OF THE Pennsylvania fearly Meeting OF PROGRESSIVE FRIENDS, HELD AT LONGWOOD, CHESTER COUNTY, 1875. "Serves best the Father he who most serves man, And he who wrongs Humanity wrongs Heaven." PHILADELPHIA: JOHN CRAIG & SON, BOOK AND JOB PRINTERS, South-East Corner of Sixth and Arch Streets. GOD is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness, we lie. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God and God in him.-Apostle John. IN this day, as in all days, around and in every man, are voices from the gods, imperative to all, obeyed by even none, which say audibly, "Arise, thou son of Adam, son of time; make this thing more divine, and that thing,-and thyself, of all things." -Carlyle. TRUTH is the seal of God. Reason is the connecting link of God and man,—like the rays of light that connect the earth and sun. Therefore science, the favorite mistress of reason, is the ally of religion and truth.-Rabbi Wise. It is perilous to separate thinking rightly from acting. He is already half false who speculates on truth and does not do it. By degrees, the very truth he holds becomes to him a falsehood.-F. W. Robertson. No one can have a true idea of right, until he does it; nor any genuine reverence for it, till he has done it often and with cost; nor any peace ineffable in it, till he does it always and with alacrity.—James Martineau. But freedom is of no Love and Religion are FREE Love and Free Religion are the phrases of the day. worth save to express truth and conform to the divine order. not choices, but inspirations and necessities—the laws as well as the liberties of our being. The will is never so strong as in giving up, for principle and the public weal, self interest or sensual delight.—C. A. Bartol. Do you not already, in your dim heads, know truths by the thousand; and yet, in your dead hearts, will you perform them by the ten, by the unit?—Cariyle. In heaven, instruction is not committed to memory, but to life.-Swedenborg. SEEK out, publish, and, as fast as possible, bring society into harmony with the laws of justice. This is social science. All labor asks is justice, not charity; all woman asks is justice, not pity; all the negro asks is justice, not humanity. All crime asks is justice, not sympathy. Who shall teach us the full meaning of this great word, JUSTICE?-Wendell Phillips. You do not hear, in any of the pulpits, a definition of what love, and justice, and mercy, and right are. You know, and all know, that they are innate, self-defined. Therefore, I say, preach your truth; let it go forth; and you will find, without any notable miracle, as of old, that every man will speak in his own tongue wherein he was born. If these pure principles have their place in us, and are brought forth by faithfulness, by obedience, into practice, the difficulties and doubts that we may have to surmount will be easily conquered. There will be a power higher than these.-Lucretia Mott. MANY a man starts out on this road toward perfection, fired by a deep hunger and thirst for the ideal, but not knowing whither it shall lead him, or what thoughts it shall give birth to in his own soul. But I believe that if he travels that road persistantly, he will find himself accompanied by a growing consciousness of the infinity of the universe in which he dwells, the infinity of the Power which has made him and makes all. **The Atheism which starts out with devotion to any idea must logically end, I think, in the simplest, the fairest, the highest form of Theism.-F. E. Abbot. PEOPLE who begin by worshipping the Bible, often end by disliking it. But when this book, which will always be called The Book, is valued for what it is, rather than for what it is not, it will be more reverenced and loved than it ever has been. It will cease to be an idol; but will become more than ever a friend, helper, consoler. It will cease to be our master: and so will become more than ever our teacher and companion.-J. F. Clarke. OF THE PENNSYLVANIA YEARLY MEETING OF PROGRESSIVE FRIENDS, HELD AT LONGWOOD, CHESTER COUNTY, 1875. "Serves best the Father he who most serves man, And he who wrongs Humanity wrongs Heaven." PHILADELPHIA: JOHN CRAIG & SON, BOOK AND JOB PRINTERS, South-East Corner of Sixth and Arch Streets. THE PENNSYLVANIA YEARLY MEETING OF PROGRESSIVE FRIENDS held its Twenty-Third Session in the meeting-house at Longwood, Chester County, commencing at 10 o'clock, A. M., on the 10th of the Sixth month (June), 1875. Here follows an extract from the call: "This Yearly Meeting represents an unecclesiastical and untheological but earnestly religious movement, with good-will to men for its spirit, liberty for its method, truth for its motto, and righteousness for its object. Leaving each person to settle his own creed, choose his own church, and obey his own convictions, it yet invites to fellowship and friendly conference all men and women who are concerned for a rational solution of the problems of human welfare, who desire to meet those problems as they arise, and to work for the triumph of good over evil.” After calling to order, CHARLES G. AMES spoke some words of congratulation, fellowship and counsel, and repeated the lines of Samuel Longfellow: "O Life, that maketh all things new, The blooming earth, the thoughts of men, In gladness hither turn again. From hand to hand the signals run; "One in the freedom of the truth, One in the joy of paths untrod, The wide horizon's grander view, CHANDLER DARLINGTON, DINAH MENDENHALL and JACOB W. Cox, were appointed a Committee to nominate officers and to settle with the Treasurer. A Business Committee was created, consisting of OLIVER JOHN |