The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-08-31
YEARLY meeting
OF IOWA FRIENDS
ANNUAL SESSION
NOW IN PROGRESS. +
GOOD REPORTS ARE COMING IN
The London EpIstIe From the Mother
Melting in England Was Power
full Appeal for Peace and
Humanity.

, FSuSu III CHS yearly mSIlhS uouSO al
the corner of street and College
avenue, at 10 a. m. with Dean s. M.
Hadley of Penn college as presiding
clerk, Cora M. Madison as reading
clerk, r. r. Newly of Des Moines as,
reading clerk, and Zeno H. Dean as
announcing clerk. The session opened
with typical Quaker period of silence
which was followed by prayer by the
general superintendent of the yearly
meeting, Harry r. Keates of Des Moin-
' es in which he expressed the thanks
of the meeting for the blessings which
had attended them during the trying
times through which they had been
passing.
| The clerk then read the opening
minute and roll call of delegates was
held. Under a ruling of last year the
fourteen quarterly meetings are each
entitled to appoint four representativ
es and one additional delegate for each
two hundred members or fraction
more than one hundred '..'
Opening Session Last Night.
The visiting ministers present at the
opening session were introduced by
the reading of the credentials which
are known among the Friends as
minutes" from their home meetings.
Wallace E. Gill was present with a
minute from Los AnUeles, Calf f.
| OIin Hunt from Fowler, Kansas; and
Ross A. Hadley of Richmond, Indiana,
as assistant secretary of the American
Friends Board of Foreign Missions.
Miss Lizzie Allen, a Friends mission
airy from Jamaica was present without
minute and Chas. o. Whitley, the
new General superintendent was in,
i troduced by Edgar H. Stranahan, pas
tor of the local church. Mr.. Whitley
has had fourteen years of pastoral ser
vice in Indiana, and has been pastor
' of the college meeting at Newberg,
Oregon, during the past four years.
He was recorded as minister with
Mr., Stranahan. ..ssa III. -. .v
Reports we're received from Oska-,
loosa, Bangor, Lynn Grove, and Bear
Creek quarters recommending the rec.
ognition of the ministry of Aaron
Downs, Howard w. Cope, Moses Men
denhaIl, and Ferdinand Sites, The lat
ter coming as a minister from the
Methodist Episcopal church. The con-
sideration of these recommendations
was referred to a committee con-
sisting of E. H. Stranahan, W. ).
Kitch, jeremiah Coffin, M. Emma New
by and Luther V. Carter. AS a commit
tee to consider and summarize the re.
ports on the spiritual condition Of the
individual meetings Ida Hathaway, }.
Morris Lennon, Chas. Johnson, John
Baldwin, Edward Hartsuck. and An
ma Swain we're appointed r. r. New
by and Dr. S. NJ Case expressed
desire that the reports might be so
read as to give an actual view OF the
conditions or as the old expression OF
the Friends is, "state of society" The
statistical report has been printed for
distribution but will not be read in full
in open session.
The London e pistIe. ..
The London General Epistle was
read and made an unusually deep i'm
preston upon the meeting. This is q
letter written from the mother month
,ly melting to all those bearing the
name of Friends. This year 1t is a
composite composition of the younger
members of the English Quakers who
are bearing the burden placed upon
them by their loyalty to their peace
convictions under the present condi-
tions in England. The document is a
powerful appeal for forgetfulness of
racial and sectional differences plead
ing for a common zeal for the welfare
of humanity and a forgetfulness Of
the divisions. 1t speaks of the trend
back OF a common sympathy as pro
Iduced by the great disaster of the war
and mentioned the appeal which Christ
has had to all races and types: The pos
sibility of the actual adoption of
Christian principles as rules OF life is
discussed and it is suggested hat un-
der the terrible failure of other meth
DDS we should be willing to give radi-
cal Christianity fair trial. DR.. j. II.
jStuart of Minneapolis declared this
1.-THE most remarkable of all the series
Iof London Yearly meetings epistles,
Icharacterizing IL as quakerly, Catholic
and humanitarian The discussion
which followed was participated in by
Chas. o. Whaley, Ross A. Hadley, and
Samuel L. Haworth. This document
was followed by another written es-
tpecially to Iowa Friends and by the
Iepistle from Dublin yearly meeting.
This was written in June just after
THE Irish rebellion which had caused
postponement in the time of holding
the Irish meeting of four weeks. The
sessions we're finally held only by mill
tary permission no one being allowed
ito pass in or out of the city without
a pass. None of the Irish Quakers we're
seriously injured but many lost much
property A desire is expressed for
better understanding among the sec
ltions of the Irish people, The total pro-
hibition Of liquor in Ireland was adj
ivocated and special sympathy was ex.
tended to Iowa in It's efforts for edu.