New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-06-21
PROGRESSIVE FRIENDS.
Frou, An Occasional Correspondent.

common level VINO attempts 10 ABOVE IT,
is good boy says the teacher. Il proud OF him.
Straight the other scholars pounce upon him.
HE a hypocrite They cry without examination, He
is better than but only sly The title OF teachers
Eayorite becomes title Of shame and the poor little chap
not real hero later compelled down from
his superiority and prove his title equality BY some extra
naughtiness, Just for the sake of peace.
The young Daehman carrying his grain to MIL takes our
from one end Of the bag the which has from all time been
used to balance grain and lays the bag with
half the grain on each side the horse's back
Put back that stone the flher spose you Knows
better as your fathers and your grandfhe whips your
Put back that stone" cry his comrades Why should
you undertake teach the neghborhOod" and very sps
to go back.
So when heard. years ago. of society called fro
eresye Friends remember that my first sensation an
impulse TO sheer. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS opinions noe
good enough for them. skeptics spur
uast atheists boomers amagamationis,s free loverA
maniacs-I have mind to put them down.
do not mean to say used these words but that the
instructive feeling OF moment before examination aroused
as far as can Judge by the assumption Of superiority In the
word Progressive such ncites TO the use OF sueA
words aud TO the actions that follow.
Happening be visiting this Summer in one OF the o'ea
est Of farming districts and in that part OF 1t lately turned
into pictures for the public by one Of its own boys IN
Story Of Kenneth found myself in the midst OF the yearly
meeting Of this very society Falling into line with tho long
procession OF cODloTaDe -
comfortable generally nenng to the circular shape
took nv seat in meeting house with nothing progressive
about it, except flowers the table The house was
accommodate $50 persons but on this occasion II As
about co., On looking this congregation OF fanaca
was struck with the fact that the did not as genere
thing long hair the women short although there
were few graceful examples of the latter In fact was nos
able to distinguish except tendency to Quaker simplicity
any difference personal appearance between then
and other assembages should have known. from
their apparel that the women speakers including
those who desire voting masculine nos
the men who sympathzed with them efemnae SO deeefa
In these latter days, personal appearances.
But notice pecuarities, such as stranger
10 neighborhood is likely than those familiar
with it, 1t struck me that would be hard TO find an assem-
bage country people (ghose time is necessarily more occo
pied with toll than study in which there was larger NUMBER
Of wide-awake earnest significant faces.
Some circumstance or combination OF circumstances nos
very remote these people into habits OF thinking DO
yond the degree Of culture which generally precees sucn
habits Freedom Of opinion expression all imaginable
subjects The fashion Of the place. originality running oheA
into eccentrcy allowed the ees scope lms are plenty.
Bu. suppose good farmers the Chester County
men NAV be allowed to run little wild metaphysical sub
cts and such good houekeepers the Chester County
women can afford to politics. Asd neighborbood which
has in such numerous cysazed its notions into tue
paeDtaDle working forms which reyolutionze trade may
well indulge some surplus eceentricity IL, Hi, =, n.s
But there popularity IN such meetings whcn nov
agreeable remember time in our family history wnen.
many years OF lodging we stood 70 house an our ia
empty house. lock the DOORS The next TO sing snoo
scream, chatter up and down stairs and give way 70 ee e.s
OF restraint from the houses adjoning-w VINO had ed
ROOM But those around US who had always yed IN
felt no desire such boerous proofs Oh Hteoon
and dare say could neither understand nor admire our pro-
And this brings me back the second pecuiary Of the
Progressves which unfortunately the first TO strike
stranger in their Their freedom Is TOO freshly 40
wantOnly. They like 10 peOpo
with what they conceive TO be utterly new ideas "hen
nan nv b own stout thinking hits upon truth be announces
n mi and out Of season. with the compaeeney Of friend
NINE who suddenly finding that February was peea Wiz
an in the middle about testing his friends WITH the
word convinced he could trip them in their orhograpay
"And why" exclams my friend William Nerves. IN high
Indignation why should they look and talk as al WISDOM
and especially all beraty is in LongwOod Meet.
log House And why should that brilliant young member
e lnson by saving that thew stand the mountan-toy
To watch rebuke and elevate the world the plain oeowr
lie didn't say that exactly bnt II he had would 1t be any
more than said and believed by every protesting seett IL
hoy did not believe their sentiments TO be better tnah any
others they would combine to express anc carry them
on Raj aer all what is their superiority They have
fine speakers get fine speaking any sunday BY go
ag 70 church they pay the clergyman his proper
salary And you get rid Of the trash that bores you On
Free platform the superiority that appears to me
to be an advantage that the rfng abuses which car
tainly accompany may wen be borne with patience
Truly rare advantage for all the disappointed orators
Who can nd no other air their sns AS to sheer
ing william Xerxes may indulge H. but cannot eneoarage
IT, and disappointed orators the society wnieh com.
riand such speaking HiggDson, WATSON convey AIMS
Dickinson A. D. Mayo Coyer, George Thompson HARRISON,
ana others like them and which was IN ms ne oeosed ana
sustained by Theodore Parker Cannot be said to DC a. ths
mo present believe the fourteenth anniversary includes
in itself host able eakers and the daily hrong OF alien
tive proceedings not 10 speak OF the hundrecA
unable TO gain show that free church has nos In
seeds OF dissolution or at least that they take
Tipen. -, -,,,.u. ,;..o,,.a.
nv the Rev H. r. Crozier and young wlork man Oh tne
The General sentiments Of the body are fifty expressed in
the testimonies adopted by that am unwlngte
describe than that OF the papers them
shond wish And confess that whatever prejudice
NAV have had before attending this meeting have not been
In OF hearing from any sectaran conventions inc
religion Christ the sentiments OF universal love and JUS
rice Taught by Him. earnestly and everenty expressed
Testimonies were read the Of Slavery and Tenn
perance. That reconstruction Is as followsi
We mus, axe due warning from impeed in the p.sa
his now the dctsN Providence construct the Uniea
upon the only sure foundation Of hs tgua hsh" oil All
"T Society halls with dnes every token that the position OF
women considered {" class OF
and attracting the aehy "a u sne M s ~.
both classes Of cins male and female are ned equs
voice In the making Of otherwise the American doctrine 81
nausht by the egared government Of one
class by another.
Th. Society hsbu.y eans from promn eating formal creed
religious Mons OF course we recognize the ppee et 'ass
every mind which enerteins religious opinions
group these oPnions into wa may pc pvpe
termed religious creed Instead therefore 81 engnS az sp.Ds
theology either ior ourselves IS ooly 81 iV ~
we believe religion best offered 70 the human mind oy pro
pounding the simple and universal principle. OF 's 70 zoo ana os
10 wing all other religious ideas TO take varying
cordng varying minds We believe ht me ohistAn
growth the human soul the poounde', subject wf S Gan
age the attention being We believe that ths ests
through endeavos preach and practice Jus
In ba. these views for reeshent Of
minds we earnestly them the consideration Of all wbs
hunger and thirst Tor the bread and water Of life"