nature, the deep consciousness within, its revelation primal in the human soul, primal and universal. As Phidias, it is said, wrought his own image in the buckler of his statue of Minerva, so that it could not be deleted or destroyed, without destroying the statue itself, so hath God wrought his image upon the nature of man, laying his impress in indelible fireprint upon its being.

This brings new enlargement, broadening of the horizon, makes the life indefinitely richer, attunes it to far grander key than before. Instead of the blind pagan worship of the old scripture, miraculous, exceptional, steeped in mystery, a bewildering Fetish; recognition of the volume of Truth universal as scripture, in itself authoritative, polyglot, spoken in all languages, and uttered with varying degrees of clearness and fullness in all the civilizations and types of culture since the beginning of the world. A cumulative volume, never complete and finished, enriched with wealth of new sentences and chapters in every age, the final apocalypse to remain unwritten while man endures. All things are found sacramental for the mind, all eating eucharistic, all washing religious and baptismal, nature herself with her radiant face and myriad voices, the sheen of the star, the smiling verdure, the bloom of the flower, the mellow sunlight embosoming the world, the accents of sweet melody that fill the ear from the thousand throats of song and the harmonies of the spheres-all a table of sacrament spread with various repast to refresh, quicken and inspire the soul perpetually. Humanity the divine incarnation, God manifest in the present, in the beam of the face, the glistening of the eye, the music of the familiar voices of the dear ones about us, rays of the Beauty unseen, an eye-beam, revealed to our mortal vision, of the Infinite Presence, the Infinite Love. "When I touch a human hand," said Malebranche, "I touch Heaven."

New meaning will be seen in the old, and the new Bible, now the most read and the worst read of any book in Christendom, named, repeated the most, and understood the least, will become freshly luminous and enriching, as studied in the light

of the universal, as relative not absolute, a single section only, while yet an important one, of the religious history of mankind.

Religion will be felt to be the simple, plain worship of Truth and Beauty, the steady and joyous culture of the spirit up the heights of all wisdom and excellence and power. Ever a higher, a beyond, a possession unreached, a mystery unpenetrated, an infinitude overarching and transcending all we see or know, a deeper, a greater, a more. "By limitless progression through limited states of being," says Giordano Bruno. "man urges onward to the ultimate aim." And the aim is forever beyond goal or bound.

In this world of substance, reality and constant incarnation. is enough for the sentiment, enough for the affections. Ages upon ages will not exhaust the study, the thrill and the joy The soul has but just entered upon its great career of growth, hardly become awake, even dimly conscious of the breadth of its estate. Religion, we may almost say, waits yet to be born.

Ah, brothers, friends, shall we not, seeing our grand privilege, seeing the breaking up of the old foundations, and the feeling after a new and diviner life all around us, yea, throughout the civilized globe to-day-arouse and gird ourselves with renewed zeal for the high endeavor to which we are called? Religion, so broad, so pure and simple as I have attempted to describe it, is to heir the great future, is to become the faith of the whole earth. We, too, standing in the apostolic succession of the ages, at the opening door of the coming time, are to do our task manfully and well, are to transmit, improved, our legacy, are to carry this word of healing, and of regenerating power to the multitudes that are panting and thirsting to quaff at the living fountains.

The testimony was unanimously adopted.

Memorials of GEORGE THOMPSON of England, and BAYARD TAYLOR were read.

EDWARD M. DAVIS thought that the Longwood Meeting which originated in the Anti-Slavery movement should hardly pass a memorial to BAYARD TAYLOR. The parentage, early training, and high moral character of the community in which

he was reared, gave the friends of human freedom reason to hope much from him. In this they were disappointed. He became interested in travel, in literature and forgot the slave.

It might be all right for a literary society or a political convention to pass such a memorial, but for this society it is inconsistent.

OLIVER JOHNSON said he respected E. M. DAVIS's conscientious expression, but differed from him in opinion. He believed that the stupendous character of B. T. reflected credit on this neighborhood. The free religious movement as represented by this society had always, and increasingly,his warmest sympathy.

LEVI PRESTON believed that BAYARD TAYLOR had other work to do. We must not judge another's duty. In sentiment he was always an abolitionist.

HENRY WILBUR said this meeting would do itself injustice to pass no memorial of one so honored by the whole nation. Despite his faults, and who of us have not these? BAYARD TAYLOR'S was a great soul, lifting literature to a higher plane. As a beginner in that field he owed him a debt of gratitude. After further discussion by THOMAS WORRALL, O. JOHNSON, J. WMS. THORNE, C. D. B. MILLS and others, the memori..ls were unanimously adopted.

SEVENTH-DAY AFTERNOON.

At half-past one the meeting reopened by singing.

The memorial of C. DARLINGTON as revised by the committee was read and adopted.

The committee proceeded to consider a testimony on "Funerals."

OLIVER JOHNSON said, we are not the first to consider reform at funerals. A day will come when it will not be thought wise nor a mark of due respect to bury costly caskets. If it were not for being singular he would prefer for himself a sweet smelling pine coffin. Isaac T. Hopper requested that his body might be committed to the dust in such a coffin.

Greater simplicity in the conduct of funerals was urged by L. MARSHALL, J. WмS. THORNE and others, and the testimony was adopted.

A testimony entitled "Men out of Employment," was offered.

E. M. DAVIS thought this testiomony opened the way to the largest question now before the people. It is not the question of employment but of money equally distributed. Many wealthy people do not work any more than tramps. It is not great wealth we need, but money among the masses.

The testimony was adopted after further discussion by J. WMS THORNE and others.

The committee reported a testimony on "Tobacco.”

H. WILBUR thought tobacco the chief agent in leadding to drunkenness; besides the practice has in it demoralization itself.

WM. HARVEY, said we need a law making it a criminal of fence to sell tobacco to minors.

J. WMS. THORNE, believed that the churches should be more active in bearing their testimony against the use of tobacco.

REBECCA COGGINS asked, is it consistent for the managers of the Longwood Meeting to allow tobacco sold on the ground. OLIVER JOHNSON, said it is a shame that in this country we spend twice as much for tobacco as for bread. We need to cultivate that power that enables us to control all our appetites and passions.

L. MARSHALL remarked that although the Germans were a tob..cco using nation, they passed stringent laws against its use by minors. They recognize the pernicious effect of its use on the undeveloped constitution.

H. S. KENT insisted on the necessity of parents instilling in the minds of their children while very young a hatred of this habit.

After further remarks by MARY F. Cox, MARY BAILY, E. M. DAVIS and others the testimony was adopted.

OLIVER JOHNSON and EDWARD M. DAVIS offered testimonies on "Woman Suffrage" which were adopted ;—the clerks being authorized to combine the two.

After some general remarks by O. JOHNSON, the chairman closed in a few brief words of suggestion and exhortation. He referred to the topics that had all too partially and imper

fectly been considered, topics that bear in them questions of the most vital interest to society and the human race. They had seen something of the breadth of the field that is opened, and the immense amount of work that lies yet to be done. We shall not live any of us at the longest, to witness more than the beginning of the great accomplishment that is to be wrought.

The suggestion looking to the holding of meetings during the months of the year we now enter upon, was a good one, and he hoped would be carried out. They would be found of great value in many ways.

"Unroll this law," said Tse Tse, speaking of the doctrines. of his grandfather, Confucius, "and it fills the Universe." Apply these truths of broad and universal religion, and they wil fit all the needs of society, will regenerate and redeem mankind from their every suffering, and sin and sorrow. It wits to be carried to all the relations, to be applied to the realm of the physical, the sphere of the life and health laws, the dark domain of disease and sins against the body, pouring there the light of science and a larger knowledge, to be applied to the social to take away the mal-adjustments and the unrest we see to-day, -and it will transform the world,

Never before was such invitation, such preparedness of the general mind to receive; never before in the world such supply, such wealth of truth and knowledge to give.

It only remains to be shown whether we are worthy, whether we can read the inscription patent to the eye written all over the face and features of our time, whether we be discerning and courageous enough to see, take our task and bear it manfully to the end.

With expression of hope that each one present at this meeting may have found something to incite to thought, to reflection and fresh resolution for more exalted living, the Chairman declared that the meeting was now adjourned.

It was announced by OLIVER JOHNSON that, owing to the fact that several of the speakers would be able to remain over Sunday, there would be services held in this house on the