way to the Yearly Meeting. First-day. Most interesting meeting.  I think the connection of evangelical doctrine with Christian worship is often not enough considered.  The mere natural unsanctified dread or awe of the Lord’s presence is very different from that worship of God which is through Christ our Lord, who has made a way of access for us to the Father, who Himself loveth us.  If this be overlooked, there is little essential distinction between Christian worship, and Oriental gnosticism—­the delusion of raising the soul above the natural, by abstraction and contemplation of the Divine.  This is the distinguishing glory of the gospel, that whereas the children of Israel said to Moses, “Speak thou to us, but let not God speak to us, lest we die,” Christ, his antitype, hath broken down for his people “the middle wall of partition,” hath abolished the enmity, and speaketh to us Himself as God, and yet as once in our flesh.

5th Mo. 10th.  Letter from father, from Niagara.  Awful spectacle, and most edifying emblem of His unchanging word of power whose voice is as the sound of many waters.

  This evening had a nice meeting; my soul longed
  for light and life in the assembly.

  Of our dear father’s safe arrival in Liverpool we
  heard on our way to the train in the morning, and
  now we settled in to expect him we had so long lost!

And, after meeting him in London and alluding to conversation with friends who called to see him, she says,—­

“But with father the fact of presence, real meeting, actual talk, seemed more engrossing than the thing talked.  Oh that I had a really grateful heart to the Lord for these His mercies!”

7th. [Alluding to a meeting at Devonshire House.] It is, indeed, “looking not at the things which are seen,” when we really accept with equal, nay, with greater, joy, His will to speak by the little as by the great, or by His Spirit only, when communion of truth is preferred to communication of the true.

5th Mo. 29th.  And now that my London experience is over, as to meetings, preachings, prayers, what, oh, what is the result on this immortal spirit of mine, which has on this occasion been brought, as it were, in contact with some of the honorable and anointed messengers, with that which is good?  And yet it is possible that contact may not produce penetration, and that penetration may not produce assimilation.  I can unhesitatingly say, the first and second have been produced; but then these are but transactions of the time, not abiding transformations; and if these are all?  But, surely, it cannot be; surely, when my heart melted within me, especially on Second-day morning, and I heard the word “and anon with joy received it,” some depth of central stone was fused into softness; some actual change, effected, that I might not have altogether “no root”