The Oskaloosa herald., 1905-09-07

read whltA nfoyNd that *Nipa y rc8f.
ln9 cot lhn Holy uhast an them lhe
nAme a. on 0h. fiN Described Al
enup iennth the wntk vt tha vAggnnA
stations a. Jamaica aud especially
ccmmvndea the roou wosk done w
ALBERT ana Ola Courtney.
Moved and seconded ~ accept prop.
usitiun ~ Pres. brown IL sehu 4 mem.
her 10 represent Ne npun the rtuefAm
~ the International G. y. unoln. the
~teiectlon 81. this member was referred
20 the Executive Committee. \
society voted 10 nend either presl.
dent ~ secretary besides The rvpre
sentative Tor the program.
After reading OF announcements the
meeting was dismissed by 0uernoy
Blnford, OF Japan.
Statistical report Of superintendent
Of Evangeiistic and Church Extension
work.
No. OF pastoral calls, 1axm a
Pastoral work--No. OF pastoral calls
S,940; No. conversions, 727. renewals,
5T3. san~ctincations, 377; additions to
church, 77e; amount pledged pastors,
StS,SA4.S4; amount received by pas.
tors, s~15,27s.47.
Evangelist1c work-No. OF series OF
meetings held, 90; No. of sessions, l..
775; amount paid evangelfsts, 49,.
047.55.
General-No. OF churches built, 3;
cost, $12,000.00; No. of churches re-
paired, 10; cost, s1,6S6.Q5; No. of par.
sonages built, A; cost, $3,175.00; No.
Of parsonages repaired.9 ost,$S94.62;
amount debt cancelled, $39s.19;amount
collected for church extension, $79S.11;
mission stations kept up by pastors,
16; mission stations kept up by mem
bers, 20; amount expended for homo
mission work, ---; persons giving
evidence Of call to ministry, males 80,
females, 19.-W. j. Hadley Supt.
Friday Evening.
AS usual, the evening session was
given entirely to devotional meetings.
1t began with a short vesper service
In Tent Endeavor at 1900 o'clock,
which adjourned at 1880 to the Yearly
Meeting House. The singing was in
charge OF Mary Holt, who is able to
sing in the Spirit.
Clifford Jones read a short Bible les
son from Acts A, and spoke for a
short time on the subject Of Commun-
ion. A little after 1880 all were as
sembled again in the spacious lower
room, ~undaunted by the excessive heat
OF the day. Several songs were sung
in opening. Then while all stood a
number of sentence prapers were Of
fered and all Joined in repeating the
Lords Prayer and singing the Doxol-
ogy. This being a Christian Endeav-
or meeting, the secretary called the
roll of Endeayor Societies and a mem
Der of each society responded with q
Scripture text.
Many inspiring promises were quot
! ed. One was received from Elmer j.
Lewis, a former member OF Penn, '0f
class, who Is now president OF the
re: II. at paonla, Cofu, :
Greetings we're brought by Pres.
Brown from Wilmington Yearly Meet.
ing; by Zano Doane from Western
Yearly Meeting; by John Henry Doug
las from California Yearly Meeting;
by Edward Stranahan, member OF the
Friends African Industrial Mission,
on behalf Of the mission in Africa; by
Elizabeth Blnford, from the mission
field in Japan, who brought personal
greetings from Gilbert and Minnie
Bowles and Sarah Ellis, with the news
that Alice Lewis and Inez Tabor had
arrived; by Sylvester Jones, mission
airy from Cuba, who repeated Phi.
3:14, in Spanish, as their watchword
In Cuba; and by Arthur Swift from
Jamaica. .s..l..
w. Jasper Hadley followed the
greetings with a short prayer, after
which r. X. Newly introduced Pres,
Brown for the address oil the evening
, He started in his usual spicy way
and soon had the attention OF all pres
ent. He spoke on the double subject
of training leaders, and the study OF
our literature. "The Christian I'm
deavcr has the selectiye Office OF
sorting out leaders. For forty years
our church neglected our young peo'
pie. Any church that persists in this
is doomed. The production OF leaders
is essential for the endurance OF any
organization. All men who are truly
great are looking for a successor who
shall stand in his place. Our extrem'
democracy has made II difficult lor us
to develop leaders. Christian Endeay-
or was imposed upon us as a church
We took her in because we did not
know what to do with her. IL we do
not support and encourage our young
people we will find our best young
people peopling other churches. This
is a day when we are asking about our
literature 1.-THE history OF the Friends
church. The period Of hasty struct-
ure is past and now in a lull for rest
we study our history 1t Is the eth
ical period preparatory to another
warfare. The greatest movement that
our church has ever known will
follow This period OF study and prep