New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-29
FRIENDS FAVOR ARBITRATION.
AN EPISTLE FROM LONDON URGES THAT
THE SUBJECT BE KEPT TO THE FRONT
-SECOND DAYS SESSION

SECOND DAYS SESSION.
The second day Of the 2o2d annual gathering OF
| the NewYork Yearly Meeting OF the Religious So
ciety of Friends began yesterday with devotional
| meeting In the lower room OF the Gramercy Park
meetng-hou At 10 o'clock a. m. business
| session was held. After prayer had been offered
| James Wood read the opening minutes. Frances
j. Barnes sent letter regretting her inability 10
! attend. owing 10 the recent death Of her father
Reports from the quarterly meetings showed that
| all had made up the requisite quota toward year
ly meeting expenses, and in several sections con-
siderable voluntary contributions had been made
| toward home and foreign mission work. Creden-
tails of visiting ministers presented and their
bearers welcomed. Isom =. Wootton gave as n
watchword, THE law Of the spirit OF life In Christ
| Jesus hath made me free from the law OF sin and
death" He followed this with discourse showing
that all sin is the result Of moral death. In the
course Of his remarks he said that the inventor. the
electrician and the discoverer of facilities for
| locomotion were but thinking Gods thoughts over
| again. and were but unconscious factors in His
| great schemes Of blessing for mankind
Fraternal epistles from various centres were then
read. The London epistles were OF special inter-
est. One sent From meeting in the heart
Of great city to those assembled in like manner
In another" and contained the following Words
Even London and NewYork will one day be count
ed among the things that have been and are not
but the word of the Lord abldeth forever"
The London epistle also treated Of the question
Of arbitration as follows: IF. by earnest and per-
severing efforts both sides OF the Atlantic your
Nation and own, closely allied In blood
should be still further united by a permanent
treaty and the establishment or court OF arpltra-
ton. we feel that an important step would De
taken toward the formation OF a brotherhood OF
nations Let us keep the subject well TO the front
and endeavor influence those in power. SO that
Immediate action may be taken before public in
terest cools."
Albert X. Smiley, commenting on these words
hoped that they might incte the meeting to make
strong statements In its replies, and 10 take an
advanced position on the subject Of international
arbitration. James Wood and John u. Garrett
also spoke the same subject.
James Wood. of Mount kisco, was reappoihteu
clerk and David S. Taber, of New ork, was APP
pointed assistant clerk, of the Yearly Meeting.
The reading Of the epistles was then resumed. In
connection with these. Jonathan DICKINSON gave
comprehensive review of the amount ana extent OF
the home and foreign mission work done by frlends
of England. Sarah Ann Haydock called attention
TO the activity of young Friends In lrelahd.
On the reading OF the epistle from New-tneIano
Mary Jane Weaver spoke OF recent meetings III
that Yearly Meeting, and of the fact that these
Friends seemed to have solved the problem OF the
practicability OF adapting Quakersm to cities ana
Of the earnestness and consecratioa OF the young
workers there.
An epistle from Friends Of Philadelphia also
aroused considerab bic interest. ~
The Bible-school report shows sixty Bble -scnooIs
on the list. with an attendance or tnltty-HNe nun
! bred, of whom eleven hundred are Friends
At the Biblc-school conference in the evening
Ralph Wells, of New-York. gave an address on
~ he Bible school Teacher as a Soul winner