The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-09-11
IoaC0 Yearly Meeting
ANNUAL SESSION AND SEMI CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF
THE IOWA SOCIETY OF FRIENDS
SATURDAY Morning Session.


and was the longest and busiest ses-
sion of the week Adjournment was
not taken until nearly one O'clock.
and il was decided to postpone the af-
ternoon session until 4:30 o'clock on
account of the Colored Peoples Jubi-
lee in the Auditorium this afternoon.
A communication was read from
DR.. BENJAMIN F. Trueblood. a former
Iowa Friend and president of Penn
College for several years, in which he
sent greetings and congratulations on
the Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration
and the dedication of the new Meet
ing House.
On motion, the afternoon meeting
was postponed until 4:S0, in order
that the Friends might attend the eel
ebration of the fiftieth anniversary of
the freedom of the colored people, and
Harry r. Keates Of Des Moines and
Joseph Sopher of New Providence
were elected delegates to the ceiebra-
ton from Iowa Yearly Meeting
The nomination committee reported
the following names to constitute a
committee to reach decision regard
| ing the disposal of the funds from the
sale OF the Friends church at Spen-
Ger, Iowa: /. N. Rich, chairman; Fred
Comfort, Elwood Hadley, Sadie Weant
and J. Morris Lennon.
| Quarterly Meeting Reports.
| The summary of the reports on
Spiritual. Condition from the Quarter
lily Meetings was reported on by the
Ministry and Oversight. The report
of the committee appointed TO revise
the statistical report was given.
Zeno H. Doan of Lynnville was elect
ed statistical secretary for the COM
ing year. On motion, it was decid-
ed that the financial year of the Mis-
sionary; and Endeavor departments of
the, Yearly Meeting should end on
June 80 in the future, as do the finan-
ciai years of all other departments.
The Quarterly Meetings were ordered
to furnish the Yearly Meeting Stats
tical secretary with the names of the
Monthly Meeting statistical secretar
les as soon as they are elected.
Report of the Printing Committee
was heard, and the meeting voted
that the delegates from Iowa Yearly
Meeting to the Five Years Meeting,
who served on the Indian Affairs and
Negro Welfare Boards there, should
constitute those respective commit
tees for the coming year. They are:
Welfare of the, Negro-Joseph So
pher and Martha t. Macy of New
Providence 40. sT.r58,r.. sd. a.-. ..
Indian Affairs-Elwood Tatum and
Pliny Fry. 49, =. .4ss5as H..',..-. 80.
The report of the Book and Tract
Committee and the recommendations
of the Bible School Committee we're
heard and approved 1fn af.
Greetings From Methodists.
Greetings to Iowa Yearly Meeting
| from the Methodist Conference were
brought by DIR. Myers and DIR. Han
cher A rising vote of greeting was
| given them as they entered the audi
forum and the audience. joined in
singing, "Blest Be the Tie That
Binds Both representatives of the
Conference gave a short talk and DR..
Hadley replied briefly.
A publication board to consider the
republication of Western Work as
the official publication of Iowa Yearly
Meeting and to formulate minute
embracing their decision and the fav-
orable attitude of Iowa Yearly Meet
ing towards The American Friend"
the National Friends organ. was ap-
pointed as follows: w. I. Kelsey, Jo-
seph Sopher and l. NJ Rich.
Committees and 0evotionais.
The appointment of a committee to
draft resolutions to Congress and the
President of the United States, ask
ing them to do all possible to avoid
war with Mexico, was referred to the
Peace Committee. Report of the
Summer Assembly of Christian Work.
ers at Earlham was rendered.
The Devotional Committee for the
following year was appointed as fol-
lows:
r. II. Newly, DIR. ID. NJ. Edwards.
Meade. Kelsey, Harry X. Keates, Viola
Smith, Edwin Loft. Alvin Hoskins,
Elgy McCargor and Florence Baker.
Daisy Barr, of Muncie, Ind, adj
dressed the women of the Yearly
Meeting in one OF the rooms at the
college this afternoon at one o'clock
on the subject of THE Work of the
,Women's Foreign Missionary Board
of the Five Years Meeting
Endeavor Picnic.
The members of the Christian En-.
deayor Union of the Friends
Churches in Iowa enjoyed picnic
last evening on the old Friends Meet
ing House grounds on M avenue west
in place of their regular evening yes
per services. Nearly seventy.iive of
the young Friends we're present and
all enjoyed splendid time. Fol-
lowing the supper, a short time was
spent in informal visiting W. o.
Trueblood, of Indiana. chairman of
the Young Peoples Work of the Five
Years Meeting, then gave talk on
1.-THE Young Friends Board of the
Five Years Meeting" and an infor.
NAL discussion of the work of the
young Friends was INDUCED by all
The Dedication Praise meeting last
evening in the Meeting House at 1870
was addressed by Dairy Barr and
Charles Sweet. both pastors OF
Friends churches in Mmcie, Indiana
The morning devotional services in
the auditorium at eight o'clock today
were led by Uncle Jerry Hubbard
of Oklahoma Yearly Meeting, sand
Solomon Hull of. Nebraska Yearly
Meeting.
First Attendants Present Today
or the seven or eight hundred
Friends who attended the first Iowa
yearly meeting of Fritnds in the old
Spring Greek meeting house fifty
years ago. there are less than hun