17th-Comforted under a renewed sense of Di vine love. 18th.-Laboured through a heavy meeting. 19th-Felt myself weak, and surrounded with many temptations; but have been mercifully preserved. Be thou thankful! Dull 20th.-Perversely peevish this morning. and dwarfish through the day. Oh! my poverty! Lord, forget me not. Pardon my weaknesses! 21st.-Tempted:-overcome. Sinner, repent. 22d.-Barren at meeting. An evening walk, wherein my many imperfections were set in order before me, which produced earnest desires for a renovation of heart. Lord, help my feeble endeavours. 23d.-Boasted of upright conduct. Alas! how preposterous this! One present reproved me very pertinently in saying, "Let him that thinketh he standeth, take heed lest he fall." 24th. Much exercised in my business. An increase of patience and tenderness wanting. Retired to my chamber in the evening, and besought the Lord for assistance. 25th.-A poor heavy meeting. 26th.-Favoured to resist a temptation to vanity. Reflections. On hearing of the ill conduct of some among us, have felt my mind deeply affected. Many vanities and follies are prevalent in the land, and true religious animation greatly wanting. Levity and dissipation spread widely among the people; and very few of us are properly concerned to work out our soul's salvation, with "fear and trembling." Under a sense of this depravity of manners, and of my own weakness and propensity to evil, I have been abased this evening. Abba Father! visit thy poor oppressed seed: raise it into dominion, if it be thy holy will, and cause to abate this overflowing of iniquity. 27th, 28th.-A sorrowful lapse into vanity and folly in several instances. Greatly distressed this evening, under a sense of my extreme unworthiness, and of some abasing dispensations lately portioned to me. Lord, preserve me through the furnace. 29th.-A day of impotence and drought. In company, myself the foremost in folly. O my wicked heart! 30th. Under a merited depression. 7th mo. 1st.-Regular. As to religion, lukewarm. 2d.-A very dull meeting. Alas! how great is our want of religious animation! 3d.-Great stirrings in the political world. Saw the unquiet situation of those who have their life therein, and felt very desirous to be disunited from their spirit. 4th.-Heavenly nourishment much withdrawn. More steadiness necessary. Lord, help. 5th.-Abased under discouragements. 6th.-A poor drowsy meeting. O my soul! thou art poor. 7th.-Preserved in a good degree of patience. 8th-At Monthly meeting. A time of deep abasement to me, under a sense of the depravity of my heart, and love of unlawful gratifications. In looking over my diary, for the last month, find a sorrowful picture of my irregularity. Am, at times, peevish,―unwatchful and vain,-lukewarm,-uncharitable in discourse,-deficient in patience and tenderness in my school. O how moving is the review! My expectations, Lord, are centered in thee alone. Oh that thou wouldst sanctify my life; and cleanse me of those corrupt propensities. 9th.-Comfortably innocent. 10th.-Took some pains to pay a tradesman's bill when due; peace, the reward for so doing. 11th, 12th-Labouring among the hay. Unused to heat and exposure; my animal spirits have been much oppressed, and mind not so calm as should have been. 13th. In meeting and out of meeting, a day of mental drought. 14th.-More of the Christian spirit wanting in my arduous employment-Be cautious in thy discourse. Sensible of my many failings; walked into the fields in the evening, and earnestly petitioned for more strength and religious fervour. 15th. In discourse with a person, laughed indecently. 16th.-At meeting, a precious illumination. As I sat, poor and exercised, Divine love shone suddenly in my benighted heart, and filled it with a sweet song of praise. Favoured here with an indubitable evidence, that the Lord our God, is a living God; and that we are not following cunningly devised fables, but the pure eternal substance. I thank God for his unspeakable mercy to me, an unworthy crea ture. 17th, 18th-Mentally poor. Conversation not duly seasoned with sobriety. Labour for spiritual food. 19th-In discourse with an artful politician, was deceived by the mock appearance of friendship, and erred grossly in conversation, by divulging some things to my own disadvantage, and probably to the injury of the cause of righteousness. 20th. At two meetings; much afflicted in both: my unwatchfulness and folly having occasioned the furnace to be unusually heated. 21st. In the cross to nature, submitted to what I believed a Divine requiring. Unknown to the world, O heavenly Father, is thy sweet reward. O preserve me! 22d.-Lukewarm. Dined intemperately. Walked out in the evening, and craved a renewal of strength and animation. Lord, quicken me. 23d.-At meeting, a laborious time. A more fervent engagement of mind necessary on my part. Exercised this afternoon, on remembering some instances of speaking with too much freedom of my neighbours. Lord, grant me, I pray thee, more circumspection herein. [To be continued.] FRIENDS' MISCELLANY. The memory of the just is blessed.-Prov. x. 7. John, vi. 12. VOL. I. Memoirs of Joshua Evans. Joshua Evans was a native of New Jersey. His father, Thomas Evans, of Evesham, was an approved minister, much esteemed by Friends through the course of a long life of about ninety years. Joshua was born in 1731. He is said to have been a lively youth, but when he grew up, he became more settled and serious. At about the age of 22, he married, and resided a short time near Mount Holly. He afterwards settled on the south side of Cooper's Creek, in Gloucester county, within the limits of Haddonfield Monthly meeting. Here he became conspicuous for the uprightness of his life, and the purity of his ministry. His labours for promoting the cause of truth, met the approbation of his friends, and his visits. were extended not only to the neighbouring meetings, but to some places more remote. In attending to the impressions made upon his mind, he was led into much circumspection, and believed it was his duty to walk in a path more circumscribed than that in which the generality of professors appeared to be travelling. His concern was, to suffer the axe to be applied to the root of corruption; -to maintain a faithful testimony to the truth in all |