antipathy to the one thing in which poverty is an advantage, and into apathy concerning the one hope which would uphold and comfort them in penury, and which wealth could never purchase.

Faith in Christ Jesus, confidence in Him whose ear is emphatically open to the sighing of the poor and to the crying of the needy-this is the one balm for suffering humanity, the silver lining to the dark clouds of a labouring man's life. "The joy of the Lord shall be their strength," and "the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.”

W. C. WESTLAKE.

DIES IRE.

An attempt is here made to render into English poetry this beautiful funeral hymn, verse for verse, and line for line.)

Dies iræ, dies illa
Solvet sæclum in favilla,
Teste David cum Sibylla.

Quantus tremor est futurus,
Quando Judex est venturus,
Cuncta stricte discussurus!

Tuba mirum spargens sonum
Per sepulchra regionum,
Coget omnes ante thronum.

Mors stupebit et natura,
Cum resurget creatura,
Judicanti responsura.

Liber scriptus proferetur,
In quo totum continetur,
Unde mundus judicetur.
Judex ergo cum sedebit,
Quidquid latet apparebit;
Nil inultum remanebit.

The day of wrath, that awful day,
When time in flame shall pass away,
So David and Sibylla say.

O what trembling and what fear,
When our great Judge will appear,
All our many sins to hear!

The trumpet giving wondrous sound,
Shall wake the dead, beneath the
ground:

They all His throne will then surround.

Stern death and nature silent lie,
Upward the souls to judgment fly,
Where they shall meet their Judge
on high.

Then that great book will be unroll'd,
Wherein every deed is told,
From which He will their fate unfold.

The Judge shall sit in majesty,
Whate'er is hidden He will see,
And nothing unavenged will be.

"GO YE, AND TEACH ALL NATIONS."

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THE zeal and self-devotion with which the early Friends engaged in Foreign Missions is very instructive. We find George Fox frequently urging the claims of the heathen. Bring them," he says, "to the Great Sacrifice, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Seed of the woman, who offered up Himself for the sin of the world." "The Gospel is to be preached to every creature, and Christ hath tasted death for every man, and died for their sins, that they might come out of death and sin, and live to Christ that died for them." In 1687 he exhorts Friends to go in parties of "six or more," and hold meetings with the Indians, "that they may know the way of salvation and the nature of true Christianity, and how that Christ hath died for them, who tasted death for every man; and so the gospel of salvation must be preached to every creature under heaven.” Again in 1690, shortly before his death, George Fox writes, "Dear Friends and Brethren, Ministers, Exhorters and Admonishers, that are gone into America and the islands thereaway,-Let your light shine among the Indians, the blacks and the whites, that ye may answer the truth in them, and bring them to the Standard and Ensign that God hath set up, Christ Jesus."

In 1658 a Committee of five Friends was appointed in London to have special care of the foreign missionary service, to receive subscriptions, and to order and dispose of the same to the many Friends who had gone forth to preach in foreign lands. hearts of Friends were filled with love toward these zealous pioneers. At the General Meeting held at

The

Skipton in 1660, Friends refer to the report of this long extinct Missionary Committee. They write that they have received "certain information from some Friends of London, of the great work and service of the Lord beyond the seas, in several parts and regions, as Germany, America, Virginia, and many other places, as Florence, Mantua, Palatine, Tuscany, Italy, Rome, Turkey, Jerusalem, France, Geneva, Norway, Barbadoes, Bermuda, Antigua, Jamaica, Surinam, Newfoundland, through all which Friends have passed in the service of the Lord, and divers other places, countries, islands and nations, and over and among many nations of the Indians, in which they have had service for the Lord, who, through great travails have published his name, and declared the everlasting gospel of peace, unto them that have been afar off, that they might be brought nigh unto God."

The General Meeting then urges a third subscription to "be sent as formerly to London for the service and use aforesaid." In its zeal for the raising up of many more missionaries it exclaims, "EVERY ONE to the ministry yourselves-for England is as a family of prophets, which must spread over all nations, as a garden of plants, and the place where the pearl is found which must enrich all nations with the heavenly treasure."

But the missionary work which was thus energetically begun, soon flagged. In those days Friends were far more zealous than most of their contemporaries in seeking to preach Christ in foreign lands. Yet that good seed which they were enabled to sow had need of watering. It is a proof of the power of God that they accomplished so much with so little outward arrangement, yet why were not these Foreign Missions more permanent ? Why was there not a succession of faithful labourers?

George Fox shrewdly remarks of those living in comfort and ease, "Do ye think they will go into all nations to preach?" Not that missionary work was altogether abandoned. Many meetings were held among the North American Indians. Thomas Chalkley says, "The Gospel of Jesus Christ was preached freely to them, and faith in Christ who was put to death at Jerusalem by the unbelieving Jews, and that this same Jesus came to save people from their sins." John Woolman gives a tenderly beautiful account of some of his visits to them. Several of the American Yearly Meetings have continued to make efforts on their behalf; and these labours have been appreciated and rewarded.

The Indians in one of their letters to Friends say, "We have religious meetings twice in every week, to seek after the ways of the Good Spirit, and have at times been comforted by Him who searcheth all the hearts we experience in degree the love of Jesus Christ, who died for such sinners as we are." Schools were established among various tribes, and many were the invitations the chiefs sent for the Quakers to come among them. "Brothers," exclaimed one of their leaders after a Friends' meeting, "I am glad to hear you talk about Jesus. Poor Indian believe that God sent his Son into this world, and that He died for all poor Indians, as well as white people, and I believe He is now with God in heaven, and that He comes into our hearts by his Spirit, even poor Indians, and will be there for

ever.

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Brothers, your father William Penn, and others of your old men, and our old men the Munsees, lived in peace like brothers, and made the treaty under the elm-tree; and the Quakers and the Munsees have always been friends; and my heart is glad you still think of your Indian brethren, and come and