The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-09-30
INDIANA YEARLY MEETING.
The Persecution of DIR. Clark Not Gen
orally opuIar

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
RICHMOND. Ind, Sept. 29.-It is said
that three-fourths of the Indiana Yearly
Meeting regards the treatment accorded
DR.. Dougan Clark at Earlham as a perse-
cution and uncalled for. Rev. Abram J..
Nathan. the converted Jew, will leave in
about two months as a missionary to Mo-
rocco. He will take his wife and babe with
hi1n- Indiana Yearly Meeting is in debt
about $4,000. The devotional service Sat
urday morning was conducted by Rev.
John H. Douglass, of Salem, Ore. The clos
ing session of the ministers and elders was
held this morning. The regular business
session began at 10 o'clock. DR.. Hatcher, of
Chicago University, a graduate of Will
mington College, was introduced and spoke
briefly. Last year the Yearly Meeting ap-
proved the opening of California Yearly
Meeting A committee was appointed to
select delegates to attend the opening of
that meeting. They were: ]. B. Bogue,
Joseph A Goddard. Leander j. Woodland.
William Wildman, Robert Coats, Elizabeth
b. Bailey. Lydia j. Hill. Rachel Maddox
and Mahala Jay. DIR. William ". Coffin.
of California. was introduced. and asked
help for the Yearly Meeting of that State.
One thousand dollars, $500 to be paid this
year and $500 next year. was appropriated
A minute was read granting the use Of
the Yearly Meeting house to j. Wilbur
Chapman some time during the coming
winter for a series OF evangelistic services.
The objection raised was that an organ
would be used in the house. Much discus
sion ensued over the point. Several OBJ
jected to the minute, but IL was approved.
TIE fourteenth annual report of the evan
gelistic and pastoral committee was read.
Following is the summary: Number of
series of meetings held, 1871, number of
professed conversions and renewals, 1,756:
number OF applications to be received into
membership. 969: money raised in the quar-
tiers and expended in evangelistic work.
s .293-1 money raised in the quarters and
expended In pastoral work. S~9.6S3.oi. num-
Der or evangelists and workers reported as
101: number giving their entire time to
pastoral work. 81; number giving a portion
of their time, 81: number OF meetings un-
der pastoral care, O.; number reported as
coming forward in the ministry, 4. Three
new meeting houses built. costing 81. 13,
twenty-eight meeting houses repaired, cost
ing $l,120: total receipts. 4,69i; expendi-
: lures. S.075. Sixty-seven ministers We're
helped, and the fetal amount expended by
the quarterly meetings and Yearly Meeting
in eVangelistic work was $5.oe2-4.
Much important work was done this az
ternoon. Edward White and Esther Pugh
were elected trustees OF Earlham College
and collections amounting to $1,000 were
taken for pastoral work. The Earlham
College report showed an enrolment OF III,
at Spiceland. "a. and at Paramount. 1S9-
At the Friday night session the following
new missionary board was elected: Joseph
Dickinson: Eikanan Beard, David Sutton.
William Hiatt. Edward Bells Irena Beard,
Eliza Hiatt, Josephine Grave, Laura Dick
fnson and Elizabeth Ii. Bailey. The vacan-
cies caused In the representative meeting