The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-10-02
Benefactor of Quaker Church
Speaks Before the Indiana
Yearly Meeting Session
This Morning.
PRINCIPLES OF PEACE
URGED BY NEW YORK.
Yearly Meeting There Sends
Communication to Indiana
Routine Business of the
Meeting.

Morris Nj. White, the wealthy Qua
ker banker of Cincinnati. who with
his family is in Richmond attending
the Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends,
of which he is member, address the
meeting this morning for the first time
since the sessions began. Morris White
is a brother of the late Francis It.
White, both of whom have been very
liberal donors toward interests per-
tanning to the Friends church. With
the gifts that these brothers together
with other wealthy Quakers, the lndi-
ana Yearly Meeting during the past
year has been the recipient of more
bequests than ever before in it's his
tory. Mr.. White made his address
just after the financial report of the
Yearly Meeting was made at the ses-
sion this forenoon.
Mr.. White is not a believer in hord-
ing up money and dying to leave IL
for some one else to spend. On the
contrary he believes that if man
wants to get real pleasure out OF
wealth and really be benefactor to
the world he should apply his wealth
while living and in the full vigor of
manhood Mr.. White stated that what
he had to give to the Society of Friends
would come while he yet lived and that
he recommended the same plan 10
other men of wealth. Mr.. Whites re-
marks were of such character as to
imply that the Indiana Yearly Meet
ing should not be surprised IL he should
make some very liberal gifts before
the last of the sessions.
The leaders in the church are now
speculative as to what he really has
in mind of a beneficiary character.
Epistles were read this morning from
North Carolina, Ohio and Western
Yearly Meetings. The one from North
Carolina devoted considerable space
to a statement of the progress OF Gull
ford college.
| 1t was announced that the following
| persons nave been appointed to serve
for three years on the Evangelistic
and Church Extension Board: Cynthia
| Shaffer, Mary A. j. Ballard. Charles
M. Jenkins. The new appointees to
the Evangelistic and Church Exten-
sion Board for three years are Charles
o. White, c. Small and o. s. White
ley.
| Reports were then read from each
of the seventeen Quartriy Meetings., and
with few exceptions all were shown
to be in prosperous condition.
The report of the treasurer was next
! given consideration and was approved
by the auditing committee. The great
est interest was manifested in the sta
tistical report which completed the
entire canvas Of the condition OF the
church.
The following epistle was presented
and it was the will of the meeting that
| II be referred to the Permanent Board
Of the Indiana eYarly Meeting of for
further considerations:
We, the New York Yearly Meeting
of the Religious Society Of Friends.
held at East Fifteenth street and Ruth
erford Place. New York, in Fifth
month, 1908, and,
The New York Yearly Meeting of
the Religious Society of Friends, held
at the city of Poughkeepsie. n. Y. in
the same month,
To the Indiana Yearly Meeting Of
Friends, send loving Christian greet
ing:
At our session deep concern arose
relative to our historic testimony
against war and In support OF the
principle of peace and good will to-
ward all men. and in furtherance of
that spirit which shall do away with
warfare and strife.
We rejoice that there is an increas-
ing recognition OF the evils of war and
of the spirit of war. and that there Is
a worldwide movement to mitigate
or to prevent armed strife among the