The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-26

railroad fare and hotel expenses of dele
gates TO the meetings must be proportion
ateiy borne by the various yearly meetings,
according to their membership
The elevation OF the negro and his educa-
ton is one OF the principal objects Of this
Five Years Meeting and 20 do something
Quakers. To arrange for this help and TO
devise some means by which the education
al facilities in the South and North viii
be bettered will be the labor OF a commit
tee of twenty-five, appointed by Chairman
Edmund Stanley. The committee named
consists OF Augustine Jones Robert NJ. Fer
ries, Allen G. Thomas. James Care, ST.,
John NJ Woody. l. ElwoOd Cox. Allen Jay,
Mary J. Ballard, Robert T. Pretlow. Peter
W Raidabaugh and Charles w sweet
Members at large from the North American
continent are Robert Z. Clifford. New Eng
land Yearly Meeting; Richard II. Thomas,
Baltimore; Mary VI. Hobbs. North Caro-
lima; Mary Edwards, Washington; Joseph
A Stoddard, Indiana; Solomon Il. Wood
ard, Western Indiana; Joseph SOpher, ore
gon; May G. Wright Kansas; William II.
Coffin, California, and Daniel Drew, Ore
gon. The committee will choose its own
chairman and arrange for a place Of meet
ing later. A HEADQUARTERS VIII be estab-
committee will be carried on.
PAPERS READ.
Robert z. Pretlow and Albert ]. Brown
each spoke at the morning session on Our
Church Literature" Both papers touched
on work done by religious papers of the
country and Of the necessity for good, clean
newspapers to a nation. The papers spoke
OF current literature in the United States.
and Mr.. Brown said that, judging from the
editorial comment in the newspapers of the
United States, little good literature was
being produced by this age.
Harriet Green, OF the London, England,
Yearly Meeting, read an interesting paper
on slum work in England and said that she
would like to learn some OF the methods of
the American Friends in trying to rid So
ciety Of one Of its greatest eVils--the slums
Mrs. Green is In the United States studying
the work of the Quakers in this line and
has spent much OF her time in observation
of the work being done by all denomina-
tons OF Christians 10 help the unfOrtunates
who live in the slums
Many OF the delegates to the Friends
Five Years Meeting will go out OF town to-
day to attend worship IN various Friends
meeting houses in the State. Many little
towns on the interurban and electric rail-
ways Will be visited by the visiting minis
tiers. and from many of the churches invi-
tations were accepted to preach the morn
ing sermon. The Friends services in In
dianapolis churches to-day will be: The
First Friends Church, Alabama and Thir-
teenth streets, Rufus NJ. Jones, of Phil
adelphia, at 1880 a m. and at 4:30 p m;
Yesper service will be conducted by visiting
delegates to the meeting At 1880 o'clock
Benjamin Trueblood, of Boston, will talk
on THE Four Practical Problems of the
twentieth Century to Be Worked Out by
Ellyson Purdee, of Iowa, will conduct the
morning service at the First United Breth-
rem Church and Harriet Green. of London,
England. the evening service, at 100
o'clock.
AT the Industrial School for Girls at 10
O'Clock a m, Harriet Green will speak,
and at o'clock in the afternoon James
Wood, of New York, will conduct the serv-
ice. Enos Harvey will lecture at the En-
glewood Christian Church at 1870 p. m.
The last session of the Five Years Meet
ing Will be held tomorrow morning and
at this meeting most OF the important work
will be done The closing services will be
held Monday and the session is expected to
end about o'clock p. m.