Proceedings at the First Annual Meeting of the Free Religious Association, Held in Boston, May 28th and 29th, 1868

Description

Proceedings of the Free Religious Association’s first annual meeting, held in Boston on May 28–29, 1868. Includes committee reports, addresses and discussions on religion, worship, philanthropy, and social reform, followed by an appendix with an address and correspondence concerning religious movements abroad.

Contributors include Octavius B. Frothingham, James Freeman Clarke, Olympia Brown, John Weiss, Caroline C. H. Dall, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Wendell Phillips, Keshub Chunder Sen, Moncure D. Conway, and Isaac M. Wise.

Scan defects: printed pages 21–22 are missing; the copy also contains blank, damaged, duplicate, and misordered images. It should not be treated as a complete transcription witness. Navigation points to the surviving section openings in their actual scan positions.

Source: Internet Archive scan G5179. The available alternate file formats reproduce the same 122-leaf scan.

Table of contents 28 entries

Report 3
List of Officers 4
First Annual Report of the Executive Committee of the Free Religious Association 5
Friday's Session in Tremont Temple 19
1. Morning 19
  1. Address of the President 19
  2. Address of James Freeman Clarke 24
  3. Address of John P. Hubbard 37
  4. Address of Olympia Brown 43
  5. Address of John Weiss 48
2. Afternoon Session 54
  1. Present Tendencies of Society in Regard to Religious Organization and Worship 54
  2. Remarks of Caroline C. H. Dall 69
  3. Remarks of Charles C. Burleigh 70
  4. Remarks of J. M. Peebles 72
  5. Remarks of Aaron M. Powell 73
  6. Remarks of A. B. Alcott 77
3. Evening Session 79
  1. A Report on the Religious Duty of Philanthropy and Social Reform 79
  2. Address of T. W. Higginson 84
  3. Address of Wendell Phillips 90
  4. Address of Miss Lizzie Doten 103
  5. Closing Address of the President 105
Appendix 108
1. Substance of the Address Rabbi I. S. Nathans Would Have Made to the Convention 108
2. Letter from Keshub Chunder Sen, of the Theistic Church in India 111
3. Letter from Moncure D. Conway, with Regard to Religious Movements in England 115
4. Letter from Rev. Isaac M. Wise to the President 119