The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-10-22
MEETING WILL
QUIT TUESDAY:
STINGINESS HIT
Delegates Subscribe SIS, 900
for Expenses During Five
Years.

The Five Years Meeting of Friends.
which has been in session at the East
Main Street Friends church here since
last Tuesday, will probably finish its
work early Tuesday morning and ad-
journ. Final business matters were
being taken up Monday and disposed
Of
Pledges amounting to approximate
II ST 900 to be made yearly for five
wears. were made Monday by various
Yearling Meetings and individual dele
gates The pledges in all will amount
to $4,000 toward the $4,000 budget
to he raised in all OF the Yearly Meet
ings during the next five years for eX-
nenses of the Five Years Meeting and
its various boards.
The pledges Monday for $4,000
we're made within twenty minutes aft
er the first $1,000 was subscribed.
Carey is Leader.
John R. Carey, of Baltimore. mem
Der of the Business committee, led the
subscriptions He said he would give
one-tenth of the total amount subscrib-
ed the first year, and would deposit
$1,000 in the Dickinson Trust company
Of Richmond He intimated that II
the subscriptions were large enough
the first year that he would probably
double his contribution.
Hollingsworth Wood then announced
that he would subscribe $1,000 on be-
half Of the New York Yearly Meeting
and Western Yearly Meeting followed
with a pledge for raising $1,000 an
nually for five years. California and
New England Yearly Meeting pledged
$500 each.
g r1In
Monday morning. Allen D. Hole an
nounced that the meeting would
pledge itself to $4,000 annually for
five years Wilmington and Iowa
meetings pledged $500 each. Many in
dividual pledges were given.
Asks For Education
John r Carey in a brief talk, pre-
eeding the subscriptions. declared
there should be a campaign of educa-
ton in the various yearly meetings,
which compose the Five Years Meet
ing, in regard to the raising Of funds
to meet the expenses Of the central
body.
I'VE are not even going to ade-
quatelE support our ministers, who
are being slowly starved to death, un-
til people learn how to give he said.
And l haven't found a single stingy
Christian who has any spiritual power.
The ife-blood of the organization
must Deb put into this work
At the recommendation of the Bust
ness committee, the Social Service
committee, the committee on Evenge-
llstic and Church Extension work and
the committee on Negro Welfare work
were merged into one body to be
known as the Home Mission board.
Liquor Left Out
It was frs recomm ended that the
committee 10 work for the suppress
SON OF the liquor traffic also be made
a part Of the new boy, but after a
lengthy discussion it was agreed that
the work of this committee was too
great to be a part of another body.
The hardes: battle for prohibition is
&c come within the next six years,
S Edgar Nicholson and Charles Teb-
bets told the delegates. A separate
board should remain for the work OF
lighting the traffic, it was finally de
cided
Whether tire chairman of all boards
or a designated member of all boards
be made a member of the executive
board was referred back to the Bust
ness committee and will be acted up
or later. Otaer members Of the board
viii be the presiding clerk of the
Five Years Meeting and one person
from each Yearly Meeting
The meeting must map out a def
mite program for the raising of the
100000 endowment fund was the
statement of Charles Tebbets, wher
the recommendation was made tha
the campaign be placed into the hands
OF the executive board.