The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-21

Further Information About M~issions-Clos-
ing Session of the Quakers at Plainfeld.
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PLAINFIELD, Sept 20.-On Tuesday afternoon
the Woman's Foreign Mission Society held the ir
annual session. The report of the conference Of
delegates from the several yearly meetings was
presented. 1t gives encouragement for the
foreign mission fields and the work as presented
interest in its support.
Mr. Newman was invited to address the audi
encs, and gave a lucid presentation Of the field
entered and tho work done by the London
Yearly Meeting. English Friends in 1873 spent
S4o'6oo In support OF forty European missiona-
ries. Among the Mohammedans at CONSTANT
nople four Friends, two of whom are Armenians,
are missionaries. One hundred attend their
meetings from different nationalities,
AT Brumans, on the western slope OF Mt. Leba-
non, there are eight Friends as missionaries.
There are thirty members, eight schools, :wo
training homes, q hospital aud dispensary, =
new Westinghouse, accommodating two to three
hundred; one hundred aud seventy attend Sab
oatn-schoo! and meeting, and one hundred at
tend mothers meeting. Ramallah, near Jeru-
salem. 10 another mission center, com prising
two Friends missionaries, eleven native helpers.
Tour schools and q medical dispensary. This
mission 10 DOW transferred to New Englaud
Yearly Meeting Of Friends. Madagascar has
three principal centers-AntananArivo.A rivoui-
manio, aud Msndri-drano. There are there
fourteen Friends missionaries. The district is
seventy-two niles long. There are $4,000 ad-
herents ADD 1880 Sabbath strenders, 1879 native
churches. l29 schools, $4,000 scholars, q boys
school and a girls school,, q hospital and q print
impress. In south Africa there ara two
Friends missionaries and three stations; in Chi
ma, two Friends missionaries at Hsnchune
wear native costume. It takes three months to
resch the station, 1000 miles from Hankow.
The portion allotted TO Friends is the northeast
part or 81 Chuan. In India there are seven
Friends They have an orphanage Mt two sta
tions. Hosbangabad and Sohagpur. and q boys
aud girls school.
Wednesday afternoon q large attend
ance came Ia from the country, sup
posing a public meeting for worship would
be neld in the morning. To accommodate them
a meeting was provided In the tent The after
noon was assigned for worship and two large
meetings were held. In she evening . devo-
nonal meeting was held.
On Thursday morning a devotional meeting
was held. and many Friends were heard from.
Some very practical advice was given. At 10 A.
n. the yearly meeting st large entersd upon its
closing session. The representative presented
their report, containing ap apportionm ent OF
moneys TO be raised among the quarterly meet
lngs, and also al apportionmsnt OF documents;
the report of caretakers. and rsport on order OF
busioess, and the appointment of q new com
mites for a like purpose for the ensuing year:
also. the report Of a committee TO devise means
TO aid such as desire . proper qualification for
church service. A course of reading and study
wac Formulated, presented and approved. The
committee appointed to consider tho subject of
a conference of foreign missions reported atten-
tiou TO the subject. and was continued. Essays
or epistles TO other yearly meetings IN Europe
and America were read and approved. Several
expressed the great satisfaction this annual
feast had afforded than. The clerk concluded
the meeting, and the Frieuas returned TO their
homsa