The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-09-27
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Returned minutes to Iowa Yearly
Meeting and Devonshire House eng
land) Monthly Meeting were read Sat
urday morning as were the epistles to
London, Dublin Ureland) and Ameri-
can Friends.
Confidence in a broader and better
vision oncoming for the future was ex-
pressed in the London epistle. Es-
peceial emphasis was given the work
needed in foreign fields in the Dublin
epistle, while the epistle to American
Me ceilings to be sent to every meeting
on the continent, made the statement
that at no time since George Fox had
there been such a scope for Friends to
do great things and prosper in their
doing. The need for more ministers
and the problem of the negro and
Indians in this country were mention
ed and the need for not only help
ing those who have been users Of
liquor, but our men and even some
Of our women whose use Of tobacco
is increasing The change in the be-
ginning of the pastoral year OF Ind
lana Yearly Meeting to the first day
of September was announced.
The appointments of Joseph A. God
dard, of Muncie to succeed himself,
and Lucie c. Binford to succeed Lee
ander c. Woodward on the board of
/ trustees of Earlham college were en-
dorsed by the meeting.
The committee to arrange for the
great centennial to be held in 1921, is
Harlow Lindley, Timothy Nicholson,
Belle C. Bailey, New Castle; Ancil E.
Ra tiff, Paramount; Mary D. Hole, Ed
ma Wilsman, Salem, O.; Walter c.
Woodward and Benjamin Johnson.
| Friday afternoons session was
mainly concerned with Foreign Mis-
sionary addresses and reports. The
financial report of the Board of For
eign Missions showed that $150,255
was received through cash subscrip-
tions. pledges or sums in transit; that
S113,348 was expended from Oct. /,
1917 to April 81. 1919, and that $36,907
was reserved for early expenditure,
making a total of S150,255. One hun
dred and fifty-five thousand dollars
will be needed in Mexico, Palestine
Jamaica, Cuba, and Africa during the
year ending March 81, 1920, for send.
ing deputation to Africa and Pales.
tine. for missionary education in home,
field, and for administration.
B. Willis Beede, field secretary
or the Foreign Mission Board OF
the Five Years Meeting, who was the
principal speaker of the afternoon
Zeno H. Doan, chairman of the com
Meeting introduced several furloughed
mittee on Foreign relations of Indiana
missionaries.
Sarah Charles, who has been in
Mexico for six years spoke as did
: Emory J. Reece, in the states on fur
Tough from Africa and Raymond Hold
ing from Mexico, and Mary and Syl
cfn,, -I@ IL, C,,l1 e.,
years spoke of the work there.
Tells of Mexico.
B. Willis Beede spoke of condition.
In Mexico and what intervention there
| means. Just two classes of people
are clamoring for intervention il
Mexico, high army officials, and cap
italists with interests there" sale
Beede. He explained that during the
Diaz regime certain valuable land hat
been given away, and that when Car
rama came into office he realized thi:
and has since been making efforts t.
get back this land for the Mexican
, to whom it rightly belongs.
'Carranza and the Mclean govern
ment are right in doing this sal,
Beede. But they have not attempt
ed to get back this property through
! confiscation. Instead excessively higl
taxes have been charged these foreigl
| holders and they want to get rid O
the Carranza government at any costs
Schemes to Save Mexico.
Beede presented some plans of az
: ton which the Foreign Mission Boar
-, believes will set Mexico on its feet.
c The suggestion includes: A I'm
= versity in the city Of Mexico, a hospita
), there, eight agricultural schools in a
|, many sections of the republic, a con
l. rlunity church or institutional churc
:, and a school of mechanical arts i