The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-09-20

present. With this, he welcomed Levi
Mills, who, said the clerk, declined to
come, but came" Mrs Mary Meyers
Harold, who has been for eleven years
away from this city, was also welcom-
ed back to the meeting. The welcome
was also extended to Esther Baird, a
missionary on furlough from India,
who Is a member of the Cleveland
Meeting. Letters were read TO the SEES
sion from Arthur and Eliza Damn, who
are now in London.
After several words of greeting and
expression of good feeling, Mr.. Damn
said that his message to the meeting
could be summed up in Paurs Epistle
to the Ephsians, chapter, 3, verses ii
to 81.
Want Young People.
Levi Woodland said that as Iron
sharpeneth iron, so man sharpeneth
man." from which he drew the con-
clusion that these yearly gatherings,
where people come together to give
helpful advice, were of infinite value
to all who attend. Charles E. Teb-
belts arose to state that the paucity
of young people at the session was
hardly desirable. He asserted that
many of the younger generation had
told him that they did not feel that the
religious gatherings We're intended for
them, but were reserved for the older
folks. He said that much of this feel
ing could be overcome and the young
people brought into more active serv-
ice in the church, if they were occas-
ionally placed on committees, or 9TH
erwise given positions of responsible
ty in the church. Following up this
same idea. Mr.. Nicholson expressed
his belief that the best way to accom-
plish this much desired result was to
put certain young folks on the COM
mittees of the quarterly meetings.
The next matter presented was the
appointment of committees to serve
during the coming year. CHARLES E.
Tebbetts, with corps of active as
sistants. was made chairman of the
committee in charge of the prepare
ton of minutes. For the committee
on Gospel meetings, which will have
supervision over the opening session
and all the devotional services in the
meeting of 1912, Truman Kenworthy,
as chairman and sixteen other mem
bers were selected. The clerk pro-
posed that this committee be divided
into several subcommittee, each to
assume charge of certain phase of
the work. In the absence of Robert
l.. Kelly, Thomas Woodland was made
chairman OF the committee to reply to
the epistles from other yearly meet
ings.
To Go to England.
Daisy Barr, who has been presented
with scholarship in the Woodbrook
School in England, was called upon to
give a few words on her reasons for
wishing to attend that institution. She
said she intended to sail next April,
and spend four or five months on the
British Isles, during which time she
proposed to attend classes at the
school, and also visit some important
yearly meetings in England. The Mum
Gle monthly meeting, and the Winches-
ter quarterly meeting had already ap-
proved her going, and as the board of
ministry and oversight yesterday lib
Grated her from her duties here for
the time, the meeting unanimously
voted to allow Daisy Barr to go. Fran
cfs Anscombe. a visitor from Canada,
said that until five years ago, he him
self had been member of the London
yearly meeting, and he could assure
Miss Barr's sister arose and express
ed her thanks for the permission gran
ted, and gave a short summary of her
sisters life, showing how at the early
age of fourteen, Daisy Barr had been
found by her mother preaching ser.