The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-10-18

should seek the office for the good
they might do in it.
Margaret Carey Speaks.
Margaret Carey of Baltimore yearly
meeting who led the discussion on
Mr. Grubbs paper, spoke along much
| the same lines. She maintained that
| tne greatest problem of today is that
existing between the employer AMI
the empioye and said that the F".ends
everywhere were doing mucn to solve
| this. The actual want of millions OF
! la boring men and the millions heaned
up on the other side is a direct con-
tradiction to the spirit of Christianity
and should be 1emedied.
| Levi Mills of Wilmington, with spir-
| it decried the conditions. He said
! that it was just as wrong for capital
| to combine to secure cheaply the SER
vices of the ;aboring men as it is to
gamble with cards for money. Presl-
dent Roosevelt and his officers have
recognized that the spirit of Chris
tianity must be brought into service,
if the great questions confronting the
country today are solved. and solved
satisfactorily. They have arrived to
the conclusion that the ran stealing
millions shall be sent to the peniten-
tary as quick as the man stealing
chickens. Friends, he said should
take such a place in the world that
the evil practices now being perpe-
trated upon the toiling millions are
completely driven out.
Ebert Hamilton of Iowa yearly
meeting. and who for the past three
terms has served as a member of the
Iowa Legislature, said that the funda-
mental principle on which to solve the
questions of consequence is to do it
through the Legislative halls. There
S an opening fer Christian men here
and they can as well preach the Cos
pei through the laws they promulgate
as they can in the Du.pit
Will be Continued.
Inter-yearly meeting correspon-
dence will be continued, according to
the decision arrived at Thursday
night, but the eDistles next year and
the years following will be of a diff
ferent order than those written in the
past. Charles E. Tebbetts made a
report. anilyzing past reports, and the
reports of this year. and it was gen
orally conceded that they are entirely
too long, and overdo the mission for
which they were intended-a concise
report of the work accomplished by
each yearly meeting each year. Mr..
Tebbetts' report showed that scarce
ly anything is gained by the present
system of epistleS, as they contain
but little news of direct interest to
sister yearly meetings In reply to
series of questions sent to them, the
various yearly meetings viewed the
inter-yearly meeting correspondence
with different attitudes A few main
tanned that time should not be taken
to read them but they should be made
a matter Of record. None however
even limited that the letters should
be discontinued. All meetings main
tanned that they should be concise,
brief, crisp and should SAY some
thing" New England yearly meet
ing this year sent the longest epistle
of the year and for that reason the
New England delegation was the butt
of much joking. The episties should
be of about two hundred words in
length.
EpistoIary Correspondence.
Lindley D. Clark of Washington, D.
c., a member of the Baltimore yearly
meeting read short report of the
condition of the epistolary correspon-
dence AS the system is almost as
old as the Friends church itself. it
should not be dropped he maintained,
but carried on in the future with
greater care than has been given 20 it
in the past.
Publishing House Delayed.
Friends of America are not yet
ready to establish a publishing house
according to the report of the bust
ness committee Thursday afternoon.
The question of Friends bible liter
allure in the Sunday school will not be
| finally decided until tie next session
of the Five Years body according to
decision arrived at. A committee
of five was named to thoroughly and
conscientiously consider the matter
in the meantime and make a report
| at the next session. This committee
is composed of Thomas Wood, Elwood
| Cox Richard HawOrth, J. Lindley
| Spicer and Albert ]. Brown. The
question has been given much consid-
| Grafton in recent months by the
Friends as it is generally thought that