The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-10-01
The Big Auditorium at East
Main Street Church Filled
to Capacity at all Sessions
Yesterday.
SERMONS HEARD FROM
ELOQUENT MINISTERS
Much important Business will
Come Before the Meeting
Today-Appropriations are
Raised $1,000.

The great auditorium in the East
Main Street Friends church was
packed to the doors. morning, after
noon and evening yesterday. with
Friends from all parts of this country
but particularly from Indiana, the
south western part of Ohio and front
Michigan which districts are included
on the jurisdiction of the Indianai
Yearly Meeting. No business of any
kind was transacted. the entire day
being given to devotional services.
In the morning there was preaching
by William Jasper Hadley of Iewa
and Frank Cornell, of Canada in the
afternoon by David Handley, Danville
Ind, and John Henry Douglas, Cali
fornia and last evening John Kittrer
gave the sermon. 1t had been plan
ned to have big overflow meetings i'll
the yard of the church. for generally
church people, other than Quakers
join in the services. The day being
cold and the ground wet these meet
ings were not well attended II was
noticeable that there were more visi-
tors from distant points at the Meet
ing Sunday than for several years.
Friends church, visiting ministers oc-
cupied pulpits in all the protestant
churches of the city.
This is An Important Day.
Today will be one of the most i'm
portant days of the session. as prac.
tically all the unfinished business
will be finished in order that fhe
attending Friends may return to their
homes on Tuesday. The Representa-
tives' report will be read showing
the appropriations for the coming
year. the amount to be asked for be-
ing $3.50, an increase of 81. 900 over
last year. The extra sum is needed
by the trustees to meet expenses of
entertaining the Five Year Meeting
to be held in Richmond in 1907. The
appropriations must be borne by the
fifteenth Quarterly Meetings in the
following ratio: Dublin 10A par
cent: Eastern Az per cent. Fair
mount 9A per cent; Marion 7ss per
cent; New Garden per cent: Spice
land. 1926 per cent Traverse City |
per cent; Vandalie / X per cent; Van
Vert 2h per cent: Winchester 10
per cent; Walnut Ridge IL per cent:
12A per cent; Wabash
As per cent; Westfield 2H per cent:
West Branch 31a per cent The Rep
resentatives report will show that the
money is to be used for the following
church work, book and tract com
mittee, peace association, Indiana
Yearly Meeting Board of Foreign
Missions, American Board of Foreign
Missions, Evangelistic committee.
church extension, Indian committee,
bible institute, bible school, home
c. E. Union, temperance
and incidentals.
Whites Institute Report.
The report of superintendent John
U. Harkness of Whites Manuel
Training Institute located at Wabash
will be read Monday. 1t will show
that there are $50 children in tie
Home, from twenty two counties in
Indiana. During the year the endcw-
ment fund has been increased $4,000
by the will of Rebecca White ~ Phil
adelphia, daughter of Josiah r. White
the founder The income during the
past year was s18,917-97 and the ex-
penses S16,07S.65. Nearly all that is
consumed is raised on the farm of
$40 acres. The assets exclusive of
the farm itself are s16,348.46. The
liabilities are but $500. The school
was founded about fifteen years ago {
by Josiah White and is under the
of the Friends.
Total Subscription Raised
Treasurer Charles G. Carpenter
will present figures to the Meeting
showing the amount that has been
raised during the sessions by popular
The following are the
figures: For peace association $40:
for Southland College s243: for board
Of foreign missions, s640.67: for evan
gelistic and church extension s1.I02.
Tor Earlham College, s10,221, making
a total of s12,236.17.