The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-09-19
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abolish entirely the reading of the
epistles or else they should be read
fully before the meeting. He object
ed to them being butchered. He also
stated that Friends could not have a
good idea of what the other Friends
thought about the war by taking out
cuts of their epistles and bringing
them before Yearly meeting.
The war has brought about condi-
tons that have become problems, re-
ports showed. Every meeting reports
a great interest in reconstruction and
Bible schools although the latter have
been affected by SO many young men
in the service.
Temperance has received much at
tention in all meetings.
Woodward Gives peech.
The time of the program for Sun
day has been changed somewhat. The
Bible school has been changed to 8
o'clock and the meeting for worship
has been changed to 1890 o'clock.
This was done in order to emphasize
the Bible school hour
1t was decided also to give the fl
nance board the authority to select an
auditing committee from it's own num-
ber
Walter c. Woodward was asked to
read the same paper at the Yearly
meeting which he read the opening
session Of the Young Friends confer
ence in July. Time was given him at
the session this morning.
This afternoon the address of the
afternoon was given by Rufus Jones
of Haverford. The report of the Peace
Association of Friends in America, and
the report of the Yearly meeting COM
mittee on peace were made.
Service Reports.
The report Of the American Friends
Service committee was as follows:
Indiana Yearly Meetings Service
Committee is composed of seven mem
bers, William J. Savers, T. w. White,
Alexander Purdy, Ancil E. Ratliff.
George w. Bird, Aaron Napier and
Mary Doane Hole. These were APP
pointed at the Five Years meeting by
our delegates.
Shortly after our committee was
organized, we held a joint meeting
with Western Yearly Meetings. Ser
vice Committee to devise plans to help
our boys in camps. especially in the
nearer camps, Taylor and Harrison.
In this conference, we planned to Wis
it the boys at Camp Taylor at least
once month and to hold religious
meetings with them as way opened
Members of Indiana's committee made
"a visits to Camp Taylor, one to Fort
Benja min Harrison, one to Camp Gus
ter and two to Camp Sheridan. Be
sides these visits many letters of en-
couragement were written to the
boys. AT Christmas time we sent
each of our Yearly meeting lads some
money given to us by the Central COM
mittee from Indianas Yearly Meeting
offering, as many had expressed de-
sire that portion of their subscrip-
ton be used in this manner At two
other times we sent five dollars for
each of the boys in Camp Taylor
After Henry Scattergood gave his
four splendid lectures on reconstruc-
ton work many other meetings asked
for a similar lecture, which resulted
in the committee securing a set of
stereopticon slides, and Paul Furnas
and other members of the Yearly
Meeting committee went wherever
asked and showed these pictures of
the reconstruction work in France and
explained the work.
We held two conferences with young
men who were DESTROYS of Timing the
unit, one in Richmond and the other
in Muncie. Paul Furnas met with
these groups and explained the work
to them. These meetings were very
helpful. Your committee also helped
in the drive for funds for the Central
Committee.
Different members of the Comlait-
tee appeared before several exemption
boards and helped the boys who were
going to France to be put into de-
ferred class. We also helped the boys
to secure passports