FRIENDS' VOL. XV. INTELLIGENCER. PHILADELPHIA, THIRD MONTH 20, 1858. EDITED BY AN ASSOCIATION OF FRIENDS. PUBLISHED BY WM. W. MOORE, No. 1. If this anecdote is correct, it must have been a satisfaction to Hugh that his mother was thus far reconciled to his coming amongst Friends. No account is found among his papers of the day of his birth; it appears, however, from a comEvery Seventh day at Two Dollars per annum, pay-parison of dates, to have occurred in or about able in advance. Three copies sent to one address for No. 324 South Fifth Street, Five Dollars. free of expense, to whom all payments are to be made. MEMOIRS AND JOURNAL OF HUGH JUDGE. The parents of Hugh Judge emigrated from Ireland, and settled in Philadelphia. They were of the Roman Catholic profession of religion, and were said to be very strict in their adherence to the customs and ceremonies of that church. They had two sons, of which Hugh was the younger; and they were both baptized in their infancy. After the death of his father, Hugh was placed out apprentice by his mother, Margaret Judge. His elder brother was said to be an uncommonly promising youth; but he died at about the age of eighteen years. His death made a deep impression on Hugh's mind, and he felt his situation as being almost alone in the world, having no relative in this country but his widowed mother. It is probable that this was the scason of Divine visitation to his soul, alluded to in the following brief narrative of his early life. the year 1750. From some detached memorandums, a part of which are lost or wanting, we have collected the following sketch of his early life and first appearance in the ministry, as written by himself. "In the days of my youth, being placed out apprentice to earn my living, I was deprived of the portion of learning which I ought to have had; and which, if I had had the opportunity, I should have taken without much difficulty. What little time I went to school, I learned fast. I believe I was but one day in learning my letters, and in less than a week I got to reading, in which I took great delight. But I think I did not go to school more than one month in the quarter, and then I had to work hard in the mornings before I went: for, although I was but young, perhaps about twelve or thirteen years of age, yet a portion of work was allotted me every morning; not only to make fires and to fodder the creatures, but also to thresh twenty-four sheaves of wheat and being in the winter season, it required my rising before day in order to accomplish my task of work before I went to school. But the Lord inclined my heart to seek It is said Hugh Judge had no personal ac-him in those my youthful days; though at times, quaintance with Friends in his youth, perhaps through hard usage, I revolted and gave myself during his apprenticeship: but as he grew up to a reprobate life. Some times I was tempted towards manhood, observing them to be a plain, to run away, not caring much what became of honest people, he was induced to go to their meetings. This he did for some time, without the knowledge or consent of his mother, who was exceedingly opposed to his religious scruples, and leaving the Catholic church. At length, however, she became better reconciled to his change; and after he came forth in the ministry, she attended a Friends' meeting in Philadelphia, where Hugh appeared in testimony. In the afternoon, as they were sitting together, she drew her chair near to him, and, turning her head on one side, looked him full in the face, addressing him in these words: "Hughey, dear, I was afraid for you to-day ;-indeed I was. You know you had no edecation at all,-at all, for that business. But I thought you made out very well, indeed I did, Hughey." me, and thinking I could not fare much worse if I spent my days in a prison. But thou, O Father, restrained me, for thou hadst a work for me to do; and as thou wast preparing me for it, thou turnedst those crosses and disappointments into blessings. Thou wast my father and my friend, for I had none to cry unto but thee, and thou didst hear me and comfort me. Thou madest hard things easy, and bitter things sweet, and thou reconciled me to my situation. As I grew up, I had this consolation, that I was faithful in my master's business. He was for the most part a quiet, inoffensive man; but my mistress and myself were too much of a temper to agree well together; until Truth took hold of my mind and chained down my strong passions, which with hers used to rise very high at times. She was a woman of ungovernable pas- thou didst deal with me in those days of my sion, and would sometimes break out upon me in childhood! Thou tookest me by the hand as a great rage about my work, although I was but most tender father, to lead me out of the vanities young in years. Oh! the injury done to youth, and follies and sin-pleasing pleasures to which I by being placed under such who have no gov- was prone by nature. Thou corrected me in ernment of their own tempers! I believe many mercy, and in great loving-kindness thou reproved have been ruined thereby, and driven into things me. In the riches of thy adorable goodness, that have brought lasting shame and disgrace thou revealedst thy son Jesus Christ in me, and upon them. It was nothing short of the good-caused me clearly to understand that thou wast ness of the Shepherd of Israel that kept me from speaking to me by and through the spirit of thy falling into gross enormities: for even when I son in my heart. Here I saw that it was this was tempted thereto, he raised an abhorrence in which had been and was still smiting me for my my mind against it. He stepped in between, as evil ways, and bringing sorrow over the mind it were, and would not suffer me to fall into the for speaking and doing amiss;—and that this jaws of the devourer. Oh! matchless, unfath- was and is the only means offered by God for omable love! What shall I render,-what have our reconciliation to him. I saw that there was I to render unto thee, O Father of mercies, for power in that which smote for sin, to deliver from all thy benefits? My tongue and my pen are it, and I understood what I read of Christ that far too short to set forth one half thy praise. It all power was given unto him of the Father. is thine own works that praise thee, and I record it to thy honor. During those days of the tendering visitations of Divine love to my soul, I used frequently, when I went out to work in the fields, to take my book along with me, and when I had a little leisure, I found great satisfaction in reading. in an admirable manner, insomuch that the time of my servitude went on without my thinking much about it, and I served it out with honor and reputation. Oh! this was indeed a glorious day, never to be forgotten by me while I retain my memory. Oh! what rejoicings of soul I felt! What rav ishings of love swallowed me up, as it were, in the embraces of heavenly goodness! Many blessed and glorious seasons I had both by night and by day; for the goodness of God was great In the neighborhood where I lived, there were towards me, a poor ignorant lad. He was my many young people, who used frequently to col- comfort, my rejoicing, and my song all the day. lect together and make merry nights, as they He made hard things become easy to me, and called them. Their amusements were such as reconciled me to my outward condition. I went card-playing, singing, dancing, &c., in which I through my work cheerfully, and with integrity also took much delight, and often went to these of heart; for he taught me to be honest and night meetings; insomuch that there was a pros- just to all men, and to observe the injunction, pect of my becoming a proficient in these vani- to do as I would be done by. Thus, having the ties. But, to the praise of the ever worthy name Lord, my greatest good, before mine eyes always, of my God, be it spoken, he left me not, but when I turned to the right hand or to the left, followed me with reproof; his light and his behold I saw him, and his presence was with me Truth showing me that the course I was pursuing led down to the chambers of death, and thither I was hastening, if I continued in that way. This alarmed me, and caused me to bemoan my situation; so that under these convictions I en- But I did not stay one day after I was free deavored to keep from going into company. from my apprenticeship; for, having some time Sometimes, I concluded I would associate with before fixed in my mind that I would go and get them no more; and in order to shun them on insight or acquaintance with the milling busithe first day of the week (for it was customary ness, I accordingly went to Samuel Levis, a for us to collect together on that day) I have at miller, at Springfield, and agreed to stay with times taken my book and gone from the house, him for one year. I was to find myself in clothes, either into the woods or to some place where they and when I worked out of the mill, he was to could not find me; and there I have sat and read give me wages. The milling business seemed for hours together. At these seasons I was often to come naturally to me, and I improved fast in deeply affected, and particularly so on reading a knowledge of it; so that when my year was up, in the New Testament; especially concerning I went and hired for chief miller at a mill on the sufferings of Jesus Christ;-severely con Wessahickon creek, about eight miles from Phildemning in my own mind the conduct of the adelphia. Jews towards him, and saying at times within myself, that had I lived in those days, I would have been his follower: not knowing that it was his holy Spirit that was then offering to be my leader, director and support in the way of life and salvation. O blessed Shepherd of Israel, how tenderly [To be continued.] Where charity keeps pace with gain, industry is blessed but to slave to get, and keep it sordidly, is a sin, against Providence, a vice in government, and an injury to their neighbors.Penn. FROM ADAM CLARKE'S COMMENTARY. God in your hearts,' and you will ever be ready to give a reason for the hope that is in you, to every serious and candid enquirer after truth. "Most religious systems and creeds are incapable of rational explanation, because founded on some misconception of the Divine nature. They set at odds heaven's jarring attributes; And with one excellence another wound.' "What I have written above is not against any particular creed of religious people. It is against any or all to which it may justly apply. It may even be against some portions of my own; for, even in this respect, I am obliged daily to labor to sanctify the Lord God in my heart; to abstract him from every thing earthly and human, and apprehend him, as far as possible, in his own essential nature and attributes, through the light of his Spirit, and the medium af his own revelation. To act thus, requires no common effort of the soul; and just apprehensions of this kind are not acquired without much prayer, much self-reflection, and much of the grace and mercy of God." "Sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear.' 1 Pet. iii. 15. To sanctify God, may signify to offer him the praises due to his grace. But as to sanctify, signifies literally to make holy, it is impossible that God should be thus sanctified. Ayailo "The system of humanizing God, and maksignifies to separate from earth; that is, from ing him, by our unjust conceptions of him, to any common use or purpose; that the thing or act as ourselves would, in certain circumstances, person thus separated may be devoted to a has been, the bane both of religion and piety; sacred use. Perhaps we should understand and on this ground infidels have laughed us to Peter's words thus: entertain just notions of scorn. It is high time that we should no longer God, of his nature, power, will, justice, good-know God after the flesh; for even if we have ness and truth. Do not conceive of him as known Jesus Christ after the flesh, we are to being actuated by such passions as men; sepa- know him so no more. rate him in your hearts from every thing earthly, human, fickle, rigidly severe, or capriciously merciful. Consider that he can neither be like man, feel like man, nor act like man. Ascribe no human passions to him, for this would desecrate, not sanctify him. Do not confine him in your conceptions to place, space, vacuity, heaven or earth: endeavor to think worthily of the immensity and eternity of his nature, of his omniscience, omnipresence and omnipotence. Avoid the error of the heathen, who bound even their Dii Majores, their greatest gods, by fate; as many well-meaning Christians do the true God, by decrees: conceive of him as infinitely free to act, or not act, as he pleases. Consider the goodness of his nature; for goodness, in every possible state of perfection and infinitude, belongs to him. Ascribe no malevolence to him; nor any work, purpose or decree, that implies it. This is not only a human passion, but a passion of fallen man. Do not suppose that he can do evil, or that he can destroy when he might save; that he ever did, or ever can, hate any of those whom he made in his own image, and in his own likeness; so as, by a positive decree, to doom them, unborn, to everlasting perdition; or, what is of the same import, pass them by, without affording them the means of salvation, and consequently rendering it impossible for them to be saved. Thus endeavor to conceive of him; and by so doing you separate him from all that is imperfect, human, evil, capricious, changeable and unkind. Ever remember that he has wisdom without error; power without limits; truth without falsity; love without hatred; holiness without evil; and justice without rigor or severity, on the one hand, or capricious tenderness on the other. In a word, that He can neither be, say, purpose, nor do, any thing that is not infinitely just, holy, wise, true and gracious; that he hates nothing that he has made; and has so loved the world, the whole human race, as to give his only begotten Son to die for them, that they might not perish, but have everlasting life. Thus 'sanctify the Lord For Friends' Intelligencer. A short account of JONATHAN THOMAS, late of Fall Creek, Madison County, Indiana. The memory of the righteous, who have passed away, is ever precious to all those in whom the good seed has brought forth fruit; and to the venerable and beloved consort, and the children who are left behind, the memory of our much loved father has seemed so sweet, that the language, "Gather up the fragments, that nothing be lost," is felt to be applicable at this present time. Though years have elapsed since he quietly passed away, we trust to his everlasting rest, the fruits of his faithful obedience to the commands of the Master, whom we with humble confidence believe he was long dedicated to follow, are yet continuing to be a blessing to many. He was faithful in what he believed to be the Divine will concerning him, in his removal from his pleasant home to a country then new and thinly settled; and, having followed his guide, he was led to the purchase of a farm, a lot of which he set apart for a meeting house. Here he removed his family, and lived to see the request for a Monthly Meeting go to the Quarter, though it was not established till after his death. As an encouragement to some and a satisfac tion to us, we have desired to preserve this short account of him, written by himself to a much loved friend, who, in travelling in truth's service, was for a short time a sojourner in his family, after his removal to Indiana, and at whose request the following was written. Fall Creek Township, Madison Co., Ia. 4th of Fifth mo., 1839. "Much Esteemed Friend, for so I feel thee:Thy very acceptable letter, dated 6th of last month, came safe to hand yesterday, and was acceptable indeed, to myself and family, and I shall endeavor to answer it. I was glad to find that thou had arrived safe home, after a long and tedious journey, and may I not say a perilous one, through the wilderness of some of our country; and that thou enjoyed peace of mind; this always will be so, where we endeavor to do our duty in the great cause of Truth. To begin with us here, and our Meeting. It continues to increase in numbers, and, I believe, some in weight. We, with Duck Creek Friends, are about applying for a Monthly Meeting, to be held alternately here and there; and think it likely we shall succeed in our request. When I look back to the year 1833, all woods then, where our house, the meeting house, and saw mill stand, as I was walking along the road where our meeting house and grave yard now are, I felt a remarkable stop in my mind. I turned half round, and had a full view of the ground where they now are; the language, distinctly to the inner man, passed through my mind: 'Now, buy this place, and give Friends a lot here, for a meeting house and grave yard, and there thy bones may be laid.' The language was impressive and distinct to my mind. I was here 33 days. I knew the farm we live on was for sale, yet I left here without any idea of ever returning again; but the above language followed me to Pennsylvania, as a duty to perform. purpose. When I look back to that day, and remember that there were but three or four families of Friends here; then again look to the crowded state of our meetings on First days, I am humbled under the consideration of the progress of our meeting, and I believe that some valuable Friends are amongst us. I have to acknowledge What that the hand of God has been in this. encouragement to attend to small duties, and what the reward! It is peace to the mind, for having performed them. I do not want any other use made of the above remarks, only where it may go to strengthen and encourage any individual by or in my example, practice, or profession. I have now come to a part of thy letter that I touch upon with diffidence, for fear it would be taken as vanity in me, and extolling or exalting myself, and that is the history thou wishest of my past life. I do not wish any other use made of it than to indulge a beloved friend or her particular friends. What I may write will be from memory alone, as I have no notes by me of my past life, and my many ups and downs. I burned my notes when I left my residence I had been in temporarily, for fear of vanity or extolling self; I now regret I had not preserved some of them. According to accounts, I was born the 6th day of the 10th month, 1766, of religious parents, professing the principles of Friends; my father dying when I was 2 years old, the care of myself and a younger brother devolved on a widowed mother, limited in circumstances, as to the things of this world. I well remember her care and pains to give her two children religious instruction, as well as school learning. She was a religious woman, and her counsel sank deeply into my mind at many times. Her means of support for herself and children had to be by close attention to sewing and knitting, for other people, until we were old enough to be apprenticed. My brother was To go back a little. Having business in placed with our grandfather, and remained until the upper part of Ohio that could not be done, old enough to go to a trade. I was hired out at to the satisfaction of all, without my taking a two dollars a month in summer, to be home in journey there by stage, I had informed my winter, to wait on my mother with wood, and go family that, if I felt well, I should go on to to school; each of us had a reasonable proportion Indiana to see my son-in-law and daughter, who of schooling, for that day. After a time I was had removed there the summer previous. Accord-placed with a weaver, and when free, settled ingly I came; out of which grew the remarks made about our meeting house, &c. Thus we may see that, by attending to impressions of duty, sometimes satisfactory evidences follow to encourage us, and make it evident to the mind that such things should be attended to, as the will of an Almighty power. In one year and one day I was here again, with my family, having instructed my son-in-law, J. J. Lewis, to purchase the place, in the fall of 1833, having sent out money for that of Long Island, is the friend referred to. RH with my mother to help her on with a living, which I did for nine years, she being still a widow. She was again married in 1795. During said year, my mind was seriously arrested with the belief that I would have a duty to perform to some one of the Indian Nations; her marrying again seemed to open the way for a living for her without my care. I considered it the workings of an Omnipotent being, opening the way for me to prepare to perform my Indian prospects, in which I had many trials. Their rude state and savage warfare, often presented to the mind, had a discouraging effect. At length it ties and trials, I returned home, and in the spring of 1803 went there again, and remained 2 years. In the Third month, 1806, I was married to Ann Lewis, my present wife; we had but a small farm, poorly improved, and had to build house and barn. We lived there three years, in which time our eldest daughter was born. I had previously to our marriage told my wife I believed I would have to go again and leave her. crossed my mind, "fear not, worm Jacob, I will be with thee," with other passages of Scripture, encouraging me; and in the 10th month, 1796, I started for their settlement, and taught a school amongst them for about three years, also attended to some mechanical trades, and gave instruction in farming. After a residence there of three years and three months, I returned home in 4th month, 1800. I might have noted previous to this, that a friend from England, Deborah Darby, But now came the touchstone, and a sore trial accompanied by Rebecca Young, was at our it was to me to leave my wife and child and go meeting. They got into my state from revelation, again. All that I had then, perhaps 2000 doland broke up my religion in a sad way, and said, lars, was no more than the dust of a balance to "a trumpet had been given me to sound amongst leaving her and our child; but I had to go, and the people, and that it should be taken from a sore trial it was to leave them. Being away me;" which set me seriously to thinking of about 16 months, I returned home on a visit to my past life, though not guilty of gross sins, but my family, and after four or five weeks went too much vanity in self, to yield to reasonable again to the Indian country, and was there duties. Shortly after this, two friends from Ire- 16 months more; and returned in the Autumn land, Jane Watson and Mary Ridgway, were at our of 1812, put out my own place and engaged mymeeting. They also got into my state from reve- self with my father-in-law, at his request, to take lation, and builded up my religion, which I then the management of his farm, stock, &c., so as to had more of from serious reflection, than when relieve him. He was old and had a weakly son; the two English Friends tore all of it up, and the farm was too much for them to manage. said, "that my trumpet had been taken from After being there some three or four years, and me, but it should be again given to me, and that having much business to attend to, my mind beit should be sounded amongst nations of unknown came impressed with the belief that I must again tongues." This of unknown tongues, I then go amongst the Indians. Having many concerns did not understand until I came amongst the of life to attend to and much business, I made Indians; after learning two of their languages, and having many opportunities individually and in their public councils with them, I then was reminded that the trumpet had been given me again, and was sounded amongst those of unknown tongues. I do not mean preaching to them, for I never was a preacher in the general acceptation of the word, but I mean endeavor ing to correct many of their errors and wrong things. My trumpet was indeed given to me and it was sounded under proper qualification, to the relief of my own mind, and I believe many errors of that people were exposed and corrected thereby. I might have noted in its place, that about the year 1793 I had a sore spell of sickness of many week's duration. At length I became able to sit up some, and musing on my past life, I saw it had not been as regular as it ought to have been; this language forcibly crossed my mind, "prepare to meet the host of Heaven." I then thought I should not live long; but on dwelling on it I found that it was to correct some errors of my life, and to endeavor to do some good in my day and time. I mention these things, in confirmation of a belief that revelation has not ceased, nor declaration failed in our day and time. To return to my general history. In the Fifth month, 1800, I started again for the Seneca Nation of Indians, on the Alleghany River in the State of New York. My former labors were amongst the Oneidas, in Oneida County, New York. After a residence amongst them of two years and a half under many privations, difficul excuses; I cannot go, I will not go; the return- In |