The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-21
SETTLED TO BUSINESS
QUAKERS MINGLE MUCH ROUTINE
WITH THE SPIRITUAL WORK.
Moral Condition of Church Member
ship Investigated, Showing II liz
Per Cent. Use Tobacco.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
tLAINFIELD Ind, Sept. 2O-The Quak-
ers may talk for years to come about the
big crowi on Sunday. Perhaps never has
this quiet town on White Lick seen such
oceans of people Not only was the town
filled. but the grounds were overlooking
Except for the necessary jostling, no in
veniences We're felt and the services We're
better patronized than usual. The day s
work was fifty begun by an immense night
meeting in the house. An unusual thing is
seen this Yearly Meeting. The night serv-
ices are announced to begin at 7:30 O'clock
yet by o'clock the Endeavorers generally
begin a song service for thirty minutes.
Last night this was particularly noticeable
Rev. Hannah P. Jessup was the speaker
and for forty minutes she spoke eloquently
on the prayer of Moses, 60 Lord show me
Thy glory
To-day the Friends settled down to the
business before them. At o'clock there
was an adjourned meeting of the ministers
and elders in the house. Rev. Levi Rees,
of Iowa, pleaded for an adherence to the
true doctrines of salvation. He takes no
stock in the idea that it makes no differ
ence what a man believes if he believes it
honestly. The deity of Jesus Christ and the
personal existence of the third person of
the Trinity the Holy Ghost, must be pro-
claimed to the world. AT the o'clock de-
votional meeting in the tent there were ex-
hortations by Melinda B. Hunt of Iowa,
and Rev. Barr, of Kansas.
The condition of the memberships of the
church was the subject of consideration be-
fore the 10 o'clock business session. Some
deficiencies in spiritual standing were re-
ported-though the reports revealed clear
er record than in some other years. The
statistical report was as follows: Meetings
1l3; members, 10, 6O4; increase, SIS; nonresi-
dent members, 1876; families, 1850; non
members who habitually attend Friends
meetings, 1,491; recorded ministers, $780, of
WHICH 126 are men and Ga women; meetings
without ministers, 80; having pastors, n;
families that read Bible daily with devo-
ton, LII; families that do not, ], 723; men,
bers that use tobacco, 1,79S, being 111R per
cent. of the membership; % cultivate to-
bacco, and 62 sell it; ministers recorded the
past year, nine
The review of the church brought forth
many earnest remarks and exhortations,
chief of which were by Revs Charles Jones'
of Massachusetts, and David Hadley, of
this county, The statistics revealed the
fact that the Yearly Meeting is entitled to
another delegate, twenty-one in all. to the
conference of all the Yearly Meetings in
Indianapolis in October; also the resigna-
ton of Sarah NJ. Hadley, who has i'll health,
and who was appointed last year as dele
gate, was received and accepted, and d
committee, with William Trueblood, of Ko-
komo, as chairman, was appointed to re-
port the names of two persons as delegates
to a future session. This committee will
also name alternates to the conference.
Carmel and Kokomo meetings asked that
the delegates to this conference be in
ctr cd
osltion for a uniform Frienos' discipline.
The autonomy of the different Yearly Meet
ings is now complete, such being an indie
pendent body, maintaining friendly rela-
tlonship with all the others and it is de-
sired to bring them closer together. 1t is
not believed. however, that the proposition
will be adopted by the Indianapolis confer
ence although the meeting to-day voted in
favor of it by an overwhelming majority.
Request is made by two monthly meet
ings in Westfield quarter for a new quarter
ly meeting, and the matter is placed in the
hands of a committee for the coming year.
with Rev. Willis Bond as chairman.
The afternoon session was opened by
singing BLESSED Be the Name Letters of
greeting were read from New England,
New York, Ohio, Wilmington and Indiana
The Womens Foreign Missionary Society
presented its annual report. which proved
to be interesting, showing advancement the
past year in mission work. The following
statistics are reported: Pages of tracts
distributed 14,224; number who practice pro-
poftonate giving, 20; members or society,
625: societies. 40; public meetings 49, Mis-
sionary Advocates taken $50; other mission
airy papers taken, SO; total receipts for the
year $4 439. The report of the American
Friends Board of Foreign Missions was
read and approved.
The question of a Friends hymnal was
brought before the meeting and referred
favorably to the Indianapolis conference of
Yearly Meetings
Rev. David Hadley was reappointed gen.
eral superintendent of evangelistic work,
with the following executive committees
William l.. Pyle Morris E. Cox. William
Trueblood Ruth Anna Sanders and Sarah
Ballard.
Curtis B. Newson, of Elizabethtown, was
appointed superintendent of Christian En-
deavor work
Anna Sanders, Esther T. Pritchard Lewis
=. stuart, Leucra n Hobbs and Albert J.
committee from the Indiana Yearly Meeting
in holding a Bible institute at Earlham
College next summer