The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-06-09
LoNawoeD MEETING.
Large Audiences and an interesting Pro.
gram Each Day.

The annual meeting at Longwood which
began last Friday closed In harmony on
Sunday. The session on Friday mornin 4
was devoted mainly to the address OF
Professor DeMotte on the Essentials of
Religion" and this was discussed for
the remainder of the session with much
spirit
The speakers central thought was as
follows: II had heard the story of Chrlsts
redemption Of the world l had heard
these things but did not take them to my
self because | thought they We're for the
great Audience out beyond me. At col
lego we were taught that If a boy did not
accept religion in his senior yearhi5 chance
was about gone. Invent TO hear the great
evangelist, Moody, in one of his most pow
srful sermons. l came away cold as an
iceberg, though l tried my best to be in
fiuenced by his power.
The following law which came to me in
my biological study give you upon tho
board, because 1t changed my life. Hero
1t is: The constant execution Of "a definite
function gradually effects u structural
modification.
We are the sums of our experience.
The richer our experience, the richer our
lives.
Our brains ION tho body side though
am not q matefinlis) have cohstau thy
stored In them the effects of our past lives.
There are variety of phases of human
character There are the we'll balanced
/ people, whose brains show the result of the
exercise of all the functions; there are the
thinkers who study and examine truth but
whose lives lack action, and the specialists
whose functions are warped by concentra-
ton OF the mind IN rut,
People who cultivate more corner OF
the brain and whose theories are danger,
GUS because they do not use all the brain
but only II portion.
The second prinCipleto DO borne in mind
is: A personal life and experience based
upon such belief,
r This perso' al cxl e'encei Is my life work.
We can not live dual life,
William Harvey objected TO the discourse
as tending too much toward orthodoxy,
but no address was defended by Oliver
Fell, Mrs. Viola Gilbert and NJ p. Bar
nard.
The opening address at the afternoon
session was by Rev. Merle St. G. Wright,
the title ofhls address being Science and
Religion" aud his contention that we
must obey the intellect no less than THO
emotions and that tho intelligence win
not DO content to DO fettGrGl by worn out
superstitions and that religion that is
lnsciUntilc is as bad as matorialism.
MIR, Wright was followed by Nolney
Cushing who gave an address on prohibi-
tion in which he went into the subject
thoroughly from Il scientific and eConomi-
cal standpoint.
On Saturday morning Mr.. itnckley the
presiding officer gAvo II very interesting
address on the public schools in which he
discussed their functions and the reforms
chat are needed to make thcse fountains
what they should b.
The subject wu5 thoroughly discussed
by Whittier Fulton, Henry kent, NJ, p.
Barnard, Prof. DeMotte, Elizabeth Pass.
more, Oliver Fell and others.
In the afternoon VIM. Kent read pa
per on ''Imaginatl0n In Education," and
Rachel Foster Avery described the work
Of the recent "mothers' congress in
Washington.
The last topic of the afternoon was u
discussion Of christian science following
paper by Miss Dyer Of Philadelphia on that
subject. and the discussion continued till
the hour Of adjournment.
There was u large audience present on
Sunday morning to hear Hon, Nj. Bar
rows discourse on Turkey and Greece
which was very instructive exposition of
ahat subject
Those present from Wilmington were
Rev. Alexander l. Bowser, MIR. and Mrs.
Albert Thatcher, Mrs. Helen Clarlson,
Mrs. Laura Webb, Miss Emma WorrHll
Mr., and Mrs. Alfred d. Warner, Mrs
Heed and Iiba Way.