The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1864-06-15
Orthodox Friends. New York

Yearly Meeting Of Friends tOrthodox)
began its sessions in Twentieth street
on Thursday. the sittings being of a
business nature. for only the members
OF that Society. The attendance is
large. among the ministers from other
yearly meetings were Charles F. Coffin
OF Maine. Elisabeth Paige of Massachu-
sets. Timothy e. Collectios of Rhode
Island DIR. James Thomas and Deborah
c. Thomas of Maryland, Cornelius
Douglass. Sarah Hyatt and Sarah Ann
Linton of Ohio. Francis jenkins of In
diana, David Hunt and Enos Pray of
Iowa A public annual meeting of the
Sabbath First Day. School Association
was held Friday evening with full
house Reports wee read from the
different associations comprising the
Conference, which Friends were encour-
aged to renewed labors in this direction
Much pertinent counsel was impaired
and it appears that the Society are fully
alive to the PRONUNCIATION Of a llnowleCig e
of the Holy Scriptures, and have so far
transcribed the ancient bounds, or Sc
cluciyeness, as to even establish mission
schools in several localities One person
present from Norfolk Va, gave an in
teresting account of the labors of the
teachers among the contrabands of that
place. The Conference adjourned to
s p III. Saturday evening.
Public meetings were held on Saturday
1T the Twentieth Street House. ut 104
m, 81 and j p NJ. The house was
uncomfortably crowded in the morning
Conspicuous among the speakers were
Charles f. Coffin of Maine and Enos Pray
of Iowa The former occupied most of
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DISCOURSE beginning with Children,
obey your parents, and traced it through
society, fully admitting the necessitv of
civil government and our obligations to
obey the laws of the land SO far as they
did not conflict with conscientious
scruples. Where Friends could not obey
any law or mandate for conscience sake
they shrank not from the penalties or
suffering imposed in consequence. From
Daniel. who was cast into a den of lions
for disobeEing a command of the King
to Paul. who said ..Whetheri it be RIGHT
to hearl<cn to men rather than God Judge
We, and so down to the present day,
there always had been those whose sense
of Justice and obligations TO their God had
prevented them from complying with all
of the acquisitions contained in the land.
Regarding those now in authority. he had
often felt to plead for their right guild
ance, and especially for the President, in
his trying position, demanding oar warm
est sympathy. If. as he believed, civil
government was of Divine appointment,
requiring our allegiance thereto. how
much more that we should be insudiection
to the Divine law Elizabeth Cornstock,
a sort of modern Elizabeth Fry who
spends much of her time visiting hospit
ais, prisons, DC, followed, and. abiding
to the injunction Children, obey YOUR
parents, said she was recently by the
bedside of a wounded soldier who was
distressed at the idea of dying before he
could beg his fathers forgiveness for
being a disobedient son.
The afternoon sitting was mainly occu-
pied IN the upper room in addresses by /
C. L. Coffin of Maine, Frances Jenkins of .
Ohio the latter appealing to those pres
ent to give themselves up to the Savior
and receive that consolation and en-
joyment which He only could bestow
The future sittings will be for the trans
action OF the private business of the
Society, up to W ednesday, when public
meeting at 10! a. m. will propably close /
The annual conferenence.