The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-08-14
YEARLY MEETING ENDS
WITH SESSION SUNDAY;
XII kLUX CONDEMNED

Religious services and reports oc-
eupied the closing sessions Sunday of
Indiana Yearly Meeting OF Friends.
Condemnation of the Ku Klux Khan,
and changing the final authority for
the recording of ministers to the year
ly meeting featured the sessions
Saturday.
II any people have any right to go
on record against the Ku Klux Khan,
1t is the Quaker descendants OF aboli-
uonists," declared Judge w. o. Bard
ard of Newcastle. in support of the
action. People have said thai New
castle is completely taken by the
Khan, but | do lot know of a fair
minded lawyer there that would join.
cannot object to its secrecy. but J
can object to the race hatred that the
Khan is fostering
The minute adopted by the yearly
meeting after its favorable report
from the Meeting on Ministry and
Oversight is as follows:
1T Is important at this time for
Friends to recognize that the Ku Klux
Khan is a secret and oath bound order.
Claim Body Un-American
"As a church we want to be fair
IN u utterances and relations to.
ward all organizations, but we believe
that the Ku KluX Khan by its hiding
behind a mask is un-American; by its
-antagonism to a church is un-Chris-
tan; by its fostering and fermenting
of race hatred is unpatriotic. there
fore, we would advise our members
not TO join it or in any way assist
in its work"
The minute adopting a new regula-
ton providing for the recording of
ministers finally was postponed in
effect until after the session of 1923,
in order that the evangelistic com
mittee, to which il was referred, could
report on a committee to carry it out.
The minute provides hat before
any minister can be recorded in the
church. his name and n information
about him, must be forwarded to the
special committee of the yearly meet.
ing for report to the yearly meeting.
Approval of the yearly meeting must
be secured before he ean be finally
recorded.
Adopt Resolution.
The meeting also adopted a resolu-
ton favoring the passage of the anti
Peyote transportation bill, now before
congress.
A record of the minutes of the meet
inging for ministry and oversight, adj
vising the members to be more cir
cumspect in their relations to secret
orders also was read, but only for in
formation. The minute recommend
ed that the church should do the work
of the secret orders, in providing fol
widows and orphans, and make the
orders unnecessary.
Reports from the board of minis.
terial council and oversight and pre-,
paration were adopted, as we'll as
those from the disbursing board OF
income for widows and INDECENT min
listers, on historical material, and from
the board of Young Friends activities.
Messages from Bilthoven, Holland
and the Genesee meeting of Canada
tHicksite), were received but not
read.
Accept Reports.
Sunday evening, the following reports
were accepted, and the business of the
session closed. Charles NJ. Woodman
Richmond, W. o. Barnard, Newcastle
Jesse Henley and E. Harrison Scott
Richmond, were appointed a commit
tee to consider the advisability O
granting financial support to Fair
mount academy. Fife Pickett Doug
las. Versailles, OHIO, made the repor
of the delegate to the state conference
of Charities and Corrections. Mar,
V. Reynolds reported on the state w
C. T. .. convention. Edith J. Hunt
of Charlottesville, reported on tn
two hundred and fiftieth anniversar'
of the Baltimore yearly meeting.
Music at the evening session wa
provided by Mrs. Hilda Wooley, VIII
sang Il solo, and by a duet rendere'
by Mr.. Ralph Hart and Mrs, Wooley
H. Elmer ~Pemberton, oregon, CAV
the evening message. During Tn
morning and the evening several Q
he delegates preached in other cit
churches. Services also were held i
the yard of the yearly meeting hous
6uriug the afternoon.