The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-01-04
The Home Circle.
An Interesting sketch.

II
The Quakers-rnen and women-havel
always had the name of being kind
and benevolent people, and from what
we can learn Of them they deserve 1t.
We never heard of a Quaker begging
about the streets or of one going to the
alms-house !, they evidently take good
care of their poor, and this fact is
enough to make us all respect a broad
brim and a drab-coat for the sake of the
genuine philanthrophy they represent.
The Quakers are a very different class
of people from the Catholics, though
both are religious in their peculiar
way; but the religion of one is inside
and the other outside. Hence the
former do not have many churches,
: and what they do have are plain and
modest buildings; the latter abound
in tabernaeles, and they are snowy and
ostentations. The difference outward
ly denotes their peculiarities inwardly,
and shows that the religion which is
humble and humane, is a great deal
better than that which is pompous and
gorgeous, and appears to think more of
erecting gorgeous churches than of ben
| efiting humanity. ."H 1E-'.
This train of thought was induced by
reading in the Atlantic Monthly the
following extract from an article by
: Mrs. Stowe. .u.t5
81 will tell you what saw the other
9 night, girls, in the parlor of one of our
hotels. Two middle-aged Quaker la
dies came gliding in, with calm, cheer
full faces, and lustrous, dove-colored
o silks. By their conversation 1 found
that they belonged to that class of wo-
y men among the Friends who devote
:, themselves to travelling on missions of
benevole8ce. They had just completed
a tour of all the hospitals for wounded
N soldiers in the country, where they had
been carrying comforts, arranging, adj
IN vising and soothing, by their cheerful,
gentle presence. They We're now en-
a. gagged on another mission to the lost and
eTing of their own sex; night after
v, night, guarded by policeman, they
y had ventured after midnight into the
IA dance houses, where girls are being led
to ruin, and with gentle words Of ten.
ne der, motherly counsel, sought to win
them from their fatalways--telIing them
ID where they might go the next day to
/. find friends who would open to them
y an asylum and aid them to lead bet
ID ter life. .-ri
H "As / looked upon these women
es dressed with such modest purity, be-
- gan to secretly think that the Apostle
ly was not wrong when he spoke of wo
, men adOrning themselves with meek
C. and quiet spirit; for the habitual gen.
o tleness of their expression, the calmness
and purity of the lines in their faces
10 the delicacy and simplicity of their ap,
parel, seemed of themselves a rare and
ly peculiar beauty. Icould not help think.
ing that fashionable bonnets, flowing
= lace-sleeyes, and dresses elabOrately
to trimmed, could not have improved
~ their outward appearance. Doubles;
Of their simple wardrobe needed but 6
- small trunk in travelling from place tC
W place, and hindered but little theil
RS. prayers and ministrations." SO %.
20 Now, it is true all women are no
81 called to such life as this; but nigh
rs' not all women take leaf, at least
O. from this book? / submit the inquiry
humbly. 1t seems to ME there arr
many who go monthly to the sacra
u ment and receive it with sincere deVo
ct, ton, and who give thanks each tim,
is SINCERELY that TREY are thus member
incorporate of the mystical body Of
10 Christ, who never thought of thi
be membership as meaning that the.
should share Christ's sacrifice for los
to souls or abridge themselves of one OF
nament or encounter one inconvenience
no for the sake of those wandering sheeI
ato for, whom He died. Certainly there
a higher economy which we need t
o learn-that, which makes all thing
subseryient to the spiritual and immol
tai, and, that not merely to the good o
'"' our own souls and these of our ow
lev family, butrof all who are knit with u
in the great bonds of human brother
cal hood. q, .5.- ran. 30 gu5ags .ay. F
ai- "A WILL.-If we possessed solely tn
10 most valuable things in the world an
ne, were about to will them away, the 70
Ugh lowing would be our plan Of distribl
/, ton:
!" Wewould will to the world truth an
Va friendship, which are very scarce.
.oANe would give to physicians, ski
toll and learning. .fa, .
~ To lawyers, merchants, brokers an
on public officers, honesty.
ssso = To old women, short tongues. !
To young women, common sens
large waists and natural feet. .a.I
To servants obedience and honesty.
To masters, humanity.
-. To, farmers, punctuality and indu
,.m Fysiif' Il Fl tssr
IRA To young sprouts of dandies, goc
neir sense, little cash and hard work. y
s.e31 20 old maids, good tempers, lit
SO talk and suitable husbands. ~.
I. ,,i no old bachelors, love for virtu
me. children and wives. ,l. fi