The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1913-09-27
READING EP|STLES
OCCUPIES TIME OF
YEARLY MEETING

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board was read. The report showed
an increase in rollment during the
last year of 2,472. OF the entire mem
bership, 489 affiliated with the church
during the year.
To Increase Attendance.
The general letter sent out by the
London yearly meeting discussing
matters Of church policy was read. The
evening meeting closed with an ad.
dress by J. H. Welshimer on methods
of increasing attendance at Sunday
schools.
The meeting will close Monday with
the transaction of miscellaneous busi-
ness to come before the meeting
Attendance at the meeting this year
has been fully as large as in the last
few years
The meeting tomorrow will be given
over to devotional services. Meetings
will be held in the morning, afternoon
and evening. There will be Christian
Endeavor services at us
Assign Puipits.
In accordance with the custom of
previous years, Friends ministers at
tending the meeting will occupy the
various Richmond pulpits tomorrow,
Ministers have been assigned to the
churches as follows:
Yearly Meeting House-8;30 a m,
Nettie Springer and Leola King: 10: 80
a. m, Arthur Chilson and Ebert Rus
SELL 2 p. m, Arthur Chilson, Raymond
Holding and Charles Tebbetts; 7:30
p m. Charles E. Hiatt
First Presbyterian-10:30 a. m
Daisy Barr.
First Methodist-1o:3O a. m, Charles
e. Hiatt; 7:ao p. m. Francis Ans
combe.
First Baptist-10; 80 a. m, Fred Car
ter
Reid Memorial-103 a. M, William
G. Hubbard; 7:30 p. m, Mary NJ. Har-
rold
First Christian-7:30 p. m, Milo
Hnkle
Central Christian-1o:3o a. m, vir-
gil Brock.
ST Pauls Lutheran-7:3O p. m,
Charles w. Sweet.
First English Lutheran-10: 80 a. m,
George Levering.
Second English Lutheran-10:3 a.
M, Raymond Holding.
Grace M. E.-10:30 a. m, Frank
Cornell
Chamness.
Second Presbyterian-10:3 a. m,
John Reddick.
United Brethren-10:3O a. m, Mil
lie Lawhead.
Mt Moriah-10:30 a. M, Zona Viii
liams; 1880 p. M, Nettie Springer.
In East Main Street Church Yard
East stand, 90 p. m, Aaron Napier:
north setand. 200 p. m, Fred Tar
mohlin.
Centerville-7:3O p. m, John and
Pearl Walters.
Spiceland-10:3 a. m, Jefferson
Ford.
Dunreith-7:3o p. m, Jefferson Ford
Missionaries Talk.
Missionaries occupied the center Of
the stage at the meeting yesterday al
ternoon The reports of the home and
foreign mission boards were laid be-
fore the meeting after which the time
of the meeting was given over to list
ening to talks by workers returned
from the foreign mission field
Josefa Sanchez and Louisa Jarro,
two Mexican girls employed as teach
ers in a Friends mission school in
Matehuala, were presented. With Miss
Sarah Lindley, a Mexican missionary,
acting as interpreter they told Of the
work they have been doing and the
interesting things they have observed
since coming to the United States.
The girls are orphans and were re-
moved from Mexico last spring by
Miss Lindley and Minnie Holdring, an
other missionary, when conditions be-
came so unsettled in that country that !
American women were compelled to
return TO the United States.
Collection For Girls.
The two girls have planned to enter |
Earlham college where they will be !
taught the English language. A col |
lection was taken at the meeting to |
help defray their expenses, $120 be- |
ing realized.
Elizabeth Binford told the meeting |
of the work that she and her husband /
Guerny Binford have been doing in the |
mission field in Japan during the last |
ID years. They will return soon with a
number of bicycles. large meeting |
tent, additional funds and other things
that will materially assist them in
their work.
500 Japanese in Mission.
At the present there are 500 Chris
tian Japanese living near their mission
and seven schools under their super
vision. They have been placed in
charge of large territory embracing
over quarter of a million persons
Japan Needs Workers.
She said many persons believe there
is no need of missionaries in Japan as
the cities of that country have electric
lights, street car systems and all
modern conveniences, but she declared
that the field there is just as green as
it lis in Darkest Africa where the light
of Christianity has never penetrated