C 8301.8 HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY PHILADELPHIA APR 24 1935 NAMES WITH MEMOIRS. Samuel Allen. Mary and John Baynes. Emma Binns. Sarah Ann Brown. John Candler. Thomas Chalk. Lucy Fowler. Cornelius Hanbury. Joseph Holmes. T. Graham Littleboy. Bernard A. Marsh, &c. Six Children. } Ellen Elizabeth Maw. Thomas Pierce. Phebe Jane Radley. Rebecca Sturges. Mary Tanner. Arthur Henry Wilson. -Mary Worsdell. Mary (Maria) Wright. APPENDIX. John Edwin Brown. Arthur Hocknell Davy. Maria B. Newby. PREFACE. In presenting to our readers another volume of the Annual Monitor, it may be observed that there is a lower average of life than in the two previous years,-50 years against 55. This appears to be occasioned by an increase of nearly twenty names under twenty years of age, and a decrease of about twenty names above the age of seventy. Of male children under five years, there is an unusual preponderance of deaths over those of females, being nearly two to one. It remains however a remarkable fact, that the greatest number of deaths returned, year after year, is of Friends between the ages of seventy and eighty; and further, if we take all the names from seventy to one hundred years, we find that rather more than onethird of all who die have passed the limit of "threescore years and ten." In this present year, there are 123 out of a total of 361. We are not without Scriptural warrant, for considering this as one of the usual results of a circumspect following of the Divine Commandments: "for length of days, and long life, and peace shall they add to thee."-Prov. iii., 2. "Therefore choose life, that thou mayst love the Lord thy God, for He is thy life, and the length of thy days."-Deut. xxx., "With long life will I satisfy him, and show 20. We Yet let no one presume on length of days. must leave the issues of life in the hands of Him who gave it. There is abundant evidence that both young and old are called away. Let it be our great aim to be truly Christ's; then "whether we live, we live unto the Lord, or whether we die, we die unto the Lord whether, therefore, we live or die, we are the Lord's."-Rom. xiv., 8. |