The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-09-27
YEARLY MEETING
To Celebrate the One Hundredth An
niversary.

One intersstin. thing in connec-
ton with this years session Of tbe
Indiana yearly meeting is that it will
mark the one hundredth anniversary
o fthe establishing of Quaker meet
inos within the boundaries Of the
present Indiana meeting.
The first settlement of Friends il
the limits of what was afterward Ii
diana Yearly Meeting was near Way
nesville, Warren county, Ohio. This
was in 1900. but there were no regu-
lar quarterly meetings on an estab-
lished footing until four years after
ward. In 1904 the Miami monthly
meeting was established, and the
growth Of the body began at that
time. From 1904 to 1907, according
to the records of the meeting, the
Miami body grew rapidly.
There were nearly 1000 members
before the setting off, Of any 9TH
er monthly meetings. At this period
the Miami meeting was bounded on
the east by the Hooking river and on
the south by the Ohio. North and
West there were no limits established
and in consequence the Quakers liv-
inc in this county and in other lndi-
ana counties along the Ohio line atfil-
lated with Miami. In 1907, 1905 and
1909 many monthly meetings were
established, including Whitewater, in
Wayne county. in the later years.
Quarterly meetings followed, the first
being Miami at Waynesville in 1909.
from which West Branch meeting was
''set off, in 1912. Both were estab-
lished by the authority of the Balti-
more (Md.) Yearly Meeting. Ohio
Yearly Meeting was formed in 1872
by taking off a part Of the territory
previously belonging to the Baltimore
body. All Friends in Indiana and
Ohio were members Of the Ohio meet
ING, and this continued until01S21,
when the growth of the Friends be-
came so great that the Indiana Meet
ING was established.
1t has developed that during the
session of the yearly meeting decisive
action of some sort will be taken rel
ative to the suggestion made a gear
AGO that the churches of Indiana
unite in calling on the coming session
Of the legislature to make the divorce
laws more stringent. A committee
appointed of last years session Of
the Inudiana Yearly Meeting will re-
port that numerous other church
denominations will cooperate with
the Friends in the work, and pro-
position will be made to have the
friends call meeting in lndianapo-
lis early in December to take formal
action. The Lutherans, Presbyterians
United Presbyterians and the Bap-
lists have signified their intentions
to send delegates to the meeting.
Judge Henry c. Fox, of the Wayne
Circuit Court. recently wrote an OPP
inion as to his ideas of what the di-
vorce laws of Indiana should be, and
the Friends unite in commencing the
step he has taken. 1t is expected
that the features embodied in Judge
FoN's suggestion as to a new divorce
law will be included in the recon-
mendation that will be made to the
legislature.
Since the establishment Of the In
diana Yearly Meeting, in October,
1921. all of the annual sessions have
been held in Richmond, with one eX-
ception. Last year the deliberations
Of the body were held in Marion, as a
result Of a compromise after an uH-
successful effort on the part of some
Of the Friends to establish a new PEI
manent meeting at Marion. The move
ment had its origin three or four
wears AGO. the members of several
quarterly meetings in both Western
Indiana yearly meetings joining lit Il
petition to the Indiana Yearly Meet
inc for the establishment of new
meeting.