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THE

AMERICAN ADVOCATE OF

PEACE AND ARBITRATION. [Entered at the Boston Post Office, as Second Class Mail Matter.]

VOL. LIU. No. 5. BOSTON, JUNE-JULY, 1891.

Price, $1.00 a Year.

CONTENTS

Meeting of Executive Committee The Annual Meeting .... Resolutions adopted at Annual Meeting The Annual Report of the Directors . Men and Things. Diary of the Secretary. The Gathering of the Peace Congress

Poem, Rev. Dr. Asinnwall A Great Suggestion tor 1893 Hideous Materialism J. F. Greene. The Hinderers Poem, Ida W. Benham The New Womanhood Mary A. Liver

more . Our Anniversary. A Contrast.

PAGE 115 115 115 116 120 120

123 123 123 124

124 125 125

" Revenge is Sweet "

Satan Came Also . Our New President Decease of Mrs. Hodgson Pratt Australian Federation The Proposed Meetings in 1893 May Meeting of Executive Committee Our Nation Poem, Mary E. Blake Howard on Sherman . Our Invitations Declined . English Peace Notes Alsace-Lorraine Gentle Influences Poem, Sympathy in our Work F. W. Faber, D.D, The Modoc Indians.

PAGE 125 125 126 126 126 126 126 127 127 127 127 127 128 128 128

PAGE Wise Words John Hemmenway . . 128 Disarmament. 128 Theatres. 128 Itinerary. 129

War and Pood. 129 Methodist Ecumenical Council . . 130 The Italian Situation. 130 Harrison at Lincoln's Tomb . . . 130 The Laws of War. 139 The Influence of Quakers ... 130 Peace Poem, Edwin Arnold . . . 131 The Beginning of a Modern Missionary 131 Savings Banks. 133 Do your Best Rev. E. E. Rale, D.D. . 134 Adirondack Mountains .... 134

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114 THE AMERICAN ADVOCATE OF PEACE AND ARBITRATION.

OFFICERS OF THE AMERICAN PEACE SOCIETY.

president:

Hon. Robert Treat Paine, Boston, Mass.

corresponding secretary i

Rev. Rowland B. Howard, 1 Somerset St., Boston, Mass.

vice-presidents :

Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, Boston, Mass. John G. Whittier, Amesbury, Mass. Rev. Smith Baker, D.D., Minneapolis, Minn. Prof. Geo. N. Boardman, Chicago, 111. Pres. Samuel W. Boardman, Maryville, Tenn. Hon. Charles C. Bonney, Chicago, 111. Rev. Phillips Brooks, D.D., Boston, Mass. Hon. Felix R. Brunot, Pittsburgh, Pa. Hon. Thomas B. Bryan, Chicago, 111. Rev. W. A. Campbell, D.D., Richmond, Va. Hon. Jonathan Chace, Providence, R. I. H. B. Chamberlain, Denver, Col.

Joseph Cook, Boston, Mass. Hon. Frederick Douglas?, Port au Prince, Hayti. Rev. Howard C. Dunham, Winthrop, Mass. Hon. David Dudley Field, New York, N". Y. Hon. John B. Foster, Bangor, Me.

Philip C. Garrett, Philadelphia, Pa. Rev. Edward Everett Hale, D.D., Boston, Mass. Hon. Thomas N. Hart, Boston, Mass. Hon. Rowland Hazard, Peacedale, R. I. John Hemmenway, St. Anthony's Park, Minn. VV. G. Hubbard, Columbus, Ohio.

Hon. John Jay, New York, N. Y. Hon. Sumner I. Kimball, Washington, D. C. Rev. Geo. F. Magoun, D.D., Grinnell, Iowa. Hon. Nathan Matthews, Jr., Boston, Mass. Rev. John W. Olmstead, Boston, Mass. Rev. A. P. Peabody, D.D., Cambridge, Mass. Hon. Amos Perry, Providence, R. I. L. H. Pillsbury, Esq., Derry, N. II. Hon. Wm. L. Putnam, Portland, Me. Hon. Charles T. Russell, Jr., Cambridge, Mass. J. H. Stickney, Esq., Baltimore, Md. David S. Taber, New York, N. Y. Pres. C. F. Thwing, D.D., Cleveland, Ohio.

Bishop Henry W. Warren, Denver, Col.

directors :

Rev. L. H. Angier, Holyoke, Mass. Hannah J. Bailey, Winthrop Centre, Me. W. H. Baldwin, Boston, Mass. Ida Whipple Beiiham, Mystic, Conn. Rev. Geo. D. Boardman, D.D., Philadelphia, Pa. Rev. Sidi H. Browne, Columbia, S. C. Rev. Frank G. Clark, Plymouth, N. H. Rev. Joseph S. Cogswell, Standish, Me. Rev. D. S. Coles, A.M., M.D., Wakefield, Mass. T. B. Cooledge, Esq., Sortii Woburn, Mass. Geo. Cromwell, Brooklyn, N. Y. Rev. S. Hopkins Emery, Taunton, Mass. Thomas Gaffield, 54 Allen St., Boston, Mass. Rev. Thomas Hill, D.D., Portland, Me. Hon. H. O. Houghton, Cambridge, Mass. Julia Ward Howe, Boston, Mass. P. McGrath, Esq., Quincy, Mass. Thos. A. Robertson, Rockford, 111. Frederic A. Smith, Maiden, Mass. Kate Gannett Wells, Boston, Mass. Rev. A. E. Winship, Boston, Mass. Rev. John Worcester, Newton, Mass.

executive committee:

Rev. J. H. Allen, Cambridge, Mass. Nathaniel T. Allen, West Newton, Mass. Rev. S. C. Bushneil, Arlington, Mass. Joseph Cartland, Newburyport, Mass. Cornelius T. Dunham, Esq., Annidale Park, Dorchester, Mass. Rev. David H. Eia, D.D., Chelsea, Mass. J. E. Farwell, Esq., 45 Pearl St., Boston, Mass. Hon. David K. Hitchcock, Newton, Mass. Augustine Jones, Providence, R. I. Rev. A. A. Miner, D.D., 528 Columbus Av., Boston, Mass. Wm. A. Mowry, Ph.D., 50 Bromfield St., Boston, Mass. Rev. Philip S. Moxom, D.D., Boston, Mass. Hon. W. E. Sheldon, West Newton, Mass. Rev. Chas. B. Smith, West Medford, Mass. Rev. G. W. Stearns, Acton, Mass. Hon. A. B. Wentworth, Boston, Mass.

Rev. Daniel Richards, Office Agt.9 18Loring St., Somerville, Mass. F. M. Patten, Treasurer, 15 Milton Place, Boston, Mass. D. C. Heath, Auditor, Newtonville, Mass.

CONSTITUTION OF THE AMERICAN PEACE SOCIETY.

Article I. This Society shall be designated the ' American

j Peace Society."

j Art. II. This Society, being founded on the principle that all

j war is contrary to the spirit of the gospel, shall have for its object to" illustrate the inconsistency of war with Christianity, to show its baleful influence on all the great interests of mankind, and to devise means for insuring universal and permanent peace.

Art. III. Persons of every Christian denomination desirous of promoting peace on earth, and good-will towards men, may be come members of this Society.

Art. IV. Every annual subscriber of two dollars, and every donor of five dollars, shall be a member of this Society.

Art. V. The payment of twenty dollars at one time, shall con stitute any person a Life-member, and fifty dollars, a Life-director.

Art. VI. The chairman of each corresponding committee, the officers and delegates of every auxiliary contributing to the funds of this Society, and every minister of the gospel who preaches once a year on the subject of peace, and takes up a collection in behalf of the cause, shall be entitled to the privileges of regular members.

Art. VII. All contributors shall be entitled within the year to one-half the amount of their contributions in the publications of the Society.

Art. VIII. The officers of this Society shall be a President, Vice-Presidents, Directors, Secretaries, Treasurer and an Execu tive Committee of not less than five, with power to fill their own vacancies, and transact the general business of the Society. The Board of Directors shall consist of not less than twenty, who shall have power to supply vacancies in any office of the Society, and direct all its operations till successors are chosen. The Vice Presidents shall be ex-officio Directors, and the President, Secre taries and Treasurer ex-officio members of the Executive Com

mittee.

^ Art. IX. The Society shall hold an annual meeting at such time and place as the Board of Directors may appoint, to receive their own and the Treasurer's report, to choose officers, and transact such other business as may come before them.

Art. X. The object of this Society shall never be changed; but the constitution may in other respects be altered, on recom mendation of the Executive Committee, or of any ten members of the Society, by a vote of three-fourths of the members present at any regular meeting.

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