The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-06-13
Women's Meeting
MORNING SESSION.

MORNING SESSION.
The meeting opened at O'Clock with Anna
| Woods as clerk After the religious exercises
| the business transacted was almost identical
with that of the mems meeting. Reading of
quarterly-h.eeting reports, certificates for min
listers, and appointing committees to confer
| with those from the mems meeting occupied
the time until adjournment at 1890 o'clock.
| The delegates from tho eight quarterly meet
| ings are:
RHODE ISLAND.
| Louise n. Meader, Harriet d. Collins,
| Hulda M. Beede Estha Chace,
| Martha A. Joy, Rebecca Anthony
| Addie S. Chace, Mary S. Burlington,
| Cynthia j. Earle, Mary Alice Clifford,
Mary E. Kenyon.
SALEM.
Gertrude W. Garland Mary A. Brown,
Abigail N. Hanson, Mary j. Paige,
Peace p Nichols, Lydia G. Neal,
Sarah w. SWEET, Elizabeth A. Hexie,
Mary j. Rogers Mary AlmaiChace,
Anna M. Cove.
SANDWICH.
Rachel j. Rowland, Rebecca Grinnen,
Elizabeth C. Wing, Susan T.. Thompson,
Charity G. Chace, Hulda Clifford
Ruth S. Smith, Rebecca H. Smiley,
Susan A. Holmes, Rebecca S. Rowland,
Elizabeth A. Slade, Anna c. Wood.
FALMOUTH.
Jane c. Minot, Lucy A. Snow
Anna G. Varney, Susan p Garland,
Elizabeth A. Douglass, Lucy X. Goddard
Myra e. Frye Mary A. Maxfeld,
Jane T.Varney Maria B. Jones,
Estha Nichols.
sMITaFIELD.
Lydia B. knight, Abbey S. Battey,
Jennie Allyn, Sarah j. Wheeler
Abbie w. Randall, Abigail Wheeler,
Melissa A. Clark, Salome G. Wheeler,
Laura A. Reed.
yAssALBoRo.
Hannah 7. Jenkins, Mary G. Jones,
Mary Il. Jones, Elizabeth S. Frye
Rachel b. Nichols, Margaret B. Gates,
Elvira z. Pierce, Hannah B. Robinson,
Helen NJ. Jones, Hannah b. Pepson.
DOVER.
Hannah W. Meader, Anna Maria Evans,
Anna M. Hussey, Guliema M. Purinton,
Elizabeth G. Meader, Martha e. Pratt,
Eunice D. Garland, Lydia M. G. Tuttle,
| Huda S. Bu1fum, Hannah j. Roberts,
Jane Durgin, Hannah G. Sawyer,
Maria Purintcn.
FAIRFIELD.
Sarah NJ. Richardson, Phoebe P. Jones,
Lavina M. Briggs, Harriet n. Jones,
Mary G. Winslow, Sarah Winslow, =.
Christina Butterfeld.
| Twenty were absent and six sent sufficient
reasons for their absence.
The afternoon proceedings were the same as
| those of the mems meeting.
At7.3op. M private meeting Of the COM
womens meeting room. A social meeting af-
ter the peculiar manner of the Friends, occu-
| pied the evening, in the main hall
| The remarks and service generally were es-
pecialy adapted to the young.
Sunday Services.
| Yesterdays pleasant weather brought out
| large numbers of our people and filled the
| churches and City Hall with hundreds anxious
| TO listen to the exposition of the word by the
| representative men and women of the Friends,
whose yearly meeting was successfully inau-
| gurated by the exercises of Friday and Satur.
day.
| Services were held at most of the churches,
at the jail, the Old Ladies' Home, and at Peaks
Island. Temperance meetings were held in
the evening at Preble Chapel and Congress
| Hall.
| CITY HALL. ii
AT 81 o'clock DR.. Dougan Clarke, of In
diana, presided over a general meeting Of
prayer, exhortation and singing. This meet
ing-open to all-was participated in by min
listers, elders and people, and the time was
fully taken up until the close by the benedc-
ton from DR.. Clarke.
| AG ~ y ClOCh tu0 uetll Wdo hOdliJ uliOu Wy
Friends and people of other denominations.
! On the platform were many ministers and ell
ders, men and women. After prayer by Abb
gail Kelly and few minutes of silent devo-
ton, DR.. Clarke, followed by VIM johnson
in few words, invoked the divine blessing.
Dr. Clarke then spoke for three quarters of
an hour in a clear, forcible voice, and with a
power of expression at times almost vehement,
so absorbed was he in his exposition of his
text and its applicability to the needs of his
hearers. He is a man of perhaps ffty-fve,
with close cut hair and beard, we'll built and
of fine presence. This is his first visit to the
New England yearly meeting, and he is re-
garded as ane of the ablest preachers in the
denomination. His theme-"The Pascal
Lamb and its significance" drawn from
Exodus xii :22-"And ye shall take bunch of
hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the
basin and strike the Intel and the two side
posts with the blood that is in the basin and
none of you shall go out at the door of his
house until the morning" After a graphic
presentation of the scenes of that night when
Moses uttered the above command, the speak
er proceeded to point out its typical signif-
canoe as seen in tho sacrifice OF Christ. just
as the deluge, the fall of Sodom, tho shifting
of the first born in Egypt, and the other visi-
tations of God, were indicative of the final
Judgment, SO was this provision of the Lord a
forerunner of the coming Saviour and his cru
cifixion This was intended to impress upon
the chosen people that the penalty of sin was
death; that without the shedding of blood
there could he no remission. The first promi-
rent thought suggested was universal guilt in
the sight of God. No doubt this is hard. 1t
may seem unjust, but we must seek its explain
alton in the wisdom of God The other
thought was that God has provided a substi-
tute in Christ, His son. He drank the cup
and upon the cross made for us a way to the
Fathers forgiveness The mere shedding OF
Christ's blood will not save; but our hearts
and consciences must be sprinkled with it.
God does not say when 1 see you," but
''when see the blood and the evidence of re-
pentance and contrition then will pass over
thee" The difference between the sinner
saved and the sinner lost is the cross of Christ.
His closing words were earnest appeal to
those out of Christ, carried home by plain and
homely yet most effective illustrations and &C:
companied with the final admonition that the
blood must be sprinkled not under foot but
where it can be seen.
Very brief remarks by Rufus G. King, set
ting forth the promises of God and oul
obligations to him, were followed by few
words from Elizabeth l.. Comstock, detailing