The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-01
FRIENDS Will BE ACTIVE
MUCH ROUTINE TO COME BEFORE
YEARLY MEETING AT PLAINFIELD.
Annual Report from EarIham College
an Important Item-Church News
of the State.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
PLAINFIELD. Ind, Aug 31-The forty
sixth annual assembly of the Western Year
ly Meeting of Friends will be held here
Sept. 10 to 26. This is one of the important
bodies of orthodox Friends and its sessions
are always attended by not only a large
part of the membership, but by many men
and women who are prominent in the So
ciety in other fields.
The opening day the meeting on ministry
and oversight will have sessions at 10 a. m,
2 and p. m. The representative meeting
will have its first session on Friday, Sept.
Is, at a. M On the same day there will
be public meetings for worship at 10 a. IN.
and and p. m. The detailed programme
is in the hands of committee that will
arrange it to suit the conditions. The or
ganization of the Western Yearly Meeting
is given below: Principal clerk. Lewis E.
Stout, Plainfield; recording clerk, Perry
Kendall, Thorntown; correspondents, Ma
than H. Clark, Westfield, William L. Pyle.
Indianapolis. and Margaret A. Evans, In
dianapolis; superintendent of evangelistic
work, Thomas {. Brown, Carmel; treasurer
of evangelistic committed William l.. Pyle
Indianapolis; superintendent of foreign mis-
sionS. Sarah j. King, Carmel; superintend-
Plainheld; clerk of committee on books,
tracts and peace, Evan Hadey, Plainfield;
superintendent of the Y. p. S. c. E., Cath
crime Case, Noblesville; superintendent Of
suppression OF the liquor traffic, Eli j. Car
ter, Pussiaville; clerk of representative
meeting, Morris l.. Cox, Westfield; clerk of
meeting on ministry and oversight, John It.
Hadley, Pecksburg: recording clerk of meet
ing on ministry and oversight, Martha f..
Newlin, Westfield; treasurer of the Yearly
Meeting, Joseph r. Evans, indianapolis;
frn GIL of fhu daxy fun
Baldwin. Westfield; railroad secretaries,
Charles z. Newlin, Irvington, and George
ID. Grifflth.
There are sixteen quarterly meetings In
the Yearly Meeting, as follows: Blooming
dale. Blue River. Carmel. Chicago, Dam
vile, Fairfield, Kokomo. New London, Plain
field, Pleasant Grove, Sand Creek. Thorn
town. Vermilion. Westfield. West Grove and
White Lick.
The latest statistics report, made last
year, shows that the Yearly Meeting has
membership slightly in excess of fifteen
thousand. One Of The matters to come be-
fore the meeting will be the annual report
from Earlham College. at Richmond. West
ern and Indiana Yearly Meetings are united
in the management of that institution, and
1t is the special pride OF the Quakcrs OF the
middle West. The report this year will be
OF the most fatterins nature. 1t will be
made by the new president, DR.. Robert l..
Kelly, who succeeded DR.. j. j. Mills a few
months ago. The report will show that
Earlham Is free of Indebtedness for the first
tiIile III many years, tHdt the past year the
income was equal TO the expenses, and that
the outlook for the school year, which opens
Sept 15 was never better
The session this year will be devoted
largely to routine business and the usual
religious exercises. The gospel services are
always brought out strongly at the annual
gathering. In the line Of routine business
will be reports from the social purity de-
partment. books and tracts, peace and arbi-
tration, Peace Association of Friends in
America, Bible Institute, eyangelistic. pas
toral and home mission work, Bible schools
and educa ton, American Friends Board or
Foreign Missions. Board of Friends Africa
Industrial Mission. and suppression OF the
liquor traffic. EDistles Will be read from
the various yearly meetings in America and
from the London and Dublin meetings The
Western meeting has already adopted adj
ditional provisions To the uniform discipline.
These provisions such are believed
TO be suited TO this meeting. and DO not con-
fict I'm any way with the general discipline
under which majority of the American
meetings are now working.