"I know that I shall partake of your kindest wishes and remembrance in your prayers--the few more prayers you have yet to offer before you go. When I may follow you, and, I earnestly hope, rejoin you in a far better world, must be left to a decision that cannot at the most be very remote; for yesterday completed my sixty-third year. I deplore before God my not having lived more devotedly to the grand purpose; and do fervently desire the aid of the good Spirit, to make whatever of my life may remain much more effectually true to that purpose than all the preceding. "But you, my friend, have accomplished your business--your Lord's business--on earth. Go, then, willing and delighted, at his call. "Here I conclude, with an affecting and solemn consciousness that I am speaking to you for the last time in this world. Adieu, then, my ever dear and faithful friend. Adieu--for a while! May I meet you, ere long, where we shall never more say, farewell! "J. FOSTER." _A Beacon to the Society of Friends._ By ISAAC CREWDSON.--Hamilton, Adams, and Co. pp. 155. 12mo. _A Defence of the Doctrines of Immediate Revelation, and Universal and Saving Light: in Reply to some Remarks contained in a work, entitled "A Beacon to the Society of Friends."_ By THOMAS HANCOCK, M. D. pp. 92. 12mo. The Beacon ought to be read with serious attention, and with an honest desire to know "what is truth," by every member of the society, to whom it is addressed. Members of that society cannot need to be informed by us of the absurd and impious vagaries, advocated with an air of solemnity, as shocking as it is ridiculous, by certain members of their body in America, the leader of whom was Elias Hicks, a man of considerable acuteness and energy, but who evinced a degree of mental perversity truly appalling. Members of other societies cannot be expected to feel any great interest in the sentiments,--if sentiments they can be called,--avowed with so much complacency by that fanatic, or even in the rapid progress which they made in America. It were wholly unnecessary, therefore, even if our limits allowed it, to furnish our readers with any account of the ultra-mystic theology of Hicks. It will suffice to say, that there is scarcely a doctrine of revelation which it does not discard or explain away. The peculiar tenets of this sect were publicly denounced by the English Quakers at their yearly meeting, held in London, May, 1832; but we hesitate not to affirm--what we can easily prove--that the tracts of Elias Hicks are clearly deduced from the fundamental principles of Quakerism; that many of his statements bear a very close resemblance to those of the early Friends; and that, however they may be opposed to those writings which possess divine authority, they are fully borne out by others, which are of _almost_ equal