The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-09-17
FRIENDS At PLAINFIELD
YEARLY MEETING SUNDAY SERVICES
ATTENDED ny MANY PEOPLE.
Exercises i'm the Tent, the House and
Reform schooI-AinuaI Reports
EarIbam College.

Special 10 the Indianapolis Journal
PLAINFIEI-D. Ind. Sept. 16-To-day
was Yearly Meeting Sunday, and the
grounds were .thronged with a mass OF
people. The ministerial assignments were
these: In the house. 10 O'Clock. William
Hobson, Allen Jay. Richard Haworth:
o'clock. Zenas l.. Martin. James r. Jones.
Luke Woodward; in the tent. 10 o'clock.
Harry r. Keats; o'clock. Nathan and
Esther G.. Frame: on the campus. 10
O'Clock, Franklin and Mary Moon Meredith;
o'clock, Charles Z. Hiatt. f. c. Stanley:
at the Reform School. Mrs. Hobson. c. r.
Dixon, James r. Jones at 10 o'clock: at
o'clock, Esther Cook Martilla Cox and
Gertrude Moon. The evening meeting was
held in the house and was addressed by
Harry r. Keats
Yesterdays session of the Western
Yearly Meeting began with devotional ex-
ercises in the tent. led by William Hobson
and wife. OF London. Frank c. Stanley. OF
Columbus, o., and William Z. Cox. of Pasa-
dena, Cal. The tent was filed with an at
tentive audience for nearly two hours. At
10 o'clock the regular business of the day
was taken up. Credentials were read for
the following visiting ministers: S. Lavina
White, of Indiana Yearly Meeting; Zenas
L. Martin. of Iowa, who is on his way to
Cuba as the superintendent of foreign mis-
sions there; Charles E. Hiatt. OF Indiana;
Maud Miner, of Wilmington, and William
II. Perry. of Kansas. DIR. Andrews and
wife, of Oskaloosa. Ia. were also intro
duced to the Yearly Meeting. Reading OF
the Epistles was dispensed with. as some
of them had been read on the preceding
day. and David Hadley proceeded to read
his annual report superintendent OF
evangelistic, pastoral. church extension and
home mission work in the Yearly Meeting.
Summary of statement: Number of meet
ings, lis; series of meetings held. 100; con-
versions. 300: renewals, 56S: accessions, s7i:
recorded ministers. 1853: pastors giving all
their time to pastoral work. So meetings
served by these. 4s; pastors partially sup
ported, 40 pastors receiving no support. Is:
meetings served by these ls; pastoral visits
by pastors, 7424: by committee. 1884;
meeting houses erected. 2: cost OF same,
s., 400; meeting houses repaired, 3; cost of
same, $4,000; money expended for evangel-
istic work, s., 595: money expended for pas
toral work, S13,290; places where mission
work is done, Is; total receipts. 81. 405: to-
tai disbursements, 1882. Sc; balance, $723i
David Hadley has been superintendent OF
this work for eleven years and leaves now
to assume the pastorate of the meeting at
Whittier, Cal The Yearly Meeting ex-
pressed its appreciation of his service and
its good wishes for his future by rising i'm
a body. The officers were then appointed
for the year: General superintendent.
Thomas c. Brown; executive committee,
Lewis Stout. Sylvester Newlin, William l.
Pyle. Ruth A Sanders and Deborah Fur
mas. Subscriptions for the work were
taken to the amount of about s775. A nomi-
mating committee was named TO bring for
ward names for Superintendent OF TEMPER
ance and committee OF five, after which
a recess was taken until o'clock
The afternoon session began. after a
short devotional service. with the report Of
Robert Z. Pretlow superintendent OF Bible
schools and education. who was reappoint-
ed for the coming year. Summary report:
Number of Friends children between six
and twenty-one years. 2.sSS; number I'm
tendance beyond the grammar grade, SIS,
number graduating from high schools and
academies, 80; number graduating from
college, IA; number I'm college the past
year, So; number graduating from profess
sional schools, 81 number of Friends en-
gagged in teaching, 140; number OF Bible
schools, III; number of officers and teach
ers. Liz: total enrolment. 1884; average
attendance, 5,355; number Of classes, 654:
number in home class department. ga.
This report was followed by the annual
report from Earlham College, which was
read by President ]. ]. Mills Of Richmond.
Summary statement: Total number OF
students enrolled, 319; total less summer
school, 265; number in college department.
"a; number graduated at close Of year, 80.
Seven yearly tings were represented
among the students: Indiana, SO; Western.
56; Ohio, 8; Kansas, /; Canada, L; Califor-
MIA, /; Wilmington. 6. Sixty-one per cent.
OF the students were Friends. Among the
remainder were fourteen Methodists and
five Hicksite Friends. The number OF stu
dents was Il per cent. above that OF the
year preceding, and there has been an in
crease of 80 per cent over the largest at
tendance of any year previous TO five years
ago. Within the last year $50 has been
paid or pledged toward the building debt.
leaving a balance of but $4,000 TO be still
raised The financial resources of the col
lege have been increased by about $1,000
within the last twelve mouths. An i'm
proved athletic field has been added in
Reid field Two hundred trees were planted
on Ar6or day: The library has been in
creased by 275 volumes during the year.
Within the last twenty years the endow-
ment has risen from $4,000 TO STAG, 0o0 be-
sides temporarily unproductive property
valued at $4,000. Last year the receipts
exceeded the expenses by nearly $3.50. Allen
Jay then took the floor and proceeded 10
raise $1,000 for the college.
The Saturday evening session OF the
Yearly Meeting of Friends was given over
&c the Christian Endeavor, whose re-
ports show the following condition: Num-
Der of societies. 81: junior soci-
Juniors se; 40 Between $500 and $500 have iiS.
been contributed for home and foreign
missions. The officers elected are: Super
intendent Christian Endeavor work. l..
Howard Brown, Plainfeld: secretary and
treasurer, DIR. Walter Hoskins, 1ndianap-
oils; chairman missionary work. Susie
Mendenhall. Vermillion Grove, III; junior
superintendent Martha Newlin. Kokomo.
Albert j. Brown was reelected trustee
for three years. The tenth annual report
OF the superintendent was given by Prof.
Irving King. Ii was decided that the
societies should report once in three
months TO the monthly meetings. The ses-
sion closed with a conservation service.
Rev. w. G. HeBgen Ordained.