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AND JOURNAL.

PHILADELPHIA, 921 ARCH STREET, FOURTH MONTH 23, 1898.

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SINGLE SUBSCRIPTION, $2.00 PER ANNUM.

To subscribers residing west of the Mississippi River

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a discount of one-fourth from this rate, making the price A WOMAN FRIEND WOULD LIKE SITUA

$1.50 per annum.

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give one extra copy, free, for each ten subscribers.
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tion, managing housekeeper, linen room, office assistant, or position of trust. No objection to mountains or sea shore. Some experience. Address No. 26, this Office.

A VERY NEAT DESIGNER AND MAKER OF

children's clothes wishes work to take home. Well
known in city and best of references. Style and econ-
omy a specialty.
Address MRS. M. E. PARSONS,

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817 South Tenth St., Philad'a.

YOUNG MAN, A FRIEND, RELIABLE AND strictly temperate, desires a position as clerk or assistant in any honorable business, at reasonable wages. Addrsss D. L., 553 Bailey St., Camden, N. J.

POSITION WANTED.-GOVERNESS OR COM-
panion, by young woman Friend. Address No. 28,
this Office.

DOOMS AND BOARD. — CONVENIENT TO

WISSAHICKON AND OTHER POEMS
By HENRY JONES.
Just issued. Price, $1.00; by mail, $1.10.
For sale by FRIENDS' BOOK ASSOCIATION,
1500 Race Street, Philad’a.

Gleanings from Poetic Fields.

TRANSLATIONS and ORIGINAL VERSES
By ROBERT TILNEY.

Price, $1.00, postage paid.

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Just Published-Reprint 1898

AN INDEX TO THE OLD AND NEW
TESTAMENTS.

Intended to encourage the audible reading of these inestimable writings, by designating those chapters containing expressions rather improper to be read in mixed companies. Price, 5 cents.;

By,MARK COFFIN-1809.
FRIENDS' BOOK ASSOCIATION,
FIFTEENTH And Race Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA.

ROC
ROOM
Samuel Lambert, 1533 N. Eleventh street, Philad'a, Pa.
MRS. S. A. GOVER, 1143 Twenty-first Street, N. W.,
Washington, D. C.

railroad and Friends' Meeting-house. Reference, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF LOUISA J. ROBERTS.

YOUNG MAN (FRIEND) RESIDENT OF PHIL-
adelphia, desires position as salesman, or clerical

A Good Word Each Week. —XVII., . 289 | work. Good reference. Address No. 27, this Office.
POETRY: SYMPATHY,

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EMPLOYMENT OFFICE. MALE AND FE

male help; white and colored. All kinds of work. Address John Stringham, 1291 Lex. Ave., New York City.

KENNETT SQUARE, PENNA. 290

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BOARDERS wanted at farm house; healthy locality; pretty drives; home comforts. E. S. HADLEY.

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housekeeper at institution, hotel, boarding-school, or private family. Experienced. Address No. 24, this Office.

928 W WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS-EGGS FOR

hatching $1.00 for 15. JOS. P. PALMER, Geigers

298, 299 Mills, Pa.

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MOVEMENTS IN THE RELIGIOUS FIELD,
CURRENT EVENTS,

NEWS AND OTHER GLEANINGS,
NOTICES,

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Barlow's Indigo Blue Cheapest and Best
PIROMM & KINDIG,
Successors to D. S. WILTBERGER.

MONEY-SAVING methods of advertising.
Booklets written. S. EDWARD Paschall,
West Chester, Pa. In Philadelphia daily.

LIFE INSURANCE as a protection for families or old age. For rates, estimates, and results, address Wм. C. ALLEN, 401 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.

Swarthmore.

For rent or sale, Queen Anne Cottage, 12 rooms, steam heat, and open fire grates. The location is very delightful, directly overlooking the athletic grounds of the College, and very close to the meeting-house; one acre of ground, and plenty of fruit Apply to

DAVID SCANNELL, 814 Arch Street.

With Extracts from her Journal, and
Selections from her Writings.

12mo., cloth, 286 pages, with two portraits. Price,
$1.00, postage paid.
For Sale by

FRIENDS' BOOK ASSOCIATION,

S. W. Corner 15th and Race Streets, Philadelphia.

The Foulke Family Genealogy.

The Family lines descended from EDWARD and ELEANOR FOULKE, OF GWYNEDD, are given in the volume

HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS RELATING
TO GWYNEDD,

by HOWARD M. JENKINS. First Edition, 1884, out of
print. Second Edition, 1897. 450 pages. $4.00. By
mail, $4.23.

The Foulke Genealogy occupies 50 pages, and is as complete as can well be made in the generations near to Edward Foulke.

Address HOWARD M. JENKINS, Publisher, 921 Arch Street, Philadelphia. ENGLISH BOOKS.

FIRST LESSONS IN THE Hebrew PROPHETS. By Edward Grubb, M. A. Price 50 cents. Mailed, 55

cents.

THE QUAKER IDEAL. By Francis Frith. Cloth, 60 cents. Paper, 35 cents. 5 cents extra on each for postage.

THE QUAKERS. By F. Storrs Turner. Price, $1.75,
15 cents extra for postage.

QUAKER PICTURES. Two volumes. By W. Whitten.
Price $2.00. 20 cents extra for postage.

FRIENDS' Biographical SerIES, comprising Elizabeth
Fry, John G. Whittier, William Allen, John Bright,
Peter Bidford, and Daniel Wheeler. Paper, each 27
3 cents extra by mail.

cents.

The above books are published in London,
England, and with other English
publications are for sale by

FRIENDS' BOOK ASSOCIATION.
S. W. Cor. 15th and Kace Sts., Philad'a

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George School,

NEAR NEWTOWN, BUCKS COUNTY, PA.
Under the care of Philadelphia Yearly
Meeting of Friends.

Course of study extended and thorough, preparing
students either for business or for College.
For catalogue, apply to

GEORGE L. MARIS, Principal,
George School, Penna.

Abington Friends' School,

FOR BOARDING AND DAY PUPILS OF BOTH SEXES. Near Jenkintown, Penna., 10 miles from Philadelphia. Under the care of Abington Monthly Meeting. Liberal course of study. Students prepared for college or busiThe home-like surroundings make it especially attractive to boarding pupils. Students admitted whenever there are vacancies. Send for circulars to LOUIS B. AMBLER, Principal, Or Jenkintown, Pa. CYNTHIA G. BOSLER, Sec'y, Ogontz, Pa.

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FORTHCOMING EVENTS IN the

SOCIETY OF FRIENDS.

PHILADELPHIA YEARLY MEETING, 15th
and Race Sts., Philad'a, 5th month 9.
NEW YORK YEARLY MEETING, 15th St.
and Rutherfurd Place, New York, 5th
month 23.

ANY Soap is Soap

But grades differ. You want the best. You will always be satisfied with good, never with poor soap, such as need presents to make it go. Therefore use

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Dreydoppel Soap" for all purposes. Dreydoppel Soap renders clothes beauGENESEE YEARLY MEETING, Farmington, tiful, white, sweet, tiful, white, sweet, healthful for wear. N. Y., 6th month 13. The best for bath, toilet, hair shampoo, etc. You find the present in the quality. USE DREYDOPPEL SOAP. THE BEST BECAUSE IT IS! "First Prize World's Fair, 1893."

General Conference: First-day Schools,
Educational, Philanthropic, Religious,
Richmond, Ind., 8th month 22 to 26.
OHIO YEARLY MEETING, Mt. Pleasant,
O., 8th month 29.

ILLINOIS YEARLY MEETING, Mt. Palatine, It's Practical Economy

Ill., 9th month 12.

INDIANA YEARLY MEETING, Waynesville,
Ohio, 9th month 26.

BALTIMORE YEARLY MEETING, Park Av.,
Baltimore, 10th month 31.

Style and Quality

We have made a window display of nothing but fifteen dollar suits. We have spring suits at other prices-$7.50, $10, $12.50, etc.,-but if you will look at this window display closely you'll see what we want to bring out, make public-that is, a super quality in materials; superior effect caused by careful, clean making and style; a quiet, positive fashionableness in every one.

The same woolens, ordinarily made up, cost as much
or more at other stores.

Some bargains in garments carried from last summer:
Last season's Suits-

$12.50 Cheviots and Homespuns, $7.50.
$15 Tweeds and Worsteds, $10.
$20 Cassimers and Worsteds, $12.50.

Last season's Trousers

$5 Stripe Worsteds, $3.

$6 Stripe Worsteds, imported, $3.50.
Last season's Bicycle Suits—

High-priced ones did not go last year. Everybody
wanted four and five dollar suits. We carried over
about a hundred and fifty $10 and $12.50 Suits. On
sale to-day at $6, every one.

E. O. Thompson's Sons,

1338 CHESTNUT ST.,
PHILADELPHIA.

CLEMENT A. WOODNUTT,
Undertaker and Embalmer,

1728 GIRARD AVENUE.

Telephone 66-99-A.

to trade with a house that has been established since 1856, and by sending $2 you will receive Ten Pounds of good roasted coffee (whole or ground) free to any railroad station where a package stamp can be used.

William S. Ingram,

31 North Second Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

Hanscoms'. Our prices are the lowest, our

variety the most complete, and quality as near perfect as can be had. Shall we mail you a price catalogue for comparison? No liquors or other offensive goods or methods resorted to. 1311 Market Street.

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PHILADELPHIA, FOURTH MONTH 23, 1898.

A GOOD WORD EACH WEEK.

XVII.

WHAT is not the religion of a man's choice is the religion of him that imposes it: so that liberty of conscience is the first step to have a religion.

WILLIAM PENN.

From his letter to Secretary Popple, 1688.

SYMPATHY.

THE kindly words that rise within the heart,
And thrill it with their sympathetic tone,
But die ere spoken, fail to play their part,
And claim a merit that is not their own.
The kindly word unspoken is a sin-

A sin that wraps itself in purest guise,
And tells the heart that, doubting, looks within,
That not in speech, but thought, the virtue lies.

But 'tis not so; another heart may thirst

For that kind word—as Hagar, in the wild— Poor banished Hagar, prayed a well might burst From out the sand, to save the parching child. And loving eyes that cannot see the mind,

Will watch the expected movement of the lip; Ah! can ye let its cunning silence wind

Around that heart and scathe it like a whip?

Unspoken words, like treasures in the mine,
Are valueless until we give them birth;
Like unfound gems their hidden beauties shine,
Which God has made to bless and gild the earth.
How sad 'twould be to see a master's hand

Strike glorious notes upon a voiceless lute ;
But, oh, what pain, when at God's own command,
A heartstring thrills with kindness, but is mute.
Then hide it not, the music of the soul—

Dear sympathy, expressed with kindly voice; But let it like a shining river roll

To deserts dry, to hearts that will rejoice. Oh! let the symphony of kindly words

Sound for the poor, the friendless, and the weak, And he will bless you; he who struck these chords Will strike another when in turn you seek.

For Friends' Intelligencer.

-Selected.

A SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE. EXPERIENCE is of great value to us, especially when we see a lesson in it, for really we only know by experience. We may believe what our friends tell us of their griefs or joys, but how different when it becomes our very own! There is a good to us in the experience of others, when there is a practical value that can be placed upon it, and when it is applicable to us all on general principles. If a friend should tell us of a new way to prepare a food which would be more palatable and nutritious, and give us the recipe, they lose nothing, and we gain just that much. If they have read a valuable book which gave them fresh strength, and they allow us to read it, there can

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be no loss to them, but a gain to us. exchange of thought and experience becomes of practical value to all. We remember the fingerboards which used to be put on a tree or post, at the cross-roads, directing the traveler on his way, and so assisting to dispel his anxiety as to the road, and we have in our spiritual travels similar helps, which have cheered us on to a better and higher understanding.

So I feel free to relate a precious experience that came to me, knowing that it will not detract from the benefit I received by it, in giving it expression that others may examine, and see how it teaches them, for the value it has been to me will ever remain. A little while ago, at the regular weekly evening meeting where we met to consider the Bible lesson for the next First-day school, with its significance and application to life, past and present, there had been much deep thought expressed, and a spiritual light glowed all round. There appeared a wonderful illumination, and a sacred atmosphere enveloped us. We acknowledged that it had been a great benefit to us, and would stand as a way-mark to a larger view of spiritual things than ever before, and that this should be a time of deeper consecration to the Lord's work. Immediately there came before me the account of Jesus taking Peter, James, and John into a high mountain, where he was transfigured before them, and his face shone as the sun, and his rainment was white as light, and behold there appeared Moses and Elias talking with him. Peter felt such a soul exaltation that he proposed to build three tabernacles, one for each, and under this great experience a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice said, “This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased, Hear ye him!" The whole account came to me in such a beautiful experience of life,-that it can be ours to understand many deep things, if we will only keep the eye of the soul steady on the one great Truth, the Christ, the risen light which constitutes the Sonship in each soul,-that all through past ages similiar revealings have been experienced, and should lead into a higher condition, a better knowledge, a clearer relation to God and his Christ.

A lesson from an outward semblance came before me; like in the material world, when we gain a high position we get a better view of the surroundings, and as we ascend the mountains, we are appalled at the magnitude of our vision, yet rejoice at the exaltation, but are confronted with the few means there are to support life, while in the valley and on the fertile plain we find so many more things available to be used for our creature comforts. I beheld the force of the illustration with gratitude,-that on the level journey of life was where we found the greatest opportunities to do the most good, but these higher views, this wonderful light, are the preparing methods

knew. But a great many of the early Christians in all parts of the world were Jews. These, with their traditional hope of a great Jewish kingdom to be founded by the Messiah, would especially need the counsel of Peter, to respect the authority of the government under which their lives were appointed. The idea that the Messiah's kingdom was a spiritual one was no doubt a hard lesson to learn, and the harder when the harsh Roman rule bore heavily, as it often did. But Peter saw that a message of love could never be delivered by force; nor a message of peace by violence. He therefore advised all to obey-not sullenly and because they must, but freely and with right good will.

for work that shall be done in us, and by us; that as tinity. If rejected there they turned to those outside the spiritual view exalteth, we catch the holy inspira- | who yet sought for something better than they yet tion, the beatific breath of true Divinity, and as it expands our soul powers, we humbly pray that we may abide in the tabernacle of the Most High. With this holy experience written indelibly on the pages of our life's book, where it will stand as a memorial lesson forever, still we realize that we must come down to the level of human kind to work; that is, we must go to them, and not stand waiting for them to come to us. O, if we could more earnestly seek to know the risen Lord, and that it is He who spoke to us on our way to Emmans, then we would clearly understand what to do, we would hear above the clamor of life's battle din, we would not run with a zeal without an experimental knowledge, but like the apostles, hear the angelic voice, "This is my beloved Son, hear ye Him." Go with him into the mountains, see his transfiguration before our spiritual eye, build-a tabernacle in our inner life that he may abide there, and then go forth with this light shining in our daily walk. There we shall see Moses and Elias, and a host of others more numerous than we had thought,

with the Lord.

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This first epistle of Peter is addressed to the scattered Christians "throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithnyia." It is not easy to account for the rapid spread of Christianity unless we take into account the wide dispersion of the Jews on the one hand, and on the other the degeneracy of religion in the Roman world. When the kingdom of Israel was overthrown a part of the people of northern Palestine were carried into exile by the Assyrians; but when Judah was destroyed, about 600 years before the Christian era, the Jews scattered in all directions. Many went to Egypt and became an important part of its population under the Ptolemies; others were carried into Babylon, and others still went westward. And when the temple was rebuilt and Jerusalem rose from its ruins only a small part of the exiles found their way back to the Holy Land. More and more they became the traders of the Roman world. Their ships were seen in every harbor, and every city of any importance contained a colony of them. In this way they became familiar figures everywhere; and their religion, usually in sharp contrast to the gross idolatry or grosser materialism of their neighbors, had a great attraction for many of the higher natures in all lands.

When the apostles set out on their journeys the synagogues everywhere gave them their first oppor

TEACHING.

The necessity for obedience to " 'every ordinance of man" is plain to most of us. Human government has often worked hardship to individuals and indeed to large classes of society; but we can hardly doubt that its general tendency has been for good. Indeed, the ideal government might be defined perhaps as a union of individuals for the general good. Its usefulness depends on the willingness of its citizens to yield their own desires for the best interests of all. It is no more true that "governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed" than that the successful exercise of those just powers depends on the obedience of the governed. The necessity for obedience to law is so evident that we may probably make our lesson most useful by considering the necessary limitations of such obedience.

As citizens of the United States and of a single State we are subject to two several governments, one of which, however, is subject to the other. If the State passes a law which is unconstitutional under the law of the United States no citizen is bound to obey it. If he refuses to obey it, the national government will sustain him. He must, however, take the risk of mistaking the application of the higher law. Similarly do we all of us exist under two kinds of government, one superior to the other. We are subject to human law as illustrated in every ordinance of man, and we are also subject to Divine law as revealed in our hearts. If the human law requires us to violate the Divine law it is void. "We ought to obey God rather than man." The abolitionists regarded the fugitive slave law as unconstitutional-by the Divine law.

law. An order to a Christian to take the life of his fellow-man is void-even if the one who gives the order has a government commission and wears a uniform.

The lesson most needed in our time-or, indeed, in any time-is no doubt that of obedience to the higher rather than to the lower law. Indeed, this is one of the cases where the greater includes the less, and one who walks in obedience to the Supreme Constitution need not much fear to fail in the minor "ordinances of man."

SCRIPTURE STUDY AT RACE STREET. Conference Class of Race Street First-day School, Philadelphia. Syllabus for Fourth month 24.

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TEMPERANCE LESSON (FOR ADULT CLASSES.)

THE LICENSE LAW IN PHILADELPHIA.

The Pennsylvania license law is generally regarded as a model of its kind. Licenses are granted by the Courts of Quarter Sessions, which are less open to corrupting influences than license boards. Retailers' licences cost $1,000 in cities of the first-class, (Philadelphia), and less sums elsewhere, down to $75 in townships. The money is divided between the State and local governments. Licenses are granted only under numerous restrictions, intended to secure good moral character in those engaged in the business. A petition praying for license will not be considered unless accompanied by a kind of certificate of character, signed by twelve reputable electors. The applicant must give bonds to faithfully observe the laws. The penalties for violation are fine of $100 to The usual $5,000 and imprisonment up to twelve months. restrictions obtain as to selling on the first-day of the week, and to minors or intoxicated persons, etc.

In the city of Philadelphia the License Courts are generally believed to do their work impartially and honestly, though it is understood that the work is most distasteful to the judges appointed to the duty, the more that, the judge's office is elective, and cause of offense often arises from license cases: A recent book on "The Liquor Problem," published by the authority of President Charles W. Eliot, of Harvard University, President Seth Low, of Columbia University, and James C. Carter, a distinguished attorney of New York, presents an exhaustive study of the Pennsylvania laws, and will be freely quoted. As to the use of the courts as licensing authorities, it says: "The objections. are grave. Wherever the judgeships are elective offices, it is difficult to avoid the suspicion that they have given pledges to the liquor interest. Since judicial purity and reputation for judicial purity are much more important than discreet and fair licensing, it would be wiser not to use the courts as licensing authorities.

The tendency of the license system to take the liquor business into politics is well exemplified in Philadelphia. In 1894 the average number of saloons signed for by the school directors was 2.81 each; 108 out of 150 members of City Councils either signed saloon petitions or gave bonds for saloon keepers; 30 out of 39 Representatives in the Legislature from Philadelphia did the like. The police force is a "part of the political machine," and is 'forced to take account of the liquor interests.' Such observance of the restrictive provisions of the law as there is, is due not to the authorities, but to the " Law and Order Society." In other words, after maintaining at great expense a force to punish violation of law, the people are obliged in addition, to watch both their hired force and the law-breakers, these being in alliance. The illicit traffic-chiefly on 'Sundays," and during "closing" hours-is large; probably the number of illegal saloons is larger than that of licensed saloons. Of course raids upon illicit selling are occasionally planned, but not with any system nor with any apparent intention of stopping the business. Usually "the small fish are caught and the big let go.

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In case of arrest an offender is brought first before the police magistrates. These are officers distinctly political in their nature. They are not required to keep record of their warrants and a remarkable discrepancy is to be noted between the number of persons arrested and those brought to trial. If the accused is held for trial he must await the action of the grand jury; if an indictment is found, it must await the action of the district attorney-also an elected officer. By skillful handling, cases can be brought before judges supposed to be favorable to the liquor interests. Some judges "regularly suspend the sentence of first offenders.' "In jury trials a verdict of not guilty is rendered in more than one-half of the

liquor cases." In 1894 of the persons tried for offenses against the liquor laws sixty per cent. were acquitted in spite of the fact that such arrests are only made in cases of the clearest violations, and of those arrested many are discharged on various technicalities. Even if the verdict is guilty, "there is more than an even chance that sentence may be suspended." And, finally, of those fined and imprisoned, the fine at least is usually escaped. In 1894, 141 violators of liquor laws were sentenced in Philadelphia, and fines imposed aggregating $78, 340, not a cent of which has been collected.' When speaking of Prohibitory laws it is a common statement that where they cannot be enforced they should be repealed. If this logic were applied to the license law but little could be said in favor of its retention. A law wrong in principle, it throws suspicion on our judiciary and results in close alliance between most of our public officers and the most dangerous and degrading business carried on in our country. It gives such union and power to the liquor trade and such incentive to profitable violation of law that, at one and the same time, it leads large numbers into law breaking and destroys opportunity for effective punishment of such lawJ. H. H.

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APPEAL FOR PEACE BY SWARTH

MORE FRIENDS.

The following letter has been forwarded, by a Committee of Swarthmore Monthly Meeting, to the President.

To President McKinley: We, members of the Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, held at Swarthmore, Pa., believe that, whatever may have been permitted in the earlier history of the human race, now, since the introduction of the New Dispensation, by the coming of Jesus Christ, our Divine Master and Teacher, all wars, both offensive. and defensive, are in direct violation of the religion. which he taught, and are wholly inconsistent with Christianity, as we understand it.

Thus believing, we rejoice in the attitude of our honored President, William McKinley, in these trying times, and we would most earnestly entreat him to continue his peaceful policy, and do all in his power toward having the present difficulties settled by arbitration or other peaceful means. Whatever may be the outcome of the sad and most deplorable condition of affairs in Cuba, we sincerely trust that all appeals to the Spanish people will be made to their reason, their sense of justice, their religious obligations, and their humanity.

We believe that earnest remonstrance against the horrors enacted in Cuba, accompanied by like remonstrance on the part of the three leading European nations, England, France, and Germany, would go far at this time toward the introduction of a long reign of peace. When religion and humanity unite in urging this course, and when the expenses for war and warlike preparations are more than sufficient to place all the industries of nations on a firm foundation, if turned into peaceful channels, there would seem to be every reason why a strong effort should be made to check the progress of the war spirit, and to pass on from this primitive, barbarous, and animal method of settling differences to methods more in accordance with the advancing spirit of the age.

It would seem especially appropriate that the members of a religious society which has since its origin, more than two and a half centuries ago, borne its testimony against war, should now unite in expressing their cordial approval of the action of our

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