The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-10-17
PASTOR OF
CHURCH IN
SEATTLE Is
MADE CLERK
Five Years Meeting Selects
Rev. Robert E. Pretlow,
From Indiana BodYs to
Preside.
DR.. MCFARLAND HERE

Rev. Robert e. Pretlow, pastor Of q
church at Seattle, Wash. but mem
Der Of the Indiana Yearly Meeting
was selected as presiding clerk Of the
Five Years Meeting of Friends In
America, following the opening of the
Wednesday forenoon session Of the
meeting.
His appointment as the presiding
officer was recommended in the re-
port Of the committee on organization.
read by James Wood, and the Meeting
unanimously approved his selection.
Mary Mills, Wilmington Yearly
Meeting, was appointed recording
clerk, and Levi Pennington, Oregon
Yearly Meeting, was appointed reading
clerk.
Wasn't a Candidate.
In brief address Rev. Pretlow cali
ed attention to the fact that he had
not been candidate for appointment
as presiding clerk, explaining that it
Yearly Meeting to present no candE
! dates for Five Year Meeting offices.
Among the prominent churchmen at-
tending the meeting is DR.. C. s. McFar-
land, general secretary of the Fedora
tion of Church Of America He is to
| deliver a report on the work Of the
Federation late Wednesday afternoon,
| taking the place of William B. Neatly,
! Of England, one of the representatives
Of the London meeting, who has not
| arrived In Richmond
Neatly will at later date discuss
! proposed plans for Friends activities
| following the close Of the world war
DR.. Joseph ]. Mills, Of Pasadena, re<
| firing presiding clerk, in surrenderfns
| his place to his successor, expressed
| the hope that the time was not far
distant when all the scattered branches
Of the Society of Friends would be
firmly united.
GaveI Has Interest.
| In presenting his gavel to Rev. He.
| Pretlow the retiring clerk Informed
] him that It was an historical one, hav-
ing been made Of Californian wood,
secured from a tree which had grown
on the site Of the largest Friends
meeting house In the world In Cali.
fornia.
DR.. Mills also reviewed his activt
ties as general secretary of the Meet.
ing from 1914 until January /, this
year, when he was succeeded by Wal
ter G. Woodward of this city.
Rufus NJ. Jones, speaking for the
business committee of the meeting, ex.
planned some questions Of minor i'm
portance, also announcing that In the
committees opinion finance commit.
teeiI of the various yearly meetings
could be made standing committees,
the members retiring serial1y, without
i violation OF the church discipline.
! The report presented by the exc
| -
its chairman, Allen D. Hole, Rich
mond, was a detailed one and of great
: interest to the delegates. 1t fully
covered the work Of the church
through the committee. since the last
Five Years Meeting In 1912. One o
the important questions called to The
attention OF the meeting by the exc
cutive board was the proposed WorIt
} Conference OF Christians.
World Rally Discussed
r First in importance among thest
general questions, both because Of tht
scope Of the work as well as becaus,
of the searching test which is thu
brought to US as denomination, Il
the question raised by the movemen
looking toward the calling of a WorlC
I Conference of Christians, of all secte
denominations and creeds, to conside
how all Christians may be able b
work together to hasten the realiza
i tion of that unity for which Chris
prayed, the report reads.
4 "The invitation to the Five Year
3 Meeting Of Friends to join in thi
1 worldwide Christian moyemen
t brought the executive committee t
e the consideration of one of the great
: est, If not in reality the greatest, of al
Y the plans of Christian activity whic
: can be conceived
y "Shall Friends accept the Invitation
to take an active part In carrying OF
s the work? Considerations may b
:. urged both for and against such
/ course; but the executive commftte
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