in consonance with modern ideas than that forced upon the hopeless natives in its place. This will be, emphatically, the situation if the Czar is successful in his designs upon Manchuria. The substitution of Russia for Chinese rule there, would be a long step backward and downward for the unfortunate natives, who will then be compelled to submit themselves to Muscovite authority.

In the interest of justice, right, freedom, human progress, sound morals, commerce, civilization and all that makes for a higher and better life, whether in individuals or nations, Japan ought to win in the present conflict. And Japan will win!

MR. HOLCOMBE was plied with questions at the close of his address, which he answered promptly and interestingly. A solo without accompaniment was sung by CHARLES SWAYNE, after which the meeting adjourned.

SEVENTH DAY.-MORNING SESSION.

The meeting opened with a hymn by the congregation. The Nominating Committee reported the names of the present officers for next year: FREDERIC A. HINCKLEY, as Presiding Clerk; ELIZABETH B. PASSMORE, as Recording Clerk, and AARON MENDENHALL, as Treasurer.

This committee as auditors had examined the Treasurer's accounts and reported finding them correct and satisfactory. The Swayne family-a quartette-sang "The Lord is my Shepherd."

The Committee on Memorials reported the following, which were then read.

HENRIETTA WOLCOTT JOHNSON.

Her daughter writes: "My mother attended many of the earlier Yearly Meetings of the Progressive Friends. That of 1855 especially impressed her. She has told with tender appreciation of the men and women there striving for light; turning towards a broader faith than that which the churches then had to offer. She has told of Theodore Parker taking

into his arms her baby daughter, and wishing for her peace and joy and love; of the brave words spoken there; of the brotherly kindness that prevailed; of the whole-souled hospitality of the people in that vicinity.

"My mother was born at Eatontown, N. J., in 1826. She and my father, Rowland Johnson, were married in 1852, and for forty years their home was in Orange, New Jersey. A true home it was to us her nearest, to kin and friends, to all who needed the touch of a loving hand, the comfort of a wise and tender heart.

I remember well the guests whom my parents welcomed in the Anti-Slavery days: Aunt Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglas, William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, George William Curtis, and many of the darker skin whose names are unknown, but who went on their way cheered and strengthened.

"She studied medicine, in the Woman's Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa., at a time when it took courage to do so strange a thing. Although peculiarly well-fitted for that profession, with her clear judgment, her deep sympathy controlled by perfect poise; yet, when the time came for choice between home cares and professional duties-for there was not strength for both-I need not say that the practice of medicine was given up.

"Above all things she loved the truth, always holding heart and mind free from prejudice, ready to receive the truth as her eyes might be opened to it. Her appreciation of the relative value of all experiences, her ever-growing understanding of spiritual perspective, brought to the latter years of her life a truer peace and faith and joy.

"She joined the Swedenborgian church a few years before coming to California. For seven beautiful years she lived in this land of sunshine and birds and flowers, her hands always busy for the children and grandchildren around her. She was the centre, the inspiration of the home, even after her bodily strength had waned. Many have been lifted up to higher things by her personality. She saw the best in every nature and believed it possible to make THE BEST the standard of life. Her strength had gradually failed, for about four months,

when, on the sixth of June, 1903, in Redlands, California, the new birth came to her." A. H. J.

ELIZA SPROAT TURNER.

With the death of Eliza Sproat Turner, which took place at Windtryst, Chadd's Ford, Pa., a few days after our last Yearly Meeting, a bright star passed beyond our earthly horizon. Her frail body held a luminous spirit, and her seventyeight years were rich in good words and good works.

Quiet and unobtrusive, she yet moved rapidly along the shining ways, and, with little apparent effort, made herself widely felt as a power for good. She knew how to convince without argument, and was full of faith that evil can always be overcome by good. While shunning controversy and always respectful towards the opinions of others, she seems never to have asked which side was popular, but obeyed her clear, moral instincts, and whether in majorities or minorities, gave her influence and her voice for what she believed the true principle and the right cause. Her unvariable good nature disarmed antagonism and canceled the bitterness of debate.

Indifferent to professions, she was diligent in duties and in service to humanity, as well as fertile in devising methods of usefulness. She had a genius for winning, helping and organizing women. The New Century Club, of Philadelphia, and still more, the Guild of Working Women, have drawn a large part of their vitality and value from her mind and heart.

With all sweet and gracious deference to others, she yet paid great respect to her own insights and moral judgments, as well as to her delicate personal tastes. Unconscious of her own superiority, she made herself the friend of the lowly, and she bore her effectual testimony against the cruel spirit of caste and social exclusiveness, by simply disregarding it and giving honor and courteous treatment to people of all sorts and conditions. By generous use of her means and by careful economy of her limited bodily strength, she has left a handsome record of devotion to the betterment of the world.

She had, to a remarkable degree, what has been called, "a

mind at leisure from itself." Without a particle of forth-putting or self-assertion, she took and held a large place among the bright and helpful spirits of her time, and has left to all who knew her the precious memory of a life well spent. BY CHARLES GORDON AMES.

SAMUEL PENNOCK.

On the 19th of August, 1903, our friend, SAMUEL PENNOCK, passed from this earthly life, a serviceable and long life of almost eighty-seven years.

He was identified with this Association from its formation in 1853, as he had been with the agitation on the Anti-Slavery Question, which preceded it by a number of years. He was a reformer by birthright through generations of conscientious, self-denying Friends. He championed the black, the red, the brown and the white man; not because of complexion, but when victims of prejudice or injustice.

He had not the gift of eloquent speech in the public assembly, and only duty or necessity ever drew him to attempt public speaking; but he was to be relied on for the emphatic word in private for truth as he saw it, and for the deed that promoted the betterment of the world.

He was the steadfast friend of the reformatory movements centred here. The "Longwood Religious Society" found in him strong practical support. This was a local organization which for years supplied weekly or monthly Sabbath meetings here, in the interest of the religious and ethical life of the community, after the older early founders and their "Firstday Friends' Meetings" had passed away.

And when at one time the life of this Yearly Meeting seemed endangered, because of the uncertainty of its support by voluntary contributions, he devised the L. Y. M. FINANCIAL ASSOCIATION as its business auxiliary; to be composed of those who, seeing value in these annual gatherings, were willing to help secure their continuance, by binding themselves, each, to supply a given sum yearly, for its support.

He had fullest faith in total-abstinence from all forms of

alcoholic drink, and from the use of tobacco and other nerve and brain poisons. In early manhood he perceived the danger in the "social glass," and saw in moderate drinking a serious menace to all that makes for domestic happiness and best things in life, hence he then became an abstainer from these things, forming resolutions, to that effect, to which he ever after adhered, with advantage and satisfaction. His sincerity in this was demonstrated by his forbidding his business agents to induce the purchase of their manufactures by the too common method of "treating." "I will have no sales procured in that way," he said.

More than one subject to the drink habit, employed by him and his brother-Morton Pennock-were influenced by their persuasion and example, to give it up; to the vastly improved condition of their homes and of their own self-respect.

The Race Question appealed to his sense of justice. When in 1844 they established their machine shops in Kennett Square, the prejudice against color among the employees was so imperative as to hinder them from engaging colored men in any but the most unskilled labor. But when the Civil War came, and the white workers were called to the front week after week, they supplied the vacant places with colored men as fast as they found such, fitted for the work.

Naturally and by early home training he believed in equal rights for men and women, on most lines; yet not until he was nearing middle life did he fully realize the degree of humiliation, the indignities, to which the widow was then subjected. by the laws of our State. This perception, which opened to him in, the conduct of business, made a strong impression, and gradually after this all prejudice and sentimentality on the subject, yielded to common sense, and to his convictions of right. Then he saw that it was woman's duty, as well as her right, to understand the government which she helped maintain, to be well informed in regard to its laws and their administration, and to express her opinion intelligently at the ballot-box; the natural differences between the sexes making it impossible for either to adequately represent the other.

By his own request his "pall-bearers" were men who had