The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-09-23
Friends Permanent Board
Approves Plan of Erect
ing Meeting House at Earl
ham College.
INDIANA MEETING
MAY CLOSE TODAY
Epistles to Various Meetings
Were Read.-Bright Out
look for Affairs of the
Church Seen.

WIN lltliHS seTNlCts lut Ninety -SeN-
ond annual assembly of the Indiana
Yearly Meeting closed today shortly
after noon. Reports on Indiana AZ
fairs, the report of the nominating
committee and the report of the epis-
tolary committee concluded the delib-
erations OF the Friends meeting.
Epistles to the American Yearly
meeting ana the London Yearly meet
ing were read and approved by the
the reading of the epistles Prof. David
w. Dennis. declared that in his opin-
ion the epistles prepared by the In
diana Yearly meeting were by far
too long and should be shortened In
the future. He referred to the Lon
don Epistles to the Indiana meeting.
saying that it was the point and
brief.
In part the epistle to the American
Yearly meeting follows:
Interest Young People.
The needy places have been point
ed out to us by the representatives
and visiting Friends in this meeting.
For many months We have prayed for
more activity in the Friends society
on the part of the younger members
of the society. The prayer has been
heard and the younger people are
catching the vision of the Friends
church and it's what IL is doing to the
needy world. The Sunday school at
tendance has been augmented. as has
been the Christian Endeavor.
I'VE regret that there is a lack, up
on the part of some Friends, to keep
the family devotion. The ideal OF
church member is one of answering
attention to the duty.
Words of encouragement from
Friends have been given us. They
have fearlessly pointed out our weak
nesses.
I'VE would call your attention to
Earlham college. Spiceland and Fair
mount academies Whites Institute
and Southland college-all having en-
joyed a splendid year of growth. The
results obtained by our missionaries
are good and the coming year prom
ises much"
EpistIe to London.
The epistle to the London meeting
follows, in part:
Our sittings have been largely at
tended. The vision of the great needs
of the world makes US feel how close
ly We are related. The outlook for
the future is promising for greater
work
We have been particularly favored
ivit DS
Damn, Isaac Sharp and Mary Pomp-
frey of your yearly meeting. Their
visit makes us feel that we are united.
The accounts given by Daisy Doug
lass Barr of your meeting and OF
Woodbrook school have been gratify-
ing.
Much influence is being brought
to bear on young people. Their young
and hopeful vision is combined with
the experience of the older Friends
The epistle from your meeting was
read with unusual interest. The value
of the epistle was enhanced by Isaac
Sharp's remarks concerning the great
care with which IL was prepared"
The appointment of committees and
the personnel of each was made pub
lie by the nominating comu1naee A
committee to reapportion the appropri-
alton of the yearly meeting TO be made
by each quarterly meeting was ap-
pointed. Other committees appointed
were: distributing income for aged
ministers; historical matter; peace
committee. members of which consist
of quarterly meeting superintendent,
and six members at large from the
yearly meeting; book and tract and
auditing.
For College Church.
The permanent board reported that
it had decided TO authorize the board
of trustees of EarIham college and the
trustees cf the Indiana Yearly Meeting
to permit the West Richmond Society
of Friends TO erect a meeting house
on the Earlham college campus, II
this was deemed advisable by the
two trustee boards
This matter has been under con-
sideration for some time By the West
Richmond Society of Friends and IL is
probable that IL will be taken up by
the society in a more tangible form
within the near future.
Following the conclusion Of business
by the meeting a number of visiting
ministers and friends took occasion
to speak Of the personal results OBJ
tanned by attending the sittings Of
the meeting Among those who spoke
was Isaac Sharp. of London
An EneIishman Spoke.
Mr.. Sharp said that he felt very
much at home at the meeting. He said
that he had noted the divers points
of comparison and diversion between