OF THE

Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting

OF

PROGRESSIVE FRIENDS,

HELD AT

.LONGWOOD, CHESTER COUNTY, PA.

1891.

"Truth for Authority, not Authority for Truth."

LUCRETIA МОТТ.

PHILADELPHIA:

PRINTED BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY.

CONTENTS.

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Business Session

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Early History of the Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends.

The Permanence and Power of Religious Ideas. By GILES B. STEBBINS

The Real Significance of the Bible By URSULA U. GESTEFELD

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Clerks.

FREDERIC A. HINCKLEY, Florence, Massachusetts,
MARY M. BAILEY, Marlborough, Pennsylvania,
AARON MENDENHALL, Hamorton, Pennsylvania, Treasurer.