hearts of all who honor me with a hearing, the deepest possible sense of universal love and brotherhood. Clear thought, equal laws, fraternal sympathy, that is what is needed. For one, I believe profoundly in the possibility of justice, in the almighty power of equity. "Wisdom," saith the old Scripture," is the principal thing: forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee. She is more precious than rubies; and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace."

Humbly but persistently I want to strive for a little of such wisdom. I want to keep my heart open for all it can hold of such love.

The discussion following this address was participated in by FREDERIC M. PENNOCK, ANNA H. SHAW, WILLIAM PYLE, WILLIAM I. HARVEY, ISABEL SHORTLIDGE, and MR. HINCKLEY, after which the usual noon adjournment took place.

SEVENTH DAY.-Afternoon Session.

WOMAN SUFFRAGE.

After music and the report of the Memorial Committee, with remarks thereon by MR. HINCKLEY, ANNA H. SHAW ably addressed the meeting for more than an hour, urging the claims of the woman suffrage cause. Unfortunately, no report was made of this speech, and so it cannot be given in this report. The Annual Meeting came to an end with remarks by MR. HINCKLEY and the singing of a hymn by the entire company.

MEMORIALS.

DEATH is the great leveller, showing us, as no other experience, how equally we all share the bounties and lessons of life in spite of all apparent inequality in earthly circumstance.

To all alike come birth, the swiftly-succeeding "ages of man," a greater or less degree of momentary happiness and temporary influence, and then the silent equality of the last hushed hour of earth.

How plain in all this the universal divinity, and the common origin and like high destiny of all!

SUSAN F. PIERCE.

Among those whose earthly places know them no more, but who still live in memory, bound to us by the bond of sympathy that unites the friends of progressive thought and philanthropic effort everywhere, is our departed friend SUSAN FULTON PIERCE, whose earth life ended July 4, 1888.

She was one of the small remnant yet remaining of pioneer reformers, the sturdy axemen who cut their way through the moral wilderness and, through obloquy, persecution, and martyrdom, opened the new fields of thought and labor in which the friends of human progress now find themselves employed.

She was a woman of more than ordinary intelligence, a diligent student of public affairs, and although possessed of an even and amiable disposition, her heart rankled with a holy hatred of every form of injustice and oppression, and her sympathies were sure to be enlisted in every effort to liberate humanity from the bondage of ignorance, superstition, and vice. Consequently, from the rise of this Association to its thirty-sixth annual gathering,-which she attended, although

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close to the day of her death,-she has been a faithful and interested member. And although not inclined to public speaking, she was an earnest and appreciative listener, giving to the meeting, through her enlivened countenance, her share of moral zeal and spiritual warmth.

The dogmas of theology were repulsive to her mind. She subscribed to no written creed. The only religious test she applied to herself or to others was nobleness of purpose and purity of heart.

She "loved mercy, and walked humbly" among her neighbors; and while she was at home in the most cultivated society, she was in a special manner the friend of the poor and lowly.

Death has robbed us of her presence, but the influence of her life and character is beyond the destroyer's grasp, and will remain in the world a component part of the spiritual force by which we are lifted higher and higher in the scale of human development.

REV. FIELDER ISRAEL.

FIELDER ISRAEL died at Salem, Massachusetts, January 4, 1889, in his sixty-fourth year. Born in Baltimore, he began his public ministry as a Methodist, but, with the growth of his mind and the deepening of his spiritual life, his religious outlook grew broad and liberal, and for more than a quarter of a century he found his place and work in Unitarian congregations.

During his settlement at Wilmington, Delaware, he was an habitual attendant at the Longwood Yearly Meeting, and took a lively interest and part in its proceedings, being a ready friend and advocate of every movement for human welfare. For about twelve years he was minister of the old historic "First Church," of Salem, which was organized more than two hundred and sixty years ago, on a free Christian basis, by a band of rather liberal Puritans.

Never pre-eminent as a preacher, he yet made himself an acceptable and useful man, through his abounding sympathy

and helpfulness, and by his rare faculty of consoling the afflicted and bereaved.

His tenderness to children made him a special favorite with them, and even the dumb animals of the street read his sympathetic nature and confided in him.

We shall always think of him as a pure, sweet, humane soul, whose unfailing source of delight was the happiness of others; who accepted for his mission the ministry of simple service for all that can suffer or enjoy. His ear seemed ever waiting for the faintest wail of distress, and his feet were quick to follow, and his great heart and willing hand were diligent to succor and to save.

He was a living pillar in every organized work of philanthropy that came within his reach. May his earnest, faithful, and devoted life inspire all who knew him and survive him with an increasing desire to emulate his virtues and grow larger and richer in the ennobling service of humanity.

VIOLETTA L. WARBASSE.

Among the friends of this meeting who have passed away since our last annual gathering, whose memory and worth we feel it is fitting to record, is VIOLETTA L. WARBASSE, who died Second month 9th, 1889. She was an earnest and faithful worker in this meeting while her home was in our midst, and when it was removed elsewhere she did not lose her interest, but always attended our meetings and mingled with us when it was possible to do so, aiding, by her cheerful presence and sincere endeavor, in the promotion of the object for which we gather, which is the "search for better life" in all ways. There are many in this meeting who can testify to the richness and purity of her spirit and the sincerity and nobility of her character, which made her friendship an abiding comfort. Her virtues were of the nature that live after the visible form is removed from our presence, and their influence will live