The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1871-10-07
Yearly Meeting.

Inc OrtnOoOx Yearly M eetlng OF
Friends commenced OH the 26th OF Sep
TENDER, end closed on tho Sd Of October.
The attendance was large, including nu>
merous visitors fro N other Yearly Meet
ings-Wm. Wetherall. Of Canada, David
Updegraf Of Ohio, George Barrow, from
England, Enos Pray. from Western, and
many other ministers.
Prayer meetings were held each morn
ing At 8 O'Clock, at Fifth street meeting
house, which were largely attended.
The great idea prominent in all the
preaching was salvation through faith in
the blood Of Christ.
The proceedings Of the meeting we're
OF great interest The number Of mem.
bers has increased atout 1,0c0. There
are II .62l m ,mbers in this Yearly Meet
ing, with 163 ministers-ninet OF
whom were recommended the past year.
About $500 members Irving in Kansas
will be organized into . new Yearly
Meeting next fall, but this will not A.
feet the attendance at this Yearly Meet
ing, as probably not more than Fifty were
here from there this fall.
Itaopearcd from the reports that only
two III ceilings in the limits of the whole
Yearly Meeting are without Sabbath
Schools }. and these attend Union schools.
Instructions in the scriptures is receiv
ing great deal OF attention from the
Society, both from adults and children.
A Yearly Meeting conference is to be
held at Newport next spring and the
biennial meeting Of all the Friends In
America, is to be held at Wilmington ii
November.
Interesting reports Of the day schools
were read. A new college has been
commenced at Wilmington, Ohio, and q
number Of academies aTs in successful
operation. Earlham College is doing
we'll $50 members are engaged in
teaching
A fund has been raised Of $4,000 fol
al endowment of Earlham College. Thi
has to be raised to $4,000 before it i
available.
| The report :romthe- Fndian commit,e
was thought to present. very favorab
prospect and hereafter. with similar care
we can get along without Indian wars
and that these people will become set
tied and civilized. This report is val
liable document, and 10000 copies wer
ordered to be printed.
The Peace Committee reported tina
they had published near 3oOO.oO {
pages on this subject. and that their pc
riodicals had reached about 1900 min
listers Of the gospel. They have CT
pended about $1lOo the past year
The Book and Tract committee n
ported that they had bought and put
lished over 100000 pages Of tracts +,
cost Of $4,000. These have bee
drawn BY the members, and distribute
in their religious labors and travels.
The Foreign Missionary cammittt
read interesting letters from Elkans
and Irene Beard, located in India, ar
Lewis and Sarah Street at Madagasce
The committee on Freedmen reports
hat they had labored principally ne
Helena, Arkansas, whore they have
good farm, and school property whi'
has cost $4,000, and there is a membe
ship of about forty colored people. tn
, committee has expended about 500
the past year. The property at Laude
dale. is sold, and the property in Lit,
Rock is now offered for sale. Abo
twenty students have been IN the scho
at Helena several years. and have ma
satisfactory progress, comparing favor
, bly, with the same grade Of students
colleges North. These will soon be 6
. gagged in teaching.
, A temperance committee was arpoi'
ed, which is to have branches in eve
Settlement Of Friends.
The Whites Institute. situated on
t Wabash, consisting Of good isubstan,
buildings, and farm Of 600 or Z
j, acres for home for poor children, au d
educate them is in successful operati,
Tn meetings were 20 absorbed W
their regular business that no ar-an,
!. nents were mode for the erection 0
new Yearly Meeting house.
G On Sunday there was an imme
crowd IN attendance. Qlite nun
of impressive sermons were deliver
which were ,is.ehed to with marked
tention. The meeting was perhaps
!. most interesting one ever held N
city.