The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-08-17
HARVEY WILL DELIVER
KEYNOTE ADDRESS At
FIVE YEARS. MEETING

me opening, or key note address
OF the Five Years Meeting of Friends
which convenes at Richmond, on Sept.
3, will be given by T. Edmund Harvey,
well known English Friend, it was an
nounced Thursday.
Henry HoGgkins, who was to have
delivered the address, will not be able
to return from England in time to
reach the conference. He was in the
United States the early part of the
summer, while on the way to England
from Japan
T. Edmund Harvey was, during the
war, and for the first years after
wards, the head of the English
Friends relief work in Europe, but he
is better known in the United States
for his book, THE Rise of Quakerism.' .
He will speak on THE World Out
look"
Stranahan to Speak
The talk on religious education,
which is to be given by Edgar H.
Stranahan, vice president of Penn
college, will be given on Thursday
evening, Sept T. Mr. Stranahan has
been attending the Boston university
school of Religious education the last
year
On Home Mission day, Monday,
Sept. II, Frank w. Dell, is to give
an address on Bringing Men to
Christ, and Making Men Like Christ"
Other persons on the program that
day will include Amelia R. Lindley, of
the Indiana missions in Oklahoma,
who has been appearing at the diff
ferent yearly meetings this summer,
and Rayner w. Kelsey.
L. Hollingsworth Wood New York,
president of the Urban league, and
Harlow Lindley, of Earlham, will ap-
pear on the evening program which
will be devoted to the negro problem
as it effects the Friends home mis-
sions.
The printed tentative program of
the whole session has been received
by the main offices.
Reports Mailed
Quinquennial reports of the boards
OF the Five Years meeting of Friends.
made covering the five years since the
last meeting in 1917, have been mailed
out to the delegates who are to be
represented at the meeting.
The report of the foreign missions
board covers the period of the war
when the mission buildings at Ram
Allah, Palestine, were occupied by the
British army. Receipts for the work
of the board during the five years in
creased from $56,914.07 in 1917, to
$104, 1874 in 1921. Requests totaling
$40, 1883 have been received during
the FIVE years All of the mission
fields were effected by the war, as
there was fighting in the neighbor-
hood of all of them. the report shows.
The board of home missions was
first organized in 1917 by the combina-
ton of the negro and church extern
sion boards with the old home mission
board. A part time secretary for the
work was secured in 1919, and in
April, 1920, an executive secretary
was finally secured. The expenditures
of the board increased from S4S9.13 in
1918 to S27.389.30 for the year ending
June 80, 1922.
Reports Business
The Bible School board, which pub
fishes Penn Weekly and the school
quarterlies, reported in the last five
years a doubling of supplies furnish
ed in the church schools during the
last FIVE years. The Friends Book and
Supply House did a $4,000 business
during the last year, the report
stated.
THE prohibition history of the last
five years marks an era of unparallel-
ed achievement" says the report or
the Prohibition board. of which S. Ed
gar Nicholson, of Richmond, is chair
man. THE vision which came to a
few pioneers more than a century ago
has been realized in the coming OF
national prohibition"
But the report adds: 1.-THE prohibi-
ton issue is not settled. In keeping
with the general lawlessness of the
whole liquor traffic, as demonstrated
throughout its existence, even now in
face of the eighteenth amendment and
all the laws which have been enacted
for it's enforcement, the friends of the
- I'll .