The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-13

Discuss Matters Relating to
Conduct of the Society.

This mornings session of Indiana
Yearly Meeting (Hicksite) in North A
Street Friends meeting house, was
largely taken up with the discussion
OF the practices Of the Society in the
conduct of both its social and relig
ious aspects.
The reading of the Queries and Al
swers from the Quarterly meetings
and their summaries by the clerk of
the Yearly Meeting occupied most of
the time. this exercise being unusual
ly full of interest since each Query
was followed with a paper devoted to
the elaboration of the substance of the
latter. The Queries read:
Are Friends diligent and punctual
in the attention to meetings for wor-
ship and discipline and careful to
maintain devotional solemnity there
in? Have any meetings been omit
1ed?"
Are love and unity maintained and
if differences arise is due care taken
live as to be a good example to all?
When Friends violate any of our
testimonies, is due watchfulness OBJ
served to extend to them Christian
care for their restoration?"
Are Friends careful to observe
moderation, simplicity and plainness
and do they endeavor to train their
children and those in their care in a
life and conversation consistent with
our Christian profession?'
| Against Parliamentary Usage.
| One of the papers read included a
! recommendation that the business
meetings of Friends should be con-
Quoted more in accordance with parlia-
mentary procedure but this met with
decided protest, several older Friends
stating that the use of the ayes and
noes" might do violence to d strong
sentiment in the meeting against some
proposition or recommendation which
a bare majority would make seem
unanimous. One Friend said:
1T has been my lot in the past to
have to serve on juries. And some
times l was the contrary one. But
l would never allow myself to be per-
suaded against my convictions and, in
these particular instances, found, after
returning home, that l was wholly in
the right"
One aged Friend thought too much
leeway was given the younger element
in the Society and too little considera-
lions given to the traditions and Gus
toms upon which the founders of this
religious body had based its tenets,
and whose observance had carried the
Society to its present state of useful
ness and influence.
! Others thought a too rigid insist
ence on the observances of the past
would ALLEVIATE the younger member
ship who had grown up in a modern
environment and who did not place
as much value on former achievements
as they did upon following the adj
vancing thought.
Isaac Wilson, of Pennsylvania, a
visiting Friend, spoke eloquently at
this point on the necessity for recog
milton of the services rendered in the
past and the value of adjusting these
to the needs of the present.
Monday Afternoon.
The income on the Benevolent Fund
of $1,000 was reported to have been
properly distributed, and r. NJ Rob
erts, trustee of the Friends Board
ing Home, Waynesville, Ohio, report
ed the financial balance on the RICH,
side, all the rooms occupied and the
health of the boarders good.
The recommendations of the com
mittee on the adjustment of the time
of holding the three Yearly Meetings
of Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, were
accepted, that of Indiana to convene
the second Monday in August. The
committee was appointed for the pur
pose of fixing the dates of these three
tend each could be more readily &C
commodated in the matter of travel.
The custodian of the flre-proof safe
in which the records of the Yearly
Meeting are kept, reported the safe il
good condition.
Clarkson Butterworth, who was ap
pointed several years ago to obtain in
formation concerning all the meeting.
that had ever belonged to Indiana
Yearly Meeting, for the purpose o
record, reported that he had been I'm
able to complete his work on accoun
be able to do so later.
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