The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-11-28


idea, ihet you Will thus minister to the pressing
Vnnts Of others less fortunate than yourselves.
Ladies' thank you for your presence To- night,
and permit me 70 beg for this association your
powerful influence You are in.erestsd in It's sue
cess speak tonight 10 tho mothers, wives and
sisiers Of merchants. Encourage your sons and
husbands and brothers 70 give a generous support
20 this purely mercantile enterprise. Most OF them
l dare say will never have occasion 70 claim Its
friendly offces. But some OF them may and II
they should not assuredly there are others that
Will, and surely II will ever be pleasant rehec.
this institution, given timely aid to some upon
whom the shadow OF misfortune has fallen, who
were once as prosperous and as happy and joyous
The animal report was now read by william H.
Love, Esd Secretary, II has already appeared IN
REV. Aimed Cookman was then introduced He
said that this evening he felt mingling emotions of
pride and thankfuness that, as Philadelphlon,
ness that his lot had been cast in the City Of Bro
therly Love He was proud that he lived in a
city That had so many monuments OF benevolence.
Philadelphia, grander than Rome or Athens, or
any ancient city, has its Girard COLLEGE, It's mer-
cbari,Ies n he MotbSr of Inc aTaoebi. SointinS
to her children, said "These are my jewels" the
city Of Philadelphia, pointing 10 Institutions like
these, can say with pride "These charities are my
This angel OF brotherly love, bearing the bright
slgnet OF Heaven upon It's beautiful brow, is orga
Min q "A succession of brotherhoods all mutually
dependent This association is one of them. Out
eide OF them nl we hav our great national bro
therbood, foully and fearfully assailed during the
last few years by the demon OF slavery. And what
heart will not thrill tonight with Joy when we see
that national brotherhood still remains Intact,
that universal liberty aud equal rights (applause)
promises nobler, more glorious ana beautiful
compact in the future than In the pasH (Ap-
Men Of thought and action are clearing the way.
We are taking in the idea of n worlds brotherhood,
We recognize beyond all this, however, brother
he cd still wider--a brotherhood that makes no in
qUiry concerning race or color or country. II
asks only 10 ne human being, and II so, ne snail
re ceive our care, our sympathy and our love,
We then take in Christian brotherhood null
titude that no man can number, that have crossed
the food, and now in the golden glores of
heaven, What splendid brotherhood Is not
If we can foster such feeling of brotherhood,
then we are aiding the fostering of all brother
hoods upon this earth. Are not these brotherhoods
u series of concentrlc wheesl The outside wheel,
the Christian. brotherhood, may not move as It
should do. Had we in the first place acted upon
the principle that all men were free and equal,
that wheel OF national brotherhood need not have
been interrupted, and then the wheels of social
and mercantile association might not have been
retarded in the uniformity Of their movements.
The speaker then referred expressly to the Mer-
camille Beneficial Association. The effects of the
organization must be security, sympathy, benevo.
lence-lust we look most TO the specific and fun
damental principles of the Christian religion Let
this brotherly love spread and not only will the
homes OF these beneiciaries, but your own homes,
and the homes OF all people, be rradiated with
the sentiment Of brotherhood Concord shall then
be at the gate of entrance to this fraternity. Rel
gion shall be guardian angel, and above us the
striped flag of freedom shall float with the blood
speaker alluded to the good time coming, when the
spirit of brotherhood, now at work in the world,
shall accomplish Its mission. Only last night
these walls echoed the noble sentiments of Henry
Vincent, the eloquent Briton, who is laboring for
the cause of universal brotherhood. A few nights
before stood the noble patriot Justice Chase; the
Christian soldier, with his empty Sleeve General
Howard and the noble Jurist who dared TO do his
duty, Judge Bond of Baltimore, all speaking for
universal fraternity. cloud applause
The speaker concluded by a graceful allusion to
Senator Oattell as type of the merchant of Phila-
dalxN 40 inv nlrodf fha Outnhn
Mercantile Beneficial Association of Philadelphia
Rev. Phillips Brooks was then introduced He
could claim, he said, neither the privilege of being,
like his predecessors, Philadelphian nor mer-
chant Therefore, instead of speaking 10 the spe-
cial glory of Philadelphia merchants, of which
others could so much better speak, he would speak
rather of commerce and of the mercantile charac-
ter general He referred to the Queen city of the
Adriatic, over which the modern Italian nag is
now floating and to the age when she was the
queen OF mereanule Sines now the merens9r ,r mas
when small vessels crept along the coast, Virgil,
in his fourth eclogue, writing OF the Golden Age,
paints that era time when commerce shall be
no more, and when each nation shall produce all IL
requires. The Poet Laureate Of Victoria, two
thousand years later than the Poet Laureate Of Au-
eustus, draws picture exactly the reverse. 1t is
in the merchant that the highest spirit of the age is
exemplihed Emerson tells us that little slip OF
paper can 20 half over the world, and there exem-
plify the confidence of one man. the integrity OF
the other. This truth teaches man to keep his
word: and the highest testimonial TO the integrity
/ of the merchant is that the man in INDIA who
never saw him. never will see him, relies upon his
piece paper aNNtlts ~ AoA N''ANS
| upon 1t,
The speaker referred TO the patriotism Of the
/ merchants of the north They have established Its
| standard Had the merchants held back during
our late struggle, liberty would have been lost &c
| us forever. The Christian merchant everywhere
is the eonservator OF institutions The speaker
eloquently described the character and responsi.
biliu6s Of the merchant, ana drew picture of the
! upright man, whose ledger TO him was a holy
| book. He called attention to the glaring eXtraya
eance of the times, and warned mis- auditors, as
| people who we're largely the exemplars Of society
!
cially on the eve of a season that promises to bt
one Of great difficulty in business, and one o.
suffering TO very many.
The speaker looked forward to the coming win.
ter as one of great depression. He hoped that the
merchants family would not set the example In
extrayagance that should lead others in the vair
endeayor TO vie with them, into the paths Of ruin
To do anything like justice TO such speakers a;
we had last evening is Impossible. The addresses
will be printed by the Society in pamphlet form
for general distribu ton. The exercises eloseS
with excellent music.
TBE PHILAnKLPHIA, GERsSANTolgE AND Nor