The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-20
QUAKERS WILL
Be IN SESSION
THROUGH WEEK
Indiana Yearly Meeting to
Open Monday at
Richmond.
United Press

Bp United Press
RICHMOND. Ind, Sept. 2O.-The
Indiana Yearly Meeting Of Friends
will convene here for its one hun
bred and tenth annual conference
in the Timothy Nicholson Memorial
church here beginning Tuesday and
will be in session through Sunday
The meeting has approximately
1900 members, mostly in Indiana,
but with some congregations in
Ohio, Michigan and the Puget sound
section Of Washington.
This city has been the annual
meeting place Of the body since
1920 when Friends residing in this
section Of the state first gathered
here, with the exception of one
meeting held at Marion and one at
Muncie, the latter because the old
East Main Street Friends church
had been torn away to make place
for the new Timothy Nicholson
church.
Sixteen quarterly meetings will be
represented officially by eighty
eight representatives. Many more
are expected to attend from Indiana
and other yearly meetings, some
from abroad,
The following quarterly meetings
will be represented: Dublin, Eastern,
Paramount, Marion, New Garden,
Pa; Puget Sound, Wash; Spiceland,
Traverse City. Mich; Van Vert, o.;
Whitewater West Branch, Walnut
Ridge, Winchester and Wabash.
Professor to Preside
Herman o. Miles, Of this city and
Edna r. Redick Of Lynn will serve
as clerks at the convention. The
yearly meeting properly will be
opened Tuesday by Professor Ar
thur NJ. Charles of the Earlham
college faculty, presiding clerk, as
sisted by Isadore Kirk, Newcastle,
recording clerk; Professor E. P.
T'rueblood of the Earlham faculty
and Edith J. Hunt, Charlottesville,
reading clerks, and PAWN w. Wood,
Wabash, announcing clerk. Report
of the American Friends service
committee, and the regional COM
mittee. and Peace Association of
Friends in America will be presented
Monday
Part of the second day will be de-
voted to a discussion of the foreign
and home mission work of the Five
Years Meeting and the report of
the social service committee. Sta
tistical reports Of various boards, in
Guiding that of the temperance
board are scheduled for the follow
ing day. Educational matters are
on the program for Friday and Sat
urday will be devoted to business
affairs. The program Sunday will
be entirely of religious nature.
Oldest in Middle West
The Indiana meeting is the oldest
Friends body in the middle west
and is the parent of a number of
other branch yearly meetings. Last
year it's membership contributed in
excess Of 100000 for church pur-
poses. Earlham college at Rich
mond is jointly owned and main
tanned by the Indiana and Western
Yearly Meetings.
Although the yearly meetings are
, devoted to considerable discussion
of many religious topics of con-
temporary interest. the program
this year will follow the outline of
business adopted at the first meet
ing in 1920. Epistles from other
yearly meetings are received and
read on the opening day. London,
England. and Dublin, Ireland, for
many years were the only foreign
yearly meetings to send letters, but
with yearly meetings now organized
in Germany, Japan, Syria, and
Palestine, in the last two years
epistles have been received from
them