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with us, while we keenly feel the loss of the sweet interchange of thought and purposes of life which was so valuable.

"What is excellent

As God lives is permanent."

ELEANOR M. PENNOCK.

With the final earthly separation comes always deep sorrow; but when the dear one gone has lived the allotted time with us here we cannot but feel that the course of nature has been fulfilled.

Not so with this dear friend, who had come to value so highly the principles and the opportunities of these meetings.

She was called to leave her dear ones in the first bloom of young motherhood. The memory of her pure life will ever be kept green in the hearts of an endeared circle of friends.

JOHN BARNARD.

Among those who took deep interest in the proceedings of this Yearly Meeting, and whose liberal ideas of life and thought were in accord with ours, was our aged friend JOHN BARNARD, who died within the past year, aged ninety-two years.

He continued to attend these meetings as long as his physical condition permitted, and was delighted with the freedom he found here. He was one of those youthful charitable spirits which seem to grow younger with advancing years, and was beloved by all young people who knew him. He had patience and humility combined with an undaunted adherence to duty. Such lives as his leave a richness of bloom behind them which cannot fade away.

WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON WILLIAMS.

Since the commencement of the progressive movement, HARRISON WILLIAMS has been an earnest believer in, and

faithful supporter of, its principles. When this house was built, HARRISON was selected as its care-taker; where, through sunshine and storm, summer and winter, he was ever faithful in the discharge of his duties unto the end.

We hold in loving remembrance other friends gone from among us within the past year, who were in sympathy with the objects of our Yearly Meetings, and who were in regular or frequent attendance here. Among the number of those thus missing from our ranks we note the absent faces of LYDIA B. TAYLOR, ANNA T. HAMILTON, JASON BOLTON, ROBERT L. PENNOCK, and JOHN STEARN.

TEMPERANCE TESTIMONY.

IN a few days the voters of Pennsylvania will be called upon to decide whether or not the liquor saloon shall be allowed to continue to dominate our politics and dictate our laws, and by authority of the State, in the form of license, to still lay its usurping and blighting hand on every good thing in the individual, in the family, in the State; or, by the voice of an outraged and long-suffering people, be condemned as a common nuisance, and be crushed under the heel of the popular will.

This Longwood Yearly Meeting desires to put itself on record as unqualifiedly in favor of the Constitutional Prohibitory Amendment. We do not regard it necessary to quibble over the probability of its thorough enforcement at first, should it be enacted.

It is a righteous law, based on a well-established legal principle,―viz., the total prohibition of whatever is criminal in its nature or injurious to society.

Prohibition is right in theory and reasonably successful in practice wherever tried.

License, high or low, is wrong in principle, and during a trial of centuries has proved an utter failure. It is our conviction that every interest which society should hold sacred demands that every good citizen should cast his ballot on the 18th inst. for the amendment, which is for the home against the saloon, for the comforts of life against destitution, for education against ignorance, for wealth against poverty, for virtue against vice, for everything that is good against everything that is bad in the physical, moral, and spiritual condition of the people.

1890.

SIXTH DAY.-Morning Session.

THE Thirty-eighth Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends was held at Longwood Meeting-House on Sixth day and Seventh day, 13th and 14th of Sixth month, 1890.

The weather was clear and delightful, and all that could be desired during the sessions of both days, and the attendance, more particularly during the afternoon meeting, was very good; on the last afternoon the crowd was so great that every inch of space was occupied, and the building scarcely afforded standing room to all who were in attendance.

The sessions opened on Sixth day morning with a short business meeting; the clerks, FREDERIC A. HINCKLEY and MARY M. BAILEY, were both present, and the former occupied the Chair, as he did at all the meetings.

The first business was the appointment of committees. The Business Committee was formed as follows: HENRY S. KENT, SALLIE P. MARSHALL, HUGH O. PENTECOST, HENRY B. BLACKWELL, MR. JOHNSON, of Wilmington, J. S. KENT, and the two clerks, FREDERIC A. HINCKLEY and MARY M. BAILEY.

The Committee on Memorials, at present composed of FREDERIC M. PENNOCK, ANNIE R. Cox, and ALLIE CHAMBERS, was left to be appointed by the Committee on Nominations; this body afterwards appointed SALLIE P. MARSHALL to take the place of the retiring member of the Memorial Committee, ALLIE CHAMBERS, for the ensuing three years.

On motion, it was decided that any one not included among

the invited speakers, who wished to talk on any of the subjects which might be introduced, should be permitted to speak ten minutes, and should not speak a second time until all others had spoken. The matter of forming a combination between the Business Committee and the Longwood Financial Association, for the purpose of simplifying the business arrangements of the meeting, was discussed, but no definite action was taken.

Attention was called by the Chair to the fact that the call for the Yearly Meeting at Longwood stated that it was near Rosedale Station, on the Philadelphia and Baltimore Central Railroad, signifying that persons who came on the cars to attend the meeting should come to that station; yet it frequently happened that when people arrived at Rosedale they found no conveyances there, and were obliged to walk to the meeting-house. He thought that either those in charge should find ways of transportation for the visitors or else they should alter the form of the call. Others expressed themselves as favorable to this sentiment.

A motion to hold the sessions from ten to twelve o'clock in the mornings and from two to four o'clock in the afternoons was unanimously carried.

WILLIAM W. KENT requested that a committee be appointed for the purpose of raising the necessary funds to defray the expense of the publication of the proceedings of the meeting, and the following committee was nominated: EDITH PENNOCK, SARAH CHAMBERS, ISABELLA COX, and SARAH HUEY.

The Committee on Nominations then made the following report:

For Clerks for the ensuing year, FREDERIC A. HINCKLEY and MARY M. BAILEY; for Treasurer, AARON MENDENHALL. The report was adopted.

MR. HINCKLEY happily expressed his thanks to the meeting for his re-election as clerk, and said he was glad to again give the word of welcome to those present. Many years ago this meeting had been organized for the furtherance of a great

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