The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-08-29
IOWA FRIENDS IN
YEARLY MEETING
FoRTY-FIFTH ANNUAL SESSION
IN oskAEoosA.
THE OPENING is AUsPIcIoUs.
Program For Great Assembly Points
to Many Important Sessions
List Of Officials and Notes
Of Gathering.
(From Tuesdays Daily.)

The forty-fifth annual assembly of
the Iowa Yearly Meeting of Friends
was opened last evening by the Chris
tian Endeavor devotional and business
meeting, which convened at Penn col
lege chapel, according to program.
r. II. Williams, president of the Year
ly Meeting C. e. Union, occupied the
chair Albert N. Courtney, who has
been supported by the C. Els in mis-
sionary work in Jamaica, spoke from
Rom. 1:16, urging the union to go for
ward on gospel lines, which has
brought success In the past Chas. M.
Woodman, pastor of Portland, Maine,
Friends church, was also present and
encourages all present to take higher
ground in Christian experience and
service. at
Following short business session,
a social hour was pleasantly spent
greeting strangers and renewing old
acquaintances.
- Ministry and Oversight.
The. opening session of the Yearly
Meeting proper, devoted to Ministry
and Oversight, convened promptly at
So'clock Tuesday morning. After a
short season of devotion the names Of
representatives were read Creden-
tials from visiting ministers were
then read, which were as follows:
Emeline H. futile, minister from In
diana Yearly Meeting.
Chas. E. Tibbetts, a minister from
California Yearly Meeting.
Chas. M. Woodman and Esther B.
Lewis Terrell, ministers of Western
Yearly Meeting.
Ira s. Bundy, a minister, and
his wife, Sarah Bundy, an elder, and
Elwood Hayworth, a minister, all of
Kansas Yearly Meeting.
A hearty welcome was given to all
of these friends.
After the appointment of commit
tees on credentials, on preparing of
quarterly meeting reports, and on con-
dition of the ministry and membership
Of the church, and a short discussion
of some matters, the meeting adjourn
ed to meet Wednesday morning at 8
O'Clock.
Officers of Standing Committees.
j Evangelistic and Church Extension
Chairman, J. Morris Lennon, Oska-
loosa, Iowa; Gen. Supt., W.Jasper Had
ley, 109 So 9th St.. Marshalltown, Ia;
Secretary, Richard r. Newly, New
Providence, Iowa; Treasurer, Hiram
Hammond, lie Grand, Iowa.
Suppression of the Liquor Traffic
Chairman, Levi Marshall, Union, Iowa;
Secretary Treasure, DR.. Philip Slack,
Arnold's Park, Iowa.
aPeace-Chairman, E.Howard Brown,
Paonia, Colorado; Secretary, Alvin
Hoskins, Greenville, Iowa; Treasurer,
Ahher Branson, New Sharon, Iowa.
Bible. Observation-Disclosures, Sarah
G4Terell, Oskaloosa, Iowa.
Book and Tract-Chairman Laura
LgReece, New Providence, Iowa; Sec
rotary Treasurer, Adeline Williams,
New Sharon, Iowa.
Women's Foreign Missionary So
ciety-President and Organizer, EN-
ma f. Coffin, Oskaloosa, Iowa; Vice
President, Viola Spurgin, Oskaloosa,
Iowa; Recording Secretary, M. Emma
Newly. New Providence, Iowa; Cor
responding Secretary, Anna Kitch,
Richland, Iowa; Treasurer, Alice Mer-
edith, 0skaloosa, Iowa; Supt. Litera-
ture, Electa p. Cook, Oskaloosa, Iowa.
Foreign Mission Board-President,
Chas. S. White, Earlham, Iowa; Vice
President Stephen M. Hadley, Oska4
loosa, Iowa; Secretary, S. Josepha
Hambleton, oskaloosa, Iowa; Treas
urer, H. D. Lane, Oskaloosa, Iowa also
Treasurer of Joint Board.
Christian Endeavor Union Presi-
dent, Robert H. Williams, oskaloosa,
Iowa; LIST Vice President, Enrol d.
Peckham, Oskaloosa, Iowa; I'd Vice
President, Edith E. Smith, Ackworth,
Iowa; observation-disclosures Alice Cook,
Oskaloosa, Iowa.