LONGFELLOW.

O what a glory doth this world put on For him who, with a fervent heart, goes forth

Under the bright and glorious sky, and looks

On duties well performed, and days well spent!

Joy and temperance and repose
Slam the door on the doctor's nose.

A mill stone and the human heart
Are driven ever round.

If they have nothing else to grind,

For him the wind, ay, and the yellow-They must themselves be ground.

leaves

No one is so accursed by fate,
No one so utterly desolate,

But some heart, though unknown,
Responds unto his own.

Be still, sad heart and cease repining
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining
Thy fate is the common fate of all.
Into each life some rain must fall,
Some days must be dark and dreary.

Man-like is it, to fall into sin.
Fiend-like is it to dweil therein,
Christ-like is it for sin to grieve,
God-like is it ail sin to leave.

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.

I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.
I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong
That it can follow the flight of song?
Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song from beginning to erd
I found again in the heart of a friend.

In the elder days of art

Builders wrought with greatest care
Each minute and unseen part
For the Gods see everywhere.
Let us do our work as well,

Both the unseen and the seen;
Make the house where Gods may dwell
Beautiful, entire and clean.

Though the mills of God grind slowly yet they grind exceeding sinall, Though with patience he stands waiting

with exactness grinds he all.

OF THE

PENNSYLVANIA YEARLY MEETING

OF

PROGRESSIVE FRIENDS,

HELD AT

LONGWOOD, CHESTER COUNTY.

1882.

"Serves best the Father he who most serves man.
And he who wrongs Humanity wrongs Heaven."

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KENNETT SQUARE,

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STATEMENT OF OPINION BY E. M. D.

CHARLES D. B. MILLS, Syracuse, N. Y., CLERKS. Į
PATIENCE W. KENT, Hockessin, Del.

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AARON MENDENHALL, Hamorton, Chester Co., Pa., TREAS.

MINUTES.

THE THIRTIETH

YEARLY

MEETING OF PROGRESSIVE

FRIENDS Convened at Longwood Meeting-house, Chester county, Pa., on Fifth-day, (Thursday) the 8th of the 6th-mo., (June), 1882, at 10 o'clock a. m.

The chairman, REV. CHARLES D. B. MILLS called the meeting to order, and read the following Call.

This meeting is called in the interest of the freest search after truth, and the attainment in all ways of intellectual and spiritual growth. It seeks to keep abreast with the best thought of the time, especially as that may bear directly for the welfare of man. It is for study, for enlargement and quickening, for gaining clearer perceptions, loftier purpose.

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To its deliberations it invitess all of whatever name connection, who are in sympathy with such aims and would live and do for their realization.

MR. MILLS then spoke of the still existing need of the Longwood meeting. New fields are ever opening to the seeker after truth. Reference was made to the struggles going forward in the labor sphere, the ameliorations slowly evolved and steadily coming, that our age witnesses in religious thought, attainment of higher and worthier conceptions of God. the spiritual world, &c.

The choir consisting of EDWIN STUART, MRS. KATE STUART, MARY PAYNE, GEORGE LANCASTER and STUART ROBINSON sang the hymn, "God speed the Right."

ISAAC MENDENHALL, JOHN G. JACKSON and ANNA B. FOGG were appointed a committee to nominate a treasurer and clerks, and to audit the Treasurer's account.

A business committee was appointed consisting of HENRY S. KENT, MRS. WASHBURNE, EDWIN H. COATES, LUCY STONE, REV. ROBERT COLLYER, of Chicago; REV. MR. CALTHROP, of Syracuse, N. Y., REV. ANTOINETTE BROWN BLACKWELL, SUSAN B. ANTHONY and MARTHA B. CHAMBERS.

It was agreed that our daily sessions be held from 10 to 12 a. m., and from 2 to 4 p. m.; and that in our discussions, the speakers be limited to ten minutes, and that no one shall speak on any question a second time so long as any one who has not spoken may desire to speak.

A letter of fraternal sympathy from OLIVER JOHNSON was read and the chairman hoped that the meeting would profit by its words of counsel.

FIFTH-DAY AFTERNOON.

The meeting was opened by singing.

The committee on nominations recommended the re-appointment of REV. CHAS. D. B. MILLS and PATIENCE W. KENT as clerks of the meeting, and AARON MENDENHALL as treasurer. On motion the nominations were unanimously approved.

The committee also reported the Treasurer's account as follows: Cash on hand at the close of last yearly meeting: $214.12. Expenditures: $205.60; leaving a balance in treasury of $8.52.

The Business Committee reported a testimony on "Religion," which was prepared and read by REV. MR. CALTHROP.

REV. ROBERT COLLYER then addressed the meeting on the subject of "Obscure Martyrs," from the text, "Antipas, My Faithful Martyr."

The Business Committee reported a testimony on "Capital and Labor,"

REV. ROBERT COLLYER thought there was a growing heedlessness or disregard of capital and labor for each other; when