This characteristic extract will suggest, probably, to many readers, our object in quoting it. If there was cause for the reproof conveyed in it in that day, in which we know the primitive zeal still burned brightly, what must we say of the subsequent, and of the present state of our little church! Long after the death of George Fox, there continued to be a large increase to the numbers of friends; many who had been wise and great in this world, were made to rejoice in the laying down of their outward wisdom, and in sitting down in deep humility to learn of Jesus, by the teaching of the Holy Spirit in the heart. These were prepared boldly to declare God's controversy with sin, and the means by which it might be subdued, not omitting to proclaim the alone ground of a sinner's pardon through the propitiatory sacrifice of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. We believe certainly that it has never been permitted to our Society to be without its faithful labourers in the gospel, or without many sincere confessors of its doctrines, who, by life and conversation, have been true preachers to their brethren, and to the world in general. Yet we must confess, that whilst as a Society, we continue to profess the same religious views as were held and promulgated by our early Friends, we fear we do not come up in practice to that pure standard to which they attained. The door is open to all the world, yet we sit at ease in our ceiled houses. Many around us are hungering and thirsting for the knowledge of God, yet we are occupied with our farms and our merchandise. Let us not be inquiring, "What shall this man do," or what should the other have done? but remembering the reproof, "What is that to thee, follow _thou_ Me," submit ourselves to that humbling, but preparing hand, which was so signally displayed in the cause of those who were engaged in the planting and watering of our religious Society. Then might we again hope to witness an increase of spiritual life and vigour in the body, and thus become as "a city set upon a hill, that could not be hid." THE ANNUAL MONITOR. OBITUARY. Age. Time of Decease. HANNAH ABBOTT, _Thorley_, _Essex_. 88 11mo. 19 1849 MARTHA ADY, _London_. 81 3mo. 23 1850 ELIZABETH AIREY, _Kendal_. Widow. 81 5mo. 6 1850 WILLIAM ALDERSON, _Winterscale_, _Garsdale_, _Yorkshire_. 69 5mo. 2 1850 REBECCA ALEXANDER, _Goldrood_, _Ipswich_. Widow of Samuel Alexander. 72 12mo. 13 1849 EDWARD ALEXANDER, _Limerick_. Son of the late Edward Alexander. 20 2mo. 1 1850 JOSEPH ALLEN, _Dunmow_, _Essex_. A Minister. 76 9mo. 21 1849 SARAH ALLEN, _Bristol_. A Minister. 77 6mo. 1 1850 ELEANOR ALLEN, _Ballitore_. Wife of Henry Allen. 49 3mo. 4 1850 ANN ALLIS, _Bristol_. Wife of Hagger Allis. 65 8mo. 30 1850 JOHN ALLISON, _Durham_. 57 6mo. 1 1850 ROBERT ALSOP, _Maldon_, _Essex_. A Minister. 72 7mo. 21 1850 SOPHIA APPLETON, _Stoke Newington_. Wife of John Appleton. 49 3mo. 28 1850