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Show 191 t 90 morning session. had unfortunately been on a train which was wrecked the previous night and would not reach Chicago until later in the day. lie then introduced :\. l'». Farquhar, a manu- iacturer Of York. Pennsylvania, who addressed the gathering on the subject of Pennsylvania's Experiment in Christianity. Pennsylvania's Experiment in Christianity A. B. FARQLIUAR. It is a rare privilege to represent. at a gathering of this kind. the State of Pennsylvania. The principles of the Sermon on the Mount. whose actual application to the affairs of inert is represented as a mere dream of chimerical fancy by tnany who value their own practical wisdom more highly than that sermon. were for more than half a century the fundamental law of Pennsylvania. Others may debate those principles on theoretical grounds. but it is the privilege of Pennsylvania to decide for them on the ground of experience. \Ve may claim to know, for we have tried. The result of Penn's experiment, his "pattern of a Christian commonwealth," has. again and again been character- ized. in words more or less: like these from Charles Stunner: "The flowers of prosperity smile in the blessed footprints oi \\iil am l'enn. His people were umnnlested and happy, while? sad contrast-those oi other colonies, acting upon the policy of the world. building forts and showing themselves in arms. not after receiving provocation. but merely in anticipation or from fear of danger. were harassed by perpetual alarm and pierced by the sharp arrows of savage war." Historians assure us that during: that entire period. from 1682 to 17:5. "the lndians in Pennsylvania never tool»: the life of a white man." Other colonies had their "Kine: Philip's" wars, their Selienmrtady and Deerticld massacres, but none such was l<noun in our state till the t . e of the Net olntiun, twenty years after the abaiu‘nuunent of l'tnn‘s methods. It is no mere sentiment, but :‘r deliberate judgment from the facts of history, which led Samuel Marphersriu launey, in his historical account of the early dais Of Pennsylvania. to conclude: "it would not be difficult to point out a dangerous fallacy in the maxim so generally believed-that in time of peace nations should prepare for war. For as in the intercourse of individuals with each other it is found that those who habitually carry arms are more liable than others to be involved in deadly attrays, so in the intercourse of nations the hostile attitude assumed by their vast armaments, and the numerous officers employed who are dependent for promotion and renown on actual hostilities, are rather incentives to war than sureties for peace." M 1‘. Janney has here stated a truth, an unshalreu truth, a deeply important truth. We reap what we sow; and men do lint gather a harvest of peace and international concord and human brotherhood by sowing gunpowder and fortifications and battleships. The history of early Pennsylvania, therefore, declares tor disarmament. Its voice, heard across a gulf of two centuries. is not loud, but it is perfectly clear. That voice it is our duty to echo today. Have we any hesitation in doing( so? We are conscious of the heavy weight of national lZlelllr-ll resting upon us, growing with every decade. \Nar costs now fully three times the annual average from 1871 to 1897; naval expenditure twice as heavy in 1896 as in 1886, five times in toot} what it was in ISM). and still soaring aloft; pensions in 188!) more than double their figure in 1876, for every yaw since 1891 more than double their 1886 figure, and in the last appn..priatitut bills larger than ever. being now six times th . amount lltdllCYt‘tl ample tif not excessive) by General Garfield, chairman of the Appropriations (‘uuunittem shortly after the Civil War. when pensions. of course, should of right have been much larger than they are now. Ytl we proba- blv reconcile ourselves to this lavish outpouringr oi the public treasure by persuading ourselv ‘ that it is somehow conducive. well'are. It is not in the least perhaps necessary. to the countr degree necessary or even conducive. To realize, this let us put the case to ourselves as individuals. perMv nearest neighbor now happens to be a highly valued sonal friend; but let us suppose that before we were acquaint-ed we acted on the principle that "if you wish peace prepare tor two pow- Wilr"-that "pace is secured by armingr ourselves until walls erful to be attacl<e< ." logically, we proceed to build high with powertul guards. We i ‘ them about our premises, and man |