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The most fitting road to reverence is, perhaps, that of the reformer. Believing the times are out of joint, he starts out with the intention of setting them aright. I like the man who is not satisfied and happy with things as they are. Although his road is beset with thorns,-opposition of every kind, he is usually heroic and pious.

God manifests himself to man in many different ways, but most visibly in the faces of men and women dead in earnest over some righteous cause.

According to the calendar and my gray hairs, I belong to the other shore of the river with those who are not here. Although it was not given to me to stand shoulder to shoulder with your veterans, many of whom are lying in the cemetery yonder, yet I feel that I belong to you, their children. I look into these young faces this morning, and ask myself if they are walking in the way of their elders and doing the same things they did. Why come you here to Longwood? Is it because your fathers and mothers did and they liked it? God forbid that I should speak irreverently of that influence, but if that is the case you are not making the most of your opportunities. It sometimes seems to me that you were born in an unfortunate time. Your problem is to find an inspiration in the common duties of life, and make us proud of you by your faithful performance of them. Now, what else is there for you to do? True enough, there is woman suffrage, temperance, dress reform, and political reform, which are all good, but none of them seem to chime in with the high mode of living of your elders. I would tell you of something to look forward to, which, it seems to me, will require all your heroism and intensity of nerve to meet. It is religion,-the cause of reverence and devotion.

Herbert Spencer tells us that a gradual revolution is passing in society; that the inherited positions are passing away, and classes based on industry are coming. Classes based on creeds are doomed; a revolution is approaching. Religion as an insurance against future danger by fire is past! A large

portion of the material which is shaping this revolution has come from Quakers and Unitarians. The former emphasized the sublimity of simplicity, the latter protested in favor of reason and universality. I hope these will join hands and, some time in the twentieth or twenty-first century, give us an American Church which will recognize the needs of the growing soul, and which will open for its scriptures the pages of human history. If you boys and girls think your country can live without a religion, you are living under a delusion which will make you old and decrepit before your time. We find glowing faces in all history, and a glowing face with a purposeless heart is never found.

J. Williams Thorne said: The worship and reverence of the true, the beautiful, and the good is to me an inspiration. Do not worship unworthy gods. We must worship the good and the true in humanity, in nature, and in the universe. This will teach us reverence. The following poem of John G. Whittier expresses this most beautifully:

"The ocean looketh up to heaven,

As it were a living thing;

The homage of its waves is given
In ceaseless worshipping.

"They kneel upon the sloping sand,
As bends the human knee,
A beautiful and tireless band,
The priesthood of the sea.

"They pour their pearly treasures out,
That in the deep have birth,
And chant their awful hymns about
The watching hills of earth.

"The green earth sends its incense up
From every mountain shrine,
From every flower and dewy cup

That greeteth the sunshine.

"The sky is as a temple's arch,

The blue and wavy air

Seems glorious with the spirit-march

Of messengers of prayer.

"The gentle moon, the kindling sun,
The many stars are given,

As shrines to burn earth's incense on
The altar fire of heaven."

Human nature everywhere worships something. Even the worst natures have an ideal. The beautiful and good are always before us, and we should learn to recognize the best. Dr. Franklin (or was it Thomas Paine ?) said: "To do good is my religion." Let us find worthy objects of devotion, and so become better ourselves.

William I. Harvey said: "Worship and allegiance have always been an enigma to me. We find mankind worshipping the things which they best like. We love that which we admire, and this, to my mind, constitutes worship. We should use reason, discretion, in our modes of worship. The ancients saw in the sun an inspiration to all animal and vegetable life, and they worshipped it. We to-day worship the sun more than it ever before was worshipped, but, using reason, we do not fall down and pray to it. While we feel the influences of nature we must use our reason, restrain our feelings, nor go beyond our knowledge. I will not foolishly bow before an idol, the meaning of which I do not comprehend." The meeting joined in singing the hymn beginning—

"Out of the dark the circling sphere

Is rounding onward to the light."

The session then adjourned until two o'clock.

SEVENTH DAY.-Afternoon Session.

The session was opened promptly at two o'clock, the audience joining in singing the hymn,—

"O Life, that maketh all things new."

The following resolutions were then read:

Resolved, That the Yearly Meeting of the Society of Progressive Friends protests against the withholding of privileges and courtesies in hotels, steamboats, railroads, and other public places in certain parts of our country, from people of color, which their money, intelligence, and refinement would secure for them did they belong to the white race. And we call upon all people, independent of political allegiance, to carry forward the work so heroically begun, until fraternity and equality shall become the working, as it now is the theoretical, basis of our social order.

Resolved, That the Yearly Meeting of the Society of Progressive Friends for 1892 protests against the recently re-enacted law excluding the Chinese from our borders, and regards the same as a gross violation of the principle of hospitality to which our government is committed, and an unjustifiable indignity towards a humble, and in the main industrious and not unworthy, class of immigrants, who have contributed an important element to the industrial development of our country.

Resolved, That recognizing, as we do, the influences, eminently friendly to and promotive of intelligence, thought, and worthy secular life, that flow naturally and surely from the exhibits to be made at the approaching Columbian Exposition,-influences that are also auxiliary and fully helpful to true religion and genuine soul-worship,-and feeling as we do the need that the toiling multitudes of our American society, who are closely held by the labors of the week, should enjoy these privileges, and feel the exhilaration and uplift from them,

We, the Association of Friends in Yearly Meeting assembled, do hereby earnestly protest against the proposed closing of the doors of the World's Fair on the first day of the week.

Resolved, That the Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends, held at Longwood, Chester County, Pennsylvania, on May 27 and 28, 1892, respectfully petitions the directory of the Columbian Exposition to exclude the sale of all intoxicating liquors over bars within the gates of the Exposition.

Resolved, That a government in which the authority resides in the people can only continue so long as a certain measure of intelligence is maintained collectively in its citizens, and it is the sense of this meeting that the time has fully arrived in which the very existence of a free republic on this continent imperatively demands that the further immigration of certain classes of foreigners shall be prohibited.

The illiterate and vicious, the criminal and pauper, the self-ungoverned and ungovernable classes cannot continue to be absorbed into our national organism without producing conditions that must inevitably lead to decay and death.

These resolutions were adopted, with the exception of that on "Immigration."

A lively discussion of the last-mentioned followed its reading. WHITTIER FULTON, MRS. DIAZ, and J. L. JONES all made earnest pleas for the foreigner, and the resolution was voted down. The resolution relative to selling liquors at the Columbian Exposition was adopted as given. A reconsideration was moved and seconded, however, with a view to striking out the words "over bars," as it was thought that by leaving them the meeting gave its sanction to selling it at other places. Notwithstanding the reconsideration, the motion to strike out the words "over bars" was voted down, and the resolution again adopted in the same form as at first.

The Recording Clerk read the following

MEMORIALS.

PHOEBE PYLE WAY.

We miss to-day a familiar presence, one that has been with us annually since the organization of this society, an eager listener and independent thinker.

Reared by anti-slavery parents, PHOEBE PYLE WAY remained always true to her inheritance of freedom and tolerance in their largest and fullest interpretation.

She was constant in her attendance here, and prized highly these annual reunions as a means of furthering reformatory and progressive movements.

Hers was a strong character, sincere in its beliefs and earnest in upholding them. She subscribed to no creed, but

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