OF THE Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting OF Progressive Friends, HELD AT Longwood, Chester County, Pa. 1899. KENNETT SQUARE, PA.: ADVANCE STEAM-POWER BOOK AND JOB PRINT. CONTENTS. Call of the Twentieth Century to Longwood, Frederic A. Hinckley The Ground of an Optimist's Faith, MRS. CARRIE L. COGGINS Imperialism the Betrayal of Democracy, WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON PAGE REPORT. 1899. SIXTH-DAY.-Morning Session. Promptly at ten o'clock on the morning of the ninth of Sixth-month, 1899, the Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends convened in the little meeting house at Longwood, Pennsylvania. The Presiding Clerk, Frederic A. Hinckley, opened the session in a brief and happy address of welcome to all earnest seekers for Truth, urging the need of grounding our lives on the eternal principles of righteousness, and moving ever towards higher ideals. He then read the following: CALL. The Forty-seventh Annual Meeting of Progressive Friends will be held at Longwood, on Sixth, Seventh and First-days, the 9th, 10th and 11th of Sixth-month, 1899. The world was never more stirred by serious problems than at the present time. The friends of Free Thought and Universal Brotherhood are cordially invited to attend this meeting and participate in its discussions. FREDERIC A. HINCKLEY, Philadelphia, Pa., AARON MENDENHALL, Mendenhall, Pa., Treasurer. Clerks. The appointment of the several committees, adoption of rules for the conduct of the meeting and other routine business ensued, after which HENRY S. KENT read the following testimony on |