EXTRACTS. GRANT that the knowledge I get may be the knowledge that is worth having.Thomas A. Kempis. My opinion is that what is best in us is our admiration of good.-W. S. Landor. THE buoyant and immortal sentence with which Aristotle begins his Metaphysics"All mankind desire knowledge."-M. Arnold. THEY Who know the truth are not equal to those who revere it; they who revere it are not equal to those who take pleasure in it.-Confucius. DIVINE peace is in good, but not in truth without good.-Swedenborg. ECCLESIASTICISM bears about the same relation to the work and spirit of Jesus that the Democracy of Tammany Hall does to that of the fathers of the Republic.-David H. Montgomery. AN apple-tree is just as much one of God's creatures as a boy is, and has a latent genius for good; but the best apples are produced on trees that are pruned, trained and well-cultivated.-E. R. Mason. THE worst system in the hands of good men is better than the best system in the hands of bad men.- Wm. Penn. THIS life is but the cradle of the other. What avail then sickness, time, old age, death-different degrees of a metemorphosis which doubtless has here below only its beginnings.-Joubert. RECEIVE your thoughts as guests, but treat your desires as children.-Chinese. EVEN the weakest man is strong enough to enforce his convictions upon himself.Goethe. I CANNOT help thinking that the candid, liberal and easy discussion of opinions is the most rational turn that can be given to the conversation of well-educated men.— Horner. THERE are things too low to be spoken of: which indeed become low by being spoken of. The appetites are of this kind. ** Under the dropping of words, they are as wholesome food analyzed into constituent poisons. God lights that fire, and does not want our breath to blow it, or the fuel of our thought to feed it.-Mar tineau. I WOULD fear that speaking well without feeling were the way to procure habitual hypocrisy.-Bp. Hall. THERE is danger that a clergyman's mind may become the highway of sentiment, instead of the fruitful field of generous affections.-Buckminster. THE taste for emotion may become a dangerous taste; we should be very cautious how we attempt to squeeze out of human life more ecstacy and paroxysm than it can well afford.-Sidney Smith. No man is called on to lose his own balance for the advancement of the world in any particular direction.-Seed Grain. Let us think of quietly enlarging our stock of true and fresh ideas; and not, as soon as we get an idea, or half an idea, be running out with it into the street, and trying to make it rule there. Our ideas will, in the end, shape the world all the better for maturing a little.-Matthew Arnold. OF THE PENNSYLVANIA YEARLY MEETING OF PROGRESSIVE FRIENDS, HELD AT LONGWOOD, CHESTER COUNTY, 1876. "Serves best the Father he who most serves man, And he who wrongs Humanity wrongs Heaven." PHILADELPHIA: JOHN CRAIG & SON, BOOK AND JOB PRINTERS, South-East Corner of Sixth and Arch Streets. The Twenty-Fourth Session of the PENNSYLVANIA YEARLY MEETING OF PROGRESSIVE FRIENDS convened at the meeting-house in Longwood, Chester County, on the 8th of the 6th month, (Thursday, June 8,) 1876, at 10 o'clock, A. M. CHARLES G. AMES invited the Meeting to be in order, and SIDNEY PEIRCE CURTIS read the following extract from the call: "In the spirit of former invitations, this Meeting welcomes to conference and co-operation 'all who look to God as a Universal Father, and who regard as one Brotherhood the whole family of Man,' and all who desire to apply the principles of Christianity to daily life and to social customs and institutions.' Nor would we allow even these broad phrases to shut out any who would join us in the simple love of truth and practice of righteousness. "We meet to cultivate the spirit of purity, equity and fraternity; to ascertain what is wise and good; to apply moral principles to public and private life; to seek, in mutual good will, a solution for the questions of the time; to renew our allegiance to the eternal laws. Rejecting every interpretation of Religion which overwhelms the private conscience with external authority, we yet welcome every ray of light that shines on the pathway of man, whether it come from the church, the creed, the Book, the records of the race, the teachings of science, or the nameless experiences of the soul. “Especially in this high year of American History, when civilization is justly celebrating its outward triumphs, and when the nations are sharing our holiday of freedom, would we gather up the best lessons of the past and gird ourselves for the duties of the future, by soberly considering the true conditions of human welfare. Let us take counsel together!" CHARLES G. AMES congratulated the friends on their pleasant re-union in this place and month of roses. He was sure we felt our need of that guiding wisdom which only comes with quietness of spirit, and trusted we should sit together with our minds open to the ever-present influence of truth and love. A Committee was appointed to nominate officers, and to settle with the Treasurer, consisting of CHANDLER DARLINGTON, ISAAC MENDENHALL and ANNA Cox. A Business Committee was appointed, consisting of WM. LLOYD GARRISON, of Mass., ELIZABETH K. CHURCHILL, of R. I., GILES B. STEBBINS, of Michigan, JACOB T. STERN, of Iowa, GEORGE H. YOUNG, of N. Y., REBECCA C. FUSSELL, of Indiana, JONATHAN B. HARRISON, of N. J., CHARLES G. AMES and LAURA W. VON UTASSY, of Penna. It was agreed that the hours of our daily Meeting be from 10 to 12, A. M. and from 2 to 5, P. M. Agreed also that speeches be limited to ten minutes, and that no one be entitled to speak a second time on any subject while any other person may wish to be heard. After the Meeting had listened to friendly letters from OLIVER JOHNSON, of N. J., and JOHN SNIDER, of St. Louis, the remainder of the morning was given up to a discussion on the use of the term 'Christianity." 66 CHANDLER DARLINGTON was gratified with the general form and tone of the "Call;" but thought the term "Christianity" so subject to misconstruction, and so closely associated with the errors and evils which have found shelter under it, that it might as well be disused. JOHN JACKSON thought we ought to avoid too free use of a term which carried narrowness of meaning. He preferred “Truth” to "Christianity." J. W. PIKE referred to the original sense of "Christ" as "the Anointed," i. e. the King. Does Christianity mean to us loyalty to a person, or to a principle? CHARLES G. AMES felt that we were in danger of a new form of exclusiveness under the plea of liberalism. Christianity is indeed a word which may be made to cover a great deal of wrong; but to most of us it surely covers a great deal of right; and those who call themselves Christians ought to be invited here by the name they choose to wear, whether others choose it or not. He claimed that there should be freedom both for the use and for the non-use of the word. To him, Christianity was wholly consistent with all truth, all goodness and all progress; but this is a matter of interpretation. CHANDLER DARLINGTON made the point whether we had a |