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manity in every way, and it seems to me that just the teaching of Jesus with regard to human brotherhood is a mighty help. Dr. Hedge has well said that "There is one word greater than religion that includes all laws and that word is humanity," and if we can in any sense bring the ideal of Jesus into harmony with the broadest thought of the age, and can find in it a place for that ideal and that teaching, then I think that we can clearly show that, in so far as the idea of Jesus harmonizes with and reaches forward to the best thought of to-day, it is not swept away, it is a living vital force. So I would emphasize that distinction of our lecturer, the distinction between the Christ of dogma and the Jesus of history.

REV. MR. PARMALEE:-Mr. Chairman, It will be difficult for me to speak for many reasons: in the first place Mr. Conway's paper covered so much ground it will be utterly impossible to give attention to all the points. Much of what he said I agree with, much of what he said I do not agree with and you will not expect me to, for you do not care if I don't; but I do agree with what the second speaker said to-day, every word of it, and I agree I think with everything the last speaker said, if I understand him correctly; but I do not agree with Mr. Conway. We cannot afford to part with everything and have our foundations utterly knocked away from under us. What he undertook to tear down in the way of Christian dogmas ought to be torn down but Mr. Conway, as I understand, like a pendulum swings to the other extreme. The opinions advanced by the others were just midway and that is where the truth lies; that is my estimation of it. Mr. Conway and other men cannot say too much against that dogma which holds up God to the world as a vengeance; taking God as this terrible ideal it is no wonder that it brings men cringing to the anxious seat. Let that go; it has served its purpose; there was a time when the human family was a babe, it is little more than out of its swaddling bands now, if it is clear out, but from the beginning when the human family were planted upon this earth as babes, living like wild animals, gentle I mean, like deer, from that

time there was steady progress right onward until to-day. What has been called "the Fall" was a "fall" upward without any question in my mind. The Scriptures are simply laws of life for men as coming from the One who gave us our being. Genuine religion is the religion of goodness, of kindness; humanity is religion; as some one said "There is one word greater than religion and that one word is humanity." To be born again is to be born on the Spiritual plain. Christianity so called, is a misnomer; it is a disgrace to the world; but genuine Christianity is Christ likeness. Christ is king because true. There is no king in the Universe except Truth and truth ought to be king; in every heart truth should come and reign, it is coming to reign more and more. When Pilate said "what is truth?" Jesus himself turned and made a claim which no mere man could make. He said "Behold the man, look at me!" You will see that that is the true meaning of it, as those men who know how to read the original will tell you. Pilate said "What is truth?" "I am the truth, the light and the way." Jesus Christ if he was not what he claimed, was the most abominable hypocrite that ever walked the earth. "Before Abraham was I am"; to me, my friends, there is no God in the Universe save the Lord Jesus Christ; religion means goodness, Christianity means likeness to Christ who is the one God I know.

Mrs. Eliza Turner addressed the meeting in behalf of the movement for closing the stores of Philadelphia at one o'clock on Saturday, thus giving the employes a half-holiday on that day. She appealed to the women of this community who did shopping in that city, to refrain from doing so on that day after I p. m. The discussion was further participated in by Miss Eastman, Messrs Harvey, Marshall, Preston and others, after which the testimony on Religion was adopted, as were also the testimonies on Equal Rights and the Indian Question. On motion of Mr. Fred Pennock the testimony on the Indian Question was ordered to be signed by the Clerks and forwarded to the Representative in Congress

from this district, after which the subject of "Temperance" was taken up for consideration.

The Testimony on Temperance was read by the Assistant Clerk.

MR. LEWIS MARSHALL said :—I have never heard anything on this subject read in this house which met so fully my cordial approbation as does this. I trust this Testimony will pass the meeting unanimously. This subject is one that is going to claim the attention of the people more and more until this mighty crime is trampled under foot of man and woman. The Women's Christian Temperance Union of this Country has prepared petitions to the Legislature asking for an amendment to the Constitution prohibiting the making and selling of the article. I think they should also have added a petition for Woman Suffrage, for I am doubtful whether this question will be settled until the women have the right to vote. The point which is made in the Testimony that it is necessary for the people to vote upon the amendment is the strongest point in it, Even in Iowa, to-day, the question is still an open one whether the Prohibitionists will triumph or whether the saloon will triumph. I want to impress it upon the people who are here that to belong to the Liquor License Party is a very bad position for them to occupy if they expect to do emphatic work in favor of this cause and work that will tell.

MR. LLOYD:-I presume there is time for yet a few words more on this subject, and as it is a question of the day in which we live I want to ask of every man, woman and child here that they remember the responsibility which rests upon the shoulders of each. If the saloon is to be put down and the home protected it will be by your act; but if the saloon and liquor interest is to hold sway in the land it will be because you and I have failed to speak and to act. That is the simple truth. It rests with the voters, the sovereign power of this land whether this rum traffic shall exist. It cannot exist without their consent. You are the voters, and if this continues a twelvemonth longer it is because the majority of the voters of

this land have given their consent to its continuance, and all the crime and misery and pauperism and labor troubles which are such a danger to our public institutions rest upon the people, who have refused or neglected to act against the curse of the land. This is what I want to say to each of you: Do your whole duty, remembering that the welfare of millions,—yea, of unborn millions, depends upon your act, your word and your

You cannot afford to let a question of expediency or party predilection shake your policy; it must be your action and your vote that will tell upon this most important issue of the day. Let us remember that the whole country is now stirred from east to west, from north to south, everywhere, and that the fields are ripe unto harvest on this question. Now is the time to act. I know there are more evils in the land, I know that our Government ought to be rebuked for its want of faith to the Indians; I know there are other questions but there is no one like this.

MR. GALVIN:-My theory is that labor organizations ultimately become political factors, and that in the organization of labor all parties are taken in. The labor organization is going to be made the strongest organization of the country, and if that organization allies itself with the rum-seller of the country, what are you going to do about it? If the liquor people say to the organizations of labor, "If you sustain us we will sustain you," what are you going to do about it? Is not the labor organization question a dangerous one unless we take hold of it and prevent it now? It may be necessary for you to make another party, and that party will be composed of the

rich men who will organize in self defense.

MR. HARVEY thought that the majority of the voters were in favor of liquor selling and decidedly against Prohibition; that Prohibition had been a failure in Iowa, Kansas and Maine. That the country was not prepared to adopt the Prohibition policy. He favored high license as a primary step toward Prohibition.

MR. PARMALEE:-The gentleman who spoke last, I think, is

mistaken in respect to Maine. If he has the facts of course they are pertinent, but I think he must be mistaken upon that question. It was my privilege to visit Portland, the largest city of Maine, and to take steps to ascertain what the condition was respecting drinking in Portland, and in the state, and I rode and walked through the city day after day to ascertain the facts, and I fancy you can not find a city anywhere in any state where Prohibition is not a law that is as orderly as the city of Portland. I saw no drunkenness there whatever, and I was there for days together before I heard that people did on the sly get hold of liquor in some ways; but it was under the ban. So I think what the gentleman said was a mistake. It is not best to s.veep Prohibition unceremoniously off the board. There is a general question respecting intemperance which it would be well to look at,-What is the cause of it? The cause lies further than the gentleman supposes. In many cases it is born with the children. It is caused by the practice of the parents, mothers as well as fathers, and I am glad that I am among progressive people, that I am where I can speak plainly. The cause lies generations back, and instead of being crime in the child it is a misfortune. Now, the thing the people of this country need is education on the subject. The parents should be taught not to commit murder before birth by giving to the children this terrible inheritance. The first thing we need today is to give the people the truth in all directions and intemperance will cease.

MISS EASTMAN said that she had, in a week's time, seen more intoxicated persons in the City of Portland than she had seen in Boston in many months. The speaker had made inquiries and was shocked to find that drinking was carried on to a disgraceful extent in that city in a surreptitious manner. She had upon inquiry been told that one could get just as much liquor as he chose to drink there without interference from the officers of the law.

MISS CURTIS:-Objection has been made to Prohibition because it does not prohibit; but is there not a law prohibiting

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