The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-10-05
THURSDAY AFTERNOON.

Immediately on opening the afternoon
session the chair announced the follow
ing committees:
Religious services:-Mr. Packard, Mr.. Wells
Miss Mabel Allison,
Unfinished business:-Rev. t. E. Dotter. Rev
Eliza Curtis, Mrs. Helen Jack.
Auditing:-U. Peckham. e. p. Sinclair John
Herring
Nominations:-R H. L. Gillespie, Louis
Tucker. Miss Joie Agan.
Resolutions Rev. j. M. Getchell, J. E. Reyes
Mrs. Louis Tucker.
Minutes of last years session read.
Report of Executive Board was given
by the Secretary. Three meetings had
been held. A return deed to Clarinda
parish had been executed but no extern
sive business had been transacted. No
new obligations incurred.
FELLOWSHIP COMMITTEE.
The Fellowship Committee reported
through DR.. Crum. Twenty two ordain-
ed and four licensed ministers hold fel
lowship. Mrs. Eliza Curtis, J. L. Ever
ton and w. B. Washburn were ordained
the last year. Fellowship had been with
drawn from w. B. Washburn. Trans
fers: G. E. Varney, to Wisconsin; w. F..
Smith, to Kansas; A. X. BEEN, to Illi-
nois. Received S. F. Glib from Wiscon-
sin.
SECRETARY's REPORT.
The Secretary's report was given
showing quotas paid from Usage, Ossian,
Webster City, Waterloo, Cedar Rapids
and Mitchellville. Total receipts from
parishes and individuals S14496. The
Secretary claims that there has been no
loss in the State strength during the
past year, if no decided gain could be
claimed.
The following recommendations were
made: l. That we engage in no mis-
sionary schemes for the increase Of the
number of parishes through Convention
aid. 2. That parish aid be left wholly
in the hands of the Executive Board. 3.
That the work of parish organization be
engaged in with more caution. 4. That
there be better understanding between
the General and State Conventions in
the prosecution of our common work.
5. That the various departments of the
church, local and general, have more
nearly uniform time of holding annual
meetings. g. That the State Secretary
and Chairman Of the Fellowship Com
mittee be constituted a committee to
report at once to the editor of the keg-
lister such facts and statistics as will
enable him to make that publication a
reliable source of information for Iowa.
The recommendations were referred to
a special committee consisting of L. E..
Dotter. DIR. Arnoup, j. M. Getchell. ST.
Glib and g. M. Stoughton.
The report was made later and was
favorable, with the explanation that
number three was not to be understood
as discouraging earnest missionary work
or legitimate church extension. The
Committee reported an additional rec
ommendation that the Executive Board
prepare circular setting forth its needs
and purposes and that these circulars
with pledge blanks be distributed in
quantities to every society each quarter,
and to isolated Universalists ALSO The
ministers to call for the State dues from
their people by quarterly collections, or
annual collections according to the local
circumstances.
MRS. GIBBS ADDRESS.
At o'clock Mrs. Sophie Glib gave
an exceedingly interesting and practi.
cally suggestive paper on: Liberalism
in India and it's ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
OCCASIONAL SERMON
In the evening the Occasional Sermon
was given by Mrs. s. L. Crum. The SUBJ
ject was announced as THE Enduring
World Text Isaiah XIV: s. "The grass
withereth, the flower fadeth; but the
word of our God shall stand forever
The entire discourse was thoroughly
Universalist and every sentence was full
of force and meaning.