Two hundredth anniversary of the founding of London Grove Meeting by the Society of Friends at London Grove, Pennsylvania, tenth month third, 1914 . ession of a breadth ofview that combined in a remarkable manner a spirit of charity andtoleration, with a firm and uncompromising devotion to individualpromptings to duty that fails to find any approach to itself in all theother twelve neighboring colonies. But if we fail to have the list of historical personages to gracethe initial pages of our first centurys history, we can justly claimthat we head it with a man greater in all the elements that
Two hundredth anniversary of the founding of London Grove Meeting by the Society of Friends at London Grove, Pennsylvania, tenth month third, 1914 . ession of a breadth ofview that combined in a remarkable manner a spirit of charity andtoleration, with a firm and uncompromising devotion to individualpromptings to duty that fails to find any approach to itself in all theother twelve neighboring colonies. But if we fail to have the list of historical personages to gracethe initial pages of our first centurys history, we can justly claimthat we head it with a man greater in all the elements that constitutegreatness in statesmanship, and scholarly attainments, and true gen-tlemanliness than any other colony can show. The checkeredcareer of this man offers all the variety that the most curious canexpect, but his lifes story was in marked contrast with those whomade up his colony. He left an abiding impress on the religious organization withwhich he cast in his lot, and the personal influence he exerted increating his own colony found wider and wider avenues, till it hasbeen justly said that now in the twentieth century it permeates the. fundamental structure of our national government more than anyother one, two or three inlluences that could lje named. Neither history nor poetry has done justice to the name andcharacter of tlie man, wlio a)>ove all others should he ujjjjermostin the minds of Friends and tlieir associates when tiiey gatiier tocelebrate the l)eginninj^s of Quaker history in early the beautiful homesteads that surround us here, thereis one a short distance to the southeast which claims especial promi-nence to-day, but before we picture the home scene there, let usplace ourselves in imagination on a spring morning in 17<Jl in thelittle village of Upland, a few yards back from the Delaware score or less of simple log homes grouped in becoming symmetrygive the little town, now less than nine years old, the air of impor-tance.
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