The Portland daily press., 1895-06-18
THE YEARLY MEETING.
A Day of Interesting Reports and
Business.

The session of the Friends began yester.
day morning at s. 80 o'clock with meet,
ing on ministry and oversight. Prayers
were offered by Phoebe r. Clifford and
Silas F. Strout.
An hour of discussion followed in re-
gard to the most successful and profitable
methods of conducting Friends meet
ings.
AT 10 a. m. the regular session of the
Yearly meeting opened. Prayer was
offered by Barcley Jones of Kansas. The
subject was introduced of sending a
message of love and sympathy to Mrs.
Jane Cox who is lying sick at her home
here in Portland. This was done.
The following committees were then
appointed:
Committee for Oak Grove Seminary
for one year-Charles M. Bailey, @.
Irving Bailey, Charles M Jones, Joseph
=. Briggs, John J. Frye, George L.
Crossman, Sophia D. Bailey, Hannah j.
Myra Z. Frye.
For two years-Timothy B. Hussey,
Frank E. Jones, Alfred H. Jones, Henry
Winslow, Edward A. Bailey, Eliza p
Pierce, Mary E. Taber, Mary g. Winslow,
Eleanora S. Woodman, j. Warren
Hawkes..
II. Gates VIM. II. Douglass. Sarah
Marble, Anna M. Priest, Eliza B.
Douglass Herbert O. Jepson, Clara w.
Mumford, Lettie M. Bailey, Rufus M.
Jones, Melvin M. Bailey
Gospel Committee at large-For one
year, Joseph 3. Briggs; for two years,
Harriet D. Collins; for three years,
Charles n. Jones.
Phoebe S. Aydelott, Charles H Thorn
dike VIM. P. Macomber, Henry F.
Newell, Salome G. Wheeler, James M
Estes Emeline H. Tuttle, Jesse McPher-
son, Silas H Garland
Foreign Mission Committee for one
year-Timothy B. Hussey, Anna G.
Wood, Hannah J. Bailey, Alice c. Earle,
Harriette D. Collins.
For two years-William Thompson,
Ruth / Murray, Huldah 81. Leighton,
Susan Thompson, Robert P Clifford,
Olney 7. Meader, VIM. S. Hussey.
For three years-Samuel Buffum,
Henry D. Swift, d. Wheeler Swift,
Gulielma G. Wood, Martha E. Hogg,
Elizabeth <. Jones, Mary W. Jones Of
Church Extension Board to fill vacan-
cies for three years-Charles A. Chase,
Anna NJ: Cove, George L. Crosman,
Sarah W. Newlin.
Trustee for three years olney T.
Meader.
Harriet d. Collins of Hopkinton, R. L,
and teacher at Oak Grove, was appointed
fraternal delegate to the Methodist Con-
ference at Auburn, Me.
Interesting epistles were read from the
yearly meetings of Oregon, Canada,
Baltimore, Western, California, Ohio and
North Carolina.
The Christian Endeayor report shows
that the active and associate membership
have increased thirteen and half and
sixty five per cent respectively. The total
present membership is 747 active mem
bers, and 219 associate members
The report of the Freedmen's commit
tee on the school at Marysville, Tennessee
showed that the attendance has again
been much larger than the accommoda-
tions are equal to. The statistics are
Number of days taught, 100; number of
students enrolled, 25S per cent of attend
ance, 83; number of boarders in the build
ing, rs; number Of teachers in training
class, 109; number graduating in the
year, II /; amount expended, $2 494. As.
Besides the income of the Sturge and
Camp funds, the yearly meeting votes to
loan $1,000 until the income of the now
unproductive Knowles fund shall come
in. The fund is invested in Southern
lands, and its prospects are good. d
The Temperance committees report was
next in order The superintendent of
lectures reports that 81 lectures and ad-
dresses have been given. Twelve sermons
have been preached on the subject of
temperance, and several public meetings
have been held in the interest of this
work. The lee turers have been Mary J.
Weaver of New York, and John G. Woolly
of Chicago. There is deepening interest
in the subject and the committee feel en-
couraged. The committee have expended
S270 SO for lectures and literature
AFTERNOON.
In the afternoon at 2 80 meeting was
held in the interest of Bible school work.
and stirring addresses were made by
Peter W. Raidebaugh of Chicago. A. P.
Foster, superintendent of the New Eng
land Bible School Association.
At p m. the regular afternoon session
began. The committee on the Mosher
fund, for the distribution of books and
literature, reported that during the year
they had distributed two hundred copies
of an address by James Wood of New
York, entitled 'The Society of Friends
and Its Mission" Three hundred copies
of the American Friend have been
distributed among the families of the
New England Meeting. Two hundred
and eight copies of present lenses of
the Blessed Life" by F. B. Meyer, have
been distributed, also fifty eight copies of
History of Society of Friends, +" by Allen
G. and Richard H. Thomas of Baltimore
The total expense has been 1867. 80.
A very interesting report of the Bible
School committee was presented, giving
the work of the past year. Seventy two
Bible schools were reported, the increase
in the total membership over last year
being 1893.