is able to save to the uttermost.” In 1811 he again visited Europe, and we find, in the course of his visit, in 1812, the following remarkable instance of that marvellous manner in which crooked things were made straight for him in his ministry. It was in Dublin he writes: vasion." He went in this visit through a considera 66 my Saviour, whose cause had suffered more from as if to proclaim, you see me in your hands his inuendoes and attacks, than from any before you; you need not fear.' We had a other modern assailant, did not refuse the solemn meeting; many of those weathermercy the dying blasphemer implored-"He beaten faces were tendered, even to tears. When the meeting concluded, the admiral, under much feeling and religious tenderness, expressed his sense of gratitude for the Lord's favor extended that evening, and his hope that many of them would be lastingly benefited by this religious opportunity. The meeting separated under that solemnity, and agreeable to the promise of the admiral, no impressment took place that night in Dublin. "I had a memorable meeting among the But the succeeding days, throughout England seamen. My mind was under considerable and Ireland, it continued very rigid, this beexercise towards them, but I did not knowing the time when France threatened an inthat they were then in so peculiar a position. On imparting my concern to Friends, after the close of one of their meetings, they cordially united in it; when a dear friend stated, that though he felt great unity with the concern, he did not see how it could be accomplished; for orders from the Admiralty in London had arrived, to impress as many of the seamen as possible, and that in consequence, not one was now to be seen either on board the vessels or on the quays; adding that he would go out immediately and see what could be done. It was then near twelve o'clock. The Friend went directly to the admiral of the port, with whom he was acquainted, and told him of the religious concern I had towards the seamen. The admiral answered, "It is a hard thing that you ask me; here, read what despatches I have to-day from London; the impressing of men is now going on in the city part of London, heretofore exempt from it, but," added he "if your friend can have his meeting this evening, I give you my word of honor that no impressment shall be made to-night." Now, that was the very time I had it on my mind to have the meeting. Friends, therefore, had public notices printed, in which with the approbation of the admiral, his promise that there should be no impressment that night, was inserted. The notices were distributed at the houses seamen are known to frequent, and where they had concealed themselves. The ground-floor of a large warehouse was prepared and seated for the occasion. The meeting was appointed for seven in the evening, and contrary to the apprehension of some, the sailors turned out in large numbers, so as to crowd the place. After the meeting had been settled in much stillness, there was a bustle near the door, towards which the attention of the sailors was directed with much anxiety. It was the admiral, accompanied by some of his officers. ble portion of Great Britain and Ireland with the burden of souls upon his own soul—all persons interested him; he felt a love for all classes, and desired to speak to them-among the dales of Yorkshire, Westmoreland, and Cumberland, where he found much suffering from the high price of provisions and the scarcity of grain. He says, horse had but poor fare, and I made as little do as I possibly could; but the Lord has strengthened me every way, blessed and reverend be his name." The business of these dales in those times was to knit stockings, and their industry appears to have surprised the traveller, for he met " men and women and children, walking in the fields, or on the highways, knitting as fast as they can." He sought out the prisoners of war at Stilton in Cambridgeshire; he found in the barracks about six thousand French prisoners, mostly soldiers, guarded by a body of English troops. The poor creatures, as he spoke to them of the love of Christ, and in the love of Christ, said, "Our souls are full of gratitude to the Lord, who has put it into your heart thus to think of us and to feel for us. In London he had a care for Jews, and especially Jewish children; pickpockets and thieves, and abanfor the latter meeting-but he called them doned women-he had great fears, especially together and wept over them, and preached Christ the Saviour to them; and he testifies it was a very solemn time indeed. "The Lord's power was over us, the lofty heads, the proud looks, were brought down. I have seldom known such brokenness, and so gento his promise; but he marched quietly eral, as it was that evening. The meeting through the seamen, came to the further end, remained in the same state during the silence towards me, and took his seat in front of them, after I had sat down, a silence only inter Fears were entertained that he was not true rupted by the sobbings or deep sighs of some travel, and where numerous difficulties and of them." Newgate in that day was a horri- great perils must necessarily attend me." ble place; he visited it, talked with the pris- This is remarkable in this order of men; it oners, especially those condemned to death; has often been noticed of St. Bernard, of he even interested himself in the child of one George Fox, of John Wesley; no scene man hung the next day; the boy, by the in- touched the heart, or even seems to have tervention of Friend Grellet, was educated, attracted the eye; the one thing, the one and became a respectable man. Then he concern, was the weight of souls; yet this visited Cornwall, and among the miners and does not seem to have arisen from inability to fishermen he met the same results of emotion perceive, hut from the superior and over and tears. Visiting his native place again, whelming interest of spiritual things. Men and Brives, in France, where his mother re-like Grellet have had especial desire to reach sided, he found that she had made further advances in the knowledge of Christ, having hope and faith no longer in the pope and in priests, but in Christ alone. Here, with the superior and the nuns of the hospital, he held his meeting. "The aged and venerable superior continued in the greenness of the divine life, manifesting Christian meekness" and humility, she collected all the nuns, and we were soon brought into solemn silence before the Lord, who baptized us together by one spirit into one body." At St. Hypolite, where he held the memorable meeting recorded above, six years since, he had now a very different one; the commissary of police, who had been so rude before, now prepared a spacious and convenient building, had it properly seated, and during the meeting took his seat beside the minister. At the close of a remarkable service, an old popish priest, residing in the town, came and "expressed his gratitude for the favor and the mercy that the Lord had granted that day." It is not possible in the course of a few pages to follow in detail the wanderings of this excellent man through the many kingdoms and regions of Europe; he passed through scenes of surpassing loveliness and majesty, through mountains glorious and gloomy, through the isles of the Mediterranean, and through courts and palaces; but the things of nature or of art seem never to have touched him; he scarcely alludes once to the former, and never once to the latter through all his journals. He was weighed down and inspired by the instinct of souls. "The weight of the service which the Lord cals from me in Europe becomes heavier, and heavier, my whole mind is at seasons absorbed by it. I greatly wonder that services of this kind should be laid upon me in nations whose language I understand not, where I do not know that there is even a practicability to the chambers of kings and emperors. In Russia, of course, he saw the Emperor Alexander; they had met in London, where, with his usual spirit of frank affability, he came to the door of his apartment to meet Grellet and William Allen, and after a long conversation on prayer and the Holy Spirit, he said, These, your words, are a sweet cordial to my soul, and they will long remain engraven on my heart; " and taking them by the hand, he said, "I part from you as from friends and brethren; feelings which I hope will ever remain with me.” In 1819, when our traveller was in Russia, the emperor sent for him again, with William Allen, Grellet's frequent companion. "Like old friends," said the monarch, as he made them sit down by each side of him on the sofa; and again they talked of the Holy Spirit, and of education; they spoke of the condition of his prisons, and showed him a sketch from a prison at Abo, of a man with his fetters upon him, and the emperor was affected, and said, "These things ought not to be—they shall not continue so ;" and they mentioned to him the case of a man who had borne heavy chains for eighteen years, for having threatened, in an unguarded moment, to strike his mother. Before they parted, the emperor desired that they should spend some time together in prayer, and they did so after being with him for about two hours. It is gratifying to know that when next they saw him shortly afterwards, one of the first things he told them was, that the chains they saw on the prisoners at Abo were now removed, and that the man they told him of, who had been eighteen years loaded with fetters, was liberated; and he desired that in the course of their progress through Russia, anything of importance noticed in the prisons or other places might be directly communicated to him. The year 1819 was a year of very in the title-deed of the house he lived in, made teresting travels with our itinerant; to us | ceeded in business. The tailor, by his anthe interest has greatly gone by; it might swers, manifested that he was a pious and perhaps be found that the things and states conscientious man, but under pecuniary cmof society described in these journals-the barrassment, not being able to pay the rent of his house and shop. Alexander left him education, the prisons, the social manners and without making himself known; but, to the superstitions have scarcely altered at all. great surprise of the tailor, a few days af Since then the amazing and marvellous pow-ter, a person came to him, and handed him ers of steam-of the press-even these are very long in breaking up the rigid lines of old despotisms-the hard and impassable barriers interposed by the iron policies of state and papal craft. But in any case these volumes exhibit to us the celerity and activity of a spiritual mind, and the possibility of uniting together a life of intense activity and spiritual rest; for our laborer rested in his work. It is perhaps the state of such almost invariably apparent, it seems, the Society of Friends, that it exhibits very little of personal affectionateness, little of the human individual love. "Dear William Allen" is almost the only person mentioned in these volumes, with the exception of the beloved mother, for whom there seems to be any in workers in close humanness of interest. A sweet tenderness pervades all the pages, all the intercourses; but one wonders whether it was not easy to leave home and wife and personal companionships-whether the love was not that of a generally diffused tender light than of a throbbing human heart. These remarks are made, not a at all depreciating the human tenderness of his holy man, but it seems inevitable in the development of such a character that the human love, which in its weakness is a necessity, to us, should be so subordinated to the higher, we must say, the more divine and absorbing affection, that perhaps the functions of humanity seem almost to be displaced; it is the thing we have noticed often in all these higher saints. Two or three pleasant little instances occur illustrating the influence which it may be believed our traveller left upon the mind of the emperor, which really seems to have been most religiously and tenderly affected ; The following also shows the emperor's interest in Friends : "On my way from Folkstone to Lewes, I stopped at the house of Nathaniel Rickman, who me an acconnt of a very unexpected gave ter had made to his family. On their way visit that the Emperor Alexander and is sisto Dover, passing by the house of Nathaniel Rickman, who, with his wife, was standing at their door, the emperor, from their dress, soon recognized them as Friends. He ar dered the carriage to stop, and he and his sister went into the house, which is a neat, comfortable farm-house. They cheerfully partook of the refreshment set before them. They visited every part of the house, even the dairy, and found everything in such neatness and order that they were much pleased, and particularly noticed the very becoming behavior of the children." Grellet travelled through many parts of Russia; as he had seen its emperor, with like purposes he saw the patriarch. We have seen with what simplicity the first dignitary received him-the second, although really a simple man, thought it necessary to array himself in pontifical pomp to receive the simply attired Quaker; the sublime apparatus of haberdashery does not appear to' have interfered either with affability on the one hand, or a faithful proclamation of truth' upon the other, but the picture would be a singular one, which should exhibit these two sitting together the metropolitan in his large purple robe and other embroidered garments, his white tiara blazing with its cross of emeralds, diamonds, and precious stones; gold chain, suspending the picture of one of the chief saints; his sides decorated with small and large stars, and in his hands, "Whilst at Brussels I heard an interesting circumstance respecting the Emperor Alexander when he was in that place. He had taken a walk through the streets alone, in plain garments, so that his rank was not observable by his dress. A heavy rain came on, which induced him to look for shelter. a string of amber beads. It is curious to A tailor's shop being near, he went in, and contrast with this, a visit paid immediately: entering into conversation with him, in- after to the really great. wise, and pious Archquired about his family, and how he suc-bishop Philaret. This great man and power 1 new birth. with them afterwards made us desirous to held to-morrow morning at one of their houses. After they had retired, Macarius remained for some time absorbed in silent in the Greek Church received Grellet with | There were about twenty families, and we great simplicity, and they talked together of appointed a meeting with them, to be held at what constitutes the real Christian. Grel- our lodgings that evening. Macarius came let, as seems to have been usual with him, in as the meeting was gathering; at first, we feared that his presence might mar the laying hold upon our Scriptural word and religious opportunity; for, during the reigns working this into the conversation till it of Catherine and Paul, this people and the found a place and lodgment in the soul. In Duhobortzi suffered heavy persecution from this case, "If any man be in Christ, he is a the clergy and the government. They did new creature," gave him the opportunity of not, however, appear to be at all disturbed by insisting much to the Greek bishop on the his presence. We were soon all gathered Besides, the empress-mother, of soul before the Lord; this is the manner into solemn, silent waiting and prostration who sent for him that she might have a long in which the people meet together for divine spiritual conversation, and on parting, said, worship in silence, which is not interrupted, "I wish to be kept fresh in your prayers,' unless some one present apprehends, under and the Prince Galitzin, who also, after a long the sensible influences of the divine spirit, spiritual interview, in parting said, "Now, that he is required to speak as a minister before we separate, let us unite in waiting among them, or to offer vocal prayer. The on the Lord, that he may give us a manifes-meeting was a solemn season; conversation tation of his divine life and presence, our know more of their religious principles and traveller saw other far humbler, we dare to doctrines; we therefore appointed another say far more interesting people. Through- meeting for conference with them, to be out the highest ranks of Russia pious women, princesses, and countesses drew him into their circle; and the really interesting thing to notice is, how much of spiritual life and meditation, then, with a flood of tears, he cried out, In what a state of darkness and emotion existed even in the circles we are ignorance have I been? I thought I was accustomed to suppose too hard and impene- alone in these parts endeavoring to walk in trable for much divine influence. The the light of the Lord, to wait for and sensiPrince Obolunsky hold a meeting in his bly to feel the influences of his spirit, so as family and whispered, "It is very seldom to be able to worship him in spirit and in indeed that such plain and sound truths are truth; and behold, how great has been my darkness, so that I did not discover that proclaimed to us." But leaving courtly blaze of light here round about me, among a scenes, the traveller plunged into the wilder- a people, poor in the world, but rich in ness, stopping at the monastery of Ekate- the Lord Jesus Christ.' He left us much rinoslav to see the great Macarius; he was found in his cell, a very simple place, one table and a few stools its only furniture; the learned monk opened much of his heart to the simple and tender Friend; his experiences, his dffiiculties, and his conversion to a belief in the power of the Spirit alone as a divine helper in spiritual work. In this place, Grellet met with a people called the Malakans, an order of very spiritual Christians, a kind of Congregationalists, we should think, scattered in various parts of Russia, and numbering nearly one hundred thousand. He says: "This morning we had a visit from an old man, eighty years of age, one of the people called Malakans, because of some of their peo affected." 6 He also met with the Mennonites, a people whose name will be known to most of our readers as having preserved great simplicity of faith and worship. He visited and preached among the Karaite Jews in the the charming region of Baktchiserai. While at Karasou bazar, a Tarter village, a deputation came from a Roman Catholic village to request that they might not be passed by; and indeed it is very singular to us to hear the steeple bell ringing to receive the Quaker preacher in the church, full and exciting. 66 They had lighted their wax-tapers on the altar," says Grellet," after their usual manthink much of this. My mind was under though the sun shone bright. I did not ner, religious scruples; they call themselves Spir-deep exercise for the people, with earnest itual Christians. We had heard of that desire that they might come to the light of ple, and hoped to meet them, but did not the Lord, and be gathered in the brightness know there were any of them in this place. of his arising. We took our seats with our backs to the altar, facing the people; " and | eye, it is noticed; but he never goes out of then said the sexton, "I don't think that his way in Corinth or Athens to see columns anybody else will come, for the whole village or marble temples. To him nothing seems is here." "The Lord," says Grellet, "en- beautiful or attractive but human souls. larged me in his gospel; the people were di- Nature and art are as dust if not as darkness rected to Christ, the Shepherd and Bishop to him. Men, or men and women, the souls. of souls, the High Priest of our Christain profession, who is very nigh every one of us, and ready to minister in the temple of the heart to every one that waits upon him." These things are very remarkable. They did not understand his language. 66 the conditions of men and women, his only objects and interest. Sometimes Romish priests found him; when in Athens, himself in the very mind, the state of Paul when overwhelmed as he saw the city given over to idolatry, a Capuchin friar found him. 1 The whole intercourse went on by an in- We do not wonder that Friend Grellet had terpreter, and yet the effects in this and many but little desire to meet with him. The heart other such instances seem to have been of of the Friend was in darkness at that time, the deepest; especially the Malakans seem to and a friar did not seem to be a likely person have felt the closeness which one spirit gives, to dissipate its gloom. "On seeing him ata even when words are not to be found. As distance, in the rough garb of a Capuchin, the travellers were leaving the next morning, with a long beard, I was the more prepos some were at the door before daylight to bid sessed against him; but I had hardly exchanged them farewell, and to bring them their poor a word with him, when my feelings were to but affectionate offering of hread for the jour- tally changed: I saw him in the humble ney. There was one, an old man, venerable Christian and spiritually-minded man; I felt looking, with a long beard and clothing of that I could salute him as a disciple of the sheepskin covering, who appeared very desir- Lord Jesus Christ." Of course he came to 'ous to go a little way with the travellers; he express his spiritual confidences and experigot in, and sat between them, but they could ences and trials, and we may feel that the not converse with each other, yet' says wanderings of our traveller were not vain if Grellet, "there is a language more power- his words aided in preserving the light of ful than words." He held each of the trav- truth burning on the altars of such hearts as ellers by the hand, the big tears rolled down the poor friar; they had meetings with each his venerable beard. "So," says our travel- other, and refreshed each other with spiritual ler, "we rode on several versts in solemn and worship. Passing through the Greek Isles, contrite silence; " then when they came to a our traveller was moved to visit Italy; the water which had to be passed, he took them state of the prisons interested him much; the into his arms with the greatest affection, he gloomy vaults of the Gallerians; the hospikissed them, and got out of the carriage. tals and the nunneries, in some of which he "On looking back we saw him prostrated on still had the opportunity of preaching, a priest the ground, in the act of worship or prayer sometimes acting as interpreter. From Na to God; and, after he rose, as long as we ples he went to Rome, daring and determincould discern him, he stood with his face ing to set before the Government some facts towards us, his hands lifted up. We felt it, connected with prisons. This was in the year as he did, a solemn separation. May the Lord 1819, the last of the Pontificate of Pius VII., bless and protect that portion of his heritage, and when the Cardinal Consalvi was prime a people whom he has raised up by his own minister a wondrously different being to power, and instructed by his own free Spirit." Antonelli there seemed then some hope of We have said, that it is in no connected man- reformation and change. In the Eternal City ner can we follow the tours and travels of we have not one single word upon any object this extraordinary Friend, through Constan- of art or grandeur. St. Peter's, or the Colitinople and the Dardanelles, and the Islands seum, or any of the monuments of churches of the Archipelago. Charming scenes, but, of the ancient or modern civilization are not as we have said, making no thought appar- even mentioned; but he visited painful prisently of their beauty in the mind of the trav-ons. He spent much time with Consalvi, eller. Occasionally, very rarely, when some who was much interested in all his observafestoon of beauty hangs obviously before his tions. This was not permitted without some |