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FRIENDS RAISE MONEY
PROPOSITION OF FRANCIS II. WHITE
TO ASSIST EARLHAM ACCEPTED.
lie Offers So, 900, Providing the Year
Iy Meeting Gives $4,000, and Over
$1,000 Was Subscribed.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
RICHMOND, Ind, Oct. 4.-This was q
busy day with the Indiana Yearly Meeting
OF Friends. a number of important reports
coming up for consideration. The morning
devotional meeting was led by Lewis Z.
Stout and Miriam Johnson. The business
session following was in joint session.
Epistles from Western, Iowa, Canada and
Kansas Yearly Meetings were read. A
minute for John s. Brown, Of Cleveland.
was read and he was welcomed. David
Hadley, OF Western Yearly Meeting. was
introduced. The report of the general SUI
perintendent and evangelistic and church
extension committee was then presented.
1t shows there was a lack Of a sufficient
number of evangelists TO meet the many
calls that came for workers during the re-
vival season. The summary of all work
done Is as follows: Number of series of
meetings held. 112; number OF meetings
where no series were neld, IS; number of
professed conversions, LOIS; number OF per-
sons converted who were already members,
264; number OF applications for member
ship, 514: money paid out for evangelistic
work, s., &C., %; number OF meetings under
regular pastoral care 102; number without
regular pastoral care. 80; ministers giving
their time as pastors, AZ. ministers receiving
some support as pastors, SO; ministers able
for active service. las; persons giving evil
dence OF call TO the ministry, 81; money
expended IN pastoral work. Sl5, $40; num-
Der of meeting houses repaired, 81 at a
cost OF sll.072.O2; number OF mission sta
lions kept up. 3: parsonages built, i. at
cost OF sl100.
This afternoon much of the time was
devoted to reports from the educational
institutions. The eighteenth annual report
OF President j. j. Mills, OF Earlham Col
lege. and the fifty-fifth since the opening
of Friends boarding school, showed the
whole number OF students enrolled 2e4:
number graduated at close of year, "a:
young men in college, ll9; young women
The yearly meetings represented as
follows: Indiana, seventy; Western. thirty
seven: Wilmington. two: Ohio. four: Kan
Baltimore, one; Iowa, one; New England
one; tifty-elght per cent. Of all the stu
N budns eS wsrs d risnds The
letter was read from Francis T. White.
OF New York. proposing to give to Earl
ham $4,000 on conditions that the Yearly
Meeting raise $4,000, which was the actual
natl. made interesting speech. ending
with subscription of $1,000. Joseph A. God
dard. Benjamin Johnson and Samuel c.
Cowgirl each subscribed 5000. William p.
Henley subscribed 500 and II. b. Henley
$50. A subscription OF smaller amounts was
then taken. amounting 10 S561l3. in all
amounting TO $5,51713. David Hadley will
make efforts In the Western Yearly Meet
ing TO help the Indiana Yearly Meeting
raise the balance of the $4,000. The perma-
nent board reported that Allen Jay and
BENJAMIN Jonson be appointed trustees OF
Earlham 10 serve for a term of three
years. which was approved
The report of the Bible School work
shows two schools have been discontinued.
The total number of schools is 1874, teachers
1254. and 1851 scolars. Jennie Ridgeway. OF
Amboy. will continue superintendent OF
this work.
The committee in charge OF the Bible In
stitute made its report of the sessions held
at Earlham last summer.
The term of service of Eliza d. Menden-
hall and Enos Harvey having expired. they
were reapDaointed to the service on this
cofnglittee.