The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-04-23
Minnesota Man Is Offered
General Secretaryship BY
Executive Committee Of
Five Years Meeting.
PROPOSITION ON A
MEMORIAL CHURCH
West Richmond Quarterly
Meeting Made Proposal
That Offices Be Located in
Proposed Edifice.

The executive committee of the
Young Peoples Board met this after
noon at l 80 and decided that Young
Peoples secretary would not be select
ed at this time because of the appoint
| ment of a general secretary by the
executive committee of the Five Years
| Meeting. Chairman w. 0. Trueblood
of the Young Peoples board believed
the office should not be created at this
| time.
The committee completed it's ar
rangements for the annual convention
of the Christian Endeavor society to
/ be held in Los Angeles next July. 1t
| was decided to send representatives to
all the Friends conferences and con-
vents by the Young Peoples board.
Representatives will also be appoint
ed according to the decision of the
board to attend the All American Year
| ly Meeting.
A meeting of the Executive Commit
| tee of the Five Year Meeting of
Friends in America was held yesterday
at the South Eighth Street Friends
church. The committee is composed
of eighteen prominent Quakers of the
United States, fourteen attending the
meeting yesterday.
| Coffin Chosen Secretary.
The proposition of selecting a gen.
eral secretary was the most important
question before the meeting This
office is one of the most important
offices of the denomination and the
headquarters of the secretary
will be located here. Roscoe Coffin,
assistant state secretary of the Y. NJ. C.
A, of Minnesota, with headquarters at
Minneapolis, was offered the office
which was created at the Five Years
meeting at Indianapolis last October.
The duties of the Office are many.
1t will be a bureau of information but
especially the secretary will have
charge of the work. of the social SER
vice board and of the Evangelistic and
Church Extension board. 1t will not
be known for a few weeks whether
Mr.. Coffin will accept the position. He
is in line for promotion to the office of
state secretary of the Minnesota Y. M.
c. A. and should he be selected for
that position he may decline the po-
sition of general secretary of the
Friends denomination. Mr.. Coffin was
in town yesterday to confer with the
executive committee.
Y On Jay Memorial.
| A committee from the West Rich
posal to the Five Years Meeting ex-
ecutive board yesterday that the Off
ces of that meeting be located in the
proposed Allen Jay Memorial church,
which may be erected on Earlham col
| lege campus. 1t was also suggested
that the edifice be used by the edi-
torial department of the American
Friend" the official church publica-
tion, which has been published in
Richmond since the first of the year
Committee Appointed.
A motion was passed that a commit
tee be appointed to locate temporary
rooms for the offices and report in
October as to the advisability of estab-
| fishing the offices in the church when
/ completed. The committee appointed
is composed of Allen D. Hole, w. o.
Trueblood of Indianapolis, R. NJ.
Jones of Philadelphia, Miles White of
! Baltimore, and E. r. Purdy of Wilm-
ington, Ohio.
/ The fact that it will be two or three
years before the structure will be
completed will give the committee
plenty of time to decide. Work on the
church will be started some time next
year or the following year according
IN hn MI Of
in charge. There is considerable con-
tention among those interested in the
project as TO where the church should
| be located. Some of the Earlham
college authorities are opposed to hav-
i ing it located on the collage campus
as are some of the West Richmond
Friends church members. 1t is be-
lieved that the church should be con-
structed on grounds owned by the
church.
/ At the October meeting of the Ex-
| exutive committee the matter of
locating the permanent offices of the
meeting will be decided upon. Another
question to be discussed at the Octo-
ber session will be the relationship of
the board of Five Years Meeting to
the corresponding boards of the year
! ly meetings.
The members of the Executive COM
mittee present at yesterdays session
were Harry r. Keats of Des Moines,
! Superintendent of the Evangelistic
work Of the Iowa yearly meeting, Rev
George H. Moore. pastor of the
! Friends church at Westfield and chair
i 81 he
! Carolena NJ. Wood of Mt. Kisco. N Y,
| chairman of the board which has to
do with the condition and welfare of
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