The Ethics of the Russian-Japanese War, HON. CHESTER HOLCOMBE 18 Memorials 33 Industrial Training and the City Negro, Roscoe Conklin Bruce 41 43 47 50 The Negro Farmer, DR. CARL KELSEY The Organization of the World, MRS. LUCIA AMES MEAD Results of Our Colonial Policy, DAVID FERRIS Some Home Problems, REV. FREDERIC A. HINCKLEY The Far Eastern War from a Japanese Standpoint, PHILIP JAISOHN The Outlook for the People of Russia, PROF. JAMES T. YOUNG REPORT. SIXTH DAY. MORNING SESSION. The fifty-first YEARLY MEETING of the PROGRESSIVE FRIENDS OF PENNSYLVANIA convened at the Longwood Meeting House on Sixth-day, the Third of Sixth-month, 1904. There had been days of rain, the roads were muddy, the morning was unpromising, yet the audience, though not large, was an appreciative one and the meeting proved to be an animated, inspiring one. After the call to order by FREDERIC A. HINCKLEY, the Presiding Clerk, the meeting opened with singing. The Recording Clerk, ELIZABETH B. PASSMORE, read the annual "Call," and the minutes of the meeting one year ago. The Business Committee was formed, according to custom, of the Clerks and Treasurer of the Yearly meeting, ex-officio, all the invited speakers in attendance and of the following named persons: CATHARINE A. HANNUM, JANE P. RUSHMORE, L. ELMA PYLE, ELIZABETH C. HINCKLEY, DR. I. D. JOHNSON, ANNA STACKHOUSE, EDITH PENNOCK and CHARLES SWAYNE. As a committee for nominating clerks and treasurer of the Yearly Meeting for the ensuing year, and also to audit the Treasurer's accounts, JOSIAH PYLE, AGNES KEMP and EDITH PENNOCK were appointed. The Memorial Committee as revised now are: EDITH PENNOCK, MARY S. WOODWARD and CATHARINE A. HANNUM; the last named, whose time had expired, being reappointed. Business hours decided on were from ten A. M. till noon, and from two to four P. M. The following persons were appointed a Committee on Finance: MAUD J. DAVIS, SARAH D. CHAMBERS, CHARLES SWAYNE and CHARLES J. PENNOCK. Speakers, except invited guests, were limited to ten minutes in the discussions. CATHARINE A. HANNUM moved that the name of the Association be changed from: THE PENNSYLVANIA YEARLY MEETING OF PROGRESSIVE FRIENDS, to simply: LONGWOOD YEARLY MEETING. She thought the present title a misnomer. That the meetings are no longer composed chiefly of Friends, nor are the methods of conducting them any longer after the manner of the Society of Friends. The question was discussed with animation, a large proportion of the audience taking part in it. It was believed that the Association still proposed, as in the beginning, to remain the pronounced FRIEND OF MANKIND, with the intention of progressing in accordance with the truth as made manifest from time to time. That the name in this case, as in that of a person, had come to have a distinctive significance and changing it might suggest an instability that does not exist. The proposition was voted down. FREDERIC A. HINCKLEY delivered the address of the morning, which he entitled, This is our fifty-first annual meeting. Last year was the climax of a half century of vigorous life to which we had long looked forward and whose coming was well calculated to stir enthusiasm. That over, we set ourselves anew to-day to our work. Necessarily with less of exhilaration, but I hope with not less of quiet determination. Whether this movement shall go on for another fifty years will depend not upon those who originally brought it into being and for so long a time. maintained it, but upon their children and grandchildren. Methods change with the lapse of time, and the children exercising the same freedom which the fathers enjoyed, may not wish to work in the old way, and with the old tools. As one who has labored with the fathers, and whose heart is full of sympathy for the younger generations who are to follow them, I come here to-day feeling that this community cannot yet spare Longwood. It is worth a great deal to any community to have a place, and a custom, which calls thoughtful people together once a year to hear the best available thought concern ing the great living issues of their time, and to take part in the discussion thereof. For myself, of course, I may be mistaken, but for myself I cannot see any limit to the usefulness of such a movement. And it seems to me that to-day, while sorrowing for those whom, here, we shall see no more, we should consecrate ourselves anew, the oldest of us and the youngest of us, to the continued life of this yearly meeting. What is the outlook in the great world of reformatory endeavor, what does it bring to us of cause for satisfaction, of summons to new duty. I want to summarize very briefly in the different branches of humanity's life some of the things. which deserve the attention of this annual meeting. First, the question of Peace and War. The cause of Peace is very dear to the hearts of all thinking people. More and more as time has passed on have we come to realize the barbarity of war, and to feel that every consideration which concerns human welfare, summons to the abolition of war. The methods of peace, the appeal to reason, conciliation, arbitration, commend themselves without any qualifications to twentieth century civilization. It has ever been a part of our work here, I trust it will ever be a part of our work here, to speak for Peace methods and the Peace spirit. We have rejoiced and we must continue to rejoice in every new sign of the growing detestation of the horrors of armed conflict, and every new move toward adoption of International Arbitration. It is evident however that in the present condition of the world, the advocacy of Peace will be a tendency rather than an achievement. To favor absolute non-resistance under all circumstances as between men and nations is to run counter in rare instances which we may constantly hope may grow less frequent, to personal self-respect and national feeling. The safety. of those nearest and dearest to a man will ever be more sacred to him than his own life, and if it ever become necessary, as unfortunately it does sometimes become necessary, if such lives are to be saved, and their honor maintained to meet physical force with physical force, that will be done as a duty not to be avoided. There are times when the use of physical force between nations, or between a nation and a portion of its people |