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Touched with an altar coal and made alive,
Instinct with hope for those who toil and strive
And wait to catch that joyous day's first gleam
That ushers in a better, freer age,
When right for one shall be for all the right;
When all together in life's [recoil?] and fight
The war for right and truth shall bravely rage".

The gardens were visited and we found fair
promise of beauty and plenty. The ancient box alley
was admired, alike, by those who had traversed its
green lane many times and by the few who did so
for the first time. Elizabeth G. Thomas informed us it
was planted by Philip E. Thomas who rented the place,
then called "Pretty Prospect" from about 1812 to 1814,
the war having induced him to seek a quiet home
for his family. We have heard that on his departure
he remarked- "land in Montgomery Co. is like some
kinds of religion the more a man has the poorer
he is". Adjourned to Plainfield

Mary Bentley Thomas Sec.

6/29-1899

The Association gathered at Plainfield, several members
were absent from indisposition, one was attending a
wedding in Baltimore and another was in Germany
on her way to the North Cape. Guests were Hannah
B. Stabler, Margaret G. T. Moore, Pattie R. Stabler, Mrs Duble, Bessie
Miller Wright, Pattie T. Farquhar, Clara A. Moore and
Mary A. Gilpin. Mary E. Moore's sentiment was "that
which we are - we shall teach, not voluntarily, but
involuntarily". Ellen Farquhar said as one of our