The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-09-29


first held in Richmond. yearly meet
ing Sunday" as it is sometimes term
ed. has always been the big day OF the
sessions When the first yearly meet
ing was held in the city it was attend.
ed by large crowds, not such as char
ncterized the meetings of today, but as
large in proportion to the population.
Sunday was the favored day among the
Quaker farmers, for miles around Rich
larger on this day than any other. Year
after year the custom was retained and
where few hundred people assembled
on Sunday years ago, now there are
thousands. Just as Sunday has been
the great day of the meeting from the
very first organization of the Indiana
body, today promises to be the great
day of this years sessions, weather jer-
mitting. Many people connected with
the Friends church, who were not al
ready in the city for the Sunday ses-
sion. arrived on the night trains Satur-
expected to carry hundreds of people
into the city Richmond. the Quaker
City of the West, will itself turn out
en- mass to attend the sessions. Friends
ministers will occupy the various pull
pits in other churches both morning
and evening. 1t will truly be
Friends day. The younger members of
the church came to Richmond in large
numbers Saturday to attend the Chris
tian Endeavor sessions of Saturday
night
No Large Donations.
For the first time in several years,
there were no large donations given to
Earlham college Saturday. the regular
educational day of the yearly meeting
For the past few years it has been the
custom for some individual belonging
to the Indiana meeting. or another,
who is interested in Earlham. to give
the college a large sum. 1t is thought
that the great activity during the past
year in raising funds among the
Friends for the library, dormitory and
heating plant at the college. is respon-
sible for the non appearance of large
many of the Friends feeling that they
have given all that it is possible for
them to do this year.
When asked whether or not Earlham
to his knowledge would be the recipi-
ent of large gift from any one prom
inent Friend this year. Allen Jay. fl
nancial agent. said he knew of none
at the present. but that he hoped a
goodly sum would be subscribed be-
fore the close of the yearly meeting
sessions. He would give no assurance
whatever that this would be done, how
ever.
Report Is Encouraging.
President Robert l.. Kelly of Earl
ham. read voluminous report of the
affairs of the college since his last re-
port to the yearly meeting No broad
er. more encouraging report was ever
submitted to the yearly meeting. Ii was
clear and concise and not only spoke
of Earlham's unprecedented growth
during the past year. but also spoke OPP
timistically of the future Practical
ly the entire report was published in
the Palladium some time ago.
Kelly. Charles Tebbetts, ex-president of
Whittier college. California. said Earl
ham, with its high standing in the edu-
cational world had made the Indiana
yearly meeting what it is today, pow
er in the Friends denomination as
whole. Ii is a misfortune. he said
that all yearly meetings have no CEN
t-al educational institution as has the
Indiana body. What the Friends are
today. he asserted. is due to their edu-
catl5pai institutions.
Aid for Dorn,itory.
sAnen Jay spoke before the yearly
meeting. of the work in general that
had been done by the college and in
particular of the present needs of the
Edwin S. Bundy memorial uormitory
Although a large number OF persons
have agreed to furnish a suite of rooms
each, many of them still remain to be |
furnished through the generosity of the |
friends Of the school. He asked for a