The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-09-10
YEARLY MEETING
IOWA FRIENDS

Briggs, @. H. Santee, Grace Elliott,
F. E. Carpenter, L. g. Roberts, f. b.
Curtis, A. j. Pemberton. Mamie s.
White, J. M,Morgan, John Long, VIM.
Sopher, T. Il. Abel, Fred Comfort, r..
g. Commons. Edgar Ellyson. y. Had
ley. Elmer Pemberton. Theo. Fox
worthy, Gae = Weber.
(From Wednesdays naily.)
The Committee on Visiting Minis
ter's minutes was called to meet at
once and withdrew.
A Committee on Correspondence
was named as follows: w. LPearson,
Chas. White, u. B. Mendenhall, Viola
Smith. Jennie Kirby. e. r. Purdy,
Phoebe Johnson, Rhoda Nevill, Lou
lisa Maxwell, Anna Smith, Bessie Fer
guson, A. j. Hanson, Mary Fry, EN-
met e. Hadley and Dora Cook.
The clerk suggested that the body
Of representatives be charged with
the duty of nominating officers and
standing committees. The sugges-
ton was accepted for this year and
the usual Nominating Committee dis
pensed with.
It was proposed that the represent
atives be authorized to name persons
to act on the Yearly Meetings. Evan
gelistic Committee for Quarterly
Meetings not reporting names for
that committee.
The following committee was ap-
pointed to have charge of devotional
meetings: Chas. Sweet, ]. H. Hadley,
Pliny Fry, w. P.Sopher, w. M. Perry,
N. Blanche Ford, =. r. Purdy, Alden
Knight, Thos. Terrell, H. w. Pilot, s.
Maria Dean, q. G. Parker.
The Committee on Summary OF
Annual Reports from Quarterly Meet
ings is as follows: Prof. Il. H. Clifford,
G. L. Farr, I. P. Wooten, Eliza M.
Collins, Rhoda e. Nevill, Mrs. A. e.
Wright, G. B. Johnson.
The following is committee to as
sist the clerks in the introduction of
new business: Albert Hambleton,
Oliver Ganse. John f. Hanson, ID. M.
Edwards, H. e. Pemberton, Rebecca
Lewis.
A Committee on Extracts to pre-
pare extracts from the, various ses-
sions of the Yearly Meeting was
named as follows: Isaac N. Rich, Jno.
w. Stribbling, Lurana M. Terrell,
Eddy Lewis. Margaret Stalker, Anna
Farr.
A committee to prepare a Synopsis
Of Epistles from other Yearly Meet
ings: Stephen M. Hadley, q. P. FL
Tyson, Laura p. Hoag, Mary e. Lewis.
The following is the Committee on
Returning Minutes for Friends from
other Yearly Meetings, with creden-
tials: Cyrus Beede, DR.. A. n. Lindley,
Ida M. Hill, Joseph Sopher, Eliza
beth Thornburg, Louisa Maxwell, j.
H. Hadley, Eli G. Parker, o. ]. Mar
shall.
Friends from other Yearly Meet
ings were then introduced by the
reading of their minutes:
Nerius NJ. Hodgin, from Bridge
port, Ind.
w. r. Hotchkiss, Cleveland, Ohio.
Thos. G. Brown, Carmel, Ind.
Henry Edwin McGrew, Newberg,
Oregon.
]. Farland Randolph, Emma G.
Randolph, Indiana.
Zeno H. Doane, Danville, Ind.
Abbie Cogill, Greenwich, Ohio.
Isom p. Wooten expressed the feel
ing and welcome OF Iowa Friends in
substance as follows:
1--WE meet, Friends, in this Yearly
Meeting as we have never met be
fore, a united body, under one consti
tuition; we meet with truer sense oi
organization, higher conception oi
the Gospel commission. a fuller sense
OF unity and fellowship. We vel
come our visiting ministers and pray
That they may be free and faithful ir
declaring the whole counsel Of God
Epistles were then read from Balti
more. New England. Indiana. West
ern Yearly Meeting (Ind.). Califor
MIA, Wilmington, Oregon.
These epistles are veritable love
letters between these great bodies o.
Christian believers. They give tnt
important news OF the various Year