The Oskaloosa herald., 1916-09-07
H|CkSI1E QuAkERS
COURT REUNION
TENNESSEE FRIENDS SEND LET.
TER TO IOWA MEETING.
NEW MINISTERS ARE ACCEPTED
Suppression Of Liquor Traffic HaG
Big Place on the Program. -
Open Air Meeting and Picnic
Is Enjoyed.

In the Friday afternoon session Oh
the Friends yearly meeting a COM
munication was received from Tennes-
see yearly meeting, body of the
hicksite Friends who separated from
the Orthodox body in 1928 lead by
Elias Hicks, minister of New York
who preached what many considered
a Unitarian doctrine. This is said to
be the first communication received
from any of the Hicksite bodies by the
larger body since this separation.
Some discussion was held as to the
best way of handling the matter. Chas.
Whitley advocated its being answered
in Christian spirit and "a committee
was appointed to prepare a suitable
reply. "'. '.'-- ..'
New Ministers Accepted.
The committee on the recording Of
ministers reported in favor of the
recording of Howard w. Cope, Moses
Mendephal land Ferdinand Sites and
their report, was accepted and the min
listers were given full recognition by
the yearly meeting. Oskaloosa quart
erly meeting and monthly meeting
had recommended the recording as a
minister of Aaron Downs, a member
of the graduating class of Penn Col
lege. The quarterly meeting occur
ring on the day of the fire some tech
nl2al requirements were overlooked
which might invalidate the legality of
the recognition and the yearly meet
ing while desiring to recognize Mr..
Downs thought it best to defer action
until the technical requirements
could be placed beyond question. An
other young Christian worker had
been recommended for recording by
Ackworth but by some oversight his
name had not been forwarded and
was presented at this, session and re.
fafredk JoI the committee for consider,
atRh. .ysbseutaH II1sDur4 rr33. "rrs
,..r ramJhea AJauor, Traffic. a.rtlr
pD,D. g. Cook. as secretary, gave the
report for the committee on the. sup
preston of the liquor traffic reporting
that their work had been badly dis.
organized nby9the sad death of the
chairman Robert H. Williams. r. X.
Newly expressed an appreciation OF
Robert Williams, and the committee
was requested to prepare and bring
to- future session resolutions in his
memory.
A motion was made that the meet
ing indorse the candidacy of e. T
Meredith for governor and after some
vigorous opposition by members of the
prohibition party in which the charge
was made that Mr.. Meredith is a
drinking man and should not receive
temperance support the meeting voted
with a small number of dissenting
the people take an intereS. in the
-votes to adopt the resolution.
Open Air Meeting.
" The afternoon was a young peoples
occasion with a picnic at the old year
Hlsdmseting house grove, and an out
door injecting addressed by Golda
'Ruan Carroll, Herald M. Lane, s. L
Haworth and Ora w. Carroll on the
subject of the Recent Young Friends
Conference at Cedar Lake, Indiana.
The ACTIVITIES of the afternoon and ev
ening were a part of the young
Friends movement which is" repre-
scented here through the Christian En-
deavor Union. The meeting was also
addressed by F. Olin Hunt and ad
journed to the meeting house for q
public meeting where the report d
Ora w. Carroll as field secretary was
read and the officers elected. The en-
tire executive committee was elected
for another year. This consists oil
Clyde Coffin, president; Walter ]
Homan, vice-president; Cora M. Mat
tison, End vice-president; Jesse NJ
Conover, secretary-treasurer; Roya
p. Pogue. missionary superintendent;
and Tacy E. Ratcliff, junior superin
tendent. ..-.
Following an address by Chas. .
Whitley on the Power of Consecra
ton" the closing service of the day
was held upon the back campus of the
college about camp fire where 6
meeting of typical Quaker charactej
was held with participation freely en-
tered into by those present. ..