F -2 IUhS VV\e^r^c:^2^ S^-^^^ ^ e.Vv/ ' O >-r , T t~\ Cl o-<^ ei. p in.-v'CL Friends' Commemoration of the Bi-Centenary of the Death of William Penn 1718-1918 Penn in \'()uth Penn in Old Age In response to the Proclamation of the Governor of Pennsylvania; to take place at Friends Meeting House, at Fourth and Arch Streets, Philadelphia, at S P. M., Sixth Day, Eleventh Month S, ii}i8, on the Anniversary Day of Penn s First Coming to Pennsylvania Charles Francis )enkins, Chairman Isaac Sharpless Wimjam P. Bancroft / "iiC- Chair ?nt'ii EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Albert Cook Mvers, Chair ifrnn Francis R. Tavlor, Sc'cretars-7^rfasiirer Charles Francis fenkins William 1. Hull Isaac Sharpless William B. Harvev William T. Elkinton Lucv B. Roberts Amelia Mott Gummere Morgan Bunting Ravner W. Kelsev I. Barnard \\ alton GENER William P. Bancroft Benjamin F. Battin J. Henry Bartlett Elizabeth Powell Bond |oel Borton Morgan Bunting Isaac H. Clothier Morris L. Clothier William W. Comfort Rowland Comlv Gilbert Cope William T. Elkinton Henrv Ferris Jesse C. Green Amelia Mott Gummere Richard Mott Gummere William B. Harvev AL COMMITTEE OF FK Walter W. Haviland [ohn Russell Haves William I. Hull' Robert M. Jannev Charles Francis [enkins Rufus M. Jones Ravner W. Kelsev Arthur N. Leeds Horace Mather Lippincott Albert Cook Mvers A. Mitchell Palmer E. Pusey Passmore Edward A. Pennock Joseph Rhoads Nathaniel Richardson Horace Roberts Luc\- B. Roberts I ENDS Alfred G. Scattergood Isaac Sharpless William C. Sproul Frederic H. Strawbridge Joseph Swain Francis R. Tavlor Allen C. Thomas Cieorge Vaux, [r. George A. Walton J. Barnard Walton Edmund C. Webster Mary H. Whitson Asa S. Wing George W'ood Herbert P. Worth Caroline ). Worth Stanle\' R. ^'arnall ./// Interested are Invited to he Present Site of House, Ruscombe, Berkshire, England, where William Penn died, 8th Month lo, 1718 (New Style) Friends' Meeting House, huilt 1688, tjnd Penn's Grave, at Jordans, Buckinghamshire, England .a ' ll "L"- Program The program being already full, there ivill not be time for other speakers This Penn Memorial Meeting is naturally to be retrospective in character, devoting itself to those aspects of the lite and times ot Penn to which all concerned can give appreciative and harmonious consideration. OPENING REMARKS, by the Chairman, Charles Francis Jenkins, Pres. of the Site and Relic Society of Germantown. GREETING, from William Penn's titular successor, the Gov- ernor of Pennsylvania, Martin G. Brumbaugh. MEMORIAL OF WILLIAM PENN BY CONTEMPOR- ARY ENGLISH FRIENDS, read by Jean Barclay Penn-Gaskell Hancock, of Philadelphia. A direct descendant of William and Gulielma ( Springett ) Penn, and of Robert Barclav, the Apologist. MEMORIAL OF WILLIAM PENN BY CONTEMPOR- ARY PENNSYLVANIA FRIENDS, read by Robert R. Logan, of Philadelphia. A direct descendant ot Penn's taithtul triend and secretarv, fames Logan. "THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM PENN," by Albert Cook Myers, of Moylan, Pa., Editor of the Works, and President of the Friends' Historical Society of England. HISTORICAL ADDRESS, by Isaac Sharpless, LL.D., Ex- President of Haverford College. POEM, by John Russell Hayes, Librarian, Swarthmore College. WILLIAM PENN AND RELIGIOUS TOLERA HON IN PENNSYLVANIA. Four-minute remarks from rcprcsentatii'es of those other religious denominatio/is Penn zcelcomeJ to his Province : THE BAPTISTS, Russell H. Conwell, Pastor of the Baptist Temple and Presi- dent of Temple University, Philadelphia. THE ROMAN CATHOLICS, The Archbishop of Philadelphia, D. J. Dougherty. -l- THE EPISCOPALIANS, Floyd W.Tomkins, of Holy Trinity Church, Philadelphia. THE JEWS, Joseph Krauskopf, ot Keneseth Israel Temple, Philadelphia. THE LUTHERANS, Edwin Heyl Delk, Minister of St. Matthew's Lutheran Church, Philadelphia. THE MENNONITES, Harry H. Snavely, Willow Street, Lancaster County, Pa. A descendant of Hans Herr, the well-known early Mennonite settler of Lancaster County THE PRESBYTERIANS, William Henry Roberts, LL.D., of Philadelphia. Stated Clerk of the General Assemblv ot the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A., and formerlv Moderator ot the General Assembly. THE REFORMED, Paul Seibert Leinbach, of Philadelphia, Editor of the Reformed Church Messenger, * Has been asked to speak. A LOAN Exhibit of Relics, Deeds and other Manuscripts relating onlv to William Penn and his Familv, with the co-operation ot the PViends' Historical Society of Philadelphia, will be on view in the Meeting House the evening of the Commemoration and will be fully safeguarded. The loan of such Penn mementoes is solicited and may be sent to the care of William B. Harvey, 304 Arch Street William Penn's SiciNATURE ivitJi Ills dttrsti/ig Great Seal of the Province of Pennsylvania bearing his Coat of Arms in wax, on the original parchment deed, executed at Phila- delphia, 8 Mo. (October) 18, 1701 (Old ^iy\e), for t lie ground at Friends' Meeting House, Fourth and Arch Sts., Philadelphia LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 0014311 1994