The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-09-03
TEBBETs TELLS
Of TIRE WORLD
THAT IS TO Be
AN ADDRESS BY FORMER MEM.
Der OF PENN FACULTY.
YEARLY MEETING PROGRESSING
Z
Most Of the Afternoon Session is De.
voted to Talks on the Promotion
of Peace. Newly for Read
ing Clerk.

One of the great features of the
SIND annual session OF the Iowa
Yearly Meeting OF. Friends, now in
progress in Oskaloosa was the lee.
ture on Tuesday evening by Rev.
Chas. e. Tebbetts, formerly profess
or of Science in Penn College and
now national secretary Of missions
among the Friends. He spoke upon
the theme, The World That Is To
Be-" He based his remarks upon the
text, For according to His promise
we look for new heaven and new
earth wherein dwelleth righteous.
ness"
I'VE must look for Gods thought to
find what the world is to be-" He has
said, Il will give thee the earth for
an Inheritance" The most pathetic
thing In history is Gods waiting for
His people to believe that He means
what He said. / used to wonder what
Jesus prayed about but do not won.
der now: / think that ! know. His
disciples found him in prayer and
they asked Him to teach them to
pray. / cannot believe that He would
pray one thing and turn about and
teach them to pray for another thing.
Our Father who art in Heaven, hal
lowed be thy name. thy kingdom
come, thy will be done on earth as
il is in heaven" The signs of his
coming kingdom are already at hand
We have in the Hague court the
rudiments of a world government.
The Edinburg Conference was a
meeting of the world leaders from
every corner of the earth. It's de-
and Aoplorattnn Va
are living in the most critical decade
of the worlds history. In the past
six years every despot has been com
PEELED to grant parliamentary gov.
eminent and every nation has been
opened to Christianity except Afgah
nistan and Baluchistan. The old is
gone and something new has got to
come" While the Bible in five hund.
red languages has had much to do
with the change, God has also used
the newspaper and commerce to
bring about the changed conditions.
We have national, class, and racial
antagonisms which can only be cur.
ed by Christianity. The kingdom OF
Christ is one kingdom and the time
is hand when the first signs of his
coming may have seen"
NC"pl nCdulHS SiCtNs
The Tuesday afternoon session be-
gan with a devotional period conduct
ed by Chas. T. Moore, pastor at In
dianola. He emphasized the heces
sity OF conviction and sincerely in
all activity. Rebecca w. Flagler al
so spoke on THE Joy Of the Lord"
In the business session r. r. New
by Of Des Moines was made reading
clerk in place OF f. Howard Brown
who is to leave the Yearly Meeting
TO take up a passionate in Indiana.
The other clerks were renominated
and elected as follows: Presiding
clerk, s. M. Hadley; recording clerk.
Cora NJ. Madison; announcing clerk,
Zeno II. Doan. Zeno Doan was also
reappointed statistical secretary and
A. C. Brady was appointed temper
airy treasurer in the place OF A. w.
Green of Spencer who Is unable to
be present at the session.
Credentials were read for the fol-
lowing visiting ministers: Murry 5.
Kenworthy of Richmond. Ind, and
Rufus p. King OF North Carolina who
also presented a minute granted him
to attend Iowa Yearly meeting in the
year 1869. Solomon Tice, a missionary
from Victoria, Mexico, and Tom +.
Jones, secretary of Young Peoples
activities in the Five-years meeting
were introduced without credentials
and Edgar II. Stranahan, the new
pastor at Oskaloosa was introduced
TO the Yearly Meeting.
Peace Conference.
The remainder of the session was
largely given over to the subject Of
peace. The committee reported q con.
test on yeace essays among the young
people and that z. Howard Brown
had given q series of lectures on the
subject. The chairman of the com
mittee gave an address in which he
called attention to the fact that dur
ing the first two centuries of the
Christian era no Christians were to
be found in the armies. In contrast
with his condition the so-called
Christian nations are now the earth.
One half the world is now engaged in
war. Mr.. Hoskins held that the i'm
mediate cause was not sufficient for
such a vast warfare. He considered
the real causes radical hatred, ma.
tional ambition and militarism.
After stating that extensive prep.
aration insures war he showed how
in the event of German success, Can
ada would be involved in the demand
for a compulsory military service
which; 7yenld result from the wave OF
militarism which would sweep over
the world. Already hundreds OF
Quakers have been imprisoned in
Australian prisons because their con
sciences would not permit them 10
train or kill their fellow men.
st 10 The Horrors of War.
War Is followed by disastrous re-
suits, morally, economically, racial
ly and socially. The morals of Eu
rope will be made better by the pre-
sent war but starving, debt laden
Europe will result Already the
world is In state of revolution
which promises to overthrow the
military monarchies of the old world
France is a practical Illustration Of
Christ's declaration that they who
take up the sword shall perish by the
sword. The French soldier OF today