The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-09-28
American Friends Board OF
Foreign Missions Submit
ted Its Report---The Sum-
day School Interests.
$50 p. m.-Christian Endeavor.


Members of the Indiana yearl!
meeting, Friday afternoon were thor
oughly acquainted with the status o
affairs concerning both the Indian;
yearly meetin foreign mission
board also the work which
has been done during the past veal
by the American Friends board O
foreign missions. Missionary topics
as a whole were discussed with n fer
vor and earnestness which was large
ly responsible for the success in rails
ing a large donation to be used by
the Indiana yearly meeting board OF
foreign missions, to place 1T once more
out of debt, and on good working
basis. The Rev. Alfred Ware asked
the yearly meeting for $4,000, sum
which the Indiana board needs very
much. A large amount of this was
raised, the largest donors being Nor.
ris White, who subscribed $500 in be-
half of his own monthly meeting in
Cincinnati and b. Johnson of this city
who gave 800 to the cause. There
were many lesser subscriptions.
Apparent Apathy.
Previous to raising the money for
the yearly meeting board, b. Johnson
and E. G.. Hill members of the board.
made short addresses in which they
described the apparent apathy of the
Friends of the Indiana yearly meeting
in coming up to their duties along
foreign mission subjects. Mr.. John
son said that owing to the slowness of
ALL. 70 tI, In
diana yearly meeting foreign mission
work. which is being conducted in
Mexico. the board had been obliged to
go into debt to meet the current eX-
nenses. The missionaries had to be
paid he said and the mission stations
maintained and TO do this the board
needed money. He pleaded to the
generosity of the Friends to aid In
the cause. Mr. Hill said that since
the Mexico mission work was origin.
ally started by the Indiana yearly
meeting of Friends that they should
show greater interest in the work con-
Quoted there, and If they were not
willing to give their time to the work.
their means surely should be forth
coming. Rev. Ware in his address
told the Friends that they should
think more of giving and not confine
their sole attention to the growing of
good crops and along business lines.
Lydia Pike. who for the past five
years has been the yearly meetings s
representative at the mission station
Matamoros. Mexico, is now home on
a years leave of absence. She in her
talk to the meeting. said that the peo-
pie of Mexico needed guiding hand
as thousands were bound down by
superstition brought about by their re-
ligious faith. Emma Reader. will soon
leave for Matamoros, Mexico, where
she will begin her mission duties. She
IS new in the work.
Has Used $1,000.
The Indiana yearly meeting board
OF missions in it's report, through La
vina stephens, said that during the
past year $1,000 has been used by
the board in foreign mission work.
This amount was given by the In
diana yearly meeting and averages 54
cents to each member of the yearly
meeting. The quarterly meetings gave
more this year than they did last. The
Indiana board is now supporting
new Bible reader in Japan who is do
ing a good work. Speakers in COM
menting upon the report of the mis-
sion board said that the average
amount given in the Indiana yearly
meeting to each person, should be
much higher. The yearly meeting
board asked for $500. to aid in car
rying on the work next year.
The General Board
The twelfth annual report of the
American Friends board of foreign
missions was very comprehensive
one and submitted in pamphlet form.
Work is now being carried on in Mex
leo, Cuba, Japan. Palestine, China, In
dia jamaica, Alaska. Guatemala and
Africa. The work done by the mis-
sionaries during the past year has
been a great one, and hundreds of pa
gans were lead to knowledge of the
religion of the Quakers. The largest
Friends church is one in Alaska, and
numbers LOO people. There are nine |
ty-one missionaries in the field this
year. There has been an increase of
80 900 in the missionary funds gath
cred during the yearly meeting year |