FRIENDS. 



FULLER, MELVILLE WESTOX. 359 



Yearly Meeting, which was adopted at the close 

 of a long discussion, after expressing the cor- 

 dial esteem of English Friends for their Ameri- 

 can brethren, and conveying to them a fresh 

 message of love and encouragement, reaffirmed 

 in general terms the belief of the society in 

 the fundamental and scriptural principles of 

 the Gospel of Christ, but with respect to this 

 particular article, recorded that " this meeting 

 refrains from expressing any judgment on the 

 contents of the declaration now produced." 



The following statement of the doctrine of 

 justification by faith and regeneration, and 

 on the beginning of salvation, has been adopted 

 by the Indiana Yearly Meeting, with the reserva- 

 tion that it is not intended to cover the whole 

 ground of belief on any other point : 



By repentance toward God and faith toward our 

 Lord Jesus Christ, the sinner experiences iustification. 

 This is pardon, forgiveness, remission, absolution for 

 his past transgressions. By faith in the atoning blood 

 of Christ shea on Calvary, the guilt of nis,sins is taken 

 away, and their legal penalties remitted. He expe- 

 riences conversion. This implies a change of heart 

 and becoming a new creature in Christ Jesus. He ex- 

 periences regeneration a new birth, a new life in his 

 soul, a being born again of the incorruptible seed. He 

 experiences adoption ; he becomes a son. He expe- 

 riences the witness of the Spirit, and cries, Aboa, 

 Father ! and then Christ does dwell in his heart by 

 faith. SanctLfication begins contemporaneously with 

 and as soon as a man is justified. ' Therefore" being 

 justified by faith, we have peace with God through 

 our Lord Jesus Christ : by whom, also, we havi- 

 by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice 

 in hope of the glory of God,' 



Missions. The Indiana Yearly Meeting has 

 adopted a proposition for the formation of a 

 " Board of American Friends' Foreign Missions," 

 to exercise for the present advisory functions, 

 while it is left optional with existing associa- 

 tions of men and women Friends whether they 

 shall surrender the control of their work to it; 

 the board not to be organized till six yearly 

 meetings have agreed to unite in it. 



Several American Friends' Women's Societies 

 for Missionary Work have been established with- 

 in recent years. The first was formed in connec- 

 tion with the Western Yearly Meeting, in 1881. 

 Others have been organized, in connection with 

 the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, in 1882; 

 Iowa, 1883 ; Indiana, 1883 ; New England, 

 .1884; Ohio, 1884; Canada, 1885; North "Caro- 

 lina, 1885 ; Kansas, 1885 ; and New York, 1887. 

 College Societies have been formed at Earl- 

 ham College, Indiana, and Wilmington College, 

 Ohio. In 1886 these societies had 3,892 mem- 

 bers, and had raised $27,840. The " Friends' 

 Missionary Advocate " is published in their in- 

 terest, at Chicago. 



The American Indian Missions are under the 

 control of an associated committee, which re- 

 turned a total of 383 members in the meetings 

 of the Indian Territory, showing a net increase 

 for the year of forty-six. There are also sta- 

 tions among the Mexican Kickapoos and lowas. 

 White's Manual Labor School, in Indiana, oc- 

 cupying an estate of 760 acres, is well supplied 

 with buildings and mechanical shops, and re- 



turned in 1888 an enrollment of 85 pupils, more 

 than half of whom were profes.-ed Chri- 

 Three day-schools in the Indian Territory had 

 64 pupils. Other schools, wholly or partly un- 

 der the care of individual yearly met 

 were maintained among the Ka>tern Chero- 

 kees in North Carolina, at Tunesassa, N. V.. 

 and at Douglass Island. Alaska ; having a total 

 enrollment of 344 pupils. The expenditures of 

 Friends during the year for Indian education, 

 including buildings, had been $9.'2-_'2. 



The mission in Mexico returns 42 members 

 admitted, and a total enrollment of 127 pupils 

 in the schools. Schools for boys are sustained 

 at Matamoras and Victoria; for girls at Victo- 

 ria and Quintero ; and a boys 1 and girls' school 

 at Santa Barbara. 



A mission conference of Friends was held 

 in London, in April. Mr. Samuel Southall, of 

 Leed^, occupied the chair. It appeared from 

 the reports that the society is indirectly repre- 

 sented in Japan by four or five members. Me- 

 chanical and religious labor are carried on in 

 South Africa by Mr. Elbert Clarke. A num- 

 ber of missionaries are at work in India, and a 

 favorable opening was recognized in Burinah. 

 Two missionary Friends are laboring in China. 

 In Madagascar, Friends have many thousand 

 native Christians under their care. The re- 

 sults of effort among Syrians have not been 

 wholly satisfactory. The results of home mis- 

 sion work were encouraging. 



The Friends' Missionary Station at Constan- 

 tinople was established in 1881, and is carried 

 on in harmony with the work of the American 

 Board. A meeting was organized in 1883, 

 with twenty men and women as members. 

 The mission has an estate valued at $8,000, at 

 Stamboul, with a dispensary, which is resorted 

 to by Moslems and Armenians. An industrial 

 school is carried on at Bahjijig, sixty miles 

 from Constantinople, with which thirty pupils 

 are connected. 



FULLER, MELVILLE WESTOX, eighth Chief- 

 Justice of the Supreme Court of the United 

 States, born in Augusta, Me., Feb. 11, 1833. 

 Hewas graduated afBowdoin College, Maine, 

 in 1853, studied law in Bangor with his uncle, 

 George M. Weston, and then at Harvard Law 

 School, and began practice in 1855 in his native 

 city. There he was an associate editor of the 

 "Age," served as President of the Common 

 Council, and became City Attorney in 1856. 

 He resigned that office in June of the same 

 year and removed to Chicago, 111., where he was 

 in practice for thirty-two years. He rose to the 

 highest rank in his profession, and was con- 

 cerned in many important cases, among which 

 were the National Bank tax - cases, one of 

 which was the first that was argued before 

 Chief-Justice Waite. the Cheney ecclesiastical 

 case, the South Park Commissioners' cases, 

 and the Lake Front case. He was a member 

 of the Illinois Constitutional Convention of 

 1862, and in 1863-'6o of the lower house of 

 the Legislature, where he was a leader of one 



