The Friend : a religious and literary journal . e her, and made many and very great effortsto rescue her from the perilous situation; but she againrequested him to let her go, and try to preserve his ownlife. She seemed greatly exhausted by her exertions ;and although her husband kept hold of her, and in afew minutes after they fell into the river, drew her tothe bank, yet the vital spark had fled, and all theefforts used to resuscitate her proved fruitless. Thus we have another solemn and affecting admo-nition of the shortness and uncertainty of life, and thonecessity of daily and hourly livi
The Friend : a religious and literary journal . e her, and made many and very great effortsto rescue her from the perilous situation; but she againrequested him to let her go, and try to preserve his ownlife. She seemed greatly exhausted by her exertions ;and although her husband kept hold of her, and in afew minutes after they fell into the river, drew her tothe bank, yet the vital spark had fled, and all theefforts used to resuscitate her proved fruitless. Thus we have another solemn and affecting admo-nition of the shortness and uncertainty of life, and thonecessity of daily and hourly living in a state of watch-fulness and prayer, that so we may be prepared tomeet the messenger of death whenever he may be sentto us. Be ye therefore also ready, for the Son ofman comelh at an hour when ye think not. , at Greenwich, Cumberland county, N. J., on Third day, the 6th instant, Hannah Wjdmayer, a mem-ber of Greenwich Monthly Meeting, in the sixty-ninthyear of her age. PRINTED BY ADAM WALDIE,Carpenter Street, b;low Seventh, VOL EDITED BY KOBEBT SMITH. PUBLISHED tico Jollats per annum, payable in and Payments received byGEORGE W. TAYLOR, NO. 50, NORTH FOURTH STREET, UP STAIRS, PHILADELPHIA. AMSTERDAM. It is to be supposed that most of the readersof The Friend are familiar with accountsof this celebrated amphibious city—neverthe-less, the following lively and graphical descrip-tion will be read with interest. The NationalGazette from which we copy, derives the arti-cle from a late British periodical. If it be not heresy to compare Venice withany other city in the world, I should be in-clined to say that Amsterdam is the Venice ofthe north. Like the queen of the Luguna, thequeen of the Zuyderzee is seated on a throneof islands, girded by innumerable canals. Batthe resemblance goes no further. In the DutchVenice we must not look for the palaces andgondolas which confer the two-fold characterof grandeur and romance on the anci
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