tion a number of things are being introduced into some of our schools which shall help to develop the different faculties of the child's nature. For instance, manual training is being introduced into some of our schools, and that helps to develop the use of the hands and the power of the eye to observe correctly, and this method which begins in the Kindergarten and which is carried out in other systems of education for the child between the ages of three and six years is now being applied. to the higher departments of education; and this is the kind of work that every person should help to push on. But as the public institutions are ponderous things and hard to movethey are very conservative in action—it is necessary for private individuals to experiment in these new lines of education and for private individuals to start schools to carry out these new ideas and after they have been experimented with and carried out in private ways, then the public will gradually, I believe, take hold of them, and I hope that Prof. Davidson will carry out such a scheme as he has pictured to us this morning. And I hope that the Liberals of this country will thus begin to establish schools, just as a great many of the churches have done, where there shall be no sectarianism but the broadest methods of education and where the most thorough moral training shall be given.

Now, I do not believe that moral training can be realized by children learning from a manual of morals, but it must come from life and the school life should be, as Prof. Davidson says, the monitor of a complete life. And then another defect of our school system which such a scheme as Prof. Davidson's would correct is the difference there is at present between the school and the home. The parents very rarely visit the schools. Now, if in each county or community the parents should unite and co-operate with the teachers, if the parents should appoint a committee which should visit the schools in turn and confer with the teacher as to the best methods to be pursued, good results, I believe, would follow. Very often the teachers and parents are working in directly

opposite ways, and it is only in this broad way that we shal! have parents that are really fitted to co-operate with the teachers; but every one can do something by at least coming to an understanding with the teacher as to the methods pursued and as to the real end and aim of the work, and that aim is the perfection of our humanity. The aim of education, the aim of religion, the aim of life is to develop our human nature on all its sides, to make a perfect man and a perfect woman.

The discussion was continued by Giles B. Stebbins, H. R. Wilson, Lewis Marshall, Wm. Harvey and Dr. Mary Allen, and closed by Prof. Davidson who said:-I will only call attention to one thing in which I perhaps differ really very widely from some of the speakers; certainly not from some others and that is: I do not believe that education is a mere drawing out of what is spontaneous in man. I do not believe that you are simply to surround the child with such influences as will draw out what is already in it. I disbelieve that most cordially and most completely and I wish to say it as strongly as I can and I wish to call upon Mrs. Dr. Allen to bear me out in it for I know her principles will bear me out. If every child were the result of a long heredity which had made him a perfect germ so that he had only to be let alone in order to develop himself under light and heat like the germ of the plant, that theory would be all right, but only under those conditions. Unfortunately our children are born as the result of a long heredity which has by no means produced the perfect germ. There are evil tendencies there as well as good tendencies. There is disharmony in every nature, and if you allow that disharmony to develop itself you will simply have nothing more nor less than a developed disharmony.

There are a great many places where you have to pull with all your might even against the will of the child so that it may develop into a harmonious being. If you had a child born with the natural tendencies of that Massachusetts boy, Jesse Pomeroy, and you allowed those tendencies to develop, you

would have developed in the child just what developed in him, -a cruel, heartless nature.

I think our modern Education which is largely sentimental, -and sentimentality is my bugbear-is running in the wrong direction when it forgets to copy and tries exclusively to develop. Adjourned after singing under the lead of Miss TURNER.

SEVENTH-DAY MORNING.

Singing by MISSES TURNER and Law.

The Committee appointed to audit the report of the Treasurer for the preceding year made the following report:

The Treasurer reports that during the year just closed he has paid out, including the balance due him at the close of last year of $2.54, $149.54 and that during that time he has received of J. W. Cox, Treasurer of the Longwood Financial Association $160.00 leaving a balance in his hands due the Meeting of $10.46. This report has been approved. Signed S. A. ROBINSON, A. R. Cox and P. W. KENT Auditing Committee. On motion the report of the Committee was accepted and placed on file.

The Recording Clerk then read the following Memorial:

SARAH MARSH BARNARD.

Among those who have gone to their eternal rest since our last Annual Gathering is Sarah Marsh Barnard. We remember her as one of the founders of the Longwood Meeting and as a constant and faithful supporter of all the great reforms which this Association has been active in promoting.

Although her voice was seldom heard in public counsel her earnest sympathy was always on the side of progress in every effort whose aim was the improvement of human conditions.

Blessed are they of whom we can say "The fragrance of their lives was sweet.”

After some discussion it was moved to amend the Memorial by substituting for the words "Among those who have gone to their eternal rest since our last etc." the words "Among those who have passed on since our last etc."

The motion to amend was carried and the Memorial as amended was adopted.

"The following Testimonial was read and adopted:

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.

RESOLVED: That this Meeting hereby expresses its earnest abhorrence of Capital Punishment as a relic of barbarism, cruel and inhuman towards its victim, depressing in its influence on mankind and wholly useless in the repression of crime.

RESOLVED: That in the name of civilization and the true welfare we ask that in all cases where sentence of death has already been pronounced the most stringent efforts be made to have the execution of the sentence changed to imprisonment for life.

It was moved that the words "for life" be stricken out of the Testimonial, but after some discussion, the motion was lost and the original Memorial adopted.

The Recording Clerk then read the following Testimonial:

EDUCATION.

Among the defects of modern education we believe none are more fruitful of evil than the failure on the part of parents to exercise over their children a wise, kind, yet firm authority. Prompted by impulse of affection rather than by a pure and thoughtful love, the seeds of lawlessness and selfishness are early planted in the mind, the legitimate fruit of which is the peevish and ungovernable child, the irritable and licentious youth, the tyrant in domestic legislation and the lawless and disorderly. The testimony was adopted.

The Recording Clerk then read the following Testimonial on Heredity:

HEREDITY.

Recognizing the fact that the child at birth is not a waxen tablet upon which we may write anything we wish, and also that it is not like melted iron which can only turn out a certain figure, but that he is a bundle of capabilities which are largely the result of the deeds, thoughts, habits, tempers and education of his ancestors; realizing also that the right education of the

child will tend to develop the good qualities, and that a wrong education will develop the baser qualities, and also realizing that this education of the child in the first hours of existence is in the hands of the parent:

RESOLVED: That we express most decidedly our belief in the necessity of training young people in the duties of parentage; of impressing upon them the duty of right living in every period of life for the sake of posterity; and that while endeavoring to inform ourselves more fully upon this vital point in order that we may be more capable of being teachers of the truth we will endeavor to assist our youth by ourselves living up to the truths that we profess.

The Testimonial was adopted as read, as was also the testimony on Temperance previously discussed.

The Presiding Clerk then introduced MISS MATILDA HYNDMAN, of Pittsburg, who addressed the meeting on the subject of Woman Suffrage.

WOMAN SUFFRAGE.

MISS HYNDMAN said:-I came here, knowing that I was coming among friends. I fully understand that you are all convinced the principle of Woman Suffrage is right. You believe that every woman in Pennsylvania has a right to say who shall make the laws, who shall execute the laws, and what the laws shall be. So I will not argue that. What I want to urge is the duty to work until the principle we represent is realized.

Miss Hyndman then proceeded to speak at length of methods of work and gave a long and interesting account of her experience with the Pennsylvania Legislature at Harrisburg. In conclusion she spoke of the importance of thorough local organization for Suffrage work. At 12 o'clock Miss Turner sang, "The Arrow and the Song," and the meeting adjourned.

SEVENTH-DAY AFTERNOON.

After singing by Miss Turner, the Presiding Clerk introduced Samuel B. Weston, of Philadelphia.