From Haddonfield Monthly Meeting he obtained one minute. It was granted Fifth Month 22nd, 1849, and returned Seventh Month 10th, 1849. Allusion to this journey (within the limits of Farmington Quarter, etc.) is found in the "Correspondence."

His most extensive journey with a minute was performed in 1866, when he attended and appointed many meetings in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. While out on this visit he attended several meetings (some of them appointed at his request) among the Friends of the other branch; he also appointed several in the worship-houses of other denominations.

The only religious visits of which he kept a continuous account were the early ones to Southern and to Salem Quarter. His only reference to the later ones is in the "Correspondence." He attended all the Yearly Meetings except Illinois, of the branch of Friends to which he belonged, and the one in New York several times.

The last three minutes granted him by Race Street Monthly Meeting were as follows:

Seventh Month 20th, 1881, for himself and wife "to attend Westbury and Purchase Quarterly Meetings, and to visit and appoint a few meetings within the limits of New York Yearly Meeting."

Fifth Month 24th, 1882, for himself, accompanied by his wife, "to attend the Yearly Meeting of Friends of New York."

The following is a copy of his last minute, which was dated Fifth Month 21st, 1884:

"Our friend, Samuel J. Levick, a minister in unity with us, informed the meeting of a prospect he had of attending the approaching Yearly Meeting of Friends to be held in New York, accompanied by his wife, Susanna M. Levick, an elder of this meeting, and also of appointing some meetings within the limits of that meeting, as way may open. Unity was expressed with him in his concern, and he is encouraged to pursue his prospect as Truth may direct."

From the Richmond (Ind.) Palladium.]

"Samuel J. Levick said: 'We are given but one day at a time, and if we can say when we retire that we have not knowingly done any man injustice, and have made the best use of the time, we shall be happy, and the world will be the better for our having been in it. Such is not beyond the reach of any one, old or young, and those who strive after it will attain it. Go about your own business without meddling with the affairs of others; do not make it necessary for the Master to rebuke you as he did Martha, for busying herself too much. "A little learning is a dangerous thing," and worketh great mis

chief. It was a little learning on the part of the scribes and priests that crucified Jesus; it was a little learning that set our forefathers to discussing theology and made it necessary that we should sit here and our brethren a few squares away to transact the business that had been done by one meeting. It is a little learning that makes infidels discover errors in the Bible, where none exist. It is a litle learning that prompts us to dictate to our brothers, and it is a little learning that keeps us from Christ. The fear of God in the soul is the only true wisdom, and it is that we must seek.'”

[From the same.]

MEETING FOR BUSINESS MEN.

"Samuel J. Levick conducted a large meeting for business and young men at the Eighth Street Meeting House that evening, which was productive of much good. He took for his text that passage from the New Testament where the meeting between Jesus and the woman at the Well is described. His sermon did not deal with abstruse or doctrinal questions, but was a plain, earnest exhortation to accept the waters of life, and know the blessing of a walk free from sin. Had space permitted, the Palladium would have given it verbatim, but there is a limit to the capacity of even a newspaper, and it was impossible to give it the space we desired."

[From a local paper.]

"Samuel J. Levick addressed a large assemblage on Sunday of last week, in this ancient house [Merion Friends' Meeting House]. He reminded his young friends that their religious creed should have a great influence upon the social economy of the people, regulating not only their course of action, but their mode of thinking, that the greatest enemy of true religion is pride, and that if not stoutly combated it usurps the moral nature and sentiments of man. He laid down the principles he professed, and combated in good plain English the follies and wickedness of the church, all having their origin in pride, splendid church edifices, fashionable dress, ostentatious show, high living and the excitements of worldly amusements, all as nourishing a family of evils which finally overwhelm the true fountain of revealed knowledge."

A MEETING.

Once, when out on a religious visit, Samuel and Susanna Levick attended the small meeting of Friends at Orange, N. J., on a First-day morning. After meeting they went, with Giles H. and Marianna W. Coggeshall, to their pleasant home in the village of Bloomfield, and during the afternoon, Samuel men

tioned to one of the family, that he felt drawn toward the congregation of a Presbyterian place of worship near by. The matter seemed to drop, as no particular time was specified, but Morton C. Coggeshall, son of Giles and Marianna, quietly left the company, and called upon the minister of this congregation, returning, at tea-time, with a message from "Dr. Kennedy" to Samuel J. Levick. This message was a kind greeting, accompanied with the information that that evening would be a suitable time for the “Friend” to have a meeting with them, if he felt free to come, and they would suspend their service to make way for him. He went. "Dr. Kennedy," in introducing him, informed the congregation that it was the practice of the Friends to begin their worship with silence. The information being heeded, and the practice respected, there followed a time of very solemn silence, after which Samuel was highly favored in testimony, and his Presbyterian brother offered a fervent prayer. The opportunity was, to Samuel, a relieving and very satisfactory one, and at its close the minister and many of the members expressed their satisfaction, accompanied by an invitation to visit them again, if ever he came that way.

MERION MEETING HOUSE,

The meeting at Merion was undoubtedly held soon after the settlement of the Welsh Friends, in 1682, the year of William Penn's first arrival. The pioneers of these colonists were the company who came in the ship Lion, and reached the Schuylkill on the thirteenth of Sixth Month (August, O. S.), 1682. They numbered about forty persons, and represented seventeen families, Edward Jones being, perhaps, the most prominent person among them.

At the house of Hugh Roberts, which must have been near the present Merion Meeting House, as his land adjoined that on which it stands, the earliest meeting at Merion of which a record is preserved was held on the second Fifth-day in Fourth Month, 1684. This was the Monthly Meeting, and we may feel confident that meetings for worship had previously been held at the same place.

There is a well-preserved tradition, and, on the whole, strong evidence, that part of the present meeting-house was built in 1685, and that it was enlarged later, probably in 1713. Minutes of the Preparative and Monthly Meetings indicate this. But there is also a preserved record of a marriage at “Friends’ public meeting-place at Merion" as early as 1693, so that an earlier structure, probably of logs, may have preceded the present house.

Presuming the correctness of the date 1695, as that of at least a part of the house, it is the oldest building for Divine worship in Pennsylvania. It is of