The Oskaloosa herald., 1902-09-18

IlSpOII VI
Report OF A. F. N. Hambleton on
Johnson fund.
Report of Devotional committee.
Extract of exercises of Ministry and
Oversight.
Minute to returning Friends.
Synopsis of epistles.
The following were named as trus-
tees appointed for Penn college: lsom
P. Wooten, Cyrus Beede, James B.
Bruff, William McCracken and Rufus
Johnson.
Report upon Union Spring Bank
Quarterly meeting.
Report of Christian Workers Train
ing School, at Marshalltown. One
hundred dollars asked for continuance
of work.
A special vote of thanks from the
Iowa Yearly Meeting was authorized
presented to the railroad companies
on account Oh the refraining from the
running of special excursion trains up
on the Sabbath.
]. Ewing Roberts was announced as
president of the Bible School board.
The committee appointed to bring
report concerning the lack of interest
of the membership of the church in
the business affairs of the organization
returned an extended report upon the
existing conditions. The report was
ordered printed in the minutes.
R. r. Newly, of New Sharon, is adj
ded to the printing committee on ac-
count of the connection of the printing
of the new Discipline and his ac-
Quaintance with the same.
The questions of the printing of the
new Discipline and mode Of distribu-
ton and means Of payment ELECTED
| considerable discussion. The new
Discipline is authorized published and
distributed Five thousand copies
were ordered printed and three thous-
and of this number to be bound i'm
mediately. The printing committee
Will provide means of payment for the
publication of the same.
The new minute to John Frederick
Hanson and his wife, Alice Hanson,
returning them to their service as
missionaries in Norway, was read and
adopted.
The committee appointed to nomi'
nate a member of the Temperance
committee of the Associated churches
three members of the Board of Fore
| ign Missions of the Five Years Meet
| ing, also to nominate delegates to
uuinquennial conference and delegates
to the Five Years meeting as provided
| by the newly adopted constitution and
discipline reported as below:
Joseph Sopher as member temper
ance committee.
William Jasper Hadley, Chas. l.,
Kitchener and Viola Spurgecn as mem
bers of Board of Foreign Missions.
To Quinquennial conference and
Five Years meeting delegates are: A.
| Rosenberger, I. P. Wooten, Laura P,
| Townsend, l. N. Rich, Zenas l.. Mar.
tin, Elizabeth Lindley, Joseph Sopher,
Rhoda Neyill, A. j. Hanson, Cyrus
Beede, A. w. Green, Anna s. Joyce, A
F. N. Hambleton, Chas. w. Sweet, AL
| fred H. Lindley, Jno. w. Stribling.
Alternates-Edwin Morrison, Eli
son r. Purdy, l.. Maria Dean, Mary T
Thomas, Chas. S. White, r. J. Men
denhall, Philip Slack, Emma F. Coffin
Eli G. Parker, Anna B. Thorndike
Hannah T. Green, Samuel Haworth
Viola Smith, Hiram Hammond, Ell
B. Mendenhall, c. Bevan Johnson.
The name of William Jasper Hadley
| is added to the committee having in
charge the care of the mission work OF
John Frederick and Alice Hanson.
The meeting decided upon the adop'
ton of day of prayer and special ser
vice to be known as Penn College
Day"
The reading of the epistles from the
Iowa Yearly Meeting to London Yearly
Meetings by DR.. VIM. r. Pearson; to
Dublin Yearly Meeting by Alice Han
son, and the epistle to the sister meet
ings of the country by Professor Nor
rison of Penn college, was an interest
ing part of the mornings program of
business.
The minutes to Friends returning
from their service in the Iowa Yearly
Meeting were distributed.
The minutes of the representative
meeting of the Yearly Meeting were
read and adopted.
Albert F. N. Hambleton was made
clerk for the ensuing year.
The disposition of several proper
ties about the state was arranged as
seemed best in the several cases.
Mr.. Hambleton is to be continued
as Railroad Secretary of the Yearly
Meeting.
Changes and improvements in the
Iowa Yearly Meeting house are sug-
gested. Probable cost is about $3.50.
Zenas Martin sta,ed that he thought
the action of the meeting in regard to
making the taking of oaths disown-
able offense in the new Discipline, &C
cording to the action Of the meeting
Saturday morning, did not represent
the position of Friends in the past nor
would it in the future. He thought
the article should be reconsidered and
the article touching this mater in the
which thing was done by almost the
unanimous voice Of the meeting and
so recorded.
After short season Of prayer and
a brief talk from the heart of Jacob
Baker of Ohio Yearly Meeting.
The fortieth Yearly Meeting Of
the Iowa Friends came to an end and
was adjourned about one o'clock p. m.
Y. p. s. c. e..