is so constituted that it is indestructible, I hold to be both mind and matter. They are conditioned together in one center, which possesses both conscious and unconscious force, so jointly dependent that each in turn can control the other. In short the personal atom is a mind matter atom; some of its operations take place in the domain of unconsciousness, others in that of consciousness; and each of us in our own proper selves, is allied both to the world of matter and to that of mind. For the truth of this assertion we appeal both to consciousness and to observation. A mechanical vibration will awaken its adapted sensation; and a conscious volition applied to matter can direct its movements.

The work of Creation is held to be that of permanent individualization—the establishing of indestructible centers of matter and other higher, more complex centers of mind and matter jointly conditioned in equally indestructible unities. These, working in the organism together, work each according to its character. The mind-matter-unit, influenced and its experience developed by the connection, is yet simply itself, and when separated from its body must still retain all its own proper powers intact. No atom can work wholly alone or be entirely independent of all others; the living personality must doubtless ally itself in some fitting relationship adapted to aid its continuous mental development in the future life. Its existence and its acquired experiences, in the essential nature of things, are both indestructible.

CHAS. HAMBLETON did not understand MRS. BLACKWELL'S scientific demonstration, but he had come to the conclusion from other evidence that immortality was a fact.

MR. MILLS, thought that we know probably as little of the future life as the unborn child does of this one.

FREDERICK, PENNOCK believed in immortality. The invisible world has a connection with this world. The fact of immortality has been as well demonstrated as other scientific facts.

To his mind, the demonstrations of DR. SLADE as tested by PROF. CROOKS and others is satisfactory evidence.

REV. MR. FRAZER firmly believed in immortality, but did

not base his arguments upon any scientific or spiritualistic idea but upon the veracity of our Lord Jesus Christ.

LEWIS MARSHALL thought the meeting was not ready to vote upon the question; after some discussion on this point the testimony which reads as follows was referred to next meeting:

IMMORTALITY." While so many doubt or disbelieve in a continuous life, we desire to testify not only to our belief in personal immortality, but also our assurance that it is one of those truths which can be gained by some minds through intuition and aspiration, and one to which it is also possible to apply careful and exact scientific evidence of a character which will amount to positive demonstration."

The Business Committee reported a Testimony on "The Indian Policy," which was adopted without much discussion. A Testimony on "Monopolies" was next presented.

FREDERICK PENNOCK, in the main agreed with the testimony, but believed there was good as well as evil growing out of the tendency of business working into large establishments. They are training the people for co-operation.

MR. GALVIN thought the laborers were quite as much monopolists as the proprietors.

LEVI PRESTON said the proprietors of large establishments started in a small way, and having proven their business ability and merited our confidence, is it right to withdraw our patronage to assist small establishments?

MRS. BLACKWELL said apply this argument and we would help the strong man and leave the child helpless. Better help the child that he may become strong.

This testimony, reading as follows, was also laid over till next year:

"We view with deep concern a manifest tendency of our time to encourage large business monopolies, by which small and moderate enterprises are swallowed up, and a large class of small proprietors converted into a serving class, thereby relieving the masses of that responsibility which gives strength and dignity to character, and tending to widen the conditions of those two classes representing capital and labor, and to promote caste in society which is inimical to human progress and destructive to Democratic government. As a step toward

hindering this tendency we would suggest the duty of encouraging the smaller business houses, preferring to give them our patronage when no good reason can be assigned why we should not."

The 42d hymn was then sung:

"O, God whose presence glows in all
Within, around us and above,

Thy word we bless thy name we call

Whose word is Truth whose name is Love.

The hour having now arrived for the closing of the meeting, the Chairman addressed it briefly:

Tis said so oft, that friends must part, and meetings however interesting and delightful, full quickly must close. We have arrived now at the end of our three days' session. I hope that to none of us has it been quite without profit.

The value of such gatherings is for illumination and quickening of the mind. Emerson says "that day is best for These days I trust have

us that gives us most perceptions." given us some, at least have reawakened and rekindled old ones that were getting dull and dim. We have to separate, to go to our several homes, where we each for most part alone, must meet our trials and quit us at our tasks. "Singly," says an old Hindoo writer, "is each man born, singly he dies," and we may add that singly and alone, in the main, must we each perfect character and perform for well or ill, our life-work. Singly, as individuals, achieve our conquests or suffer our defeats.

Our remembrances may in hours of solitude and flagging, help us, the vision coming before us of days that we have known of rare privilege, of the quickening of our inner strength, of enlargement and new inspiration.

In the annals of the Chinese Pilgrim, Hionen Thsang, who in the seventh century of our era, crossed the desert of Gobi and the Hindu Kush Mountains, that he might visit the sacred land of his faith, is an account of a celebrated cave in the north of India, in the deep recesses of which were to be seen at some times, the shadowed image of the master, Buddha. At cost of great labor and not a little personal peril, he visited this cave and was rewarded with the desired vision.

The legend was this, that in his life upon earth, the

master once converted a dragon. But the new disciple, fearing the power of the dragon-nature still within him, besought of the master as he was about to depart, some token or talisman by which he might when beset and assailed, be able to withstand and to conquer. The Lord Buddha assured that when so exposed, he would cause his shadowed image to ap pear before him. And by aid of this vision, the young saint was always able to keep the upper hand of the dragon-nature within him.

There is no more truth in the story than seems, as I trust we have all found something to illustrate in our personal history. "How delightful it is," said Henry D. Thoreau, writing to an esteemed and very worthy lady he knew, to have friends of whom one cannot think without elevation!” And I deem that we may all from time to time see the "shadowed image," in the chambers of the memory, of some dear soul we have known, one in whom mortal has put on immortality, to exhilarate, to lift and to keep us superior to the solicitations of the lower or the dragon-nature, when they may come. "Still let that mild rebuking stand Between us and all wrong."

And if perchance such image of some transparent and saintly face, of some uplifting words that we may have seen or heard here, shall present itself to us in lonely exposed hours, liberating us, infusing into our being strength to bear, to hope and to do, then we shall not have come hither in vain.

Such is my hope. And now, thanking you for your generous trust committed to me, for your patience and kind attention, for your answering eyes and cordial responsive heart that I have felt on this platform for the earnest words that friends have spoken, and invoking for you all abundant blessing ever, I bid you affectionate farewell.

The meeting although the session had been long, seemed reluctant to adjourn, and many remained in the house and grounds for cordial greeting and interchange of friendship and fellowships, for sometime after the close.

NOTE: The Yearly Meeting for 1881 will convene on the first Fifth-day of the Sixth-month.

I. REACTIONS IN RELIGION.

Many of the children of those who are liberal in religious views, and older persons who are wearied with the long conflict and unrest of progressive inquiry, often turn to the established creeds and worship of the orthodox churches. But a much larger number turn from the evangelical faiths to the different forms of skepticism or of rational religion, driven to their new positions by intellectual doubts and difficulties.

The reaction from Liberalism is generally effected on the plane of the sentiments; the reaction from orthodoxy on the plane of the intellect.

The remedy in each case is a religion broad enough to take in the whole of humanity with all its needs emotional, asthetic and intellectual. Such a religion taught in childhood as a faith as truth unfolded on the level of the child's comprehension, made plain as far as may be by visible symbols and illustrations and alive with sentiment in its many varied attractive forms, and in older life established on a higher rational basis would have all its reactions within itself in the form of the question and its answer the need and its supply.

II. SOVEREIGNTY.

In creating and controlling human government, the voice of the people is not only paramount, but is a right that cannot be alienated, and should be exercised by all citizens of proper age, without regard to race, sex, color or condition.

III. TEMPERANCE.

We repeat the protest we have heretofore made against the enormity of authorizing by State law the mischievous traffic in intoxicating beverages.

Every licensed vendor is an officer of the State and every voter, who through his chosen representatives frames and sustains the license law, must be held responsible as an aider and abettor in this criminal traffic.