charles Doncaster must have been 
quite a little child when he first showed a love for 
natural history, and this study was his favourite 
recreation through life. 

One of the habits which his mother taught 
her children was that of great neatness in their 
handiwork. Both boys and girls learned to 
sew and to use joiner's tools over broken toys, 
or furniture ; and everything was expected to 
be done with care and neatness. Kindergarten 
schools were not known then, but the same 
kind of training in observation and quickness 
with the fingers was given to these children. 
Thus was the foundation laid of that exactness 
and beautiful neatness in all that he did with 
his hands, which was so characteristic of him. 

But above all other training, either moral 



CHARLES DONCAST£R. 15 

or intellectual, D. and M. Doncaster placed a 
careful religious training, and the early impres- 
sions which their children received were the 
groundwork of their later Christian course. 
They were carefully instructed in Bible truth, 
and used to learn Scripture passages and hymns 
by heart, to repeat on First-day evenings to 
their parents. Truthfulness in word and deed 
was early instilled into their young minds ; 
and brotherly love was the rule of both nursery 
and schoolroom. These little children saw in 
their parents an example of unselfishness, truth- 
fulness, charity in its widest sense, and other 
Christian graces. How much more effectual in 
its influence on the life of a child is such an 
example, than all the instruction by words 
only which can be given. 

D. and M. Doncaster were careful to follow 
the apostolic injunction to entertain strangers ; 
and their children had the pleasure and privi- 
lege of thus meeting many good and noble men 
and women of the Society of Friends and other 
denominations. They also took a deep interest 
in the affairs of their own little church ; encou- 
raging their children as they grew older to 
accept oflBices of usefulness in it when these 
wtre offered to them. 



10 ANNUAL MONITOU. 

After leaving school in 1856, Charles Don- 
caster was taken hy his father into his office 
in Don caster Street, there to learn the business 
of a steel meicliaut and manufacturer. -His 
spare time soon Lecame largely occupied with 
work for other?, in the First-day school. Tem- 
perance Society, and kindred objects of interest. 
He very early took a class in the First day 
school, beginning with a fevr youths about his 
own age. He was also made secretary of the 
teachers' meeting soon after joining the school, 
and this post he held for twenty-one years. 
In his Bible lessons on First-day mornings 
there was much more of teaching than preach- 
ing. He generally spent a long time in pre- 
paring them, using commentaries, and bringing 
to his aid the knowledge he had acquired iu 
natural history and other studies. His was a 
very practical mind, and his teaching partook 
largely of the same character. There was always 
some deeper meaning in the lessons he gave 
than what lay on the surface, or even than 
appeared in the practical application he made; 
but he frequently merely alluded to this, — he 
never pressed an idea so far as to be wearisome ; 
the lesson was always suggestive, and his hearers 
were often left to find the deeper meaning for 



CHARLES DONC ASTER. 17 

themselves. Some of the young men have said 
lately that the lesson hour was much too short; 
they could have gone on for two hours without 
weariness. He was also very fond of making use 
of pictures and maps as aids to his lessons ; and 
sometimes he would employ the blackboard to 
illustrate his meaning, his decided talent for 
drawing enabling him rapidly to sketch the 
route of a journey, a plant, or a scene. He 
also kept the monthly business meetings of the 
class in mind, and often said that he liked to 
have more than the dry routine of business in 
them ; and then he would mention some sub- 
ject as being interesting, and the one he intended 
to bring forward. At the first monthly meet- 
ing of the year the class always met for tea, in 
the earlier years at his own home, and after- 
wards at the schools. 

In speaking to the men of his class in the 
First-day school, or addressing teachers and 
others, he would often allude to the ennobling 
influence of the study of nature ; how it lifts 
us from what is mean and selfish and grasping, 
into the region of God's handiwork. And then 
he would explain some of these wonders, and 
endeavour to stimulate a desire in his hearers 
to find them out for themselves. He saw the 



18 ANNUAL MONITOR. 

hand of God in all the beauties and wonders 
of creation, and loved to study them as the 
work of his Father. His influence over all with 
whom he was connected was great. Purity, un- 
selfishness, generosity, truth, these were among 
his characteristics, and they were the atmosphere 
he carried about with him. How little he 
knew it all ! His humility and self-deprecia- 
tion were painful at times. So modest and shy 
was he as a young man, that many people 
thought him proud ;— a very common mistake 
with regard to humble, reticent persons. 

Charles Doncaster married Hannah M. 
Barber, daughter of James H. Barber, of Shef- 
field, and his married life was largely blessed. 
In the year 1880 came a sore bereavement in 
the death of his dear mother. It was a deep 
and irreparable loss, and was widely felt, not 
only among Maria Doncaster's immediate friends, 
but by the poor and needy in the town. This 
trial was followed in the summer of the year 
following by a most unexpected blow in the 
sudden death, from rheumatic fever, of his second 
brother, David Kenway. 

Charles Doncaster felt these family bereave- 
ments deeply, and also the death of his father 
in the summer of 1884. He missed the pecu- 



CHARLES DONG ASTER. 19 

liarly loving intercourse which he had enjoyed 
with his father. Who like a father and mother 
can enter with interest into every detail of 
their children's lives ? Who can give such 
wise and loving counsel? From whom is the 
welcome at any hour so sure, so loving ? Now 
both dear parents were gone, and nothing but 
the memory of their care and tenderness through 
childhood, youth and married life, was left. 
That memory is indeed precious to their chil- 
dren, and their influence will last through life. 

For some years Charles Doncaster was on 
the Committee of Ackworth School, and took 
a warm interest in his work there. It was 
probably this which led to his earnest devoted- 
ness to the cause of education ; and when 
in the autumn of 1870 he was asked to stand 
as a candidate for the first Sheffield School 
Board, he readily consented. From that time 
until the close of his life his heart was thoroughly 
in this work. 

One of his chief characteristics was a cheerful 
acceptance of the best that could be had at the 
time, without wasting energy in useless discon- 
tent that it was not the best that might have 
been. Thus, while others were often debarred 
from taking part in the present system of elemen- 



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tary education because of the mistakes which had 
been made, and the difficulties that presented 
themselves in working the system, these difficul- 
ties never deterred him from doing what was 
possible under the circumstances. When chair- 
man of the School Management Committee he 
would take infinite pains and trouble over the 
minutest details, spending days in the considera- 
tion and inspection of desks or other appliances 
for work ; visiting schools in distant towns to 
learn the latest improvements, when plans were 
under consideration ; travelling over the country 
to colleges to see candidates for the post of teacher. 
Nothing escaped his attention, even to the slate 
pencils used by the children. He loved his work 
and believed it to be good and useful ; never 
sparing himself in canying out what he thought 
to be right in connection with it. 

Charles Doncaster was naturally very reti- 
cent in speaking of his own feelings, and much 
troubled by a sense of his shortcomings. When 
quite a boy, the desire to serve God was strong, 
and this, we believe, was always the mainspring 
of his work. His love to God and belief in His 
Fatherly goodness were real and deep in youth 
and early manhood. Vocal prayer was not unfre- 
quent from him, and though he could at that time 



CHARLES DONCABTEK. 21 

point to no definite period of conversion, the 
peace of the Christian and faith in the Saviour 
appeared to be his. But for some years he was 
tried by doubts of various kinds. He seldom 
spoke of them. They increased his reserve on 
religious subjects, and probably greatly interfered 
with his peace of mind. As the doubts cleared 
away, a desire arose in his heart that he might 
know a full salvation from both the guilt and 
power of sin. Like so many others, he was kept 
from the happiness of the believing Christian by 
looking at himself and his own unworthiness, 
instead of simply relying on Christ and His 
sacrifice. The sense of forgiveness came to him 
very simply at last. He had been praying night 
after night that he might know pardon for sin, 
when one night he awoke after an hour or two 
of sleep, the burden gone, the sweet sense of for- 
giveness filling his heart, and his Saviour's love 
very precious to him. His first words were, " It 
is wonderful." From that time his doubts 
vanished, misgivings about himself ceased, and he 
entered into peace. His growth in the Christian 
life was marked from that period, and his peace 
seemed to flow as a river. After this he not un- 
frequently spoke in meetings for worship. In. 
mission meetings he also often took part, \ua 



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ministry being more of the character of practical 
teaching than of exhortation. 

In the midst of his work he was stricken 
down. He had been greatly overpressed with 
School Board and other matters, and on First-day, 
Eleventh month 23rd, he stayed in all day. To- 
wards evening he felt more feverish and full of 
headache, so went to bed early. When at the 
door of his room he fell, in what there was reason 
to fear was an apoplectic fit. The doctors believed 
that rest and change would restore him fully ; 
and he was preparing to leave home shortly for 
some weeks with his wife and boys, when he took 
a chill, which soon turned to rheumatic fever. 
At first the attack seemed very slight, but in five 
or six days the heart became seriously affected, 
and his friends felt that there was danger. 
Absolute quiet was necessary, with no excitement, 
so that there was but little opportunity for conver- 
sation, but he was calm and peaceful, grateful for 
everything done, and most anxious to spare trouble. 

He was often very restless with the terrible 
fever, but a text repeated or a verse of poetry 
would soothe him at once. Often when he greatly 
longed for the sleep that would not come, a hymn 
sung quieted him and brought a brief repose. 
Over and over again some of his favourite hymns 



CHARLES DONCASTER. 23 

were repeated or sung to him ; among them 
specially " Rock of Ages," ** I need Thee every 
hour," " Art thou weary, art thou languid ? " 
" Abide with me ; " his face showing by its peace- 
ful, happy expression thai the sweet words were 
a comfort to him. For a great part of the time 
he was only partially conscious, but even when 
the rheumatic pain was severe, and the fever 
almost burning him up, his patience was remark- 
able and his gentleness and tenderness never 
failed. 

On Christmas Eve it was apparent that the 
end could not be far distant. The fever had 
increased during the night, and hope faded as the 
morning wore on. In the afternoon his wife was 
for a short time alone in the roon^, standing by 
his bedside. He opened his eyes suddenly from 
what appeared to be a doze, addressed her 
tenderly by name, and said, " I am going, but it*s 
all right." He never spoke again, though the lips 
moved as if he were trying to say more. From 
that time he gave very little futher sign of con- 
sciousness, and passed peacefully away at about 
a quarter past seven. 

" Him that overcometh will I make a pillar 
in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more 
out." 



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Margaret Douglass, 58 5 1 mo. 1885 

Sunderland. 
John Dunning, 58 5 3 mo. 1885 

Middlesborough. 
Mary Ann Dunsheath, 

Besshrook. 16 mos. 30 12 mo. 1884 

Daughter of Hampton Dunsheath. 
Margaret Edmundson, 61 8 8 mo. 1885 

Bentham, Wife of Thomas Edmundson. 
Bertha Elcock, 18 21 1 mo. 1885 

Birmingham. Daughter of Sarah H. and the 

late William Elcock. 
Edwin Fardon, 49 1 5 mo. 1885 

Bristol. 
Charles S. Farrington, 

13 5 12 mo. 1884 

Winchmore Hill, London. Son of George H. 

and Sarah Ann Farrington. 

" Be ye therefore ready also, for at such an 
hour as ve think not the Son of Man cometh." 
These words of Jesus Christ were read to the 
family at Saffron Walden School on the morning 
of the 5th of Twelfth month, 1884, and seldom 
have they been more strikingly emphasized than 
they were on that day. The first class of boys 
went out for a walk with their teacher during the 
day, and as they were returning C. S. Farrington 



CHARLES S. FARRINGTON. 25 

complained to a companion of feeling weary, and 
suddenly fell down, as it was thought in a faint- 
ing fit. He was carried into a farm-house near 
at hand, but never spoke again, and all efforts to 
restore animation were unavailing. 

Though this dear boy was thus called away 
at an unexpected moment, his friends take 
comfort in the belief that in the loving kind- 
ness of his Heavenlv Father he had known 
something of preparation for the solemn change ; 
his teacher had observed for some time that 
he had become more thoughtful and serious, 
and that though he was not inclined to speak 
much of his inmost feelings, yet his conduct 
was more and more regulated by Christian 
principle ; so that the consoling hope is per- 
mitted to those who loved him, that in the 
goodness and mercy of God in Christ Jesus, he 
is now numbered amongst those of whom the 
Saviour said : — " In Heaven their angels do 
always behold the face of My Father." 
Joseph Robert Fayle, 

ClonmeL 61 30 9 mo. 1884 

George Fell, 64 5 7 mo. 1885 

WaiTington. 
Joshua Robert Fennell, 

Cahir. 67 16 7 mo. 1B85 



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Joseph Firth, Wakefield.1% 15 11 mo. 1884 
Mary Follett, Bristol, 75 30 11 mo. 1884 

Widow of Rouckleiffe Follett. 
Ellinor Follows, 45 30 6 mo. 1885 

EccleSy near Maiichester, Wife of Frederick 

William Follows. 
Hannah Fothbrgill, 68 2 11 mo. 1884 

Sunderland. 
Henry Fowler, 65 20 6 mo. 1886 

Darlington. 
Alfred Lloyd Fox, 56 23 7 mo. 1886 

Penmere, Falmouth. A Minister. 

" Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a 
man be born again, be cannot see the kingdom of 
God." 

In tracing the lives of those who we trust, 
through the mercy of God in Christ, have been 
permitted to " see the kingdom of God," we some- 
times come upon the history of believers who to 
their neighbours and friends seem to have been 
almost without those temptations which beset 
the souls of others, who seem to be gradually 
growing in grace, and steadily pursuing their 
heavenward journey, without the hindrances 
which come so frequently across the path of their 
fellow-pilgrims. But when we know more inti- 
mately the details of their inner lives, we find 



ALFRED LLOYD FOX. 27 

that they, too, have had their conflicts and 
spiritual warfare, and the very days that they 
seemed to those around them to he passing in a 
peaceful progress Zion wards, have really been the 
very times in which the warfare in their souls 
was being accomplished, periods when they be- 
came dedicated to the service of their God, and 
emphatically experienced what it was to be " born 
again." 

Alfred Lloyd Fox was the eldest son of 
Alfred and Sarah Fox, of Falmouth, and was 
bom there the 26th day of Fifth month, 1829. 
He became a younger member of that choice 
circle of which much has latterly been so inter- 
estingly written. Next to the influence of his 
own home, his mind seems to have been much 
influenced by the literary tastes of his uncle 
Charles Fox, and by the intellectual pursuits of 
his cousin Robert Barclay Fox, with both of whom 
as he grew up he was much associated. 

At the time of his boyhood, Falmouth, as the 
western port of England, was frequently visited 
by strangers arriving or departing. The position 
of local representatives of foreign powers held by 
members of his family, and subsequently by him- 
self, encouraged the study of modem languages, 
and increased materially the habits of easy int^r- 



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course with strangers, as well as the power quickly 
to acquire an interest in their wishes and require- 
ments that characterised him as well as other 
members of the family. This training no doubt 
aided him very considerably in those missionary 
journeys which he subsequently undertook, and 
which gave him such ample occupation for many , 
vears of his life. 

t 

Beyond family letters and parental memo- 
randa there are few records of Alfred Lloyd Fox's 
boyhood. His ever naturally amiable tempera- 
ment, his desire to serve others, and his interest 
in his studies, endeared him to his schoolfellows, 
and especially so to Lovell Squire, who at that 
time was engaged in his well-known school at 
Falmouth. Many of the friendships thus formed 
lasted to the close of his life. 

When he was about nineteen years of age 
two circumstances appear to have had a power- 
ful effect upon his mind, and to have influenced 
very much his future life. The most important 
of these was a severe illness, which brought with 
it quiet times for reflection and soul-searching. 
His journal records the deep conflict through 
which he passed under a sense of his transgres- 
sions, and he enumerates with thanksgiving " the 
tender mercy and love of Christ his Saviour, who 



ALFRED LLOTD FOX. 29 

in the midst of chastening drew him to Himself, 
enabled him to seek for His pardoning love, and 
raised in him the earnest desire to serve Him with 
a whole heart." Alluding afterwards to this 
period, he speaks of it as the most eventful of his 
life ; he writes that he desires to live as a pilgrim 
to a better country, that is a heavenly ; that life 
may be viewed in relation to eternity ; and he 
adds, " May I never rest, until I rest in Jesus." 

Reading the life of Sir Thomas Fowell Bux- 
ton at this period seems also to have had a marked 
effect upon the formation of his character. He 
says : — " I enjoyed it, I devoured it ; it has wonder- 
fully cheered me and strengthened me. It has 
convinced me that it is always best to let what 
is done be well done, whatever care or trouble it 
may cost. A man ought to banish from him at 
once and for ever such words as * impossible,' * I 
can't,' * I fear.' " 

He laid down for himself at this time rules 
for his guidance, and for self-examination, which 
we cannot doubt were of essential service in the 
formation of his character and mental habits. 
Towards the close of each of several years we find 
passages in his diary recording as it were from 
stage to stage the experiences of his life. Under 
date 28th of Twelfth month, 1848, there is the 



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following record : — "I find in looking back 
over my past life, that my prayers, even my 
desires, have been answered in a remarkable 
manner, especially those which have been the 
most fervent. Not that my prayers are all 
answered in my own way, but in a manner to 
convince me that I have a prayer-hearing and a 
prayer-answering God. Oh, my soul, do thou 
use thy utmost endeavours at all times and at all 
seasons to love and serve the Lord with all thy 
strength and with all thy might." 

At the close of the year 1850 we find another 
and a still deeper evidence of that searching of 
soul which he had made his practice by early 
resolution. Under date of 31st Twelfth month, 
1850, he writes : — " Another year is just ending ! 
What advances have I made in the last twelve 
months in my heavenward path ? How prospered 
on earth ? I have had sorrow and pleasure, and 
in all things have had to acknowledge that the 
Lord has been with me, that He has granted 
strength equal to my day; that He has taught me 
and led me, enabling me to perform hard duties ; 
that He has preserved me. 0, Lord Jesus, guide 
me and bless me in my Christian life, giving me 
earnest faith in and love towards Thee, with deep 
humility and full confidence in Thee, with other 



ALFRED LLOYD FOX. 31 

Christian graces ; guide me and bless me in my 
studies, granting me wisdom and understanding ; 
guide me and bless me in my social life, enabling 
me to love those around me ; and guide me and 
bless me in my public life, so that I may never 
shrink from what may promote Thy glory, and 
the good of mankind. Forgive my sins for Thy 
mercies' sake, and deliver me from all evil ; lead 
me on earth, and afterwards receive me to glory. 
Amen ! " 

At the close of the following year (1851), 
after reviewing the experiences of the year, he 
adds: — "I feel and see more fully than before, the 
natural depravity of my nature ; that of myself 
I must fall ; that I need daily and hourly divine 
strength to do good and avoid evil ; that I must 
come with all my sins, pleading no merit of my 
own, to the cross of Christ, and there pray for 
pardon, and there, through the influence of the 
Holy Spirit, be sanctified and feel Christ to be my 
Saviour." 

In the spring of 1852 he makes the following 
entry : — " May I henceforth be more consistent 
as a Christian. Whether I live or die, I desire 
to do it unto the Lord ; to live henceforth wholly 
in and unto Christ. As for myself I am weak 
against evil, but I plead the merit of the atoning 



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blood and righteousness of my Saviour. Sanctify 
my heart more and more by Thy Spirit. Enable 
me to serve Thee and love Thee with all my 
heart, soul, mind, and strength, and to love my 
neighbour as myself." 

On the 1st of First month, 1857, whilst 
alluding with satisfaction to some work in con- 
nection with the Young Men's Christian Associa- 
tion, he mourns his own shortcomings and ear- 
nestly petitions for grace to overcome. In an 
entry later on in the same year, in writing of the 
future, he says : — " My hope of Heaven is alone 
placed in the atoning sacrifice of Christ, whom I 
can now call my Saviour." 

On the 15th of Third month, 1864, he was 
married to Mary Jane, daughter of the late Francis 
Fox, of Tottenham, a union which, whilst it 
brought with it much domestic happiness and 
congenial companionship in spiritual things, did 
not prevent his cheerful surrender of home and 
its interesting surraundings for those missionary 
journeys which he believed were required of him. 
In the autumn of 1867 he accompanied Eli and 
Sybil Jones in their visit to the South of France, 
Athens, Syria, parts of Palestine, and Egypt 
With Eli Jones he also travelled in the Lebanon, 
where they saw much of the poor inhabitants of 



ALFR»;:D LLOYD FOX. 33 

the district, lodging in their houses, and witness- 
ing the troubles and dangers of their existence. 
This visit laid the foundation fur that mission 
which subsequently became his life-work, the 
details of which are familiar to those who have 
been interested in the Friends' Missions at Bni- 
mana and Ramalleh. Space forbids a repetition 
of their interesting history here. Speaking of 
this journey in a record made soon after his return 
in 1868, lie says : — " This past year I have known 
a growth in grace, my soul has prospered. I 
have known what it was to leave for a season, 
wife and child, parents, brothers and sisters, 
house, and country, for Christ's sake, for the Gos- 
pel's sake. I wish here emphatically to record 
my experience and deep sense of having received 
already the hundredfold promised, I look with 
certain hope to the remainder of the promise, 
and * in the end eternal life : ' but where are the 
persecutions? Blessed Lord Jesus— Thou hast 
given me only good. Thy yoke has been easy 
and thy burden light." Referring to this journey 
during his last illness he said, that, next to his 
conversion, the greatest blessing he had received 
had been through the ability to make the auxxen- 
der for this service. 

" It is not easy," writes one of his ieW^"'' 



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travellers on this journey, " to convey an adeqiiate 
impression of the services rendered by him. The 
lively interest with which he entered into the 
work, seeking to further the object of the mission 
by all the means in his power, was only equalled 
by the modesty and self-deprivation, and absence 
of self-seeking, with which all was done. His 
kindly Christian courtesy manifested itself to 
rich and poor alike. His open hand and ready 
word of sympathy for all materially helped to 
open the way for the services of our friends 
wherever we went ; whilst his fund of informa- 
tion on natural history and all other subjects, 
freely and modestly given, made him an interest- 
ing and valuable companion. His unfailing good 
temper and cheerfulness under every trying cir- 
cumstance of Eastern travel, his generous thought 
for others and willingness to give up everything 
he possessed for his neighbour, were features of a 
daily life-ministry which could not fail to impress 
his companions, as that of one who walked humbly 
and watchfully with his God, and sought to adorn 
the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things." 

Soon after the Yearly Meeting of 1869 he 
accompanied Sarah F. Smiley and Eliza Barclay 
in a religious visit to the Shetland Islands, where 
they were brought into much sympathy with the 



ALFRED LLOYD FOX. 35 

hardships and loneliness of the islanders. In the 
following year he visited the Scilly Islands, again 
accompanying Sarah Smiley ; John Stevens, and 
other Friends being with him. At home he was 
much occupied in obtainiDg translations of various 
tracts into several European languages, as well as 
into Arabic for the missions in which he was so 
much interested in the East. This was a work 
undertaken in the love of Christ. In reference 
to it there is a prayer in his journal, that the 
Lord might bless them in bringing souls to Him- 
self, leading them to search the Scriptures which 
testify of Him. The establishment of an adult 
class, which was a deep interest to the end of 
Iffe, and other similar work, also occupied much 
of his attention. 

During the year 1870 we find the following 
entry in his journal : — " Last month I offered 
myseK body and soul to Christ for any service, 
and do not feel any drawing back therefrom. 
May I be willing to lie still, and see the Lord's 
work go on by other hands if such be my right 
allotment, knowing that I am nothing without 
the Spirit's aid.'* 

Near the close of the year he records the 
following prayer : — " My Lord and my Example, 
do Thou by Thy divine grace enable me so to 



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walk before Thee that henceforth I may be able 
through Thee strengthening me to say, I have 
done the work Thou gavest me to do. Earnestly 
do I crave for my children that, as far as it is in 
the power of a parent to do it, I may bequeath to 
them the rich blessing of God through Christ 
Jesus our Lord." 

During the two or three following years he 
was engaged in various services nearer home. In 
1872 he paid a short visit to some parts of France, 
engaging in the work of tract distribution at 
Sedan and other places. In 1873, as a member 
of the Yearly Meeting's Committee, he visited the 
members of the Society of Friends in Scotland. 
In Twelfth month, 1874, he writes -.—"Another 
year has passed laden with blessings, benefits, and 
mercies without number ; attended with close 
trials in the removal of those very near to us. 
My beloved father, my uncle Samuel Fox, and 
others, all taken, but my dear mother wonder- 
fully supported ; my blessings have been very 
great this year ; I have been allowed to have so 
much to do in the opening of the Brumana Mis- 
sion, in connection with H. S. Allen and E. C. 
Pearson, also visits to Yorkshire, the last most 
interesting one (with the Yearly Meeting's Com- 
mittee) associated with Friends with whom it was 



ALFRED LLOYD POX. 37 

a most peculiar privilege to be ; our way seemed 
made very open among most kind Yorkshire 
Mends. My mouth was opened in and out of 
meeting to declare the goodness of my Lord. 
May I henceforth render unto Him according to 
the benefit given me, and for this, may He who 
alone can qualify His servant, help me by His 
Holy Spirit to follow my Shepherd wheresoever 
He may be inclined to lead me. Do Thou, oh 
Shepherd of Israel, lead all those near and dear 
to me by blood and other ties, and do Thou 
strengthen all who are working for Thee in an 
honest and good heart in the harvest field of the 
earth, whether at home or abroad." 

In the autumn of 1875, in company with his 
dear friends Eli Jones and Henry Newman, he 
again visited Syria and Palestine. This visit was 
full of deep interest to him, as since his previous 
journey in the East the Brumana Mission had 
been established. It had been most satisfactorily 
placed under the supervision of his dear friend 
Theophilus Waldemeier. Several months were 
passed at this interesting establishment and in 
Palestine. His deep and heartfelt interest in this 
field of missionary labour is well known. In 
promoting its success, whilst the power to work 
remained, he spared neither time nor labour, and 

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in the last days of his life intelligence from 
Brumana was especially welcome to him. 

After 1876 there are few journal records. 
His daily work and large correspondence occupied 
much of his time. The following is the last entry 
in his diary :— " Oh, for more of the meekness 
and humility and gentleness of Christ, with firm 
resolution manfully to resist evil, and this not in 
my own strength, but in the ability that Christ 
giyes to the soul that repents, believes, and seeks 
for His precious aid, faithfully to follow a once- 
crucified, but now risen and glorified Saviour 
from the power, as well as from the guilt of sin, 
through faith in His atoning blood." 

When in Yorkshire in 1872, A. Lloyd Fox 
first spoke as a minister. He was recorded as 
such in 1877. Attached by conviction to the 
religious Society in which he had been born, he 
was deeply interested in its welfare. There is an 
expression in his journal of his strong belief that 
a work was designed for it in the world, which he 
earnestly desired might be fulfilled. At the same 
time, he possessed that true Christian enlarge- 
ment of heart which enabled him to enjoy unit- 
ing with others in religious fellowship, and in 
works of Christian iTsefulness and philanthropy. 
He was ofiicially connected with several societies 



ALFRED LLOTD FOX. 39 

of a missionary and philanthropic character in 
Falmouth. At the Sailors' Home he might often 
have been found reading in diflferent languages to 
the foreign or sick sailors there. The tempe- 
rance cause had his hearty support and warm 
sympathy. 

In his home life the natural playfulness of 
his disposition, and his pleasure in sharing in the 
pursuits of his children were always felt. These 
were still maintained when failing health ren- 
dered it impossible for him any longer actively 
to participate in their enjoyments and pursuits. 
Rejoicing above all things in the service of his 
Lord, he seemed, in his thorough enjoyment of a 
sunny human life of many interesting pursuits 
and of simple home pleasures, to realise to a great 
extent the truth of the promise of the life that 
now is, as well as of that which is to come. The 
cordial, quiet greeting to his friends, the unfailing 
hospitality, the tender words of cheer and sym- 
pathy to many a fellow-traveller, and visits to the 
houses of the sick and poor will long endear his 
memory. 

One who knew him-well, writes : — " When 
many are said to be up to anything, A. LI. F. 
was willing to be down to anything, and for him 
nothing was small : a child to amuse, a dog to 



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comfort, a dull member of the circle to make 
happy ; and at home all such services, often ne- 
glected, were with him never passed over. The 
smaller leading to the greater service, faithful 
in the few things he was made ruler over many 
things, and few have left more genuine mourners 
than did he.'* 

Another, writing after his departure, says : — 
" How pure, childlike, and simple, was his faith- 
lie listened for the word from his loved Lord, 
and ran His errands with holy joy. How he 
rejoiced to be the servant of those whom he 
esteemed the children of God ; and now he has 
passed on, to rejoice for ever in the fulfilling of 
his Saviour's promise, —blessed are those servants 
whom the Lord, when He cometh, shall find 
watching. Verily I say unto you He shall gird 
Himself and make them sit down to meat and 
shall come forth and serve them." 

Some time even before his last Eastern jour- 
ney, tokens of failing health occasioned anxious 
thought to his family ; but he continued to feel 
that he must work whilst it was day, in the ear- 
nest desire to spread the Kingdom of God. 
During the next few years he paid several reli- 
gious visits amongst his own friends in Devon- 
shire and Cornwall^ and in Bristol and Somerset 



ALFRED LLOYD FOX. 41 

Quarterly Meeting. He also visited Friends in 
Cumberland and Westmoreland. He attended 
the Dublin Yearly Meeting of 1884. This was 
about the last visit of a religious character he was 
able to undertake. In the winter of 1884 he paid 
a much desired visit to his dear relatives in the 
North of England, and in the Third month follow- 
ing joined for the last time with his valued col- 
leagues in the Syrian Committee in London. 

In the spring of this year, 1885, the delicacy 
which had for so long occasioned anxious fore- 
bodings assumed a still more serious aspect, and 
about a fortnight after attending the Quarterly 
Meeting at Plymouth he was ordered by his kind 
medical attendant to keep his room. In this 
change from active life, his trust in his Saviour, 
and his natural cheerfulness of disposition never 
forsook him. On the 4th of Fifth month a severe 
attack of oppression in the chest created intense 
anxiety. During this time, in answer to a remark 
made to him, he replied : — " I am resting in the 
atoning blood of Christ Fear seems taken away." 
Many weeks of severe illness, borne in the most 
patient submission, followed this attack. Through 
days of weakness and oppression, and weary 
nights, the quiet repose of his trusting spirit 
spoke of that " peace of God which did indeed 



42 ANNUAL MONITOR. 

keep his heart and mind through Christ 
Jesus." 

In this deeper illness he was at times able 
to receive, and was cheered by, visits from his 
beloved mother, his brothers, and sisters. 

On the evening of First-day, the 14th of Sixth 
month, after a time of quiet waiting on the Lord 
with his dear wife, he prayed as follows : — " We 
give Thee thanks, Oh Lord, for all Thy mercies to 
us in our married life, for having blessed us thus 
far in our children, for Thy goodness in this 
chastening. May its purposes be accomplished in 
us, and if life be lengthened may it be used 
according to Thy will, that we may serve Thee 
in our generation — Thine by adoption as well as 
by creation in Christ Jesus." 

On the morning of the 20th, after a more 
comfortable night, he prayed as follows : — "Help 
us Heavenly Father to come every day afresh to 
the fountain set open for sin and transgression, 
that we poor sinners may wash in it and be 
reconciled unto Thee through our Lord Jesus 
Christ." 

Though still able occasionally to be moved 
from his bed to the sofa, strength was evidently 
failing. On Second-day, the 22nd of Sixth 
month, his beloved mother paid him what proved 



ALFRED LLOYD FOX. 43 

her parting visit. When she repeated the text, 
" Thanks be unto God who gi veth us the victory," 
he added, "through our Lord Jesus Christ." 
During the latter part of that day the difficulty 
of breathing increased, and on Third-day morn- 
ing it was evident that the sands of life were fast 
running out. He took leave of his sons, relatives, 
and servants, sending a special message to a 
valued friend, and speaking particularly to one 
of his boys just returned from a distant school, 
addressing to each as he parted from them a few 
words of affectionate farewell. When after a time 
of much exhaustion he roused a little, he said, 
" I am left a little longer. I thought I should 
have waked in heaven, but now I am come back 
to you." 

His wife remarked, "All fear is taken away? " 
He replied, " Precious one, yes." To the words, 
"Jesus is with us,*' he replied, "No man can 
pluck us out of His hand." After taking a little 
refreshment he said, with a smile, " I thought I 
had taken leave, and now IVe brightened up." His 
wife said, " We shall be near one another still." 
He answered, " Very near in spirit, a thin veil 
will separate us." A short time longer of patient 
waiting for the call, a few more words of faith 
and of farewell, and his redeemed spirit passed 



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away, we reverently believe to that eternal " Rest 
in Jesus," for which in early manhood he had 
prayed, and of which, through the mercy of our 
God) a foretaste had been granted him whilst yet 
a pilgrim upon earth. 

The funeral took place on Seventh-day, the 
27th of Sixth month, and was attended by a large 
concourse of friends and neighbours. The follow- 
ing words amongst others were appropriately 
expressed at the grave-side : — 

" In standing around this grave I have been 
reminded of the words of our Holy Redeemer, 
* I am among you as he that serveth.' Thus did 
Christ in the lowliness of infinite love take upon 
Himself the form of a servant, and in offeriug 
Himself up upon the cross for us, become not 
only the propitiation for our sins, but the all- 
perfect Example, that we should follow His steps. 
It was this blessed Redeemer who was the hope 
of our beloved friend, his peace and rest for time 
and for eternity. It was his joy to follow Him 
fully. He loved to be the servant of his Lord 
in the service of others ; his life was a continued 
act of loving dedication, a lengthened ministry of 
unwearied love. He was among us as the servant 
of all ; ever gentle, ever kind, faithful, unselfish, 
still giving himseK to the Lord in a full and 



RACHEL COLLIER FOX. 45 

devoted ministry for the good of others. Thus 
was he made a living witness for his dear Lord, 
and his life a constant invitation to follow 
Jesus.'* 

Rachel Collier Fox, 86 22 5 mo. 1885 
Ford Park^ Plymouth, A Minister. Widow of 
, George Fox. 

Eachel Collier Fox was bom at Eingsbridge, 
the 30th of Eighth month, 1799. She was the 
second daughter of Joseph and Catherine Hing- 
ston, who subsequently removed to Plymouth. 

Her father was of quiet and studious habits, 
but taking his share in the management of the 
Bank at Plymouth, of which he was the head, 
and filling a large place in the affections of his 
family, and the esteem of his fellow-townsmen. 
Naturally shrinking more than many from death, 
he was nevertheless enabled in his last illness 
signally to show how a Christian can die. 

Catherine Kingston, the mother, was one 
of a family of marked characteristics. She 
possessed great fervor and freshness of feeling, 
was eminently kind and generous, and held and 
expressed her opinions with an originality and 
force peculiar to herself. She lived to an advanced 
age, and ever bore most decided testimony by her 
life and conversation to her faith in her Saviour. 



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The home at Plymouth in which Rachel 
Collier Fox passed many of her early days is thus 
described by one intimately acquainted with the 
family, and who is well known as a Christian 
leader : — " There is no household more strongly 
associated with the recollections of my early days 
than that to which she belonged. My thoughts 
still often recur to that quiet abode which by its 
connection with the Bible Society and other like 
societies became, I believe, an instrument of 
decided blessing to very many in Plymouth, and 
kindled, or perhaps re-kindled, a flame of evan- 
gelical truth there which has never been extin- 
guished." 

When fifteen years of age Rachel Fox thus 
expressed herself : — " I have been favoured to feel 
at times that I love my God and Saviour, and to 
desire most earnestly that my future life may be 
spent in a manner that will most tend to glorify 
my Heavenly Father." 

Previously to this, when quite a child, she 
had, when she thought she was seriously ill 
summoned her father's servants around her bed, 
and spoken to them on the uncertainty of life and 
tlie importance of preparation for the life to 
come. 

When she had just entered her twentieth 



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RACHEL COLLIER POX. 47 

year she was married to George Fox, who was 
residing at Wadebridge, and this union continued 
for upwards of sixty-two years. During her 
early years previously to and subsequently to her 
marriage she was accustomed from time to time 
to keep a record of her inner life. It is very 
instructive to mark the earnest striving of her 
consecrated spirit after more holiness — more con- 
formity to the will of God. She had much in 
her lot which might have led her from an interior 
life to a more external one. Her attractiveness 
of person and character made her to be much 
admired and loved in a circle of cultivated and 
lively young relatives and friends, and as a youth- 
ful bride in her husband's home in Cornwall she 
had the opportunity of frequent intercourse with 
those whose conversation naturally tended to 
draw towards the world. But whilst prizing asso- 
ciation with those whom she loved, and keeping in 
view the claims of neighbourly acquaintances, 
she is constantly in the records of her experience 
lamenting the tendency she feels to be drawn 
away from the one centre of her affections and 
aspirations, and she. is evidently still pressing 
forward to the mark for the prize of her high 
calling of God in Christ Jesus. 

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a meeting for worship, quoting the promise that 
the Lord's people shall dwell in a peaceable 
habitation, and her last public utterance was a 
quotation from the early part of the same passage. 
She was recorded a minister by the West Devon 
Monthly Meeting in Fourth month, 1854. Her 
ministerial communications were brief, but often 
proved to be messages of strength and comfort 
to her friends. 

It was mostly in the ministries of daily life 
that our dear friend found a service for her Lord. 
Many were the words in season she was enabled 
to speak to the weary and the erring during the 
course of her long life. Her loving and sympathetic 
spirit found large scope in this kind of ministry 
for although she was a member of a small meet- 
ing during a considerable portion of her life, she 
was not from that circumstance narrowed in her 
sympathies. It may be that the reverse of this 
was the fact ; for, whilst she was most steadfastly 
and especially attached to the religious Society 
to which she belonged, she perhaps found a 
more varied sphere for that large-hearted 
charity which knows no limitation of denomi- 
nation or creed. Her pen as well as her voice 
were actively employed in conveying helpful 
words to others. She always, as opportunity 



RA.CHEL COLLIER FOX. 49 

occurred, spoke to people directly of any faults or 
failings which were noticeable in their conduct, 
and most carefully abstained from doing so to 
third persons, or else she was ready to plead some- 
thing in extenuation of them. She placed, when- 
ever possible, a kind construction on actions and 
words which might be liable to a harsh interpre- 
tation. And yet it is evident that this abound* 
ing charity was not altogether the product of 
her natural disposition. In the records already 
referred to she mourns over her tendency to 
censoriousness of spirit, and especially refers to 
her readiness to notice the faults of other people. 
May we not all the more magnify the grace which 
made her what she was ? 

When residing at Kingsbridge, and whilst 
some of her sons were still living at home, she 
organised a night school for the working lads of 
the town, when such institutions were not so 
common as they subsequently became, and en- 
couraged her sons to take part in the teaching. 
Frequent opportunities for religious instruction 
occurred in connection with the working of this 
school. She also set on foot tract distribution in 
the villages around Kingsbridge, and not being 
strong enough to undertake this work herself, 
induced her children to engage in it. When 

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quite in advanced life, she opened at the meeting- 
house a class on First-days for young women and 
girls in service or otherwise employed, which she 
herself taught. 

She took a warm interest in missionary 
efforts and delighted in the reports she received 
of their progress. The accounts of evangelistic 
work in Spain especially interested her, connected 
as it ever was in her mind with the mission and 
death of a dearly loved son in that land. She 
caused Montgomery's hymn on Prayer to be 
translated into several Continental languages, and 
took pains to get it circulated. Whilst it will be 
thus seen that she did not confine herself to her 
immediate surroundings, it was her beloved 
husband (who preceded her to the life beyond the 
grave about three years), and her numerous chil- 
dren and grand-children, and also her dear sur- 
viving sister and her other near relatives, who 
knew most intimately what affection and cease- 
less sympathy flowed for them and all mankind 
from her loving heart. 

Her correspondence with her absent children 
was marked bv much tenderness and discrimina- 
tion. Writing to a son in London she remarks 
that " whatever our position may be, we can still 
do work for God. The man in active businesa 



RACHEL COLLIEB FOX 51 

can have his share in it, when he imports into 
the conduct of his daily calling the high princi- 
ples and the upright motives of a genuine Chris- 
tian, and lets it be seen by all that his heart is 
where his treasure is, and that his treasure is 
in Heaven." To another son she writes : — " How 
many things we can number that betoken the 
kind care of our Heavenly Father, proofs that 
should increase our faith in our unseen but ever- 
present almighty Helper. We feel that we have 
our allegiance to Him tried every day and more 
frequently than the day, but as we continue 
showing ourselves on His side, how we grow 
stronger and stronger, our difficulties lessen, and 
we find increasing enjoyment in fellowship with 
others engaged in a like warfare, which ends so 
well, haviug an everlasting crown of joy and 
peace set before us, and so many true pleasures by 
the way cast up. What can exceed the knowledge 
that God is pleased ? " Again she writes, " To 
hold on and hold fast is not easy in the adverse 
stream, but it is better to keep where He is at all 
times, never to leave Him.'* 

In the joys and sorrows, and the changes, 
interests, and trials, which are inseparable from a 
large family, she found the source of true rest and 
hope to be " within the veil." Acutely alive to 



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sorrow, and frequently suffering from a very sensi- 
tive temperament, and latterly also from weak- 
ness and a sense of bereavement, she was yet 
enabled to believe that her soul was anchored 
upon " the Rock." She was sensible of the many 
mercies by which she was surrounded, not the 
least of thtse being the tender and thoughtful 
ministrations of hf r daughters. 

Death came with no terrors for her; its sting 
was for ever taken away by Him in whom she 
had trusted during her long pilgrimage. 
Louis Fry, 46 20 5 mo. 1885 

Notting Hillf London. 
Isabella Gatchell, 40 11 2 mo. 1885 

Eathgar, Dublin, Daughter of Robert G. 

Gatchell. 
Mary Elizabeth Gibbins, 

Birmingham. 15 17 12 mo. 1884 

Daughter of William and Phebe Gibbins. 
Mary Gill, Reading, 80 1 8 mo. 1885 

Widow of Thomas Gill. 
Sarah Gill, 81 12 6 mo. 1885 

Crawshawhooth. 
Thomas E. Gilliver, 9 13 1 mo. 1885 

Birmingham. Son of William and Mary Ann 

Gilliver. 
Emma Gilkes, Nailsworth. 71 31 12 mo. 1884 



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Jacob Glaister, 69 21 6 mo. 1886 

Ryton, near Newcastle. 
Ellen Glaisybr, 76 16 11 mo. 1884 

Leighton Btizzard. An Elder. Widow of 

Joseph Glaisyer. 
John Horne Glaisyer, 83 7 8 mo. 1885 

Brighton, 
Robert Glaisyer, 74 28 4 mo. 1885 

Brighton. 
Hannah Goad, 83 8 8 mo. 1885 

Edge End, Ulverston, An Elder. 

In contemplating the lengthened and con- 
sistent Christian course of Hannah Goad, and the 
influence of her daily walk, we are reminded 
of the Scriptural declaration, " What doth the 
Lord require of thee but to do justly, to love 
mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?" 
She was born on the 24th of Second month, 
1802, and was one of the five daughters of Joseph 
and Hannah Goad, of Ulverston, Friends highly 
esteemed in their day, both within and without 
the Society. Three of her sisters died in early 
life, one of them at York School ; and her sur- 
viving sister, Sarah, and herself were brought up 
under the parental roof, and, until the decease of 
Joseph Goad in 1837, and of his wife in 1839, 
were their assiduous and loving care-takers. The 



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reverential, filial, affection shown by H. Goad to 
her parents during their life-time, and evidenced 
towards their memory, especially that of her 
father, in her private journal is striking, and 
shows how earnestly she sought to fulfil the 
injunction of the Old Testament, repeated with 
apostolic authority in the New, " Honour thy 
father and mother which is the first command- 
ment with promise." 

She was naturally of a high and proud spirit, 
manifesting considerable strength of will, and the 
desire and power of governing others ; which 
dispositions were prominent in her younger life ; 
but it is deeply instructive to observe how these 
tendencies were gradually mellowed and subdued 
under the refining influence of Divine grace ; 
fervent became her desires that her own will might 
be brought into subjection to the all-perfect will 
of her God ; and in her intercourse with others 
in after life, whilst a native dignity of manner 
which commanded deference and respect was 
always her characteristic, there was evidence that 
underneath this exterior there was true humility 
of spirit, and that she strove to follow in the foot- 
steps of the meek and lowly Saviour whom she 
had learned to love, and in taking whose yoke 
upon her she had found the true rest to her soul. 



HANNAH GOAD. 65 

In the year 1851, a very close trial was allotted 
to her in the death of her beloved sister, after an 
illness of some duration. The last survivors of 
their family, they were closely attached, their 
objects and pursuits were very similar, and above 
all they felt themselves to be fellow-pilgrims to 
a " better country/' The severing stroke was 
keenly felt, but H. G. was enabled to bow in 
resignation to the chastening, accepting it as from 
the Lord. She writes on this occasion : — " The 
sympathy of all our friends and relatives has 
been very great from first to last ; but the mercy 
and goodness of my Heavenly Father have been 
above all, or how could I have kept up ? The 
separation is doubtless ordered in wisdom and in 
love ; may its design not be marred by my want 
of submission. But oh ! that increased dedication 
may mark my walk through life. And now but 
one, the last of the family remains ; none left to 
record her last moments ; a little longer, and the 
place that has known me shall know me no more.*' 
Thirty-four years however had she yet to tread 
the journey of her earthly life, but the ** rock of 
her strength and her refuge was in God," and she 
did not lean on Him in vain. 

The blank thus made was in the kindness of 
her Heavenly Father to some extent filled. A 



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close intimacy had already existed between her- 
self and the late Mary Nicholson, of Whitehaven, 
who was with her at the time of her sister's death ; 
and henceforward this intimacy ripened into an 
almost sisterly attachment. The natural dis- 
positions of the two friends varied consider- 
ably, but the qualities which were lacking in 
the one seemed supplied by the other. They 
were closely and cordially united in their views 
on religious subjects and in their solicitude 
for the welfare of the Society to which they 
were so closely attached, as well as in sympathies 
which took a wider range. Their places of resi- 
dence were sufficiently near to allow of the fre- 
quent interchange of visits ; they occasionally 
took journeys together, and their intercourse, both 
personal and by correspondence, was a source of 
mutual help and blessing, until the decease of 
Mary Nicholson in the year 1867. How closely 
this bereavement was felt by H. G. will be seen 
in the extracts from her memoranda. 

Trained from childhood in the diligent 
attendance of all meetings, both for worship and 
discipline, the practice became with H. Goad not 
merely habitual, but a delight. Other engage- 
ments were always made subordinate to this para- 
mount duty. No trifling obstacle prevented her 



, HANNAH GOAD. 57 

being seen with constant regularity for a long 
series of years at her own small Monthly Meeting, 
usually held some miles distant at Kookhow, and 
at her Quarterly Meeting at Kendal ; and she 
was a very frequent attender of the Yearly Meet- 
ing. Her private journal contains frequent allu- 
sions to the privileges and responsibilities con- 
sequent on these opportunities of spiritual refresh- 
ment and instruction. 

For many years the meeting of Swarthmore 
was extremely small ; there were few to share 
the exercise of spirit which she strove prayerfully 
and watchfully to maintain. And when subse- 
quently the numbers to some extent increased, 
and the utterance of ministry and prayer became 
more frequent, she hailed these encouraging cir- 
cumstances as a token for good. Brought up in 
the distinguishing views and practices of the 
Society of Friends, they were adopted by her 
with a sincere conviction of their agreement with 
the precepts of Holy Scripture ; and whilst accord- 
ing to her friends freedom of thought and action 
in some matters which were, in her judgment, of 
importance, she faithfully adhered to her own 
convictions of religious duty, and truly manifested 
a self-denying conscientiousness in her daily life 
both in smaller and greater concerns, which was 



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not without its silent eflfect on others, as she 
"exercised herself to have always a conscience 
void of offence toward God and toward men." 

H. Goad was possessed of ample means, and 
was ever desirous of faithfully and judiciously 
occupying this portion of the stewardship en- 
trusted to her, carefully watching her own per- 
sonal expenditure, and keeping it within nar- 
row limits. Many were her unseen acts of 
kindness and liberality, and the " cause which 
she knew not she searched out." In the bestowal 
of her gifts she had also great faith in helping 
others to help themselves. 

The circumstances of her position caused her 
largely to depend on her own judgment in refer- 
ence to her outward concerns, in the management 
of which she manifested much executive ability, 
her naturally excellent mental powers standing 
her in good stead. It may also be truthfully said 
of her, in reference to these matters, that she 
sought to act in the spirit of the Psalmist's prayer: 
" Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, 
for I wait on Thee." Her standard of duty was 
high. Prompt and punctual herself, she looked 
for the same from those with whom she had to 
deal ; yet when occasion demanded a decision on 
her part with tenants, or those dependent on her, 



HANNAH GOAD. 59 

in which any extension either of forbearance or 
generosity was needful, she was quick to discern 
and act upon it. Her consideration for her 
domestics, and her personal interest in them, 
both when in her service and afterwards, was a 
very prominent feature in her character, as was 
her desire to act under Divine guidance in the 
ordering of her household, and in the details of 
her daily life. 

She was greatly concerned for the spread of 
the principles of Peace, and contributed largely 
to the support of any efforts in furtherance of this 
object ; and she was one of the earliest and 
warmest supporters of the cause of total absti- 
nence, a cause which continued near her heart to 
the close of life. She opened her house to lec- 
turers on the subject, and her purse to support 
its various needs ; and was largely the means of 
the erection of the Temperance Hall in Ulverston. 
With unwearied patience and earnest prayer she 
followed out individual cases, where she hoped 
she had an influence, and her memoranda show 
how earnestly she pleaded with some of these 
wanderers personally, and also at the throne of 
grace, for their reclamation and subsequent help 
to keep in the right path. 

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marked degree, she was " given to hospitality." 
For many years her house was opened to a great 
variety of guests; especially did she love to enter- 
tain the ministers of the Gospel, and many of 
these can testify that they have been helped and 
cheered on their way by her, those of her own sex 
especially often finding at her house a place of 
grateful and needed repose. But her hospitality 
extended to many more than these. From the 
proximity of her residence to Swarthmore, she 
was in the habit of receiving callers, and dispen- 
sing of her kindness to many casual visitors, 
attracted bv the reminiscences connected with the 
residence of George Fox and the meeting-house 
which he attended. Many, both from this coun- 
try and from across the Atlantic, were thus enter- 
tained, and felt that they had enjoyed a twofold 
pleasure in visiting the time-honoured locality, 
and in receiving the, generous hospitality so cor- 
dially and gracefully bestowed ; whilst her own. 
sphere of acquaintance was thus agreeably exten- 
ded. She regarded this as one of th« means 
which her Heavenly Father had placed within, 
her reach of " doing good to all men, especially to 
them that are of the household of faith," and 
many of her guests were sent away with loving 
and faithful parting words. 



HANNAH GOAD. 61 

In her not unfrequent journeys in search of 
health or rest from ordinary home duties, she 
usually made a point of selecting a locality where 
there was a meeting of Friends, and of making 
acquaintance by social calls upon the members of 
such meetings. Her love for the Friends in some 
of the country districts of her own Quarterly 
Meeting also led her in a similar manner occa- 
sionally to sojourn among them. 

Her desire for full submission of will 
in all things to the will of her Heavenly Father 
was strikingly manifested in connection with 
the trial permitted her in impaired eyesight, 
for which she was frequently under medical 
treatment during more than twenty years. The 
entries in her journal on this subject are of 
touching interest. 

Her life-long residence in or near Ulver- 
ston, her good judgment ripened by experience, 
her desire to help others, and her power of 
influencing them, sanctified as it was by the 
operation of the Holy Spirit, gave her a some- 
what unique position in her own neighbourhood, 
and many were the cases of various kinds which 
were brought to her for counsel. Her influence 
among the Friends of her own meeting was also 
very great, her decisions being almost invariably 



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accepted. Such a position has its difficulties and 
dangers, and these were doubtless discerned and 
felt by our dear friend ; but no one can read the 
entries in her journal, or have been the privileged 
recipient of her letters ; no one could mingle 
with her in daily life, without feeling that the 
spirit of her Divine Master rested upon her, the 
spirit of humility and of love. Along with marks 
of human infirmity, from which none are exempt, 
there was the evidence, especially in her later 
years, of the desire to serve rather than to rule, a 
rare combination of firmness and uprightness, 
with a lowly estimate of herself, and a peculiar 
delicacy and tenderness of feeling. Many of the 
characteristics we have noted, and others con- 
nected with her deepest feelings and most hal- 
lowed moments, may be traced in her memoranda, 
from which the following extracts are made : — 

" Second month 24th, 1859. — My fifty-seventh 
birthday. Oh, for power to set forth in words, 
and still more in life and conversation, the mar- 
vellous goodness and long-sufi'ering mercy of my 
Father in Heaven, who indeed dealeth with me 
not according to my deserts. I have felt more 
especially of late the efficacy of prayer, bringing 
all to the footstool of my adorable Redeemer, 
and realising His promised presence, the promise 



HANNAH GOAl). 63 

that I do increasingly believe is * yea and amen 
for ever ' to the faithful trusting suppliant." 

" Third month, 1860. — Continued blessings 
are richly mine, health and ability to meet daily 
requirements as they come round. May I be 
afresh stimulated day by day to offer up accept- 
able reverential prayer and praise to my Father 
in Heaven, through my adorable Saviour, who 
sitteth at the right hand of the Father, and 
heareth the earnest cry of His poorest dependent 
ones. Oh, for His leading and support, even to 
the end ! No other stay will avail." 

In 1860 she was some time in Scotland with 
her friend Mary Nicholson, and attended the 
General Meeting at Aberdeen. 

" Twelfth month 3lst, 1860. — I wish to note my 
sincere thankfulness for all my continued bless- 
ings during the past year, and now in this incle- 
ment season especially. My soul craves for grace 
and devotedness hour by hour, and for a more 
clear understanding of the written words, the 
Scriptures of truth. I fear I am deficient in earnest 
prayer on this ground. May I diligently raise 
the petition on every time of taking up the pre- 
cious volume, that profit to myself and those who 
join me when at family reading may be known. 
At the close of our reading this evening I ex- 



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pressed what had vividly arisen^a prayer for a 
blessing from our Heavenly Father during the 
coming year, and the desire that it might be to 
each of us our best." 

" Third month 17 th, 1861. — A favoured state 
of feeling at my bedside this morning. A clear 
view that my Saviour was all in all, no other to 
trust to for anything, my ever-present Helper. 
And great I felt the privilege of such access " 
through Him; and by my fireside afterwards the 
words presented, which I find in the 1st chapter 
of James : * Every good gift and every perfect 
gift is from above,' &c. I felt them to be sweetly 
in unison. In thinking of meeting my friends 
at Swarthmore this morning it appeared to me 
that no mode of worship is so fitted to promote 
humility as that professed by our Society. A 
sweet note from my dearest earthly friend (Mary 
Nicholson) was a comfort indeed." 

"First-day evening, Seventh month 7th. — My 
mind has been at times to-day sorrowfully wan- 
dering. So much seems to have to be done to- 
morrow occupying my thoughts [the opening of 
the Temperance Hall]. Undeserving as I feel of 
my Father's mercies, I do venture here, as I have 
done before and hope repeatedly to do, to ask for 
help in the hour of need, and to move, act, t^hink, 



HANNAH ClOAD. 65 

and feel in reverential accordance with His will, 
through the intercession of my adorable Saviour, 
whose blood can alone cleanse me from my sins. 
Oh, for living faith and trust abidingly on this 
point." 

" Seventh month 22nd, 1861. — I have been 
wishing to note here for some days past mercies 
abounding which I have to recount. Oh for a 
devoted, grateful heart ! I have found the benefit 
latterly of giving myself more unto prayer : and 
I am assured if it were in a tenfold degree it 
'would be largely blessed." 

" Second mcnth 2^th, 1862. — To me a rather 
memorable day — the completion of my sixtieth 
year. I find it rather difficult to realise, but one 
thing I can and do desire, that every added day 
may be more devoted to the Lord, to any work 
He may open out for me, and that faith and 
faithfulness may go hand in hand, putting my 
whole trust in my Saviour and in His great 
sacrifice. I trust I have a clear view of this — that 
no works of my own will save me, but to work 
as He points out will be acceptable. Oh may the 
answer to many a petition offered at Thy foot- 
stool for some tempted ones, Heavenly Father, be 
granted. Oh that the work may be Thine, and 
further direction be given to the poor instrument 



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to act rightly. Thou dost know, oh my adorable 
Kedeemer, that thanksgiving did flow from my 
heart and eyes yesterday on receipt of a letter from 

, and in our little evening gathering I was 

sensible of a very precious covering being spread 
over us with a strikingly unbroken stillness. Oh 
how surely are the promises fulfilled if we do but 
ask and seek helievingly. Grant, Father in heaven, 
I beseech Thee, a clearer knowledge and under- 
standing of Thy written words, and an increase 
of prayerfulness of spirit hour by hour." 

After attending both Dublin and London 
Yearly Meetings : — 

^' Sixth month, 1862. — After an absence of 
nearly six weeks I have been permitted through 
unmerited mercy to reach my valued home in 
health and safety, and I once again open this 
book to commemorate the continued loving kind- 
ness of my God. But, alas ! my own nothingness 
and shortcomings. Instead, however, of dwelling 
despondingly in this strain, I am desirous to look 
up trustingly and imploringly for a hopeful spirit, 
to be energetic and alive to what is open for me 
to do in faith and trust and holy desires, making 
constant approaches to my Father in Heaven. 
Surely I have made some advances during the 
past privileged time." 



HANNAH GOAD. 67 

*' Tenthmonth 19th,lS63, — Continired mercies 
have to be numbered ; oh for devotedness com- 
mensurate thereto ! The days have been dark 
lately, and I feel my reduced vision, but oh for 
cheerful resignation to my Father's will, re- 
membering how from my youth up I have baen 
blessed far beyond my deserts." 

" Thirdmonth ] 4th, 1864. —Last evening, after 
returning from meeting, a sweet tendering time 
by fire-light was granted me that I felt truly 
thankful for, a realising of the presence of my 
blessed Saviour. I thought of many gone before, 
and desired fervently to pray for many yet in the 
flesh as well as for my poor self, for those who 
are solitary, those laid on a sick bed, and for 
those who have greatly strayed from the right 
path. My sight, I may note, is increasingly 
changed. The Lord's will be done : and oh that 
His Kingdom may come into my poor vacillating 
heart." 

An operation was performed in London with 
successful results in the spring of 1864, but great 
care continued to be needed in the use of her 
eyes. 

" Seventhmonthdlst, 1866. — The twenty-ninth 
anniversary of my precious father's interment. 
What have I gained since then ? Mourning over 



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shoilcomings and errors this morning, but I did 
venture trustingly to believe that through the 
mercy of my Saviour's intercession, I should, if 
taken without a moment's warning, be — oh 
wonderful I—accepted." 

" Third month 6th, 1869.— Left for White- 
haven expecting to find the spirit of my dearest 
earthly friend departed ; and so it proved : at 
12.30 that morning the close was witnessed in 
quiet sleep. Her own sweet smile was there. More 
I need not add as to the blank in my heart. 
On the 9th I was present to pay the last mark 
of love, and follow to the grave all that remained 
of my precious one ; many sorrowing hearts were 
there. This book was commenced in 1851, when 
the dear departed one became to me a second 
sister ; but I may look in vain, I believe, for one 
to supply the place again, and my own tarriance 
on earth may not be long. One alone knows. 
* The Lord will provide,' has at different times 
occurred. May I wait for the promised blessing 
trustingly." 

Third month 24th, — Alluding again to the 
bereavement, she adds, "And now I have re- 
opened this book, 9.40 p.m., merely to note that 
the words, * Arise, He calleth thee,' may be, 
must be, my watchword for life ; oh for faith- 



HANNAH GOAD. 69 

fulness, a close followinpj on to know the 
Lord." 

In 1868 and 1869 several entries occur in 
reference to her impaired eight, which had 
increased upon her. First month 1st, 1870, she 
writes : — " One more year reached through mercy; 
restored vision has not been granted me. To be 
humbly submissive and resigned is what I ask 
for, truly breathing the prayeV * Not my will, 
but Thine be done.' " 

In this year, however, she was able to attend 
the Yearly Meeting again, and to journey as far 
as Falmouth to visit the endeared friend of her 
early years and constant correspondent, Sarah 
(Charles) Fox. 

The entries in her journal are henceforth 
fewer and more brief ; but she writes under date 
Ninth month 24th, 1872 :—" Mercifully permitted 
to reach home on the 13th of Seventh month after 
staying six weeks in London. The operation on 
the left eye has the promise of good success. A 
feeling of great peace and gratitude rests with me 
for innumerable mercies, but in unerring wisdom 
mixed with trial, and now at this date I am 
without hope of the right eye ever opening until 
a joyful entrance may be granted in eternity, to 
which my soul sa} s * Amen ! Thy will be done ! ' " 



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"Second month 24thy 1882.— My eightieth 
birthday. I am richly blessed with good health. 
I know not that I have lack of anything ; what a 
position for gratitude ! * What shall I render ? ' 
may indeed arise. I do prayerfully ask for more 
watchfulness, continuously realising the presence 
of Him who is * all in all.' My long loved, and 
I may say, my oldest remembered friend, Sarah 
(Hustler) Fox, was called to her heavenly home 
the 18th of this month. 'Friend after friend 
departs.' " 

Second month 2ith, 1885. — (The last entry.) 
" My eighty-third birthday. My health for ten 
weeks has called for medical care, which I can 
gratefully say has been attentively and kindly 
rendered. Now I thankfully trust there is some 
promising progress. I write thus, feeling willing 
to live a little longer, trul^ desiring that it may 
be increasingly in the fear of the Lord, as a 
follower of my blessed Saviour and Redeemer, 
whose love and worth cannot be fathomed, but 
is without money and without price. Oh, for 
grace to keep at the footstool continually ! " 

During the spring her strength and appetite 
visibly declined ; but she pursued most of her 
usual avocations, and entertained guests as had 
been her wont. She felt a strong desire once 



HANNAH GOAD. 71 

more to visit Harrogate, which had often previ- 
ously been of use to her. The effort was great 
in prospect, and she seemed scarcely equal to it ; 
but the journey was comfortably accomplished 
early in Sixth month. 

The previous First-day, Fifth month 31st she 
sat and worshipped in the ancient, and, to her 
most familiar meeting-house at Swarthmore for 
the last time, and in the evening was able to meet 
with her friends in the upper room at Ulverston, 
near her own house, where an evening meeting had 
for some years been held, and which she had her- 
self renovated for the purpose. A dear friend who 
was then visiting her for a few days writes thus 
respecting this occasion: — 

" I had been expressing a few words in meet" 
ing about the blessed restful stillness the soul 
enjoys, when once the will is wholly yielded. 
My remarks were chiefly addressed to young 
persons, several of whom were present. I was 
much touched on our return, when sitting toge- 
ther after supper H. G. said, * My dear, I believe 
good part of thy message this evening was for me.* 
I replied, ' I think not.' But she said, * Yes, I 
have had a strong will, and it would have been 
better to have yielded it when young ; it is not 
so easy as we grow older.' During that little 



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visit, she spoke of her Christian standing with 
great humility, and with far more openness than 
was usual with her." 

She remained seven weeks at Harrogate, and 
during the earlier part of the time was frequently 
able to attend meetings, and to make a few calls 
on her friends, who observed with anxiety how 
much her powers had failed, and that in all 
human probability they would not see her again 
amoDgst them. She noted in an almanac, under 
date of Seventh month 24th, " Greatly favoured 
to reach home in safety ; very prostrate.** This 
prostration increased rapidly, and the end came 
only two weeks after her return home, somewhat 
unexpectedly at the last, though her medical man 
had prepared her attendants for the possibility of 
a sudden change, whilst thinking she might live 
for some weeks longer. 

The friend mentioned above came over to 
see her the day before her death, and stayed 
the night. She writes : — " I found her very low 
bodily, but quite herself, and very pleased to 
see me. As I sat by her bedside, occasionally 
repeatiog short passages from Scripture or a few 
stanzas of a hymn, she remarked, * That suits ; 
something short is all I can take in ; ' and when 
I came to that line in the hymn ^Kock of Ages,' 



HANNAH GOAD. 73 

'simply to thy cross I cling/ she whispered, 
' That is all I can do ; I am just clinging.' 
She was restless, and did not sleep all night, 
wandering at times, but her mind was bright 
and clear in the morning, and thoughtful to the 
last for the comfort of others. When she bade 
me a tender farewell, she gave directions for 
some refreshment for me, and only half-an- 
hour after she was gone — gone to a better 
land." 

Thus lived and thus died our much-loved 
friend Hannah Goad. No one would have more 
shrunk than herself from anything being said 
or written of her which would tend to exalt 
the creature ; but in testimony to the grace 
which made her what she was we believe it 
may be truthfully said, that in her removal 
another is added to "the cloud of witnesses" 
who have gone before, whose only hope was in 
a Saviour's merits and a Saviour's love, but 
whose life spoke of the reality of the founda- 
tion on which she built, and to whom the words 
may emphatically apply, " whose faith follow." 
Jeremiah Gott, 80 31 12 mo. 1884 

Drighlington. 
Robert James Gowie, 35 17 6 mo. 1884 

Battersea. 

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James Gratton, 41 19 1 mo. 1885 

Sheffield. 
Harriet Green, 68 1 1 mo. 1885 

Saffron JValden, Wife of Thomas Day Green. 
Edith Mart Gregory, 

Bamsley. 13 mos. 13 7 mo. 1885 

Daughter of James G. Gregory. 
Lydia Gregory, 75 21 1 mo. 1885 

Paignton^ near Torquay, Widow of Alfred 

Gregory. 
Rebecca Gregory, 78 8 11 mo. 1884 

Derby. Widow of Samuel Gregory. 
Louisa Ann Grimes, 21 17 2 mo. 1885 

Camden Town, London. 
William P. Grimshaw, 12 2 12 mo. 1884 

Sunderland. Son of John W. and Frances 

Grimshaw. 
Wilhelmine Grone, 73 1 6 mo. 1885 

Colchester. Widow of Hermann Grone, of 

Minden, Prussia. 
Alfred Grubb, 37 24 1 mo. 1885 

Cahir. Son of the late 6. Haiighton and Eliza 

Grubb. 
Anna Grubb, 71 19 4 mo. 1885 

Clonmel. An Elder. 
Thomas S. Grubb, 93 19 5 mo. 1885 

Clonmel. 



HANNAH HAMILTON. VS 

William B. Halhbad, 32 3 2 mo. 1885 

KeiridaL 
Martha Hallow ay, 69 18 V mo. 1885 

Stohe Nevoington, 
Hannah Hamilton, 76 9 6 mo. 1885 

Redhill, Surrey. 

Her life was one of self-denial and continued 
self-sacrifice for the good of others, of warm and 
earnest sympathy, and of cheerful and devoted 
resignation and trust. She was deeply beloved 
and valued by those able to appreciate her cha- 
racter. The close — a translation from mortality 
to life — was crowned with calmness and perfect 
peace. 
Thomas Handley, 41 28 9 mo. 1885 

Briggflatts, Sedbergh, 
The quiet and unobtrusive life of T. Hand- 
ley, and his exemplary patience under suffering, 
afforded a striking example to all those who knew 
him. For thirty-eight years he was subject to 
very severe attacks of asthma, which brought him 
many a time to the very edge of the Border Land, 
making him feel the uncertainty of life ; but 
when free from suffering he was always cheerful, 
and enjoyed life in his own quiet way, being 
much interested in the cultivation of flowers in 
his garden, and greatly enjoying the society of 



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his friends. We extract a few passages from his 
private memoranda : — 

"This morning awoke with a headache, and 
felt greatly humbled under a sense of my own 
weakness and un worthiness. Life hangs on a 
very slender thread, we know not what a day or 
an hour may bring forth, but we are in the 
hands of a merciful Providence, and He will 
not forsake those who put their trust in Him. 
Not able to go to meeting, but read a portion 
of the New Testament, and meditated on the 
precious promises recorded for our encourage- 
ment. Another week has passed ; have I gained 
anything ? I hope I may say — 

* I am nearer my Father's house, 
Where the many mansions be ; 
Nearer the great white throne ; 

Nearer the crystal sea ; 
Nearer the bound of life 

Where I lay my burdens down ; 
Nearer losing the cross, 
Nearer gaining the crown.' 

I do desire to be ready, that, whether my days 
be longer or shorter, I may not leave the most 
important things to the last. 

" At meeting this morning I wrestled very 
hard, and was permitted to feel His blessed pre- 
sence, which is what I most earnestly crave.'' 



riANNAH HAMILTON. 77 

*' Still afflicted, which is no doubt for my 
good. Oh that I may be benefitted by it, and be 
brought into a state of dependence upon Him, 
without whose notice a sparrow falleth not to the 
ground. But it is the giving up of the whole 
heart ; a divided heart He will not accept." 

" I long to feel His presence, and that I am 
His child, and ready whenever the summons may 
come. I think I have made some progress during 
the past year through my Heavenly Father's 
help. I do long to be free from sin, but I can 
do nothing of myself, I am entirely helpless ; but 
my God whom I desire to serve can do all things 
for me." 

" I have had a very trying attack of breath- 
ing, which makes me think my life is very 
uncertain. I desire to be more dedicated to the 
service of the Lord, and to be weaned from the 
love of things of earth, and to be filled with love 
to my Heavenly Father and to His dear Son, who 
are worthy of all honour and praise." 

" I desire to be patient and not to complain, 
I have such a comfortable quiet home, so suited 
to my nature. I fear I am not thankful enough 
for all my blessings." 

" Oh I long to serve my Heavenly Father 
with a perfect heart and a willing mind. 



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" Thus by His gracious hand upborne, 

Be my life's journey short or long, 
On Thee Til lean from early morn, 

Till day chimes out its evening song ; 
And if at times in sorrow's night. 

Thou dost appear to hide Thy face, 
I shall believe that all is right. 

And trust Thee when I fail to trace." 

As he had always seemed to anticipate, his 
call was sudden and unexpected. He was re- 
covering from an attack of asthma, when he had 
an apoplectic seizure, under which he had only 
slight gleams of consciousness. His last connected 
words were uttered in testimony to his full belief 
in Jesus Christ as his Saviour, and in emphati- 
cally declaring Him to be precious. 

" Be ye therefore ready also, for in such an 
hour as ye think not the Son of Man cometh." 
William Handley, 71 8 4 mo. 1885 

Sotithport, 
Mary Harding, 90 10 6 mo. 1885 

Deptford. Widow of Robert Harding. 
John Hargrave, 67 18 1 mo. 1885 

Southport, 
Frank Harrison, 27 8 5 mo. 1885 

Eccles, near Manchester. Son of George and 

Lucy Harrison. 



THOMAS HARVEY. 79 

Thomas Hartley, 57 28 1 mo. 1885 

Bown^Sy Windermere. 
Jane Harty, Cork 81 23 12 mo. 1884 

Widow of Joseph Harty. 
Thomas Harvey, 72 25 12 mo. 1884 

Headingleyy Leeds. A Minister. 

Thomas Harvey was one who had very 
humble views of himself. He realised fully that 
if he had been enabled to do anything for the 
good of those around him, it was by the power of 
the Holy Spirit, granted from time to time, 
through the goodness of his God and Saviour, to 
whom he had given his heart in early manhood. 

In a few memoranda found since his death, he 
often alludes in a very feeling manner to the way 
in which the Lord had led him so tenderlv in 
early life. Frequent allusions are made to his 
childhood at Bamsley, and especially to the tender 
care of a beloved mother. He writes :— " I very 
early became fond of books. Those we had were, 
I have no doubt, read over and over again. I 
remember the interest with which I read ' Pil- 
grim's Progress,' which was not lessened when 
glimpses of the meaning of the allegory dawned 
upon my mind. My dear mother was neither 
sentimental nor imaginative, but she encouraged 
my confidence, and was in my eyes the model of 



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a tender and good mother. She was firm as well 
as gentle ; and, though I hardly remember any 
corporal correction from her hand, we were much 
more afraid of grieving and offending her than 
my father." 

Alluding to his mother again in later life he 
remarks : — " When I look back to the days of my 
childhood, when she was often ailing in health, 
and remember all she had to do in the care of her 
family, &c., having an open hand and heart for 
the poor, I am thankful to have been the son of 
such a mother. The qualities that have contri- 
buted to our success in life were mainly derived 
from her, though I love the memory of my dear 
father also." 

After having been taught for some time at a 
grammar school in his native town, he was sent 
to Ackworth, and afterwards to York School, 
where he formed many friendships. He was not 
a very sociable boy, and often preferred reading to 
the more active occupations of the play -hour. 
He gives some of his impressions of his Ackworth 
school-life in his journal : — " I was tolerably 
quick, but superficial. I gained, however, a good 
position and kept it. But the curriculum was 
not wide enough to occupy fully an active boy, 
especially one who came to school prettj' well 



THOMAS HARVEY. 81 

instructed. We owed much to Henry Brady, 
one of the masters, and to John Newby, an 
apprentice, for aid to intellectual culture out of 
school. The former taught a volunteer class in 
Greek for a while, as an experiment I believe on 
the Hamiltonian system. He gave it up in a few 
months as a failure ; but through life this little 
insight into Greek has been a benefit to me. 
John Newby made a hobby of the Essay Society 
among the boys, and urged us to write essays to 
be read and discussed at the monthly meetings. 
This was very improving. . . . Though we had 
valuable Scriptural instruction, I do not think I 
had a real grasp of the Gospel plan of redemp- 
tion. J. J. Gurney's occasional visits were re- 
garded as times of great interest, and were no 
doubt valuable." 

His first situation in business was at Shef- 
field ; but the friend to whom he was apprenticed 
dying shortly afterwards, he was removed to 
Birmingham. The years spent there were a 
memorable time. He writes : — " I was taken as 
an apprentice by Thomas Southall, of Birming- 
ham. I went there in the summer or autumn of 
1827, being still under sixteen, and now found 
myself one of a large business establishment of 
great and growing reputation. Here I spent 



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seven or eight years as apprentice and assistant, 
and it was undoubtedly a most important period 
of my life. The friends of the meeting, Samuel 
Lloyd, Joseph Sturge, the Cadburys, and others, 
were very kind in occasionally asking us to tea 
on First-day evenings." 

We would now record in his own words the 
great event that' was the key to his future useful- 
ness : — " When about eighteen, I think I gained 
that priceless boon, a sense that Christ died for 
my sins, and that through Him there was pardon 
and victory. Yet for years afterwards my spiritual 
state was so wavering and clouded that I hardlv 
dare speak of what I then knew as conversion ; 
yet it was a turning point. . . . We had several 
family visits of ministers in rather rapid succes- 
sion : J. Backhouse, J. Dymond, E. Robson and 
J. J. Gumey. Most of these visits seemed to do 
me good, but that of J. J. Gurney, as well as his 
ministry in the meeting during his stay of some 
weeks, was very helpful. Perhaps on the whole 
I owe more to him than to anv other minister." 

Thomas Harvey's residence in Birmingham 
also led to association with some members of that 
meeting, who were diligent in work for the 
Master. Thus he was introduced into Sabbath 
school and other service, and at that time al?o 
joined the Temperance Society. 



THOMAS HARVEY. 83 

It was soon after he left Birmingham that he 
was invited to accompany Joseph Sturge in his 
mission to the West Indies, a visit that introduced 
him into deep sympathy with the coloured popu- 
lation, and led also to much Christian fellowship 
with those who had gone out as missionaries to 
preach the Gospel to them. Interesting corre- 
spondence was kept up with some of these through 
life, and his second visit in 1866 further increased 
his desire to labour in the anti-slaverv cause. It 
is not needful to dwell upon these and other 
visits to foreign lands, as records were made at 
the time. The one to Finland, in 1856, wuth 
Joseph Sturge, and to South Kussia along with 
Isaac Robson, led into deeper interest in the 
Peace cause, and to the end of his life his pen 
was often employed in the cause of the persecuted 
and suffering at home and abroad. 

Though often feeling his unfitness for such 
work, it was instructive to mark his willingness to 
give up his time to his Lord's service. In early life 
his income was small, and his business one that 
seemed especially to require his presence ; yet 
he never allowed these considerations to interfere 
with the work he believed was required of him ; 
and on his return was permitted to realise the 
fulfilment of our Saviour's promise, "Seek ye 



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first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, 
and all these things shall be added unto you.'* 
He was much attached to his own religious 
Society, and his clear judgment was often very 
helpful in our meetings. For many years he 
was in the station of Elder, and spoke occasion- 
ally in meetings for worship. He was recorded a 
Minister in 1868. His addresses were often 
weighty and instructive. They were charac- 
terised, as one has remarked, "by humility, 
gentleness, and reverence, and especially by 
a clear and persistent testimony to the media- 
torial grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, as the 
one sacrifice and atonement for sin, and the one 
way to the Father." 

The Scriptural knowledge he possessed was 
also used in the preparation and reading of papers 
on Bible subjects, and by this means many of the 
distinguishing views of our religious Society were 
brought out in a way that interested our own 
members, as well as those who had more recently 
joined in fellowship with us. 

His marriage in the autumn of 1845 to Sarah 
Grace, the third daughter of the late Joseph 
Fryer, of Toothill, near Huddersfield, introduced 
him into a large family circle. He felt the value 
of this intercourse, and was beloved by all. He 



THOMAS HARVEY. 85 

writes : — " It has proved a blessed union, though 
chastened from time to time by sorrows and 
bereavements." In alluding to the early deaths 
of two of his children, and especially to the great 
sorrow in the sudden death of his youngest son, 
through an ice accident in 1867, he remarks, 
" May none I love be called suddenly to a like 
heart-rending experience. . . . He (Thomas) had 
valuable qualities, and we were very hopeful of 
his future. We trust our best hopes have been 
far exceeded." 

At various times he was engaged in Gospel 
service, sometimes residing with his wife in one 
place in lodgings, in order to visit the meetings 
and families of Friends. 

Our dear friend would truly have wished 
that no word of praise should be accorded to him. 
His retiring disposition always led him to dis- 
trust himself ; but seeking to live a life of com- 
munion with God in prayer, with the Bible as 
his constant companion, he was enabled to bring 
forth fruit unto holiness. 

Living in a large meeting, he felt a deep 
interest in all the members, and especially in the 
young, and often regretted that his public duties, 
and at times rather delicate health, prevented his 
having more intercourse with them. Having him- 

I 



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self in early life known something of the difficul- 
ties and temptations of young men, when called 
into situations in large towns, he had a peculiar 
interest in such, and often sought occasion to 
help them during their residence in Leeds. 

A Friend (now abroad) who lived many 
years in Leeds, writing after his death, says : — 
" What a beautiful life his has been, so full of 
good works for his Master. What kind and 
tender sympathy he always showed for those in 
distress or trouble. As for myself I never can 
forget his kindness during the long and painful 
illness I had, and while out here I have read 
again and again that where suffering or want 
prevailed, there our dear friend assisted to lessen 
the pain, and remove the suffering and ameliorate 
the condition of his fellow-creatures. Our Society 
could ill afford to lose so good a man." 

Another friend writes : — " We know that the 
power that made Thomas Harvey what he was 
can raise up others, but it has not I think been 
mine to meet with, in combination of character, 
just such a man. Ability and humility blended 
with an amount of intellectual cultivation that 
rendered him so fitted for being a counsellor, and 
crowning all, spiritual graces that seemed so un- 
equivocally to tell of the source of all his supplies." 



THOMAS HARVEV. 87 

Thomas Harvey retired from business in early 
middle life, and devoted his remaining years to 
religious, benevolent, and educational work. For 
many years he was on the Leeds School Board, 
and was also greatly interested in the promotion 
of higher education in the Society of Friends, 
especially amongst young women. 

One who was often associated with him in 
Leeds, remarks : — " He was so modest, gentle, 
lowly, unassuming and courteous, refined and 
considerate, that it was a pleasure to be in his 
society. Clear in thought, sound in judgment, 
wise in utterance, convincing and conclusive, and 
yet so simple, he stated what he had to say 
with an almost child-like simplicity, and yet 
bringing it home, whether it was in the private 
circle or the public meeting, with the conviction 
that he was speaking the truth, and that he was 
saying what he ought to say, and that he was not 
seeking to say a word more. There was a con- 
tinual thought of how he might in any wise help 
another ; sympathy with the fallen, pity for the 
degraded, help for the needy and sick. Whether 
we were fighting against the horrid opium traffic, 
against slavery, against intemperance, or against 
nations learning war, and multitudej of men 
being kept in idleness armed to the teeth in 



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order to slaughter their fellow- creatures, Thomas 
Harvey was with us in mind, in heart, in spirit, 
in purse, in labour, and in prayer." 

Though of a rather delicate constitution, it 
was often remarkable how much he could accom- 
plish in a quiet way. The words seem applicable 
when dwelling on his life work : — 

*' Wherever ia the world I am, 
In whatsoever estate, 
I have a fellowdhip with hearts 

To keep and cultivate : 
And a work of lowly luve to do 
For the Lord on whom I wait." 

His last extended service was in the summer 
of 1884. Though feeling that it was towards 
evening with him, he went in company with 
three dear friends to Canada on a mission of peace 
and love, calmly leaving himself and his all in 
the Lord's hands. He returned in Tenth month 
in rather enfeebled health, but recovered fo far 
as to enter into his usual duties for some weeks. 
His placid countenance was indicative of the 
peace within, but it was little thought that 
his service on earth was so nearly ended. He 
took a severe cold, which soon assumed the form 
of pneumonia, and after only a few days' illness 
and with little suffering, he most peacefully 



ANN HAW. 89 

entered into eternal rest and joy, on Christmas- 
day, 1884. 
Edmund Hatcher, 67 28 6 mo. 1885 

North Cadbury, Somerset. 
Ann Haw, Redcar, 83 16 9 mo. 1885 

late of Leyhurn. A Minister. Widow of 

William H/iw. 

" Gather up the fragments that remain that 
nothing be lost"— was the command of our 
Saviour after He had miraculously fed the mul- 
titude ; and it is in the belief that there w^ere 
points of interest and instruction in the character 
of Ann Haw that this brief account of her is 
placed on record. 

Ann Wilson was bom at Acaster Malbis, 
near York, on the 1 5th of Sixth month, 1 802. 
We have not the means of becoming acquainted 
with much of her early life ; but so far as is 
known she appears to have been of a serious 
thoughtful disposition. When sixteen years of 
age she united herself with the Primitive Metho- 
dist?, and shortly afterwards, under the constrain- 
ing love of Christ, became an acceptable local 
preacher in that body. Not long after this she 
was sent out as an itinerant minister under their 
auspices, and travelled for some time in the York- 
shire dales, wJiere her ministry was both accep- 



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table and useful ; crowds flocked to her meetings, 
and it is believed her message was blessed to 
many. 

It was here she first became acquainted with 
a young man named William Haw, a member of 
the same denomination, who afterwards became 
her husband ; and after her marriage with him, 
about the year 1837, she ceased to travel in the 
ministry and settled down at his house at West 
Witton, in Wensleydale. 

About this time she and her husband became 
dissatisfied with the form of worship practised in 
the body to which they belonged, and resigned 
their membership in it, and began to hold meet- 
ings in their own house, and in cottages in the 
surrounding villages, after the manner of Friends, 
to which the inhabitants were invited. It was the 
privilege of the writer to attend several of these 
meetings in his early days, and never will he 
forget the powerful appeals he heard from the 
lips of Ann Haw on some of these occasions. Not 
long after this she and her husband began to 
attend Friends' meetings at Aysgarth, and were 
soon afteiwards united in membership with the 
Society. 

In course of years a daughter and two sons 
were born to William and Ann Haw, on whom 



ANN HAW. 91 

their affections were deeply centred. The two 
boys, when growing up to be bright interesting 
children, were suddenly taken from them by 
illness. This was a sore affliction to the bereaved 
parents ; but, under the sustaining influence of 
divine grace, it was borne with Christian fortitude. 
And now a circumstance occurred which, 
but that it may serve as a warning to others, 
might well be passed over. A peculiarity in the 
character of Ann Haw was her faithfulness in 
reproving sin and inconsistency wherever she saw 
it practised ; and on a certain occasion, having 
spoken faithfully to a Friend on account of in- 
temperance and improper conduct carried on in 
a secret manner, this individual took great offence, 
and afterwards appeared to entertain a bitter 
dislike to Ann Haw. Shortly after the death of 
her children, and when she was still keenly 
feeling the bitter pangs of bereavement, a 
minister, in high standing in the Society, who 
there is reason to believe had been listening to 
the tale-bearing and detraction of this individual, 
had an interview with Ann Haw, and, in allusion 
to the death of her children, intimated that it 
was a judgment upon her on account of her un- 
faithfulness. This was a terrible blow to the 
bereaved mother. Not long afterwards this same 



92 ANNUAL MONITOR. 

minister attended Aysgarth meeting, William 
and Ann Haw both being present, and preached a 
sermon so evidently pointed against them, that, 
at the conclusion of the address, they both rose 
and left the meeting, and immediately afterwards 
sent in their resignation of membership. 

About this time the late Joseph Barker 
occasionally visited Wensleydale, and his writings 
were freely circulated. William Haw in some 
measure espoused his views, but his wife ever 
remained true to the doctrines of evangelical 
religion. They were now occupying a farm at 
Capplebank, near West Witton, but this not 
proving satisfactory, they went to reside at 
Washfold House, near Leybum, on a small farm 
which they had purchased. Here William Haw, 
who was always delicate in health, and not a 
successful man of business, died, leaving his 
wife and children with small means. 

After her husband's death Ann Haw opened 
a small Temperance Hotel at Leyburn ; her son, 
who had married, continuing to reside with her. 
Before this time Ann Haw, like the dove that 
had left the ark and found no place of rest on 
the troubled waters, made application for re- 
instatement in membership with Friends, and was 
cordially received by Richmond Monthly Meet- 



ANN HAW. 93 

ing. The distance at which she resided from any 
meeting prevented her regular attendance, but 
when able to be present her voice was frequently 
heard in ministry. 

In 1879 her son removed to Redcar; she 
accompanied him, and continued to reside with 
him to the end of her life. Here she enjoyed the 
privilege of attending meetings more frequently 
and the opportunity of exercising her gift as a 
minister of the Gospel, and was recorded as such 
by Darlington Monthly Meeting. 

For many years she was afflicted with deaf- 
ness, which increased with age. During the latter 
years of her life she became almost totally blind, 
and might have adopted the language of the poet — 
" On my bended knee 

I recognise Tby purpose cleatlj shown ; 
My vision Thou hast dimmed, 

That I might see 
Thyself, Thyself alone." 

Her ministry was characterised by much 
vigour and faithfulness ; she had a message, and 
that message was delivered with no uncertain 
sound : — 

<* 'TwsLB death to sin, 'twas life 
To all who mourned for sin. 
It kindled and it silenced s'rife ; 
Hade war and peace within." 



94 ANNUAL MONITOR. 

It is enough to say that her life corresponiled 
with lier message, and she lived what she preached. 
After her death, an old servant of hers, now a 
successful man of business, in speaking of his 
deceased mistress, attributed all his success in 
life to her influence upon him when a thought- 
less youth. For several of her later years, in- 
firmitv, added to her deafness and almost total 
blindness, made her helpless indeed ; but she 
was lovingly cared for and watched over by her 
son and daughter-in-law, and meekly and patiently 
bore her privations until the Master was pleased 
to say, It is enough ; and it is reverently and 
thankfully believed that her eyes have been 
opened to see the King in His beauty, and that 
she is now an inhabitant of the land that was 
very far off. 
Patience Hazard, 42 20 1 mo. 1885 

Sunderland. 
Ernest Bertram Headlby, 

Canterbury. 13 23 2 mo. 1885 

Son of Henry and Maria Headley. 
Esther Helsdon, 16 1 7 mo. 1885 

Hertford. Daughter of James and Elizabeth 

Helsdon. 
William Heseltine, 77 26 10 mo. 1884 

Darlington. 



ANNUAL MONITOR. 95 

Mary Hetherington, 69 29 7 mo. 1885 
Great Broughton, Cumberland. Widow of Wat- 
son Hetherington. 

John Hewitt, 82 12 12 mo. 1884 

Mullalishy Richhill. 

John Henry Holdsworth, 

Heatoriy near Bolton. 25 21 10 mo. 1884 
Son of James S. and the late Martha Holds- 
worth. 

Charles Hollands, 69 20 7 mo. 1885 
Ashford, 

Abigail Holmes, 61 25 3 mo. 1885 

Gotherstone. Widow of Joseph Holmes. 

Samuel Hope, 67 19 10 mo. 1884 

Aspull, near Wigan. 

Alice Howitt, 39 9 10 mo. 1885 

Chipping Norton. Wife of Ebenezer Howitt. 
A lowly follower of her Saviour, she has 

left on the minds of her friends, by whom she was 

much beloved, the sweet impression of a dedicated 

life. During the long period of weakness and 

suffering preceding the end, she was kept in 

perfect peace. 

Edward Hoyland, 74 1 5 mo. 1885 

Brighton. 

James Hunter, 64 3 3 mo. 1885 

Slaley, near Hexham. 



96 ANKUAL MONITOR. 

Hannah Hunton, 75 2 1 mo. 1884 

Scarborough. 
Bernard G. Hutchinson, 

10 13 4 mo. 1884 

Cavendish Square, London, Son of Jonathan 

and Jane Hutchinson. 
Elizabeth Hutchinson, 84 16 10 mo. 1884 

Nottingham, Widow of John Hutchinson, of 

Selby, formerly of Gedney. 
John Jackson, 52 

Vale View, Calder Bridge, 
William Harvey Jackson, 

Cork, 56 

Thomas Jeffrey, 20 

Kingsland, Son of William R. Jeffrey, of Ash- 
ford. 
Harold G. Jesper, 2 13 11 mo. 1884 

Warrington, Son of Francis and Elizabeth 

Jesper. 
Janet G.Johnstone, 16 mos. 30 9 mo. 1885 

Preston, Daughter of William and Margaret 

Johnstone. 
Phebe Langley Kitching, 

72 28 4 mo. 1886 

Matlock, late of Leicester, 
Alfred Knight, 70 8 9 mo. 1885 

Weston-swpeT-Mare. 



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ANNUAL MONITOR. 97 

Henry Knight, 73 23 6 mo. 1885 

Weston-super- Mare. 
Susanna Gilkes Lamb, 78 19 12 mo. 1884 

Sibford Gower, near Banbury. Widow of Joshua 

Lamb. 
Mart Ann Lea, 85 7 7 rao. 1885 

Bradford. Widow of John Lee. 
John Lewthwaite, 80 23 5 mo. 1885 

Swarthmore. 
William Lightfoot, 36 17 4 mo. 1885 

Darlington. 
Edmund Lonsda^le, 34 21 2 mo. 1885 

Sheffield. 
William Lucraft, 66 25 3 mo. 1885 

Upper Clapton, London. 
Ann Lupton, Bradford. 66 31 12 mo. 1884 

Wife of John Lishman Lupton. 
John Lythgoe, 78 2 2 mo. 1883 

Leigh, Lancashire. 
Henrietta Malcomson, 24 3 1 mo. 1885 

Portlaw, Waterford. Wife of Joseph Malcomson. 
William Mann, 75 13 3 mo. 1885 

Copley, near Halifax. 
Elizabeth Kemp Manser, 

84 20 4 mo. 1885 

Hoddesden. An Elder. Widow of James P. 

Manser. 



98 ANNUAL MONITOR. 

John Marsden, 69 12 6 mo. 1885 

JVesthoughton. 
GiULiELMA Marsh, 15 11 7 mo. 1885 

Dorking. Daughter of William A. and Caro- 
line Marsh. 
Elizabeth Marshall, 90 9 1 mo. 1885 

Beading. 
Lilian Matthews, 4 2 1 mo. 1885 

Oldham. Daughter of John "W. and Jane 

Matthews. 
George Maule, 45 10 11 mo. 1884 

Kettering. 
Simon John Max, Cork. 55 14 4 mo. 1885 
Caroline May, 89 22 5 mo. 1885 

Tottenham. A Minister. Widow of Edward 

Curtis May. 
Catharine Messer, 91 28 3 mo. 1885 

Esher, Surrey. Widow of Josiah Messer. 
Albert Millward, 3 3 1 mo. 1885 

Leominster. Son of Henry Millward. 
Margaret Scott Moncrieff, 

34 23 3 mo. 1885 

Wimbledon. Wife of C. Scott Moncrieff. 

Died at Cairo. 
Frederic Bryant Morland, 

21 15 5 mo. 1885 

GlasUynhury, Son of John and Mary Morland 



ANNUAL MONITOR. 99 

Anne Mullen, 73 12 3 mo. 1885 

Rathmines, Dublin, Widow of Henry Mullen. 
Joseph Murphy, 93 3 10 mo. 1884 

Rathfriland, 
Mary Nainby, Spalding. 83 29 8 mo. 1885 

"Widow of Arthur Nainby. 
Mary Jane Nash, 53 14 3 mo. 1885 

Pit Farm, Grange-over-Saiids. "Wife of "William 

E. Nash. Died very suddenly, at Headinj]jley, 

near Leedft. 
JosiAH Newman, 72 20 12 mo. 1884 

Leominster. An Elder. 
Thomas Ogden, 85 20 4 mo. 1885 

Sunderlaml. 
Rachel Pace, Rochdale, 88 2 8 mo. 1885 
Anna Maria Palmer, 56 24 12 mo. 1884 

Tottenham. Wife of Arthur Thomas Palmer. 
William Parkinson, 3 29 9 mo. 1884 

Grossens, Southport. Son of Henry and Alice 

Parkinson. 
Arthur Hunt Patching, 22 14 2 mo. 1885 

Birmingham. Son of Frederick and Mary Ann 

Patching. 
Richard Patching 80 9 6 mo. 1885 

Spithurst, near J^^qjces. 
Stephenson PAxyv 85 6 2 mo. 1885 

Poole. ^^' 



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100 ANNUAL MONITOR. 

Ann Pearson, Bolton, 56 24 3 mo. 1885 

Hetty Pearson, 40 2 11 mo. 1884 

Leighton Buzzard, Wife of Thomas Pearson. 

Hetty Eustace, afterwards Hetty Pearson, 
was born of godly parents, at Eaton Bray, in 
Bedfordshire, on Sixth month 13th, 1844. From 
the uniform acknowledgment of her consistent, 
yea, her impressive life and blessed death, by 
those who knew her, it appears desirable to 
magnify the grace of God in her experience, if so 
be it may lead to more abundant quickening and 
holiness in ourselves. 

The following narrative of her early years 
was dictated by her to her husband shortly before 
her death ; — " The first gracious impressions I 
remember to have received were in my mother's 
class meeting as I sat by her side. Being under 
the age of six, I could not be admitted to the 
Sunday-school ; so that my place each Sunday 
morning was with the good old women, hearing 
them speak of the things of God ; and, as I lis- 
tened, my heart melted and tears would rush 
into my eyes. I was conscious of the tender 
workings of God's Spirit w^ithin me, but would 
not have it discovered, so I smothered my emo- 
tion and concealed it from observation. I suppose 
no one imagined it. 



HETTT PEARSON. 101 

- " I grew up with a tender conscience, par- 
ticularly as to obedience and truthfulness. This 
was owing to the advantage of religious training ; 
but twice I remember being guilty of untruth- 
fulness ; and oh ! as soon as the sin was com- 
mitted, what bitter remorse did I feel. Once, in 
particular, I remember rushing up to my bed-side, 
and pleading with bitter weeping for pardon and 
peace ; not ceasing until comfort was obtained. 
Although I thus grew up in the fear of God, I 
was conscious of being unprepared to die, or even 
to live, without a blessed change between me and 
God. Sometimes at chapel the thought would 
come, What would you do if your parents were to 
die ? You would need a friend ; and I some- 
times had terrible dreams of the Judgment day, 
etc., which made me conscious of sin and misery ; 
but this distress was not of long continuance. I 
was naturally of a serious disposition, being what 
the world calls a good girl. I constantly attended 
the means of grace ; and here I rested, until, 
being of an inquiring turn, one night after Bible- 
class I asked the leader : What was her opinion 
respecting the abode of departed spirits. I had 
heard it said t^^y did not immediately enter 
heaven or hell^ ] ^ a place called Hadea, until 
after the Eesufj ,^^^ My good leader answered 



102 ANNUAL MONITOR. 

me, and wisely took the opportunity of asking 
me pointed questions respecting my spiritual 
state. Again my heart yielded to the touch; T was 
compelled to admit my need of a change of heart. 
I began to weep and pray, and received the con- 
sciousness of the Divine favour when in my 
eleventh year." 

" Before reaching eighteen," she says, " I 
was shown the desirability of glorifying God in 
dress, by casting off all jewellery, feathers, &c., 
strictly wearing that which seemed to be suitable 
wherein to approach the Almighty in private and 
public. When about twenty-one I was led to 
feel the need of a deeper work of grace, and 
yearned night and day for a clean heart, and a 
holy life ; for this grace I besought the Lord by 
the hour (notwithstanding my health at this 
time was very delicate), and blessed be His holy 
name, although I received not all I desired, I 
was much blessed and more closely united to my 
Saviour. Now it was I resolved that God should 
do with me whatsoever He pleased, that my 
whole heart should be at His disposal. 

" In 1868, I accepted an offer of marriage 
from my future husband, from which time for 
some years we jointly entered into daily covenant 
with the Lord to be altogether His. * He will 



HETTY PEARSON. 103 

beautify the meek with salvation/ was blessed 
unto me. Yes, Lord, that is what we most want. 
And then, * He shall choose our inheritance for 
us.' Yes Lord, that we leave to Thee, we won't 
seek an earthly, but, help ! and we'll strive for 
an heavenly inheritance." 

On Tenth Month 1st, 1870, she most solemnly 
entered into the covenant of marriage. She was 
blessed with nine children, three of whom passed 
before her to the skies, and six are still living to 
commemorate her worth. 

From the time of her marriage until the year 
1872, she knew but little of the Society of 
Friends, and only began to attend their meetings 
about 1877. In these, ere long, she often took 
her humble part. Henceforth her attachment 
increased ^ and, although she thought there was 
frequently outward silence when a clearer realis- 
ation of the Church's true state would have led 
to an agony of public prayer for the manifestation 
of the Spirit, yet she very highly appreciated the 
liberty afforded to any whom God should call to 
speak. 

When any family want arose and she did 
not see the way for its supply, it became her 
custom not even to tell her husband until after- 
wards, but to ^o to God. This was the case 



104 ANNUAL MONITOR. 

on one occasion in 1883 ; and when she was 
pleading for help, the words were applied, " It 
is He that giveth salvation nnto kings;" and 
if, she reasoned, He delivers kings in their 
vast difficulties, surely He can open a way for me 
in my little matters. The next morning, accord- 
ing to appointment, her husband was to meet 
others for a few days' mission work, and while 
sitting at breakfast, more quiet than usual, 
looking across the table, their eyes met in silence 
and sorrow ; not a word was spoken, both 
knowing that only two coppers remained in the 
house, and in a little more than an hour he 
was to leave. While her husband was musing, 
not knowing what to do, but feeling that he could 
not leave in such circumstances, there was a 
knock at the door, and on opening it, the post- 
man handed him a registered letter, a very 
singular thing for them. He took it in, and 
passed it to his wife, whose name it bore. 
After looking to God, she opened it ; it con- 
tained a paper on which was written, " Matt. 
X. 29-31, and acknowledge receipt of this 
to Mrs. Lesley, Lowestoft," and a £b note ; 
but who " Mrs. Lesley, Lowestoft," was neither 
she nor her husband ever knew. This may 
be mentioned, not as a special, but as a sample 



HETTY PEARSON. 105 

instance of the numberless delivercnces God 
has wrought out. 

During this year she was in deep sympathy 
and active interest with her husband in evan- 
gelistic work in the meeting-houses of the Society 
and elsewhere. While thus engaged at a village 
near Buckingham, she received, through a fall, 
what she afterwards thought to be the messen- 
ger that hastened her end. Owing to weakness, 
a painful affliction, and other causes, it became 
evident her race w^as nearly run. During her 
illness she said to her husband, " I could have 
liked two or three years with you in Christian 
work ; I should have enjoyed it very much,' 
but it seems God sees it best otherwise. Never 
mind ; it does not matter ; I shall be happy." 

It is little to say that her public work 
was generally acceptable and profitable to others. 
The point she ever aimed at in speaking was 
that of realising the same consciousness of God 
which she generally experienced in prayer ; and 
of dealing with the public as with an individual; 
never forgetting that numbers are made up of 
onesy and that each one is accountable to God. 
When any o^e was laid upon her mind whom 
she could ^jq^ vsreU approach in person, it was 
invariably h ^ ^g,y not to pass it over as if 



106 ANNUAL MONITOR. 

this were an excuse for omission, but to address 
such in writing. 

Her sufferings at times were very great, but 
when asked concerning her state she always made 
as little as possible of their severity ; whilst, even 
before the attacks subsided, she was eager, as 
well as thankful, to tell of relief a Horded. 

In Eighth month, 1884, her husband, think- 
ing change of air was what she needed, drove her, 
with their children, to Sibford School. Being 
privileged to go into the boys' school-room next 
morning, she addressed them for a short time on 
the words, " Men wondered at *' (Zech iii. 8), a 
subject which had been presented to her in a 
dream a night or two before. They were obliged 
to hasten home for medical aid ; and, as she 
became still weaker, at her request her husband 
wrote to her relatives, after which she was taken 
much worse. Her sufferings were very great, 
at times almost beyond description. On one 
occasion, when a little better, she was comforted 
with the words, " The Lord liveth, and blessed 
be my Rock." 

Her medical attendant having had his 
attention called to an unfavourable symptom, 
on examination, came to the conclusion that her 
case might prove serious. On the 26th she was a 



HETTr PEARSON. 107 

little better, and was cheered with, " Fear not ; 
I will be with thee." On this day the doctor 
called, and made a fresh examination. As soon 
as he had left the room, she was comforted with 
the application, thrice repeated, of "All is well, all 
is well ; " and further, " He shall not be afraid of 
evil tidings ; his heart is fixed, trusting in the 
Lord." When her husband returned from seeing 
the doctor to the door, she said, " What does 
he say ? You need not be afraid to tell me ; I 
can bear it, whatever it is, for the Lord has so 
comforted me. He says, *All is well.* I sup- 
pose it is dark with men, but I know it is bright 
with God, so you had better tell me now ; I can 
bear it." Her husband told her that the doctor 
said her case was serious, and that it was a tumour, 
he feared, of a cancerous kind. 

27th, — During the night she was comforted 
with the application of a couplet, 

" And bring my sonl, with joy unknown. 
To wave its palm before the Throne ; " 

and later in the morning, "I reckon that the 
sufferings of this present time are not worthy 
to be compared with the glory which shall be 
revealed in us." During this part of her illness 
she seemed to feel her inability to serve others to 



108 ANNUAL MONITOR. 

be a cause of grief. About this time sl^e said to 
her husband, " There is nothing but you and the 
children that I mind leaving." A few days 
later, " I feel God will do better for the children 
than I can if I stay ; and as for you, dear,, you 
will be more blessed when I am gone." From 
this time she never expressed the slightest regret 
at leaving them, and on one occasion, when a 
friend, in prayer by her bedside, referred to the 
grief it must be to leave her husband and dear 
children, she stopped her, and said, " No it isn't ; 
I can leave them willingly, knowing that God 
will do better for them if He takes me than 
otherwise." 

Her uniform testimony up to this time was, 
"I have peace, constant peace and rest, and 
assurance of heaven^ but I " would like more 
blessedness ; for mv friends* sake I would like a 
brighter end ; I feel they expect it. Oh, for more 
blessedness ! " One morning she said to her 
husband, " I feel more blessed this morning, and 
the Lord has shown me it is holiness that I 
need." Having family worship in her room, her 
husband asked, " Where shall I read ? " to which 
she replied, " Oh ! the promise of sanctification." 
On Ezekiel xxxvi. 21, to the end, being read, she 
said, " Oh, bless the Lord ; that has done me 



HETTY PEARSON. 109 

good.*' This was repeated, with other portions, 
for some days. 

On Ninth month 19th, she was carried down 
stairs, none thinking that would be the last time. 
Some time later she said to her husband, " It is 
expedient for you that I go away ; it will make a 
change in affairs ; and God will open your way. 
Don't grieve ; I shall be yours ; you can think of 
me as in Heaven and waiting for you. God sees 
you will get on better without me, and you will 
be more blessed." 

During the previous year she had several 
times spoken to her husband on the subject of 
membership with Friends, but not feeling free to 
leave the Methodists, and one or two other consi- 
derations, kept her from taking any step in the 
matter. The liberty their meetings afforded her 
for the exercise of her spiritual gifts, the kindness 
manifested towards her by Friends, the attitude 
taken by the Society on public moral questions, 
and as opposed to drink, war, and other evils, 
drew her into a closer attachment to them. This 
continued, and grew, until the crisis in her 
illness before-jnentioned, when the application of 
a certain te^f jnade her feel it right to seek 
membership vjioiit delay. 

Havijjty A. told her husband, and asked his 



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mind, she communicated with a Friend, who 
took down in writing from her own lips the 
following letter to the Monthly Meeting : — 

" Dear Friends, — I affectionately desire to 
be enrolled as one of your members, if, indeed, 
you can accept the last fragment of life and love 
which I now present. I have always enjoyed 
fellowship with you, which has been truly profi- 
table, and for which I bless God, who has so led 
me. I now wish to be fully united, from love 
and attachment, and I think, also, under a sense 
of guidance. The sympathy and practical gene- 
rosity you have shown me afford much and grate- 
ful reflection. I pray the Head of the Church 
to reward you with more abundant fruitfalness. 
I experience a cabn, bright hope in my Redeemer 
continually, with a measure of blessing, and am 
looking for an increase of it, desiring to be so 
clothed upon that mortality may be swallowed 
up of life. 

" I remain, in loving bonds, 

" Your affectionate friend, 

"Hetty Pearson." 

This was read at the Monthly Meeting on 
the 10th of Tenth month, 1884, and the following 
Minute was made : — 

" An application for admission into member- 



HETTY PB ARSON. Ill 

ship has now been received from Hetty Pearson, 
of Leighton Buzzard. The letter in which her 
request is made is couched in the following 
words. (Here follows a copy of the letter,) 

" Much sympathy has been expressed with 
our friend, ^d a feeling of complete unity with 
her request has prevailed Under these circum- 
stances it is concluded to forego the usual for- 
malities connected with admission to member- 
ship, and at once to enrol her name among our 
members. In so doing this meeting desires to 
express its warm Christian sympathy with our 
dear friend, and it rejoices to hear that she is still 
able, from day to day, to work and labour in her 
Master's service." 

On her application being acceded to without 
any request that she would withdraw from the 
Methodists, she greatly rejoiced, sajdng, "She 
would like fellowship with all true Christians, and 
to make earth as much like heaven as possible ;" 
and further, that, "like the early Methodists 
with the Church of England, she should die in 
union with both." 

About a fortnight later she said, " Oh ! I 
have been jg^ l3lessed and rejoiced ; the Lord 
Jesus seemecj ^^ come round about me, and wrap 
Himself aroTj i pje like a cloud. He seemed to 



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112 ANNUAL MONITOR. 

tell me that was how He should be with me at 
the last, and raise me for presentation before 
God ; it is so blessed." From this time she was 
much engaged in speaking to callers (often from 
six to ten in a day) on the things of God. " I 
like," she said, "to speak to souls from this 
position ; it seems like addressing them from the 
shores of eternity." 

The 23rd being her little boy's birthday, 
she desired him to receive as his birthday and 
her dying present combined, a writing-desk, 
saying, " You can take care of it and use it in 
memory of me ; " and to her three elder children 
she said, " God has spared me the trouble of 
dividing much amongst you ; I have very little 
to give you, but I bequeath a very merciful and 
covenant-keeping God unto you. He who has 
been my sufficiency and proved Himself such a 
friend to your mother, will be quite as good, yea, 
better to you if you seek Him." On another 
occasion she wished the girls to remember from 
her not to spend money or wear clothes as soon 
as obtained, if they did they would often find 
themselves mean and in want. " Don't be spend- 
thrifts ; don't be misers ; but save until occasion 
makes things necessary, and you will always have 
a measure of wherewith ; and don't put on your 



HETTY PEARSON. 113 

best things at every little occasion." Again : " Be 
yov/rselves when in company ; abhor imitation ; 
don't be afraid to differ, even from the best ; be 
true and honest to your own convictions, always 
respect the views and feelings of others, but be 
yourselves, and, if required, let them know why 
you differ from them ; if it cost you something 
at first, it will pay you in the end." 

On the 26th she said to her husband, " Oh, 
man, greatly beloved, fear not I Peace be unto 
thee ; he strong, yea, be strong. I charge you 
before God, preach the word ; be instant in season, 
out of season ; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all 
longsuffering and forbearance. Look at Jesu?, 
LOOK at Jesus, I say ; you get discouraged and 
despairing, through not setting Him sufficiently 
before you. Look at Him as your Saviour, your 
Brother, your Friend, to prevent your being cast 
down under difficulties and discouragements, 
because He lives, your Friend, lives for you, to 
take care of you ; isn't that enough ? Do you 
hear me ? Hear me, I say ! I give you good 
advice ; " and, as if rather exhausted, she dropped 
her voice, and saicl? " Now I leave it with you — 
miss no oppQ -.^nity of testimony ; that is my 
counsel, my ^ , cr advice to you, dear." 

On 80^ ^ ^ saying, " Your mind seems to 



114 ANNUAL MONITOR. 

retain all its power," she replied, " Oh, yes ! my 
mind is perfectly itself ; indeed, if there is any 
difference it is more enlarged now, certainly 
more illuminated." " Yes," continued her visitor, 
"in soul never so blessed before, were you?'' 
She answered, " Oh ! well, I don't know ; I have 
had some very blessed seasons with God some- 
times." 

Nearly a week later she remarked, " I am 

happy, I have been so blessed ; I seemed to see 

Jesus ; He appeared so near, and I saw His 

purity. His holiness, and oh ! such excellencies 

in Him as no tongue can describe ; and it seemed 

all was mine — His purity. His holiness, all of Him 

— He HimseK; we seemed made one together. 

I, one with Him; it was so blessed, and has been 

ever since ; but I don't think I shall go just yet, 

perhaps not before to-morrow ; I don't know, but 

it seemed not just yet, although I could not tell 

whether it was that I was not quite ready for 

my Lord, or my Lord was not quite ready for 



me." 



After this she said very little except with 
reference to her sufferings, which now fearfully 
increased, although she remained conscious to 
the end, which came at half-past seven on the 
evening of the 2nd of Eleventh month, 1884. 



HETTY PEARSON. 115 

Her mortal remains were interred in tvie 
burial ground of the Society of Friends at Leigh- 
ton Buzzard, on Fifth-day, the 6th of Eleventh 
month, in the presence of a large and solemn 
gathering of Friends and neighbours, many of 
whom had been associated with her in spiritual 
work, and came to pay the final tribute of affec- 
tioji and respect to her memory. The testimonies 
borne to her Christian character were full and 
emphatic, and her words, spoken to a Friend 
who visited her near her close, were quoted, 
having reference to the tongue soon to be silenced 
by death — " Who shall fill the gap ? " 
• •••••• 

The following were some of her rules of life, 
which may serve as finger-posts to others : — 
Not to look at a letter or book before the Bible. 
Not to omit duty or privilege because it was 
a cross. Not to say, or do, or wear a thing 
because other Christians did. To refuse 
what she thought would weaken her spiritual 
influence. Not to omit public or private 
worship unless she thought God would ap- 
prove. To retire for private prayer three 
times a day. To read a portion of Scripture 
three time^ daily- To watch for opportuni- 
ties of doiKrr good to others. To abide by 



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first impressions and inward instincts. T*o 

seek God's direction before commencing any 

undertaking. 

She said, " God has led me by the way of 
the Cross, but under the Cross there was always 
a blessing." 

Her motto was, " Get signally blessed ; " 
feeling a thing right in the main, and a blessing 
of a general kind, she thought a poor dish for a 
hungry soul. Blessing from God, she believed, 
should be definite, conscious, and abundant, 
to afford satisfaction, or be of much use. 

We may close in the words of a frequent 
visitor : — " Oh ! what comfort, what peace ! May 
I triumph so ! What composure, rest, and bliss ! 
Apart from her bitter sufferings, *May my last 
end be like hers ! ' " 
Sarah Pearson, 81 13 8 mo. 1885 

Darlington. 
Hannah Peile, 62 17 12 mo. 1884 

Staiiger, near Cockermouth, 
Mary Elizabeth Penney, 

35 12 8 mo. 1885 
Appersett, near Hawes. Wife of Norman 
Penney. 

Every life has its lesson. The object of this 
brief memoir of Mary Elizabeth Penney (nie 



MARY ELIZABETH PENNEY. 117 

Bean), is to show and acknowledge the guiding 
hand of Him who alone knows at the beginning 
what the end will be, and that the lesson of her 
life may prove instructive to others similarly 
placed. 

M. E. P.'s early life was spent in Hull 
and Birkenhead, at the latter of which places she 
became a member of the Congregational body, of 
which for many years her grandfather had been 
a valued minister. Those who knew her at this 
period can look back with thankfulness to the 
consistent, unassuming, and self-denying life 
which she led as a member of the Church and a 
teacher in the Sabbath school. 

Eeplying to an advertisement, she obtained 
the situation of governess to the three children 
of Thomas and Esther Willan, of Appersett, near 
Hawes, and almost the first letter she received 
from home after her arrival in Wensleydale 
contained the information of the sudden death of 
her dear father, thus causing a shadow to fall upon 
her first introduction to her new scene of labour. 

• 

For seven years she faithfully discharged the 
duties of her position, and was greatly valued 
for her high Christian character. On the decease 
of Thomas Willan, his widow removed into 
Hawes, and Mary Elizabeth Bean became her 



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loving companion as well as governess to her 
children. 

In 1882, on the re-establishment of the 
Friends' meeting at Hawes, the whole family 
became attenders there, and in the spring of 1884 
Esther Willan and M. E. Bean, from religious 
conviction and preference, united themselves to 
the Societv of Friends. 

M. E. Bean was married to Norman Penney 
at Birkenhead in Ninth month, 1884, and the 
house which she entered as governess seven years 
before became their first, and, as it proved, only 
home. In the early months of this happy union. 
M. E. P. took active practical interest in her 
husband's missionary work ; though, being of a 
retiring disposition, and unaccustomed to public 
religious effort, she keenly felt her inability to 
render all the assistance she desired. She was a 
frequent and very welcome visitor at the cottages 
surrounding their village home, and, as often as 
her numerous household duties permitted, accom- 
panied her husband in his engagements at Hawes, 
taking part with him in meetings for worship, 
Bible classes, and various other gatherings, as 
strength was given her for the service. 

A mothers' meeting was held in their house 
weekly, and by M. E. P.'s quiet, unostentatious 



MARY ELIZABETH PENNEY. 119 

example, and loving, faithful precept, good seed 
was sown in the hearts of many mothers. The 
children, too, had a large share of her time and 
attention. With the help of others a Juvenile 
Sabbath School w^as established in Appersett, 
and on First-day evenings, when she could not 
get to the meeting at Hawes, some of the girls 
were invited to the house •for reading and sing- 
ing. Thus she.strove, while health and opportu- 
nity were given her, to work for Him whom 
she acknowledged as her Lord and Saviour, her 
experience of life in Wensleydale greatly assisting 
her usefulness. Those who watched her ever- 
increasing service for her Lord rejoiced at the 
prospect of years of happy and fruitful work for 
Him; but He whose thoughts and ways are wiser 
than ours saw fit to arrange it otherwise. For 
several months prior to the time when she 
expected to become a mother her health was 
poor, but she bore the trial with great patience, 
believing it was sent that she might be the 
better able to sympathise with others. During 
the last few weeks of her life she had the pleasant 
company and kind assistance of her dear mother 
and sister. 

Although no cause for special fear was enter- 
tained by M. E. P., she referred at times to the 



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uncertainty of the result of her confinement, and 
at first so clung to the life which was opening 
out so happily before her that she could not say 
she was willing to give it up if her Lord called 
for it ; but for some time before she was taken 
ill she was enabled, in answer to earnest prayer, 
to say from her heart " Thy will. Lord, not mine, 
be done," and peacrfuUy to await the issue of 
events. The text printed on her memorial card, 
" When thou passest through the waters I will be 
with thee," had been especially selected by her 
in anticipation of her illness, and was printed and 
hung up near her bed. How applicable the words 
were, only those can fully testify who tended 
her during the five days of great suffering, and 
witnessed the depth and troubled nature of the 
waters passed through, as well as the power which 
enabled her spirit to rise above them. She 
often alluded to the text, and when feeling too 
exhausted to speak her eyes would turn to it, and 
her face light up with a happy smile as she was 
reminded of its comforting promise. 

At times during her lucid moments she ex- 
pressed a longing for life, saying to her beloved 
husband, " I should like to live a little longer ; 
our married life has been so happy, but so short." 
Her thoughts often reverted to the Mission work, 



MARY ELIZABETH PENNEY. 121 

in which she had taken so great an interest, and 
on being reminded of a remark she had previously 
made to the effect that the first passage she would 
speak of in meeting when again permitted to 
assemble with her friends would be the 103rd 
Psalm, she replied, " No, I think it will be to 
tell the people how I have tried and proved the 
truth of that text," pointing to the one on the 
wall. Three or four times during the last day it 
was thought that the end of her earthly journey 
was reached, and her relatives were called to the 
bedside to witness her departure ; but at last, 
about half-past seven o'clock in the evening of 
the 12th of Eighth month, the call came, and her 
purified spirit was released from its earthly dwell- 
ing place and took its flight to be for ever with 
the Lord. No parting assurance of preparation for 
the change was given, nor was there any need of 
it, for such a life of humble childlike faith in Christ 
could have but one, and that the happiest termina- 
tion. Her work was done ; her loving service for 
her Lord, though comparatively brief, was accepted. 
On Seventh-day, the 15th, amid brilliant 
summer sunshine and the beautiful surroundings 
of the hills and lanes of Wensleydale, so much 
admired and beloved by the dear departed one, 
the funeral wended its way to the Friends* Burial 

M 



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Ground at Hawes, accompanied by large numbers 
of dalespeople and other loving friends, who, as 
they met the procession, and gathered round 
the grave, into which was laid to rest all that 
remained on earth of the mother and her infant 
son, sorrowed not as those without hope, because 
they knew that the time would come when " all 
that are in the graves shall hear His voice," who 
is " the Resurrection and the Life," and " shall 
come forth " to be reunited to the ransomed spirit, 
and enter into life for evermore. 

The following lines, from Macduff's " Grapes 
of Eshcol," were greatly appreciated by Mary E. 
Penney during her lifetime, and are remarkably 
true to what were doubtless her feelings as the 
close of life approached : — 

" I journey forth rejoicing, 

From this dark vale of tears. 
To heavenly joy and freedom, 

From earthly bands and fears ; 
Where Christ, onr Lord, shall gather 

All His redeemed again, 
His kingdom to inherit — 

Go6d night — till then. 

*' I go to see His glory, 

Whom we have loved below ; 
I go, the blessed angels. 
The holy saints to know ; 



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Onr lovely one departed 

I go to find again, 
And wait for yon to join ns — 

Good night — till then. 
"I hear the Savionr calling; 
The joyfnl honr is come ; 
The angel-guards are ready 

To gnide me to onr home ; 
Where Christ onr Lord shall gather 

All His redeemed again^ 
His kingdom to inherit — 

Good night — till then." 
John Peters, 77 9 1 mo. 1885 

Clevedon. 
Wyatt John Pettitt 67 6 7 mo. 1885 

Dover, 
Elizabeth Balkwill Phillips, 

46 13 10 mo. 1884 
Spriddlestone, near Plymouth. Wife of John 
Phillips. 
Richard Pike, 69 3 2 mo. 1885 

Grange, Tyrone. A Minister. 
** If we helieve that Jesus died and rose again, 
even so them also which eleep in Jesus will God 
bring with Him.*' (Thess. iv. 14.) 

'' Sleep on beloved, sleep, and take thy rest ; 

Lay down thy head upon thy Saviour's breast. 
We love thee well, but Jesus loves thee best, * 

Good night, Good night ! 



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" Calm is thj slumber, as an infant's sleep ; 

But thou shalt wake no more to toil and weep; 
Thine is a perfect rest, secure and deep, 

Good night. Good night ! 

'' Until the shadows from this earth are cast. 
Until He gathers in His sheaves at last, 
Until the twilight gloom be overpast, 

Good night, Good night ! 

" Until the Easter glory lights the skies, 
Until the dead in Jesus shall arise. 
And He shall come, but not in lowly guise, 

Good night. Good night ! 

" Until made beautiful by Love divine, 

Thou in the likeness of thy Lord shalt shine, 
And He shall bring that golden crown of thine. 

Good night. Good night ! 

*' Only good night, beloved, not farewell ! 

A little while, and all His saints shall dwell 
In hallowed union, indivisible, 

Good night. Good night ! 

*' Until we meet again before His throne. 

Clothed in the spotless robe He gives His own; 
Until we know again, as we are known, 

Good night, Good night ! " 

Anna Pim, Edenderry, 77 14 1 mo. 1885 

Widow of John Pim. 
Jonathan Pim, 79 6 7 mo. 1885 

Monkstown, Dublin, An Elder. 



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Mary Agnes PiM, 30 25 7 mo. 1885 

Kingstoum, Dublin, Daughter of Thomas Pim. 
Reuben Deavbs Pim, 21 2 10 mo. 1884 

Gerh 
Edwin Pim, Cork, 17 15 10 mo. 1884 

Sons of James and Susanna Pim. 
Susanna Pim, Garlow. 87 3 3 mo. 1885 
Hannah Powell, 77 19 12 mo. 1884 

Leominster. 
Maria Pcmphrey, 75 3 12 mo. 1884 

Sunderland. 
Eli Radlet, Tottenham. 85 1 5 mo. 1885 
Eustace Cooper Rake, 18 3 6 mo. 1885 

Fordinghridge. Son of Beaven Rake. 
Maria Ransom, 82 25 5 mo. 1885 

Leicester, An Elder. Widow of Joshua Ransom, 

of Kempstone, near Bedford. 
Benjamin Ratner, 90 22 7 mo. 1885 

Cottingham, near Hull. 
Samuel Reynolds, 82 15 12 mo. 1884 

Manchester, formerly of Folkestone. A Minister. 
" And the ransomed of the Lord shall return 
and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy 
upon their heads : they shall obtain joy and glad- 
ness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee aw^ay." 
Henry Richardson, 78 24 4 mo. 1885 

Newcastle on-Tyne. An Elder. 



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Henry Ridgway, 80 18 4 mo. 1885 

Waterford, 
Elizabeth RiifiNGTON, 78 10 1 mo. 1885 

Penrith. An Elder. 
John Young Ring, 77 21 9 mo. 1885 

Bedminster, near Bristol, 
Isaac Robinson, 67 30 3 mo. 1885 

The Goat, Gockermouth. 
Mary Robinson, 78 17 1 mo. 1885 

Glonmel, Widow of William Robinson. 
Richard Jacob Robinson, 

Eathmines, Dublin, 57 7 7 mo. 1885 

Samuel Robinson, 87 7 5 mo. 1885 

Folke8to7ie, formerly of Maidstone. 
Susanna Robinson, 37 1 6 mo. 1885 

Uxhridge. 
Isaac Robson, 84 25 5 mo. 1885 

Dalton, near Huddersfield, A Minister. 
Sarah Robson, 85 29 5 mo. 1885 

Dalton, near Huddersfield, An Elder. Wife 

of Isaac Robson. 
Isaac Robson was the second son of Thomas 
and Elizabeth Robson, and was bom at Darling- 
ton, in 1800. Of his early life his surviving 
brother writes : — .^^ We were almost constant 
playfellows, and sometimes, like other boys, we 
had our quarrels ; but these were of short dura- 



ISAAC ROBSON. 127 

lion and soon made up again. He was kind- 
hearted, fond of play, upright in his conduct, 
and, I believe, was generally liked by his play- 
mates. We were at school together in Darlington, 
at Thomas Taylor's, and afterwards at Joseph 
Sams's. My brother learned the business of a 
grocer, in our father's shop at Sunderland, and 
when about eighteen he went to reside with 
Richard Day, of Saffron Walden, wholesale and 
retail grocer and draper, where I afterwards 
joined him. He was conscientiously diligent in 
business, and a good example to his fellow-shop- 
men and others, and was much respected by them 
for his uprightness and steady behaviour. During 
his stay there he was brought under increased 
religious thoughtfulness on his own accoimt, and 
concerned to walk in the narrow way, which was 
shown by his plain manner of dressing and 
general behaviour, and I believe his example had 
a very salutary effect on some of his associates.'' 
He left Walden about the year 1820, and 
afterwards settled in Liverpool as a tea-dealer, 
and remained there until 1838, when he removed 
to Huddersfield. In 1830 he married Sarah 
Wheeler, of Hitchin, who survived him only four 
days, after a singularly happy union of more than 
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During his residence in Liverpool, especially, 
his business duties necessarily demanded most of 
his time and care ; but he had been trained to 
consider the attendance of meetings for worship 
and discipline as a matter of the first importance, 
and not only then, but throughout his life he was 
careful to impress upon others, and to show by 
his own practice, how strongly he felt on this 
subject, regarding it as both a Christian duty and 
a high privilege. For several years he closed his 
shop in order to give his assistants the oppor- 
tunity of attending the mid-week meeting. In 
speaking on this point he used often to quote the 
old saying, that when things were in their right 
places the best things would be uppermost. 

At a later period, the pressure of business 
being lightened, he was able to take his full share 
in efforts to promote the welfare of his fellow- 
men. The Temperance cause early received his 
warm sympathy and support, and he was president 
of the local Society for some years before his death; 
while in the work of the Bible and Peace 
Societies, and in Tract distribution, he showed 
great interest. He took a very active part in the 
management of the British and Infant Schools of 
the town, until thev were handed over to the 
School Board ; and his efforts to promote Pro- 



ISAAC ROBBON. 129 

testant education in Italy are well known. He 
was for some years a member of the Town Council 
and of the Board of Guardians. His views on 
Christian duty in relation to civil and political 
life are shown in his own words in a letter to his 
brother, when the mayoralty of his own town 
was offered to the latter in 1880 :— " To fill the 
post faithfully must require a large amount of 
time and attention beyond what seems desirable 
for those who have arrived at the period of life 
when, instead of putting on fresh harness, it 
seems more fitting to be divesting oneself of 
earthly cares and responsibilities, that we may be 
found like servants in waiting, ready for the sum- 
mons whenever it may come. And yet I have 
great sympathy with those who say they would 
rather die in harness, believing that if outward 
duties, of whatever kind, are performed * as unto 
the Lord,' they do not interfere with a state 
of preparation for our final change; and therefore 
I am far from judging those who feel it right to 
be much engaged in civil matters. Indeed, I 
believe the world has suffered from the backward- 
ness of some good men in engaging in public 
aifairs, thereby throwing government into the 
liands of bad men " 

He was recorded as a Minister in 1844. In 



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1847 he accompanied Jolm Hodgkin in a religious 
visit to Ireland. In 1864, with Charles Fox as 
his companion, he visited the few Friends on the 
Continent, also the Vaudois churches in Piedmont 
and the Protestant congregations in Italy. The 
autumn of 1867 was spent in a journey to South 
Russia, with Thomas Harvey, to visit the Men- 
nonites, whose privilege of exemption from mili- 
tary service had recently been withdrawn by the 
Bussian Government ; manv of them in conse- 
quence emigrated to the United States. It will 
be remembered that through the exertions of 
I. R. and T. H. a fund was raised for their 
assistance. The timely help thus rendered, 
mostly by way of temporary loans to the newly- 
arrived settlers, has been found of great service, 
the money having in this way been made useful 
many times over. Soon after his return from 
Russia he visited most of the dissenting congre- 
gations of his own town, taking advantage of the 
regular services, way being very kindly made by 
those in charge, for his delivering the messages 
which he felt to be entrusted to him. In 1870-71 
he was engaged in a year's visit to Friends in 
America, when he attended nearly all the Yearly 
Meetings as they came in course. To this visit he 
owed many lasting friendships, and to the end of 



ISAAC ROBSON. 131 

his life took a warm interest in all that concerned 
our Society there. An American correspondent 
writes, on hearing of his death :—" His prayer 
at the breakfast table on the morning he was 
going to leave has ever lived with me, and many, 
many times has come to comfort me and give me 
courage : his venerable head bowed, the fervent 
childlike suppliant manner in which he invoked 
our Heavenly Father's blessing upon the mission, 
the work and the workers, pleading that they 
might ever do all things as unto God and not 
unto man." 

This was the last of his long journeys, but he 
was always ready while he was able, to undertake 
any work for the Society to which he was so 
warmly attached. He was a very regular attender 
of the Yearly Meeting, and for many years acted 
as one of the Yorkshire representatives to the 
Meeting for Sufferings, attending very frequently 
till within two years of his decease. Isaac Robson's 
ministry was of a practical character. He often 
spoke of the work of the Holy Spirit, not only 
as the convincer of sin, but as the Comforter, 
through whom the Christian believer is privi- 
leged to hold communion with his Heavenly 
Father, and to pour out all his soul into His 
listening ear; and also as the Guide of His people 



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through all the circumstances of their outward 
and inward life. He sought to impress upon his 
hearers the necessity of conformity to the Divine 
will, sometimes reminding them that it has been 
said that the highest anthem sung on earth or in 
heaven is, " Thy will be done." In prayer he 
was very humble and reverent, never seeming to 
lose sight of the infinite majesty of the Creator. 
As an illustration of the diverse paths by 
which Christians are led to the same glorious 
heritage, it may be mentioned that in his case 
the growth of the spiritual life was so gradual, 
that he used to say he could never look back to 
any definite period of what is usually called 



" conversion." 



A strongly -marked feature of his character 
was his kindly cheerfulness. It was his habit, 
both from temperament and principle, to look on 
the briglit side. His disposition was eminently 
sociable, and he much enjoyed receiving the visits 
of his friends, especially those travelling on 
religious service. When his health and strength 
no longer permitted him to make social calls on 
the friends of his own meeting, he expressed the 
wish to have the opportunity once more of seeing 
them together : and only a few weeks before his 
death, at his request, they were invited to hia 



ISAAC ROBSON. 133 

house. In his address on this occasion he urged 
the importance of love and unity, and his desire 
that all might feel their responsibility as members 
of a Christian Church, and not give way to the 
idea that they could render no assistance. 

In the autumn of 1884 the strong health he 
had so long enjoyed, and which led him to re- 
mark when he was nearly eighty that it was 
diJ0&cult for him to realise that he was an old 
man, gave way, and from that time he was subject 
to alarming attacks of unconsciousness arising 
from weak action of the heart. In reference to 
these he wrote to his brother : — " I cannot but 
feel that this condition is a constant reminder of 
the great uncertainty of life, and of the necessity 
of seeking to be in readiness whenever the 
summons may come. In looking forward to 
this, I feel that I have nothing whatever to rest 
upon but the mercy that has followed us all the 
days of our lives, for which we have such abundant 
cause of thankfulness, and the continuance of 
which it would be wrong to doubt." He was 
able to take a little out-door exercise till within 
a day or two of his death, and frequently during 
the winter attended his own meeting, the last 
time being on the 26th of Fourth month, when 
he spoke impressively from the text, " Praise 

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waiteth for Thee God in Zion." On First-day 
morning, Fifth month 24th, although far from 
well, he enjoyed looking into the Revised Version 
of the Bible, issued during the previous week ; 
but a feeling of weakness soon compelled him to 
desist. He was, however, able to sit beside his 
dear wife's bed for some time in the afternoon, 
when his heart was so overflowing with love and 
gratitude that he seemed quite unable to express 
the intensity of his feelings, and in the fulness of 
his heart he exclaimed, in the words of Addison — 

**When all Thy mercies, oh my God, 
My risiDg sonl Burveys, 
Transported with the view, I'm lost 
In wonder, love, and praise.*' 

Later on the same evening a severe attack of 
cardiac asthma came on, rendering speech ex- 
tremely difficult. The following morning he 
had sufficiently revived to be able to listen with 
great interest to some notes of the Yearly Meet- 
ing which had just been received, and made 
short remarks on several passages, saying, 
amongst other things, " We have nothing but 
His merits to trust to." It was not long before 
the effort to fix his attention on the subject 
proved too much for him, and the difficulty of 
breathing soon increased ; but he said with his 



SARAH R0B80N. 135 

usual patience, " It must be borne," adding, " It's 
nothing to what my Saviour bore for me.'' About 
an hour before he died, he asked for the Qlst 
Psalm to be read to him, and when that was 
finished, " now the 23rd." At the close of this 
a sign of approval showed that he had been able 
to follow and enjoy the familiar words. 

A few minutes before the close his daughter 
said to him, " Dear father, we may tell mother 
thou wast supported to the last ? " to which he 
emphatically replied, " Yes," thus bearing testi- 
mony to the very end of life's journey, to the 
goodness and mercy which had followed him all 
the way. 



Sarah Robson was the third daughter of 
Joshua and Elizabeth Wheeler of Hitchin, and 
was born there on the 28th of Twelfth Month, 
1799. Her eldest sister died in early childhood; 
the other two became respectively the wives of 
Benjamin Seebohm and James Ellis. The sisters 
were educated at home, and afterwards supple- 
mented their studies by reading and essay writing, 
in frequent association with their favourite and 
gifted cousins Hannah and Maria Middleton, of 
Wellingborough (the latter afterwards the wife of 
Samuel Fox), who were rather older than them- 



136 ANNUAL MONITOR. 

selves, and whose influence on their intellectual 
development was often gratefully alluded to in 
after life. Among the early memories on which 
S. R. used to dwell with peculiar pleasure were 
the periodical visits paid by her family to their 
friends in the north, prominently those to her 
venerable grandfather, William Tuke, of whom 
seventy years after she wrote '* he was one whom 
h is friends felt to be worthy of much honour. He 
was a warm promoter of education, and joined 
heartily with John Fothergill and others in the 
opening of Ackworth School, and was the first 
clerk of its Committee." He is, however, best 
remembered as the chief founder of the Retreat at 
York. To the members of her grandfather's family 
she was warmly attached, especially to her " sist-er- 
cousin, " Maria Tuke. She used also to speak 
with much interest of their visits to Lindley 
Murray, then residing at Holgate House, in the 
suburbs of York. 

As recorded in the preceding sketch, she was 
married to Isaac Robson in 1830. Her marriage 
introduced her into* a wide circle of truly kind 
friends in Liverpool, of whom she always spoke 
with grateful affection. I. and S. Robson left 
Liverpool when their children were very young, 
and went to reside in Huddersfield, where S. R. 



SARAH ROBSON. 137 

entered upon the cares of a business house, includ- 
ing the charge of a number of young men. 
These new duties were fulfilled with untiring 
energy and faithfulness. Though her household 
cares were numerous and heavy, they were 
never allowed to prevent her taking an interest 
in the welfare of her friends, and of the meeting 
to which she belonged, and many were the 
occasions when her advice was sought and freely 
given, and when she was called to visit the sick 
and suffering, her warm heart being ever "at leisure 
from itself to soothe and sympathise." To great 
quickness of preception was joined a keen sense 
of humour, and her bright repartees will be 
remembered by those who enjoyed intercourse 
with her. 

For the welfare of her children she was 
always deeply solicitous, watchful in checking 
everything wrong, and ever ready to point them 
to Him who only was able to keep them from 
falling, and who would guide them in the right 
way. To one of her children at school she writes 
as follows : — " Don't agitate thy mind, dear, 
with thinking what a deal thou hast to do, but 
quietly and diligently proceed, and persevere 
through all difficulties with calmness of mind. 
I have often found I lost strength by giving way 



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too much to the feeling of hurry when I have 
had a great deal upon me. When we take a few 
moments to consider and arrange what we have 
to do, we shall often save much time. I remem- 
ber reading when I was young what has since 
instructed me as to the occupation of time, that 
method is like packing things in a box. A good 
packer will get in twice as much as a bad one. 
I hope that thou dost not fail to endeavour to 
make opportunities, even if sometimes short, for 
quiet recollection and retirement of mind, and 
this may be thou knows when surrounded by 
thy companions." 

One who knew her well both before and 
after her marriage remarks, "I do not know 
that it has ever been my happiness to be ac- 
quainted with any one in whom the beauty of 
sweetness and humility appeared so all-per- 
vading and whose whole life seemed to be so 
suffused and filled with its fragrance and power.'' 
Patience and abnegation of self and devotion 
to others were strong points in her character, 
and were strikingly shown when she was called 
on, as was frequently the case, to give up her hus- 
band for lengthened absence on religious service 
when her unrepining cheerfulness was very- 
instructive to those around her. 



SARAH ROBSON. 139 

She always took a deep interest in everything 
connected with our religious Society. For many 
years she held and wisely exercised the office of 
Elder in the church. On one or two occasions 
she acted as companion to Friends travelling in 
the ministry, and more than once was a member 
of the committee appointed by her Quarterly 
Meeting for visiting its subordinate meetings. 
For several years she was at the table of the 
Yearly Meeting, where, as reader, and afterwards 
as Clerk, her clear pleasant voice will be remem- 
bered by many. In the various meetings for 
business she took an active part, and her judg- 
ment was always valued by her friends. She 
was one of the originators of the Women's 
First-day School at Huddersfield, and was a 
teacher from its commencement in 1862, till 
failing strength obliged her, whea long past 
seventy, to give up her class of middle-aged 
women, who still bear her in grateful remem- 
brance. 

During the last year of her life S. R.'s 
health had been gradually failing, though she had 
been occasionally able to attend meeting; but she 
was only confined to bed for the last fortnight. 
Owing to great weakness and frequent suffering 
she was unable to converse much, though she 



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often asked for a hymn or a short portioil of 
Scripture, Whittier's hymn " At Last " being a 
great favourite, and she enjoyed seeing her 
children and grandchildren occasionally. To 
one of the latter she said, " Don't trouble, dear, 
because thou cannot do anything for me, but 
remember that the little things may be service 
for Christ. " Several times when her children 
were gathered around her she oflfered words of 
earnest prayer for herself and for them all. 
During the last few days she slept much, but 
when awake was often very happy and bright, 
showing her usual thoughtfulness for those 
around her, and gratitude for any little attention. 
After rousing from a long heavy sleep shortly 
after her husband's death, she asked for him, and 
received with calmness the tidings of her great 
bereavement. To her children soon afterwards 
she said with much feeling, " Follow him as he 
followed Christ ; " adding, " your responsibilities 
will be great, but underneath will be the ever- 
lasting arm." From this time she grew weaker, 
with very little power of expression, but several 
times those around her were comforted by her 
utterance of the one word, " upheld," showing 
that help was near in her time of need. The 
day before her husband's funeral she was carried 



SARAH ROBSON. 141 

at her earnest request to take her last look at the 
remains of her dearest earthly treasure. On 
returning to her own room she remarked, '* Safe, 
safe for ever." After this she seemed to have 
done with earth, and she gently passed away in 
sleep in the evening of the following day. 

Thus the two who had been so emphatically 
"loving and faithful, even unto death," were, 
after only four days' separation, re-united in life 
for evermore. 
Samuel Rosling. 89 18 5 mo. 1885 

Reading. An Elder. 
Sarah Rusby, 78 4 8 mo. 1885 

Leeds. Widow of George Rusby. 
Robert Russell, iSAi7cZori. 70 1 6 mo. 1885 
Ann Saunders, 72 1 5 mo. 1885 

Stoke Nemngton, 
Caroline Adeline Saunders, 

56 26 11 mo. 1884 

ChessingUm, near Kingston-on-Thames, Wife of 

Edward Saunders. 
Thomas Scantlebury, 65 

Derby, late of Harrogate . 
Ann Selfe, Bristol 71 

Ernest Edward Sewell, 23 

Brighton, Son of Edward F. and Sarah J. 

Sewell, of Whitby, 



16 


10 mo. 


1884 


14 


1 uio. 


1885 


5 


11 mo. 


1884 



142 ANNUAL MONITOR. 

Judith Shimmon, 67 1 8 mo. 1885 

Ipsioich, Wife of John Shimmon. 
Sarah Sholl, 80 5 5 mo. 1885 

Brixton. Wife of Samuel Sholl. 
Ernest Simms, 17 17 4 mo. 1885 

Nottingham. Son of Charles P. and the late 
Maria Simms, of Chipping Norton. 
His death was awfully sudden, heing caused 
by an accident on the premises where he was 
apprenticed. 

Emma Simpson, 85 28 7 mo. 1885 

MelJcsham. A Minister. Widow of Robert 
Simpson. 
Betty Smith, 67 2 4 mo. 1885 

Bainhridge, Wensleydale. Widow of Joseph 
Smith. 
Frances Harriett Smith, 

39 8 4 mo. 1885 
Bedminsterf near Bristol. Daughter of the late 
David and Anna Smith. 
Isabella Smith, 77 14 1 mo. 1885 

Bradford. 
John Smith, Preston. 62 25 2 mo. 1885 
Richard Henry Smith, 78 12 4 mo. 1885 

Stovrhridge. 
Selfe Smith, 82 20 3 mo. 1885 

Saltbum. An Elder. 



ANNUAL MONITOR. 143 

SiLVANUs C. Smith, 7 5 2 mo. 1885 

Southampton. Son of Silvanus Smith. 
George Southey, 79 12 12 mo. 1884 

Uffculme, Devonshire. 
Sarah Ann Squire, 58 6 9 mo. 1884 

BerkJiamsted. 
John Slater Stansfield,66 22 7 mo. 1885 

Lothersdale, near Skipton. 
Rebecca Steele, Cork. 78 8 8 mo. 1885 

Wife of John Steele. 
Rebecca Stephens, 88 18 8 mo. 1885 

Eastrickf near Brighouse. 
Edwin Henry Stevens, 60 10 10 mo. 1884 

Hollowayf London. 
Malcolm, Fyfe Stewart, 7 28 4 mo. 1885 

Clapton^ London. Son of John Fyfe and 

Henrietta Stewart. 
Jambs Stubbs Storey, 

Bedcar, 
William Storey, 

Wmchmore Hill. 
John Sucksmith, 

Bi/rstallf near Leeds. 
Elizabeth SwiTHENBANE,67 11 

Chester. Widow of John S. Swithenbank. 
Mercy Tanner, Bristol. 90 4 2 mo. 1885 

Widow of Abraham Tanner. 



58 


9 


1 mo. 


1885 


73 


8 


4 mo. 


1885 


83 


2 


2 mo. 


1885 


,67 


11 


9 mo. 


1885 



144 annual monitor. 

Arthur Thistlethwaite, 

66 8 2 mo. 1885 

Hurworth, near Darlington. 
Sarah Thistlethwaite, 65 5 7 mo. 1885 

Hurworth. Widow of Arthur Thistlethwaite. 
Jane Thompson, Rawdon. 81 22 4 mo. 1885 

Widow of Thomas Thompson. 
Thomas Harvey Todhunter, 

7 29 3 mo. 1885 

Lymrriy Warrington. Son of Joseph Massey 

Harvev and Frances Ann Todhunter. 
William Tomlinson, 67 31 3 mo. 1885 

Louer Clapton, London. 
Anna Rebecca Tregelles, 

Falmouth. 73 10 5 mo. 1885 

Joseph Tyler, Gharlbury. 86 10 2 mo. 1885 
J. T. was much esteemed for his blameless 
life and conversation, and a most diligent attender 
of meetings for worship, until within a very few 
days of his sudden death, for which, it is believed, 
he was fully prepared. 
Alfred Tylor, 60 31 12 mo. 1884 

Carshalton, near Croydon. 
Elizabeth Tweedy, 80 26 3 mo. 1885 

Truro. An Elder. 
John Vansburg, 77 31 7 mo. 1885 

Huntington, near York. 



ANNUAL MONITOR. 145 

John Vaulkhard, 73 20 5 mo. 1885 

Kendal. 
Elizabeth AValdron, 82 20 6 mo. 1885 

Edenderry. "Widow of William Waldron. 
Jonathan Walker, 71 8 9 mo. 1885 

JUaglesfieldf CocJcermouth, J. W. died suddenly, 

of heart disease, when on a visit to Ulverstone. 
Elizabeth Walker, 71 2 11 mo. 1884 

Eaglesfield. Wife of Jonathan Walker. 
Joseph Walker, 81 24 11 mo. 1884 

Huddersfield, 
Louisa Maria Walker, 16 23 2 mo. 1885 

CockerTtwuth. Daughter of Joseph and Sarah 

Walker. 
Rachel Walker, 77 27 7 mo. 1885 

Bridlington. Widow of Samuel Walker, of 

Carlton, near Pontefract. 
Robert Walker, Jun., 20 11 12 mo. 1884 

Glasgow. Son of Robert and Helen Walker. 
Thompson Walker, 62 1 5 mo. 1885 

Birstwith, near Harrogate. 
Elizabeth Harvey Walpole, 

. 34 19 5 mo. 1885 

Monkstown, Duhliyi. Wife of Edward Walpole. 
Sarah Robinson Walpole, 

78 31 1 mo. 1885 

MonkstowVj Vuhlin. 



146 ANNUAL MONITOR. 

Joseph Walton, 80 12 12 mo. 1884 

CowlishaWy near Oldham, 
John Wardell, 88 31 3 mo. 1885 

HilUhorough, 
Sarah Wardell, 76 30 3 mo. 1885 

HilUhorough. Wife of John Wardell. 
Elizabeth Warner, 75 31 1 mo. 1885 

Brighton, 
William Ridley Warner,32 6 4 mo. 1885 

Limerick, Died at Tottenham. 
Lucy Waterfall, 30 5 6 mo. 1885 

Bath, Daughter of William and Sarah Water- 
fall. 
Ann W ATKINS, Ifswich, T2 28 7 mo. 1885 

A Minister. Widow of William Watkins. 
Letitia Watson, 40 14 12 mo. 1884 

Ballinderry, Wife of Matthew Watson. 
Israel Watts, Leicester, 69 16 
Elizabeth Watts, 67 18 

Leicester. Wife of Israel Watts. 
James Weir, Bessbrook, 64 14 
Mary Ann Wells, 48 5 

KeTisington. 
William Wells, 68 13 9 mo. 1885 

Kettering, An Elder. 
Edmund Wheeler, 76 20 12 mo. 1884 

Brighton. 



4 mo. 


1885 


10 mo. 


1884 


1 mo. 


1885 


10 mo. 


1884 



JOHN PRY WILKET. 147 

Margaret White, V6 24 5 mo. 1885 

Clomnel. Widow of Joseph White. 
Susan Whitfield, 27 8-9 mo. 1884 

Fulham, London, 
Charlotte Williams, 84 11 2 mo. 1885 

Rathmines, Dublin. Widow of John Williams. 
Mary Whiting, 78 19 4 mo. 1885 

Stourbridge. Widow of Henry Whiting. 
Mary Wigham, 67 3 8 mo. 1885 

Cold Shield, Goanwood. Wife of William Wig- 

ham. 
Ellen Willmott, 53 19 6 mo. 1885 

Birmingham. 
Frances Maria Wilby, 84 8 10 mo. 1885 

Witney. 
Ann Wilcock, 80 11 4 mo. 1885 

Calder Bridge. An Elder. 
John Fry WiLKEY 83 25 10 mo. 1884 

Exeter. A Minister. 

The life of this dear friend affords an in- 
stnictive example of the operation of Divine grace 
in remoulding a lively and active disposition, not 
naturally submissive to restraint. 

Born at Plymouth on the last day of the 
eighteenth century, J. F. Wilkey removed in 
early manhood to Exeter, where he became closely 
associated with an interesting circle of Friends of 



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his own age, which included Jonathan Dymond, 
the author of the well-known " Essays on the 
Principles of .Morality." 

His first efforts in business on his own 
account not being successful, he relinquished 
the retail shop which he had established, and 
became a commercial traveller, for many years 
driving froiji town to town in the four western 
counties, and being absent from home for several 
weeks at a time. 

The life of the ** Commercial Room" as it 
existed fifty years ago had many attractions and 
some dangers for a mind like that of our friend, 
who added to the qualities already mentioned a 
copious fund of information and anecdote, with 
ready conversational powers, and great kindness 
and geniality of disposition. He was everywhere 
a favourite, and in the intervals of home life his 
society was hailed with pleasure by his relatives, 
including a pretty large circle of young nephews 
and nieces. 

He had married in 1827 Hester Gregory, of 
Bristol, who died in 1860, leaving him with one 
dearly-beloved daughter, Mary, of whom a short 
memoir appeared in the Amiual Monitor for 
1872. 

Early teaching and home influences fostered 



JOHN FRY WILKEY. 149 

ill J. F. Wilkey's mind a reverent regard for the 
convictions of the Holy Spirit, and there were 
many evidences from time to time that the Divine 
Monitor was effectually at work in his heart, 
bringing the sometimes exuberant spirits under 
control, and leading to a gradual change of 
character. 

Though always of temperate habits, our 
friend, under a sense of religious duty, abandoned 
the use of intoxicating drinks, a course which 
involved at that time the exercise of much moral 
courage ; he also gave up on the same ground, 
the use of tobacco, of which he had been very 
fond. The course of self-denial to which he felt 
himself called was further shown by his adopting 
some of those external practices which marked 
him amongst his customers and business asso- 
ciates as a member of the Society of Friends. 

It has been remarked by some who knew 
him in his later travelling days, that he was 
always careful so to arrange his journeys as to 
admit of his attending meetings for worship on 
week days whenever it was possible, as well as 
First-days. 

J. F. Wilkey appears to have had in his boy- 
hood the iiQpression, conveyed to his mind in 
connection \i^>:^\i a religious address in a meeting 



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for worship, that if faithful to Divine requirings 
he would one day become a minister of the 
Gospel. He was appointed to the office of Elder 
in 1859, and it was not until some years after 
that time that he yielded, after much hesitation, 
to the call which he had long been conscious of, 
to utter a few words of exhortation in our meet- 
ings for worship. 

He was recorded as a minister in 1873, and 
from that time until shortly before his decease he 
was earnest and diligent in the exercise of his 
gift. He felt a deep interest in the welfare of 
the Society of Friends, and was regular in the 
attendance of his Monthly, Quarterly, and other 
Meetings. 

His second marriage, in 1862, to Josephine 
S. Dymond was a great comfort to him in his 
advancing years, which were spent, after his 
retirement from active business life, in the 
enjoyment of his home at Exeter, where he so 
arranged his personal expenditure as to allow of 
his gratifying the desire to do good to others, 
under a sense of the responsibility of his steward- 
ship. The period of his second marriage was 
brought to a close by the death of Josephine S. 
Wilkey, in 1881, and he himself quietly passed 
away less than four years afterwards. 



ELIZABETH WILSON. 161 

John Fry Wilkey left behind no personal 
records ; but he often conversed on •religious 
subjects, and was free in expressing his own 
feelings to his intimate friends. In taking leave 
of some relatives who visited him a few months 
before his death, he gave a clear testimony to his 
trust in the Lord Jesus Christ as his Redeemer, 
and his full confidence that through the mercy of 
God, which had followed him all his life long, all 
would be well with him when his earthly pil- 
grimage should have ended. 

The final close was rather sudden ; but in 
the absence of any dying expressions, an extract 
from one of his last familiar letters mav serve to 
show the attitude of mind in which he waited for 
the summons to the home above. On the 14th of 
Tenth month, 1884, he wrote : — " Thanksgiving 
and praise^be unto Him who watches over all, 
especially over those who are true believers in 
Him. Having tasted of the Lord's Supper, I feel 
a want of more. He has an open door in my 
heart to receive Him." 

Elizabeth Wilson, 81 11 12 mo. 1884 
IFincanton. Widow of John Wilson. 

It was not until the last few years of her 
earthly life that Elizabeth Wilson realised in its 
fulness the blessedness of acceptance through 



152 ANNUAL MONITOR. 

redeeming love, though those who lived within 
the sphere of her influence had no doubt but 
that she had long been a member of Christ's 
militant Church, for the fruits of His Spirit's 
indwelling were manifest in her daily walk. In 
lier last illness the boundless love of Christ was 
her constant theme. On the afternoon of Eleventh 
month 8th, after a time of great prostration, she 
exclaimed, with hands uplifted, " What's all this 
compared with what my Saviour bore for me? 
O wondrous love ! tell it out to all the world, 
employ the precious moments, they so quickly 
fly ; no seeking soul was ever turned away." 
Many times she prayed for patience to bear her 
sufferings without murmuring, but a more patient 
sufferer could not have been. Her face wore a 
peaceful, restful expression beautiful to see. 

At another time she remarked : — ^^ Death is 
no king of terrors to me ; I know that my Saviour 
has conquered for me. How awful it must be to 
die without hope ! On looking back, how little 
good I have done compared with what I might 
have done ! how many I might have comforted 
and helped ! but to all I would say, ' Look to 
the Rock.' " To her children, who knew how 
ready she was to sympathise with and help the 
afflicted, this self-abasement seemed uncalled for ; 



ELIZABETH WILSON. 153 

humility and unselfislmess were prominent traits 
in her character. 

On being asked by a friend who came in if 
she were still resting on the Rock 1 " Oh yes," 
she replied, "what should I do without that? 
Thou, oh Christ, art all I want ! ' Nearer, my 
God, to Thee/ " 

On the morning of the 13th she had a time 
of severe conflict, and her countenance wore a 
distressed expression painful to witness. The 
words, " My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken 
me ? " passed from her lips, and she asked that 
prayer might be offered. After a time the former 
comforting assurance returned, and she was able 
to praise her Lord and Saviour. 

A young man who daily inquired about her 
once asked, " if there was light in the valley ; " 
to which she sweetly replied, " Oh yes, though 
at times it's obscured by clouds ; and tell him, 
there will be light for him too, if he continues 
faithful." She desired there might be more 
earnestness amongst others to work while it is 
called to-day. Employ the fleeting moments, for 
they will soon be gone." She often dwelt on 
the grace of charity, and felt how important it 
is that Christians should be united, not standing 
aloof from each other, nor letting little doctrinal 



154 ANNUAL MONITOR. 

points separate them ; but feeling that they are 
all children of one Father, they should all love 
as brethren. The beauties of Nature, as showing 
the beneficence of the Creator, always afforded 
her pleasure ; her window faced the east, and 
one morning, after a glorious sunrise, with a 
beaming expression, she asked one and another 
of her daughters if they had seen it, adding with 
emphasis, " It was beautiful, beautiful !" 

At one time she remarked, " I am not filled 
with doubts or fears, for I know in whom I have 
believed. I am washed in the blood of the Lamb, 
although the arch enemy wants to persuade me 
to the contrary ; but if it were not so, would it 
have been shown me in that remarkable manner? ' 
alluding to a striking vision she had seen about 
six years previously, in which she saw the Saviour 
hanging on the cross, 'and, accompanied with a 
look of inexpressible love, heard the words, " This 
was all for thee." 

Another morning, though suffering much at 
inter\'als, she exclaimed, raising her hands as if 

• 

seeing something, " Beautiful, beautiful ! He 
knows all this discomfort. Good God ! we may 
trust Him ; oh to be Thine ! Every breath for 
Christ. God shall wipe away all tears, and the 
days of thy mourning shall be ended. My God 



ELlJiABETH WILSON. 165 

is all my help and stay. Oh niy precious, 
precious Saviour !" Being asked if she had any 
message for an absent son, she said " Tell him I 
enjoy much peace, am surrounded with blessings, 
indeed everything is a blessing. I am going home, 
* Yea, though I walk through the valley of the 
shadow of death I will fear no evil for Thou art 
with me/ He never leaves. He goes through 
to the very end." 

On the morning of the 23rd a change came 
over her countenance, and it was thought the end 
was near ; but later on she rallied, and her 
voice in prayer and praise was again heard at 
intervals. " Peace, ray peace, I give unto j^ou ; 
precious Saviour, never leave me ; Jesus, precious 
Saviour ! " After a time of quiet, she said, " I 
feel this to be a very precious time of stillness, for 
the Lord says unto me * Be still and know that I 
am God. I will be exalted.^ Worthy, indeed, is 
He of this. Grant me patience, dear Lord, I am 
so tired, so tired. What can this world do ? Not 
bring one moment's relief ; it must be Christ and 
Christ alone — 

* Jesus can make a dying bed 
Feel soft as downy pillows are.' 

How shall I do in the swellings of Jordan ? 



156 ANNUAL MONITOR. 

Oh Lord, dear Lord, don't let the enemy gain 
ascendancy over me. Keep me, oh keep me ; 
we can of ourselves do nothing ; all things 
through Christ. Oh the folly, the madness of 
neglecting this salvation which is so freely offered 
— Eternity is for ever. ' Soon and for ever/ " 

Early on the morning of the 11th she gently 
ceased to breathe, and her purified spirit left its 
earthly tabernacle, we undoubtingly believe, to 
join the ransomed in the mansions of bliss. 
Mary Wilson, 62 2 3 mo. 1885 

Broughton. Wife of Robert Wilson. 
Sarah Wilson, 88 13 1 mo. 1885 

Newcastle-on-Tyne. Widow of Robert Wilson. 
Thomas Wilson, 79 4 4 mo. 1885 

Thornton, near Skipton. An Elder. 
Charles Wise, 55 29 4 mo. 1885 

Croydon. 
William Wood, 81 9 2 mo. 1885 

York. A Minister. 
George Woods, 38 21 11 mo. 1884 

Growhoroughy near Tunhridge Wells, 
Mary H. WooLMAN, 4 12 11 mo. 1884 

Stockton-on-Tees. Daughter of Thomas and 

Elizabeth Woolman. 
James Wright 74 8 1 mo. 1885 

Sudbury. 



ANNUAL MONITOR. 157 

Samuel John Wright, 24 6 8 mo. 1885 
Tunstall, Staffordshire. Son of Charles and 
Mary Ann Wright. 

Sarah Jane Wright, 60 24 6 mo. 1885 
Cork. Wife of Samuel Wright. 



158 ANNUAL MONITOR. 



APPENDIX. 



•o* 



A Brief Memoir concerning 
ENDUE DAHL, 

OP STAVANGER, NORWAY. 

Endre Dahl was bom at Stavanger, in 
Norway, on the 18th of Ninth month, 1816. 
Many were the struggles, and great the sufferings 
and privations of his early days, nor were his 
surroundings or his daily employment favourable 
to a religious life, or to a growth in grace ; yet he 
shrank from the sin and debauchery to "which he 
was greatly exposed. His young heart sorrowed 
at it, and, in the tender love and mercy of the 
Lord, he appears to have been so blessed in early 
life as to have sought and found peace with God, 
through Jesus Christ. 

Longing for deeper religious experience, and 
more spiritual life, he "withdrew his name from 
membership in the Lutheran Church, and about 
the year 1840 was received into membership by 
the Two Months Meeting at Stavanger. 



ENDRB DAHL. 159 

About this time, from emigration and other 
causes, the little company of Friends at Stavanger 
was greatly diminished, concerning which Elias 
Tasted wrote : — " The numher of those in mem- 
bership is small — viz., five men and four women," 
and he adds, " We desire not to admit any but 
those we well know." He further states, " I 
expect at the next Two Months Meeting there 
will be four young people admitted." Endre 
Dahl was one of this number, so that for forty- 
five years of his life he was a member, of Stavan- 
ger Two Months Meeting, in which, loving and 
beloved, he held a conspicuous place. About this 
date great and unrelenting persecution prevailed, 
as it had done from time to time in previous years, 
and not a few suffered grievously in consequence. 

Elias Tasted (formerly a prisoner of war) 
remarks : — " Oh that neither I, nor any of those 
who have experienced of the Lord's goodness, 
may flee in this time of trial, or turn our backs in 
the day of battle." Under date Third month 
21st, 1841, he wrote to Lucy Stead, of Sunder- 
land, who was deeply interested in the welfare of 
Friends in Norway : — 

" Endre Dahl and Maria Endberg, two esti- 
mable young Friends, having been married 
agreeably to the rules of our Society, are*for this 



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cause sentenced to be sent to prison, and to be 
kept ten days on bread and water; which treat- 
ment is to be repeated as often as the magistrate 
appoints, until all the expenses that are required 
of them are paid — the marriage also to be 
annulled." 

Endre and Maria Dahl were prepared to 
suffer, and patiently awaited the issue of the sen- 
tence. About this time a desire was manifest in 
the nation for more religious liberty, and this 
case, as a new and important one, was moved 
from Court to Court, and ultimately both husband 
and wife were set free from the sentence without 
imprisonment, by the final decision of the then 
reigning monarch, Oscar the First. 

Endre Dahl at this time took a small farm ; 
he devoted also a portion of time, as the season 
came round, to the herring fishery, and, as oppor- 
tunity offered, single-handed, to the business of 
house-painting. In this he was again met by 
persecution. Some of his fellow-townsmen took 
advantage of the law against Dissenters, and 
entirely prevented his following this occupation 
within the boundaries of the Stavanger district, 
nor, for the time being, could he follow any other 
business there; so he used to row in a boat on the 
fjord, to such vessels as needed a painter, and 



£!NDRE DAHL. 161 

whose owners were generously willing to employ 
him, and to anchor outside the town boundaries, 
where the oppressor had no jurisdiction. Thus 
step by step, by eai-nestness and energy, the diffi- 
culties of his position were surmounted. 

In 1843 Endre Dahl left his wife and his 
farm for a time, and crossed the North Sea for 
England, being earnestly desirous of learning the 
English language, as no Friend in Norway was 
able at that time to interpret for any Friends from 
England or ^merica who might visit it for reli- 
gious service or otherwise. His Norwegian edu- 
cation was severely scant, his schooling as a boy 
having been greatly neglected; mindful of which, 
with commendable assiduity, he did what he 
could to redeem the past. Quick of apprehension, 
possessing good natural abilities, and having an 
excellent memory, this visit to England proved, 
under the Divine blessing, a life-long benefit to 
himself and to others. 

Within the limits of Durham Quarterly Meet- 
ing a large amount of interest was manifested for 
Norwegian Friends, fostered by correspondence, 
and communication through the sailing of vessels 
between Stavanger and the northern coal ports. 
At Newcastle-upon-Tyne E. D. fell into good 
hands ; our late veteran friend George Richard- 



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son assisted him with parental kindness and soli- 
citude on the occasion of this visit, and continued 
to do so for many years in various ways. 

In addition to the notice contained in the 
" Rise and Progress of Friends in Norway," the 
following lines, recently penned, throw further 
light on this important period : — " I well recollect 
the time, about three months, when Endre Dahl 
remained in Newcastle ; he was very much my 
father's guest as to board, at the shop house in 
Union Street. There my father taught him the 
English language, oral and written ; he also in- 
troduced him to a first-rate painter, who taught 
him ornamental painting and graining, which was 
of great use in the way of his business on his 
return to Norway ; he also introduced him to a 
wholesale dealer in painting materials, and for a 
long time became the medium of E. Dahl's busi- 
ness transactions in that line. "We had him often 
in Albion Street, and he seemed almost like an 
adopted son of my father's ; there was a close bond 
of Christian fellowship between them on earth, 
and now let us regard them as united again more 
closely /or ever." 

Endre E^ahl learned a good deal of his English 
orally in the workshop, in the streets, and else- 
where; he made also a diligent use of the dictiona^}^ 



ENDRE DAHL. 163 

Over all this blessing a shadow unseen was 
looming, and very soon an awful death appeared 
imminent, when He who still " moves in a mys- 
terious way, His wonders to perform," was pleased 
to plant His footstep on the sea, with marvellous 
deliverance. 

The time having come for his return to his 
native land, he took passage in a small vessel, 
with only four hands on board. His shipmates 
were a godless company, and made a mock at his 
reproofs of their wickedness and profanitj-. They 
had not been long at sea before they were run 
down in the night by a much larger vessel on her 
way to England. E. Dahl hurried from his berth 
and found the crew beside themselves with fear, 
and one of them in his frenzy vainly hacking at 
the rope of the boat with the back of an axe 
instead of the edge. E. D. seized the axe and cut 
the rope, and they had just time for all to jump 
into the boat before their ship went down, leaving 
them with little clothing, in a small boat nearly 
filled with water, with nothing but a pair of boots 
to bale with, and only one oar. The large vessel 
held on her course as though nothing unusual 
had occurred. Yet under these feai'ful circum- 
stances, E. D. " was favoured to be so calm in the 
face of death, that he seemed to have a foretaste 



164 ANNUAL MONIfOB. 

of Heaven itself, and was filled with joy such as 
he had never before experienced." His terrified 
companions now clung to him, and were willing 
to listen to his words about the God whom they 
had despised, but in whom he even then could 
trust ; and he persuaded them to join with him in 
prayer for their deliverance. Their prayer was 
heard and answered. When day returned they 
could see the other ship on the far off horizon, 
too far away to see them, or any signal they could 
hoist. As time passed, however, they perceived 
that instead of receding she was approaching, and 
at last reached them and took them on board, and 
as soon as they had quitted it, their little boat 
sank, and was seen no more. E. Dahl, whilst 
remonstrating with the captain on his inhumanity 
in consciously leaving them to perish, asked him 
what it was that induced him to relent. He said 
he did not know what it was ; he had quite 
resolved to go on and leave them, but after a few 
hours such a strange feeling came over him that 
he was absolutely compelled to put back and pick 
them up/ Thus did God hear the " cry of His 
children in their trouble," and by the constraining 
of His Spirit, use even a hard-hearted wicked man 
as His instrument for " bringing them out of their 
distresses." 



ENDRE DAHL. 165 

On arriving at Sunderland Friends were very 
kind, and provided E. D. with clothing, and with 
the means of reaching his native land. 

In 1842 Elias Tasted wrote :— " The Society 
at Stavanger consists of about forty members, 
children included." Under date Eighth month 
30th, 1845, Ener Kasmussen wrote to a friend in 
Sunderland : — "I feel a true union in my spirit 
with yoU; the Friends in England ; often am I, 
in my loneliness, turned toward you, in love and 
sweet fellowship in my spirit, even as if I were 
amongst you. This fellowship has its source in 
Christ, the true Vine, in whom all true unity 
and fellowship consists. ... I will now inform 
thee of a great visitation of grace from on high, 
which was felt in our Meeting on the first 
First-day in the Fifth month last. I believe 
the Lord*s presence was near the assembly, and 
was felt by all, as our dear friend Endre Dahl 
stood up, and publicly bore testimony amongst 
us. . . . He has also appeared in ministry a 
few times since, and has travelled to visit Friends 
who live at a distance from Stavanger, and 
who lack ability frequently to attend our meet- 
ings ; I have also been with him on a visit to 
some Frieiiclg,^' 

The fo]/^\ving is from the pen of George 



166 ANNUAL MONITOR. 

Kichardson, under date 1845 : — " Early in this 
year the Meeting for Sufferings was seriously 
occupied with the consideration how far it could 
beneficially interfere in bringing the suffering 
case of Friends in JSTorway before their own 
Government." 

An address was presented from the Meet- 
ing for Sufferings to the King of Norway and 
Sweden, so early as 1818, touching our Friends 

t 

in Norway, and pleading on their behalf. The 
sufferings for conscience* sake of our fellow- 
members in that land, were also kept in view 
as well as an address from Stavanger Friends, 
and one from George Richardson in 1841. 

On the 3rd of First month, 1845, the Meet- 
ing for Sufferings prepared an address " To the 
Representatives of the Norwegian Kingdom in 
Storthing assembled ;" and there is reason to 
believe it was not in vain, for on the 16th of 
Seventh month, the same year, there was given 
forth at the palace at Stockholm, under the 
hand of King Oscar the First, a confirmation 
of the alterations of the Act of the Storthing, 
in favour of all those who conscientiously dis- 
sented from the Lutheran Church. Bv this 
law many statutes were abolished which had 
laid a prohibition on the free exercise of reli- 



ENDRB DAHL. 167 

gion, out of the Established Worship ; but that 
which declared that " no religious profession can 
exempt from military service " was rigidly retained. 
Of the fifty -eight Friends who, as mem- 
bers of the Meeting for Sufferings, signed the 
aforesaid address, only some two or three now 
remain, like autumn leaves on the topmost 
bough ; touchingly recalling the lines — 

" Work while the daylight lastetb; 
* Work while it is day ; ' 
Ere night her shadow casteth ; 
Work, and watch, and pray." 

In the year 1846 the late John Budge, Edwin 
0. Tregelles, and Isaac Sharp paid a religious 
visit to Norway. Endre Dahl, on hearing of 
their prospect, sought diligently among the stu- 
dents at Stavanger for some one sufficiently 
qualified to act as interpreter, but sought in 
vain. The bar in the way of holding " public 
meetings" had been removed by the Law of 
Toleration, passed the year before. In the 
National Schoolroom, the use of which was 
kindly granted, and which was very crowded, 
(about 600 of the inhabitants having assembled). 
Endre Dahl, to the surprise of many, acted effi- 
ciently as interpreter, greatly to the satisfaction 
and comfort of his friends ; he appeared to be 



168 ANNUAL MONITOR. 

graciously helped in his service ; thus was his 
foreshadowing in the commencement of his study 
of the English language verified. 

In 1847, E. D. was still on his farm at 
Dusevig ;. but as his business in oils, colours, and 
painting increased, the farm was given up, and 
he went to reside in or near the town, where in. 
the fear of the Lord and under His blessing, he 
prospered ; the Lord blessed him in basket and 
store, and he became a succourer of many in their 
need. As Surveyor of the Roads, to which office 
he was appointed in the days of his early vigour, 
and in other positions subsequently, being earnest 
for the right in the discharge of his duties, his 
services were appreciated by those around him, 
and in the commercial world he was known as a 
man of integrity. 

Having purchased a few acres of land in the 
outskirts of the town, at Hetland, he built a 
commodious and well-arranged house, and sur- 
rounded it with trees, shrubs, and evergreens. 
The beds in the garden were bright for months 
with a succession of flowers. In these he took 
great delight, and allowed all comers to walk 
unrestrained among them, and to share with the 
owner "the smiles of Providence," as the late 
William Wilberforce was wont to call the bene- 



£NDBE DAHL. 169 

ficent gift of flowers. Not a few will remember 
with deep interest many seasons at Hetland of 
social and religious fellowship. 

For several years the health of Maria Dahl 
was that of an invalid; at length the tender union, 
during which so many changes had been wit- 
nessed, was sundered, and Endre Dahl was left a 
little while alone. They had no children to sur- 
vive them. 

Among the mountains and in the valleys, 
and on the fjords, not unfrequently accompanied 
by one or more of his friends, Endre Dahl often 
travelled in the^love of the Gospel, to the comfort 
and edification of his fellow-members and others. 
Nor were the Friends in and about Stavanger 
forgotten ; he took an active and important part 
in the discipline of the Society, and maintained a 
correspondence with the Continental Committee 
of the Meeting for Sufi'erings .of London Yearly 
Meeting. 

On whom will his mantle fall ? It may be 
that the Lord will appoint to some of His 
willing-hearted followers the portion which still 
remains of service for Him, and call them to 
enter upon it ; may they do so in the strength of 
the Lord. 

From Erljord, his last visit, Endre Dahl re- 

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170 ANNUAL MONITOR 

turned only the week prior to the close of his 
useful life. On First-day, the 6th of Ninth month, 
1885, he was twice at Meeting. The same evening 
alarming symptoms set in. Unable either to sit 
or to lie down, he stood on his feet nearly the 
whole of the night. As if free from earthly 
claim or care, his day's work having been done 
in the day time, he remarked, " There is nothing 
left now ; I would like, if it please the Lord, 
to lay my head upon the pillow." Thenceforward, 
in much bodily suffering, by night and by day, 
partially sitting, but chiefly standing, he con- 
tinued in great patience till the midnight of 
Fourth-day, the 10th of Ninth month. The end 
was then near at hand ; about ten minutes before 
the close, being quite conscious, he remarked, 
" None can do any more for me ; " which was 
followed by the petition, " Lord, may it please 
Thee to come and take Thy child ? " The prayer 
was heard and answered ; being seated, he 
leclined his head, and in a few minutes gently 
passed away, to be, it is thankfully believed, " for 
ever with the Lord." 

The 18th of Ninth month was the day of 
burial, just sixty-nine years from the day of his 
birth. It was a lovely autumnal morning ; asso- 
ciated with the silence as we stood around all that 



END RE DAHL. 171 

the grave could claim, there was less of death than 
of life, though blended with a touching sense of 
the gap thus made, and the reality of it, in many 
a home. 

The following is from a letter written soon 
after the event: — " We hear that the attendance at 
the funeral was the largest ever remembered in 
Stavanger; two Lutheran priests, the English 
consul, and the principal men of the town, fol- 
lowing one, who, forty-five years ago, was hooted 
and reviled in the streets of Stavanger for being a 
Quaker." In view of the past and present, well 
may we exclaim, "What hath God wrought!" 
and in the remembrance of it, magnify His grace 
and praise His name. 

" Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord 
from henceforth : yea, saith the Spirit, that they may 
rest from their labours, and their works do follow 
them." None but those who have been amongst 
Friends in that land can fully understand the loss 
they have sustained, albeit, though the servants 
may depart, the Lord remaineth ever. Blessed 
be His name ior evermore ! 



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