The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-02
MAY REMOVE THE BARS
PLAN FOR JOINT SESSIONS IN THE
INDIANA YEARLY MEETING.
For Seventy-Six Years Quaker Women
Had to Hold Their Annual Sessions
Separate from the Men.
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RICHMOND, Ind, Oct. 1.-The ministers
and elders of Indiana Yearly Meeting met
this morning and the list of absent dele
gates was called, most of whom had ar
rived since yesterday. At 10 o'clock the
business session opened and the first thing
was the election of the following officers:
Clerk, Elwood 0. Ellis; assistant clerks,
Charles A.. Francisco and Ira C. Johnson:
messenger. c. H. Parker; announcing clerk,
Milo Elliott committee on new business.
Timothy Nicholson, s. b. Hill and Thomas
N. Whit Credentials were read for David
Hadley, of Amo, Ind, and Rebecca Clagler.
of Pennington n. Y. Two quarterly meet
ings asked the Yearly Meeting to officially
recognize the pastoral system and propose
a more efficient means of carrying 1t out.
The forty-fourth annual report of whites
Manual Labor Institute showed that the
plan of taking children from the counties
and asking a compensation OF 70 cents per
day for their maintenance has meet with
favor, and in consequence there was re-
ceived from Marion county eight children
and from Grant fourteen, which, with those
from other sources, made a total of thir-
ty-eight. The financial showing of the in
stitution good. The Indian committee
presented brief report, and also the twen-
executive committee of Friends on Indian
affairs. There are now five monthly meet
lngs embraced in the report-Grand River,
Blue Jacket. iatook, Iowa and shawnee
town. These comprise fourteen prepara-
ton meetings. representing twenty-seVen
meetings for worship. The total member
ship is /, ,2O9 of whicn 475 are Indians and
734 whites. There have been engaged In
the work during the year sixteen recog-
the field. The morning session closed with
the reading of epistIes from London Dub
lin, New York and Baltimore Yearly meet
ings,
The work in the women's meeting was
practically the same as in the mems They
elected the following officers: Clerk, Han
nah L. Smith; assistant clerks Mary ii.
Goddard and Anna Il. Woodward; messen-
ger, Eliza r. Canaday; committee on new
business Naomi Harrison, Margaret Shultz
and the clerk.
AT the session this afternoon the attend
ance increased over the opening day.
The session was opened with prayer by
Rufus M Jones, editor of the American
Friend Spiceland quarterly meeting sent
in proposal to holu all the sessions of the
Yearly Meeting in joint session, thus doing
away with the women's meeting. The
question was referred to IL committee COM
posed of man and a woman from each
quarterly meeting. This committee is COM
posed OF the following: Charles B. Doug
lass, Fannie Coats, M. Nj. Binford, Rachel
Maddox Clarkson Thomas, Catherine VIII
liams, Thomas J. Stubbs, Carrie A. Taylor,
Alfred Brown, Emma Hedges, Joseph Rat
lift, Susan Ratlff, Robert Ridgeway, Anna
Jones, Joseph X. Hunt, kiturah Miles, Eli
COSSeSnall, EiHllfd .. ttarf1S, w. -. DlBSS,
Mary II. Goddard, J. Gurney Wright, Lydia
b. Jones, William Mills, Lydia Test, Curtis
Grandstaf, Maggie Craig, Anna b. Rugg.
Leonett j. Rugg, b. S. Johnson and Esther
Pugh.
A proposition was received from the
evangeistic and pastoral committee and
the Bibie school committee to hold bib
lical conference at Earlham College at the
close of the summer school next year. The
trustees of the college have allowed the
use of the buildings and GROUNDS for such
a conference. The meeting approved the
suggestion and appointed a committee to
nominate a committee to conduct the con-
ference. 1t is to last ten days, and West
ern Yearly Meeting, having an interest in
Earlham College, will also participate.
The committee on home missions pre-
sented Il lengthy report, of which the fol-
lowing is a summary: Cottage prayer
meetings held, 93l; chiidren's meetings, 27;
lectures, IL gospel meetings, 345; families
Sabbath schools under their care. II; pages
of tracts and literature distributed, 567 900: :
food and clothing given to the value of
$322.6S: money given, Sl,24S.07 conversions
and renewals, 131.
The twenty-fifth annual report of the
executive committee on temperance was
submitted. The following is a summary:
Number of members using intoxicants the
past year, 66; number who sold intoxicating
liquor j; number raising tobacco, IL; num-
bacco, 1.026; number public meetings held
2H: number pages literature distributed
3l,92o: number schools having scientific in
struction. 40; number quit the use of tobac-
co, 30 number stopped sale of tobacco 8;
money used in temperance work. 1856 As
The reports followed by interesting
talks by Rufus NJ. Jones, of Maine editor
of the American Friend, Harriet Greene of
London and William G. Hubbard. presi-
dent OF the Peace Association of Friends in