The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-09-17
Two Workers in that Field
Give Interesting lnforma-
ton to Friends Ministers
Here Today.
FRIENDS MEETING
OPENS WEDNESDAY
Various Quarterly Meetings
Are to Be Well Represent
ed Familiar Figures AL
ready Arrived.

Reports from the seventeen quarter
ly meetings comprising the Indiana
Yearly Meeting were heard today at
the opening session of the ninety-sec-
ond assembly of the body. Ancil Rat
lift, of Fairmount, was clerk of the
meeting on ministry and oversight,
and Miss Esther Cook was assistant
clerk. The Yearly Meeting proper op-
ems tomorrow.
The reports of the Quarterly meet
ings reviewed the spiritual conditions
of the meetings, called attention to the
progress of the churches and CRITICS.
ed the laxity in life and church work
in several instances. The names of the
representatives from the Quarterly
meetings to the Yearly meeting were
read at the morning session.
The presence of two Alaska mission
aries, Mr.. and Mrs. Leslie Sickles, of
they were requested to take seats on
the platform. The two missionaries
have spent four years in Alaska work
ing among the Selawik Eskimos They
are out on one years furlough and
are attending Indiana Yearly Meeting
AS representatives of the Puget Sound
Quarterly meeting. Their home is Ev-
erett, Wash
The couple is in the employ of the
vote their spare time to missionary
work. About 200 of the Selawik Eski-
mos are members of the church in
which the Rev. Mr.. Sickles breaches
The Friends have conducted the mis-
sion for four years. To get to their
field, the missionaries take a boat
from Seattle, Wash, to Kotzebue, and
then by boat in summer and by dog
sled in winter travel $50 miles inland
On one of his trips to help some Es-
kimos, the Rev. Mr.. Sickles and his
guides lost their way in a blizzard with
the thermometer registering IS de-
grees below zero. They spent the night
in the open and preserved life by
beating one another with fists The
next morning they found that they
bad wandered in a circle and were
only a few miles from their destina-
ton. The missionary said that sixty
five degrees below zero was an every
day occurrence in Alaska and that
neither he nor his wife feared the
cold.
Prominent Figures.
Isaac Sharp, a prominent business
man of London, delegate to the Five
Years meeting, is visiting the Indiana
Yearly Meeting. He is general secre-
tary of the central board of the
Friends church in England, and stands
high in Quaker circles. He is the son
of the late Isaac Sharp, who made
many trips to America to attend year
ly meetings.
Robert w. Douglas, of Versailles,
Ohio, another familiar figure at the
Yearly Meeting, caused a ripple Of
amusement today when he arose from
his seat on the platform and said:
Friends, l have no objections to the
improvements that have been made
to the meeting house. The new ceiling
is fine, the interior has been hand
somely decorated, but you cannot hear
as we'll now as you could formerly in
the old house. When the names of the
representatives of the Quarterly meet
ings are called, let them stand on their
feet and call out their replies with a
loud voice. It's grand thing to be a
representative to the Indiana Yearly
Meeting, SO do not spare your voices. ="
Charles Replogle, of Seattle. Wash.
| is in attendance at this meeting for
| the first time in several years. He was
greeted warmly by many friends and
representatives.
Miss Daisy Barr, of Muncie, who re-
| turned few weeks ago from London,
| where she has been studying, is pres
ent. Miss Barr is a preacher of the
church and prominently identified with
it's work.
Luke Woodard, of Fountain City,
one on the old pioneer ministers of the
church, is occupying a prominent
place on the platform Isaac Kenwor-
| thy, of California, is another pioneer
Friend who is renewing acauaintances
at this session
George W. Weeks, Superintendent of
the Nebraska Yearly meeting, deliver
ed sermon at the morning session,
| which he based on Colossians l, 21-23
He maintained that the inward priE,
| clple OF regeneration is the only thing
that Will save person The inward
principle manifests itself in an honest
and upright life. and from it flows the
holiness that makes the individual
pure and the nation strong.
About 200 Friends were in attend
ance today. Members of the Earlham
college faculty and many visitors from
the local Friends churches are listen
ing to the proceedings. Literature on
religious topics is offered for sale in
Icne of the ante rooms.
This evening there will be devo-
tonal service at 7:15 o'clock.