The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-10-26
PLAN AGREED UPON
BY FRIENDS AFTER
MUCH HARD WORK
be very likely to ratify the work OF
the Richmond conference.
The Plans of Union.
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the Richmond conference.
The Plans of Union.
In it's entirety the plan of union
follows:
THE American Friends Board of
FOREIGN Missions shall consist of two
members for each Yearly Meeting ap-
pointed by the Yearly Meetings or
Missionary Associations with an ad-
ditional member for each 5000 men,
bers or fractional part thereof above
5000.
2-The American Friends Board of
FOREIGN Missions shall exercise gen
sraI supervision over the Mission
Boards of all the Yearly Meetings
that shall enter into this agreement.
3-The American Friends Board of
Foreign Missions shall be the sole
agency Of the various Yearly Meet
ngs for the administration and con-
troll all their foreign mission work.
At shall serve as bureau of in
formation and an agency for main
tanning and increasing mutual inter
est and sympathy between the Home
and Foreign fields.
Sit shall examine, prepare and
appoint candidates for the various
fields. It shall dispose of the time
and services of Missionaries at home
on leave Of absence, acting in each
case in conjunction with the Yearly
Meeting Board concerned.
Cit shall receive, hold in trust
and disburse, through a bonded treas
urer, all the mission funds entrusted
to it by the various Yearly Meetings
entered into this agreement.
7-Subject to the approval of the
American Friends Board of Foreign
Missions, the Yearly Meeting Boards
shall retain the privilege if they so
elect of selecting their own foreign
field and nominating their own mis-
sionaries.
8-Each Yearly Meeting Board
shall collect and forward all its for
eisn missionary funds through it's
treasurer to the treasurer of the Am
erican Friends Board of Foreign
Missions. Trust and reserve funds
held for foreign missionary purposes
may remain under the care of the
Yearly Meeting holding same.
each Yearly Meeting Board
shall report its needs, progress and
financial condition regularly to the
American Friends Board of Foreign
Missions.
1o-The administrative expenses of
the American Friends Board of For
eign Missions shall be paid from the
general fund.
11-This plan of union may be
changed by mutual agreement of the
Yearly Meetings composing this un-
ion.
In addition to the plan of union
the conference adopted resolutions
which in effect were as follows:
Uniform Discipline Followed.
That the Nomen's Foreign Mis-
sionary Associations and societies
are to become auxiliary TO the Year
ly Meeting Boards: that all matters
of organization of the American
Friends Board of Foreign Missions,
the location of the central Offices,
etc, be left to the Board itself; that
the plan for union become effective
as soon after the sessions of Kansas
Yearly Meeting in 1907 as may be
decided upon. This provision was
made because of the fact that as Kan
sas Yearly Meeting sessions are the
latest in the year. all other Yearly
Meetings will have passed upon the
plan by that time and it will be pos
sible for the union TO become effec-
tive very soon thereafter.
1t is matter of interest to all
Friends TO know that in a general
way the plan for union as outlined
follows the provisions as set forth in
the uniform discipline. which is the
guide of all Yearly Meetings on the
American continent save two or
three 1t is also an interesting and
very important point that these Year
ly Meetings that have not aiopted
the uniform discipline are Dkrties to
the agreement to the uni& of mis-
sion work in foreign fiel0
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