The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-06-02
CONFERENCE OF THE ORTHODOX FRIENDS.
The Business Yesterday-The National Pease
Association-The Mission for the Colored
People-Why Good Housemaids Are
Scarce-High Wages Paid in
Houses Of ul-Fama
THE SABBATH SCHOOLS.


gray colored apparel remind one Of a summer flock
OF doves. The Old Of three years and ten
with white and reverend locks and dim eyes,
comes
IN ro calm I'm, and m, cool and silence, once again
lis Drethren where never hymn is sung,
Nor dim i'm b ,an nor eens .ho swang mana
lie Is specimen OF the ancient stanch Anglo
american stock, whose fathers fought in the Revo-
luIoh anu which has none OF the restless blood in
ies Veins oi modern emigration, which mixes the f
Verish eehehts OF all nations In the lines OF his
Ainuiy ana now peaceful face one sees the marks
soi INC passing Thought OF a quiet, homely life,
winch has looked calmly on all the selfish agtta-
lions OF half century, and now has CLEANS OF SIM
SHINE stretching across its path of the roseate SUN
departing" The old women lock as happy ana as
unconscious OF the wrinkles and threads OF silver a.
iif life were but beginning The younger women
of this sect, most Of whom wear the plain bonnets
and modest gowns of tradition are very attractive
4 in appearance some of them having comely faces
made beautiful by ever present smiles. The young
men also dress very generally in straightcut coats
and broadbrimmed hats. The apparel, while per-
fectly plain, is usually Of rich material showing
how severely practical religion conduces to the
worldly advantage Of Its professors well to the
spiritual.
EMINENT MINISTER'S.
Among the eminent ministers who are present
are Elizabeth Comstock, of Ohio; Phebe Hathaway,
Of Michigan; Deborah Thomas. Of Baltimore; Lind
ley N. Hoag, of Iowa; Mary II. Thomas, of Scipio,
N. ", and William Wood. The clerk OF the mems
meeting is Robert Lindley Murray of the Messenger
Peace. The first business session of the Confer
ence was held on Friday, when the only affairs at
tended to were the receipts OF the credentials OF
the delegates and the 70 rmal reading of the epistles
from the London, philadelphia and other yearly
meetings.
MORNING SESSION.
Yesterday the morning hour was devoted to the
reception OF the reports of the Committee on the
Educational Fund of the Church, the Committee ON
the Union Springs Boarding School, which is under
religious direction and the Peace Committee. There
was also good deal of desultory preaching.
The proceedings were opened with prayer by
William H. Potter, of Batavia, N. Y. After the sup
picatlon was concluded, some practical remarks
dwelt upon the text, aye are my friends II We do
natsoever command you"
WILLIAM THOMAS WILLIS addressed the assem-
blage In relation to the duty which every one
owed to the Church.
The report of the Committee on the Union Spring
Boarding School stated that 1t was in prosperous
condition. special committee was appointed to
nominate a new committee to have charge OF the
The report on the Educational Fund was also &C
lcepted.
The Peace Committee then presented very long
report, OF which the following Is Summary
There is q regular association formed OF all the
derent yeprs meetnSs pnrinr the year is Is7 1
central office was established and maintained at
New Vienna, Ohio, and from this the work OF the
association has been conducted by means of lee
lures sent FORTH the publication OF paper fTns
Messenger or Peace, and the circulation OF tracts
been SUBMIT ID to the ministers Of an
the. religious denominations in the United
to whom they had been sent. They mad also dis
seminated them throughout the country, and had
The report was signed by Robert Lindley Murray
as chairman and Daniel HILL OF Ohio, Secretary. It
long discussion then ensued as to the practical
means OF collecting Church funds, in the midst Of
which the meeting adjourned.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
At halfpast three O'Clock the men and women
met IN Joint M enc 10 dne subject OF
Of the house was well filled. Mary II. Thomas pre-
sided. She opened the proceedings by reading a
passage from jeremiah, wherein was recounted the
miracle OF the falling Of the walls of Jerusalem at
the sounding of the trumpet. Then falling on her
knees she prayed that there might be in that meet
ing no selfseekng or any other motive but love OF
God
After short succeeding silence she delivered an
opening address on the great necessity of strong
interest in the Sabbath schools. Cheerful informa-
ton about their progress and condition was given
by Roscoe Mott, Mary Jane Weaver, Mary NJ Ferris
and others. The preparation of a uniform course OF
study for the schools was proposed and discussed.
The subject OF mission work was then introduced.
MISSION FOR C0LoRED PEOPLE.
He said that in New York there was to be OBJ
td1ned a very low view of human nature, where a
rotten existence was surrounded by the most fever
ish and exciting associations Yet no city in the
world could display more OF Christian benevolence
than this. The colored people were people in
whom Friends should feel most interested, because
they had suffered so much for them in the past.
When tn, the war n,o. closed many persons thought
could emigrate to the South; but the
contrary event was taking place. The Southern
The colOred population of New York is H. 900,
and it Is increasing at the rate of 1000 year. The
Mission established for them and superintendent by
Augustus Tabor had had a very dscouraglng ca
rcer, but from little beginning had sprung an in
stitution which was to carry its influence to oil
generations. problem had been solved, and he
did not believe in taxing people heavily and grind
ing them into the very soil to build tremendous and
magnificent chur :hes that closed almost all
the time and occupied space that might be used
for mercantile purposes. The old error had ever
e When tbey n a9o
the Gospel the counter and in all the daily and
commonplace Intercourse OF life they should have
Mission was like the churches of Europe, which met
somewhat his IDEAS, open during all the hours OF
the number OF their inmates had doubled during
the year. They had made over thirteen hundred
the year. meeting for worship was held on
Sunday evening social meetings occurred during
the week, and night sshool was prospecting.
THE WOES OF HOUsEKEEPERs.
free intelligence office was one of the principal
adjuncts OF the mission. He sympathised with the
richest housckeepers of New York, whom he saw
every day-they were the saddest people who ever
came there. What was the reason they could not
get colored servants such used to be employed
for their fe-times by the good old families One
reason was that the foreign help was being given
up and native help sought for. But there was q
deeper reason. A very large number OF the colored
servants are employed In the saloons and houses or
i'll fame, and they receive from $15 TO $50 month,
and from four to five hundred are employed in the
city. The high rates of wages form n strong temp
taton to them, and especially when they are Just
come from the south. one great object OF the New
York Coored Mission was TO seek them out In
those places and TO maintain free intel
ligence Office for them. charging the employers
only d small fee. This was also used as a medium to
bring them into the night school. They worshipped
with PRAYER and sometimes there settled over
them solemn silence, in which they knew that
God was there
TO reach the comprehensions OF these girls upon
religious subjects 1t had been necessary to first let
them discuss such questions as the cooking or u
making cup OF coffee, from
which they assembled 10 higher ones
But 1t was a sad reflection to know