THE CHILDREN'S HOME, of Cincin- Though of a thoughtful turn of nati, is an institution designed to mind, she was naturally possessed of furnish a temporary home for neglec- great vivacity of spirits; loving and ted and destitute children, and to being loved by all around her, with a assist them in getting good, perma- kind and congenial companion, two uent homes in the country. From lovely children, and a large circle of the "Second Annual Report," we relatives and friends, she looked forlearn that 140 have been received the ward to the future with bright and past year, and homes obtained for 44. happy anticipations; and indeed there A day school is taught for the in- were few who loved life more, or had mates and others who are not in a greater inducements around them to condition to attend elsewhere, and a make a long life desirable. But in warm dinner given to all such. The His inscrutable wisdom it pleased annual expenses are over $8,000, Him "who doeth all things well, which have been generously met by overcast her bright prospects and lay the contributions of the citizens of the hand of disease upon her. She Cincinnati. The whole institution is first felt the decline of her health under the superintendence of Daniel about the middle of Second month, Hill. The friends of this enterprise 1865, but she and her friends thought contemplate purchasing a "Children's it was only of a temporary character, Home School Farm," to be located in but it proved to be the insidious beHamilton County, and have already ginning of pulmonary consumption, $8,000 promised for this purpose. which steadily progressed, until about They wish $20,000 and hope to commence the work this Spring. Donations sent to the Superintendent at the Home, will be thankfully received. ANNA U. JAY. το of the first of Tenth month following, when her end seemed to be near; but it pleased her Heavenly Father to protract her life for more than fourteen months afterwards. In the early part of her sickness she was forcibly impressed with the thought that she "THE path of the just is as the shin- would not recover, and many and ing light, that shineth more and more deep were the conflicts of soul she unto the perfect day.-PROV. IV: 18." was called upon to pass through. Perhaps in few instances has the Notwithstanding these seasons truth of this Scripture been more baptism, it was apparent that the seed beautifully exemplified than in the of the kingdom which had been sown experience of this beloved friend. in her heart whilst in health, was now Her Heavenly Father had in a spe- taking root, whose development was cial and tender manner guarded her like the gradual operation of the from the stormy billows of time, and leaven "hid in three measures of guided her bark quietly and smooth- meal till the whole was leavened." ly on the waters of life. This she During her entire sickness not a recognized in health, and often allud- murmur or a word of impatience esded to with thanksgiving and praise caped her lips, and for several months during her last illness. On one oc- previously to her death she was in a casion, a few months before she was most happy frame of mind, being taken sick, in a very serious frame of calm and peaceful in spirit. To a mind, she remarked to her husband, dear friend remarking to her that he "I do believe it is really time we "fully believed that she was in her were looking around us, and doub- right place, and effectually doing her ling our diligence in trying to serve Master's work," she replied: "I beour Heavenly Father, for we know lieve it is all right, and I know and that we have to die, and if we are have felt that my Heavenly Father not prepared, how dreadful it will be! If we are not ready, it will be knows what is best for me, and will our own fault, for we are favored with do all things right in His own apso many blessings. pointed time." When in health she had felt the proper training of her children to be a great responsibility, and earnest had been her prayers that she might be enabled to go in and out before them as the Lord required. And now her solicitations were very earnest to the Lord, "that He would keep them under the shadow of His wing, all through their lives, and in the end save them with an everlasting salvation;" and so fully was she at last enabled to give them up to His care, that when she saw them passing about the room she said: "My precious lambs, I can see them going about and feel that they are no longer mine. I have given them to my Savior, and I know that He will take care of them." were, on the mount of transfiguration, and behold the shining of His face and the brightness of His raiment. She was filled with such a flood of light that she exclaimed, “O, I do believe that which I have so long desired and asked for, is about to be granted to me. O, I am too weak to praise Him enough for this wonderful manifestation of His love. You must all help me to give Him thanks. I have seen His glory, and the sting of death is at last withdrawn, and blessed be His holy name. I am now ready to depart and be with Him." To the friends who came to see her and to her beloved relatives she often uttered words of encouragement and warning, entreating them to be more On the morning of the 31st of First- faithful in serving the Lord, and premonth, 1867, she was suddenly taken pare to meet her in Heaven, where worse, and from that time declined partings will be no more, She enmore rapidly than she had hitherto deavored to impress upon the minds done. Believing then that her end of those near her own age and youngwas near, she said: "Goodness and er, the importance of attending our mercy have followed me all the days religious meetings, and particularly of my life, and I feel that my Savior those held in the middle of the week, will be with me through the dark observing that they were often the valley and the shadow of death." best meetings to her. After she had The clothing of her spirit seemed not given much advice and counsel to all of earth, but hers was a sweet Heaven- who came to see her, she felt relieved ly frame full of love and gratitude, from further labor, and said to her such as those only feel who are stand- husband, "I believe now that my ing with the Good Shepherd at the work is done, and that I have only to very gates of Heaven, ready to enter wait the good Master's time to take its portals. During the evening she me to Himself." She talked but requested a chapter to be read, and little afterwards, her voice failing so the 14th of John was selected, after that she could not speak above a which she offered a feeling supplica- whisper, without much effort. Thus tion for strength for herself, and for she lay peaceful, filled with a holy those gathered around her that they calm, such as the Savior alone can might come to know "the exceeding give, full of abiding faith and trust; beauty there is in holiness." Her so much so that for two weeks before beloved father alluded to the man- her close, which took place on the sions prepared for the righteous, and asked her if she had a clear evidence that one was prepared for her, "O yes, father," she said, "but I have thought that if it is consistent with the Divine will, I would like to have some more of a foretaste of the glories of those bright mansions, 'some gleam from that radiant shore,' while I am yet in this tenement of clay. This desire was afterwards mercifully granted, and she was favored in a marvellous manner to stand, as it 27th of Second-month, not a single C. S. H. The American Friend. lected. By this plan much good RICHMOND, IND., 5тн MO., 1867. SUBSCRIBERS failing to receive their paper will be supplied by properly notifying us. THE CARE OF THE POOR. might be accomplished among other inmates of asylums, whose spiritual wants at present receive but little attention. in many other respects preferable to Another plan, more economical and our existing arrangements, would be for the Yearly Meeting to provide a home at which all of its members needing assistance could reside, and where they could perform such labor as they were capable of, thus assisting to defray expenses. A meeting could here be held regularly for the accommodation of the inmates. But as the minds of many Friends are already turned towards this subject, I will briefly sum up a few of the objections to the present plan, and then leave the subject for some one else to more fully elaborate. 1st. The difficulty of obtaining suitable homes for those who have to be maintained by the Society. In many instances they are placed among persons of other religious denominations, or among those who make no profession of religion, and are shut out from intercourse with those of their own religious household. THE Society of Friends has, almost ever since its rise, been accustomed to make provision for such of its members as were unable to provide for themselves, and it has become a subject of public mention that few, if any, of this Society are ever inmates of the public asylums for the benefit of paupers. The period in which the Society was organized was one of fierce persecution, and its members were particular objects of dislike to many of those in authority, and constantly liable to fines, distraints, and imprisonments. Those in affluent circumstances might any day be reduced to poverty, and the poorer classes to a condition of actual suffering. This state of affairs, inde- 2nd. When persons who are known pendent of the teachings of the Gos- to be in limited pecuniary circumpel, was likely to induce those of a stances, apply for membership in the common faith to take precautions for Society, there is too often a strong mutual aid and protection. Without temptation to inquire, Are they likely stopping at present to inquire into to become a charge to the meeting?" all the circumstances connected with instead of considering only the sinthe origin of the practice, or its sub- cerity of their desires to become sequent dispensation, it may well be Christians. The same difficulty has a question whether there could not to be met in the transfer of certificain our own Yearly Meeting be some tes from one meeting to another. better method devised than the one by which the poor are at present provided for, even if it be not better to allow our indigent members to become a county charge, rather than to have them supported as they are at present. Were the latter plan adopted, Friends would still feel it incumbent upon them to look after such of their members as should find a home in the county asylums; and it is to be hoped that Committees would be appointed to hold religious meetings with them, a practice under our present system certainly too much neg 3d. The present arrangement is more expensive than others that can be devised, and which will as well, if not better, accomplish the purpose intended. Not that we now pay much for charitable purposes, but that economy in charity is as desirable as economy elsewhere. too The number of persons requiring aid always increases as communities grow older, and it is well at a comparatively early period in the existence of our Yearly Meeting, to adopt some method likely to meet the wants of the future. C. D. ANCIENT CHRISTOLOGY. of that most momentous of questions, "What think ye of Christ? whose son is He?" If these lines should chance to meet the eye of any who are disposed to deny or to explain away the Divinity of our Savior, maintaining that he was a model man-a little better, perhaps, than Socrates or Confucius-but only a man-or of any who accept the late IN A late number of the Theological Eclectic, there is an able article by Dr. Philip Schaff, of New York, on the Orthodox doctrine of the person of Christ. The author informs us that the Council of Chaldcedon, held in the year 451, gave forth the following "symbol" or formulary of faith on the "constitution of Christ's per- distinguished President Felton's cuson," viz: rious and laconic exposition of the Unitarian faith, viz: that "they do not believe that Christ is God, but they believe that he is something more than man, "—or of any who on the contrary reject the humanity while they accept the Divinity, looking not at all to the sacrifice on Calvary but only to Christ within the hope of glory-or of any who with a recent anonymous writer in Friends' Review, are ready to inquire whether "human nature in any just sense of the term belongs to Christ, we commend this declaration of an early Ecumenical Council-as well as the quotations given below from Dr. Schaff's article to their serious consideration: "Following the holy fathers, we unanimously teach one and the same Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, complete as to his Godhead, and complete as to his manhood; truly God, and truly man of a reasonable soul and human flesh subsisting; consubstantial with the Father as to His Godhead, and consubstantial also with us as to His manhood; like unto us in all things, yet without sin: as to His Godhead begotten of the Father before all worlds, but as to his manhood, on these last days born, for us men, and for our salvation, of the Virgin Mary, mother of God; one and the same Christ, Son, Lord, only begotten, known in (of) two natures, without confusion, without conversion, with- "The incarnation," says our author, out severance, and without division; "is neither a conversion of God into. the distinction of the natures being a man nor a conversion of a man into in no wise abolished by their union, God, neither a humanizing of the dibut the peculiarity being maintained, vine, nor a deification or apotheosis and both concurring in one person and hypostasis. We confess not a Son divided and sundered into two persons, but one and the same Son, and only begotten, and God Logos, our Lord Jesus Christ; even as the Prophets had before proclaimed concerning him, and he himself hath taught us, and the symbol of the Fathers hath handed down to us." According to Dr. Schaff this symbol "substantially completes the orthodox Christology of the ancient Church." Its importance will therefore be readily recognized, and it may be well for us to compare some of the opinions of the present day which differ so widely from each other, with the ancient standards of orthodoxy, and to bring the doctrines of the early Church as well as those of the Scriptures themselves, to the investigation * * * of the human; nor, on the other hand, The duality of Christ's nature, and the unity of His person are prominently set forth in the Chalcedon Symbol. The distinction between nature and person is thus given by Dr. Schaff : "Nature or subtance is the totality of powers and qualities which con-stitute a being; person is the Ego, the self-conscious, self-asserting, and acting subject. There is no person without nature, but there may be nature without person, (as in irrational beings.") ness of his divine origin and character; as having come from the Father, having been sent by Him, and, even during his earthly life, living in heaven and in unbroken communion with *the Father." * * * "The human nature of Christ had no independent personality of its own, besides the divine; * * * but the human uature forms a necessary element in the divine personality. "The result of the Incarnation, he continues further on, "is * * one person which is both divine and human." * * "The Christ of the Gospels by no means makes the impression of a person in whom the human nature had been absorbed or extinguished, or even weakened by We would willingly extend our the divine; on the contrary, he ap- quotations, but want of space forbids. pears, from the nativity to the sepul- The reader who would pursue the chre, as genuinely and truly human subject farther may consult with adin the highest and fullest sense of the vantage Gurney's Essays on Christword. The body which he had of ianity-Essay 10--and, in conclusion, the substance of Mary, was born, we may remark that it is doubtful in grew, hungered and thirsted, slept our view whether the endless theories and woke, suffered and died, and was and discussions on the nature of buried, like any other human body. Christ, which have agitated the His rational soul felt joy and sorrow, Church in all ages, have resulted in thought, spoke, and acted after the any conclusion more correct or more manner of men. The only change in accordance with Scripture than which his human nature underwent, that which is enunciated in the symwas its development to full manhood, bol of Chaldcedon. mental and physical, in common with other men, according to the laws of youth, * * without sin or schism, and its ennoblement and completion by its union with the divine. * D. Č. "CREATURELY ACTIVITY." WORDS are meant to stand for ideas. Hence, if we wish to use language intelligently, it becomes important to consider, in the first place, whether there is in our own minds any welldefined idea attaching to our words; and, in the second place, whether our words are calculated to convey to the minds of others a clear impression of our idea. There is in language, as in every other variety of symbolism, a tendency to lose by repetition more or less of its significance, till finally in some phrases we have left a mere empty shell of words, standing for so much hollow sound, and nothing more. Hence our traditional phraseology needs constantly to be called to an account, and made to resume its proper significance and application, (if it have any,) if it is any longer to have any weight with those who ask for sense and not for sound. But while maintaining that both the divine and human nature belong to Christ, Dr. Schaff is far from admitting that they form a double personality. He quotes one sentence from Leo of Rome, to the effect that because the two natures make only one person we read in John 3,-13, that the Son of Man came down from heaven, and in I Cor. 2, 8, that the Son of God was crucified and buried, and then continues, "As the human personality consists of such a union of the material and the spiritual natures that the spirit is the ruling principle and personal center, so does the person of Christ consist in such a union of the human and the divine natures, that the divine nature is the seat of self-consciousness, and pervades and animates the human." Among the phrases of traditional Again: "The divine nature is the currency in the Society of Friends root and basis of the personality of which at present most need recalling Christ." "Christ himself always to some definite import, is the one speaks and acts in the full conscious- with which we have headed this brief |