is nothing in this world worth being enjoyed out of the divine will.'

He gave directions, that, if he should go hence, every thing about his interment should be plain and simple; expressed his entire resignation to divine disposal; and that he found nothing to stand between him and the Fountain of everlasting love. At another time said; I have no fear,

for perfect love casteth out all fear, and he that feareth is not perfected in love.' His stomach refusing all nourishment, and a hiccough coming on, he said: Do not force nature; let me pass

quietly away to the eternal inheritance.' Soon after said; I am waiting patiently to see the salvation of God; do you wait patiently with mè. I have no desire, nor the shadow of a desire, to 'be restored; I hope the doctors will soon find that they have done their part.' To one he said,

Thy being here has been an inexpressible satis'faction to me.' Afterwards said, 'I have known 'something of that law of love whereby all boasting is entirely excluded; but I may say, through that which has supported me under all the trials and conflicts which have attended my passage through life, to you my beloved friends, as to dear children, Follow me as I have endeavoured

to follow Christ Jesus, the Lord of life and glory, and the Rock of my eternal salvation." We omit many other weighty and instructive expressions of our beloved friend, which he uttered during his illness and till near his close, lest this testimony should extend beyond its proper limits. He quietly departed this life the 23d of the Eleventh month, 1793, at the house of our aforesaid friend Elizabeth Shackleton, in Ballitore, in Ireland; and we doubt not finished his course with joy, and is entered into the place of his rest, where the righteous shine forth as the sun, in the kingdom of their Father.

Signed in and on behalf of said Monthly Meet

ing, by

JOHN HOLDEN,

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LYDIA ARNOLD, Clerks.

A Testimony from the National Half-Year's Meeting of Friends in Ireland, concerning Joв SCOTT, late of Providence, in the State of Rhode Island, &c. in America.

IT having pleased the Almighty to call from

works to rewards, this our beloved friend, we -feel our minds engaged to give forth a testimony concerning him.

From genuine marks evinced in the course of his religious services, we believe him to have been an instrument fitted and prepared by the great Master, through deep and repeated baptism, for use and service in his church militant; called and sent forth by the immediate influences of his Spirit to publish the gospel; and being preserved in an eminent degree, carefully attentive to the leadings thereof, the word of the Lord through him was often as a fire and as a hammer to

"break the rock in pieces.' Many were the bitter eups allotted him, in the dispensations of unerring wisdom, which though hard to flesh and blood, yet he appeared not to shrink therefrom; but in resignation to the Divine will, and a surrender of his own, he was concerned to follow the Captain of his salvation, who was made perfect through suffering and thus, by abiding under the power of the cross, he might well have adopted the language of the apostle, By the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace which was bestowed on me was not in vain; but I laboured abundantly; yet not 1, but the grace of God which was with me.'

He was a diligent waiter to experience renewed qualification to service, before he attempted to move either in the ministry or in the transactions of the discipline; as well knowing that without à fresh anointing, any endeavours to act must prove ineffectual, and tend to center in lifeless formality: against which he was zealously concerned to bear testimony.

His conversation was coupled with fear, as well as seasoned with grace; and, being deep in heavenly mysteries, he was cautious of squandering

the same; yet, when at liberty for conversation, his communications were agreeable, and remark, ably instructive.

He visited the meetings of Friends in this nation; also had much religious service among those not in profession with us; and was a sharp threshing instrument in the Lord's hand, against all who preached for hire and divined for money; being earnestly concerned to call the people off from dead, works, that they might be brought to experience the efficacy of true religion in the new ness of life.

In his last illness, at the house of our friend Elizabeth Shackleton, of Ballitore, he was much resigned, although the disorder, which proved the small-pox, lay heavy on him. He spoke of the things of God, and those that appertain to his kingdom, yet was very modest and diffident of his labours to promote them in the hearts of the people; but gave evident marks of his peace of mind, and assurance that he had no doubt of a mansion of rest prepared for him, where the wicked cease from troubling, and where the weary are at rest; experiencing great serenity and composure, even as a morning without clouds.