Proceedings of the Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive FriendsPennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends, 1891 - Quakers |
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... Woman's Rights . By MRS . I. B. HOOKER The Permanence and Power of Religious Ideas . By GILES B. STEBBINS The Real Significance of the Bible By URSULA U. GESTEFELD . Testimonies Memorials • · Educational Qualification for Suffrage . By ...
... Woman's Rights . By MRS . I. B. HOOKER The Permanence and Power of Religious Ideas . By GILES B. STEBBINS The Real Significance of the Bible By URSULA U. GESTEFELD . Testimonies Memorials • · Educational Qualification for Suffrage . By ...
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... woman's rights people . They need no promptings to believe in that . Another grand truth is awakening to us . It is the belief in the Cosmos of Nature . The race must grow , cast out dog- matisms , and consider itself as belonging to ...
... woman's rights people . They need no promptings to believe in that . Another grand truth is awakening to us . It is the belief in the Cosmos of Nature . The race must grow , cast out dog- matisms , and consider itself as belonging to ...
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... WOMAN'S RIGHTS . The question of woman's rights was settled long ago . Now it is the question of the duty of women to participate in the government of the country , and the duty of the men to help them to do so . The questions of to ...
... WOMAN'S RIGHTS . The question of woman's rights was settled long ago . Now it is the question of the duty of women to participate in the government of the country , and the duty of the men to help them to do so . The questions of to ...
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... woman suffrage . When women get the ballot , party fealty will be a second consideration in a candidate ; the first consideration will be character . The essential thing will be to have in office men of strong personality . When that ...
... woman suffrage . When women get the ballot , party fealty will be a second consideration in a candidate ; the first consideration will be character . The essential thing will be to have in office men of strong personality . When that ...
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... woman suffrage , some say we have too many voters already . If this is the case , why are they con- tinually placing the ballot in the hands of more men ? An- other objection offered is that , on account of its peculiar nature , women ...
... woman suffrage , some say we have too many voters already . If this is the case , why are they con- tinually placing the ballot in the hands of more men ? An- other objection offered is that , on account of its peculiar nature , women ...
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Page 21 - IF I have faltered more or less In my great task of happiness; If I have moved among my race And shown no glorious morning face ; If beams from happy human eyes Have moved me not ; if morning skies, Books, and my food, and summer rain Knocked on my sullen heart in vain : — Lord, thy most pointed pleasure take And stab my spirit broad awake...
Page 41 - For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
Page 36 - My faith would lay her hand On that dear head of thine, While like a penitent I stand, And there confess my sin. 4 My soul looks back to see The burdens thou didst bear, When hanging on th' accursed tree ; And hopes her guilt was there.
Page 34 - As they sat by the seaside, And filled their hearts with flame. God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor.
Page 18 - Down the dark future, through long generations, The echoing sounds grow fainter and then cease; And like a bell, with solemn, sweet vibrations, I hear once more the voice of Christ say, "Peace !" Peace ! and no longer from its brazen portals The blast of War's great organ shakes the skies ! But beautiful as songs of the immortals, The holy melodies of love arise.
Page 22 - Of the men o' the South? What whets the knife For the Union's life? — Hark to the answer: Slavery!
Page 41 - If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?
Page 36 - Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in us. Our defense is in the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands everywhere.
Page 43 - There is no Death ! What seems so is transition ; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian. Whose portal we call Death.