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in Kansas where barbed wire fences have been
made to do duty as telephone wires! Elizabeth G. Thomas
gave some beautiful extracts -- "Religion is to love
practice, to long for right, to love mercy, to pity the
suffering, to assist the weak, to forget wrongs
and remember benefits, to love the truth, to be
sincere, to love liberty, to love wife and children
and make a happy home, to love the beautiful in
art and nature, to cultivate courage and cheerfulness,
to make others happy, to fill life with the
warmth of loving words and generous deeds,
to destroy prejudice, to receive new truths with gladness,
to see the calm beyond the storm" *

Mary E. Moore read lines "Amen" by F. G.
Browning and Mary Reese's contribution "Renunciation"
was given by Juliet Bartlett.

Sally A. Bond's article contrasted a woman's
duty in old times with that of today.

Then adjourned to Mt. Airy on 9/30 1897
at 2.30 P.M.

Sarah E. Stabler sec per tem

*By Robert Ingerssoll