nen, instrument that will compel and enchant all that hear, to the very beasts in the field and the fishes in the sea. "For by the odes," says Confucius, "the mind is aroused," and our own sweet poet chants of those "Olympian bards who sung Which find us always young And always keep us so." Testimony on Symbols was adopted. REV. CHARLES G. AMES read a beautiful and earnest memorial address of RALPH WALDO EMERSON. MR. MILLS closed the meeting with a few brief remarks, referring especially to the investigations now going forward in regard to some of the diseases that still most deeply afflict humanity and particularly tubercular disease. Dr. Koch, a young German physician of eminence, has recently given a very interesting account of his researches in this line, some sketch of which may be found in Youman's Popular Science Monthly for this month, June, taken from the London Times and written by PROF. TYNDALL. "If," says KOCH, "the seriousness of a malady be measured by the number of its victims, then the most dreaded pests which have hitherto ravaged the world—plague and cholera included-must stand far behind the one now under consideration." KOCH declares that one-seventh of the deaths of the human race are due to tubercular disease, while in active middle life one-third of those who die are carried off by the same cause. It has been known that this disease was communicable. KOCH has ascertained the character of the contagium which carries it. He discovered a minute rod-shaped parasite in the tubercles of all afflicted with this malady. Transferring the diseased matter from diseased animals to healthy ones, he in every instance, reproduced the disease. He cultivated this parasite artificially in carefully prepared matter, and produced several generations successively, sometimes as many as eight, and found in every case that the little bacilli, as they are called, introduced by inoculation into rabbits, guinea-pigs, cats, rats, and mice, caused clearly pronounced and sometimes virulent tubercular disease. The matter expectorated from the lungs of persons afflicted with consumption was found to be swarming with these parasites, while that from healthy lungs was entirely free from them. This matter was proved highly infective, even after it had been kept dry for two, four and eight weeks. The grave danger from inhaling air in which particles of the dried sputa of consumptives are floating, mingled as they are apt to be with dust, is readily seen. Koch gave this account of his rescarches before the Physiological Society of Berlin in March last. The import of this discovery is of the greatest. Through it in coming time, is to be opened in all probability the way to the deliverance of the human race from that dreadful scourge whose presence we know so well in all the homes. Pasteur, another eminent name in science, perhaps the most distinguished chemist in the world, announced not long since in London that he was now engaged in tracing typhoid fever to its lair. Such knowledge he avers of the conditions and causes of the epidemic and contageous diseases is now through science being put in men's hands as will enable them to sweep these scourges of the human race from the face of the globe. Who of us do not pray "Swift fly the years and rise the expected morn, There has been marked and priceless advance; as we compare our own with the mediæval times, or even with the last century, we can see marvellous change, and very greatly for the better. The term of human life is steadily appreciating, has been doing so for the last three hundred years, and man is getting the better of his most formidable foes, and yet the condition is still appalling; in the presence of many of the diseases that afflict society, the most intelligent at this hour stand helpless, almost as ignorant and forlorn as children or savages. We have the pointers in history, indicating the road of the sure march of humanity, but distant and dim still is the final goal. Mr. Mills closed with an earnest appeal to all to be alert and active in these days and hours so pregnant and weighty in the history of humanity. What do we here? What in the field immediately about us? Do we allow nothing in the houses or around them that may invite or permit the entrance of disease, the fell visitations of diphtheria, scarlatina, typhoid or malaria? All these come, as Tyndall has well said, as harvests from the appropriate seeding. "Where wood rots," the New York Times not long since declared men, "men decay." Who is there that is heedful enough to see that there be nothing within or without the dwellings that may offend or harm? There are subtle foes that lurk unseen and unsuspected, that slay like a sword. Emphatically they are of the army of the Prince of the Power of the air. Man is to be redeemed. "Our prayers," as Emerson says, "are prophets." There is nothing in our aspirations that shall not some day become realization. The whole race shall be recovered. All the barbarism shall be eliminated; all the squalor, wretchedness, vice, suffering and sorrow of every kind shall be subdued and put away. Over the entire earth, from equator to the pole, from East to West round the circuit of the globe shall the conquest go and the song arise. Long days' marches lie yet to be made ere the goal is seen and won. But all is written upon the iron leaf, and all must, shall be fulfilled. Our civilization at its best, is but ameliorated barbarism, our worship but a type of softened idolatry. We have had the alchemy, the chemistry is coming; have had the astrology, the astronomy is now being born. We can in a degree foresee what men shall some day see, and can gather strength in this vision, And in the endeavor is fruition and reward; while we work we enjoy, while we seek we have, while we sacrifice we realize. We also have part and interest in that paan of victory and possession that from the whole human race is yet to rise, reverberate, and roll on unending in the arches of the skies. On First-day, after the Y. M., a large congregation met at Longwood and listened to discourses from Rev. MR. CALTHROP, SUSAN B. ANTHONY and REV. C. D. B. MILLS. The meeting for 1883 will convene on Fifth-day after the first Second-day in Sixth month. I-RELIGION. Religion is the right attitude of the whole man toward God, mankind and the Universe. Religion, therefore, stands in the closest relation to Science, Art, Industry, Education, Political and Social Life. In Science, Religion appears as pure love of Truth ; in Art, as Reverence for the highest Beauty; in Industry, it stands for the workman's conscience; in Education, for the harmonious development of body, mind and soul; in Politics, it maintains that justice, truth and love are the pillars of the State; in Social Life, that man is forever bound to man, and that mankind stand or fall together. Religion in a word, is the complete service of God, Man, and God's cause in the world with Body, Mind, Heart, Conscience and soul. II. SUFFRAGE. We again bear our testimony against the injustice of disfranchising one-half the people because they are women. We believe our law-makers should not wait to be petitioned, but should take such steps as will secure to women their right to give consent to the laws they are required to obey whether they ask for this right or not. III. PEACE. Occupying as this society has done, an advanced position, we desire to continue our onward career; we, therefore, reiterate our protest against, and urge all to testify against everything that leads men into the unnatural relation that they are called upon to sustain towards each other on the battle field. We believe that all national differences can be wisely settled |