The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-06-18
THE FRIENDS.
Conclusion of the Business Meetings
and Adjournment.
The Peace Meeting Last Evening.

The morning meeting yesterday began at
| 10 o'clock.
The committee appointed for that purpose
reported committee to nominate COM
mittee on the subject of peace
The committee appointed with reference to
the accommodation Of the Yearly meeting in
1887 nominated committee to report next
year.
Met in joint session at $50 o'clock to dis
cuss the minute relating to receiving visiting
ministers After some discussion the fox
lowing minute was approved:
We desire to protect our membership from
all influences which are not in accordance
with the clear testimony of our religious
society and the teaching of the New Tesla
ment.
We believe in the spiritual nature of
Chrlsts kingdom, and that all outward cere-
monies have been fulfilled and ended in
Christ. This meeting records its Judgment
for the grand aim of its subordinate meet
ings that those holding or teaching a con-
trary doctrine can not be received as accept
able ministers of the Society of Friends
within our limits.
Rev. j. W. Parsons, delegate from the
Western yearly meeting of Baptists, now in
session in this city, extended the following
greeting:
We are glad OF the bond which unites us in
Christian fellowship to Him in whom the whole
family IN heaven and earth is named. There may
be dlference of practice, but the one great OBJ
1ect Of all Christians should be to restore upon
earth the New Testament type Of Christianity.
In the mems meeting the epistles to the
different Yearly meetings were taken up.
Epistles to the following yearly meetings
rnnd ond L. I.
forwarded to their several destinations:
London, Ireland, New York, Baltimore, In
diana, Ohio, Western, Iowa, Canada,
Kansas. A joint epistle to the meeting at
Brumana, Syria, was also read and the same
action taken.
The former committee of arrangements
was reappointed
The minutes of this yearly meeting were
ordered printed according to the established
custom and Friends Owen Dame and John
Ellory Paige were associated with the clerk
in this business.
The question of appointing a committee to
have direct charge of the religious meetings
at the yearly meeting was then introduced
and occasioned considerable discussion. 1t
was the opinion of the meeting that no
change should be made for the present at
least.
Henry G. Aydelotte and VIM. p Maeom-
Der were appointed to visit in company with
such as the women's meeting might join, to
attend the session of the Baptist Conference
in the evening and carry the minute in the
reception of Rev. ]. w. Parsons.
Chas. III. Jones reported that he had
visited the Congregational conference at
Lewiston and had been received with great
kindness. He said that he was very much
pleased with the references he heard there
to the work which showed that both
churches were working for the same Master
The committee appointed to report upon
the communication received from Rev. Dr.
Bashford, named as delegate to the conven-
ton of the Maine Methodist Episcopal
church to be held in Bridgton next year,
Charles G. Varney and Rebeeca Fl. Smiley
and as substitute Eli Jones and Ruth S.
Murray; all of whom were satisfactory to
the meeting.
The concurrence of the women's meeting
in the order for the printing of the minutes
was received and their request to publish
their epistles from the different yearly meet
ings and children's letter was granted
The meeting then adjourned finally to
meet in Newport next June.
AT the morning session Of the womens
meeting, after season of devotion, the
time was occupied in reading the epistles to
sister yearly meetings prepared by the COM
mittee on correspondence The committee
have been faithful to their trust as was fully
shown by the excellent epistles indited to
Brumana, Syria; London, England; New
York, Baltimore, Ohio, North Carolina and
Western yearly meeting.
The finance committee report the follow
ing appropriations: