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oF93 FRIENDS' INTELLIGENCER.

“TAKE FAST HOLD OF INSTRUCTION; LET HER NOT GO; KEEP HER; FOR SHE IS THY LIFE.”

VOL. XLI.

PHILADELPHIA, SECOND MONTH 16, 1884.

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ZDITED AND PUBLISHED BY AN ASSOCIATION OF FRIENDS.

CONTENTS.

Life and Labors of Elizabeth Fry... 00IUNICATIONS MUST BE ADDRESSED AND PAIMENTS MADE TO

Protap Chunder Mozoomdar..
JOHN COMLY, AGENT,

The Modification of Oaths.....
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The Mystery............
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Correspondence.................................
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Deaths ...........
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Travels of George Pitt........
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Poetry: Be of Good Cheer- Winter on Earth, but June in the
at the risk of the person so gending.
AGENTS:- Edwin Blackburn, Baltimore, Md.

The Summit-Flower.......
Joseph S. Cohu, New York.

Natural History Studies.......
Benj. Strattan, Richmond, Ind.
Entered at the Post-Office at Philadelphia, Penna. ag gecond-clage

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For Friends' Intelligencer.

as many other secondary offences being punLIFE AND LABORS OF ELIZABETH FRY. I ishable with death, made executions terribly

We have before us another biography of frequent. In the First month of the year this saintly philanthropist, preacher and prison 1813, four members of the Society of Friends reformer who nasad fun

wgate who were Į representations

of Christ, it is 'ry to inspect the ate, with a view sufferings, occahe season. The atures, huddled ut employment, 2 the floor, the 6 raised to make > indeed. Here d. mong them was ng, the proceeds quor purchased rits were openly oralization preIdren dwelt in o provided with ; in their suffer'e or less guilty

It also traces the career of a devoted woman Here came Elizabeth Fry, then at the age through the intricacies of her rich and blame- of 33, accompanied only by a female relative. less life unto its beautiful ending.

A picture of the terrible scene was impressed The extreme severity of English law in the upon her tender and sensitive heart, never to early partof the present century, clothed prison be effaced. She could do nothing at this life with horrors not now known in any civil-time except to supply some of the most destiized land. Every degree of forgery, as well | tute with clothes. Retiring from the scene,

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