The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-09-23

church as some of the lost sheep of
Israel"
Delivered Lectures.
Mr.. Swan is professor In the de-
partment of pedagogy at Leland
Stanford University He is an in
, structor in the Martin system of Ian
guage teaching. This method of in
struction has been recently adopted in
: Miami University. Prof. Swan came
/ to Richmond from Cincinnati where
! he gave number of lectures at the
request of the superintendent of
schools to the teachers of that city.
The reports of the various quarterly
! meetings showed that church work has
been progressing satisfactorily during
the last year in all the churches Be
fore the reading of the reports was
J commenced, Presiding Clerk Ratliff
commended the clerks of the quarterly
meetings for getting their reports be-
fore the yearly meeting on Ministry
| and Oversight He stated that a larg-
er percentage of the reports were
handed in this year when the meeting
was called than ever before.
One Report Missing.
The reports from the Eastern Quar-
terly meeting and from Spiceland and
Traverse City were submitted only in
part, while the report from the quar-
terly meeting at Puget Sound was
missing entirely.
Owing to mistake in the publish
ing of the program for the yearly
meeting, the ministers and elders who
attended the meeting on Ministry and
Oversight were assembled half an
hour before the meeting was called.
The meeting last year adjourned to
meet Sept. % at 1920 o'clock and al
though the program stated that the
meeting would be opened at 10 o'clock
and practically all the representatives
Of the quarterly meetings were pres
ent, the meeting was not formally op-
ened until 1920.
After the usual devotional services,
Presiding Clerk RatIiff welcomed the
visiting ministers and elders with the
hope that great good for the church
would result from the meeting.
Douglas Talks.
Robert Douglas, of the Van Vert
quarterly meeting, responded to the
welcoming address and during his talk
stated that some provision should
have been made for the seating of Wis.,
itors from other yearly meetings on
the platform, instead of letting them
be scattered about throughout the
congregation.
Let them sit on the platform and
face the people as they have done dur
ing the past two hundred years." he
said.
Presiding Clerk Ratliff stated that
the seeming neglect had been due to
an oversight and that it would be rem
edied in the afternoon session.
In the report of the Van Vert quar-
terly meeting attention was called to
the problem of the nonresident men,
Der who Is held on the books of his
home church although he may have
been away for years.
NONRESIDENT Members.
In the discussion of reports in the
afternoon this question was taken up
in detail. The ministers thought that
some means should be devised so that
the nonresident members could be in
duced to transfer their membership to
some church near their places of resi-
dence. The Rev. Truman G. Kenwor
thy stated this morning that fully one
fourth of the names on the roll of his
church are those of nonresident men,
bers.
AS now constituted Indiana Yearly
meeting embraces seventeen quarterly
meetings as follows: Dublin, Eastern,
Paramount, Marion, New Garden,
Spicelan& Traverse City, Vandalia,
Van wer, Wabash, Walnut Fridge.
West Branch, Westfield, Whitewater.
Winchester, Puget Sound and Port
land. OF these Traverse City and
Vandalia are in Michigan; Van Vert,
Walnut Ridge and Westfield are in
Ohio, and Puget Sound quarterly
is In Washington. The other quarter
lies are all in Indiana.
Meetings Tomorrow.
The yearly meeting proper will
the morning. There will be devo-
tional service followed by a meeting
of the permanent board of trustees.
Leander J. Woodland is clerk of this
board.
The yearly meeting will open at 10
o'clock with a roll call of delegates
and alternates followed by reading
of the minutes of visiting Friends.
Committees will be appointed to draft
replies on behalf of the meeting to
the quarterly and yearly meetings
sending these minutes.
To Hear EpistIes.
Epistles will be read from the Lon
don, Dublin and other yearly meetings
followed by directions to the dele
gates for preparation for the business
meetings in the afternoon. The af-
ternoon will be given to the selection
of officers and hearing the reports
of the peace, tract and book and other
permanent boards.
President Robert Kelly, of Earlham
college. the presiding clerk of fthe
yearly meeting, will be selected in the
afternoon to again act as presiding
officer. The following officers will
also be requested to serve again; w.
H. Milligan. recording clerk; E. p.
Trueblood and Edith J. Hunt, read
ing clerks and NJ. s. Hinkle, announc-
ing clerk.
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