Isolated Members, Report of Correspondents for.. Joseph Jeanes Fund, Committee Having Care and Control of: Quota, Percentage of, to Be Paid by Each Meeting. Radnor's Communication Representative Committee. Books on Hand.. Entertainment of Friends. Epistle to London Left in Care of. Representatives to Yearly Meeting: Attendance and Duties Assigned. Statistical Report of Membership. Treasurer's Account, Committee to Audit. Report of Committee. Treasurer's Account, Women's Meeting. Committee to Audit Account. Trustees of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends: Committee to Audit Accounts of.. Names of Trustees. Report including the following Trusts. Jacob Fretz Fund.. Deborah Foreman Legacy. .23, 53 28-33, 57-58 .26, 55, 164 .34, 58 142 144 26, 59 17, 51 6. 39 168 7, 40 .19, 52 59 52 22 158 .23, 54, 105 116 108 107 111 113 117 109 112 114 116 13 164 EXTRACTS At the Yearly Meeting of Friends held in Philadelphia from the 13th day of Fifth month to the 17th day of the same, inclusive, 1918. In the absence of the clerk, Joseph T. Foulke, through illness, Edwin J. Durnall was appointed Clerk for the morning session. Reports from all our nine Quarterly and two HalfYearly Meetings have been received and read, and the representatives therein named to attend the service of this Meeting, in number 114, upon being called, were found to be present with the exception of 16; for the absence of three of these satisfactory reasons were given. come. A minute for Augustus George Waller, a member of Westminster and Longford Monthly Meeting, England, dated Fifth month, 14th, 1914, was read, and the Friend who is returning by way of the United States from a visit to Australia and New Zealand made welA concern was expressed that a committee be appointed to confer with reporters; and assist them in giving a correct account and report of our proceedings. It was united with and J. Harold Watson, J. Bernard Walton and Horace Roberts were appointed to the service. Communications from the Mennonite Publicity Committee were received and referred to Harrison Streeter and William P. Bancroft for examination. Charles F. Jenkins was appointed to prepare a let ter of love and kindly greeting to our beloved Clerk, Joseph T. Foulke. Epistles from some of the Yearly Meetings with which we have heretofore corresponded, being those from Indiana, Baltimore, Genesee and Ohio, were read at this session and claimed the earnest consideration of the Meeting. Additional Epistles were received and read from the Yearly Meetings of Canada and Australia. It was suggested and united with that that portion of the Epistle from Australia dealing with the Race problem be referred to our Committee on Philanthropic Labor. The representatives from our Quarterly and HalfYearly Meetings were requested to meet at the conclusion of this session, and consider and present to the Meeting this afternoon the name of a Friend to serve as Clerk, and two Friends as Assistant Clerks of the Meeting this year, also to propose the names of a suitable number of Friends who in conjunction with a similar committee of Women Friends shall constitute a Committee whose duty it shall be to examine and settle the account of our Treasurer, determine the amount necessary to be raised for the use of the Meeting for the ensuing year, and name a Friend to serve as Treasurer, and two Friends as Correspondents for this Meeting, and nominate a small committee to examine the accounts of the "Trustees of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends" at a date to be determined by the said corporation prior to the Yearly Meeting of 1919. And further, to propose the names of Friends, one from each constituent body, to assist the committee named by the Monthly Meeting of Friends of Phila delphia, in preserving order in and about the Meeting House during the sessions of the Yearly Meeting. The representatives were further asked to report the names of thirty-five Friends, two from each Quarterly and Half-Yearly Meeting and the remainder from the Meeting at large, to constitute half of the General Nominating Committee, which is to nominate to the Yearly Meeting of 1919, such committees as this Meeting may hereafter request it to name. SECOND-DAY-AFTERNOON. The representatives from our constituent bodies, as a nominating committee, made report that they met as requested, and after consideration were united in proposing Morgan Bunting for Clerk, and Edwin J. Durnall and George L. Gillingham for Assistant Clerks of the meeting for this year.. Upon separate consideration, they were united with by the meeting and appointed to their respective services. The representatives also proposed in writing the following to constitute the committees named in the morning meeting. All of these Committee nominations were approved by the meeting and the appointments made as follows: To examine and settle (in conjunction with a similar Committee of Women Friends) the accounts of our Treasurer, determine the amount necessary to be raised for the use of the meeting for the ensuing year. and name a Treasurer and two Correspondents for this meeting, and also to nominate a small committee to examine the accounts of the "Trustees of Phila delphia Yearly Meeting of Friends" at a date to be selected by the said corporation prior to the Yearly Meeting of 1919, Arthur C. Jackson and others. To assist the Committee named by the Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia in preserving order in and about the Meeting House during the sessions of the Yearly Meeting, Hugh McIlvain and others. To constitute our portion of the General Nominating Committee, which is to nominate to the Yearly Meeting of 1919, such Committees as this Meeting may hereafter request such Nominating Committee to name: William C. Rowland and others. (Page 160.) Epistles from the remaining Yearly Meetings with. which we have usually corresponded (except that from Illinois, which has not been received) were read at this time, as were also a message in response to our cable to London Yearly Meeting last year and the Epistle from London Yearly Meeting held in Fifth month last. To constitute a Committee to prepare, with the cooperation of a similar one of Women's Meeting, replies to these Epistles and to such letters as they, with the approval of this meeting, may select, the following were appointed: George A. Walton and others. To this Committee was also assigned the duty of assisting in preparing, in conjunction with the Clerks, a summary of the exercises of the Yearly Meeting to be submitted at the final session this year. The Committee to examine the papers from the Mennonite Publicity Committee reported the service. performed; and referred to the meeting communica |