Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-10
FRIENDS SESSION
IS OPENED HERE
Elsborate Program Arranged by
Religious Society Continues
Until May is
IMPORTANT BUSINESS MEET

Annual sessions Of the Philadelphia
fearly Meeting of the Religious Society
OF Friends began today at Fifteenth aud
z Race streets, They will continue until
MAY 16.
The meeting for ministry and counsel
convencd in the Race Street Meeting
House this morning at 10 o'clock and in
the afternoon at . o'clock
The fifth general conference of the
Young Friends Movement will be at
o'clock this afternoon in the Cherry
Street Meeting House. There will be
four ten minute talks. The subject
will be What Religion Means to Me
Docs the Society of Friends Meet My
Need, to be followed by genera
discussion.
At 8 o'clock the fifth William Penn
lecture will be given by DR.. Rufus NJ.
Jones, Of Havcrofrd College. The sub
Ject is Religion as Reality. Life and
Power.' This and all of the evening
lectures will be given in the Race
Street Meeting House aud will be open.
tomorrow morning at 10 80 o'clock
here will be meetings for divine worship
70 Race street and Cherry street meet o.
ing rooms, and probably an overflow
J meeting in the central school lecture
room. There will also be devotional
services in the other city meetings
Several members of other Yearly
Mcetings are expected to attend.
li. In hN ft ~
hnal meeting under care of the commit
tee on First day schools will hear an
address by DR.. o. Edward Janney, Of
baltimore. on "Thc Spirit of Youth
At 10 o'clock there will be young
peoples meeting for worship in Cherry
Street Meeting House, under the care OF
the Young Friends Movement.
The business sessions will begin Mon
day at 10 o'clock and . 80 o'clock
Each morning at o 10 o'clock there vii
be a devotional meeting in the Central
School.
The evening meeting will be under the
care of the Friends associations. The
general topic will be GO operation Be
! tween Meetings and the Friends As
sociations, Past and Future"
The first part will comprise short
talks by representatives of four asso .
Citations. Wilbur X. Thomas will give
an address on "Co operation of Friends
in the Uplift of Humanity"
The meeting Tuesday evening will be
conducted by the temperance section of
the philanthropic committee. ''The
Outlook for National Constitutional
Prohibition" will be presented by II. II.
Spconer, secretary Of the Connecticut
Temperance Union.
The interests Of the Friends Neigh
,lA---Tlood Guild will be considered at a
midday meeting on Wednesday.
The evening meeting, under the care
Of the committee Oh First day schools,
.xiu be addressed by DR.. George A. Coe
of Union Theological Seminary, whose
subject will be "a Social Theory of
Religious Education"
On Thursday morning instead of the
business section there will be meetings
for divine worship at Race street,
Cherry street and Girard avenue.
At / 80 o'clock a meeting under the
committee on work among colored peo
pie will consider The Housing Situa-
tion in Philadelphia.
In the evening at S O'Clock A. Mitchell
Palmer, attorney general of the United
States, will deliver n lecture discussing
ssAfter the War Problems
At 9 o'clock each day the young peo
pie will have a supper and conference,
when the following topics will be dis
cussed:
Monday--''Young Friends in Volun
teer National Service" introduced by
Edmond G. Preston.
Tuesday-''A New Type of Mission
Work" by Samuel J. Bunting, Jr.
Wednssday-''Young Friends and the
Social Crisis" by Raymond #. Bye.
Thursday-"Religion Universal
Need by Anna L. Griscom.
Friday morning and afternoon will
bring the sessions of the Yearly Meet