The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-10-15
Five Years Body viii Take Up
Its Work by an Opportunity
For Devotion and Presenta-
ton of Credentials.
MANY QUESTIONS WILL
BE UP FOR DISCUSSION.
Nebraska Wants Separate
Yearly Meeting--- --System of
EpistoIary Correspondence
May Be Modernized.

Delegates from many parts of the
world are arriving in Richmond to
attend the Five Years meeting of
Friends, which will convene tonight
at the East Main Street church, con-
tinuing Indefinitely. Monday a large
number of prominent Friends from
various parts of the United States ar
rived in Richmond, while today all
trains carried their quota. At ten
o'clock the delegation from the Balti-
more yearly meeting and part of the
delegation from the Philadelphia
meeting arrived here. At one o'clock
this afternoon Friends from Canada
put in their appearance. 1t is thought
that by the time Of-the opening of to-
nights sessions practically all of the
delegates sent by the various yearly
meetings will have arrived in the city.
Between one hundred and fifty and
two hundred delegates are expected.
Presentation of Credentials.
Tonight's sessions will be marked
by the presentation of credentials of
the visiting delegates. The Rev. Ed
mund Stanley, president of Friends
college at Wichita, Kas., will preside.
He was clerk of the meeting five
years ago and will preside over this
years gathering until his successor is
named.
Wednesday morning delegations
will select their chairmen and upon
the chairmen will evolve the duty OF
making the selection of officers. Early
Wednesday morning devotional cxer-
cises will be held and beginning at
nine o'clock the various propositions
from the yearly meetings will be pre-
sented. Among these proposition
for the establishment OF the Nebraska
yearly meeting will be presented. The
matter has been given some consider
alton in the past few years as the
Friends have greatly increased in the
Nebraska territory, SO much so in fact
it is deemed best to organize sep
arate yearly meeting, an OffshOOt of
the Kansas yearly meeting.
Questions to Come up.
Among the propositions to be pre-
sented at the Five years sessions
many are expected to contain interest
ing suggestions which will be dis
cussed thoroughly. The reports from
the committees are expected to con-
tain much of interest but particular
attention will be given the series of
addresses to begin Immediately after
the transaction of business. Many of
the most prominent men in the
Friends church are on the program
and their ideas on the affairs of the
church and it's standing in present re-
ligious history are eagerly antlclpat-
ed. The first address of interest on
a special topic will be that of Rufus
NJ. Jones, editor of the American
Friend, who will speak on THE Pres
ent Opportunity of Friends Methods
of evangelism, one of the live ques-
tions confronting the church today.
will be discussed fully as will the
question of federation of churches.
Benjamin F. Trueblood, one of the
Friends great peace men, and a resi-
dent of Boston, will during the course
of the meeting speak on Friends in
Public Affairs
EpistoIary correspondence.
Before the sessions will have ended
the question of inter-yearly meeting
correspondence will be discussed
thoroughly. From time immemorial
almost, Friends have each year sent
letters of good cheer and well wishing
to their sister yearly meetings, re-
f;ecting the spiritual as well as busi
ness phrases of work being done by
the individual meetings. These let
ters have become fixed as custom
and have remained, it is asserted,
much the same as they were years
ago, each year changing but little. 1t
is felt now among many Friends in
various yearly meetings that the epis-
tolary greetings should be changed in
many respects to meet more modern
demands, and for this reason the
question will undoubtedly meet with
spirited discussion when the topic is
presented. This question, however,
will not be taken up until the latter
mart of the meeting.