The Portland daily press., 1899-06-09
THE FRIENDS.
Their Yearly Meeting again
Comes to Portland.
First Sessions usld Yesterday at
Friends Church.

The Friends have again yinet In Port.
laud In their Yearly Meeting for New
England. This church on Oak street is the
place OF meeting. and yesterday these was
a good attendance Of delegates and others.
On the platform were to be seen few
of the distinctive bonnets. .anciently the
hoad dress Of the women OF the tSociety
as ihs brosd-brtm was Of the men. The
old dress has now gone out. except for an
occasional member Of the. old guard.
ThyRe only wore the bonnets yesterday:
A na q. Wood, Of New Bedford, Gertrude
| W.. Garland. Of Newburyport, ami
Phebe r.. Clifford, OF Providence. The
las. named lie one of the most romarak bIs
members OF the meeting. She Will be
ninety six years old on Saturday, and will
celebrate her anniversary in the midst
tf her friends, who are the whole Yearly
Meeting. A touching and interesting
festuresof the opening services was her
recitation OF the Hundred and Fourteenth
Psalm, when Israel went out OF Egypt,
the house of Jacob from people Of strange
language, Judah was his sanctuary, and
Israel his dnminion," etc. She followed
this recitation with comments upon the
sublime tribute to the God Of Israel.
Pbebe Clifford always Intends the Yearly
Meeting, and has done so longer than the
memory of man runneth to the contrary
The meeting on ministry and oversight
met at . q. m. with an attendance up to
The usual number. Charles n. Jones and
Alice W. Maxheld. both of Amesbury.
Mass, presided rs clerk and assistant
clerk.
The opening prayers. wers by Samuel
Miles of the New York Yearly Meeting,
Eli G. Parker, of Iowa, James Estes. Of
N ewport, r. l.. Pbshe X. Clifford. of
Providence, Il. l., William o. Newhall,
Of Lynn, Mass, Mary M. Parker, of iowa.
| Remarks were made by Isom p. Wooten,
Of Iowa, RobaFt p. Clifford, of Provi-
dence. Xii u. paFker, Stephen Breed, of
Ware, n. h., Ellison Purdy, of Port
land. Gertrude W. Garland, of Newbury-
port.
/ The business meeting being opened, the
names of the representatives, from the
quarterly meetings were read. Fifty
nine responded to their names, % being
absent with excuses given. Nine quar-
terly meetings were represented, the en-
tire number in the meeting.
The credentials of visiting ministers
we're read; Eli O. and Mary M. Parker.
from Iowa, Isom sP. wooten Of Iowa.
Samuel Miles Of New York.
Elders Marjorie e. Wooten, of Iowa,
Aquila and Hannah NJ. Pickering, of
Chicago were present.
The committee to prepare summary
answers were appointed: William p.
Macomber. of Fairhaven, Mass Ellison
h. Purdy, Of Portland, William o. New
hail. Lynn, Jesse MCPHERSON, Lewiston,
Hannah p. Ladd, Providence. Elizabeth
A. Taylor, OF Dartmouth, Mass.
The meeting then adjourned to p. m.
The convention reassembled at Q n m.
the first business being the appointments
of clerks Charles H. Jones of Ames-
bury was appointed clerk and Alice w.
Maxfield assistant clerk.
The queries were next read with the
summary answers made up from the
answers of the various quarterly meet
ings.
Discussions followed on subjects relat-
ing to the individual life of the member
ship of the meeting. The speakers were
Emiline II. Tuttls OF Dover, N. H., Ger
trude W. Garland Of Newburyport,
Mass, Eli anf Mary III. Parker of Iowa,
Stephen Breede of Ware, N. H. and
Isom P. wooten. The meeting closed
with very appropriate remarks by the
clerk. who summarized what had been
said. The meeting of ministry and over
sight then adjourned to Eleventh. Day
Saturday morning at $50 o'oiock.
Perhaps the most interesting event of
the day was the missionary reception in
the evening. 1t was held in the main
church, Phebe 3. Aydelotte of Fall River,
presiding. After the opening hymn,
there was Scripture reading by William
Thompson of New Bedford, and prayer
by Mary MARS of Lynn.
The first address of the evening was by
Susan Thompson of New Bedford, Mass,
who spoke in behalf of the Foreign Mis-
sionary Committee, saying:
.'From the rising of the sun unto the
going down thereof, the Lords name is
to be praised.
From where thu rays of the rising sun
gid the top of Mizepah-and from where
he sinks below the horizon on the vast
plains of the west, you are gathered here
tonight and the story you have to tell is
the same. You praiss the name of the
Lordsft and because of your work many
others are praising Him. One of You has
piled up hewn stones and built fair
place where the Lords name is to be
praised. While in the far West Chris
tian name has also been means OF grace
and lesson to those around, or even
tent has proved that the Lord God may
dwell in house Of curtains One In
the far East and one in the West have
given years of life to the work and been
object lessons OF what woman aan do
under difficult circumstances. And one
has given more than her life where the
new tomb" In the vineyard on the hill
of God, received her dear one, so soon af- |
ter they had reached the Land of Prom
Use.
1.-THE children of the Training Home |
still remember their dear teacher, and
the xvOpx xuhiah aia has