The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-09-06
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4 GREAT DAY At
/ YEARLY meeting
CHRISTIAN ENDEAvoR SOCIETIES
ARE GROWING.
TWO SPLENDID ADDRESSES
One BY Mr.. Fracker Of Kansas City
and One by Gilbert 6owles. Pro.
gram for Services on
Sunday.
Friday a Great pay.

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busiest days yet of the Iowa Yearly
Meeting of Friends, and marked the
climax of the week. Messages were
brought during the day by Geo. c.
F'racker ON the standardized Church
and Gilbert Bowles in the evening on
the subject, Japan and America"
At five O'Clock in the afternoon oc-
Cured an occasion of more than ordi.
nary interest in which one hundred
and fifteen young Friends represent
ing the local and other c. E. Societies
of the Yearly Meeting met in social
hour on the old Penn Campus,
The size and enthusiasm of this
group augers exceptionally well for
the future of Quakerism, for it shows
the great and growing interest among
younger Friends. Perhaps no Christian
Endeavor Rally has been SO largely at
tended in recent years.
Greater Work is Urged.
Following the refreshment period q
short program under the direction OF
Ora w. Carol was given. This consist.
ed mostly of brief reports on the Ce-
dar Lake Indiana conference of Young
Friends of the United States and
Canada. Those attending the confer
ence from Oskaloosa and who spoke
were Theron Coffin, Mildred Haworth,
Vern Conover, Charles Maxwell and
Clarence McLlain, a retired mission
airy from Cuba. " ~,
The aorly ,,,o ,st Of tho % M oct In, o.
was given over to the business of the
Christian Endeavor union. A standing
count was made of each Quarterly
meeting delegation, with a total of
$50 with Oskaloosa leading with thir-
ty!sixg Reports were given by Field
Secretary Ora Carroll, and Seey-Treas.
CASA Conner.
A more earnest application was urg-
ed upon the part of the young people
to assist in every way possible in the
present world crisis, to help in the
Friends relief work, to seek a closer
acquaintance with the principles OF
the Society of Friends, and in every
way possible to propagate the growth
and influence of the message of Quak
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Franker's Great Message.
The Friday afternoon session OF
Yearly Meeting was occupied for the
host part by the splendid lecture with
charts and figures by Geo. C. .Fracker
Of Kansas City, Missouri, District Supt
of Religious Education of the Presby'
Iian Church.
Mr.. Fracker is man we'll fitted to
give his talk on The. Standardized
Church." He has been Supt. of Relig,
ious Education for his church for
some four years, hfs field being Iowa
Missouri, Kansas and Colorado. He
told of how the vision for unifying
the different organizations of his own
church had in the past ten years per
fected it's efficiency. He explained the
four necessities of any education: the
child, the material, the method and
the teacher.
The great sin of the Sunday school,
he said, was the aimlessness on the
Part of the teachers and cited the fact
that so per cent of the teachings in
Sunday schools of the Presbyterian
church is aimless. " >tsm
Japan and America. .-...
The evening address, Japan and
America" by Gilbert Bowles, was welt
attended. He told of the awakening in
Japan of what we in America call pub
lie opinion. He citeu the influences
drawing Japan and America together,
some of which are: their geographic
position; the impact of the west on
the east in Japan; the American pio-
reers in industry and mission fields III
Japan. The American educated Japa-
nese who return and the friendship
and political guidance on the part of
the American government, and the in
f,uenee of the one thousand mission
aries in Japan.
There are also forces which tend to
divide, he explained, sAch as the in.
ttuence of war itself and the suspicion
and anti-Japanese demonstrations in
America.
The indications point toward great
increase in the number of Japanese
students coming to this country after
the war, thus placing the burden of fu-
ttire good will between Japan and
America on the impression carried
back by these students.
Whites Manual Institute.
Iowa Friends heard good reports of
Whites Manual Institute of Mt. Ha-
mie. Lee County, la. at Fridays SEES,
sion with more than common interest.
C.. S. Lewis of Marshalltown and Joel
Hosl1ins of Pleasant Plain are the.
present trustees, and under the eff
cient management of the institution BY
Hal R. Graham and wife the institu
ton Is putting itself on the map. AL
though 1t is one of the oldest philan.
thropic Institutes of its kind in Iowa
being organized in the early fifties, II
has not until the last few years been
brought up to its fullest possibilities.
About forty children are cared for
on the large farm and trained in dairy