Much discussion was excited by this testimony, especially in regard to the political aspect of the question.

WILLIAM LLOYD thought we might as well license a dynamite factory in our midst as a liquor saloon. Our jails and almshouses are filled from the use of ardent drinks.

SIDNEY P. CURTIS said every voter should vote, and every woman should influence all the voters she can, to elect officers who are opposed to license. The license system degrades our land.

Dr. STEBBINS said he had for years been trying to impress workers in the temperance reform with the importance of voting for pledged temperance men. They cannot be made to realize their responsibility

Mrs. COGGINS thought, with Dr. STEBBINS, that the cause is retarded by indiscriminate voting.

Music.

MARTHA HUSSEY, of Billerica, Mass., read a paper which she had prepared on "Religious Thought of the Present Day in its Relation to Young People."

She was followed by CHRISTOPHER C. HUSSEY, who said :— We have outgrown the Jewish faith. We have been thirsting for something higher, something we can apply to right living. We have hitherto had to make denials, negations. The young require some spiritual sustenance. There is a supply for all the needs of the human being, and most important are its spiritual needs. Hold on to the vital principles of truth, etc.

The Clerk, C. D. B. MILLS, with the following appropriate remarks, then closed the Yearly Meeting of 1884:

It is usual with the great denominations after a convention, lasting perhaps for days, to have at the close an administration of the sacrament, a season of fellowship and communion. I think we have had this last hour all that, without the form. The bread of life has been broken, the holy emblem of the shed blood been poured; we have partaken and received new increment of quickening and life. From this place we go, all of us, I hope, with some enlargement and new resolve. Scattered

shall we be, solitary and alone, each in his several field. Hours of deep loneliness will come, sense of isolation and weakness, discouragement and almost despair. Shall we not work on, gathering strength in communion with these thoughts, nerved in the memories of to-day, of these days, and inspired with the hopes that we may see their glad renewal in the coming year?

I cannot invoke for you a diviner benediction. More and more drawing reinforcements from the wealth of the inexhaustible past, awake and armed with the grand inspirations of the future for society and the human race, may the life of you all be ever blessedness, possession, and a divine, all-uplifting psalm.

We wish to bear our testimony to the truth that Education is one of the most important functions of human life, since its purpose is to train the human being into full possession of his powers, so that he may fully perform the duties and reap the enjoyments of this present life, and be fitted to enter upon any destiny which may await him in the future.

As a true commonwealth can only be established by an intelligent and virtuous population, we deem it to be alike the duty and the interest of the State to secure to all its members fair opportunity for the development of the physical, intellectual and moral nature.

Without a healthy body no one can be sure of a sound and active brain, which is the instrument of thought, hence gymnastic training and physiological instruction should be carefully provided for. Intellectual instruction is necessary for the knowledge of the world without us, and the world within, to fit men to perform the actual duties of life, and to know and judge of the right. With this instruction, preparation should also be made for the uses of life, by careful training of the eye and hand, which may be developed into special industrial education under proper circumstances. The physical, intellectual, and industrial, should serve the great end of education, the development of the moral nature.

The simple virtues of honesty, kindness, justice, purity, truth and temperance, are essential to the character of a good citizen, and the school should be the handmaid of the home, and of the church, or society, in producing them.

We would specially urge in this respect, that attention should be given to the subject of Temperance, in all its applications to life, guarding us from all excess which will

be detrimental to our physical, mental, and moral health, whether in the use of injurious food, of alcoholic stimulants, or of tobacco. And we would urge upon all to consider the petition now in circulation in the State, asking that Temperance text books be introduced into the schools, and give it their support.

II. EQUAL RIGHTS FOR MEN AND WOMEN.

It is said that the object of life is to grow, to unfold truly and fully the whole individual. For this the plant must have congenial soil, a free, pure atmosphere, the sun's warmth and light. Advanced animal life requires wider range, and an object for action, added to these. The human being must have all these, with corresponding spiritual influences, a home, society, all sources of stimulus to wholesome activity, to nourish and develop it into symmetrical completeness.

In view of these human needs, we believe that woman should be equally free with man from all restrictions, legal, social, or otherwise, which hinder her from maturing into the noblest womanhood. That neither sex has the right to fix the sphere of action for the other. Justice is always safe, and woman as well as man, can be trusted to find her place and fill it. III. THE CONFLICT OF SCIENCE AND RELIGION.

The conflict existing between Science and Religion is, in reality, a conflict between the false theologies of the past and present, and natural science; an inevitable conflict which must continue until the dogmas of these theologies give place to a pure, natural religion, between which and science there can be no conflict-they being books written by the same Divine Hand.

IV. TEMPERANCE.

Again it seems right that Longwood Yearly Meeting should utter its testimony on the subject of Temperance.

It is most unfortunate for humanity that the drink custom, with all its nameless woes, is encouraged and perpetuated

from year to year by the earnest and sincere friends of the temperance cause. We are ourselves the instruments of our own continual defeat. The most formidable obstruction in our path is a license law. We can make little progress in the work of eradicating this evil until that obstruction is removed. So far from doing anything in Pennsylvania to remove it, the kind-hearted and well-meaning friends of temperance, including the members of our temperance societies and churches, are in the practice of voting annually for such law-makers as are not known to be opposed to a license law. People who thus vote do not see that they are rum voters, and the real drunkardmakers of the country. A very large proportion of our people would rather beg their bread than engage in rumselling. Why should they flinch from doing themselves that which they authorize others to do for them? Until we come to see our true position in this reforn, and act wisely, we believe but little success can be achieved.

RELIGIOUS THOUGHT OF THE PRESENT DAY IN ITS RELATION TO YOUNG PEOPLE.

True progress is always to be welcomed; but it must be remembered that, while

"Strong limbs can dare the rugged slopes, which soar, dizzy and perilous, the mountains' breast,

The weak must climb from lower ledge to ledge, with many a place of rest."

And young people are often injured in their search after religious truth by the startling and sometimes irreverent utterances of those who profess to have thrown off the shackles of the old faiths, but who have little of the real bread and water of life to offer their listeners. We cannot live and work, and worship on negations. We must have a positive belief in something, and young people frequently feel like asking those of more experience in life than themselves, to endeavor, instead of telling them so much of the outgrown beliefs, to help them to some real, present belief, to aid them to become of those with whom