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CONTENTS.

Report.

Extracts from Exposition of Sentiments Adopted 1853

Commemorative Address, REV. FREDERIC A. HINCKLEY

Battle Hymn of Peace

History and Reminiscences

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Child Labor, MRS. FLORENCE KELLEY

Testimony on Child Labor

New Opportunities for Social Service, REV. ANNA GARLIN SPENCER 64 Testimonies

The Labor Question, MERLE ST. CROIX WRIGHT

The Real Enemy of Labor, WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON
Testimonies

Ralph Waldo Emerson, REV. FREDERIC A. HINCKLEY
Address, CHARLES GORDON AMES.

Appendix

Officers

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REPORT.

1903.

THE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY.

FIFTH-DAY; MORNING SESSION.

The Fiftieth Anniversary of the founding of the Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends was held on Fifth-day, Fourth of Sixth-month, 1903.

The regular Yearly Meeting, devoted to the consideration of important topics of the time, was held on the following two days-the Fifth and Sixth of Sixth-month, 1903.

A meeting for worship was held as usual on First-day morning, Seventh of Sixth-month, 1903.

The meeting opened with singing parts of Whittier's Centennial Hymn adapted for the occasion:

Our fathers' God, from out whose hand
The centuries fall like grains of sand,

We meet to-day united, free,

And loyal to our land and Thee;

To thank Thee for the era done

And trust Thee for the opening one.

Here, where of old, by Thy design,
Our fathers spoke that word of Thine
Whose echo is the glad refrain

Of rended bolt and falling chain,

Thy holiest blessing grant this band,

To Love and Wisdom guide our land.

O! make thou us, through centuries long
In Peace secure, in Justice strong;
Around our gift of Freedom, draw
The safe-guards of Thy righteous law;
And, cast in some diviner mould,

Let the new cycle crown the old.

The Presiding Clerk, FREDERIC A. HINCKLEY, announced that extracts from the "Exposition of Sentiments," adopted by the organization in 1853, would be read by HENRY S. KENT. He added that although the paper had been received this morning too late for the reader to prepare for his duties by first looking it over, yet the sentiments advanced in it were not behind time when adopted at any rate.

EXTRACTS FROM THE "EXPOSITION OF SENTIMENTS" ADOPTED BY THE PENNSYLVANIA

YEARLY MEETING OF PROGRESSIVE

FRIENDS, 1853.

To the Friends of Pure and Undefiled Religion and to all Seekers after Truth, of whatever name or denomination, the Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends sendeth greetings:

Dear Friends-Having been led, as we trust, through obedience to the revelations of truth, to form a Religious Association upon principles always too little regarded and often trampled under foot by professing Christians, * * we are constrained to address you in explanation of our leading sentiments, purposes, plans and hopes. If, as we believe, the basis of our organization, and the arrangements we propose for the culture of man's religious powers, are in harmony with the Divine laws and adapted to the wants of human nature and the demands of the present age, it is incumbent upon us to diffuse the knowledge thereof; and if, on the other hand, "the light that is in us be darkness," it is proper that we should invoke your earnest efforts to redeem us from our errors, and turn our feet into the highways of holiness and truth. We therefore ask your serious and unprejudiced consideration of the matters presented in this Exposition, so that, whether you shall accept or reject our propositions, your conclusions may minister to your own peace of mind and your growth in the love and practice of the truth.

In our efforts to apply the principles of Christianity to daily life, and to social customs and institutions which we deemed

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