considerable outcry from the other cardinals, | through several apartments, in which were the who were greatly offended at the liberty given military bodyguard; for the popes are, as to Grellet, as they said, to " pry into all their kings of Rome, both earthly princes and secret things." Here he was alone too, his heads of the church. Thence we entered into friend William Allen had left him, and it the windows, coverings of the chairs, etc., the private apartments; the hangings about often seemed doubtful if his liberty were quite were all of brown worsted, or silk of the same safe. With monks and nuns, however, he color; all very plain. In a large parlor were still pursued his faithful way. He desired to several priests; among these, the one prosee the Inquisition, and although Consalvi vided by Consalvi to go in with me to the assured him that he himself could not grant who is the pope's valet de chambre, opened pope. One, dressed like a cardinal, but him the permission, it was procured from the the door of his cabinet, and said in ItalFather Mirandi, the head of the Inquisitors. ian, The Quaker has come;' when the The account he gives of his visit is very in- pope said, Let him come in;' on which teresting, he seems to have seen all, the cells the priest who was to act as interpreter, led larger or smaller, the prison where Molinos me in, no one else being present; as I was was confined, the place where the Inquisitors entering the door, some one behind me gently, sat, where tortures were inflicted on the suf- but quickly, took off my hat, and before I could look for it, the door was quietly closed ferer, although these things had been since upon us three. The is an old pope the time of Napolean matters of the past; he thin; of a mild, serious countenance. The man, very saw the public library of the Inquisition, and whole of his apartment is very plain. He the secret library, though, about this last, was sitting before a table; his dress was a there seems to have been some hesitation; robe of fine, white worsted, and a small cap nothing appears to have been concealed from of the same (the cardinals have it red); he him, and he appears to have been treated had a few papers and books before him; he rose with a distinguished and remarkable consid- but feeble, he soon sat down again. He had from his seat when I came in, but as he is eration by the secretary. He was not per- read my reports to the cardinal respecting mitted to leave Rome without an interview many of the visits I had made in Rome, to with the pope. With Consalvi his inter- prisons, etc.; he entered feelingly on some course seems to have been remarkably free; of these subjects, and intends to see that the of course in all his intercourse with empe- treatment of prisoners and of the poor boys rors, kings, and such dignitaries he retained in the house of correction, and various other the Quaker-fashion of wearing the hat in subjects, that I have mentioned, should be attended to, so that Christian tenderness and presence; it was a principle with the Friends; care be exercised; means, as he said, more but a principle we think which might have like to succeed to promote reform among them been parted from; and only one sovereign than harsh treatment. He reprobates the seems to have been offended at it, the King conduct of their missionaries in Greece; also of Bavaria and he recovered himself for a the burning of the Holy Scriptures by the farewell of rather extraordinary affectionate- priests and bishops in several places; he acness; of course, therefore, the same custom knowledges like Consalvi, that it militates much against the promotion of true Christiobtained in the following interview. anity, and is more likely further to darken readers will be pleased to read for themselves the minds of the mass of the people, than to enlighten them. On the subject of the Inqui"The cardinal came down, and said the pope sition, he said, he was pleased I had seen for would see me at twelve o'clock. He knew myself what great changes had been brought that the courrier by which I had take nmy about in Rome, in this respect; that it was seat for Florence, was to start at one o'clock; a long time before he could have it effected; but, said he, take no thought about that; that he has made many efforts to have similar the courrier shall not go till you are ready; alterations introduced into Spain and Portuhe also said that Capacini would be here in gal; had succeeded in part to have the Inquitime to wait on me up-stairs, and that he had sition in those nations conducted with less provided one of his friends, approved by the rigor, but was far from having yet obtained pope, who would if necessary, serve as inter- his wishes. Men,' he said, think that preter, and moreover be a witness to correct a pope has plentitude of power in his hands, any misrepresentation that envious spirits but they are much mistaken; my hands are might attempt to make. I returned to the greatly tied in many things; he, however, palace at the time designated; L'Abbé Ca- expressed his hope that the time was not far paoini was waiting for me; we went up-stairs, distant when Inquisitions everywhere will be the account : Our body in a private audience, nor conversing with them as he has done with you.' My soul magnifics the Lord, my strength and my help. The work is his, and the glory also! May he bless the work of his own hands! "The priest who was with me before the pope, was very tender, and has now taken leave of me in great affection. Consalvi met me as I came down from the pope's apart ment. He renewed the expression of his desire to serve me whenever he can; and in Christian love, we took a solemn farewell of one another. "I came to my inn to prepare for my journey; it was a considerable time after the hour at which the courrier usually sets off; but when I came to the post-house, I met one of the attendants of the cardinal, who told me that the courrier had orders to wait for me; that, therefore, I need not hurry myself. Í was, however, ready to go." totally done away. He assented to the sentiment, that God alone has a right to control the conscience of man, and that the weapons of a Christian should not be carnal but spiritual. The fruits of the Spirit being described, he said that to produce such and for the same end, should spiritual weapons be used. I represented to him what I had beheld in many places in Europe and the West Indies, of the depravity and vices of many priests and monks, what a reproach they are to Christianity, and what corruption they are the means of spreading widely over the mass of the people. I then stated what is the sacred office of a minister of the Lord Jesus Christ, a priest of God; what the qualifications for that office should be, and who alone can bestow them. As I was speaking on these and other subjects connected therewith, the Pope said several times on looking at the priest present, These things are true' and the priest's answer was, They are so.' Other subjects were treated upon, as, the kingdom All this is very remarkable. Each door of God, the Government of Christ in his the good man touched seemed to open before church, to whom alone the rule and domin- him, and, as we have seen, it was given to ion belong; that he is the only door, the only him, in Russia, by his intercourse with the Saviour, and that those who attempt to enter in by any other door but him, are accounted emperor, to ameliorate the condition of prisas thieves and robbers, Finally, as I felt the oners, so in Italy, the wretched criminal in love of Christ flowing in my heart towards his miserable cell had felt the force of that him, I particularly addressed him; I alluded character, which the highest nobles and eccleto the various sufferings he underwent from siastics had acknowledged. the hands of Napoleon; the deliverance Passing through Bavaria and Wurtemberg, granted him from the Lord: and queried where kings and queens and hospitals seem whether his days were not lengthened out to enable him to glorify God and exalt the name of to have been his principal objects of visitathe Lord our Redeemer, Jesus Christ, as the tion, he crossed over into France. Here at only Head of the Church, the only Saviour, to Milhau, another reception awaited him. He whom alone every knee is to bow, and every tells us how he had crossed high mountains tongue is to confess; that such a confession through severe cold, seizing each opportunity from him, in his old age, would do more he could for the proclamation of salvation to towards the advancement of Christ's kingdom sinners. When arriving at Milhau, and sitand the promotion of his glory, than the authority of all the popes, his predecessors, was ting down to dinner, wearied, he was arrested ever able to do; moreover, that thereby his by gens d'armes on suspicion of being consun, now near setting would go down with cerned in the assassination of the Duc de brightness, and his portion in eternity would Berri; he was soon liberated, and apologies be with the sanctified ones, in the joys of his made for the roughness of the gens d'armes. salvation. The pope whilst I thus addressed Pursuing his travel, his heart was constantly him, kept his head inclined and appeared ten-affected by the sight of sorrow and distress; der; then rising from his seat, in a kind and respectful manner he expressed a desire that he passed through villages, many of whose 'the Lord would bless and protect me where- inhabitants were widows and orphans, reever I go,' on which I left him. duced to poverty by husbands and fathers "On returning to the other apartment, my having lost their lives in the wars. hat was given me, and excuses were made for I stop by the way," says he, "in villages or having taken it away, stating that, as this is towns, to take refreshment, the crowd of the done when our friends appear before the king in England, they thought they could not do poor that gathered so affected me, that I had otherwise on the present occasion. They also no comfort in taking my meals." said: The pope must have been much he saw his beloved aged mother, now above pleased with your visit, for we have never eighty years old. "Her mind," he says, " is known him give one half so much time to any- | clear, and she is green in the divine life. The 6 "When Once more Lord Jesus is truly precious to her." Again, after spending some time in England, in 1820 he returned home. He writes: "New York, 8th of eighth month, 1820. I landed here last evening, and met my beloved wife and daughter, who came two days since from Burlington, to await my arrival; and they did not wait long. Our hearts overflowed with gratitude at our being permitted to meet again, after an absence of two years and two months, during which I have travelled about twenty-two thousand miles. Silent and reverent prostration of soul before the Lord was our only language to one another for some time; then, on bended knees, and with a bowed spirit, thanksgiving, adoration, and praise were offered to the Lord." religious concern with himself; but they are obliged to keep very silent, otherwise persecution or a prison would soon be their portion. We presented him with a Bible in German, and a few tracts in the same language; it seemed as if he was receiving a treasure, which, he said, both he and his friends would greatly appreciate, and endeavor to keep very private. There are, we hear, many such pious and hidden ones in Bohemia, well known unto the Lord though unknown to man." His way through Austria was made plain for him by the Prince Paul Esterhazy. He had enquired of the prince if he should find places to lodge at in a wild region on his route, and the prince had told him, he must expect to find a plain and simple people, but some kind of shelter, and simple and wholesome food; but the prince sent his own plain travelling carriage, and a man to accompany him; it fled on from post-station to post-station, the postmasters instructed to receive no money, as it was in the prince's service; and when they arrived at Eisenstadt, where he expected to find "some kind of shelter, and But he did not rest at home long, he soon started off on religious visits through various States of America, especially through the Southern States, earnestly seeking the welfare of persecuted slaves, holding meetings among the scattered people of wild forest and prairie regions; in all ways seeking to bring men to Christ. The part he took in the great Hicksite controversy will scarcely be interesting to our readers; of course he was found the plain but simple food," he was driven to on the orthodox side. In 1831, he took a fourth missionary journey to Europe, as interesting as the last. We follow him with interest through Holland and the Rhine country, through Hanover and Brunswick to Berlin. The same interests which held him before, hold him still. Schools and prisons, and the work of the Saviour; and again we meet with the same disposition to move among the higher classes, and to win their interests, to bless and ameliorate the condition of the lower. He visits the Moravians at Herrnhut, and he says, "We thought it was good for us to be there." Through the bleak mountains of Silesia and Bohemia; through populations, principally of Roman Catholics, and through populations of Jews. In Prague, he writes: On my return to the inn I found the waiter in my chamber, attentively engaged in reading in my French Bible. He appeared at first disconcerted, and began to make apologics, but I soon removed his fears. He said that he had not scen a Bible for some years; formerly he had access to one which it was his delight to peruse, and here it was impossible for him to obtain onc, and if he did, he should be obliged to keep it closely concealed from the priests. On conversing with him, we found him to be a person of a pious, seeking mind; he knows several others under like the prince's spacious palace. Dinner had "It was noon when we came to the village of the Mennonites. Those who had been in the fields had just returned home to their dinner, their minister, who had been at the plow, on being told that we wished to see the people collected together, mounted one of his horses and spread the information with such speed, that in a very short time, men, women, and children were assembled; on coming to the grounds that they cultivate, we had been forcibly struck by the neatness and luxuriance of their fields, where hardly a weed could be seen; but on sitting with them, we contemplated with much greater admiration what we saw of their Christian deportment and felt of their spirits; there was before us what seemed to be a field that the Lord has blessed, and which he waters from his holy habitation. The gospel given us to preach among them had free course in their hearts, men, women, and children were broken into tears, and the Baron Baader, whilst interpreting our communications, was greatly affected. It was a most solemn time. These dear people followed us on our departure out of their village, and continued to look after us as long as we remained in sight." thirteen years had past by since he had seen his mother, and she was still alive. Grellet was now sixty years of age, and now he took his last farewell. "We all pros trated ourselves together before the Lord in our spirits.' He says, "My much-beloved and honored mother also; my dear Sister Le Clerc, and her numerous family. I parted from my mother, and she from me, as never In the page following, we find him with expecting to see one another again on this the queen. He says: "We spoke a few side of eternity." His chief intention in viswords to the princesses, to encourage them iting Europe was to visit Spain; and upon to walk in the fear of God; presented them the minds of the king and queen he made so with small books for daily meditation." favorable an impression, that orders were The queen told him that "the girls would given in the Gazette, everywhere to facilitate not fail daily to peruse them." The follow- his progress and entrance to the people. His ing day the king sent for him, expressing his interview with king and queen is very graphic, pleasure that he was in his dominions again. but we cannot stay to quote it. After a short They had a long and interesting conversation residence with his beloved friend, William on the treatment of prisoners, the protection Allen, in England, he arrived at the close of of the Mennonites, and the king said, "These his missionary labors in distant nations. He hours we have spent together are among the had been led under a remarkable coincidence, most precious of my life.' As he was leav-between the openings of Providence and the ing the palace, a messenger from the queen handed him a letter from her, expressing once more an affectionate Christian farewell: thanking him for the visit of the day before, the solemnity of which she still continued to feel, asking for his prayers, that she might be supported under trials and temptations, and signing herself simply "Pauline." Our readers will gather from the interest of the passages we have cited, and the regions through which we have passed, the interest of the volumes in general, and of those many pages on which we are unable to loiter. We find Grellet in the Ban de la Roche, where his sermon was blessed to the conversion of the son of Oberlin, a wild and dissolute man, who had concluded on that very night to enlist as a soldier, but was prevented by the word, which in his venerable father's church, from the lips of this strange preacher, fell into his soul. He seems to have been much delighted in meeting with the faithful Louisa, the right-hand of Oberlin, and with his beloved daughter. From the neighborhood round, the people thronged down the rocky mountains to the meeting, and we have seen that the meeting was not in vain. He visited the Waldenses; went from village to village, from township to township; and was pleased to find nuns, who, amidst the round of forms that their religious order requires, enjoyed Christ the substance. It was in 1833 leadings of the Holy Spirit, and events have proved how surely he had been guided aright. He travelled home, and spent the remainder of his years in stillness, only broken by ministrations in his own neighborhood and meeting. How beneficial is this glimpse he gives of himself, and of his spiritual state, when he says: Poverty is my clothing. My station in great measure is with a Morcdecai at the gate; but it is the gate of the King eternal, the holy and blessed Redeemer. I trust that I may not be thought to assume too much by saying, that at this gate, in that stripped adorable mercy, to sit with great delight. It state, in that poverty, I am permitted through is an unspeakable favor that I am now permitted to mend my own net; but, during this private, personal enjoyment, my heart is not straitened, but as much enlarged as ever in love, gospel love, towards my friends and others, near and afar off. Sometimes I covet stand in the way of this pure stream, might that such as have suffered little pebbles to feel how sweetly it flows from my heart towards them. "The spirit of prayer is sweet; it proceeds from the ocean of pure love; mercy gives access to it; it knows no bounds; under this sense I salute all friends.' my To the latest year of his life tender interests and care for souls continued. Beautifully, when at the age of seventy-three, he says: "And when the shepherd findeth the lost sheep, after leaving the ninety and nine Stephen Grellet died that year 1855, at the in the wilderness, how does he bring it home? age of eighty-two. Many men have been Does he whip it? Does he drive it? Does more talked of-there are few who deserve he threaten it? No such thing! He carries more honor - it is really one of the most 'it on his shoulders, and deals more tenderly apostolic lives we ever remember to have with the poor, weary, wandering one!" read. We have not said a word about the Such tearful and tender words seem to us a biographer- we shall not be acting rightkey to that deep tenderness of feeling, which eously if we do not say one farewell word. in all climes and countries, and in remote He keeps himself out of sight throughout the Cossack wildernesses, opened the iron gate- volumes. There is scarce a line to remind us ways which fence the hearts of kings, and of him; but the work has been compiled with broke down the fences and palisades round an admirable and conscientious judiciousness. the souls of boors and peasants. After a life We cannot wish it condensed by a single of such brilliant and holy adventure, it seems page. It is a work of abounding interest. strange and beautiful to think of him at home, We have said the works of Friends are little sinking down into "the valley of the shadow of death" through perfect peace. In that home, a well-known and well-loved friend of our own, called upon him in that last year of his life, and has printed upon our mind the perfect picture of peace and calm, with which the old man and his wife, on opposite sides of their fireplace, sat waiting for the mes-universal, this quiet but earnest and almost senger, who soon came. known beyond their own bookshelves; but it is impossible that any can read this without a feeling akin to awe, at a simplicity so transparent and active, and single-minded labors so marvellous and abundant; and with a thought too of wonder that while lesser laborers receive eulogies so successively and homage so ubiquitous heart, should be almost unknown. FRESH victories have we to record of the healing- of four Confederates. Being quite unarmed, he art- - or rather science, as it ought undoubtedly declared himself their prisoner, but one of the to be called, seeing that the welfare of mankind captors suggesting that it would be better to shoot is the noblest end and aim of all true science. him down, he fell, with a ball through his head. An Edinburgh physician, Dr. Smart, has dis- The body was recovered and taken to the youngcovered that the unsightly pitting. that sad est brother's hotel at New Orleans. When Mr. souvenir which the smallpox so often leaves be- Dwight entered the empty room where the corpse hind it can be entirely prevented by masking lay the next morning, he found the walls draped the parts generally attacked with a solution of with muslin, and the room filled with a profusion india-rubber in chloroform. More recently still of Southern flowers, and was told that this had MM. Jules Erchmann and Aymini have an- been done by the negro women during the night. nounced that the painful symptoms, and more On receiving his thanks they asked him how they painful operations which too often of necessity could do enough for soldiers who were dying in follow the formation of calculi in the human sub- their cause; all they asked was, that their sons ject, are prevented by the use of the electrical and brothers might be allowed to fight by the current and a certain tonic lithoritriptic liquid side of the Northern soldiers. They have proved which theoretically and practically dissolve the again and again that they are their equals in calculus. This altogether desirable result has courage, perhaps their superiors in discipline; already been obtained by M. Aymini, who, in and this, among many similar stories, proves conjunction with Professor Pacciochi of Turin, that many of them are not inferior even in that and the Chevalier Fioretta, surgeon to the Duch- delicacy and nobleness of sentiment which is supess of Parma, has tried the discovery on two sub-posed to be the monopoly of culture. jects, one of them an adult, and with the greatest success, and with scarcely any inconvenience to the patients. J. N. L. WE have a curious incident from the Mississippi army, illustrating the feeling and attitude of the negroes. Captain Dwight, one of four brothers serving in the Northern army, in riding from his own camp to that of his brother, General Dwight, found himself surrounded by a party -Spectator, 11th July. IN the Department of Allier, near the railway station of Saint Geraud le Pays, between La Palisse and St Germain des Fossés, the ruins of a splendid Roman villa of the time of Augustus, with mosaic floors and magnificent frescoes, have been discovered; and further excavations are being carried on most vigorously. |