The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-09-19
%PASTORATES OF FRIENDS
ENGAGEMENTS OF PREACHERS FOR
THE YEAR JUST OPENING.
Interesting Temperance Meeting-As-
signments of Methodists Outside
of indianapolis District.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
PLAINFIELD. Ind. Sept. 1s.--To-day's
session of the Yearly Meeting of Friends
opened with the usual devotional exercises,
conducted by Frank c. Stanley. AT 10
O'Clock the London General Epistle was
read; also the Epistles from Dublin and
Indiana meetings, following which the sub
ject of home missions was presented for
consideration. Anna Mills, of Indianapolis.
told of mission work in the country, and
William B. Wheeler set forth the system
of rescue work in the city.
In the afternoon the report on books,
tracts and peace was read. showing great
activity in these lines. The present alleged
militarism and the military outlook were
deplored. A communication and report
were read from the Friends Peace Asso-
citation, whose headquarters is at Rich
mond. The communication was ordered
printed in the minutes of the Yearly Meet
ing. The report on ministry and oversight
summarized the answers to the queries re-
lating to that department and advised that
officers of the church be c-ircumspect in
their attitude toward it, and their work
for it. 1t proposed also that the pastoral
system be more formally organized under
a Yearly Meeting board, which should as
sign pastors to their charges, as is done In
other churches. The report and plan were
ordered printed in the Yearly Meeting
minutes. and the subject will be considered
again next year.
Friends do not make an assignment of
their ministers, but the following unof-
fetal list of pastoral engagements Tor
Brown, Indianapolis; Lewis T.. Stout.
Flainfield; Robert Pretlow, Danville, Ind.
Orville Jones, Haughville and West In
dianapolis; Sylvester Newlin, Kokomo;
Nathan ID. Knight. West Middleton, Ind.
Willis Bond. Westfeld. Ind; Amos San
ders, Noblesville; Samuel Tolbert, Quaker.
Ind; Clark Brown. Georgetown, ILL.,; John
Griffin, Vermilion Grove, ILL.,; Elwood
Lewis. Elwood, ILL.,; Cyrus Jones. Stanton.
ILL.,; Leona Hobson. Ridgefarm, Ill.,; John
Reagan. Mooresville, Ind; Calvin Bray,
Azalia, Ind; Lindley Welk. Monrovia. Ind.
Andrew Mitchell, B~loomingdale. Ind; VIII
liam Tormolhen. Watseka, ILL.,; p. w.
Raidabaugh, Western Springs. ILL.,; John
McMillen, West Union and Center; Solo,
mon Haworth, Laporte; Lindley Reagan,
East Branch, Ind. A list of ~evangelists
Brown and Ruth Pemberton Brown, Plain
field; Edward Woodward, Bloomingdale
Levi Cox, Vermilion Grove; Charles Stalk
er, Westfield; Gertrude Moon, Noblesville,
David Hadley will go to Whittier, Cal, and
MARTHA Cox to Richland, Ia.
Monday afternoon the meeting a%ppropri-
ated $3.50 for the construction and furnish
ing a vault in the indianapolis meeting
house in which to keep the library and
the records of the Yearly Meeting. The
report of the trustees on remodeling the
meeting house at Plainfield showed the ex-
penditure of the 81. 500 which the Yearly
Meeting had placed in their hands for that
work.
The temperance meeting, last night, was
attentive and responsive in al unusual
degree. After the committee on statistical
queries had made its report, setting forth
the plan of the Yearly and Quarterly
Meeting statistical secretaries, a motion
was made, seconded and amended, and the
amendment was carried, deferring consid-
Grafton of the report until morning. The
delegates to the Anti-salOon League made
no report. Numerous meetings have been
held in the Yearly Meeting during the year,
and over 500 dollars expended. according
to the report of the temperance commit
tee. The new superintendent is Townsend
Cope. The speaker of the evening was
Mercer Brown, related to the rebel Gov
ernor Brown and to John Brown, of Har-
per's Ferry.