The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-08-04
BECOMING MUCH
GREATER
Several Lectures Given that Were
Highly Appreciated Sessions
in Detail.
Wednesday Afternoon.

singing II know Whom l Have De-
| livered.' .. -.~ a..
Miss Harris then gave vocal solo,
after which Prof Ebert Russell
spoke on the "Two Needs of Three
Yearly Meetings. -. He said in part
"Needs are. a sign Of growing life.
Somebody has said that civilized man
is bundle of wants, so when | talk
about our yearly meetings have more
than two needs, [ think it sign of
our growings The two needs that l
am naming and talk about are past
history and present needs. The early
| Quakers were prolific writer's
| Out Of one hundred of these books
written by Friends We're written dur
ing the hundred years Immediately
aftert he time of George Fox. When
we dropped the old forms We let the
old literature 60 with them. Then our
literature commenced to wane. T. T.
Kearney has been a great influence
in reviewing this literature. The ira
ditional Interpretation Of the Druids'
writings had obscured our evangelis-
tic ideas. Therefore there were no
Quaker models when this great revival
commenced little later. The early
Quakers did not care to celebrate any
day as especially sacred but looked
upon every day as sacred.
They believed in keeping every day
as holy. The influence of the Moody
work was great. Moody was much
greater than theology. The Calvinists
have always held that every text Of
scripture was to be translated liter
ally and naturally limitation on us.
This was Moody's theology.
I said, we Friends must keep the
old idea of the Friends If we are to
escape the doctrines of the ordinances.
We have not been careful enough
about adapting these new doctrines to
our points of view. l am only ac-
tually describing historically the
works and ideas. The fact is we Qua
kers have not been writing any Qua
ker literature. What we need is to
get back to reading and writing some
Quaker books so as to keep up these
Quaker traditions. But above all
things, we need a publishing house.
The second need is a need of Qua
ker men and women. The work Of the
church never gets along without lead
ers. Our pastoral system grew up
under the great revival. After the re-
vival, we had great numbers of peo
pie who needed the pastoral care. At
ter the revival, the evangelist was
asked to stay year as was natural.
1t is fact that the evangelist is not
generally qualified for pastoral work.
What we need is good pastors. The
devout idea Of Quaker congregation
is a congregation of consecrated peo-
pie all doing good and earnest work.
We need men who will read and write,
who will travel and lecture.
The future of our Friends meetings
rests with these three yearly meetings. |
The East is today sending to us for
young men. Young men who have
been educated in these three yearly |
now encircle the globe in the
mission stations.
Second Session.
The second session opened by sing
ing 'Near the Cross
Irving King then lectured on Sac
tivity versus Receptivity." He said
in part: "This afternoon lecture
the first two talks. I wish
this afternoon to call your attention
to the elimination of this process. 1t
is and has often been held that the
is the chief end of teach
ing. The result has been an over
Of activity. By over
is meant too much excite
ment, thus going to matinee parties,
and Sunday school all
in one week. The end Of teaching is
to teach people how to act and not
how to think. So We can see that anv
process that lays undue stress on
think ing is bound to lead to some
abnormal result. We are very prone
to be satisfied with very general re-
suits and especially so in our Sunday
schools. Character that does not show
itself in some condnct is of a mega
i've quality. Then the teacher should /,