The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-09-25


the Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends
probably the largest ruling body in thu
Quaker church today, convened today
in the yearly meeting house on East
Main street, which for many years has
served in it's present capacity. In
Guiding ministers, delegates and lay
members Of the church, there were
about eight hundred people present
when Robert w. Douglas of Versailles
O., one of the leading Quakers in the
Indiana district, opened with prayer.
Committees were appointed during
the morniig sessions ana reports from
the Dublin and London yearly meetings
read.
In the short addresses which were
made following the formal opening, the
spirit of love was manifest. 1t was ar
gued that this spirit of love was all
that would bind the Quaker church to-
gether or at least is the principal de-
termining factor in the rapid develop
ment and growth of the church, and
particularly the Indiana meeting.
Conditions in West.
one of the delegates, said during the
course of his remarks that the Indiana
yearly meeting is the more safely pro-
gressive of all the yearly meetings in
the Friends church. The Rev. Han
son is one of the more progressive min
listers in the western territory, where
the Friends are rapidly gaining head
way, and where the church is making
much Of it's rapid strides toward larger
membership. Sarah Jane Drury and
Elizabeth Bevin Rutter, the two repre-
sentatives to the Indiana meeting from
the London yearly meeting made short
addresses.
Timothy Nicholson, who for three
years has served the Indiana meeting
so efficiently as clerk. and who will
probably again be selected to serve in
that capacity, spoke of the death of
Charles A. Francisco, whose chair for
the first time I'm sixteen years was
vacant this morning. When Mr.. Mich
olson spoke of the death of Mr. Fran
cisco who was reading clerk of the
meeting, as having left the church
militant for far more glorious
service, tears were seen in the eyes
of many of those who have each year
attended the yearly meeting and who
have been in the past in constant touch |
with the deceased. Edwin p. True |
blood of Earlham, was chosen reading |
clerk for the morning sessions as was /
Edith Hunt in the absence of Mary |
NJ. Hosier of Charlottesville, who had /
not yet arrived.
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quarterly meetings which compose the
Indiana yearly meeting is large. The
quarterly meeting, the
largest in the world. has the largest
Many of the delegates
who are present are those who have
the annual gathering almost
since the yearly meeting was first or
ganized.
Some Of the Visitors.
The minutes of the visiting dele
gates were read. Among the visitors
10 the Indiana session whose connec-
ions are with other yearly meetings. ,
,re: Charles E. Tebbitts, Whittier. :
CAL: Aaron NJ. Bray, Boise, Idaho: /.
ISABELLA Kenworthy, Salem, Greg;
Nathan Frame, Wilmington, o.: Esth- !.
n Frame. Wilmington o.: Jacob Bak-
n. Adrian, Mich; Emmaline H. Tut
lie. Indianapolis: Harry r. Hole. Will :
o.; Rebecca Talbot Ballard,
Kan; Mary Matilda Par
.er, Seersborough, Iowa: Bunji Kidi, !.
apan: Esther B. Lewis. st. Adams,
1aine Milo Hinkle, Danville, Ill.
There were a number of delegates :.
resent who carried with them no
minutes and these were welcomed as
isitors to the Indiana body. BY ver- :,
al assent the Rev. Harry Keates,
ew pastor of the South Eighth Street
riends' church, was made a member
( the Indiana body. In connection
18th reading the names of the dele =
ates. Timothy Nicholson spoke of
ne wide and rapid growth of the
riends' belief. Starting in one small
srritory, the religion so spread that "
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