Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-06-18
FRIENDS YEARLY MEET
CLOSES LATE TODAY
Much Business Transacted
and Many Annual Re-
ports Heard

Newberg, June 1s,-The twenty.
sixth annual session of Oregon Yearly
Meeting o. Friends (Quakers) will
probably end late today. The unusua,
amount of business has been transacted
with dispatch and thus far in much
harmony.
The departments of Temperance,
Good Literature and Education pre-.
sented their reports yesterday. The
report on education was of especial
interest. In spite of the large number
of young men especially who have gone
into various forms of war work, especi-
ally Y. NJ C. A. work a0d the work of
the Friends > ReeonstII etion work in
France, Pacific College tns had very
prosperous and successful wear, with an
enrolment only eight below that of
last yea" which was tla best in the
history of the college, l9t faculty for
next year remains unchanged except
for years leave of absence for one
teacher and the return of another from
years leave.
Previous to the reports on educa-
tion, Or. Charles E. Tebh tits, repre-,
senting the board Of education of the
Five Years Meeting of Friends in
America made an educational address,
which was followed by an offering for
the college that will amount in the ag.
gregate to nearly thousand dollars.
Three great messages were presented
to great crowds Sunday. In the morn.
ing meeting Charles f. Tebb tits
preached. In the afternoon the sermon
was delivered by Fred h. Carter, pas,or
of the church at Newberg while in the
evening Carl Miller, the new pastor at
Springbrook, gave the missionary ad
dress Of the yearly meeting.
Saturday evening was the annual
Christian Endeavor rally, the annual
reports also being presented. Chester
A. Hadlcv of Rosedale is the new head
of this department, and plans of con.
siderable magniture are on foot for the
coming year. including a summer con-
ference vt one of the Tillamook beach.
es. An offering of 800 was taken for
this work
There were three principal features
to the anniversary celebrate n, in honor
of the completion of the first quarter
century ,f the life of the yearly meet
ing as SUCH. Aaron M. Br8y read a
paper Of Reminiscence, in which he re-
viewed the history of the work of
Friends in Oregon, from before the
establishment of Newberg, the first
meeting over forty years ago, up to
the present time. Three people were
present who had been present at the
organization of this first meeting. They
were Jesse Hobson of Portland und
Anna Blair of Newberg, children of
William Hobson, the father of OREGON
Quakerism and Lillian Robertson. A
number Of others were present at tine
first eyangelistic meeting ever held in
the Chehalem valley, and seventy were
present who attended the opening of
the yearly meeting % years ago.
Messages of greeting were read from
John Henry Douglas, one of the early
pioneer evangelists in this section; the
former clerks of the yearly MEETING, DR..
Thomas Newlin, first president ,9f Pa
eific College, later of Whittier and of
Guilford Colleges, and now in charge
of Army Y. M. G. A. work in Camp
Jackson; H. Edwin MeGraw second
president of Pacific College, later pas.
tor of Whittier meeting, the largest
Friends church in the world and now
president elect of Penn College; julius
&c. Hobson, now of Indiana; and e1so
from Walter c. Woodward a graduate
of Pacific College, later teacher in
this college, and now General Secretary
of the Five Years Meeting and edit or
of the American Friend.
Two fire addresses were also given,
one by Dr. Robert E. Pretlow, clerk
of the Five Years Meeting, on "The
Yearly Meeting-Its Place in Quaker
Polity." He reviewed the history of
the organization of the society, and
showed tie present situation, and the
relation OF the yearly meeting to the
other component bodies of the church.
The subject of the address of DR..
Tebbetts was THE Church of the
Future" In masterful way he re-
ferred 10 the past, as previously pre-.
sented, and to the present situation,
as it had been reviewed, then showed
the tasks that are awaiting the church,
and the means by which it may measure
up to its responsibilities in the trying
days that are just ahead. He empha-
sized the need for n broad outlook nm