Proceedings Of The Conference Of Friends Of America

Author : Society of Friends Conference
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483662452
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the Conference of Friends of America written by Society of Friends Conference and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-22 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Proceedings of the Conference of Friends of America: Held in Indianapolis, Indiana, 1897 According to the plan of organization adopted by the Yearly Meetings uniting in the conference of American Friends, held in Indianapolis, 1nd, in 1892, such a dele gate conference was to be held every five years. The con ference of 1892 appointed a committee consisting of one from each delegation present, to make the necessary ar rangements for the next conference which would occur in 1897. This committee was authorized to add to its own number representatives of other Yearly Meetings if any should desire to unite. Canada Yearly Meeting, and the two new Yearly Meetings of Oregon and California set up after the conference of 1892, joined in making the arrange ments, thus uniting thirteen Yearly Meetings in the con ference of 1897, all on the American continent except that of Philadelphia. This committee selected the nineteenth day of Tenth month, 1897, as the date for opening the conference, and Indianapolis, Ind., as the place. The conference was held in the Friends' new, commodious meeting-house on North Alabama and Thirteenth Streets, Indianapolis, the use of which the Friends of the city tendered to the conference. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.