FRIENDS. 



FULLER, RICHARD. 



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Friends established in Syria. The Friends 

 visiting the mission-stations in the Holy Land 

 had bought a burying - place, mission - house, 

 aiul school-buildings. The meeting considered 

 the report of a largo committee appointed by 

 the previous Yearly Meeting to consider the 

 constitution of the meeting of ministers and 

 elders. It was decided that the name of the 

 meeting should be " Meeting on Ministry and 

 Oversight ; " that elders should be members 

 of it, but should come under a triennial revi- 

 sion ; that overseers should be members of it ; 

 and that the monthly meetings be allowed to 

 appoint, as other members, suitable Friends, 

 not being either recorded ministers or over- 

 seers. The report directed that, "in making 

 these appointments, it is felt to be important 

 that they should consist of individuals of 

 varied gifts and qualifications for service in the 

 Church, and monthly meetings should be care- 

 ful not to limit the selection to those of later 

 life, the introduction of younger Friends being 

 desirable, those being appointed who give evi- 

 dence of love to Christ and of attachment to 

 the principles we profess." 



The discussion of the state of the society 

 developed the view as being the prevailing 

 one that the society, as regards spiritual life, 

 not only contrasted favorably with its condition 

 one hundred years ago, but had improved. 

 All the schools except one had reported to the 

 meeting their expenditures from their receipts. 



The minutes of the meeting for business 

 the body which represents the society during 

 the year while the Yearly Meeting is not in 

 session and the documents accompanying 

 them, gave accounts of the work in Syria, and 

 the visits of Friends recently sent there ; of 

 the visits of ministers to Norway and Sweden ; 

 of affairs in Australia, Denmark, Germany, 

 Guernsey, and Jersey ; of the action of Friends 

 on the circular issued by the British cabinet in 

 reference to the surrender of fugitive slaves ; 

 of action on the subject of vivisection; of 

 action in regard to uncivilized races; of the 

 issue of a pamphlet on Church and state, which 

 had been translated into several languages, and 

 on other subjects. 



According to the latest reports, the number 

 of members of the Society of Friends compos- 

 ing the various yearly meetings of the world 

 is 78,140, as follows: New England Yearly 

 Meeting, 4,499; New York, 3,306; Canada, 

 1,624; Philadelphia (estimated), 3,500 ; Balti- 

 more, 650 ; North Carolina, 4,200 ; Ohio, 3,194; 

 Indiana, 16,057 ; Wisconsin, 11,696 ; Iowa, 

 8,566 ; Kansas, 3,420 : total on the American 

 Continent, 42,712. London Yearly Meeting 

 (comprising England), 14,199; Dublin, 2,935; 

 Australia, 254. There are also a few Friends 

 scattered over France, Germany, and Nor- 

 way. 



FUHRICH, JOSEPH vow, a great German 

 painter, was born at Kratzau, Bohemia, Feb- 

 ruary 9, 1800 ; died at Vienna, March 18, 1876. 

 He studied in Prague under Bergler, and by 

 the support of Prince Metteruich and Count 

 Clam-Gallas, the owner of Kratzau, was tn- 

 abled to pursue his studies in Rome. While 

 his first works were devoted to historical sub- 

 jects, he began in Rome, after the example of 

 Overbeck, to choose Scriptural and ecclesias- 

 tical painting as his specialty. He returned 

 home in 1830, and in 1884 went to Vienna, 

 where he became, in 1841, Professor of His- 

 torical Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts. 

 For many years his influence was decisive for 

 the tendency of the works of the Academy, 

 and he now found an opportunity to under- 

 take, in union with his friends and associates 

 Kupelwieser, Schulz, and Dobiashovsky, some 

 monumental labors. The most celebrated 

 among them are a cyclus of paintings repre- 

 senting the history of the Revelation, for the 

 church of the Viennese suburb Lerchenfeld. 

 After the completion of these paintings (1861), 

 to which he was indebted for his elevation to 

 the Austrian knighthood, he wholly devottd 

 himself, with steadily-increasing success, to 

 cyclical drawings for engravings and wood- 

 cuts. Among his most celebrated productions 

 are the illustrations to the missal which the 

 Emperor of Austria in 1868 presented to the 

 Pope, as well as the parable of the Prodigal 

 Son, of the Psalms (1874), and Thomas & Kem- 

 pis. A biography of Fuhrich was published 

 in 1875, under the title "Joseph von Fuhrich, 

 eine Lebensskizze " (Vienna, 1875). 



FULLER, RICHARD, an American clergy- 

 man, born in Beaufort, S. C., April 22, 1804 ; 

 died in Baltimore, Md., October 20, 1876. He 

 graduated at Harvard College in 1824, studied 

 law, and, before his twenty-first year, was ad- 

 mitted to the bar of South Carolina. He al- 

 most immediately entered upon a large and 

 lucrative practice, and was on the road to pro- 

 fessional eminence when he was prostrated by 

 sickness. On his recovery, he became a mem- 

 ber of the Episcopal Church, afterward joined 

 the Baptist denomination, and studied for the 

 ministry. He was ordained in 1833, and took 

 charge of the Beaufort Baptist Church. In 

 1847 he assumed the charge of the Seventh 

 Baptist Church in Baltimore. He published 

 "Letters concerning the Roman Chancery," 

 being a public correspondence between him 

 and the Roman Catholic Bishop England (Bal- 

 timore, 1840); "Correspondence with Dr. 

 Wayland on Domestic Slavery " (1845) ; " An 

 Argument on Baptism and Close Communion" 

 (1849); volumes of "Sermons" and "Let- 

 ters ; " and, in connection with J. B. Jeter, 

 " The Psalmist," a hymn-book in general use 

 in the Baptist denomination. 



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