The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-03
WITH THE FRIENDS
The Great Yearly Meeting
Opens at High Point
Today.

Especial to News and Observer
High Point, N. c., August 2-The
great Yearly Meeting of Friends be,
gins Wednesday. Today there was Il
meeting of the permanent board of
ministry and oversight and a confer
enCe of ministers and workers which is
always held preparatory to the opening
of the meeting. At these meetings
there is a getting together" SO to
speak, of the Friends and plans form
ulated and adopted for the successful
carrying out of every detail of the
meeting. The program of the meet,
ing is as follows:
Fourth Day, the 3rd.
$3.50 a. m.-Conference of ministers
and workers.
1000 a. m.-Meeting for worship
and business.
2:30 p. m.-Meeting for business
Bible schools, peace. etc.
500 p. m.-Meeting for worship.
Fifth Day, the 4th.
1000 a. m.-Meetng fer business
2:30 p. m.-Report OF evangelistic
and church extension
500 p. Differentiation of temper
ance work.
Sixth Day, the 5th.
1000 a. m.-Meeting for business,
report of Blue Ridge Mission commit
tee.
2:30 p. m.-Report of Foreign Mis-
sion Board.
500 p. m.-Christian Endeavor.
Seventh Day, the 9th.
1000 a. m.-Report of Orphanage
committee
2:30 p. m.-Report of Guilford Col
lege and other educational reports.
500 p. m.-Meeting of old students
organization and educational address.
First Day, the 9TH
1890 a. m.-Meeting for worship,
Also at 2:30 and 500 p. m.
Second Day, the Sth.
1900 a. m.-Meeting for business.
2:3O p. m.-Report of Committee
on suppression of Liquor Traffic.
Meeting for worship also at $3.50 a.
M, each day.
The North Carolina Yearly Meeting
is great organization numerically
and spiritually. 1t is doing a great
work quietly yet surely. Our State
owes much of its progress and un-
sullied reputation to the sturdy hands
and big hearts of the Quakers living
within her borders. The North Car
olina Yearly Meeting makes an es-
pecial effort to have the young people
from the cradle up and as a result has
pecial effort to save the young people
of any yearly meeting in the world
They organize Cradle Classes and
all the infants Joining" are enrolled
upon the Cradle Rock" thus instin-
ing in the hearts of the little ones the
first lessons of "Christian Patriotism >"
The attendance this year gives
promise of being fully as large as on
previous occasions. Distinguished
Friends from all over the Union and
from some of the foreign countries
will be present.
An important matter coming before
the meeting this year is the disposition
of the meeting house and grounds a
movement has been started
to move the place of meeting to an
other town. There are arguments for
and against it. 1t is argued that the
property costs something like 800
q year for repairs and preparation for
Yearly Meeting and that if it is con-
tinued here about $4,000 must be.
spent in building a boarding hall and
committee rooms on the other hand
if the property was sold for $1,000
and the money put in into the Church
Extension Fund there would be some
500 each year to put into the exten-
sion treasury, build meeting houses.
etc. But if the property is sold, where
will Yearly Meeting be held, is the
question. Gui1ford College is the most
likely place advanced but, some there
do not favor the change. 1t is a ques-
tion that seems to have forced itself
on the Yearly Meeting, as there seems
to be no one trying to force the mat
ter one way or the other. On the sur
face it looks as if the place of meet
ing will be here for one year more,
anyway.