FRONDS, 



of all candidate* for ordination Mid for there- 

 of Ueaie*; all tioaoset to be of 



known a primary. J 



in** U0MMM. to be obudned on riving satis- 

 ftrtnrj evidences of proficiency in tho studies of 

 ., i;. [utiotM 



.- - ' - Of 



Ibtfcworfc by properly aeon- lit- d worker*; 

 claring no poKfaaJ party worthy of Mipi-rt that 

 fjuU lommmil Unif unequivocally for the pro- 

 Mbftlmi of ihr liquor tmnV: diioonntaiMUMjtiig 

 th* o*r of tobacco in any f.-nn : reaffirming 

 -alkfrianco io the system -f public icfaoob as 

 feuded and maintained by the State for the I,,-],, 

 t ion .if nil tin- and pledg- 



ing reactance to -every att.-n.pt. dir.< t or Indl- 

 reet, to divert any of tba eofnmoo-aoboo] fumls 



f -<, t .. r dciioniiniit. 



MMIMis. : - wing statistic* ..f 



reo i.v Kufus 



* in the - Independent," of New V.,rk : 

 inland Yearly Meeting. 4,889 members; 



Philadelphia. 4 . 8,808; Or 



i, Carolina, 4,998 ; Wil- 



n.iMiTt.-n >tuo). 5,009; Ohio, 5.084; Iowa, 10, 

 . ,\ >.i:,.i!i:, : [ndiaoa.18,188; 



Kansas. 10.583; I'.aiiin,..,-,-. I.TJ-J : ( aliforma. 

 ndl in Mexico. 000; toUl in Amer- 

 ica. 88.158: number reported in 1894, 87,466; 



A new yearly meeting was opened in Califor- 

 nia in the spring of 1895. making tho fourteenth 

 independent body in Am* ri<-a. Tin- o|K*nin^ 

 WM attended by 'delegates from nearly all the 

 other American yearly meetings. 



The bicentennial anniversary of the New York 

 Yearly Meeting "f Friends was celebrated at 

 Floah: :. Ik>th diviM,,n^ of th,. 



orthodox and tin- "Hirksites" 

 ! in the observance. It had been int n-l.-d 

 to hold tli.- m.-Mii- in the old meeting house, 

 erected about two hundred years ago, but the 

 attendance was too large to be aooommodated in 

 it, and another room was secured. Be*i 

 numU-r of elderly persons, direct descendants of 

 the Friends who settled at Flushing two cen- 

 turies ago. Miss Caroline Hi.-ks, a great grand- 



daughter of }-Al^ lll.-k^. f...ll..irr..f l|,,. -Hirk- 



aite^ division, was present. Th.- historical ad- 



New Y.rk. and the adjacent islands of Connecti- 

 cut, and then northward between the hut 

 tleauoU along the Hudson and the Fnglish in 

 \ . :-.. nt, while some 

 migrated an far north as Canada. Aaron \\ . 

 Powell read a naper on What Friends have 



r the World." and Mariiinna 

 delivered an address ion of 



M in the Society ..f Frien-i exer- 



M closed with the reading of a poem by >l 

 Kijbarom-Theoid 

 The Mrions of the London >, 



held in the third and fourth weeks i. 

 " them were home and f 



* and meeting* in support of 

 tararanct, again* viruection and the opium 

 tryfc. in the interests of education or of (pedal 

 Hfcoofe, and the annual meeting of the Friends' 

 Provident Society. The statistical reports 



I that the society in Finland and Sn.thnd 

 included 16,400 members. .li.>\\iii.L: an in 

 of about 40 less than n-r.-m and in 



Ireland 9,600. The names < ! min- 



istera" were returned as <nt<nd n ti,. 

 Tin- ^ in hul.lin i- ind.-|M.nd.-nl, 



but sends representatives i<> tli.- L->n'l<>n ni.>,t. 

 ing. Thi- in--. i l.\ ivpr, 



lives of AiiK-rii-an Frit-mis' travclin 

 who hud U-.-n lulMirinu in diUVivnt part- 

 \vcrld. and l-y n dr|.utati..n returnctl fr-! 

 !u- nn-inltTs had had privat. 



with the C/ar and C/arina on ihr 

 of reliiri-'i;- 'I'd" n-adini: of tin 



of marria^'i ^tati-t ics wjis follownl 

 si. ms of regret that the marriage ceri-iii 

 t he society was not universally made u- 

 the im-mhers and was but little 

 others to whom it is freely open. 

 arose concerning the appointment of tl. 

 mittee of seleeii..n. or of a commit? 

 i< intrusted the duty of naming the jer- 

 be assigned to important - 

 method of naming the committee; in (| 

 Wafl h.-ltl liable to lead to one-sided eommir 

 enabling those who are readiest in su; 

 speech to forestall their more ilcliberai.- br.-tli- 

 ren. It was prop.-ed to have th. 

 tives from tin- various di-tricts appoint !); 

 mittee. In thediM-us>ion concerning t lies- 

 schools, t lie subject Of tho higher educa' 

 women was most, prominent. The <.pini 

 u'.-nerally expressed that the best way o| 

 ing the want of H special woman's colfeg. 

 be to establish a hall of residence and 

 attached to some college, as Da It on Hall. f.r 

 young men, is attached to Owei 

 cheater. In the discussion of the state of the 

 society desires were expressed that Friends 

 should not purchase elTeeiivene^s in in 

 work at the cost of lowering the standard of tin- 

 ministry, le>t in tin- desire for readiness and f<r 

 quality, and to meet a demand for w. : 

 should lose spontaneity and in-piratioii. 

 relations of the London V.-arly .M. . i 

 American Friends have in recent years I 

 somewhat delicate, in consequence of tl 

 sumed departure- from the old usages which 

 have been tolerated in >..me of tin- 1. 

 meetings with which this body h;i 

 custonied to I'irre-pond. The question which 

 of the Am.-rican separated bodies should I 

 -_'ni/,-d in the annual letter wn- th- 

 debate, and the meeting decin 

 the smaller conservative bodies, 

 named after the |{-v. .b-hn Wilbur. .. 

 the more numerous evang' li'-al bo 

 times called after Joseph .l.,hn (im 

 action, according in Uufu- M. 



\merieaii l-'ri.-nd." i I It8 j^^H 



toward the obliteration of difference- jn the 

 fuller light of the unity of truth and Hi- 

 nessof the head of the'Church. A 



-cussed wen- the report of tin- Opium 

 Commission; slavery, with especial n 

 /.anxibar: the edu-ation of new men, 

 as the workingmen who are joining 

 from the adult schools in Quaker pi i 

 and methods of thought and feeling; ami 

 right membership. 

 A conference of British Friends was held in 



