The Oskaloosa herald., 1915-09-02
YEARLY MEETING
OF IOWA FRIENDS
GREAT GATHERING IN ANNUAL
SESSION HERE.
THE MINISTRY AND OVERSIGHT
Preliminary Conferences are Frought
With Great Interest. Fourteen
Quarterly Meetings Will be
Represented.-Progr


On Monday evening a preliminary
and informal meeting of the Ministry
and Oversight met in the Bible school
room This service is held prior to the
yearly meeting in order to gather up
the business affairs of the various 10.
Calities represented, so that all mat.
| ers will be ready for the regular ses-
sion of the yearly meeting.
Among the fourteen quarterly meet
ings represented will be: Ackworth,
Abba, Gangor, Bear Creek, Des Moin.
es, Greenville, Honey Creek, Lynn
Grove, Minneapolis, Oskaloosa, Pleas
ant Plain, Salem, Scranton, and
iSpringdale. From these various points
about seventy accredited representa-.
tives will be in attendance. Delegates
from other yearly meetings will also
be present and visitors will attend as
they may be able.
Local entertainment matters are
being cared for by a committee of
which r. H. Williams is the chairman
and ample provision has been made
for all. The attendance varies in diff
ferent years, but usually is from $50
| to 400 in number The Iowa Yearly
Meeting is part of the great society of
Friends that extends all over the Unit
ed States, a part of Canada and also
in England and Ireland.
The Yearly Meetings in this coun
TRY comprise New England, New York
Baltimore, North Carolina, Indiana,
| Western Iowa, Kansas, Wilmington,
Oregon, California and Nebraska. A
large evangelistic tent has been erect
ed on the campus for special meetings
during the meeting and all prepare
tions are complete for a week of
considerable activity.
Quite a large number of Ministers
and representatives have already ar
| rived and every train is bringing in
more. Among the prominent speakers
expected are Virgil G. Hinshaw, Nat
ional chairman of the Prohibition
Party; Dean Arthur E. Bennett, direc-
tor of Des Moines s. s. Institute; Ora
W. Corren and Walter F. Dexter of
Penn College. Fraternal greetings will
be extended by visiting delegates and
the whole session will be one of vital
interest to all who attend
The Opening Session.
At 1000 o'clock the ffty-third SEES.
sion of the Yearly Meeting of the
Iowa Society Of Friends was called
to order by Presiding Clerk Dean S.
M. Hadley of Penn college. Harry
Al
opening devotional exercises, in the
singing of "All Hail the Power of
Jesus Name" and this was followed
by the reading of the 58th chapter of
Isaiah and both silent and volunteer
prayer With the presiding clerk
was r. R. Newly of Des Moines as
Reading Clerk, Miss Cora Mattison
as Recording Clerk, Zeno H. Doan as
Announcing Clerk, and also as Sta.
tistical Secretary.
Roll call of representatives from
the various Quarterly meetings de-
veloped the fact of large represent
alton and very few absentees w.
Jasper Hadley, who has for a year or
so been located at Cape Cod, Mass,
has returned to Iowa and was given
a cordial greeting by the Yearly
Meeting. A committee of five, com
prising Samuel Haworth, c. J.Bowles,
jeremiah Coffin, DR. D. NJ Edwards
and Fred &. Comfort, was appointed
to consider the case of Roy +. Gould
who is seeking admission to the min
istry of the church.
Quarterly Meetings Report.
Communications from the various
Quarterly meetings were read and
the request of that from Center re-
garding the using of $3.50 received
from the sale of property at Kellogg,
was granite" aud the funds are to be
used on improvements that have
lately been made to the church PROP
erty. Another special committee
was appointed to nominate com
mittee to take charge of the revision
and publication of a new discipline !,
for the Yearly Meeting. This com
mittee also to designate the number !
that are to be published F. W.
Sprague, A. c. Brady, Zeno H. Doan,
|. N. Rich, Philip Slack, d. B. Cook |
and Zenith Reese were appointed.
The Entertainment Committee are
providing breakfast, dinner and sup
per in the basement of the church for
those in attendance and all other |
comforts are being cared for in a
most acceptable manner The an
nouncements regarding meetings of
special committees we're made and
the session adjourned with prayer by
Harry r. Keats of Des Moines.