The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-22
THE DAY AT PLAINFIELD
THE YEARLY MEETING OF THE
FRIENDS GROWS IN INTEREST.
Morning Services Led by President
Henry Edwin McGrew, of Pacific
COIIege-MissiOnarie Heard.
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PLAlNF1ELD, Ind, Sept. 21.-The
o'clock meeting this morning was led by
Henry Edwin McGrew, president of Pacific
college, speaking from the text: Jesus
took the loaves."
Near the close of the meeting a call to
new conservation by one of the most prom
inent ministers in this Yearly Meeting met
hearty response from the pastors pres
ent. The aisle was filled with ministers
during the brief prayer service.
In the business session of the forenoon,
Albert Copeland and DINA Hadley Reeve
were appointed members of the advisory
board of the Friends Peace Association.
The statistical report showed a member
ship in the Western Yearly Meeting of
1920 in 1903, against 1876 in 1902, an in
crease of thirty-four.
Achsa Kenyon, of Kansas; Alfred Han
son, of Iowa; Nathan Frame of Whining
ton. and James r. Jones, of North Caro-
lima, discussed the subject pertaining TO the
state of the church
Four new ministers have been recorded
in this Yearly Meeting during the past
year. Five ministers in the Yearly Meeting
have died the last year. The delegates to
the FIVE Years Meeting made an INTEREST,"
ing report through their secretary, Murray
S. KenWOrthy.
1t was decided to take a collection in all
the local meetings each year for the use OF
the evangelistic committee of the Quinquen-
NAL Conference. l.. l.. Hobbs, president OF
Guilford college, spoke in behalf of the
Harriet Green Memorial fund, which is
being raised to endow a chair OF Bible
study in Guilford college. The sum of $685.
900 has already been pledged towards the
500 900 needed. y
The mems meeting at ] o'clock, led by
William p. Pinkham, was we'll attended.
In the afternoon business session Sarah j.
King, superintendent of the Woman's For
eign Missionary Society, gave the annual
report, which showed a gratifying progress
in this department of work. The following
officers were appointed for the coming
year: Superintendent, Sarah j. King; as
sistant superintendent, Laura Mattern;
secretary, Neoma Shaw; treasurer, Martha
Newlin: advisory board, DIR. S. Newlin,
Louis +. Stout and Milton Hanson. Syl-
vester Newlin. who, with his wife, visited
the mission stations in Mexico, supported
by the w. L. S. Society of Western Yearly,
spoke of the work being done in Mexico.
A very instructive report of the work in
the Friends African Industrial Mission was
read This work is under the charge of
Willis r. Hotchkiss, Edgar ID. Hole and
Arthur b. Chilson. The first named is now
on a visit to the United States and will adj
dress this assembly Tuesday evening. John
Henderson was appointed to the board Of
African Missions. The report of the Amer
lean Friends Foreign Missions has been
prepared i'm pamphlet form for distribution.
few words of greeting were given from
Sallie A. Mills, an aged Friend, who has
been absent from only three Yearly Meet
ings since this meeting was established
forty-five years ago. Drusila Wilson and
Lydia A. Perishaw were appointed to bear
a message from the Yearly Meeting TO Mrs.
Mills.
Talks were given by missionaries in at
tendance. Sarah Lindley, from Matenhald,
Mexico; Mary Pickett, Victoria, Mexico;
Emery Reece, Africa.
Many young women listened to very in
structive talk by Daisy Barr, of Greenfield,
| in the meeting for women only. Tonight
the theme was Temperance An able adj
dress was delivered by Oliver w. Stewart,
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