Penn And Religious Liberty By Representatives Of Sixteen Denominations PDF Download

Excerpt from Penn and Religious Liberty: Interpreted by Representatives of Sixteen Denominations; Founders' Week Founders' week was ushered in October 4, 1908. In the midst of the days of celebration, with their spectacular features, in which the progress of industry and commerce, and the epochs of our history were portrayed, the still waters of religious progress sought deeper and more significant expression. On the evening of the sixth of the month, by invitation of the Religious Committee of Founders' Week, representatives of sixteen of Philadelphia's religious denominations came together in the two Friends' meeting-houses on Race and Cherry Streets, west of Fifteenth Street, freely granted by Friends for the purpose, and considered unitedly the topic, "Penn's Contribution to Religious Liberty." Nearly three thousand persons filled the two meeting-houses and listened with deep interest to the tributes paid to the great Founder of Philadelphia, and observed the exhibition of friendship and fellowship in religious association with a delight that will remain an inspiring and enduring memory. To make the event fully understood by those who were not present, it should be said that two meetings were in progress at the same time, the addresses in the Race Street meeting being repeated in the Cherry Street house. Isaac H. Clothier presided at the Race Street meeting, and Joseph Swain, President of Swarthmore College, in the Cherry Street house. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.