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ITEMS FROM PERIODICALS71 disincumber those excellent things they professe and give witnesse to from such things as make them seem so uncouth and ridiculous. That the most excellent things of the Gospell be not slighted, condemned or suspected by men through the odnesse and indiscretion of such as seem the most zealous professors of them. This intimation is not alltogether unlike yt of Paul to Timothy, lett as many servants as are under the yoke count their Masters worthy of All honour, yt ye name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed wch monition of the Apostle by Analogy will reach a great way, and one of your sincerity and parts will easily improve it. I have nothing more for the present to add but yt the trouble I have given you and myself in writing this letter is from mere kindenesse and good will, and yt I hope you will take it so. And therefore committing you to God and the gracious guidance of the Spirit of his Son the Lord Jesus Christ I take leave and rest. Your Affectionate Friend to serve you Henry More From Ragley, May 22, 1675. ITEMS FROM PERIODICALS Friends' Intelligencer —Final report of the Friends' Sesqui-Centennial Commission.—1 mo. 1, 1927, p. 10. —Historical account of Friends' activities in Flushing, New York, with a picture of the house built by John Bowne in 1661.—1 mo. 8, 1927, p. 29. —Further details concerning the expansive plans of Swarthmore College for the Friends Historical Library, mentioned briefly in the Spring Bulletin . The new quarters for the library will be an extension of the present general Library of Swarthmore College. Funds for the building have been donated by Clement M. Biddle in memory of his father, Clement M. Biddle. "Various meetings of the Society of Friends have already agreed to make the library at Swarthmore the repository for material of historical significance, and numerous individuals will do likewise with family records, letters, pictures and books. There is thus under way a movement which will make the Friends Historical Library at Swarthmore one of the important libraries of the country for historical research as well as for the visitor interested non-professionally in historical and religious matters." A portrait of J. Russell Hayes, newly appointed Librarian of Friends Historical Library, is given.—2 mo. 19, 1927, p. 151. The same subject is continued in a later number of the Intelligencer, with an historical sketch of Friends Historical Library, some interesting notes on its contents, and a tentative outline of future plans.—3 mo. 5, 1927, p. 195. —An account by John Cox, Jr., of the various laws enacted by New York, colony and state, in the early days to relieve the Quakers from taking oaths, participating in warfare, etc.—4 mo. 9, 1927, p. 287. 72 BULLETIN OF FRIENDS' HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION —Extracts from an article on " The Speech of Plain Friends," in American Speech, January, 1926.—4 mo. 16 and 23, 1927, pp. 306, 327. —A strong plea to Friends to increase their efforts in behalf of the abolition of capital punishment, by Peter Gulbrandsen.—5 mo. 7, 1927, p. 366. —A biographical sketch, with portrait, of Dr. Joseph Swain, President Emeritus of Swarthmore College, who died at Swarthmore, Pa., 5 mo. 18, 1927. He was President of the college from 1902 until 1921 when he was compelled to resign on account of ill health. The great advances made by Swarthmore College under his regime are recounted in the article.—5 mo. 28, 1927, p. 440. —An article, with illustrations, telling of the plans for the Jeanes Hospital in Montgomery County, Penna., and the progress already made in the building. The erection of this hospital was made possible by the legacy left to Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Race Street) by Anna T. Jeanes in 1907.—6 mo. 4, 1927, p. 457. —An account of the dedication exercises, 5 mo. 1, 1927, of the new meeting house, Springfield, North Carolina, and an historical sketch of the meeting .—6 mo. 18, 1927, p. 499.—See also The American Friend, 5 mo. 19, 1927, p. 343. —An account of the exercises held to commemorate the founding of the...