.THE... GENERAL GONFERENGE BULLETIN THIRTY-FOURTH SESSION

Vol.. IV. BATTLE CREEK, MICH., FIRST QUARTER, APRIL 2, 1901. No. 1.

6. Committee on Credentials and Li- PUBLISHERS' CONVENTION. THE GENERAL CONFERENCE censes. Meet in Elder Irwin's room. BULLETIN 7. Committee on Education. Meet in THE committees of the Publishers' west end of south vestry of Tabernacle. Convention were:- PUBLISHED QUARTERLY BY 8. Foreign Mission Board. Meet in 1. On Attendance and Reporting: W. The Seventh-day Adventist General room west of President's office. C. White, P. T. Magan, W. T. Knox. Conference 9. Woman's Gospel Work. Meet in 2. On Plans: C. H. Jones, W. D. office, West Building. Salisbury, W. C. Sisley, W. W. Prescott, PRICE: 10. International Sabbath-school As- W. a White, L. R. Conradi, 0. A. For the DAILY BULLETIN during General sociation headquarters. East end of Olsen, I. H. Evans, W. A. Spicer. Conference session 50c south vestry of Tabernacle. The plans recommended will appear For the biennial term including daily and in a later number of the Bulletin. quarterly issues 75c 11. International Religious Liberty Subscriptions at the 75-cent rate, for the next Association headquarters. Center of volume, will include all issues during 1901 and east vestry of Tabernacle. TOPICS CONSIDERED. 1902. 12. International Tract Society head- quarters. South end of east vestry. THE first meeting of the Publishers' Entered at the post Rhea in Battle Creek, Michigan. 13. Canvassers' headquarters, Review Convention was called at 9 A. M., March 25, 1901, in the Review and Herald BATTLE CREEK, MICR., FIRST QUARTER, 1901. Office chapel and adjoining room. 14. Directory of delegates, post office, chapel, Battle Creek, Mich., and during and general writing-room. Southwest the week preceding the General Confer- DAILY PROGRAM OF THE GENERAL room, West Building of Review and ence sessions the topics briefly outlined Herald. in this issue of the BULLETIN were CONFERENCE. considered by representative men from 5 30-6 : 30 A. M., Social-meeting. RAILROAD CERTIFICATES. nearly every home and foreign publish- 7 : 00 A. m., Breakfast. ALL who have railroad certificates will ing house and Conference in the Sev- 9: 00-10 :00 A. M., Bible Study. please hand them to the secretary of the enth-day Adventist denomination, sev- 10 : 30-12 :20 A. m., Business Proceedings. General Conference. This refers to those eral hours daily being devoted to prayer 1 :00 r. m., Dinner. who paid full fare coming, and took a and social meetings, besides the topical 3 :00-5 :00 P. m., General Business. certificate for reduced rates returning at studies. 6 : 00-6 :50 P. M., Divisional Prayer- one-third fare. It will be necessary to meeting. have these, so that they may be viseed THE PUBLISHING WORK AS AN IN- 7 : 00-8 :15 T. M., Preaching. by the joint agent at this place. All STRUMENTALITYJN THE PROCLA- others who have come on the round-trip MATION OF THE MESSAGE. REGULAR COMMITTEES, AND THEIR iron-clad signature tickets, will present ELDER T.Y. SMITH introduced his his- PLACES OF MEETING. their tickets to the agent in due time, before returning, to be signed the day torical sketch as follows: — 1. On Credentials and the Seating of they depart. Final return limit is April "This subject is one of great impor- Delegates: N. W. Kauble, H. W. Decker, 25. All in the Western Passenger Asso- tance and far-reaching influence. The H. C. Basney. ciation will have to deposit their tickets most vital interests are involved in it. 2. Pastoral •Committee, or Religious with the agent before April 10, if they We are all familiar with the importance Exercises. wish to remain longer than that date. assigned to the publishing work, in the 3. Committee on Plans and Resolu- L. A. HOOPES, literary world at large. In any enter- tions. Meet in room over northwest Trans. Agent Gen. Conf. prise that is set on foot, in any reform vestibule of Tabernacle. that is being agitated, almost the first 4. Committee on Nominations. Meet MY experience of life makes me sure inquiry is, What is its literature? What in General Conference Association office. of one thing which I do not try to ex- use is it making of the press? Any or- 5. Committee on Distribution of Labor. plain,— the sweetest happiness ever ganization which makes no use of the Meet in General Conference Committee known comes from sacrifice—from the press is set down at once as something room. effort to make others happy.— O'Reilly. of no consequence or no character; 2 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN. something which seeks to conceal itself ing erected, and a press was bought. made in the prosecution of the work, is from the presence of men, instead of The question of organization was agi- no more than might have been expected; coming to their knowledge; something tated. He advocated its adoption, on and it will be strange if others are not that seeks darkness rather than light, the very ground that nothing should be added to the list. As the work spreads with the suspicion which always at-- governed by individual caprice or emo- out, it will require more means, more taches to such a course, in reference tion, or by local interests. He talked men, and more agencies, to carry it for- to the character of their deeds. Whereas freely of his feeling and plans with his ward; and the tendency will be to in- any cause which gives evidence that it friends, and one had no difficulty in un- crease the machinery faster than it can courts publicity; that it is willing to derstanding his spirit. His feeling was, be advantageously used in the work. avail itself of every means to make it- that in any moves of general interest, To some extent a miscalculation in this self acquainted with the people, and the all should have a share, and all have a respect may have already occurred. But people acquainted with it; that spreads voice. it will certainly tend to impair the effi- before the public a record of its doings, "On the ground of failing health, and ciency of the work, if it ever reaches that a statement of its purposes, and its plans, the feeling that it was not the proper or condition in which it requires more men, its means, and its methods, and keeps consistent plan for one person to bear more money, and more study, to turn these things, by means of the publishing all the burden and responsibility of hav- the various cranks, and keep the ma- facilities of these times, ever before the ing the entire publishing work in his chine in motion, than it takes to do the eyes of the people, in public ways, and hands, he suggested the formation of an work itself. The more direct and simple in the bypaths of individual life, shows Association, to own the property, and the working of the business can be made, that it has nothing to cover up, to con- manage the interest of the publishing the better." ceal or keep back; and in pursuing such work. Such an Association was formed, a course, that cause is sure to gain the and incorporated May 3, 1861. The de- attention of the people, and to some ex- sign was that all the friends of the cause OUR PUBLISHING HOUSES AS TRAIN- tent their confidence, and perhaps sym- should have an interest in it, and a ING SCHOOLS FOR MISSIONARIES. pathy, and possibly adherence. share in it, and a vote in it; each mem- (Extracts from paper by WI C. Sisley.) "That an organ, or paper, issued at ber to take from one share to as many periods more or less frequent, was nec- as he was able, or felt disposed to take. Wnia is meant by the term "A Train- essary, was an idea accepted at once, as Thus all the people according to their ing School for Missionaries "? a matter of, course. But the issuing of interests in the Association, were to be One says there is no better missionary tracts, pamphlets, and books, and prose- connected with it, and have a voice in work than tolabor earnestly, unselfishly, cuting a publishing work in the general its management. It was therefore de- and efficiently in one of our publishing and ordinary sense, was thought to be signed to be a representative body." houses. an idea so remote as not to be worthy of Elder Smith then outlined the history Another says the field is the world, consideration at all. And when the of the organization and reorganization and not a printing office; and that a idea was suggested that, such things of the Publishing Association at Battle missionary is one whey is sent, not one must be, and would appear in this Creek, with which all are familiar, who is kept at home working all the cause, it was met with utter incredulity concluding with these words:— time in an office. by some, as if anything of the kind "To form some idea of the value of A third says we should in some way could never be necessary in this work, the publishing work, as an instrumen- unite the two plans. We must have in and as if the very thought was tanta- tality for the proclamation of the mes- each of our publishing houses, a good, mount to saying, ' My Lord delayeth His sage, we have but to think a moment of well-trained corps of experienced work- coming.' But the necessity existed. what would have been the condition of men who will stay by the institution, Discerning minds foresaw it. A pub- the work, had this agency never been and we ought to have in each publishing lishing work,.beyond the issuing of peri- used. But this is too hard a problem to house a regular training school, where odicals, must be started. Publications propound for solution; for we can form the proper persona can receive a thorough must be had. And so, under trial, and no conception of it. How many thou- training in canvassing, colportage, and hardship, and sacrifices, the work was sands have been made acquainted with Bible reading, and general missionary begun, in a limited and feeble way. the truth, who never would have heard work. But every achievement was regarded as it but for the publishing work? The While the first plan will secure a corps a victory, and hailed with delight. books never tire in their message. They of experienced, well-trained workmen, "Elder James White was a man of never grow angry. They speak the same needed in all our publishing houses, discerning spirit, to see what would be truth again and again. They never there would be danger of these workmen needed, and a man of large faith to be- answer back. How many have they becoming narrow and selfish in their lieve that what was necessary would thus won to the truth who would have views. be provided. He was for prosecuting seen something in the living preacher, In the second plan we can see how the work on a broad and liberal scale. in tone, or manner, or expression, to easy it would be to reduce our working He believed that whatever was of inter- offend, or repel, or weary. This is an force of printers to a company of mere est to some of the friends of the cause, instrumentality that cannot be dispensed inexperienced persons, good at heart, was of interest to the whole. Nothing with, or allowed to fall into disuse. The but without experience and ability sue- in his plans was to be merely individual query is, and the problem to be solved is, cessfully to manage and operate the pub- or local. With this spirit he went on how to make it more efficient, and work lishing business. with his work. A regular office of pub- it more successfully. As the third plan aims to embody the lication was established, an office build- "That there have been some mistakes first two, we believe it will most readily

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meet our requirements. here are, of THE PRINCIPLES TO GOVERN DEAL- It is the privilege of the publishing course, some serious dill/•ulties in the INGS WITH EMPLOYEES CONFER- houses to begin with the selection of way of carrying out this plan, but none, ENCES, AND OUTSIDERS. employees. If we make a good selec- we think, that can not b- overcome. tion, we shall prevent many difficulties. Take whatever view e may of this (Extracts from remarks of A. G. Dcatiells.) And when the employee is selected, it is question, all of us ca clearly see that "WHATSOEVER ye would that men the duty of the publishing house to give there is need of corn decided changes should do to you, do ye even so to attention to him at the very beginning, in the management if our publishing them; for this is the law and the proph- make every provision for his education, ' houses before they an do the most ef- ets. " In our dealings with employees, look after him from the, day he enters ficient work in t ning employees to with Conferences, with persons of the the office, and exercise a fatherly -and , become missionarie s. world, if we take this attitude, we shall brotherly care from the start. The managers o the Review and have the blessing of the Lord, we shall Complaint is made by young people Herald ,have been greatly troubled to have prosperity in our -Work, and we that they do not make advancement, find the proper kind of help. Many shall not Miss the object for which the and many of them feel they are not4n-rb people are ankiousto get their children publishing work has been established. structed, are not pushed along. Then into the office, that they may be re- There is another scripture that I wish responsibility rests as much upon the, '' formed or saved. While this, to a cer- to read,—Jer. 22:13 and onward: " Woe .managementit does upon the era:\ - tain extent, may be right, it does not unto him that buildeth his house by ployee hirnsel . ee " Testimonieskr_the tend to increase the spirituality of the unrighteousness, and his chambers by Church," Vol. 4 , `page 415. The word°, institution, or to build up a strong corps -weevig; that useth his neighbor's service to us is that the watchword to the i of efficient, self-sacrificing workmen. without wage's, and -giveth him not for management of • our publishing houses'; Many persons thus employed will stay his work; that saith, I:m7-frit- build me--a should be "Progress." The' youth with us only until they learn enough' of wide house and large chambers, and should be taught to aim at perfection. the trade to command good wages, and cutteth him out windows; and it is "The want of 'religious influence is then, without even thanking us for the ceiled with cedar, and painted with largely felt in the office. There' should , trouble and expense of training them, vermilion. Shalt thou reign, because be greater devotion, more spirituality, leave for the world. (Others, not s thou closest thyself in cedar'? did -not more practical religion. Missionary - liziat4 will stay with us, because they thy father eat-and-drink,-and- do--judg- work done here by God-fearing men an not-do so well elsewhere.? ment and justice, and- then it was' well and women would be attended with the There should be a/growing sentiment with him? He judged the cause of the very best of results." - „.„,.~: throughout all our ranks against em- poor and needy; then it was well with No one, knows how much wrong is S ploying permanently, or retaining in our him: wasnot this to know me? saith the committed, how many young scia4„are blishing houses, any who do not give Laird. " sent to,destruction or‘led to destruction evidence of an earnest Christian pur- The truth set forth in that scripture, by the improper associates they form .... H, pose, and a thorough devotion to the it seems to me is this: God teaches us to when they Come to our institutions, andi ••• pause of God. deal justly, to deal uprightly, to do to have no home of their own to live in. --7 ,'VA She lesie4ing men- in all our different others as we would have others do to-us, --One point-that Ifeel like impressing 1 Conferences could render efficient help and that is to know God; and the man is that of personal-touch.hetween„the in recommending to the management, who does not deal with his employees or management or foreman and-the bOYst bright, consecrated young people, who with those with whom he has business, and girls in all the departments. I will .. could be secured as workmen in our in an upright, fair manner, does not read-a-statement. Vol. V, page .qq.:— different offices. know God. No matter what the provo- " I have been shown that Jesus loves , .-Weiave-often thought it. would be a cation may be, if there is not always us, but he is grieved to see such aligMlf1/4 i good thing -to have one or more homes perfect honesty in the thing, if that is of wise discrimination, of adaptability , 'conducted on right principles, connected not the ruling spirit in the business„ God ...,-,,...--...... to the work, and of wisdom to reach . =with each of our publishing houses„ is not in it. human hearts and to enter into the feel-' , where the young employees who have no Regarding the selection and training ings of others," -- ...... — homes, and ,those training for mission- of employees there is a statement on page In my ministerial work in the offices; ' aries, could be cared for under the most 193, of "Testimonies for the Church," that is the thing that -has impresSed - favorable conditions. Vol. III: "There should be a careful itself on my mind,—the need -of the As an aid to strengthening the mis- selection of help in the office. The managers' coming into close contact. sionary spirit in the workers, we believe •oanag, matapiiik and unconsecrated with the employees, and of becoming - each publishing house should have out- §kTnaljia he placed there; for they are personally acquainted with them, and side its own regular work, some line of exposed to temptations, and /la making them know that they are their missionary work to suppoit and care for fixed charamc=. Those who have Tormed best friends, and that they are not there —something that all 'the regular em- their characters, who have fixed princi- as a lot of servants, but that they are ployees can become interested in, and ples, and who have the truth of God in there as God's own servants. - work for. the heart, will not be a constant source uican get boys and girls to feel that We hope that this question will not be of care and anxiety, but rather helps way, can do almost' anything in the 7-fet dropped, until our publishing houses are and blessings. 'Pne 66,,apublicatio world with them. That is how it is put in the best possible condition for the am • laa 1.tce arrange a that we can get our young men and training of missionaries, and are actu- &A.- tsaerie trarterrriveFt women to tramp over this great, dark ally engaged in the business, abil y graPrialiiir' world with our publications. able-E51„,L, t om erer* t o b- cab aural. GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN:—

We do not want any gulf between THE PROPER RELATION TO COMMER- that they have purity of character, that the management or the foreman in the CIAL WORK. the world may see that the truth which offices and the young people. "Inas- they conscientiously believe makes them (Paragraphs from paper by W. D. Salisbury, much as ye have done it unto one of the Manager Echo Pub. Co., Melbourne, Aus- honest in their dealings; that those with least of :these my brethren, ye have tralia.) whom they are connected may see that alone it unto me." Ig the managers of our institutions believers of truth are sanctified through In connection with this, here is a short will consider this work as a " help, " the truth, and, that the truth received statement in Vol. III, page 194: " Hearts and will treat it thus, there need be no and obeyed makes the receivers as sons yearn for sympathy and love, and are as evil results. If a canvasser gives all his and daughters of God, children of the much refreshed and strengthened by attention to " helps, " but few large heavenly king, members of the royal them as flowers are by showers and sun- books will be sold. Thus it may be in family, faithful, true, honest, and up- , shine." Thit is in the chapter on our our publishing offices. If we give first right, in the small as well as the great dealings with the employeelof the office, attention to commercial work, it wilt re- acts of life." , q and I think it seta forth a very beautiful suit in its being made the most promi- ' ' "The'-Lord means" Behis people truth. The investments are not large nent. The question therefore arises, shall perfect a Christian character- If fak ,financially, but I tell you, brethren, it How shall we relate ourselves to it and they have any connection with tile will pay big returns trtake time to be to the world in consequence? This is world, it is that they may leaven. the :soda le to take time to speak:a friendly best set forth in the following words:— world by correct principles, not be ord, to take time to inquire of the em- "God would have his people use all leavened by the evil in the world. God P—•••• vployees' tale-Wirth take time to take, their powers in his service, and 'Lt does not require us as a people to seclude -,them by the hand when' they are sliP- world choose to give thair work to the ourselves from the world. sping. office for this is one means "In all business transactions, we are These things help a great deal. They of keepnrirretch with the world. " toilet the light shine decidedly. There are first steps to proper discipline in the " When business men seek the office is to be no sharp practice. Everything -office. I do not believe that true dis- with work to be done, tell them that is to be done with the strictest integrity. .cipline begins by dealing in a harsh you will do it for them if it can be done Better consent to lose something finan- -manner. without neglecting, the work of giving rially than to gain by sharp practice.' There are very few boys I have ever the truth to the world by publishinrWe :Shall lose nothing in the end thy fair) ,,met that could stand against one or two trans and pamphlets and small and' dealing. ,E,We are to live the law or %JR, :sea-ions of prayer. I have seen the large books. But nothing should be in- in the world, and perfect a cha,ractei -:hardest hearts melt under it. troduced into the office that will lower after the divine similitude. All busi- WAen those means have been _taken its dignity, and place the work done on ness, with those in the faith and those that the Testimonies -state ought to be a leveLwith cheap, fictitious literature. not in the faith, is to be transacted on staken, then— The Lord would have every one con- square, righteous principles. Every- `' "If any are employed whose influence nected with the office an earnest, eager thing is to be seen in the light of God's is of a character to lead away from God candidate for the treasures that are en- law, everything done without fraud, and-the truth, there should_not be a daiag. " without duplicity, StIratatinaf,,. moment's question as to the disposal of "The Lord is our instructor. Shouldy. aA great work is to be done in our qnr- " the office divorce the commercial busi- world, and every talent is to be used in "Those who occupy responsible posi- ness from its Work, and give itself accordance with righteous principles. Itipn,,s. in the office ar; accountable for wholly to the publication of our own lit- " The Lord would have the office trrevailin; influence there; and if erature, the atmosphere pervading the stand as a living witness for the truth; 411"firare indifferent to the course of the office would not be any more spiritual this is why the commercial work should insubordinate and impenitent in their than it is now. Continuing or discon- not be-cut away. It would be a mistake they-become partakers-of their tinning the publication of proper busi- torthe office to build up a barrier to sin. The youth who are cofitintted with ness matters will not make any dif- exclude all work from the outside; for- this work ishould be select, those who ference religiously " this would close the door against the will be improved, refined, and ennobled. "Daniel was a statesman in Babylon. rays of light and knowledge that should We should constantly- be at the post of He was engaged in a work that kept be given to the world." aa"s duty, guarding our youth. Like sleepless idolatrous literature and practices con- Our business relations with Lord Bras- C sentinels, those who profess the truth stantly before the people. Yet he did sey, governor of the nolo broug should guard the interests of the offices." not lose his knowledge of God and his Stine points of truth p minently be- Merest in the religion rthe Bibley fore him and before household. He How- to be kept in perfect peace—to his faithftrl serricehe tatagbadgthoseln first sent his ma script to. us on the ' be quiet, and fearless, and courageous, Milyhairthat his God was a living God, Sabbath. His -de-camp found us at and at the same time to be of a sound not an image such as they worshiped. " church. He rued that in the future mind and a sweet disposition—is a "In like manner the Lord means that it would be eceasarr to come on some secret that comes from Him; for the Seventh-day Adventists shill witness for other day secret of the Lord is with them thmattear him. They are not to be hidden away When e head of one of the depart- him. Fret and worry do no good, but from the world. They are to be in the men of his household began to keep do mile harm. Getting excited over Sand, but a0kOf. tftexworld. They are the bbath, she went to Lady Brassey 'isnything unfits for the battle. Be still .t stand distinct fain /gOrldathie See if she could keep her place. After and know!—King's Messenger. manner of dealing:-sillhey aigirsieSOW consulting with His Excellency, Lady GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN. 5.

Brassey told her she could hold her of our literature. How can the litera- THE RESPONSIBILITY (117._ OUR PUB- plicettS !before. When they took a trip ture be gotten out if the people are not LISHING HOUSES AND THE DIVI- to England, they gave her six-months' told about it ? and what better work, if SION OF TERRITORY, TO, ACCOM- leave of absence on full pay. Lord I am in the field, can I do than to read PLISH THE BEST RESULTS, AND: Brassey and his household have now re- every book, or tract, or pamphlet, or TO ECONOMIZE MEANS, turned to England. Who can tell the whatever it may be that is printed, and WRITE result of our business acquaintance with thus become acquainted with its effi- W. C. him during his six-years' residence in ciency, tell it to others, and get them to THAT we may understand the won- Australia? spread it still farther ? derful opportunities and responsibilities' The Lord will guide us if we put our Of all things the tract society secre- committed to the Publishing houses, we' trust in him. He will give us wisdom to tary should have that for his special must first study the field, and the' his- meet the difficulties that beset our path. work. What is he appointed for? Isn't tory and progress of the work. Let us trust him. it to get our literature before the people? Of all the people in the world who, It is not enough for the tract society have a literature, and who can be- secretary to sit down and wait for some- reached with the message_ by publi- ,, AN EFFECTIVE LITERATURE AND cations, the English-speaking and -read- HOW TO IMPROVE IT. body to order a tract or a pamphlet, but his duty is to let the people know that ing peoples form less than one fifth. (Extracts from paper by A. T. Jones.) the tracts and books are ready, and to Among the English-speaking pedple, EFFECTIVE is producing an effect, and call their attention to them. less than one fifth of the literature if we had the whole body of Seventh- I am not objecting to tract societies. is distributed to the people by sub- day Adventists here, and 4 should ask I believe there is a place for them, but I scription-book agents. In our united theth the question, How many were want them to work. labors for the circulation of literature, made what they are by the literature? Therefore these three things— the we are doing more than two thirds of 'is it too much to say that the majority efficient literature, how to keep it effi- our entire work by subscription-book of theta would say they were? cient by keeping it up-to-date, and then canvassers, among the English-speak- But the literature must be kept ef- the machinery with which we put it in ing people. Thus we give over sixty, ficient and this requires attention. A circulation — are needed to make our lit- per cent of our efforts qo four per cent, literature, to be efficient, must always erature efficient. of our field. And it is nothalf worked. be up-to-date. Therefore it is necessary Our schools also have a part to act in At the present time, more than three that we watch our literature, keeping it disposing of our literature. Teachers fourths of the literature of the denomi- fresh as it continually grows in the in our schools have put their classes on nation is issued in the English language progresif of the message. As fast as it is heathen literature instead of our own. only ; and in the number of books sold, read, new books will have to be written "Great Controversy " is one of the great- the proportion is still greater in favor of touching the issues that are before us. est histories in the world. Our schools the English-speaking people. This, you In every age those men who were must use our literature, and must let the will say, is natural, considering the place a pdwer in gospel work were the men students have it ; not only must they and manner of the rise of the message. who studied the Bible, and applied it to let them have it, but they must bring But it can not be right or possible for the issues of their time. They studied it before them. the work to continue this way. 'The the 'Bible from Daniel to Revelation. The best moral philosophy in the coming of the Lord is near, and it is Wycliffe of course put the whole Bible world, outside the Bible, has been left plainly our duty to carry the last warn- before the people; but between him and out of our schools, and heathen philoso- ing message of the gospel' to every na- Luther, the Reformers were students of phy brought in and made the study. tion, kindred, tribe, and people quickly, Daniel and the Revelation, particularly This is one of the secrets of the dearth so that all may be warned and a people of Daniel. And' the man to-day who of young men in the ministry. There prepared for his noming. studies Daniel and the Revelation, and is no dearth of young men among us, Why does the work move, so slowly? gives his knowledge 'to the world, but we in the ministry have not culti- Why are our Conferences content to use stands out just as clearly as a Reformer, vated them. Let us use the literature nine tenths of their resources in fields -, and his work will' stand forever. that God has given us, because it is the where the message has been presented, But there is another thing that we must truth, and the truth is efficient. while millions in other lands have never watch. When literatuie is produced heard it; nor have they been offered the literature from which to read it. Why that is efficient, all must work, body, To-DAY is, for all'that we know, the soul, and spirit, to give it a chance to opportunity and occasion of our lives. do our leading publishing houses take so little burden of providing a literature deliver its message to the world. How- On what we do or say to-day may de- in the various languages and dialects, of ever efficient, however valuable, how- pend the success and completeness of the people? What burden is the Gen- 'ever full of present truth a piece of our entire life-struggle. It is for us eral Conference Committee and the For- literature may be, and however well therefore to use every moment of to-day printed and gotten up,— on the shelf it is as if our very eternity were dependent eign Mission Board 'bearink in this vast, blessed work? What special care have not good. Every minister in the field, on its words and deeds.— Trumbull. all presidents of Conferences, the presi- they been giving it, and what special dent of the General Conference, the agencies have they provided for the de- tract society ,secretaries, the managers PRESENT opportunities, if rightly velopment and furtherance of this most of our publishing houses, each one of used, are as great as the soul need ask. efficient branch of our work? In our- them, ought to be a professional reader — Anna Robertson Brown. efforts to understand the present chaotio 6 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN. condition of the publishing work in the der Conradi was entering upon his ener- in the Danish-Norwegian language, con- languages of Europe, Asia, Africa, Poly- getic and successful labors among the taining a sketch of the life of Sister nesia. and South America, let us take a Germans of Dakota and Kansas. White, and various extracts from her hasty view of its rise and progress. I well remember the earnestness and writings, is being received among the anxiety manifested by Elder 0. A. Ol- Scandinavian people, and is meeting a OUR PUBLISHING WORK IN THE EUROPEAN sen in the autumn and winter of 1882 want long felt; and,— LANGUAGES. in bringing to the attention of the Gen- " Whereas, That people call for other The first publications issued by the eral Conference Committee and the of Sister White's writings in their lan- Review and Herald in the European managers of the Review and Herald guage; therefore,— languages were some tracts and pam- Publishing Company the great need of " Resolved, That we recommend that phlets issued between the years 1860 and literature among the Scandinavian peo- the. request above referred to be granted, 1870 in the French and German. Later ple in the United States. He presented and that immediate steps be taken to some small tracts were brought out in in a concise and convincing manner facts publish Sister White's 'Life of Christ' the Scandinavian languages, and small regarding the important part which the in the Danish-Norwegian language. monthly journals were published in the English literature sustained to our gen- "9. Resolved, That we recommend that Danish and Swedish tongues. eral work, the power for good which was such works of Sister White as are al- The circumstances attending the wrought by the circulation of the Dan- luded to in the foregoing resolution, be bringing out of these publications in ish, and Swedish journals, the large published also in the French, German, the various languages were much the number of Scandinavians in America, and Swedish languages. same. Some minister laboring among and the rapidly increasing numbers in "10.,Resolved, That we recommend European people in the United States Europe whose education in the truth that the work, 'Thoughts on Daniel and bringing a goodly number to the and future usefulness as ,missionary and the Revelation,' be issued' in the knowledge of the truth, felt the neces- workers was dependent largely upon German, Danish, and Swedish lan- sity _of tracts, pamphlets, and other the literature which we placed in guages."— Year Book, 1884, pages sq. and literature to use in connection with his their hands. He presented estimates 37. labors. He would then write or trans- as to the number which could be sold This request from the General Con- late that which he felt was needed of certain books which he desired to see ference was duly considered by the stock- most, and send or carry it to Battle translated and printed, and asked that holders of the Publishing -Association Creek, and besiege the managers of the the Publishing Association and the Gen- in their meetings, and was answered by publishing house earnestly and persist- eral Conference take immediate steps the following resolution : — ently to make provjsion for bringing for the bringing out of those books. If " Whereas, The General Conference out a work which he felt was so much they hesitated because of the old-time has recommended the publication of needed. objection -that books in the European certain works in the foreign languages, When these tracts were printed, there languages did not sell, he was prepared and the translation of others,- that they were few persons to take an interest in to guarantee the sale of a sufficient may be ready for publication as soon \ as their circulation, and often the greater number to insure the printing house called for; therefore,— part of the editions printed would lie against loss. "Resolved, That this Association shall idle upon the shelves until the managers These matters were discussed during carry out these recommendations, and of the publishing house were weary of the meeting of the General Conference we request the trustees to put these having anything to do with translated at Rome, N. Y., and the Publishing As- plans into immediate execution."— books. sociation was requested to bring out in Pear Book, 1884, p. 53. ,The energy and wisdom with which the Danish-Norwegian language a book This resolution adopted unanimously Elder J. G. Matteson set about the work containing selections from the writings by the stockholders, recognizes the re-- of translating, editing, and circulating of Sister White. This was done with sponsibility of the Seventh-day Advent- our Scandinavian journals marked a fair success from the standpoint of the ist Publishing Association to prepare and new-era in the work; and his talented publishers, and with such good results publish literature in the European lan- authorship of popular publications while in the field that at the next General Con- guages, and it distinctly expresses the he was in Europe and after- his return, ference broader plans were laid, and the willingness of the Association to assume put the Scandinavian publishing work Association was asked to enter upon this the responsibility of this work and go on quite a successful footing. But little work on a broader scale. The General forward with it. In the discussions of was done in the publication of bound Conference resolutions relating to this this resolution the fact was brought out books and large pamphlets until the were as follows : — by the leading men of the denomina- years 1882 and onward, when the " 7. Whereas, The progress of the cause tion, who were leading stockholders in European work in all its phases was indicates that our leading denomina- the Association, that the original design receiving the best attention of the tional books will soon be needed in the of this association was to meet the de- General Conference. languages of the countries where we mands of the denomination in publish- By this tithe Elder 0. A. Olsen had have successful missions; therefore,— ing and circulating whatever literature been- given the general supervision of "Resolved, That we prepare for the was most needed for carrying the third the Scandinavian work in the North- more rapid advancement of the message angel's message to the world ; and in west, Elders Haskell and Butler visited in the nations by having these works of the fact that the objects and Europe, and preparations were being immediately translated, that they may aims of the Association were to serve made for the establishment of printing be published as soon as called for. the interests and necessities of the de- houses in Basel and Christiana, and El- "Whereas, The book lately published nomination, and that God was blessing GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN.

the Association so that' there was a good Work specified went forward slowly, and the work for both Europe and America. profit on some portions of its work, it much good was done, but only a small It will arrange with the Review and was legitimate and right that it should part of the work needed was under Herald to print the books; and deliver enter heartily into this branch of the taken. them to the tract societies, to collect pay, work, which was so much needed, not- THE WORK IN EUROPE. for the same, and to charge the General withstanding the fact that some features During the years 1885 to 1888, most of Conference Association a small percent- of the work might never, pay, and that the work of translating and publishing age for doing the business; thus giving - other parts would require many years to books in the European languages was the General Conference Association all bring back the original expenditure. transferred to the European printing the publishers' profits from the Ameri- In the adoption of this resolution, the houses. Large sums of money had been can editions. Sets of plates- will then Publishing Association committed itself raised by the Mission Board for the es- be furnished to the European offices as to, a policy, which, if it had been ad- tablishment of these European printing needed, upon favorable conditions in hered to through succeeding years, houses, and considerable . sums were accordance with their strength. would have kept this Association in the voted year by year for the translation As soon as this plan of work was -forefront as the leading missionary and publication of new works. In the established, a very heavy burden was agency of the denomination. This, no appropriations of the Mission Board for lifted from the Mission Board, and doubt, would have brought to it the this use Such items as the following will everything seemed to go forward pros- blessings which God has pronounced be found: "For the translation and perously for a time. Several popular upon the liberal soul, and would have publication of new works in the German books were brought out in rapid succes- saved it from the centralizing policy and French at the Basel printing house, sion, large numbers of agents were sent which has manifested itself in many $3,000; for translation and publication into the, field, and many thousands of ways, but especially in the erection of of new works at, the Christiania office, books were sold in the United States: large buildings, which, according to $2,000." But in its efforts to make money for- the messages sent us from time to time, As time advanced, and laborers in the the missionary cause, the General Confer- ought never to have been built, because European field rapidly increased, the ence Association overreached its proper in God's plan the message to the world Mission Board found that it had a heavy bounds. It became a competitor with would have gone much more rapidly if burden to carry in supporting the min- the publishing houses in the publication the money invested in these buildings isters, and in advancing from four to and sale of English, books, and in other- -had been devoted to aggressive mission- six thousand dollars a year for the im- ways took to itself responsibilities which ary work, or to the building up of many provement of the literature. The Mis- brought condemnation and reproof. smaller enterprises in various centers of sion Board also observed that there was This led to a distribution of its book population in different countries, which much perplexity and disagreement be- business among the leading denomina- would have been lights to the world, tween the managers of the European tional publishing houses. and would have greatly hastened the publishing houses 'and the managers of It is exceedingly to be regretted that work of the third angel's message. the American publishing houses regard- on account of the perplexity and con- Some of those who had been connected ing the sale and purchase of sets of fusion existing at that time, the distri- with the Review and Herald for many plates to be used in bringing out Ameri- bution of business was made, without a years, and who were acquainted with can editions of new books. clear understanding and acknowledg- the necessities of the field through A little later it was observed that the ment on the part of the publishing their travels and labors in many parts publication and sale in America of the houses of their duty and obligation to of the United States, felt that a great German and Scandinavian books were take up and carry forward the work victory had been gained when the stock- quite profitable to the publishers, where- which the General Conference Associa- holders expressed their wish so unani- as the publication and sale of the Euro- tion laid down, namely, translating, mously that the Association should go pean editions of the same works would printing, and promoting the sale in con- forward with this foreign publishing barely meet expenses. junction with our, foreign offices, of -work, and it was a cause of sorrow to Some time in-1889 or 1890, plans were our denominational and health books some of them when we were told a few perfected which, it was thought, would in the European languages. days afterward that in private conversa- simplify the management of the foreign As a result of neglect, we have seen tion between members of the board, one book business, and lift the heavy burden the rapid decline of the sale in the expressed the following sentiments: off the Foreign Mission Board by taking United States, of our books in the Ger- "Well, let them pass their little resolu- the profits from'the best part of the field, man, Danish, Swedish, and other Eu- tions about the Association's translating and applying them to the translation ropean languages. Only about one and printing foreign books. The direct- and bringing out of new editions. •tenth as much was done in this line in ors'will manage the business according The plan proposed was about as fol- 1900 as in 1892. to the best interests of the Association." lows: The General Conference Associa- When I was last in America, in 1897, Here was a distinct pronunciation of tion will employ translators and editors I endeavored to learn where the respon- that intention which has been worked to prepare for the printers those books sibility of this work rested, but could out- in the succeeding years, to the ef- which are moat needed and which give not find anyone who had any clear fect that the men chosen by the stock- best promise of a successful sale. It views to express regarding it. Since holders-to carry forward the work of the will employ the Review and Herald or then I have carefully watched the move- Association would conduct the busi- one of the European houses to set- the ments of the Review and Herald, the ness to meet their personal views and type, and make as many sets of plates as Pacific Press, the International Tract ambitions regarding the work. The may be required in the publications of Society, and the Foreign Mission. Board, 8 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN.

and I have not discerned that any of tain percentage on the wholesale price of the paper; what you give away we these felt that the matter rested with of all books sold. will share the sacrifice with you. them, and were grappling with the sit- By this plan there would be no inter- Suppose you say to the managers and uation in an energetic way. ference with the business of the estab- students. of the Walla Walla College, The question will at once be raised lished publishing houses, and no care of Make a study of the languages of the as to how the General Conference could details by the General Conference. If American Indians, and bring out a lit- undertake this work without commit- the percentage was properly adjusted, erature for them in your printing office, ting the same errors, and bringing itself the General Conference would not only and we will furnish the paper. into the same position as did the Gen- receive back what it invests in many Suppose you say to the Union College, , eral Conference Association. It can books, but it would also receive an ad- Make a study of the German, Danish, avoid the errors of the General Confer ditional sum, which would go toward and Swedish, and make your printing ence Association, first, by recognizing the publication of books in those lan- office a missionary printing office to the publishing houses established in guages where there is a limited °kettle-, bring out tracts and leaflets in these Battle Creek, Oakland, Basel, Ham- tion. Thus it would be free from those languages. burg, and Christiana as agencies ap- features of the business which brought South Lancaster, which is so near the pointed of God for the execution of the the General Conference Association into great Canadian field, might make a work and for the carrying of a large disrepute, and with the smallest amount specialty of the French; Battle Creek of sharp of the financial responsibility; of capital it could virtually control the the Dutch, Polish, and Italian. Grays- second, by co-operating with these issue of literature, and at the same ville and Mount Vernon might be en- houses as an advisory body; third, by time encourage the publishing houses couraged to produce literature for the sharing the financial burden- of the already established to do a work which colored people. work in such a way as to encourage and they might not be able to do without The above outline is a very rough one, help the publishing houses while in no this assistance. -This plan takes away but it embodies the idea of a system way interfering with them in the sale all bartering between the several print- which, we believe, would more than of the books or in other details of the ing houses, and while assisting all, it double the influence of our schools in work; fourth, by arousing /our people encroacheS upon the rights of none. developing missionary zeal by directing everywhere to rally to the support of When the General Conference bears the attention of each school to two or this work by donations, and by their this relation to the publishing business, three fields for their special study. This labors in circulating the books; fifth, by it will very naturally come about that would naturally lead them to correspond bearing the burden -of adaptation, trans- many authors will dedicate the royal- with workers in those fields, and by lation, and publication of books in' ties on their translated works to establishing a direct correspondence, languages where the saes are very certain missionary enterprises. Some work up an interest that is quite impos- limited or unremunerative. authors, like mother, would wish to con- sible when trying to think of the whole The General Conference, through trol the appropriation of this royalty. world at once, It seems to me that this some agency appointed for this work, Others will prefer to leave the appro- plan would give a definite purpose to can first appeal to the Review and priation with some board, and many our school printing offices, that would Herald and Pacific Press to take a large might wish to allow all their rights to make them very useful as educational share of the burden and responsibility be the property of the General Confer- and missionary agencies, and result in of translating and publishing works ence in case of their death. the training of students for work in the ' which are needed. In all such cases it foreign fields. CO-OPERATION OF OUR SCHOOLS. should secure the co-operation of the 'ENGLISH BOORS IN GREAT BRITAIN AND most experienced laborers in the Euro- For the bringing out of tracts, leaf- THE COLONIES. pean fields in the translation and adap- lets, pamphlets, and small periodicals Although the English-speaking peoples tation of thele books, so that two sets of in the various European languages for in the world are about equally divided plates could_ be made, one for use in circulation in America, the General in number between those residing in the America and one for Europe. It could Conference will be able to secure effi- United States and Canada-, and- those— then 'share the expense of bringing out cient help frOm our larger schools. residing in Great Britain, the Colonies, the work by purchasing a set of plates Suppose we should modify our pres- on the Continent of Europe, in Asia, for use in Europe, which it could per- ent plan of trying to have everybody in Africa, South America, and Polynesia; mit the European house to use by the every part of the United States equally and although the third angel's message payment of a reasonable royalty. and uniformly interested in every must go to all parts of the world so as When the American houses have gone missionary enterprise throughout the to warn and prepare a people for the as-far:as they are willing in this matter; world. Suppose we should say to the -comiug of the Lord, yet up to the pres- the General Conference should take the Healdsburg ' College, and the Keene ent time about nine tenths of the ener- work in hand, securing the very best (Texas) school, you are brought in con- gies of our people have been devoted to men to adapt and translate the books, tact with the Mexicans and Spanish. We proclaiming the message to the people and the best house for the typesetting would- encourage you to make Spanish of the United States. In the book busi- and plate-making. When two sets of a specialty in your schOol and in your ness a larger proportion of effort has plates are made, one might be furnished printing office. We will fiarnish you been made outside of the United States -to the Review and Herald, and one to the with paper, and with good translations than in other lines, and yet as we study European office best fitted to handle the of Spanish works, which you may print the book sales in all parts of the world, ' work in that language, with permission and sell or give away, as seems best. we shall find nearly the, same propor- to print, bind, and sell, and pay a cer- For what you sell, pay us back the cost tion. GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN. fr

The time is nit far distant when we pany, single-handed will be able to do MelboUrne publishers, and- the tract so7 plight, in justice to the millions of this work as it ought to be done without cieties that authors would feel it worth English-speaking people outside of the incurring serious losses. their while to meet the expense of hav- United States, so to plan and execute This work of adaptation takes time, ing books adapted to the British field, our book business as to sell in this vast and our people are often impatient to and thus by furnishing manuscripts field one half as many books in the Eng- have a book put upon the market as ready for use, place the British publish- lish language as are sold in the United soon as they see it advertised in the ers upon as good a footing as the Ameri- States and Canada; and it seems to me American papers. Therefore, if the can houses which have a territory that to be a matter of the greatest importance managers of the London publishing is much more easily worked, and which , that we carefully study ways and means house undertake to do' faithful and at present will quickly absorb twice as by which we can quickly develop the thorough work in revising and. adapting many books? business to these proportions. a new book, and there is no understand- May we not arrange with the Review One of the greatest obstacles to the ing or agreement between it and the and Herald, the Pacific Press, -and the - rapid sale of a large number of our Echo Company, and between both of London and Melbourne publishers such religious books in the British territory these companies and their general agreements regarding territory as , will is the fact that in these books appear agents, the probabilities are that those protect the British publishers against loss so many characteristics and marks in- managing the subscription book busi- through the premature importation of dicating that they are written by Ameri- ness in Australia, New Zealand, Africa, books from America which, a little later cah authors for American readers, and India, and South America will import on, might be secured from the British are published by American printing considerable quantities of the American houses? . . - houses for American buyers. The dis- edition, and not only supply our own It is perfectly plain that We must not agreeable feelings aroused in the mind people, but introduce it into the can- take any step nor make any rule that of a British reader when he meets with vassing field. , Then when the revised will prevent our people from obtaining" the references to dollars and cents, is and adapted edition conies out from the the books on present truth as quickly as '' naturally much greater than that of London office, the first and best demand possible after their publication, but, it the American reader when he meets for the book has been supplied,' and the seems to, be equally.plain that definite with references to pounds, shillings, canvassing field has been marred and arrangements should be made by which and 'pence. The disagreeable feeling scarred by a premature and unsuccessful the purchaser of plates and rights to of a British student when he finds the effort to introduce a book which was not territory will be protected-on two points, fulfillment of prophecy delineated by a perfectly suited to the niarket. The — first, the canvassing field must not be record of American history is greatly- result will be that the sales of the care- entered until the party responsible for different from the feelings of an Amen- fully prepared book will be so small that the territory consents; second, what- ' can reader who finds prophecy proved both publishers and author will be dis- ever books are shipped into the territory, by references to British or continental couraged, and say that the British book that haVe been sold by publishing houses history. This is not only natural but business does not amount to much, and outside of that territory, should be sub- excusable from the fact that America is not worth the bother. ject to an adequate percentage, that is a young country, whose history is but should be paid to the party that has in- little known- to the European, whereas A UNION OF INTERESTS AND EFFORT. curred expense in its behalf. Great Britain and Europe are old coun- Would it not be best for us to arrange tries from which the forefathers of all for a union of effort between the RESPONSIBILITIES AND RIGHTS REGARD- 'the Americans have come. managers of the London publishing ING TERRITORY. Experience has fully demonstrated the house and the managers of the] Bible The Echo Publishing Company, after , advisability, and in many cases the Echo which shall secure the co-opera- successfully bringing out " The Coming -necessity, of having our books carefully tion of authors and tract societies, so King," felt warranted in undertaking a and thoroughly revised and adapted for that whenever a new book comes out larger subscription book, and began to use in British countries. There may-be a from the American houses, there will be inquire about " The Desire of Ages." 'few works upon health, and some reli- someone responsible to give it a thorough Mother said, "I believe that book will gious works, which require little or no examination with reference to its useful- do great good in Great Britain, Aus- , change, but in a much larger number of ness in the British field, ,and to corre- tralia, and the other colonies. I believe our books changes are a necessity, and spond with tract societies, and inform 'that a greater number will be Circulated upon the skill and thoroughness with them as to the advisability of using the and read if it is published in London which the adaptation is done depends American edition, or of waiting for a and in Melbourne than if lit is imported largely the usefulness of the British British edition? from America. I will share the burden editiops. There could be an agreement between of the risk of its publication in these The time, labor, and expense neces- the London and Melbourne publishers countries. " She bought a set of plates eery to prepare and adapt our books to that, the burden of adapting and issuing from the Pacific Press, with rights to the use of the British people will be no such works shall be divided between all territory in Great Britain and the small burden to the publishing houses the two houses, and that both houses Colonies, and she has sold the same to to which we look to supply reading- unite their efforts to make a successful the Echo Company, upon the condition matter for the British public; and as sale of the British editions of books that that they deal in a friendly and liberal matters now stand, it is a doubtful are brought out by either one. way with the International Tract Society -question whether the London publish- Could we not secure such a system of of London. Now if our brethren in Great ing house or the Echo Publishing Com- co-operation between the' London and Britain, India, and South Africa, will 10 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN. join with us in planning for the sale of and settled down in a small portion of work we find that printing offices of this work, and in pushing it, we shall this territory, and the heathen nations some sort have been established at Bat- make that book a blessing to thousands, came in and settled around them. tle Creek, South Lancaster, Healdsburg, and shall bring back to the author and Some time ago one of our State tract College View, and some other of our to the publisher what they have in- societies proposed to concentrate its schools. These offices are accomplish vested in it, so that there will be funds whole energies on the sale of "Steps to ing less than one half of what they might with which to issue other good books. Christ." I was asked by the publish- do as an educational agency, and less In Great Britain and the Colonies we ers, "What shall we do?" The answer than one tenth of what they might do ought to enter into the publication of was plain, "Give them complete control as a missionary agency if they were our health work. This we must do on of their State on 'Steps to Christ,' and properly encouraged, guided, and as- the plan of co-operation, so that from send your agents into the territory to sisted by the General Conference. each venture we shall get our money sell the other books." On the same Some systematic planning on the part back, and be able to go on with some- principle, if the State society can work of the General Conference might place thing else. only one fourth of its territory, it should upon the printing department of each open the same forsomeone else to work school the responsibility of securing RETURN TO FIRST PRINCIPLES. the other three fourths. translations, and of bringing out reli- As regards the old-time question of It is important that we build up the gious tracts and pamphlets, in one or territorial responsibilities and territorial trade-book business. Our State societies more of the languages where literature rights, I believe we should go back to are not in a position to do this. The is needed in small quantities and at the principles and plans adopted in the publishers must undertake it, and our small expense. Conference of 1886. It was then recog- tract societies must not stand in the That which may be worked out with nized that the book business is one of way. I believe God will bless us in varied degrees of success in our several the most successful missionary enter- making plans at this meeting for the training schools may be illustrated by prises of the denomination; that it is the opening up of this important field to an account of what we have begun to do one missionary enterprise most nearly those who can work it. The frown of at Cooranbong, New South Wales. We self-supporting. It was then recognized God will rest upon us as individuals, as have often been told that the Avondale that it was right for our Conferences to churches, as tract societies, or as pub- School was to be a sample school. A share the financial burden of support- lishing associations if we allow our- sample is usually a small piece of some- ing the general field agents. selves to drift into a selfish policy, or thing that we expect to get more of. It was then agreed that wherever our endeavor to control territory which we Let us study the sample. State tract societies, assisted by the do not work. Avondale has been chosen as a place Conference when necessary, should where evangelistic workers are to be maintain a State agent in the field, that PUBLICATIONS FOR THE NATIVE RACES. trained for missionary fields near by society should have entire control of the We all firmly believe that the third and far away. It is written that at sale of subscription books in its terri- angel's message, the last gospel mes- "this school, students should be taught tory. But times have changed. sage, is to be proclaimed to every kin- agriculture, carpenter work, and masons' Our district book agents are now sup- dred, tongue, and people, and this in- work, and that soon a printing office ported and directed by the offices of chides the Chinese, Japanese, and other should be established in which students publication, and our State societies have Asiatic races: also the Malaysian, Poly- may be taught typesetting, press work, economized, sometimes by dismissing nesian, African, and South American and binding." their field agent, sometimes by employ- tribes. At a meeting held in the Avondale ing a portion of his time in the office, Some of these peoples have a rich and church the last Sabbath of the Union and our subscription book business has extensive literature, and there are some Conference, it was stated by Sister steadily declined. In some States only whose literature is very scanty and lim- White that if we would move forward in a small portion of the territory is being ited. There are hundreds of millions harmony With God's providence, Avon- worked, and that for only a few books, among the Chinese, Japanese, and the dale would:be a center where persons and yet the society claims exclusive peoples in India who must some day would be [gathered, not only from all rights in its territory, not only for sub- have the third angel's message in their parts of Australasia to be trained for scription books, but in some cases for own language, and we shall expect soon workers, but that students would come trade books also. This is absurd. This to see printing-houses established in from the Polynesian Islands and from is wrong. these great countries. the mission fields to the north and west The true principle regarding the occu- For the Polynesians, Malaysians, and of Australia, and even from the native pation and control of territory is given the native tribes of Africa and South tribes of Africa, to receive a portion of ' us in the Lord's instruction to Joshua, America, we shall need to plan the work their training that would fit them to be "Every place that the sole of your foot differently than for the Asiatic races, efficient missionaries. She also stated shall tread upon, that have I given which number several millions. that our printing office should be estal4 unto you." As a means of supplying literature to lished soon, and that workers should be If Israel had gone forward in faith, the native races of Africa, South Amer- trained in it to bring out publications overrunning and occupying all the ter- ica, and Polynesia, we shall find it for the various missionary peoples whom ritory which afterward comprised the greatly to our advantage to encourage they represent. kingdom of David, it would have been and -stimulate teachers and students in After due consideration it was ar- theirs as long as they occupied it. But our various colleges to enter into this ranged that this should be a mis- they were indolent and easily satisfied, work. For the benefit of their local sionary printing office, owned by the

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Union Conference, and managed by a would become familiar with the English prove a blessing to themselves and to committee appointed by it, The super- language, and with .the best way to ex- others. The assignment of this respon- intendent of the Polynesian Mission press the same thoughts in their own sibility by committee or conventions is Field was the first chairman of this language. valueless. If our school-book writers ,committee. Second, by centralizing the work one will get out their lessons; and after use , For some time our councils and cor- set of electrotype blocks of the illus- in their classes revise them, and then respondence with the brethren con- trations required could serve for all the secure the publication on college presses nected with the missions in Fiji, Samoa, different languages, and thus a great of small editions for the use of others, Raratonga, and Tonga have led us to the saving of expenses would be effected. they may secure criticism and counsel' conclusion that it would be greatly for Third, the employment of young that will lead to improvement for future the advancement of the :work in _Poly- Australians who are students, to work use in larger editions. nesialif 'the missionaries it hose— firers along with the students from the islands, Let our college presses print the first could be supplied with suitable literature would naturally result (a) in their learn- editions in inexpensive form. This will to accompany their oral instruction. ing the languages of the islands; (b) in usually be done at the author's risk. The missionaries feel deeply their need their becoming interested in the people Broader plans may be laid for subsequent of tracts and pamphlets. They see whose language they are handling; (c) in editions. that a greater part of, the literature pre- their offering themselves to be mission- Our schoolbooks should be issued in pared by the older missionary societies aries in the various groups; and (d) in modest, inexpensive form,- and sold fat is almost valueless, because in most their carrying to the missionaries in moderate prices. They need not pass , cases the subject selected is above and these islands willing hands and cour- through the hands of district or State beyond the comprehension of the peo- ageous hearts, with .well-trained minds, depositories, but should pass direct from' ple of these fields. fitted to take an active part in the edu- the publisher to the schools using the Our missionaries are unanimous in cational work in the islands. books, and the:schools should be willing the opinion that if we would be success- The working out of these plans has to retail to its students at a very' small , ful in teaching the natives of theislands, fully met our expectations. We have profit. wemustigive them books that are freely issued a good line of religious and health In all the guestions.regarding territory illustrated with a class of pictures that tracts in the Raratongan language, a and territorial rights, we must seek to f they will understand. Wherever such few in the Tongan, several:in the Fijian, discern correct principles, and adhere books as "Christ Our Saviour," "Gospel 'and shall soon get:out a line for the New to them as the compass to -the pole. Primer," and other works of this class Zealand Maoris. May the Lord of Israel help us to aban, , have been introduced, the natives have This work has helped us bring stu- don selfish policy. been delighted, and :have repeatedly dents from all these peoples to the asked why they can not have more school. It has acted an important part CLASSES OF LITERATURE AND THE books like these. in their education and training, and has PLACE OF EACH. ' It was agreed that it would be for the encouraged Australasians to study these (Extracts from paper by C. H. Jones, Manager best interests of the work in all the languages. Last August David Holland, Pad* Press.) Islands if we could adopt Avondale as a' cousin to old King George of Tonga, Tun Seventh-day Adventist denomina- the-place for the building up of a poly- was teaching his language to a class of tion is one of the youngest religious glot missionary, printing establishment seven. organizations now engaged in carrying 'from which we should issue tracts, We earnestly hope and pray that this the gospel message to the world, yet no pamphlets, and books for the various good work will go on until a corps of well- other denomination can boast of the" missions in Raratonga, Samoa, Fiji, trained workers, partly natives from the wealth of literature which we possess. ; and Tonga; also for the New Zealand many peoples needing the gospel, and We have of English tracts alone, about Maoris, and later on for other mission- partly Australasians who have devoted two hundred and fifty different titles, ary places. By centralizing this work their lives to Christ, shall go forth from covering a Wide range of subjects; over it was hoped that competent translators, the Avondale school to be helpers in one hund'red trade books-, exclusive of revisers, and printers could be brought the various mission fields as teachers, foreign editions; and nearly fifty regular together and connected with the Avon- printers, Bible workers, and preachers. subscription books. Besides these we -- ` dale school in such a Vc-my as to accom- And may the Lord hasten the day. have scores of weekly and monthly plish very important results. Among qua EDUCATIONAL BOOEs. papers published in various languages. these results we might name the follow- There are new fields of labor constantly From a recent Testimony we quote the -- ing : — developing in the oldest and best worked following:— First, the existence of such a print- territories. How shall these be treated? "Our power and efficiency as Seventh: ` ing office would enable persons well The advance movements in our educa- day Adventists is largely dependent on advanced in Christian experience and tional work, call for a new educational the literature which comes from, our knowledge of the truth to be brought literature. How shall it be provided? presses." What 'responsibility this from various island groups to complete Who will write it? Who will print 'it? places upon authors: contributors, and their education at Avondale. Here And how shall it be sold? publishers, and with what care manu- they would get broader views of the A successful educational literature scripts- Should be prepared! work of the missionary than could be Will be prepared by.menhf experience in And again: " The proper circulation gained in schools established in the teaching work, whose hearts are moved and distribution of our publications is island groups. They could learn the to write, and who will work with perse- one of the most important branches of printing work, and while setting type vering confidence that the effort may the Present Work:" 12 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN.

Our literature is naturally divided into and Temperance, Religious Liberty, Golden opportunities occur almost daily four general classes: (1) Periodicals, Missions, etc., etc., each occupying an where the silent messengers of truth (2) Pamphlets and tracts; (3) Trade' important field, and worthy of liberal might be introduced into families and to books; and (4) Subscription books. These patronage. individuals; but no advantage is taken classes are again subdivided, so that 4. The Youth's Instructor and the Little of these opportunities by the indolent, nearly every phase of the message is Friend are papers highly prized by the thoughtless ones. Living preachers are covered, and every line of work is being youth and children. few. There is only one where there, provided for. 5. Within the last few years many of should be a hundred. Many are, mak- PERIODICALS. our Conferences have started little local ing a great mistake in not putting their 1. Pioneer Papers. Prominent among papers, for the purpose of communicat- talents to use in seeking to save the souls those printed in the English language ing more directly with their workers. of their fellow men. Hundreds of men arethe following : The Signs of the Times, It is to be hoped that they will be con- should be engaged in carrying the light published at Oakland, Cal.; the Present fined to purely local matter; otherwise all through our cities, villages, and Truth, published in London, England; they may interfere seriously with the towns. The public mind must be agi- and the Mete Echo, published at Mel- circulation of our regular publications, tated. God says, Let light be sent out bourne, Australia. and not be the means of accomplishing into all parts of the field. He designs We quote the following from Specia nearly so much good. that men shall be channels of light, Testimonies on Missionary Work by Cor- We are confident that but few of our bearing it to those who are in dark- respondence people realize the value of our period- ness- . . Our missionary paper, the Signs of icals as an evangelizing agency. The " Many are going directly contrary to the Times, is doing its work everywhere, following statement has come 'to us the light which God has given to his and is' opening the way for the truth to through the servant of the Lord: "It people, because they ,do not read the be more fully presented. This paper has is a fact that the circulation of our books which contain the light and been made a blessing to very many souls. papers is doing even. a greater work knowledge in cautions, reproofs, and All should feel the deepest interest to than the living preacher can do. " warnings. The cares of the world, the have it a spiritual messenger, full of life He then outlined some of the plans love of fashion, and lack of religion, and plain, practical truth. In the Chris- that have been adopted for the circula- have turned the attention from the light tian world there are many starving for tion of our pioneer papers and tracts. God has so graciously given, while books the bread of life. The Signs of the These will be found in booklets issued and periodicals cqntaining error re Times, laden with rich food, is a feast by the Pacific Press, under the titles, traveling all over the country. Skepti- to many who are not of our faith. "The Use of our Periodicals in Mission- cism and infidelity, are increasing every- " Our brethren do not all see and real- ary Work," and "Vow to Use Tracts." where. Light soprecious, coming from ize the importance of this paper ; if He then spoke of trade books, sub- the throne of God, is hid under a bushel., they did, 'they would feel greater per- scription brks, health books, and edu- God will make his people responsible sonal interest to make it intensely inter- cational books under these headings, to for this neglect. An account must be esting, and then to circulate it every- the effect that more trade books should rendered to hini for every ray of, light where. All who have a part to act in be prepared, and systematic efforts he has let shine upon our pathway, the preparation of matter for this pio- made to introduce them into book- whether it has been improved to our neer sheet are engaged in a sacred work, stores, and that we should beware of advancement in divine things, or re- and they should be connected with God ; devoting time to books that contain but jected because it was more agreeable they should be pure in heart and life." little present truth. It is not a question to follow inclination. 2. Our' Church Papers. The Review of how many books can be sold, or how '"° We now have great facilities for and Herald is our leading church pa- much money raised, but how much spreading the truth; but our people are per in this country, and should have a truth can be placed in the hands of the not carting up to the privileges given. -- -place in every Seventh-day Adventist people. them. They do not in every church see family. He recommended conference and and feel the necessity of using their On this point let me call attention to tract society officers, ministers, etc., to abilities in saving souls. They do not what is said in "Testimonies," Vol. IV, take our books and go out and sell them realize their duty to obtain subscribers pages 598, 59,9 : — occasionally, in order to keep in sympa- for our periodicals, including our health " The Review is a valuable paper; it thy with the canvasser. - journal, and to introduce our books and contains matters of great interest to the Relative to health books, he believes pamphlets. Men should be at work who church, and should be placed in every they " should receive the same considera- are willing to be taught as to the best family of believers. If any are too poor tion and the same effort that is placed way of approaching individuals -and to take it, the church' should, by sub- upon our religious works." families. - . sbription, raise the amount of the full In closing, he called attention to sev- " The wider the circulation of our price of the paper, and supply the desti- eral statements found in "Testimonies," publications, the greater will be the de- tute families. How much better would Vol. IV, page 389 and onward; among mand for books that make plain the this plan be than throwing the poor which are the following:— Scriptures of truth. Many are becoming upon the mercies of the publishing "Other publishers have regular sys- disgusted with the inconsistencies, the house or the tract, and missionary so- tems of introducing into the market errors, and the apostasy of the churches, ciety. books of no vital interest. The chil- and with the festivals, fairs, lotteries, 3. Periodicals and journals devoted dren of this world are in their genera- and numerous inventions to extort to special lines of work, such as Health tion wiser than the children of light.' money for church purposes. There are GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN.,

many who are seeking for light in the books. At the present time the sales of publications in certain ,parts of 'Eu- - darkness. If our papers, tracts, and are running quite largely on health' rope, to reach hundreds of thousands • books, expressing the truth in plain books. He said : " We aim to give the who would never have the opportunity Bible language, could be widely circu- same attention to our health work as we of seeing the living preacher. I have lated, 'many would find that they are do to our religious work, and carry held, and still hold, that the canvasser just what they want. But many of our these hind in hand together. The is just as much the servant of the Lord. ' brethren act as though the people were societies take equal interest in each." as the ordained minister. to come to them, or send to our offices W. C. White said: "The circulation As to the production of this literature, to obtain publications, when thousands of our missionary journal is considered there are two ways,— writing and trans- do not know that they exist. by our Conferences to be legitimate lating. But a fact not fully appreciated "God calls upon hie people to act like Conference work, and one of the most is that it is almost as difficult to trans- living men, and not to be indolent, slug- profitable parts of it. Our Conferences do late a book freely as it is to produce one. gish, and indifferent. We must carry not begrudge a ' subsidy ' to good, faith- You may be a scholar in 'foreign lan- the publications to the people, and urge ful workers to sell our periodicals. That guage, and yet not be able to produce a them to accept, showing them that they has to vary from $2.50 to $5 a week, book for the people; because the literary will receive much more than their according to the field they are in. language and the language of the com- money's worth. \ Exalt the value of the " We have tried the plan of holding mon people sometimes differ. To be, a books you offer. You can not regard general meetings of short duration ;— good translator you need to live among them too highly. two or three days. A general rally is the people and become acquainted with ' "My soul was agonized as I saw the called. The people who have been read- them from the home standpoint, in or- Indifference of our people who make so ing these periodicals, come to hear, and der to bring the truth into the proper high a profession. I was shown that the they become interested, and feel im- translation for their comprehension, blood of souls will be on the garments of pressed that the Spirit and power of God When I was in Africa, I meta Kaffir many who now feel at ease and irrespen- are with these brethren. These short minister of the Congregational Church i, sible for souls that are perishing around meetings do more good in Australasia who had translated "Steps to, Christ" them for want of light and knowledge. than a six-weeks' course of lectures on into the Kaffir, or Zulu, language. In They have come in contact with them, the prophecies. Every time such meet- talking with him, I asked him, "In but have never warned them, never ings are held, a number of conversions what school did you get hold of the prayed with or for them, and never made follow, and some baptisms. principles of the Kaffir language?" , earnest efforts to present the truth to "I have just received a letter from He answered, "We have no schools them. I was shown that there, has been Sister Farnsworth, now working in Dune- there' are no schools that give that ' in- a wonderful negligence on this point. din, South Australia. She speaks of struction." - Ministers are not doing one half what a faithful sister there who is selling "How do you get it then?" I asked. they might do to educate the people for four hundred copies of Bible Echo each He answered,' "We go out into, 'the whomthey labor upon all points of truth week, and one hundred copies of Herald interior, among the natives, and stay - and duty, and, as a consequence, the peo- of Health each month, besides health among them, and talk with them at' ple are spiritless and inactive. The stake foods, Some people have been buying their firesides in their own country. and scaffold are not appointed for this the Echo of this sister for four or {five That is where' we get the language." time to test the people of God, and, for years. The health paper has been In Sweden alone we have circulated this very reason the love of many has offered with all health books, for forty thousand copies,of "Bible Read- waxed cold. When trials arise, grace twenty-five cents extra." ings," and about forty thousand' copies is proportioned for the emergency. We of "Great Controversy." "Patriarchs ' must individually consecrate ourselves and Prophets" has also been gotten but on the very spot where God has said he THE FOREIGN BOOK FIELD, AND ITS in Swedish. Sweden has a population would meet us." NEEDS. as ',large as Norway and Denmark to- " (Extracts from remarks by0 0. st. Olsen.) gether. During the past year in Sweden W. D. Samson (Australia) said that Tan foreign book field is an immense we hive sold over twenty-five thousand the average number of papers sold there one, and it has only been touched, as it dollars' worth of literature. ' each week is three and a half copies were, by the tip of the finger. In Eu- We find that in some places we, can do for each member in the Union Confer- rope alone we havela population of nearly well with the large books, but many can ence. They issue seven thousand copies four hundred million souls. Among not buy them, and therefore we are anx- ' a week, and there are two thousand Sab- these we have some one hundred dif- ious to take books costing four or five bath-keepers. ferent nationalities to which the truth kroner. (A kroner is twenty-seven, The total sale of religious books is to go. At present we have publica- cents.) in the eleven and one-half years since tions in thirty-six languages and dialects, In Finland, we have had canvassers the ' organization of their company, but in several of these we have only a working the past year, and' they .itave' to June 30, 1900, has been a little tract or two. In the Scandinavian we sold from seven to !eight thousand dot!. over 75,000 copies, and of health have upward of fifty different publica- lars' worth of books. "Steps to Christ " books, a little over 38,000 copies; or tions, small and large, but these coun- has been a standard book since it was sixty-six and one-fourth per cent reli- tries are the smallest in Europe. Scan- first gotten out, and we are selling it gious books, and thirty-three and three- dinavia, containing three countries, has continually. We have it in the Finnish,, fourths per cent health books,— about hardly ten million people. We have but we have gone over the ground so 'half as many health books as religious been able, through the different lines thoroughly that the 'canvasser can not 14 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN.

make a living on that'alone. The early The following comparison will best censor's seal can be more freely handled. part of last spring the canvassers began illustrate the true condition: In seven It took, however, a long time and much_ to call for "Great Controversy." That languages, comprising three hundred study before we got on the inside track. was a book we had not put out for two million souls, we have over one thou- After trying various ways We finally reasons: first, we did not have the sand:pages of literature, In twenty-four, made the acquaintance of a Baptist money with which to produce the book comprising one hundred and seventy- publisher and prominent minister, who in one volume ; second, we feared that two millions, we have from one to five took' sufficient interest in Our literature so large a book could not be sold in that hundred pages. In nine languages, to offer us the help of his long experi- country. So we asked the privilege to di- comprising five hundred and eighty ence to get out literature, well trans- vide the books into two parts. The first millions, we have less than one hundred lated, also to' pass it by the censor. part was ready in July. The canvassers pages. Through him we secured the same fa- did well in taking orders and also in de- Hundreds of languages and dialects, vorable rates by the printer and binder as - livernag their books. The second part comprising -five hundred and ten mil- he enjoyed, and he aided us in the sale was to be ready by the holidays. The lions, still wait to be supplied,-thirty- of our publications. Our main stock we canvasses wanted " Great Controversy " three per cent. store with the binder, and he furnishes because it had sold well in Sweden, and Thus, nineteen per cent of the world's the publisher and us with lots of from also because it bore the same authorship Population is tolerably supplied; eleven five hundred to one thousand, according as "Steps to Christ." per cent scarce; thirty-seven per cent to our orders. The publisher, to aid in By Elder Matteson's death we have hardly at all; and thirty-three per cent the circulation, put a large advertise- lost our author; and it .is a much larger not at all. Our periodicals appearing ment of our books in his almanac, which loss than any of you appreciate ; for no in eight languages reach but three hun- goes to from fifteen to twenty thousand one has been able to step in, and con- dred and two millions, or nineteen per families: tinue the work he was doing. The large cent. It is quite customary in Germany for books are all right, but smaller publica- Great as the foregoing difference is, even very large publishers not to do tions are needed, and I have for a long their own printing or binding. Leipsic it does not express the real facts. We time hoped. the way would open that is the great center for printing On the this deficiency might be supplied. have only compared page to page, with- out reference to its manifolding. Yet Continent ; and as one firm makes a We need God-fearing young men, .who specialty of printing, another of bind- will go into a new country to learn the one page of English reading-mther is being manifolded in scores of large edi- ing, another of stereotyping, they can language, and become acquainted with work cheaply, rapidly, and also keep tions, and circulated, while the page in the people, adapting themselves to the their houses up-to-date with the best ma- situation. We have young people among a foreign tongue, on account of lack of means, appears only in a small edition. chinery. Everything is carried forward us who could do this. on, a large scale, and with- old, tried The foreign book field is an immense While we as a people and our houses hands. Thus they can easily compete, one, and it needs publications, adapted are undoubtedly the best agencies to and book firms even from Holland, Aus- to the circumstances and habits and publish our literature, yet it is a tria-Hungary, and the Balkan States, prejudices of the people, written or trans- question whether we are always the have 'their work done at Leipsic. This lated right where they are to be sold. best agencies to print it. Our experi- led us to adopt the same plan, and to ence in this line has varied according print and bind all our books there. So to a number of circumstances. While FOREIGN LITERATURE AND THE doing, our capital remains free to invest the Hamburg house publishes in four- in stock direct, much storeroom is BEST AGENCIES FOR ITS PUBLICA- teen languages, it prints in less than TION AND SALE. saved, and our publishing work is easier half of them. We have our printing managed. Our binder at Leipsic stores (Paragraphs from papers by L. R. Conrad0 done in Russia, Bohemia, Bulgaria, at all our sheets free of charge, and binds WHILE one hundred and twenty mil- Leipsic, Memel, etc., and this will natu- them at short notice in lots as we may. lions of the earth's inhabitants under- rally increase as the work gains more need them, while our printer stores the stand the English, yet over fourteen foothold in the different countries. plates. Our periodicals, tracts, and hundred and fifty millions more are to When we once build up churches -in pamphlets we print, however, at own be supplied by what we term from the these various countries, secure able office. This plan has worked best in English standpoint, "foreign litera- ministers who know not only the truth, Europe in all our experience thus far. ture." To every twelve who read for- but also the respective languages, the We get along with a small plant, we eign literature, one reads English, yet next thing is to have their printing done secure better work, do not tie up so our table in the BULLETIN shows that it in the land where they are. much talent, and we get our work done - takes all the " foreign literature" in While we print at Hamburg, we often at short notice. thirty-nine languages combined to equal find it better to have the printing done What aids us greatly in the German our English literature in one volume. in the respective countries. In some field to do the work from one center, is While one hundred and twenty millions countries we are really forced to have it the express service. We can ship ten may be reached with one language, the done there to a certain 'extent. Thus, pounds of literature by express to any rest of the world has hundreds of lan- for example, we print now in Russia in part of the German and also the Austro- guages. Thus far we have publications three tongues, the Russian, Esthonian, Hungarian empire for twelve and one- in"forty languages; but in quite a num- and Littonian,— on account of the cen- half cents, making it really cheaper ber of these, the publications are simply sorship. than freight. For the same amount we a few little tracts. Books mitten out in, Russia with the mail to within a few minutes' walk from GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN. 15

our- Basel house. To Switzerland, Hol-" In the other tongues-the production of Translations can be arranged only by land, etc., we pay twenty cents. publications is generally more cOst/y, the greatest care in the field In some countries, however, we have and yet the people are -less able to pay Much missionary literature put- out by. to print right there all publications in for them, and harder-to be reached. It various societies misses the mark be- the mative tongue; otherwise we have is entirely a missionary work, and our cause not translated for the common ' ' difficulty in securing the necessary per- publishing houses there are really mis- people. Each field must Work cautiously,.- mit to. sell them. sionary enterprises. Our Hamburg house and not undertake too large works at- - As far as we' have tried, no agency has used its annual gains, not to increase the first. .works so well as persevering canvassers, means nor to enlarge, but to help freely, Without any large or expensive pant, -;- filled with the spirit of their Master, and thereby enlarge our facilities to sell. small literature may be produced in the - and sensing the blessedness of their Certain sums have been every year set vernaculars, and scattered broadcast. task.. Realizing this, our house has en- aside to get out new publications, to deavored to care for the training of secure the motor boat in the Hamburg canvassers, and to- aid .them- in hard Harbor, to help our industrial schools, BATTLE CREEK COLLEGE EDUCA- - TIONAL REPORT fields. We have many obstacles to meet, etc. - which are unknown here and elsewhere. We have not lost by helping others. For the Two Years Ending March, not_ High government licenses must be se- On the contrary, God has constantly OBJECT. cured, rating from live to fifty dollars blessed us, and thus enabled us to do Battle Creek College is a training a year, and much time must often be more from year to year. But should not school for Christian workers. As the-- spent to secure them. The house sup- all take stock in this enterprise, and teachers in the schools of the prophets plies these where- the- worker proves could not means be placed at our dis- educated missionaries for all nations; as faithful and aids the canvasser to- visit posal to push this work as never before? Paul, in the school of Tyrannus, in -- the annual meetingsand to attend its in- Calls come from Russia, Palestine, Ans- Ephesus of Asia Minor, prepared work- i stiff-des. We also allow all who are recom- tria, for literature in the Croatian, S12/- ers to carry the gospel to the world; as I mended, a certain credit to get a start. vonian, Albanian, and other languages. Luther, in the University of Wittenberg, While the canvassing work is on a self- The few publications in other languages broke the strength of the papacy, ko supporting basis in Germany propet, we should be multiplied. Battle Creek College has as its sole ob- are obliged to aid our canvassers in May we at this council realize fully ject the training of missionaries who, - Russia, Holland, Hungary, etc. Other our responsibility to supply GS-precious imbued with the spirit of the Master, publishers who get out our publications truth to all nations tongues, and shall carry to all the world the message for us have done something in the way improve our present sed opportuni- of a soon-coming Saviour. of disposing of them, and we are making ties all around us. Ile we are en- efforts to sell more through the book riched with the treasures out of God's CEANGE5. stores direct, but thus far our success storehouse, let us remember our neigh- The spiritual health of the church de- has been limited. bore far and near, who, even from the pends upon its adherence to true educa- - - Our work on the Continent is but crumbs of our tables, would secure a tional principles, as surely as national ' ' fairly begun; each country has its pe- rich feast for theirag., yea, life eternal. prosperity lies in the hands of the-na- culiar difficulties, and needs to be stud- met tion's schools. Surrounded by colleges led ancItried separately. There is Aus- ,411. and universities whose aim is to prepare - men and women to become law-abiding tria, for example, where, in spite of SELECTION, ADAPTATION, ILLUS- all endeavors, we have not been able to TRATION, TRANSLATION, AND IS- citiiens, Battle Creek College has been obliged to separate from the methods of , secure the necessary permission to push SUE OF LITERATURE IN FOREIGN these institutions, and, to substitute for the work. FIELDS. One agency for selling I must men- their long courses, of worldly studies, a tion in this connection,—one which is (Condensed from the talk of Elder M A. Spicer.) simple line of work fitted to prepare very far behind its privileges. While BROTHER SPICER urged that the needs workers for the kingdom of God. This in many countries in the Old World it in each field- were such as to make it has led to lines of work which meet the often takes years- ere we secure the right essential to recognize the principle of needs of these various classes of indi- - to print and sell, there is perfect liberty individualism in selection. Only those viduals, and instead of the classical and in America/. Millions of all these differ- in the field can feel and see many condi- scientific courses of the institutions of ent nationalities have flocked to these tions that influence the decision in the world, Battle Creek College Vers shores, and still they come. Oh, what choice of literature. As to adaptation, studies which prepare students to be- might- ef/Me ministers, canvassers, Bible work- not be done in supplying them the best literature published in the home ers, teachers, medical missionaries, from the very hour of their arrival, or field requires little adaptation. If the in their respective settlements, be it in principles of the truth are set forth from Christian business men, and all-round ' cities or in the country! What vast the point of view of the kingdom- of gospel workers. It is an interesting fact that a greater number of our students good might be done to them, and, heaven, and not from any merely na- through their instrumentality, to their tional standpoint, little adaptation is have entered the work during the past friends in the Old World. required. four years than at any- other period of Our houses at Hamburg and Basel In illustrating, forethought is neces- equal length in the history of the college. have printed the truth in twenty Ian-,oby to arrange for foreign rights to MINISTERIAL WORE. guages. Thus far the only languageWgravings if we are to avoid delays in The call for an educated ministry has which pays, financially, is the German. publishing abroad. been urgent. Forty years ago the de- Ir,

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nomination was proud of its strong Conference Bulletin," a two-hundred- shop, a printing office, and the farm, workers, its pioneer ministers, rooted and-thirty-page pamphlet containing the work in each department being done and grounded in the doctrines of the the proceedings of the Conference, was by students, under the direction of com- church, but the youth have grown up a result of the Institute. This has been petent workmen. In view of the supe- with a most defective knowledge of vital read with interest by many, and is doubt- rior advantages of any school situated truths, owing to the lack of proper home less one of the best single contributions in the country, away from the artificial training and the absence of Christian to the literature on Christian education life of the city, the managers of Battle schools. The cause is suffering, and which has yet been placed in the hands Creek College are looking forward to an nothing can remedy the condition ex- of the people. opportune time to change the location cept a thorough course in the neglected CHURCH AND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS. of the school. When situated as the subjects. In order to make the work Testimonies tell us that all our schools of the most practical nature, much of In District 3, there are at present 65 should be, it is hoped so to improve the the instruction for ministers in Battle church and home schools, having an en- industrial departments that the school Creek College during the past two years rollment of about 1,100 children. can afford an opportunity fora large has been given -by our ministering Number of church schools outside class to work their way through school, brethren, whose experience in the field this district, but under the jurisdiction, as well as to solve some of the educa- enabled them to teach those things so far as we know, of no other school, tional problems which to-day confront which are most needed by the pastor 104; teachers of these schools, 115 ; num- the world. and the evangelist. ber pupils attending these schools, about TEXT-BOORS. The Lord has said that in the can- 1,500: total number church schools, 184; The church schools, differing as they vassing work the young ministers may total number church-school teachers, do from the public schools, have cre- get their first and most valuable train- 195 ; total number pupils enrolled, 2,600. ated a keen demand for schoolbooks ing. Special classes in canvassing have Three industrial schools are now in op- adapted to the children of Christian been conducted by Brother Boggs, and eration, one at Bethel, Wis., one at Sher- parents. Two thosuand six hundred during the summer months those stu- idan, Ill., and a third at Cedar Lake, children taken from the public schools dents who are preparing for the ministry Mich. to be educated in Bible truths, without are organized into canvassing and col- EFFECTS OF SMALL SCHOOLS. a book adapted to their needs, was a sad portent companies. The effects of following the present sight. During the past year a series of text-books has been started, those so far CHRISTIAN TEACHERS. policy in' e col work have been published being "Bible Reader No. 1," man• .-- ' f; hi e attendance of Bat- If in the beginning of the third an- tle Creek °Oleg a training-school has "The Mental Arithmetic," and Pro- gel's message, the children had been been necessarily reduced, the-enrollment fessor Gardner's system of bookkeeping. properly taught, and we had been loyal for the present year being 865, Only such These will be followed by others of their to the principles of Christian education, students as are:prepared for a training series as fast as is possible. the world's history would have ended being admitted, the establishment of in- THE DEBT AND "CHRIST'S OBJECT long before this. For the educational dustrial schools has increased very ma- LESSONS." system which is to take the child from terially the tots tier of students the home to his entrance upon a mis- who are receivi ristian training. So nobly have our people responded to. sionary career,— the church school, the Wisconsin, for instance, formerly sent the call for the relief of the schools, industrial school, and the training- less than fifty students to the college, that the matter is well-known through- school,—the truest, best teachers in but she sends nearly one hundred and out our ranks. Sister White donated the world are needed; and to prepare fifty to the industrial school, besides the proceeds of her latestbook," Christ's these, Battle Creek College has made a having two hundred and fifty children Object Lessons," and our two publish- special effort. During the entire school in her church schools. ing houses, the Review and Herald and year there is offered a course of instruc- The ultimate result of the-church and the Pacific Press, came forward with a _ tion arranged fOr- that purpose, Peda- industrial schools will be a large num- liberal offer, donating all the work on gogy, the sciences, mathematics, and ber of college students whose early edu- the books. Then the people arose to English being taught, with the Bible cation has laid a firm foundation, and sell, and from ocean to ocean the money as the foundation of each. Besides this, who, with a brief training, will become has been coming in to relieve the school • there is held a special summer school efficient workers. The work of these debts. God's hand was in the move- of ten weeks' duration, for instruction schools is most essential at this time. ment. What was begun in faith, but in of teachers in the principles of Christian There are but two sources from which weakness, has grown beyond the most education, as well as in all necessary we may gain workers in the future: sanguine hopes of man. District 3 has branches in which they may be defect- either the children born into the church already disposed of 12,000 copies of ive. must be educated, or we must depend "Christ's Object Lessons ", its quota of books being about 80,000, because of a TEACHERS' INSTITUTE. entirely upon the world at large to fur- nish the material for the laborers who debt of $84,000. In July, 1900, there was held in Battle will carry the closing message. Nothing in all the history of the mes- Creek the first Conference of Seventh- sage has so bound the hearth of Seventh- day Adventist church-school teachers. INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT. day Adventists to the educational work For three weeks these teachers met in Manual training is one of the distit as this effort to raise the debt. To God council and for instruction with some tive features of the training-school. WP4telongs the praise. This is the begin- of our leading workers. The " Teachers' have at present a tailor shop, a broom ning of the end. E. A. SUTHERLAND. THE . IN MO GENERAL 60NIFEREICE BULLETIN THIRTY-FOURTH SESSION

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trained to regard as sacred their are placed, and thus we will get along- THE GENERAL CONFERENCE financial responsibilities to the office: without any trouble. BULLETIN It is necessary to train agents and H. H. Hall: I think., brethren and sis- PUBLISHED QUARTERLY BY instruct them upon their responsibili- ters, that we now have something that ties to the office. We have dealt with will enable us to impress this matter of ,The Seventh.day Adventist General many agents, and in dealing with them keeping out of debt as we never have Conference we have not had sufficient time to had before. ' I refer to " Christ's Object train them in that particular line. My Lessons." As a people we have been EDITORIAL STAFF: A. T. Jones, J. 0. Corliss, experience has been that agents have educated to go into debt. Our confer- L. A. 'Hoopes, Adelaide Bee Cooper. made their greatest mistake at the be- ences, our schools, everything we have, ginning of their experience. has been in debt. You know how it is, PRICE: In reference to the second clause, and our canvassers do it as a matter of For the DAILY BULLETIN during General " How can a canvasser keep out of course. This is wrong. The principle Conference session 50c debt? " It seems to me that about the you will find laid down in the sale of For the biennial term including daily and first thing they should be instructed in, is "Object Lessons" is to get out of debt. . quarterly issues 75c how to keep out of debt. My experience is Begin with the schools first, and then ,:;•Subscriptions at the 75-cent rate, for the next that a great many canvassers are allowed the other institutions will be taken hold volume, will include all issues during 1901 and to get into debt in the beginning of their of the• same way. Now we must bring 1902. experience. It is not those who have this same principle to bear upon our can- Entered at the poet office in Battle Creek, Michigan. been long in the work we have trouble vassing work, that it is wrong to get into with in this respect. Almost invariably debt. BATTLE CREEK,MICH., SECOND QUARTER, 1901. it has been necessary for us to enter an E. P. Boggs: Brother Hall, where account with them when entering the should a line of educational reform be- work. Sometimes they need help in one gin? You say it is to begin with the THE CANVASSING WORK. way and sometimes in another, but it is schools. Where should it begin? Report of Canvassers' Convention, almost always necessary to open an ac- H. H. Hall: In the schools, certainly. April 13. count with them. It seems to me if some We should keep this thing continually (Concluded.) plan can be devised whereby they can before the people, that we have come HE should have right business princi- be started out in the work free from to the time when we are going to pay ' ples, and if he has not taken these into this incumbrance, and free from any de- our debts, and are not going to run into Consideration in his experience, then he sire to be incumbered with debt, a great debt. I trust we may come to the place had better try to find out what true step will be taken. where we will regard the money belong- . rf business principles are, that he may In our State it is almost necessary that ing to the Lord just as sacredly as the teach them to the agent, and teach him we have an account with each agent Sabbath. I believe that as we impress how to keep his accounts, and how from the fact that the laws of the State this on our conferences, schools, and sacred the funds of the Lord are. are that the ownership of the books churches, we shall have very little diffi- When a minister goes out and raises shall rest with the publishing house. culty in the matter of canvassers going up a church, the first thing he tries to If the agent purchases the books, they into debt. present to those members who accepted become his own, and he lays himself W. M. Lee: I would like to ask a ques- the truth is the gospel principles of liable to the State law for a license, so tion of Brother Boggs— I know he has paying tithe to the Lord. It is just as you see it is necessary for us to have an engaged in this canvassing work and in- sacred, I believe, for them to pay their account with them, but some are in debt structed agents for the work—how debts, or to pay their obligations to with us all the time. The first prin- much time he takes in presenting to the tract society, as to the Lord, ciple is how shall they be trained so as them business principles in his line of because it is all one work of the to regard that obligation as sacred, that instruction ; whether the burden of his Lord. they may never take any advantage of instruction is on the canvassing work, S. D. Hartwell: I can indorse what the situation in which they are of ne- as to how to present the book, to sell the former speaker his said in refer- cessity placed,—in fact take no advan- books, etc. , ence to the matter of agents' being tage of us in the necessity in which we E. P. Boggs: We consider that the 490 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN. matter of sound business principles is business methods. The Testimonies canvassing bring into the treasury every of as much importance as is the under- years ago told us that we needed book- dollar that belongs to it rightly, let them standing of the book. A man who goes keepers, and I believe bookkeeping is stop just where they are." That is my out into the field unprepared to take up as much a part of the work of God as is impression,. They should not engage in and carry the financial end of his busi- preaching the third angel's message canvassing unless they can be the means ness will just as surely fail as will the from the desk. of bringing into the treasury, rather [Reading.] " Some have established than robbing it. man who goes out not understanding how to present his book. We take a themselves in deficient habits, and their Mary F. Beatty: I will say just a few sufficient amount of time in our school deficiency Ins been brought into the words. I would like to give one thought work to make them proficient in the lines work of God." If these deficiences have on the canvasser keeping out of debt. of ,business. Starting in with reporting, been brought into the work of God,what I notice that a great many people have making up their daily and weekly re- must we do? We must work these de- gotten into debt. They think the future ports, and keeping an actual account of ficiences out. is going to be very bright, they are go- their daily expenses in fact, every "The tract and missionary societies ing to have wonderful success in selling item. If they buy a postage stamp, we have been deeply involved in debt their books. Then if they do not have have them set that down, so that they through the failure of the canvassers to very good success, they will say, " I will can tell how much money they have meet their indebtedness. Canvassers use this money, and with the next pay spent for postage stamps, how much for have felt that they were ill-treated if the tract society. This is not the right soda water, and useless things,—things required to pay promptly for the books principle. I know in my own experience which they would be better off without. received from the publishing house. I would not want to go any further than In this way they keep a strict account of Yet to require prompt remittal is the at present. I want to live within my all their accounts. Then when they only way in which to carry on business." income. I have tried, with what little, come to purchase their books they can And whenever we let a canvasser get business I have had with agents, to incul-, keep an actual account of the money shipment after shipment of books, each cate that principle. I have not suc- taken in and the amount disbursed. time increasing his indebtedness per- ceeded in all cases. The best way to do is to send cash haps $10 on every 100 books shipped, or How can a tract society secretary best with order. That is really the strict in that ratio and proportion, we are not help the canvasser in his work? I be- business principle; that should be the doing that canvasser a kindness. lieve he can teach him right principles standard we should educate up to. But W. C. McCuaig: What if you had a about his business transactions; and be whenever a tract society has sufficient canvasser who wanted to give his note an encouragement and a help to him. confidenee in agents to send them for a shipment of books? This is our duty as well as our pleas- books and open an account with them, E. P. Boggs: His note? ure. One way we can do this and help then we tell them that 50 per cent of W. C. McCuaig: I do not see how we them is to write to them. I find it is a every book they deliver should be re- can do it, but we have had that in our great help to our workers to write them. turned to the tract society. Fifty per State. Sometimes I have been, very busy, and cent, and in fact I go farther than that E. P. Boggs: We don't take notes. could not write to them. They would in this, that they first take out money There may be instances in which I say, " I did not receive a letter from you enough from the books they have or- would accept a note. I do not recollect this Friday, and was disappointed." I dered to settle in full for the shipment any instance now to make it necessary. try to help them and encourage them of books to the tract society. That is [Reading.] "Matters should be so ar- in the work. While I try to help them the true principle. When an agent or- ranged that canvassers shall have enough spiritually, I try to help them on this ders, books, they will belong to that agent to live on without overdrawing. This other line. The Lord has blessed our when he pays for them, not before. door of temptation must be closed and work in Nebraska. We have tried to I have been watching the matter barred. However honest a canvasser work together. We have done some- closely from time to time in the matter may be, circumstances will arise in his thing for the Master. o payment for books, etc. I have no- work which will be a sore temptation to B. W. Spire: I want to talk on the ticed some instruction on this point in him." That is true. " When they get subject of debt. It is something that I the "Manual to Canvassers." I will not into difficulty, some canvassers expect abhor. I believe the quicker we come take time to read all it says: " Debts to that money: is to be drawn from the to the principle that the apostle laid Publishing Houses.—The loose way in treasury to help them out, only to get down, the better it will be for us all. which canvassers, both old and young, into strait places again to require help. Now brethren, it may seem strange, have performed their work, shows that Those who are stewards of the means in but I believe our general agents and they have many important lessons to the treasury must keep a sharp outlook State agents are largely to blame for, the learn. Much haphazard work has been to see that the supply is not exhaust- canvasser getting into debt. (J. B. presented to me." I do not believe can- ed by these drafts." I believe that Blosser: That is so. That is true.) I vassers are altogether to blame for that. whenever an individual comes to a might relate to you a number of in- You can go right from the General Con- place where after a sufficient demon- stances, if time permitted, but one will ference clear down- through. This idea stration he can not keep in the field and suffice. There was a brother who came of indebtedness has permeated the do the work, I believe it is time to let into the truth from a worldly business, whole organization. Yet the canvasser him get out. Help him, suggest some- and he entered the canvassing work in was just as liable as the rest of us, and thing else to him. No doubt you may our State. Well, about the first order God wants us to raise the standard, not think my last statement a little strong. he sent in I think was about $50 or $75 only in profession of faith, but in our [Reading.] " When men can not by worth of books. I said to myself right GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN. 491

away, I can not send those- books. Our J. B. Blosser: I do not like to give It seems to me that the time has come canvassing agent was there, and he personal experiences, but I will state in the history of the world and the de- said, "You send them." There were that I had to meet this thing in a very velopment of science, and in the devel- several others there, and they all advised forcible manner, and I had to cast about opment of truth, when we ought to me to send the books. That was a to find some means to bring agents out understand that man is something I V larger bill than I knew that man could of this way of doing business. When I better than simply a very wise, intel- meet. The consequence was, that man came to the Texas Conference, I found ligent, civilized beast. A divine had to leave the field, and he has an ac- 11 agents owing the tract society $1,625, writer said, " What is man, that thou count of $40 or $50 which he can not pay. and the tract society owed the publish- art mindful of him? and the son of S. E. Wight: Did he have orders for ers $3,600. I had learned by experience man, that thou visitest him? For thou those books? in the work in Oklahoma that the prin- hast made him a little lower than the B. W. Spire: No. What Brother ciple the canvassers should work .on is, angels, and hast crowned him with, glory Boggs read is my idea. To require " Owe no man anything." We taught and honor." We find in the very begin- prompt remittance is our only hope to them that the books did not belong to ning of the Bible, in the very first chap- succeed in business. Brethren, I have them; that they were stewards, When ter of the Bible, an answer to this been dealing with a tract society, in they paid for the books they belonged question: " God said, Let us make man debt the last three years. We are to th,em. Whenever a book passed out in our image." thousands of dollars-in debt, and we are of their hands they were expected to Some years ago the old king William, struggling under that load. We have remit to the tract society. The Lord while traveling through the country, canvassers who are owing us large sums, has blessed us. We have trained our stopped at a country schoolhouse, and and there are many who are not in the canvassers to pay their way as they go, talked to the boys and girls, held up a work to-day because they are in debt to by the use of helps, and by getting some piece of rock, and said, "To what king- the society. advanced payment on orders, they could dom does this belong?" " To the min- W. C. McCuaig: I would like to ask get along, and when delivery came they eral kingdom, sir," said the boys. He a question. Suppose a brother wants $10 I would not be in debt. The principal held up a flower, " To, what kingdom worth of books, but has not the money thing is for the canvasser to keep out of does this belong?" " To the vegetable to pay for them. He wants to read up debt. If we have this firmly impressed kingdom, sir," they replied. Then and prepare himself for the work in on his mind it will solve the problem. pointing to himself, the old king said, same way. E. P. Boggs then announced that inas- " And to what kingdom do I belong?" B. W. Spire: Brethren, if the can- much as there was such an interest in There was a great silence. No one vasser has not had instruction in busi- this meeting, and as the time was too wanted to say that their great and good ness, he should have. Be- careful about short for due consideration, that the king was simply an animal, and be- his getting into debt. There is a prin- same subject would be taken up to-night longed to the animal kingdom; so there ' ciple involved in this, that you are doing at the college. was silence for quite a little time, until a man an injustice when /ou let him Meeting closed with benediction. a bright lad arose and said, in' a- very run in debt head over heels. There are deferential way, " To God's kingdom, a number of men who are not in the sir." field because they owe the tract society ILLUSTRATED STEREOPTICON Now the boy had the right thought. 8100 or so, and they can not pay that LECTURE. Man does not belong to the animal debt. We have come to the place kingdom. When God made the world, Dr. J. H. Kellogg, April 18, 7: 3o P. M. that we have had to say to our brethren, and after all else had been created, he You can not have books unless you pay I HAVE been asked to talk to you to- made his own image. He made man to cash for them. We have found that the night on the question of -the divine life be his witness in the world,—to be god canvassers who have been the most in man. to the world,—and he gave him domin- prompt to pay up their accounts and There are those who look upon man ion over everything which he had made, send in money have been the men who as simply a higher animal. While at- not only the animals, but everything he have made their marks in the field. tending the Centennial Exhibition in had made. This dominion meant a great There may be exceptions in this cash 1876, I saw the skeleton of a large beast deal more than most of us have been business. I would not advocate it. We which was found in South America, and taught to believe. We must look away must come into sound business prin- was supposed to have lived in prehistoric back to Adam, to the beginning of the -ciples, and educate our canvassers in times. It had fingers that looked very race, and to Christ, to form a concep- their financial obligations. much like human fingers; it had all the tion of a perfect man,—man standing in T. E. Bowen: Time is about up. I bones -that are in the human body; it all perfection, king of the world below -' would like to ask a question. How had a spinal column with about the him, not subject to the beasts, not many would like to pay for things they saine number of vertebr e as there are subject to germs, nor to many things have not ordered themselves. You see in the human spinal column; it had that we find him a prey to at the pres- when an agent orders books more than bones almost identical in form, as well ent time. he has orders for, the tract society sec- as in number, with those of the human God gave man dominion, and that retary is expected to pay for them, yet form. But it was a great beast some means that he had power over every- the agent who is out in the field orders twenty feet high, called the megathe- thing below him. Man lost his domin- them. It often. results that these books rium; and the Darwinists tell us that ion by sin. So we find him at the pres- dome back to the tract society that has this great beast was the greatest, great ent time in a weakened, deteriorated„ to pay for them. grandfather of the human race. degraded state, and this degenerating 492 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN.

process we see going on before our eyes. Some time ago in a slum Sabbath- ous rapidity. Hundreds of square miles For example, imbeciles have increased school in Chicago I held up a blue flower, were covered with this life. 300 per cent in the last fifty years. Lu- and said to the children, " What color Take the sunflower, for example. It natics have increased 300 per cent. If is this flower ?" Some said it' was red, looks straight at the sun. It watches that rate of increase should go on for others thought it was yellow, blue, or and follows the sun all daylong, looking 265 years more, the whole human family green. Those children had not seen Straight at it all the time; and as the would be lunatics and imbeciles. many flowers, and did not know much sun dips down below the horizon, you Now look at Adam, perfectly sound about them. They did not know any- see that sunflower still looking at it; and healthy, superior to every beast and thing about nature. And some of us and as the sun turns around and comes every germ; nothing could hurt him, are just about as stupid as those children up in the morning, the flower is looking nothing could do him harm; superior to were. toward the sun rising. It is God in the the elements themselves. We see some Go doWn to the seashore, or to one of sunflower that makes it do this. little evidences of this superiority still the great chalk cliffs in England, or The four-o'clock will bloom at that left in the world. For instance, there away out West, and take a little grain time of day. How does it know when is the carrier pigeon, which has the of chalk, and put it under the micro- to bloom ? Someone has a series of flow- homing instinct to such a wonderful de- scope. Go down to one of the great ers that bloom at different hours, so that gree. Take one of these pigeons five phosphatic deposits in Florida or the by watching the flowers, one can tell hundred miles away from home, and Carolinas, and put a little of that under what time of day it is. How does the let it loose, and it goes straight to its the microscope, and you will find it made flower know when to bloom? home. It has an instinct that leads it up of shells, the skeletons of animals Some of you have watched a flower home. That same thing must have which once lived. It is almost incon- winding up a string, a morning glory been true of man once, as well as of the ceivable that there could have been a winding around a string. Perhaps you pigeon to-day. There are other animals suffidiently large number .of animal have seen a vine climbing up a lattice, that can not be very easily lost. It is skeletons to make these great masses of and you have watched the end coming difficult to lose a dog or a Cat. Even chalk. The animals are so small that out, and turning in, back and forth, be- when taken far away from home, they' you can not see them with the naked tween the. interstices of the lattice. How can find their way back. eye. Half a dozen of them could rest does the vine know what to do? There Conscience is perhaps all that remains on the point of a pin, and yet they are is an intelligence that is present in the of that instinct in man. But man has all covered with the finest markings, as plant, in all vegetation. other instincts to guide him. I presume if made by an engraver's tool. When we come a little higher in the 20,000 people have asked me what to We do not have to go away back in scale of animal life, we find the cell. In eat. Animals do not have to be told the ages to find evidence of this micro- an animal we find an association of indi- what to eat. I never had a horse or a scopic life all about us. Go to some vidual cells gathered together to do busi- cow come to me to know what to eat. stagnant pool, where you find the water ness in harp:long. Just as in a commu- But man does not know what to eat. He covered with green slime, take a little nity of several men there are some has lost his " horse sense " about his diet. speck of it, and put it under the mi- who are blacksmiths, some carpenters, He has lost his pigeon sense ; and he croscope, and you will find this green some dressmakers, some bakers and has lost nearly all his senses. He is sup- scum all alive with curious little crea- cooks, some common laborers, a few doc- posed to be guided by reason; but in- tures swimming about.. Nobody know, tors, a few preachers, and other people, stinct is a better guide than reason, my whether they are vegetable or animals and each one has his office to perform. friends. Why?— Because instinct is because when you get to the dividing It is just so with the animal ,cells. Each God speaking. Instinct is the vCirCe point between animal and vegetable, cell is independent of all the rest, just as. within niriaying, "This is the way ; there is almost no distinction; there are each man in a community is independ- walk ye in it." The Bible tells us 'of swimming vegetables as well as swim- ent. You can not see the individual that voice " behind us," the text says; ming animals. The fact that the ani- cells with the naked eye, but through ' but the voice within 1.11ijSjD e real mal has power to move around does not the microscope you can see, in a drop of thing, — a voice, not behind us, but determine whether it is an animal or a blood about large enough to hang on the within us, above our reason and our vegetable. This life is below the power point of a pin, five millions of these cells. intelligence. It is this thing that I of the human eye to discover; it requires A process is continually going on in want to talk to you about to-night, this a microscope to bring out these wonders these cells. The protoplasm in these life within. So I am going to have of nature. The things that we tread cells grows and changes; it is found in thrown upon the screen a few pictures, upon are all alive, and this life is very curious forms and shapes. It divides which will act as texts upon which marvelous, wonderfully active in growth up into little pieces of just the same to hang a few remarks. and development. length and shape; then these little pieces First of all, I want to call your atten- In the Alps a few years ago the people all split from end to end. After they tion to the fact that there is a great life woke up one morning, and saw the snow split, they separate; half of them turn all about us, which we do not see or all covered with red for many square one way and half the other way, and go think about. To a man that has not miles. Nobody knew what it was until to the other end of the cell. Then the studied nature, the world is dumb. If they made a study of it, then they found whole mass begins to break, and shortly we have not studied nature, we do not that it was a microscopic vegetable that afterward it splits in two, and then we see very much to interest us. The In- had spread over the snow. They called have two cells instead of one. That is dian sees a great deal more than the it red snow, but it was not snow at all, the way the cells multiply, and that is man who has dwelt in the city. but life that had developed with marvel- the way the human body grows. You GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN. 493

can see the whole thing going on through he made Adam; God is working in us pounds of blood in our veins. The the microscope; you can see them rnov- to-day in exactly the same way that he blood corpuscles live about six weeks, lug -along in just the same order as a worked in making Adam. A cell that is and then die, and new ones must be company of well-trained soldiers, keep- resting,—for instance, a white corpuscle created. This creating process is car- ing perfect time, marching and counter- in the blood,—is round, like a drop of ried on largely in the bones. There are marching. When we see all these little jelly. In a moment it changes its form, some other parts of the body where ells marching along in such perfect and starts off to travel. It has no feet corpuscles are made, but they are made order, we feel that we can almost hear to travel with, but it makes a foot, and chiefly in the bones. the divine voice speaking to these par- with the foot it pushes itself along un- So the bones are not simply sticks to ticles, issuing orders to them. We can til it has traveled quite a distance. Now support the body, or, as is often stated, see ,there is a divtne. Master,therewko this cell gets hungry and wants some- a sort of framework to hold the body in is certainly directing, every_ movement. thing to eat. It has no mouth, so it shape, but they perform one of the most This thing can not happen by itself, makes a mouth on the spot,—it makes a important functions of the entire body _ my friends. In your blood there are little indentation in the side of its body, —the making of blood. five million cells in every little drop of putting out one lip, and then another, There are other wonderful cells in this blood, and every cell is made in the way and thus forms a mouth, and then body, for instance, the muscle cells. As that we have described. This process takes in a bit of chlorophyll or proto- you bend the arm and contract, the mus- is not uncommon, it is nothing extraor- plasm. But it hasn't any stomach; how cle, the muscle- does not contract all to- dinary, but it is constantly going on. is it going to digest it? It makes a gether in a mass, but it contracts because Some of us have been in the habit of stomach. All that is necessary is to get each one of those little minute fibers, thinking that man was created away that speck of food inside, and it will perhaps not more than one four hun- babk somewhere in the ages, and that digest it, because it is all stomach; it is dredth of an inch in diameter, con- after man had been made and placed on all mouth; it is all feet; it is all brain; tracts. the earth, God rested from his work, it is all nerves; it is all everything. It We have five hundred muscles in the and that he has never worked any is one of those little ultimate specks of body, and they are all controlled by the since, but that things have been life complete in itself. It is nothing will, the mind. When I strike with my taking care of themselves. Some of us but a Speck of transparent jelly, yet it hand or beat with my fist, there is a will have thought that the Lord set the has in it everything that is in the most behind the hand and the fist. My mus- world going through space, and that complex animal form. cles do not act unless there is a com- ever since it has been going all of itself. A bone in the human body is not a very mand to contract. The thing that is I finally figured the problem up in this interesting thing, but saw off a very efficient and all essential is the will, it way: We will Suppose, for instance, thin slice of it, put it on the grindstone, is the commanding power. that the earth is a big cannon ball. I and grind it down until you can see The heart is a muscle. The heart got the formula which cannoneers use light through it, and then rub it down beats. My arm will contract and cause when they want to send out a cannon a little thinner still, then attach it to the fist to beat; but it beats only when, ball, and found how much gunpowder a piece of sealing wax, and put it under my will commands. But here is a it would take to shoot the' earth off into the microscope, and you will see some muscle in the body that beats when I space, and make it go as fast as it is very interesting things. Here are some am asleep. It beats when my Will is in- going now, at the rate of about thirty little dark places. They are hollow spaces. active and I am utterly unconscious. It , miles a second. How much gunpowder Inside of one of ,those spaces, when the keeps on beating all the time. What do you suppose it would take? I found bone is alive, is a little living creature will is it that causes this heart to beat? that it would take eight hundred times similar to a jelly drop. Every one of The heart can not beat once without a as much as the earth itself weighs. But these specks of life is at work: their command. To me it is a most wonderful after it is started, it must be kept going. work is to build bone. When a bone is thing that a man's heart goes on beat- The earth does not lose a moment of broken, these bone cells, as they are ing. It does not beat by means of my time. Astronomers tell us that not called, go to work to make new bone to will; for I can not stop the heart's beat- one twentieth of a second has been lost take the place of the old bone. Of ing, or make it beat faster or slower by during the past two thousand years. therriselves they have no more power to commanding it by my will. • But there Why? — Because there is a power be- work than a grain of sand or a piece of is a will that controls the heart. It is -hind it that will keep it going; it is not sawdust; but there is a power in them the divine will that causes hitt° beat, a thing that is moving itself. that is working through them. Each and in the beating of that heart that - Christ said, " My Father worketh little creature is an instrument, and you can feel, As you put your hand upon hitherto, and I work." The purpose of there is a divine life in it. the breast, or as you put your finger .. -my talk here to-night is to give you Now I will tell you one of the most against the pulse, an evidence of the . some idea of how God is working now. wonderful things that is known in the divine presence that we have within us, Job said, "The Spirit of God hath whole human body. The bones have in that God is within, that there is an in- formed me." God did not form Adam the center of them a substance called telligence, a power, a will within, that and then make him responsible for all marrow. The ordinary bone marrow is is commanding the functions of our the people who followed him; 'but God white; another kind is red. In the red bodies and controlling them. is working to-day just as much as marrow of the bones the blood is manu- Notice what this heart does: It has he did in creation. I want to keep factured. We have about five million the blood to circulate. The corpuscles before your minds the thought-that corpuscles in every minute drop of of the blood come into the heart, and God makes you now just as much as blood, and we have from ten to fourteen the heart-forces them all out, and sends 494 GENERAL CONFERENCETAILLETIN:- them around the body; then they come frog. Then I scratched the foot with upon to destroy those poisons, or other- back to the lungs laden with impurities. the point of a pin, so as to irritate it,- wise they would kill the person who had In the lungs these impurities are ex- and watched it. In a little while there swallowed them. The liver is contin- changed for the life-giving air, and the were hundreds of these cells at work, ually at work in this way. blood again enters the heart, and is repairing the injury that I had done. The kidneys, on the other hand, are forced out into the body again. So the When you have a boil, and it opens and an open door to carry out all of these blood is the means by which the body is discharged, perhaps you say that a poisons. Every time I have a thought is purified. large amount of impure matter runs or an impulse, poisons are formed, and More than that, the blood contains out, but this is not the case. It is these the kidneys must carry these poisons these wonderful living cells that you cells, these living cells, that have sacri- out. These two faithful servants of the see. The red cellt simply carry in the ox- ficed their lives to save yours. These body are continually working together. ygen, and carry out the carbonic gases; cells have caught up the impurities, They keep the body free from poisons, that is about all that they do. But the they have come in there to eat up and and so the life within the body is not white corpuscles have a more wonderful destroy the germs, and they themselves entirely destroyed by the accumulation faculty and power. It is their duty to have died, and that is what makes that of poisons. As travel through the body, creeping into white pus. we go on through life, the poisons every nook and cranny, getting into The impurities are not carried out in are destroyed less and less perfectly as every minute crevice and corner, where the boils, but the boils are evidence of the liver wears out. The more we take they are actively engaged in removing the impurity of the blood. That is the into our body, the less perfectly the liver everything that does not belong there. reason why we ought to keep our blood can destroy the poisons. That is one They have a wonderful intelligence; pure. When you, find a crop of boils reason why it is not good for man to eat but their movements are not directed by coming, you may be sure you blood is meat; for meat is full of poisons. It is our will. What makes these cells move impure and impoverished, because if dead, a corpse, nothing more nor less. about in this way and perform their you had not had impure blood, you When we eat this dead flesh, we take functions? There is a power there which' would not have had' the boils. These into our body the poisons that are in the is none other than the power of God. cells endeavor to destroy all the germs, corpse; and these corpse poisons, when 'These little cells find something in the so that they do not have a chance to taken into our bodies, impose extra labor body that does not belong there, and multiply sufficiently to create a condi- upon the liver to dispose of the poisons they really swallow that thing up. tion of disease. The germs get the start which the liver must destroy and which For instance, if a lot of typhoid fever when the cells are not in a healthy con- the kidneys must remove. Consequently germs are injected into the blood of a dition, and then disease results. these organs, intended to serve the body healthy man, in a couple of hours you Now I want to notice some of the only in its necessary functions in remov- can not find one of those germs in his wonderful laboratories of the body, ing the poisons generated within the body. What has become of them? where God works. Here is the liver, ly- body, just as the chimney carries off the They have been captured and eaten up ing close to the stomach. It has a great smoke and gases from the stove and the by these cells. many things to do. I told you a little fireplace,— these organs are not able to I suppose there is not a person in this while ago that the red corpuscles live do their proper work, and neglect it, and Tabernacle but has had at some time only about six weeks, and then die. these poisons accumulate in the body; tubercular bacilli in his blood. If we Millions are dying every minute. What then the blood-cells degenerate, and the should take off some of the dust from becomes of them?— They are carried to tissues degenerate, they get hard and the walls and place it under the micro- the liver and for a purpose. The liver brittle, and break, and the liver becomes scope, we would find tubercular germs, destroys them and makes use of the re- clogged with these wastes, and the kid- - and also other kinds of germs. Every maining fragments in the coloring of neys do not do their work properly; and church, every large audience-room, our hair, in the photographic chamber then we get diseases, and fall victims to every public hail, every sleeping-car,-- of the eye, and in the coloring of the various forms of disease or grow old in fact, every place which is frequented bile and some of the liquids of the body. prematurely. This is one reason why by man in civilized lands, is infected, The pigments of the skin are colored by carnivorous animals live a shorter time and if you would gather a little of the the remains of these cells. These are than the herbivorous. This is the rea- dust in these places, and place it under some.of the uses to which these millions son why a vegetarian is a longer-lived the microscope, tubercular and other of dead cells are put by the liver. man than the one who eats meat. The kinds of germs would be found. This The kidneys do a similar kind of very same thing is true of all other has been proved again and again by work. The liver is a closed door. When kinds of poisons taken into the body. microscopic investigations. a man has eaten vinegar, or mustard, We have the cells in the stomach Why are we not all dead of these or pepper, or pepper-sauce, or any of that are actively engaged in making diseases, then?— Because of these won- those awful things, the liver must take gastric juice. We have similar glands derful little cells in the body, that are those poisons and destroy them, to keep that make the saliva. How do these actively engaged in hunting up these them out of the body. When a man takes glands know they ought to make gastric cells, and destroying them. There is tobacco, the poison of nicotine, into his juice? How do they know what kind One who gives intelligence to these system, the liver does the same thing; of juice to make? How do they know cells, and guides them in their work. when a man drinks alcohol, the liver how much to make? The amount of Some years ago I made an experiment. has to do the same work. When a gastric juice made is just adapted to I took a frog and prepared it so that I woman drinks tea or coffee, it is the the •quantity of food taken into the could see these little cells at work in that same thing,— the liver must be called stomach. If the stomach takes in one GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN. 495 ounce of food, there is enough gastric and the intestines is carried to every touch it; if it can only reach it, the juice formed to digelt it; and if a pound part of the body, to sustain the different information will flash across my brain, of food is taken, just enough gastric organs, but it must first pass through and I remember. But suppose I am juice is made to digest it. There is a the liver, where a wonderful intelligence tired out, and can not get energy wonderful intelligence manifested all the is shown in sorting over the food and enough into that nerve-finger to make it time. It is not human intelligence. picking out the poisons. And were it stretch itself out far enough so, it can When the food is gotten out of the not for this, the first time a man indulged touch that cell, and make the contact. mouth into the stomach, it is out of the in Christmas dinner, with the chicken That is the reason why we sometimes control of the will. There is another pie, pepper, vinegar, mustard, and all try so hard to think of something, and will that controls things in the those things, he would become loaded can not: we can not put energy stomach,—another, intelligence, another down with poisons; but the liver comes enough into these filaments. power, that is entirely independent of to his aid, and carries away these im- That is the best explanation I can the mind. It is the same power that purities. It stands there as a sentinel give of the way in which the work is ,controls the processes of digestion, the between the stomach and the blood, so done in the brain. There is an intelli- action of the liver and of the intestines. that the poisons may be captured and gence here. Every one of these cells is Here is an example of intelligence in destroyed. a separate little intelligence by itself. nature,—the sundew. When a fly touches Were it not'for the liver, the first time There is a divine presence in every one any of the tentacles, they open, and turn a man had typhoid fever he would surely of them. Each ohe is a storehouse of down around the fly and capture it. If die. The liver is a protection. It is God information. There are perhaps five you put a little meat on it, they do the working through the liver 'to heal the trillions of cells in the brain, and every same thing; but if you put on a little man of the consequences of his own one is a storehouse of information. particle of dust, they will not close. wrong-doing. Wherever God's life is, Sometimes the blood-vessels break, it Therefore, a great many plants that live God himself is. You' can not separate may be in a man's leg, and the leg is on flies and insects are called carnivo- God and his life. That is the reason paralyzed. What is it 'travels over rous plants. There is the Venus fly trap, why God is everywhere. A few words the wires? It is the life of God in these for example. When a fly touches a lit- now about another wonderful mechanism cells that travels bier these Wonderful tle secret spring, it springs a trap, which working in the body: the, brain and the little telegraph wires, these nerve fila- catches what is in it. There are several nervous system. The brain is in the ments. It is God's life„: operating there hundred different kinds of these insect whole body. It is not simply in the as the poweroeGiictrso-Wheneyar there plants, and they have a great many ways head, but in my finger also. Suppose is 'a nerve" impresSion, or an impulse goes of catching flies. What, is it that makes I prick my finger; it is not my finger out to a muscle, it is God's power in, the this plant know that there is a fly there? that hurts, but my brain. If I burn muscle. It is God at -i,%ork:'''''ffe says, There is a power there similar to that of my hand, my brain is injured, because " Ye have made me to serve with your the human, mind. The fly gets into the the brain is a part of the hand; it sends sins;" because when a man sins, he is little Venus flytrap and is caught, and down a long finger into the hand, and using God's power, — this wonderful then there is a secretion formed in the into every other part of the body. power that is manifested in his body all same way that the gastric juice is This is what you see when you look the time. He says, " Ye have wearied formed, the same way pepsin is formed at a little speck of the brain through me with your iniquities." My friends, in the stomach of animals, and the plant a microscope —some wonderful brain let us think of that. has the power to digest that little fly. It cells, nerve cells, with filaments that Some time ago Dr. Rand read that shuts up two or three weeks, and digests run out and separate into a great num- text, " Ye have made me to serve with all there is of it. Sometimes these ber of branches. Here and there is a your sins," in our mission in Chicago. plants grow in dry, sandy places, where long filament, or branch, that commu- There was a great burly man present, -they find all the nitrogen they need in nicates with the branches that come who stood up there, and with the tears the soil, then they do not catch flies. over from other cells, and thus a net- running down his face, he said, " Oh, They are not carnivorous naturally. work of filaments is established through- that strikes my heart. I can not stand God never made animals or plants car- out the whole body. Sometimes the that. I am an infidel. I am forty nivorous. The squirrel eats . flesh .only long fingers from one cell terminate in years old. I have been traveling all when it can get no nuts. The lion and a brush that fits in among the branches over the country, lecturing on infidelity. other carnivorous animals are naturally from other cells. These are not in I was going by here, and I heard the nut eaters. Flesh is the nearest thing actual contact all the time, but the singing, and came in, and you have to nuts, and when we try to find anything instant they come in contact, each cell read that text. I never knew God was that is like nuts, we must go to the ani- knows what the other cell is doing. that kind of God. I did not know God mal kingdom. Flesh contains the nitro- When they are a little ways apart, they dwelt in me. I did not know I made gen that is found in nuts. do not know anything about it. When him serve when I cursed him." And Here are some liver cells. The liver we think, the cells 'join hand, as it he dropped on his knees, and confessed is engaged in manufacturing bile, which were. For instance, suppose I am talk- his sins. Certainly at that moment he is used in many kinds of work. The ing, and I come to the point where I had an appreciation of what God is. blood is the active agent which helps' want to speak a name, and I can not God goes down into the depths of sin in the liver in eliminating poisons from the think of it. What is happening then? order that he may bring us back again. body, and in making bile. As the blood One of my brain cells is reaching away He stays with us in our sinning and circulates in all parts of the body, all the back in my brain to some cell that has wrong doing. Oh, it seems to me that food that is absorbed from the stomach the information I want; and is trying to that must appeal to us,— the fact that 496 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN.

God is dwelling in us, and is serving There is a wonderful brain in the skull; two or three or four inches below the when we sin. but there is a still more wonderful brain place where it b4longed. He was all Here are some cells that are large, in the abdomen—the abdominal, or sym- stooped over, and was not standing up- gray, dense, plump, and .round; what pathetic brain. This brain sends out its right. I told him how to stand, and just you see inside of these cells corresponds branches to the stomach and the intes- as soon as he stood erect, the kidney to gunpowder in a magazine,— they are tines; they follow the blood-vessels, and came back into place. When the kid- full of powder, or energy. This is the go into all parts of the body. The ney is out -of place, it pulls on the great condition of the brain cells of a wide- brain in the skull is controlled by the sympathetic nerve, and causes a great awake man full of energy. Here are will, and the brain in the abdomen is deal of trouble. other cells that are lean and gale; they controlled by a will, but not by the hu- Now take the eye. In the back of the have few granules in them. They are man will. This abdOminal brain has eye is a little spot that represents the tired, their store of energy is exhausted. charge of digestion, of liver action, of sun of the eye. That is the most sensi- The cells get their energy from our skin action, of heart action, and of lung tive spot; it is where the image is formed. food. What is it that gets the energy action, to some degree. It has charge How is the image formed ?—The back of from it ?— It is the pure air that we even of brain action, because it builds the eye is dark— a dark chamber. There take in, the oxygen; if we did not take the brain; and of all the processes of is a membrane that lies behind the this in, we could not expect to get nutrition,—the healing of the body; nerves, and the nerves are spread out in energy from food. Oxygen is the means these processes are carried on under the a very thin sheet. This membrane by which we secure the energy from the direction of this abdominal brain. So forms a black coat for the eye, called food; and it is secured from it in the we see that in the abdominal brain we the choroid. This is formed from the same manner that it is gotten from gun- have a manifestation of the divine will coloring matter sent to the eye by the powder; it must be burned before you in the body. Every minute blood-vessel liver. When a photographer takes a can get the energy out. Air is the is controlled by nerves from this ab- picture, he lets the picture fall upon a dominal brain. piece of glass which • has been coated means by which the life-giving mate- rial is conveyed into the body and the Here we can see the importance of with silver, and the object makes dark poison is conveyed out. And when proper dress. When a woman wears lines on the glass. This is called the these cells work, the poison is worked her clothing so that the abdominal negative: the sunlight turns the silver out; and the blood must carry it away, brain is interfered with, the stomach is black, so it makes a black image. In or it would paralyze the cell; and when crowded out of place, and thus the brain the eye, the very opposite is the case. the cells become paralyzed by the is interfered with and injured, and The light blots out this coloring matter poison formed by the work which it has hindered in its proper functions. which is on the outer curtain. If you been doing, they are cleansed by the When we sit, it, is important for us to look at a cross, for example, there will, fresh air, and the brain is washed out; take pains to sit erect, and to carry the be a white cross formed in the eye. When the oxygen burns up the poisons and chest well up, so as to leave this abdomi- you look away from the cross to another vitalizes the cells, and we can go on nal brain plenty of room to come up into object, that white space has to be filled working again. its place. in, the choroid has to place more color- What is this life in these cells?—It is A girl came into my office one day. ing matter over that space before you divine energy, brought to us from our She sat all bent over, with her chest can see anything else. How is that proc- food. How does it get into the food?— hollowed, her shoulders and head thrown ess performed?—It is performed by a It comes down in the sunlight. So when forward, and looking as if she did not creative act: a creation takes place every we look at the sun, we see the glory of have any life in her. I asked her what time you look at a different object, the God;. and when we see what the sun- was the matter, and she said her mother creation of coloring matter to obliterate light is .doing, we see a manifestation of sent her to see me about her lungs. The the picture on the eye, and to prepare the power of God. This same power mother was afraid she was going• to have the eye for another picture. So in the comes into us from food. So you see consumption. "Well," I said, " I don't very simple process of seeing, there is a how important it is that we should take think you look as if you are going to creation taking place all the time. Some live food, food that has an abundance of have consumption. Why do you think of us have been such heathen that we life in it. What we want is life, and we you are going to have consumption? " did. not know that. want life more abundantly; and we get " Well," she said, "I have no chest." Just as I was 'ready to start down here it, from the food when we take it first I told her to stand up, to raise her chest, from the Sanitarium, I was called to the hand. Every butcher-shop ought to be and throw her shoulders back, to stand office to see a gentleman, and I met a labeled " Second-hand Food Store." In erect, and then I found that she had a Catholic bishop there. He came here animal flesh we have food and poison; in splendid chest; she had been carrying it to visit a parishioner of his, who has had vegetable food we have life only. When behind instead of in front, where it be- an operation at the Sanitarium. He we take this life into our bodies, it will longed. said, "Doctor, I am glad to see you, and replenish the life of our bodies; but There are many persons who carry I am glad to see that you are doing such when we take an animal body, we take their chests behind instead of in front, a good work here. I understand you, are food, but we also add the elements of and then the abdominal viscera are the head of it." "No," I said, "I am death to our bodies; and so we take both crowded down out of place; but when not the head of it. I hope and believe life and death. you lift the chest, the viscera are lifted that God is the head of it." He said: There is something else in the body also. " That is true, of course; that is true." that is still more wonderful than this: The other day I saw a man who had Then he went on to say, " God is the it is the sympathetic nervous system. kidney trouble. His right kidney was head of everything; he is the head of GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN. 497

you, and he is the head of me. When every animal. It is all the life of God,— Rand, "Did you tell Brother — that I put out my hand or my arm, and the Spirit of God. It is the divine life that sore on his neck -was a cancer?" draw it in, there is a creation. God is in man, and it is this divine life that He said, " Yes; I saw it, and it looked creating in my arm the power with creates every new blood cell. Every just like a cancer to me, and I thought which I use my arm." " Do you really time we eat a meal and digest it, it is it was; I told him it was a cancer." I believe that?" I asked. " Why, that is God who does it. He must make the said, " I can hardly believe it is a can- exactly what I believe," he answered. extract—the juice—the saliva; and all cer, for if he had had a cancer of that "Of course I believe it. It is certainly the energy man can possibly manufac- sort for three years, it would have taken the truth." " Well," I said, " I believe ture is simply the power of God man- his head off, and he would have been that, too. That is what I am going to ifested through him as an instrument. dead before this time. " We were in the talk about to-night down at the Taber- The more completely man's will is sur- operating room, waiting for a case to be nacle." God is in me and everything,I rendered to God's will, and the more operated upon. Just at that moment do is God's power;every single act,is_A perfect the instrument, the greater will our pathologist who had examined that .aCrtra*or great many of be the power manifested. God is the little piece of the sore under the micro- us have not got so far along in pathology same yesterday, to-day, and forever; but scope, came in, and I said to him," What as to know that; but this Catholic the reason why God's power is not man- is your report of it? " He said, " It is a bishop was talking the same lesson I am ifested in us or through us any more cancer. I examined it carefully, and ap- trying to talk to you to-night. He be- than it is, is because of our wrong atti- plied the test, and it had every appear- lieves it; he knows it. So many of us tude toward God; we are in such a con- ance of being a cancer." Then I thought believe that God is away off somewhere, dition that God can not manifest himself if that was a cancer, we had better at- and does not dwell near by. God him- through us. tend to it right away. So I called the self tells-us that he is nigh unto us, and I have been asked if I believe in brother up over the telephone, and told not far away. divine healing. Yes, I most certainly him to come right up where I was, I want to tell you a wonderful story. believe in divine healing; I don't believe quick; that we must perform a radical I have been showing you here some of in any other kind of healing. Some operation at once, or he would lose his the cells of the body, living cells. They people are so mistaken, or so ignorant, life. So he came up. I said to him, "I are all under the control of the divine as to suppose that doctors can heal. For thought we would like to examine that life, or Spirit, of. God himself. The twenty-five years I have been telling my cancer. " I had rather led him to be- creative power is going on within us patients that I have no power to heal lieve it was not a cancer, but as Dr. Rand z just the same as it was manifested anybody. Sometimes a doctor gets a had told him it was a cancer, I thought in Adam. When God made man, he case that he can not heal, and then he I would introduce the matter in that way, breathed into his nostrils the breath of calls in a preacher. When they say that by telling him we would like to look at life. What was that breath of life? I to me, I always say that I don't believe it. " Why," he said, " I have no--sore; could give you a few texts from the in that; I will not agree to that at all,— that cancer, or sore, is all well." I said, Bible, in just a moment, if I had the that a case that a doctor can not heal, a "It can not be well; if it is a cancer, we time, to show that that breath of life is preacher can heal. I think one is as must operate on it at once. " But he the life of God himself. It is the Spirit good as the other. I do not believe a said, " It is entirely well—there is no 'of God. It was not simply a little wind. preacher can heal anybody that a doctor sore or cancer there at all. " Well, we Somebody says that is just simply the can not heal. Doctors can not heal any- did look at it, and to our utter amaze- breath that blows out and in; but you body, and as preachers are no better ment, there was not the slightest trace could not possibly make a man live by than doctors, preachers can not heal of a cancer there. There was only a very blowing wind into him. The only thing anybody either. All the healing that is slight fresh scar, but no, trace of a can- possible to make Adam a live man, was done, God does. There is no other kind cer or anything of the kind. to blow the life of God into his nostrils. of healing but divine healing. If you " Well," we said, " this is certainly Some people have tried to make people will accept that fact, you will avoid a astonishing. The cancer is getting well live by blowing air into them. I have great deal of confusion, and clear up a without an operation or anything being myself tried, a great many times, to re- great deal of mystery. All the healing done for it except to clip off a little suscitate patients by blowing wind into there is. is the healing which God does. piece of it, and that always makes the them. I have blown air into the lungs, A member in our church called on me case worse, it usually spreads faster. inflated the lungs with pure air, and some time ago, and asked me to examine What have you been doing?" " Well," forced oxygen in to make the man live; his neck. I looked at it, and saw an he said, " when this cancer made its but he did not live; he was a dead man ugly looking sore. I asked him how first appearance, about three years ago, just the same. I have worked hours long it had been there, and he said, " I I concluded that it was time for me and hours over a dead man to try to re- have had this sore three years, and it to straighten up on health reform, and suscitate him; but breath — air — will seems to be getting a little worse." Dr. so I adopted a strict dietary. I have not make a man live. Fish do not Rand had clipped off a little piece of it, not eaten a particle of meat since; I have breathe. They extend their gills out before I saw it, and examined it under not taken anything but the purest foods, in the water, and move back and forth, the microscope, and he said it was a and I have lived in harmony with the but they have no breath. Through the cancer. I hardly thought it could be laws of health as far as I knew. I found gills they absorb the oxygen in the a cancer, so I said to him, "If it had that I was improving wonderfully, and water. There are a great many ani- been a cancer, it certainly would have that this thing did not grow. It re- mals that do not have to breathe the eaten your head off before this time." mained there after I had adopted health way we do; but the breath of life is in About a month after this, I saw Dr. reform, but it did not increase' in size, 498 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN. and now, since you looked at it the God, and destroying the temple in which great light on health reform in these other day, it has simply healed up en- God dwells, he can stop all those things, modern times, when the plagues are just tirely.'' put himself in harmony with God, sub- upon us. There is a case of the plague We sent the specimen of this cancer mit to him, and begin to co-operate down in Ann Arbor now. A student to New York, and had one of the great- with him, and then he will begin to who was inspecting some of the germs est pathologists examine it. "Why," reap the fruits of obedience. If he be- of the bubonic plague, through careless said he, " it is one of the most deadly gins to cultivate health, he will get his handling, contracted the disease. The kinds of cancer." When he heard the health to growing and increasing; but physician who attends him covers him- story of that cancer, he was amazed if he continues to sow the seeds of dis- self all over with a rubber suit, with beyond measure. ease, he will reap disease. only two little apertures in it so that he Now I am telling you this for the Why do we get sick ?— Simply be- can see, because the plague is so conta- glory of God, so that you can see that cause we rebel against God. In fact, gious, and he does not want to catch it. there is a power to heal. It was God we do not get sick until after we are ill. When this great plague, the bubonic that healed that man. The doctors had A man does not come down with plague, the " black death," —breaks nothing to do with it. It was through typhoid fever when he is well; he does out around us, some of these days, what the power of obedience,— living up to not have paralysis when he is well; he will be our protection? It will be all the light that he had received,—and is not stricken with apoplexy when he over the world. The rats will carry it; God honored his obedience by healing is in good health; he does not get down cockroaches carry it, bedbugs carry it, him of his awful disease. with Bright's disease when he is well. vermin of all kinds get it, from the dead I want to tell you, dear friends, that When well, he is above all these forms bodies of those who have died, and since I have seen that case, I do not say of disease. He may look well, but he is communicate it to people. There is no any more to people who have cancer, not well. possibility of escaping it, except one, and that it is a hopeless case, of that they God made man superior, and gave that is to be above it, to be up at the can not get well without an operation, him dominion over all these various dis- top; there is a safe place at the top. If because here is a case which was cured eases. When a man has violated all the a man lives down in the quagmires of without operation. It was simply healed laws of his being, he loses this dominion. disease, so that his body becomes a mass by the power of obedience. At the same Suppose he swallows some typhoid, fever of corruption through the gratification time, if we had seen this cancer before, germs. If he had a healthy stomach, of the appetite, he will certainly become we should have cut it out or put some- he could digest typhoid fever germs. a victim of these diseases. It is not thing on it to destroy it; for God wants But the stomach by abuse loses its safe for us to live for the purpose of us to co-operate with him in ridding the power to digest even potatoes and other gratifying the appetite in violation of body of disease.* vegetables, and so he can not digest the laws of health. We will not have a All healing is divine healing. The typhoid fever germs, which are also chance to live that way very much only healing is divine -healing. We vegetables growths, and in consequence longer. These diseases will come upon can expect that God will do everything the germs grow until there are more us and cut us off, and the only protec- he can for a man when he is sick. If than he can dispose of, and so he gets tion is to get above and live above God is a God of infinite love, then he under the -power of disease. The very disease. These principles should not be will do for every man that is sick, all same thing is true of many other mala- looked upon as a cross or a burden, but he can possibly do for him. Let me dies which I might mention. as the greatest possible blessing; and we put this proposition to you: If God is The important thing Is to live above are under the gravest responsibility to so loving, so gentle and kind, and so disease. I was talking with a lady some give to others the light and truth, that humble that he will serve in a man's time ago. The germs of consumption all may understand how to conquer and sins, that he will go with a man when had gotten into her lymphatic glands, to live above disease. he goes down into the very depths of and great masses of tubercles lay under sin,—if God will do that, do you not her neck. All I could do was to advise think that when God sees a man sick her to give special attention to the prin- "BLESSED is the man that maketh the and suffering, he will do what he can ciples of health. I lost sight of her for Lord his trust. " for him? He will do what he can for a time, but met her again the other day, every sick man on the face of the and she was in ,blooming health, rosy- earth. God is doing everything he can cheeked, vigorous, bright, and as happy "BLESSED is the man whom thou as she could be. I asked her how she for him all the time. We appeal to choosest." God sometimes as if we thought God was feeling, and what brought about had forgotten us. We gather together the change. "0," she said, "I am in the elders, and get a lot of people to- excellent health. I managed to get "BLESSED is the man that feareth the gether to pray, to ask God not to forget above the disease after a while, and new Lord." us. Do you think he has forgotten us, I am living above it." She had climbed when he dwells within Di, and directs up and up until she had gotten above all the functions within us? the power of this disease, and the tuber- "BLESSED is the man that trusteth in When a man is sick, what can he do? cular germs were really driven out of the Lord." He can not persuade God by any sort of her body. We can make our bodies in- operation to do anything more for him. hospitable to germs, so that our blood But he can change his attitude toward cells will swallow and destroy them. "PATIENCE is bitter, but its fruit is God. Instead of being rebellious against That is why we have been given this sweet." GENERAL 'CONFERENCE BULLETIN. 499

THE SHELF BEHIND THE DOOR. GENERAL SUMMARY OF ORGANIZA- PUBLICATION COMMITTEE. As Sung by Lewis C. Sheafe. TIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS, W. C. White (chairman), I. H. Evans, AS ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL C. H. Jones, J. H. Kellogg, L. R. Con- I CAME to Jesus long ago all laden down radi, J. C. Ottosen, W. C. Sisley, W. D. with sin, CONFERENCE AND THE GENERAL Salisbury, J. E. White, A. G. Daniells, I sought him long for pardoning grace, CONFERENCE COMMITTEE, APRIL P. T. Magan. he would not take me in. 2 TO MAY 1, Igor. TRANSPORTATION AGENTS. At last I found the reason why, as light came more and more; Organization of General Conference General Conference: H. E. Osborne. Eastern Union Conference: S. N. I had a shelf with idols on just in be- Committee. hind the door. Curtiss. GENERAL CONFERENCE COMMITTEE. Southern Union Conference: R. M. CHORUS: H. W. COTTRELL, A. G. Daniells, I. H. Kilgore, W. 0. Palmer. That shelf behind the door, don't use it Evans, C. W. Flaiz, F. Griggs, S. N. Northwestern Union Conference: J. Haskell, G. A. Irwin, A. T. Jones, J. H. any more; Sutherland. But quickly clean that corner out from Kellogg, R. M. Kilgore, W. T. Knox, Southwestern Union Conference: C. ceiling to the floor; D. H. Kress, S. H. Lane, J. N. Lough- McReynolds, B. R. Nordyke. For Jesus wants his temple clean, he borough, C. McReynolds, 0. A. Olsen, Pacific Union Conference: C. H. Jones. can not bless you more, J. C. Ottosen, D. Paulson, W. W. Pres- London, England: W. C. Sisley. Unless you take those idols out from in cott, H. F. Rand, A. J. Read, E. A. AUDITING COMMITTEE. behind the door. Sutherland, E. J. Waggoner, W. C. White. • The eight delegates provided for in I tore it down and threw it out and then Chairman: A. G. Daniells. Section 4 of the By-Laws are as follOWs: I. the blessing came; Secaetary: H. E. Osborne. H. Evans, R. A. Underwood, W. W. Prescott, H. Kellogg, A. J. Read, But e'er I got the victory and felt the Treasurer of the General Conference: E. A. Sutherland, C. H. Jones, L. R. holy flame, H. M. Mitchell. Conradi. Beelzebub came rushing up and said Clerk of Conanlittee: H. E. Rogers. with awful roar, COMMITTEE ON RELIEF OF SCHOOLS. " You can not live without a shelf right MISSION BOARD. S. II. Lane, I. H. Evans, J. H. Kel- here behind the door." A. G. Daniells (chairman), J. H. Kel- logg, W. C. White, P. T. Magan. logg, David Paulson, A. J. Read, E. A. So many people of to-day are destitute Sutherland, I. H. Evans, W. C. White, of power; Legal Corporations. H. F. Rand, W. T. Knox, A. T. Jones, 'Tis plain to see they can not stand W. W. Prescott. GENERAL CONFERENCE. ASSOCIATION. temptation's trying hour. Corresponding Secretary of Mission By way of an apology, "My weakness" H. W. Cottrell, R. M. Kilgore,, A. G. Board: W. A. Spicer. is their cry, Daniells, C. W. Flaiz, C. McReynolds, Field Secretary of Mission Board: 'Tis all because of idols that they are W. T. Knox, I, H. Evans, C. H. Jones, W. W. Prescott. using on the sly. J. Sutherland, W. A. Wilcox, S. H. PASTORAL COMMITTEE. Lane, P. T. Magan, C. M. Christiansen, Sortie smoke and chew tobacco, and W. W. Prescott (chairman), S. N. J. D. Gowen, G. B. Thompson, J. M. some love their fancy dress; Haskell, A. G. Daniells, A. T. Jones, Rees, C. D. Rhodes, Wm. Covert, W. J. Others have wronged their fellowmen, J. N. Loughborough, David Paulson. Stone, J. S. Comins, A. G. Haughey. refusing to confess. They wonder why they are not blessed FINANCE COMMITTEE. TRUSTEES LEGAL CORPORATION FOREIGN MISSION BOARD. as in the days or yore: S. H. Lane (chairman), J. H. Kellogg, The reason why is on the shelf just in I. H. Evans, P. T. Magan, W. C. White. G. B. Thompson, J. H. Kellogg, David behind the door. Paulson, A. J. Read, E. A. Sutherland, EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT. I. H. Evans, H. F. Rand, A. T. Jones, Your soul is dark, you surely know you J. H. Kellogg (chairman), A. T. Jones, W. W. Prescott. have no peace with God; P. T. Magan (secretary), David Paulson, TRUSTEES INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL MIS- You daily tremble lest you feel 'the W. W. Prescott, E. A. Sutherland, SIONARY AND BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION. chastening of his rod. Frederick Griggs. The blessed Holy Spirit puts this ques- J. H. Kellogg, A. G. Daniels, 0. A. RELIGIOUS LIBERTY DEPARTMENT. tion o'er and o'er: Olsen, H. W. Cottrell, David Paulson,' • " What are you going to do about that A. T. Jones (chairman), E. A. Suther- A. J. Read, H. F. Rand, J. F. Morse, shelf, behind the door?" land, David Paulson, A. Moon, -S. H. W. T. Knox. Lane. Electors-at large: J. R. Leadsworth, Some hypocrites may look like saints— A. B. Olsen, F. B. Moran, J. M. Craig, from men their idols hide; SABBATH-SCHOOL DEPARTMENT. W. H. Riley, A. N. Loper, A. J. Sander- But what about the Judgment day be- W. A. Spicer, (chairman), W. W. Pres- son, J. Sutherland, J. A. Brunson, Mrs. yond death's fearful tide? cott, M. C. Wilcox, C. H. Jones, E. A. N. H. Druillard. That hidden spot behind the door will Sutherland, H. R. Salisbury, Dr. A. J. be a public place, Read, Dr. G. W. Thomason, Estella MEMBERS REVIEW AND HERALD BOARD. Where God and men, and angels, too, Houser (secretary), Mrs. L. Flora Plum- Trustees to fill expiring terms on the shall every idol trace. mer, Adelaide Bee Cooper. Board of the Review and Herald Pub- 500 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN: dishing Association: I. H. Evans, C. M. PORTLAND SANITARIUM AND BENEVOLENT KEENE INDUSTRIAL ACADEMY BOARD OF Christiansen. ASSOCIATION. MANAGEMENT.

TRUSTEES MICHIGAN SANITARIUM AND The constituent body of the Portland The presidents of the Southwest BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION. Sanitarium and Benevolent Association Union, Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas consists of fifteen members, five elected Conferences: the business manager of J. H. Kellogg, G. H. Murphy, David for one year, five for two years, and five the academy, W. S. Greer, J. D. Mat- Paulson, A. J. Read, Geo. W. Thoma- for three years. The following were thews, B. F. Woods, T. T. Stevenson, son. elected for the first year: H. W. Decker, J. M. Mosley. TRUSTEES COLORADO MEDICAL MISSION- T. H. Starbuck, W. H. Winslow, R. D. ARY AND BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION. Benham, H. J. Schnepper. Union Conference Organizations. W. H. Riley, J. H. Kellogg, F. M. For the second year: R. Rose, E. Hurl- EASTERN UNION CONFERENCE. Wilcox, Lydia McCamley, W. L. Hoo- but, J. C. Scott, David Emmerson, Organized April 16, 1901. ver, A. Druillard, C. B. McReynolds. 0. W. Barber. Trustees: H. W. Decker, L. J. Stiles, President, H. W. Cottrell; Secretary, NEBRASKA SANITARIUM AND BENEVO- G. E. Tyzkiewicz, Mrs. J. Gotzian, Dr. and Treasurer, D. B. Parmelee; Auditor, LENT ASSOCIATION. W. R. Simmons, M. E. Spencer, R. Rose, G. W. Palmer. Executive Committee: For electors for the first, or short E. Hurlbut, W. W. Sharp. H. W. Cottrell; the presidents of the term, of one year: J. M. Craig, Bert Nine nominated, from which list seven Atlantic, Chesapeake, Maine, New Eng- Glasscock, Win. Dymond, A. R. Henry. are to be elected by constituent body. land, New York, Pennsylvania. Quebec, For the second term, consisting of two Virginia, Vermont, and West Virginia years: H. D. Farnsworth, H. E. Kirk, NEW ENGLAND SANITARIUM AND nENEVO- Conferences; and Frederick Griggs, E. F. M. Wilcox, J. T. Boettcher. LENT ASSOCIATION. E. Miles, and C. C. Nicola. For the third term, of three years: Members of constituent body: A. E. SOUTHERN UNION CONFERENCE. A. N. Loper, J. W. Shively, J. H. Kel- Place, F. W. Mace, Thomas Davis, Solon Organized April 9, 1901. logg, T. J. Allen. Farnsworth, Charles R. Brown, E. P. President, R. M. Kilgore; Secretary To fill vacancies of 1901: Bert Glass- Farnsworth, Frederick Griggs. For and Treasurer, I. A. Ford. Executive cock, Wm. Dymond, Luther Warren, president of the constituent board, Committee: R. M. Kilgore, Smith Sharp, John Richards, B. G. Wilkinson, A. R. H. W. Cottrell; for secretary of the Irving Keck, W. J. Stone, S. M. Jacobs, Henry, J. W. Rogers. constituent body, W. A. Wilcox. J. E. White, A. F. Harrison, S. B. Hor- To fill vacancies of 1902: J. T. Trustees: Hampton W. Cottrell, John ton, J. 0. Johnston, 0. M. Hayward, Boettcher, F. M. Wilcox, H. B. Farns- H. Kellogg, Chas. C. Nicola, Wm. A. I. A. Ford. worth, J. E. Kirk, Orlando Thayer, Wilcox, Wilbur L. Payne, Dwight M. Jesse Arthur, C. C. Christofferson. Hull, Horace B. Tucker, Albert E. LAKE UNION CONFERENCE. Trustees: A. N. Loper, J. F. Boettcher, Place, James B. Mason. Organized April 19, 1901. Bert Glasscock, F. M. Wilcox, J. W. Nine nominated, from which list eight President, A. G. Daniells; Secretary Adams, G. W. Shaver, J. W. Rogers, are to be elected by the constituent and Treasurer, W. H. Edwards; Can- B. G. Wilkinson, R. W. Parmele. body. Secretary and Treasurer also to vassing Agent, E. P. Boggs; Training Nine nominated, from which number be elected by the constituent body: Wm. School, P. T. Megan; Publishing Work, five are to be elected. A. Wilcox or James B. Mason. I. H. Evans; Sanitarium Work, J. H. UPPER COLUMBIA CONFERENCE MEDICAL Kellogg; German Work, C. J. Herr- UNION COLLEGE BOARD OF MANAGEMENT. MISSIONARY AND BENEVOLENT ASSO- mann; Scandinavian Work, H. R. John- CIATION. The Local Board of Managers for son; Auditor, W. H. Edwards. The constituency of the Upper Co- Union College will be enlarged by the ad- NORTHWESTERN UNION CONFERENCE. lumbia Medical Missionary and Benev- dition of two members, making a board Organized April 18, 1901. olent Association consists of twenty-one of eleven instead of nine, as at present President, C. W. Flaiz; Secretary, members, seven elected for one year, constituted. John Walker; Treasurer, J. Sutherland; seven for two years, seven for three The Board of Management of Union Auditor, M. W. Newton. Executive years. The names of the seven expiring College will consist of: The presidents of Committee: President of the Confer- this year are: F. B. Steen, C. H. Lan- the Iowa, Minnesota, Dakota, Nebraska, ence, the presidents of the local Confer- Missouri, Kansas, and Colorado Confer- sing, A. G. Christiansen, S. A. Miller, ences, and two Members yet to be ences; J. Sutherland, superintendent S. A. Anderson, W. M. Fee, J. R. Leads- selected. worth. The following named persons Nebraska Sanitarium, the president of were elected for three years: F. B. the college, and the English Bible SOUTHWESTERN UNION CONFERENCE. Steen, C. H. Lansing, J. G. Smith, S. A. teacher in the college. Organized April —, 1901. Miller, W. M. Fee, J. R. Leadsworth. President, C. McReynolds; Vice-Pres- WALLA WALLA COLLEGE BOARD OF MAN- W. C. Young was chosen to fill the va- ident, H. Shultz; Secretary, R. W. Par- cancy made by the resignation of G. F. AGEMENT. mele; Treasurer, Manager of Pacific Haffner. The president of the Upper Columbia Press Publishing Company, Kansas City; Trustees: The president of the Upper Conference, the president of the North Auditor, C. T. Caviness. Executive Columbia Conference, J. R. Leadsworth, Pacific Conference, E. L. Stewart, the Committee: C. McReynolds; president W. C. Young, J. W. Posey, S. A. Ander- business manager of the college, S. A. of each local Conference; president of son, Greenville Holbrook, W. M. Fee. Miller, T. L. Ragsdale, J. A. Holbrook. Keene Academy; manager of Pacific GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN. 501

Press Publishing. Company, Kansas City; such work as necessarily must be done may occur in the representation from president of Boulder Sanitarium; gen- in forwarding the work of the Confer- the Medical Missionary Association. eral canvassing agent. ence, and preparing the business to bring 10. That the General Conference PACIFIC UNION CONFERENCE before the delegates. Committee be empowered to organize Other recommendations relative to the itself, and to appoint all necessary agents Organized April 16, 1901. reorganisation are found on pages 27, and committees for the conduct of its President, W. T. Knox. Executive 28, 29, 33, 34. work. (Pages 185-189, 201-207). Committee: W. T. Knox; presidents of 1. That the delegates from the several 11. That the General Conference Com- California, North Pacific, Upper Colum- General Conference districts be asked to mittee of twenty-five, as soon as elected, bia, and Montana Conferences; W. A. go forward in the perfecting of plans for nominate the members to constitute the Alway, E. L. Stewart, W. R. Simmons, the organization of District Union Con- corporate membership of the Foreign H. H. Hall. ferences as rapidly as possible during Mission Board. Said members to be AUSTRALASIAN UNION CONFERENCE. this session of the General Conference. elected by the Conference. Organized January, 1894. 2. That the delegates from each dis- 12. That the administration of the trict appoint three of their number to Foreign Mission work be under the President, G. A. Irwin; Vice-Pres- act with the Committee on Organization supervision of the General Conference ident, E. W. Farnsworth; Secretary and in the framing of a Constitution and Committee. Treasurer, Edith Graham. Executive working plans. 13. That it be left to the General Con- Committee: G. A. Irwin, E. W. Farns- 3. That all questions regarding the ference Committee to decide how long worth, W. A. Colcord, G. B. Starr, J. H. change of district territorial lines be the corporate life of the Foreign Mis- Woods, W. L. H. Baker, Geo. Teasdale, referred to the Committee on Constitu- sion Board be continued. (Pages 219, W. D. Salisbury, E. R. Caro. tions and Plans. 225-229.) EUROPEAN GENERAL CONFERENCE (SEE 4. That in the framing of the Consti- 14. That the responsibility heretofore PAGE 390 OF THE BULLETIN). tutions and working plans, provisions be carried by the General Conference in President, 0. A. Olsen; Secretary, made for the use by the district organ- appointing boards of management for H. F. Schuberth; Treasurer, W. T. izations that are strong financially, of the Southern Industrial School (Grays- Bartlett. Executive Committee, pres- such parts of their income only, as are vine, Tenn.), and the Oakwood Indus- idents of Conferences. necessary for the administration of the trial School (Huntsville, Ala.), be trans- District Union Conferences, and that ferred to the Southern Union Conference. the balance be forwarded to the General 15. That the General Conference Ex- Summary of Proceedings of General Conference for the maintenance of its ecutive Committee be authorized to Conference. administration, and to assist weaker Con- make such transfers of the responsibil-, ADMISSION OF CONFERENCES. ferences and missions. (Pages 169, 170.) ity of appointing the boards of manage7 Queensland, South Australia, Cum- 5. That the General Conference Com- ment of other educational institutions, berland, Ontario. (Pages 19, 20.) mittee 'be composed of representative and the transfers of titles of properties men connected with the various -lines of and obligations.for debts, as the organi- ON ORGANIZATION. work in the different parts of the world. zation of the Union Conferences may It was voted that,the usual rules and 6. That the General Conference Com- indicate to be advisable. (P,ages 232, precedents for arranging and transact- mittee, as thus constituted, take the 281.) ing the business of the Conference be place of all the present general boards INTERNATIONAL SABBATH-SCHOOL ASSO- suspended, and that a General Commit- and committees, except in the case of CIATION. tee be appointed, to consist of the fol- the essential legal corporations. 1. In harmony with the recommenda- lowing persons: The presidents and 7. That the General Conference tion of the Executive Board of the In- secretaries of the General Conference, Committee consist of twenty-five mem- ternational Sabbath-School Association, of the General Conference Association, bers, six of whom shall be chosen by the we donate $2,000 to the work in other of the European and Australasian Union Medical Missionary Association, and lands, and $500 to the General Confer- Conferences; of the Review and Herald, nineteen by the General Conference. ence for the work in the Southern field. Pacific Press, and' Echo Publishing That five of these members be chosen 2. In harmony with the plan of reor- Companies; of the Foreign Mission with special reference to their ability to ganization adopted by the General Con- Board, Medical Missionary and Benev- foster and develop the true evangelical ference, we hereby place this work, and olent Association; of Battle Creek, spirit in all departments of the work, to the property and funds of this associa- Healdsburg, and Union colleges; and build up the ministry of the word, and tion, under the management of 'the the following-named persons: J. N. to act as teachers of the gospel message General Conference, this action to take Loughborough, S. N. Haskell, A. T. in all parts of the world; and that they effect as soon as the General Conference Jones, W. W. Prescott and such other be relieved from any special business is prepared- to make this branch of the persons as should be necessary to repre- cares, that they may be free to devote cause one of the departments of its work. sent the important enterprises and inter- themselves to this work. (Page 351.) , ests connected with the work of the 8. That in choosing this General Con- Seventh-day Adventists throughout the ference Committee, the presidents of INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS LIBERTY AS-. world, the same to be named by the the Union Conferences, as far as consis- SOCIATION. committee when organized, and this tent, be elected as members. 1. That in harmony with the plan of committee to constitute a general or 9. That the Medical Missionary Board reoganization adopted by the General central committee, which should do be authorized to fill any vacancy which Conference, the International Religious. , 502 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN.

Liberty Association place its work, prop- 7. We recommend that all proceeds Herald and Pacific Press Publishing erty, funds, and obligations in the hands from the sales of the German editions Companies be not sold by that time, of the General Conference as soon as of "Christ's Object Lessons," both in that similar plans and a similar pro- that body shall be prepared to assume the United States and in Germany, be gram be followed out each year until‘ these responsibilities. given to the school which has recently this grand work is gloriously completed. 2. That for the present, or until the been started in Germany. That if the dates set for this work expiration of the lease upon the rooms 8. We recommend that the proceeds should, for any good and substantial at 324 Dearborn St., the headquarters of from the sales of "Christ's Object Les- reason, not be the most advantageous in the religious liberty work, the publica- sons " in the Danish-Norwegian lan- certain Conferences, another period of tion of the Sentinel of Liberty, and of the guage, in the United States' and in equal length be chosen in which to do Religious Liberty Library, be continued Norway, be used for the relief of the the work. in Chicago. Scandinavian Publishing House, and 14. That •in , each Conference this 3. That until further action\ by the that the proceeds from the sales of the work be given into the hands of a proper General Conference either in open ses- same in Denmark be used for the re- person, who shall supervise .and direct sion or by its Executive Committee, the lief of the Frederickshavn school. the same, in counsel with his Confer- religious liberty work be carried on un- (Amended. See page 386.) ence Committee. der the name of the International Reli- 9. We recommend that the proceeds 15. We 'recommend that the General gious Liberty Association. (Page 385). from the sale of "Christ's Object Les- Conference Committee be and hereby is sons" in the Swedish language, both in requested by this Conference to consti- ON FINANCE. the United States and in Sweden, be tute a Relief Department consisting of 1. We recommend to our Conferences, devoted to the support of the Nyhyttan five members, whose duty it shall be to as far as they are able and consider that school in Sweden. co-operate with the Union and local it would be a blessing to do so, to pay a 10. We recommend that all the bills Conferences in the work for the relief of second tithe to the general cause for its for material for "Christ's Object Les- our institutions above named. mission work. sons " in all languages in the United 16. We recommend that we unite 2. We further recommend to such States be met from the Fifty Thousand with the Medical Missionary and Benev- Conferences as are able and willing to Dollar Relief of the Schools Fund, which olent Association in the raising of a fund do so, that they send a number of their should be increased to meet the added with which to provide the necessary laborers into the mission field, and sup- cost of typesetting, plate-making, and buildings for the American Medical port them there, operating as far as con- advertising in the foreign languages. Missionary College. (Pages 385-387). sistent through the boards having charge 11. We recommend that each Union of the different fields to which the labor- Conference be requested to raise a suffi- ON EDUCATION. ers are sent. cient amount of money to cover the The following were submitted by the 3. We recommend that, as far as cost of the material in " Christ's Object Committee on Education :- consistent, the General Conference, the Lessons " shipped into its territory. 1. That we urge upon our people Union Conferences, and the local Con- 12. We recommend that the Fifty the importance of establishing church ferences agree beforehand with their Thousand Dollar Relief of the Schools schools. tried and accredited laborers as to the Fund be raised by the following 2. That we recommend our Confer- salaries which shall be paid them, and methods: — ence laborers not to consider their work that no portion of their wages be held (a) Appeals to the people at our for churches complete until church back. camp meetings for cash donations and schools are organized whenever con- 4. We recommend that our Confer- pledges. sistent. ences everywhere be urged to adopt and (b) Appeals through -the columns of 3. That we recommend the appoint- further develop the Ten-Cent-a-Week the Review and Herald. ment of church-school superintendents Plan for the support of our foreign work, (c) Letters and circulars from the of- in Union or State Conferences, who, as inaugurated by the Foreign Mission fice of the Relief of the Schools Secre- shall co-operate with their respective Board last year. (Page 170.) tary, asking for offerings for this fund. Conference Committees and training- 5. We recommend that all who espe- 13. We recommend that our minis- schools in the establishment of church cially labor in word and doctrine in our ters, licentiates, and Bible workers, one schools, such superintendents to be ap- colleges and academies in the training and all, with as little exception as pos- pointed by Conference Committees in of workers for the field, be supported sible, engage in an organized and vigor- consultation with the ones in charge of from the tithe. (Pages 172, 207.) ous effort, under the supervision of the said training schools. 6. We recommend that a most vigor- various local Conference Committees, to 4. That we recommend that in the ous effort be made by our brethren and sell "Christ's Object Lessons " them- appointment of school boards, persons sisters, our local and Union Conferences, selves; to train, organize, and assist be chosen who d'an efficiently represent to push the relief of our schools and our brethren and sisters all over the the various lines of work taught in the Scandinavian Publishing House to field ,to do the same. That this effort those schools. a successful finish; that we endeavor to begin not later than Oct. 1, 1901, 5. We recommend that our schools complete this work quickly, and that no and continue until Feb. 28, '1902. show their appreciation of the gift of other general movements of the kind be That if the whole three hundred thou- the book, "Christ's Object Lessons," commenced until those now under way sand copies of " Christ's Object Les- by encouraging their teachers and stu- are completed, unless urgent necessity sons" comprising the original gift of dents to devote their summer vacations demand otherwise. Mrs. E. G. White and the Review and to the sale of the book. GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN. 503

6. In the support of church schools, our schools, where the facilities will per- (c) By asking our editors to write local needs should be met, if possible, mit, to organize a preparatory course to upon the same noble theme; by local tuition or voluntary donations, fit young people for our regular nurses' (d) By instructing our schools to keep and pupils should be encouraged to earn training-school course; and that this this subject before their students, and their tuition or contributions to the course cover elementary instruction in to provide such instructors and such expense fund. anatomy, physiology, hygiene, both courses of study as will help those whom 7. Church schools should continue practical and theoretical, chemistry, God has called to become workmen that their work to the sixth or seventh grade, botany, natural philosophy, astronomy, need not be ashamed, rightly dividing and intermediate schools to the ninth or cooking, physical culture, Bible, acci- the word of truth; and,— tenth. dents and emergencies, and simple treat- (e) By recommending the establish- 8. Intermediate industrial schools ments. But the schools shall not offer ment of a furid in each school, district, should be established wherever it seems diplomas to such students as profes- from which loans may be made td assist advisable. sional nurses. • worthy students preparing for the min- 9. All who have to do with the train- 17. Resolved, That each of our denom- istry and the Bible work. (Pages 207, ' ing of teachers for church schools inational colleges and academies pro- 230, 231, 350, 418, 448.) should require thoroughness of prepara- vide such a course of instruction as will REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON WOMAN'S tion, lest the church school work be qualify students to enter the American GOSPEL WORK. retarded by reaction from disastrous Medical Missionary College. experiments. 18. Resolved, That we approve the 1. That we ever keep it before the 10. We recommend that our brethren plan set forth on page 8 of the GENERAL sisters that the object of this work is to everywhere study diligently the princi- CONFERENCE BULLETIN, of helping OUT save souls. ples of Christian edutation, and step out larger schools to teach the languages of 2. That a woman who is qualified to by faith, as new light shall be given, the countries nearest their respective reach all classes, especially those who, and put the principles learned into fields, and of printing tracts in those need it most, should be selected from practical use. languages; and we request the General each Conference to attend the camp- 11. While we recognize the impor-. Conference Committee to take measures meetings and all general meetings, and tance of educating our children under to set this plan into speedy operation. instruct the women in missionary work the most favorable influences, still we 19. We recommend that the General and temperance in all its phases. would caution all against taking ex- Conference Committee develop plans by 3. That corresponding secretaries be treme, positions or making unwise utter- which the blind may receive instruction chosen to have charge of the English, ances, which might bring reproach upon according to the principles of true Chris- German, and Scandinavian branches of the reforms we desire to advance. tian education. the work. (Page 448.) 12. We call upon Seventh-day Adven- Whereas, We were told many years REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PLANS tist teachers, who have been successful ago that the cause of God needed more AND RESOLUTIONS FOR THE 'in secular schools, to consecrate their ministers and Bible workers; that there talents and experience to the cause of was a dearth of well qualified laborers SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST the third angel's message, to study the in these departments of the word; that PUBLISHING WORK. principles given this people upon the cultivated intellect was even then needed 1. Resolved, That the stockholders ex- subject of Christian education, and to in the cause, for novices could not do the press their gratitude to God for his fos- hold themselves in readiness to fill work acceptably; that God had, devised tering care, and for the measure of places in our school work as the provi- the only college we then had as an in- prosperity that has attended the pub- dence of God opens the way. strumentality for developing workers of lishing work the past year, and that we 13. We approve the movement to whom he would not be ashamed; and hereby express our desire to have more organize young people's societies for that if the latent talents then in the attention given to the development and more effectual missionary service ; and church could have been developed and training of workers, especially suitable we recommend that a committee of brought into use, we would have' had persons to bear responsibility in connec- nine or more representative persons be twenty ministers where we had one; tion with the publishing work in other appointed to form a plan of organiza- and — parts of the world. tion, and report it Ito this Conference Whereas, This instruction is applica- 2. Whereas, Our people are greatly en- for consideration. ble, with even greater force, to our own couraged to learn of the progress of the 14. Earnest efforts should be made present conditions, and men whom God work in the various Conferences; and — to save the children of unbelievers by has called seem to be turning away Whereas, The Advent Review and Sab- the establishment of branch Sabbath from the sacred work of the ministry to bath Herald is the church paper to go to schools wherever practicable. engage in other pursuits; therefore — all English=speaking Sabbath-keepers; 15. Careful study should be given 20. Resolved, That this General Con- therefore — to the subject of Sabbath-school con- ference do hereby encourage the devel- Resolved, That we invite the editors of ventions, and normal classes should be opment of these classes of laborers — the Review and Herald to secure from the conducted in connection with them (a) By requesting the church to pray State papers, or otherwise, frequent, wherever practicable, that this agency, the Lord of the harvest to send forth la- condensed reports of the progress of the which has already accomplished so borers into his harvest: work in the various Conferences, and much good, may be attended with still (b) By recommending ministers to publish the same in the Prbgress De- greater success. preach upon the sacred calling and work partment of the Review. 16. Resolved, That we encourage all of the ministry; 3. Whereas, There is need of a more • 504 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN.

thorough and systematic distribution of Society nor the Southern Conferences 1. That in each Union Conference, as the truth by means of small tracts: are in a condition to do this work, it is far as practical, one man be appointed therefore — recommended that the General Confer- or elected whose duty shall be (a) to ResoLved, That a series of small tracts ence provide the necessary funds. (Page take the oversight of the German work suited for mailing in envelopes, cover- 418.) in such Union Conference; (b) to look ing the salient features of the message ON CANVASSING AND COLPORTEUR WORK. up and encourage proper persons to en- in a brief and concise manner, be pre- ter the German canvassing work and 1. We recommend that each Confer- pared and furnished for free distribu- other branches in the cause of God gen- ence employ a State canvassing agent. tion : — erally. 2. We recommend that the importance That, to encourage a large circula- 2. Such persons shall counsel and act (a) and advantages of resident canvassing tion of these, they be furnished at the together with the various Conferences or be prominently brought and continually cost of production. Mission Field Committees. kept before our churches. (b) That when a church or society 3. We further recommend that such 3. We recommend that each church orders one thousand or more, it may persons be allowed to meet together at encourage one or more of its number have the privilege of furnishing an- least once a year, for the purpose of •to engage in canvassing for our large nouncements of local meetings and in- counseling. books, under the direction of the State terests sufficient to occupy the last page. 4. It is further recommended that such agent. (c) That one page of each tract be duly elected or appointed persons, and 4. We recommend that these agents devoted to advertising our .leading pub- the editor of the German paper, consti- furnish their churches with the names tute a committee, which shall meet with lications. and addresses of their subscribers, and That State tract societies be the General Conference Committee, as (d) that their churches follow up the work encouraged to furnish these tracts free circumstances may demand or allow, for by correspondence, periodicals, and to their regular self-supporting canvass- the purpose of planning for the German tracts. ing agents. work. (Page 356.) 5. We recommend that the Signs of 4. We recommend that the Board of 1. Resolved, That the German brethren the Times and Good Health be used in Trustees provide such homes for the recommend that all our laborers and pioneer city missionary work in this young people working in the Office as brethren do all in their power to circu- country. late the German "Object Lessons " N their judgment may be necessary. 6. We recommend that Present Truth, among the German people. ON RELIGIOUS LIBERTY WORK. Bible Echo, and Herald of Health be used 2. Since we acknowledge that the in pioneer city missionary work in their On Friday last the attention of this Hausfreund occupies an important place respective territories. li body was called to the Reunion of Con- in the proclamation of the third angel's 7. We recommend that equal attention federate Veterans to be held in the city message among the Germans of different be given our health and denominational of Memphis, Tenn., May 28 to June 1, countries, and that many souls have literature. 1901. already been brought to the knowledge 8. We commend the practice of our At a meeting of the Southern delega- of the truth through it; therefore be colleges, academies, State and church tion held the same afternoon, this mat- it— schools giving practical instruction in ter was considered, and the Tennessee Resolved (1) That we recommend that evangelistic canvassing. delegation was asked to suggest some those whom the Lord-has given talents 9. We recommend that, so far as con- plan of action to be presented to this in this direction contribute original ar- sistent, canvassers' institutes be held in body. Subsequently a smaller commit- ticles, such as are fitting and timely for every State. , tee was appointed to formulate recom- our own members, and also suitable for 10. We recommend that more time be mendations, and we submit the follow- a missionary paper. given to the consideration of the can- ing points:- 2. That as far as possible every Ger- vassing work before the general assem- 1. That the Gospel Herald issue a spe- man Seventh-day Adventist family or blies at our camp-meetings. (Pages 378, cial eight-page daily edition during the single member not only subscribe for 415, 416.) Reunion for free circulation among the the paper for himself, but also pay for delegates and visitors; four pages to be ON GERMAN WORK. one or more subscriptions for his friends devoted to our literature, and four pages Resolved, That we ask that a German or neighbors, and that not only the min- to a daily program, general news notes, monthly church paper be published, in isters, but also the members of the locals, and carefully selected advertise- which our German brethren and sisters churches, take subscriptions for it. m ents. can be instructed, and reports of our la- 3. We recommend that steps be taken 2. That the Medical Missionary Asso- borers can be published. (Page 336.) that the Hausfreund be sold from house ciation, the Review and Herald Publish- For the purpose of advancing the to- house, especially in the large cities, ing Company, and the Pacific Press present truth among the millions of and that monthly subscriptions be taken Publishing Company be invited to do- Germans in this large land of America, at the rate of ten cents a month, and be nate appropriate literature for free cir- we, as the representatives of the Ger- delivered by the laborers, and that such culation at this Reunion. man work assembled at this Conference, agents be assisted from the Hausfreund 3. That the General Conference be desire that plans be laid by which more fund when deemed advisable. asked to appoint C. P. Bollman as editor vigorous and harmonious efforts be put Resolved, That we, acknowledging the of this special edition .nd D. W. Reavis forth, so that more effective results importance of the circulation of our lit- as manager of circulation. among our people may be reached. terature, recommend: (1) That all breth- 4. As neither the Southern Missionary For this purpose, we desire,- ren and sisters as far as possible supply GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN. 505

themselves with- our books, tracts, and 8. That the Executive Committee of sionary and Benevolent Association,'and pamphlets, and become familiar with this Conference appoint a committee the Southern Union Conference; that the contents of the same; (2) That we to study this work, and push it forward. the headquarters of this Southern Sani- urge all our ministers and Bible workers (Page 441.) _ tarium and Benevolent Assbciation be to set a good example before the mem- COLORADO MEDICAL MISSIONARY AND established at Graysville, Tenn. bers of our churches in the diligent cir- BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION. 4. Resolved, That the objects of the culation of our books, etc., as well as Inasmuch as there has arisen a nec- Southern Sanitarium and Benevolent taking subscriptions for our German cessity for the separation of the con- Association be the same as those of the paper; (3) That all our laborers and sumptive and non-consumptive patients International Medical Missionary and church-members keep an eye on devoted of the Colorado Sanitarium, we recom- Benevolent Association, and its auxiliary suitable persons of both sexes for the mend that steps be taken to provide for organizations in different parts of the purpose of encouraging them to enter this exigency. world. the canvassing field; (4) That our Resolved, That the interests of the 5. Resolved, That we recommend and church-members not only pray for them, work of this association demand the encourage the establishment, at the but also assist them financially when establishment of creditable branches, earliest date consistent with existing necessary. (Page 378.) including vegetarian restaurants, in Den- conditions, of two medic-al missionary YOUNG PEOPLE'S WORK. ver and other important centers in Colo- nurses' training schools,— one for white people at Graysville, Tenn., and one for Your committee would with burdened rado, as soon as possible. colored students at Nashville. Tenn.; hearts recommend that something Resolved, That we approve of the plan that what is necessary to the success of more effectual be done, and that speed- of a tent-colony for the treatment of these enterprises be sent as soon as pos- ily, to save our children, youth, and consumptives, and recommend that the sible; and that the standards of these young people, and to develop them as trustees of this Association organize and schools with reference to missionary laborers for God. As primary steps in operate such colonies, providing the basis, entrance requirements, and this work, we would respectfully suggest suitable equipments, as fully and rap- courses of study be those adopted by the following:- • idly as possible. the schools already established under 1. That we would urge our ministers, That the State of Utah Resolved, the direction of the Medical Missionary church officers, Sabbath-school and shall be considered as belonging to the and Benevolent Association. (Page 317.) other workers, to encourage our young territory of the California Medical Mis- 6. We recommend, That all applicants people, youth, and children to organize sionary and Benevolent Association. for admission to any of the medical ., themselves into simple working bands, That the interests of the Resolved, missionary training schools, under the or companies, under the direction and work of this association demand the supervision of this association, be re- counsel of wise, spiritual leaders. establishment of creditable branches, quired, before entering the same, to, 2. That these hands, or companies, including vegetarian restaurants in Den- make the following — be adapted to the material at hand, the ver, and other important centers in churches of which they are a part, and Colorado, as rapidly as possible. (Pages MISSIONARY DECLARATION. the work which surroundings and op- "I hereby express my intention and , 358-361.) portunities bring them, and that more determination to devote my life to elaborate organization be a matter of INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL MISSIONARY medical missionary work, having made growth and necessity and not of form. AND BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION. the matter a subject of careful consid- 3. That the work of these bands 1. It was moved and seconded that eration and earnest prayer, and believ- include all phases of Missionary and the medical missionary work in foreign ing that it is the will of God that I Christian Help work. fields be turned over to the Executive shall thus do. 4. That all our workers in these Committee of the General Conference, "I also hereby place myself under lines, our church members, young and with the understanding that a com- the supervision of the International old, be entreated to do all in their mittee be appointed, which shall be so Medical Missionary and Benevolent power to plan and labor as those who are organized that it shall properly repre- Association for the purpose of receiving indeed one in Christ Jesus. sent the medical missionary work as such training and other preparation for 5. That our Conference be asked to well as the evangelical work. (Page 315.) the work of the Medical Missionary as connect this work with the Sabbath- 2. Resolved, That it is the sense of may in the judgment of the Executive school or jnissionary department of the this body that active and immediate Board of the Medical Missionary and Conference work, that these bands of steps be taken to advance and encour- Benevolent Association, be deemed young workers may have some central age our medical missionary work in the proper and necessary to fit me to -per- source of instFuction and channel of territory of the Southern :Union Con- form successfully such medical mis- communication. ference. sionary work as may be assigned to me, 6, That our Conferences set such men 3. Resolved, That we recommend and and for direction and supervision in the as are especially adapted to this work authorize the creation of a medical mis- work when I shall be prepared to enter to help our larger and city churches, sionary organization for the Southern upon it, at such time and place as provi- organizing and training our churches, field to be incorporated and known as dence may indicate to be duty, and the especially our young people and youth "The Southern Sanitarium and Benevo- board shall advise." (Page 318.) mote effectually to labor for the Master. lent Association; " that this association 7. We. recoMmend, That men of means 7. That a department in the Youth's be organized on such a plan as will encourage and co-operate with the In- Instructor be open for the advancement secure and insure the perfect co-opera- ternational Medical Missionary Board of this work among the young people. tion of the International Medical Mis- and other like associations in the open- 506 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN. ing of missionary restaurants and din- Medical Missionary Board and such in- effort to secure funds for an adequate ing parlors in the various large cities, stitutions. (Page 340.) building. (Page 314.) especially where the field has been pre- 17. Resolved, That we proceed to raise pared by the circulation of Good Health a fund for the purpose of providing and other lines of educational work. necessary buildings for the American ORGANIZATION AND WORK OF THE - (Page 319.) Medical Missionary College. Page GENERAL CONFERENCE COM- 8. Resolved, That health journals, 341.) MITTEE, APRIL i8 TO MAY health tracts, and other health literature 18. Resolved, That systematic efforts r, INCLUSIVE. be more widely used in missionary work; should be made to extend the methods and that the following plans for the in- and principles of rational hygienic liv- IT will be observed that the Committee has been subdivided into a number of troduction of such literature receive the ing by means of suitable courses of in- departments; namely, the Mission Board, approval of this body:- struction in connection with Chautau- Pastoral Committee, Finance Commit- 9. That all sanitariums and employees quas, camp-meetings, • institutes, col- take a more active interest in the circu- leges, academies, and church schools. tee, Educational Department, Religious Liberty Department, Sabbath-school lation of health literature; that em- ( Page 342.) Department, and Publication Commit- ployees be induced to canvass for it "Whereas, There are places in Europe throughout the year, and that canvass- where medical missionary work ought tee, all of which are found on page 499 of the BULLETIN. The principal ing companies be formed during the dull to be started at once, and other places work of the Committee has been to de- season. where the work needs special attention vise plans for the work of these various 10. That the •tract societies take the and financial help; therefore — same interest in circulating health liter- 19. Resolved, That we ask the General departments. ature as in religious literature, and that Conference Committee to give this mat- MISSION WORK. they make calls in their State papers ter their careful attention as soon as It was recommended to dispose of the for canvassers for the health journals. possible, and to devise plans by which property of the Foreign Mission Board (Page 336.) to secure the necessary funds. and International Tract Society in New 11. That we encourage local tract so- 20. Resolved, That we acknowledge York City, and locate the headquarters cieties to order and use health journals the blessings of God, and the benevo- at Battle Creek, Mich., a statement of for missionary work, in the same man- lence of our brethren in the support of which has appeared in the Review and ner as they are now using the Signs. the James White Memorial Home for Herald. 12. That appeals be made to the peo- the Aged, and the Haskell Home for Or- Voted, That the French books now in ple for each family to take a health jour- phans, and express it as our hope and the General Conference Library be do- nal for their own instruction, and to desire that these charities be encour- nated to the Paris Mission for use in induce their friends and neighbors to aged by continued support and good editorial work there. subscribe. will. (Page 343.) Voted, That the Mission , Board be 13. We approve of the plan of print- 21. We recommend that the training asked to take the general supervision of ing special numbers of health journals, schools in institutions under the direc- medical missionary work in Mexico. and we ask our tract societies and peo- tion of the Medical Missionary Board Voted, That the Missionary Magazine ple everywhere to aid in their circula- adopt the same standard for acceptance be issued with forty-eight pages, the tion. (Page 337.) of pupils for training, and the same size of Good Health, the price to be fifty 14. Resolved, That city medical mis- course of study as is adopted by the cents. The magazine will embody all sion efforts are useful means of extend- training school at Battle Creek. phases of missionary work, both med- ing the gospel. (Page 338.) 22. That we encourage a preparatory ical and evangelical. 15. Resolved, That we recognize the year of study being taken in our schools providence of God in the increasing when possible. CAMP-MEETINGS. number of openings for nurses to carry 23. That as a rule we should not ac- Voted, That A. G. Daniells, W. W. the health principles into numerous cept pupils in our training schools under Prescott, and W. A. Spicer constitute a homes and communities, and that we twenty-one or over thirty-five years of committee in the matter of advertising encourage our young men and women age. (Pag6 344.) at our camp-meetings this present to enter the training schools without season ; delay, that they may be prepared to MICHIGAN SANITARIUM AND BENEVOLENT That J. A. Brunson be requested to respond to these urgent calls. (Page ASSOCIATION. attend as many camp-meetings as pos- 339.) Resolved, That we indorse and com- sible in the Lake Union Conference ; 16. Resolved, That those starting, or mend the action of the trustees in pro- That the Medical liissionary Board carrying on, branch sanitariums and moting the interests of the American be requested to take charge of the mat- treatment-rooms shall work in harmony Medical Missionary College, and in the ter of supplying physicians and nurses with the organized medical missionary use of funds for the payment of the sal- to attend the various camp-meetings ; work, and that the earnings of such aries of the teachers and incidental ex- That A. T. Jones be requested to at branches and institutions be considered penses, and we recommend that they tend the Upper Columbia, North Paci sacred to the advancement of the med- continue this until other arrangements fic, and California camp-meetings ; ical missionary and benevolent work in are made for the running expenses of That A. F. Ballenger be requested to their respective fields; and that we in- the school, on condition that the Inter- attend the Chesapeake, Pennsylvania, dorse the plan in operation as given in national Medical Missionary and Benev- Atlantic, and New England camp the articles of agreement between the olent Association will make suitable meetings ; GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN. 507

That Elder S. N. Haskell be requested 5. To promote the development of 1. That Elder Allen Moon and D. W. ' to attend the Pennsylvania, Atlantic, church and Conference schools in all Reavis continue their field work under and New England camp-meetings ; fields. the direction of the Religious Liberty That A. G. Daniells and W. W. Pres- THE TRAINING SCHOOL. Department. That the headquarters in Chicago cott be requested to attend the Iowa, The following resolutions were ap- 2. be discontinued as soon as practicable, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and South Da- proved : — That the Sentinelof Liberty be issued kota camp-meetings ; Recognizing the imperative need of a 3. as a quarterly, in order to preserve the: That A. G. Daniells attend the Cum- school especially devoted to the training influence of the.name and the continuity ' berland Conference meeting, if he can of missionary church workers, evangel- of the publication: and that to meet consistently arrange to do so; and also ists, teachers, ministers, and other any emergency that might arise, special the Ontario camp-meeting, it being classes of laborers who can be useful in numbers be issued as the case may re- understood that the last meeting shall the advancement of the cause of truth; be postponed until July. therefore — quire. Sentinel of Liberty 'and, Arrangements for the later camp- Resolved, That in the reorganization of 4. That the be moved to meetings will be duly announced in the Battle Creek College, and the establish- Riligious Liberty Library Nashville, Tenn., and that they be pub- Review and Herald. ment of the school in a new location, FINANCE COMMITTEE. we deem it best to make it a missionary lished by the Herald Publishing Com- pany, if satisfactory arrangements can That a collection for Skods- training-school, or training-school for Voted, be made. borg Sanatorium be taken the second Christian workers, and that such 5. That the Religious Liberty Library Sabbath in September, and that a spe- courses of study shall be provided, such be continued. cial effort be made to present the needs teachers 'employed, and such entrance of that institution through the medium requirements adopted, as shall be con- SABBATH-SCHOOL DEPARTMENT. of our periodicals. sistent with the missionary and evangel- Voted, That the Sabbath-school De- Voted, That a committee be appointed ical character and aims of the school; partment arrange for the work of or- to arrange the details with reference to and — ganizing the young people for mis- using a book now published in the Resolved, That we request the General sionary work and for the missionary French language, entitled " Home Book Conference Committee to take special Reading Circle. of Health," for assisting •the Skodsborg advisory superVision of the school, that PUBLISHING COMMITTEE. Sanatorium, to be carried forward sim- it may be made as far as possible a In harmony with their own sugges- ilarly to the one now carried forward in model training-school, in which the true tion, it was voted that the Pacific Press connection with " Christ's Object Les- principles of education shall be clearly Publishing Company be encouraged to sons." P. T. Magan, W. W. Prescott, and, faithfully represented, and which establish a small branch printing office and David Paulson were appointed such may be made the means of promoting in Mexico, also to print such denomina- a committee. the cause of educational reform among tional literature for that field as they Voted, To request I. H. Evans to us in the training of teachers for church can handle to advantage. transact the business connected with schools, academies, and other schools; The following actions were taken with the settlement of the affairs of the and by the publication of a monthly reference to the appointment of editors Christiania Publishing House. educational journal, and in such other of our various denominational papers:- Voted, That it is the sense of this ways as the General Conference Com- 1. That U. Smith be editor of the Committee that the original conditions mittee may advise and approve. Review and Herald. agreed upon for the settlement of the Voted, That the Medical Missionary 2. That M. C. Wilcox be editor of the business at Christiania are sufficient, Board be asked to make some arrange- Signs of the Times. and that they be adhered to. ment whereby the Medical Missionary 3. That the appointment of editor of EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT. Training-School in Chicago can be affil- the Bible Echo and other Australian The following were adopted : — iated with the Missionary Training- papers be left with the Australasian We recommend- that the duty of the school which it is proposed to establish Union Conference. Educational Committee shall be :- superseding Battle Creek College. 4. That A. T. Jones be editor of the That the Educational Depart- 1. To act as committee of reference Voted, Sentinel of Liberty and Religious Liberty ment be encouraged to establish corre- in relation to all educational matters. Library, and C. P. Boliman be associate. spondence missionary training-schools 2. To assist in an advisory way in sup- 5. That Adelaide Bee Cooper be ed- plying properly qualified teachers for in connection with the Missionary train- itor of the Youth's Instructor. the different schools. ing-school for "Christian workers. 6. That the question of supplying ed- 3. To suggest plans for promoting and Voted, That members of the Educa- itors for the European papers be referred properly representing the educational tional Department visit some of the to the General European Conference at work at .the camp-meetings and other camp-meetings in the interests of educa- its next meeting. large gatherings. tional work, and that they arrange with 7. That W. W. Prescott be editor of the different Union Conferences regard- 4. To act as a book committee in rela- the Missionary _Magazine, and W. A. tion to the different educational books, ing the matter. Spicer and Mrs. E. H. Whitney be as- providing for the securing and writing RELIGIOUS LIBERTY DEPARTMENT. sistant editors. of books by suitable authors, and plan- In the Religious Liberty Department, 8. That the Secretary of the General ning for the introduction of suitable the following recommendations were Conference be editor of the GENERAL books into our schools. adopted :- CONFERENCE BULLETIN. ;

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THE BOOR BUSINESS IN THE SOUTHERN general oversight: H. Shultz, F. H. The following recommendations UNION CONFERENCE. Westphal, T. STalentiner. adopted by the Scandinavian brethren In response to a memorial from the For the Scandinavian work the fol- attending the General Conference were Southern Union Conference Committee, lowing were chosen: L. Johnson, S. F. read, and it was recommended that they the Review and Herald Board voted to Svensson, E. G. Olsen, C. A. Thorp, A. be published in the Sions Vaktare and Swedberg. the Evangeliets Sendebud:— turn over to the Southern Union Confer- ence the present worth of the Atlanta Further, That the Union Conferences Whereas, Our periodicals do a great select others to take the special over- work in the promulgation of present Office, the said Union, Conference to assume all resources and liabilities of sight in their respective districts, where truth ; therefore,— said office. In harmony with the fore- it seems advisable. I. Resolved, That we urge our Scan- dinavian brethren and sisters to interest going action, the General Conference Committee recommended that the work Work of general laborers in Union themselves for a wide circulation of of circulating literature in that Confer- Conferences: That each general laborer Slows VilIctiire (Swedish) and Evange- ence be turned over to that Conference. in German and Scandinavian lines in Nets Sendebud (Danish-Norwegian? by the Union Conferences should work in not only becoming regular subscribers RELATION BETWEEN THE REVIEW AND his own Union Conference, not going themselves, but also by sending these _ HERALD PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION AND outside of that unless called to do so by papers to relatives and friends, by solic- THE SOUTHERN PUBLISHING COMPANY. another Union Conference. iting subscriptions for the same, and by Whereas, The General Conference taking clubs of the Swedish and Danish papers, and doing house-to-house work Committee have advised that the con- Voted, That all dealings with men trol and management of the subscrip- with them. under pay of the General Conference, 2. Resolved, That we ask our Ameri- tion and general book business in the who are located in the Union Confer- nine States included in the Southern can brethren to aid in this work when- ences, be through the officers of the ever and wherever opportunity presents Union Conference be transferred to the Union Conferences. Southern Union Conference; and itself to do anything in this line. It was understood that such laborers Whereas, The proceeds from the sale Whereas, The Review and Herald should report to the Union Conferences. have consented to this, and have gener- of the Scandinavian editions of "Christ's ously donated to the Southern Union Object Lessons" are to be devoted to the The following actions of the Southern Conference their book stock and bus- upbuilding of the Scandinavian pub- iness how located at Atlanta, Ga.; there- Union Conference were approved:- lishing and educational work ; there- fore,— 1. We suggest that May 1, 1901, would fore,— be a favorable time to begin our self-gov- Resolved, That it is the mind of this Resolved, That we ask all our people, Committee that the Southern Union ernment. both the Scandinavians and other Conference and the managers of the 2. That all our laborers report to the nationalities, to aid in giving the Scan- General Conference up to May 1, and be Herald Publishing Company should la- dinavian editions of this work a wide settled with up to that date, according ' bor earnestly to promote the interests of sale. the'Review and Herald.Publishing Com- to the audit of last year. pany by making sale of as large a num- 3. We request that on the above- Voted, That Dr. N. P. Nelson be rec- ber of their books as possible, consist- named date the Treasurer of the Gen- ommended to return to Skodsborg, ently with the interests of the cause in eral Conference furnish the Treasurer Denmark, to take up work in connec- the South. of the Southern Union Conference with tion with the Philanthropic Society. Resolved, That the managers of the an itemized statement of all funds paid out for the work in this Conference be- Herald Publishing Company are hereby Voted, That ten thousand dollars be instructed to use every reasonable effort tween January 1 and April 30, 1901, and raised to assist in establishing the insti- to protect the interests of our other also that he be furnished with a state- tutional health work—sanitarium and ment of the total amount of expendi- publishing houses against injury through health-food business—in England. the circulation or advertisement of spe- tures in this field during the year 1,00. 4. We further request that all funds cial or cheap editions of current publi- It was voted to request the Medical cations, in the territory of the other and appropriations for special work in Missionary Association to furnish two pUblishing houses. the South be transferred at that time to the Treasurer of the Southern Union physicians, a man and his wife if pos- MISCELLANEOUS. Conference, with a statement as to what sible, who could connect with Dr. A. B. In harmony with the action of the they were donated for, and the amount Olsen in work in England ; also to rec- General Conference, as recorded,on page of each appropriation. ommend one or two well-trained nurses; 356 of the BULLETIN, providing for men 5. We further request that the amount and that Brother H. G. Butler be asked to be appointed in each Union Confer- appropriated by the General Conference to return to England to connect with ence to take the oversight of the work to the Southern Union Conference, ac- the health-food business. in other languages, the following report cording to the expression of the General was adopted:— Conference found in the BULLETIN on We recommend that the General Con- That for the German work the follow- pages 68 to 70, be placed, as far as pos- ference assist the London house in se- ing persons be selected as its representa- sible, at the disposal of the Treasurer of curing at least ten thousand dollars to tives, to counsel with the General Con- the Southern Union Conference, to be be used by that house as a working ference Committee, and to take the paid to him as needed. capital. GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN. 50g

The attention of the committee hav- J. 0. Corliss, 241. South Sea Islands, 197. ing been.called by Sister White to the A. G. Daniells, 150, 228, 270. West Indian Mission Field, 198, 275. diversion, to other fields, several years S. N. Haskell, 29, 98, 106. Trinidad, 200. •ago, of funds raised especially for the Mrs. S. N. Haskell, 456. Scandinavian Work in the United work in the Southern field, it was voted A. T. Jones, 37, 101, 262. States, 208. that this Committee accept the respon- W. W. Prescott, 42, 128, 193, 302, 320. South Africa, 235. sibility of making such restitution in L. C. Sheafe, 224, 237. Argentine Mission Field, 245, 324. this matter as a careful investigation E. J. Waggoner, 78, 10, 220, 403. Europe and Asia, 117, 246. would show ought to be made ; and fur- Mrs. E. G. White, 124, 422, 452. Southern Field, 247. ther, that the other organizations which M. C. Wilcox, 400. India, 248, 432. had a part in this diversion of funds be COMMITTEES. England, 261, 364, 393. urged to do the same. Committee on Counsel, 27, 33, 34, 66. City Missions, 258. Missionary Reading Circle, 273, 345. " Order of Exercises, 56. That the preparation of blanks for Committee on More Equal Distribu- Mexico and Its Needs, 276. the use of the General Conference be re- tion of Funds, 66. Hawaiian Mission Field, 279, 298. ferred to the Chairman, Secretary, and Committee on Organization, 66. City Work, 370. Indiana, 419. Treasurer. " Education, 66, 112, Committee on Canvassing and Colpor- Canada, 428. Plea in Behalf of the French Work, GENERAL INDEX. teur Work, 66. 477. ADDRESSES. Committee on Publishing Work, 66. " Sanitarium Work, 66. FINANCIAL REPORTS. G. A. Irwin, 30. Committee on Foreign Mission Work, General Conference, 137, 138, 208. I. H. Evans, 93. 66. International Medical Missionary and J. H. Kellogg, 140. Committee on Distribution of Labor- Benevolent Association, 172, 173. Mrs. L. Flora Plummer, 345. ers, 185. Michigan Sanitarium and Benevolent J. 0. Corliss, 370. Committee on Nominations, 205, Association, 139. Allen Moon, 379. Committee on Credentials and Li- International Sabbath-school Associa- BIBLE STUDIES. censes, 312. tion, 61, 62, 87. S. N. Haskell, 29, 98, 106. Committee on Young People's Socie- Foreign Mission Board, 97, 98. W. W. Prescott, 42, 193. ties, 331, 377, 441. General Conference Association,, 312. E. J. Waggoner, 78, 220 Committee on I. R. L. A., 66, 67. International Religious Liberty Asso- A. T. Jones, 101. " Delegates' Credentials, ciation, 344. Mrs. S. N. Haskell, 456. Presiding Committee, 66. International Tract Society, 399. SPECIAL TALKS. Committee Representing German Seventh-day Adventist Publishing J. B. J, Cady,' 197. Work, 356, 378. Association, 293. G. W. Caviness, 276. Committee on Woman's Gospel Work, INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL MISSIONARY .J. 0. Corliss, 370, 428. 448. AND BENEVOLENT /ASSOCIATION. L. R. Conradi, 113,;117. DISTRICT' SUPERINTENDENTS' REPORTS. 172, 173, 286, 315, 336. A. G. Daniells, 47, 345. District No. 1, H. W. Cottrell, 51. INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS LIBERTY Mrs. N. H. Druillard, 237: " " 2, N. W. Allee, 52. ASSOCIATION. I. H. Evans, 75. 3, A. J. Breed, 132. Committees, 06, 67. A. F. Harrison, 115. 4, J. H. Morrison, 135. S. N. Haskell, 232. 5, R. M. Kilgore, 59. Biennial Report, 110. I. J. Hankins, 234. 6, W. T. Knox, 53, Secretary's Report, 110. I( Proceedings, 379, 417. A. J. Haysmer, 198, 275. 7, A. G. Daniells, 164. B. L. Howe, 279. District No. 8, 0. A. Olsen, 158, 159, MICHIGAN SANITARIUM AND BENEVOLENT L. Johnson, 208. 161. ASSOCIATION. J. H. Kellogg, 71. COLLEGE AND ACADEMY REPORTS. 139, 189, 282, 312. C. H. Keslake, 455. PUBLISHING HOUSES. Mrs: L. Flora Plummer, 345. Battle Creek College, 15. W. W. Prescott, 393. Healdsburg College, 56. Review and Herald. 291, 293, 333. W. A. Spicer, 153, 432. Union College, 57. Pacific Press, 165. J. L. Shaw, 236. Walla Walla College, 88. Echo Publishing Company, 426, 444. W. H. Thurston, 121. South Lancaster Academy, 58. Herald. Publishing Company, 418. N. Z. Town, 324. Keene Academy, 87. PUBLISHING WORK. E. J. Waggoner, 364. Southern Industrial School, 167. Paper on, 1-15. F. H. Westphal, 245, 326. Mount Vernon Academy, 112. J. E. White, 479. Huntsville Industrial School, 60. REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. Mrs. E. G. White, 23, 35, 83, 124, 182, Woodland Industrial School, 136. Committee of Counsel, 27, 33, 34, 66, .212, 276., 367, 396, 419, 422, 426, 452, 481. 2_4-7 FIELD REPORTS. 85. SERMONS. Macedonian Cry (Europe), 117. Committee on Finance, 171, 185, 207, J. A. Brunson, 372. South America, 121. 385, 446. (TEN,ERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN.

' Committee on Organization, 139, 169, General European Union Conference, Errata, 33, 88, 112, 136, 200, 352. 170, 185, 186, 201, 219, 232, 281, 390, 415. 390, 391. Evening Sermon (A. T. J.), 37. Committee on Constitution, 378, 390, Early Morning Meeting, 65. ALPHABETICAL INDEX. 444. European Conference, 159. Committee on Education, 207, 230, Advent Message (poem), 46. Eastern Union Conference, 305. 306, 418, 448, 452. Address (I. H. E.), 93. Echo Publishing Company, 426. Committee on Canvassing, 216, 230, Another Treatise on Present-day Is- Extracts from Sermon (Mrs. S. N. H.), 249, 300, 322, 362, 378, 392, 449, sues, 377. 456. Committee on Distribution' of Labor, Abiding Riche's (poem), 112. Field, The (A. G. D.), 47. 185, 281, 282, 311, 329, 330, 355, 356, 390, Afternoon meeting, Sanitarium Financial Statement, Foreign Mission 414, 417, 442, 443, 444, 445. Chapel, (April 20), 436, 451. Board, 97. Committee on I. R. L. A., 312. Argentine Mission Field, 245, 324. Flattery the Blight of Character, 136. Committee on Nominations, 205, 333, Appeal to our Ministers, (Mrs. E. G. Financial Statement, General Confer- 417, 419, 442, 447. W.), 267. ence Association, 312. Committee on Credentials and Li- Battle Creek College Educational Re- Financial Statement, International\ censes, 312, 447. port, 15. Religious Liberty Association, 344. Committee on Young People's Socie- Bible Study (W. W. P ), 42. General Conference Proceedings, 17, ties, 441. Bible Study (E. J. W.), 78, 220. 33, 66, 89, 113, 137, 169, 185, 201, 209, 225, Committee on Woman's Gospel Work, Bible Study (S. N. H.), 98, 106, 329. 249, 281, 306, 329, 353, 379, 409, 441. 448. Bible Study (A. T. J.), 101. Gem of Song, 377. Committee Representing German "Behold Your God" (poem), 132. General Conference Constitution, 378. Work. 356, 378. Biennial Reports:— General Conference Bulletin, 457. OBITUARY. District No. 1, 51. Gospel in Genesis, 455. District No. 2, 52. G. T. Wilson, Wm. Cottrell, D. A. Gift of Speech, 141. District No. 3, 133. Robinson, F. W. Brown, Jerome Fargo, Great Call for Small Work, 168. District No. 4, 135. W. C. Grainger, J. H. Cook, Harrison General Summary of Organizations District No. 5, 59. Grant, R. J. Lawrence, Dr. Geo. W. and Recommendations, etc., April 2 to District No. 6, 53. Burleigh, Mrs. S. M. I. Henry, 21. May 1, 1901, 499. District No. 7, 164. Healdsburg College, 56. DELEGATES. District No. 8, 157. Hawaiian Mission Field, 279, 298. List of, 18. I. R. L. A., 110. His Wondrous Love (Mrs. E. G. W.), STATISTICS. Int. Tract Society, 399. 422. General Conference, 162, 163, 164. West Indian Mission Field, 275. In the Regions Beyond (Mrs. E. G. District No. 1, 51. Conferences Admitted:— W.), 83. District No. 2, 52. Queensland, 19. International Medical Missionary and District No. 3, 133. South Australia, 19. Benevolent Association, 172, 286, 314, District No. 4, 135. Cumberland, 20. 336. District No. 5, 59. Ontario, 20. Indiana, Late Movement in, 419. District No. 6, 53. Constitution and By-Laws for South- International Sabbath-School Associa- District No. 7. ern Union Conference, 132. tion, 349. District No. 8, 157, 161. " Captive Exile " (poem), 153. Instruction Regarding the School - International Medical Missionary and " Conscience " (poem), 168. Work, 452. Benevolent Association, 172. Canvassing Work, the; 300, 322, 362, Illustrated Stereopticon Lecture, 491. International Sabbath-school Asso- 392, 483, 489. Keene'Academy, 87. ciation, 62, 63. Colorado Medical Missionary and Living by Principle Rather Than by West India Mission Field, 198, 275. Benevolent Assn., 320, 343, 358. Impulse, 168. " Christ's Object Lessons," 210. Committee on Young People's Work, Letter from Trinidad, 200. Argentine Mission Field, 245. 331, 377, 441. Mount Vernon Academy, 112. Constitution of Lake Union Confer- Macedonian Cry, 117. CONSTITUTIONS AND ORGANIZATION OF ence, 475. Michigan Sanitarium and Benevolent GENERAL AND UNION CONFERENCES. Constitution of Northwestern Union Association, 139, 189, 282, 312. General Conference Committee, 377, Conference, 476. Michigan Sanitarium and Benevolent 409. Confession, 422. Association, Financial Report, 139. General Conference Constitution, 378. Constitution of Southwestern Union Mexico and Its Needs, 279. Eastern Union Conference,- 305, 476. Conference, 449. Missionary Service, 246, 257. Southern Union Conference, 113, 132, Constitution of Pacific Union Con- Missionary Talk (B. J. C.), 197. 185, 441. ference, 361. Missionary Reading Circle, 273, 345. Lake Union Conference, 475. City Work, 370. Missionary Farewell Service, 458. Northwestern Union Conference, 164, Conference, Close of the, 457. Memorial, Reunion of Confederate 476. Constitution of Eastern Union Con- Veterans, 357. Southwestern Union Conference, 409, ference, 476. Many Books in One, 377. 449. Delegates, 18. Memorial, and Constitution of General .Pacifie 'Union Conference, 353, 361. Daily Program,-11. European Union Conference, 390. GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN: 511

Need and Proper Use of Funds(I.H.E.), Sermon (M. C. W.), 400. State was present, about one hundred 75. Special Report of German Brethren, and twenty delegates being in attend- Necessary Preparation for Missionary 356. ante. Work (W. A. S.), 153. Talk of Mrs. E. G. White, 23. , The principles and spirit that had char- Need of Missionary Effort (Mrs. E. Training of Workers (J. H. N.), 71. acterized the course of the General Con.; G. W.), 182. Treasurer's Report of General Con- ference just closed were continued in , Our Supply in Christ (Mrs. E. G. W.), ference, 137, 208.- this general meeting and Conference 35. Trinidad, Letter from, 200. . in Indiana. Everything was done Oakwood Industrial School, 60. Talk on Consecration (W. W. P.). 193. openly, with all the people present. Our Best Meetings, 305. Timely Book, 353. Everything was stated candidly, and Organization of General Conference Testimony to Ministers, 426. made plain to all, that all the people Committee, 409, 3'77. Testimonies, see Special Talks, Mrs. might know all that was done, and Organization of Southwestern Union E. G. White. should themselves be the principals in ---"1-- Conference, 409. Union College, 57. the doing of it. Since they, the people Organization of Southern Union Con- Woman's Gospel Work, 55. of the Indiana Conference, are the In- ference, 441. Work among the Germans, 61. diana Conference, -what was to be done Organization and Work of the General Whom God Loves, 64. in this Conference, as of the Indiana Conference Committee, April 18 to Walla Walla College, 88. Conference, must be done by the people. May 1. 506. Will a Man Rob God? (Mrs. E. G. W.), Therefore, it was essential that every- Pacific Press Publishing Co., 165. 124. thing should be plainly stated and Publishing Convention, Topics Consid- Woodland Academy, 136. thoroughly known by the peoe who ered, 1-15. When the Heart is Heavy, 162. were to do what must be done. President's Address, 20. West Indian Mission Field, 198. The meeting began Friday evening, Program, 1. Work in England, 364, 393. with a sermon by Elder Daniells, from Pacific Union Conference, 353. " Wondrous Gift " (Poem), 378. the expressive words of Joshua 3 : 5; Plea in Behalf of the French in North Work in Canada, 428. 4:24:" Sanctify yourselves: for to-morrow America, 477. Work in India, 432. the Lord will do wonders among you." Report of International Sabbath- Work in the South, 479. '' That all the people of the earth might school Association:- know the hand of the Lord, that it is Corresponding Secretary, 61. mighty: that ye might fear the Lord GENERAL MEETING IN INDIANA. Recording Secretary, 62. your God forever." The Lord is read• : Treasurer, 87. THE first general meeting since the to do wonders with his people. All that,____\40 Report of Committee on Canvassing General Conference, was held at Indian- is needed is that the people sanctify and Colporteur Work, 378. apolis, Ind., May 3-5. There were pres- themselves,, cut themselves loose, and Recommendations Accepted by the ent Elders A. G. Daniells, W. W. Pres- set themselves apart from the world, German Brethren, 378. cott, A. T. Jones, P. T. Magan, W. C. and all that is of it, that God may, have 7' Report of Committee on Young Peo- White; and, as Sister White and her full possession. The word was well re- ple's Meetings, 441. party were starting westward just at ceived, and the Spirit of God witnessed Resolutions of Woman's Gospel Work, this time, she went by way of Indian- to it. 449. apolis, and was also present. Sabbath morning at 8:30 o'clock, i Resident Canvasser and His Work, From previous numbers of the BULLE- Brother Prescott gave one of the best' a 448. TIN, the readers of the BULLETIN know Bible studies that ever I heard, from South Lancaster Academy, 58. that fanaticism had created considera- 2 Cor. 3:1-6; 4:1-7, on the ministiy of the Sabbath-school Reports, 63. ble confusion in the Indiana Conference Spirit of life. Words can not descri South America, 121. By the testimony during the General Con- it, but a careful reading of the scrip- Sure Cure for Bitter Experience, 160. ference, published on pages 419-422 of tures used will give an indication of the Summary, General. the BULLETIN, the true situation was line of study. The Spirit of God was Statistics of European Conference, 161. made plain. The brethren who had led present in power, giving light and life, Statistics of Conferences and Missions in the wrong course confessed to this, and deeply impressing conviction of for Year Ending December 31, 1900, 162. and placed themselves in the attitude of truth, privilege, and duty. Sermon (A. T. J.), 252. perfect willingness to aid in every way At eleven o'clock Sister White spoke Sermon (A. G. D.), 20. possible in putting the affairs of the with her usual power and solemn Im- Sermon (E. J. W.), 145, 403. Conference on a better basis. At the pressiveness, on the love, the presence, •, Sermon (A. G. D), 150. time of the General Conference, the and, the ready helpfulness of Christ to Southern Industrial School, 167. Indiana Conference Committee tendered all. Scandinavian Work in the United their resignation. But as this was a At two o'clock the Sabbath-school States, 208. matter to be considered by the people of lesson was studied. The house was so Sermon (L. C. S.), 224, 237. the Indiana Conference rather than by full that, instead of reciting by classes, Sermon, (J. 0. C.), 241. the General Conference, it was thought all joined in a study of the lesson of the Seventh-day Adventist Publishing best to convene a special session of the sanctuary, led by Brother. Prescott. Association, 291, 333. Indiana Conference. Although the no- Beautiful lessons were found on the Sermon (W. W. P.), 128, 302, 320. tice was short, the response was hearty, meaning of the earthly sanctuary, as Sermon (J. A. B.), 372. and a good representation from all the parable for the time then present, s'

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nifying that the way into the holiest of themselves did the business; they This business meeting closed about k all was not made manifest while the themselves named the committees. six o'clock, in full unity of the brethren, first tabernacle was yet standing ; and, Sunday morning at 5 : 20 there was a with the deep and heart-felt doxology, upon the manifestation of that way into Bible study led by Elder Prescott on the "Praise God from whom all blessings the holiest of all, since the first taber- kingdom of God of Dan. 2 : 44. At 8:,30 flow." nacle is not now standing, hearts were Sister White gave counsel, clear and The closing service was at '7:30, in a made to burn as it was seen that Christ direct, on the situation as it was in In- discourse by Elder Prescott, on " He alone is the Way into the holiest of all; diana. It was accepted by all; and all that shall endure unto the end, the that Christ is the great object and the willingly began to act in accordance same shall be saved." meaning of the parable, as in all things with it. At 10 : 30 Elder Jones delivered At the end of the discourse ,the meet- I of God he is the Way. a discourse on the power of that endless ing was. closed, and the brethren de- At three o'clock Elder Jones followed, life by which alone men are made priests parted to their homes in good cheer, of with a discourse on the priesthood and and ministers of God. It is found only good courage, with the set purpose of ministry of Christ as the pattern of the in the righteousness of God, which is by " endeavoring to keep the unity of the 'priesthood and ministry of Christians. faith of Jesus Christ; for " In the way Spirit in the bond of peace." There are Pot` of us it is written: "Ye are a of righteousness is life, and in the path- better days for Indiana, and for all the chosen geteration, a royal priesthood," way thereof there is no death; "-"Right- field; for this meeting made it per- and "all things are of God, who hath eousness delivereth from death;" and fectly plain that the good work of re- reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, the gospel is the power of God, because organization which God began in Gen- and hath given to us the ministry of that therein is the righteousness of God eral Conference, he will continue in the reconciliation." 2 Cor. 5:18. Christ was revealed. This was followed in the field until all the Conferences shall be, made priest "after the power of -an interval before the afternoon meeting, reached and touched with the new life endless life. " Heb. 7:16. And it is only by a Bible study with the ministers and and power which have come down from " the power of an endless life " that can other workers of Indiana, led by Elder heaven to water and revive his thirsty ever make anybody a priest and minister Prescott, on the development of the heritage. And let all the. people pray of God. It is only an endless life, of truth in the boOk of Daniel, leading up that thus it may be, and more and which we are the ministers. God has to the finishing of transgression, the more. "ALoivZo T. JONES. committed to us the worcrof reconcilia- making an end of sins, and reconcilia- tion. 2. Cor. 5:19. That word is the tion for iniquity, and the bringing in of The whole General Conference com- word of life, eternal life. It being thus everlasting righteousness, the sealing up pany were freely entertained at the IL— -only an endless life of which we are of the vision and prophecy, and the sanitarium conducted by the Brethren ministers, it is impossible for any one to anointing of the Most Holy, by the com- Ross. They have an excellent start-,, minister that which he has not. Then, ing and the sacrifice of Christ, and his and are doing a good work. They have except we be possessed of endless life, ministration in the sanctuary and the a beautiful place, in a most excellent our ministry, as of God, is nothing. true tabernacle which God pitched and location. It was a pleasure to be there. This simply expresses the great truth not man. At noon, Sister White and A. T. J. that every man must himself be that her party departed for the West. which he calls others to be, or his call At 3 P. M. there was again a business BELOW are given the pages on which is in vain. No man can minister that meeting of the Conference, which again reports of the Committee on Distribution which he has not. And in this, as in was but a continuation in principles and of Laborers may be found (discussion all other things of Christ, full provision spirit of the other meetings that had and adoption of reports shown in paren- is made, because, though "the wages of been held. All the committees re- theses): 281, 282 (310), 311 (329), 330 (332, sin is 'death," "the gift of God is eter- ported, their reports were freely con- 353), 355, 356 (387, 388), 390 (414, 415), 417 ' nal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." sidered and adopted, in great spiritual (442, 444), 445 (446). Endless life is a free gift to every soul, blessing. When the Finance Committee Recommendations 1-122 were adopte and every one can have it by believing reported, there was the period o f great- with the exceptions noted: Nos. 41, 74, 'in -Jesus. " He that believeth on the est blessing. The Spirit of God came 85, 102, 107, 108, and 110 were referred Son hath everlasting life." upon dear Brother M. Hill, and he to the General Conference Committee; At the close of the Sabbath, there was delivered one of the most thrilling ex- No. 55 changed to 92; Nos. 64 and 65-with- taken up the business of the Conference; hortations that it was ever my privilege drawn. At 7 : 30 Elder Daniells was to preach, to hear. And• to this statement I know but the business meeting was so spirit- that all who were present will say ual, and therefore so interesting, that it " Amen.," ERRATUM. was the unanimous choice that the bus- The. new Conference Committee, BY an error, the article on " The iness meeting should continue. And unanimously elected, are: President, Resident Canvasser and His Work " throughout, the proceedings were not Elder Ira J. Hankins; Executive Com- (page 449 of the BULLETIN) is given as an distinguishable in spirit from the mittee: Ira J. Hankins, P. G. Stanley, address delivered in the Canvasstire Con- meetings that had been held even on the Enoch Swartz, J. H. Crandall, and R. 0. vention. The address, though prepared Sabbath; because the same principles Ross, M. D., As Sister Thompson is for delivery in the Convention, was ,were sinyply continued in the business called to work in another State, Sister omitted for lack of time, but was pub- i meetings that had been dwelt upon in Clara Miller was chosen as Sabbath- lished in the BULLETIN by special re- the Sabbath meetings. The people school Sedretary. quest. • THE • GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN. PUBLISHED QUARTERLY.

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periences of many in the Conference, led to charges in THE GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN the manner of conducting Conference business, and, PUBLISHED subsequently, to a number of important changes in The Seventh-day Adventist General Conference the organizations throughout the field. Some of these changes are far-reaching in their influence upon our work. They are worthy of careful study, and should PRICE: be more fully presented than it is possible in this For the DAILY BULLETIN during General Conference session...50c For the biennial term, including daily and quarterly issues ....75c number of the BULLETIN. Here we can refer but Subscriptions at the 75-cent rate, for the current volume, will very briefly to the most important changes that include all issues during1901 and 1902. have been made.

EDITOR H. E. OSBORNE. THE GENERAL CONFERENCE COMMITTEE. In forming the General Conference Committee for Entered at the Post Office in Battle Creek, Michigan: 1901-02, the number of members was increased from thirteen to twenty-five, and care was taken to A BRIEF GLANCE AT THE WORK OF RE- place on the Committee, ministers, physicians, teach- ORGANIZATION. ers, printer's, and businesS men. Reasons for this change are plain—that the affairs of the Conference might come before many minds, and that all the AT the opening of the last General Conference a most important phases of our great work might be message came in clear, emphatic language, to officers, definitely represented in the Committee. The ulti- boards, and delegates, to "Reorganize." And we were mate point to be gained is that every depart- told not to wait until the Conference was over ment of, the cause shall receive the fairest and most before starting the work, but to begin at the begin- efficient administration possible. ning of the Conference. The following statements are taken from the instruction given: — ORGANIZATION OF UNION CONFERENCES. " There must be a renovation, a 'reorganization." Before the Conference closed, arrangements had " There must be a decided change in the manage- been made for organizing the six General Conference ment of things at the heart of the work." " Greater' Districts into Union Conferences, each organization strength must be brought into the managing force of to by complete in itself, having an Executive Commit- the Conference." "Here are men standing at the tee, with a President, Secretary, Treasurer, and Audi- head of our various institutions, of educational tor, and each to take the entire oversight of the work interests, and of the conferences in different local- in its territory. The Union Conference Committee ities and different States. All these are to stand will unite with each of the States in looking after as representative men, to have a voice in mold- their interests; work up, receive, and administer funds; ing and fashioning the plans that shall be carried advise with States in exchanging laborers; and practi- out" " What we want now is reorganization. We cally carry forward the work in its territory as though want to begin at the foundation and build upon a no other Conference existed, except that it will co- different principle." operate with all other Union Conferences, and with These statements, with the convictions and ex- the General Conference. This, it will plainly be seen, 514 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN.

will distribute the responsibilities of the General Con- done in making arrangements for carrying on ,the ference, placing them more fully and definitely upon regular business, this Conference has established a. those who are on the ground where the work is to be Union Conference paper, called The Pacific Recorder. done and the issues to be met. Thus more men and It is issued fortnightly, and is full of valuable in- more talent will-be brought into the management of struction and interesting reports for the churches. the work. A thousand details will be transferred from throughout the Conference. the General Conference Committee to those whom the As we see the grand work this Conference is\ doing, Lord has called to his work, and whom he has placed and experience the relief from perplexing burdens in the field where the details are to be worked out. it has taken from the Committee at headquarters, we' If this plan is managed wisely by those first placed in are more thankful than we can express for this change charge of the different conferences, a large number in plans. of men and women will be brought to the front, with THE LAKE UNION CONFERENCE. the experiences necessary to make them safe and This Conference is composed of Michigan, Wiscon- valuable burden-bearers in the various departments sin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Ontario. It has of the cause. eighteen thousand members, and a staff of two hun- THE SOUTHERN UNION CONFERENCE. dred and fifty laborers employed. In its territory are This was the first Union Conference to complete its located the oldest and largest institutions of the organization, weigh anchor, and unfurl sails. Its denomination. It began its administration the first territory embraces the nine Southern States, formerly of July. During that month the members of the known as District 2. The Conference membership is Executive Committee held an important council at nearly three thousand; its staff of ministers and Berrien Springs, Mich., in connection with the teach- other Conference laborers about seventy. The annual ers' institute. The value of this council was very tithes for 1900 were reported to be thirteen thousand much increased by the presence of a number of min- dollars. It has a publishing house at Nashville, an isters of experience from the different States compos- academy at Graysville, and an industrial school for ing the Conference. At this time the organization, colored people at Huntsville. There are several small begun at the General Conference, was completed. A schools and missionary enterprises being operated in definite progressive policy was adopted for the ad- various parts of the Conference. During the past vancement of the cause. both in this Conference and summer, five State Conferences have been organized in in distant fields. the Southern Union Conference. When we remember Two lines of work that have received special atten- the difficulties that would naturally attend the begin tion in this Conference are education and canvassing. ning of the new organization, the Mack of funds, and The auditor has examined the books of every State the nature of the field itself, we are filled with courage treasurer, and has worked untiringly to assist in plac- regarding the future of this new departure. ing the accounts of the conferences in good shape.

THE PACIFIC UNION CONFERENCE. The first regular session of the Lake Union Con- ference is to be held in the city of Indianapolis, as Perhaps no Conference in the States has done early in 1902 as will be favorable for a camp-meeting. more ! thorough work in organizing than has the Pacific It is expected that this will be a large and representa- Union ,Conference. It has added to what was District tive gathering. The most of the laborers of the 6, Arizona, Alaska, and Hawaii. The new adminis- State conferences will undoubtedly attend. It is un- tration began July 1, 1901. Without delay, laborers derstood that a great effort will be made to stir the were sent to Arizona, Alaska, and Honolulu. Only city with the message the Lord has given us. those who have served on the General Conference Committee and Mission Board can fully appreciate the OTHER CONFERENCES. relief that comes from the transfer of all the details Three other union conferences have been organized of the work on the Pacific. Coast and the Hawaiian _ in the United States, but they have not as yet fully mission field to a strong and experienced committee, developed their work. In Europe our brethren have located on the coast, and consequently in personal done thorough work in the line of reorganization. As touch with all that demands attention. And best of a full report of their work follows, we will not repeat all, the work in that part of the vineyard will prosper what they have said. - • so much better. Besides the organization of these large arid impor- In addition to all that the other conferences have tant conferences, other important changes in plans of ' GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN. 515

work have been made. Some organizations have At the Central European Conference, German Swit been: discontinued, and their work has been made zerland had been organized into a separate conference, departmental of the General Conference. This is that it might become a part of the German Union true of the International Sabbath-school Association, Conference. About fifteen brethren from Scandinavia the Religious Liberty Association, and the Inter- were on the ground by July 19, and had formed the national Tract . Society. The Medical Missionary Scandinavian Union Conference, with an organization _Board and the Foreign Mission Board have combined, suitable to their present circumstances, electing Elder and all the medical missions outside of Amerioa have P. A. Hansen as their chairman. Germany, which been placed under the direction of the Mission Board. had become too large for a single local conference, The Sentinel of Liberty has been transferred to the had been divided into the East-German and the West- Pacific Press, and was removed to New York the German Conferences and the South-German Mission. first of November, 1901. The Chicago office will be Besides this, the Holland and Hungarian, and the closed, and the workers drafted into other lines of North and South-Russian Missions had been organized, work. The International Tract Society has been dis- and these, with German Switzerland, had been brought continued, the office closed, and the work transferred together as the component parts of the German Union to the Mission Board. The office of the Mission Conference. This work had all gone forward with the Board has been transferred to Battle Creek. This greatest unanimity, and had been nicely completed by gives the officers opportunity to counsel with the July 23. All the leading workers had also given General Conference Committeemen, especially the considerable consideration to the proposed constitution • for the European General Conference. And so at its medical members. - Space will not allow of a full presentation of the first session, Elder Olsen being in the Chair, this con- benefits all these changes are designed to be to the stitution and by-laws, as found in the GENERAL CON- cause. In some cases it means less machinery and FERENCE Bubrinnti, April 22, 1901, was adopted, easier work. In others it means the distribution of with the following changes:— responsibilities, and decentralization of power. In Art. 3, Sec. 3, was so amended as to provide for still others it means economy of labor and funds. " an additional delegate for each three hundred of its In all it is hoped that it means the rapid and earnest membership;" Art. 4, Sec. 1, now calls for an Execu- proclamation of this gospel of the kingdom to all the tive Committee of 13, instead of 9; between Arts. 5 world in this generation. A, G. DANIELL5. and 6 is inserted a new article, specifying that " the funds of the European General Conference shall con- sist of a tenth of the tithe and offerings of the five, DOINGS OF EUROPEAN GENERAL CONFERENCE. union fields named in the Memorial, and such other THE first meeting of the European General Confer- funds as may be given the European General Confer- ence was held in connection with the German Union ence direct;" and Art. 1, Sec. 4 of the by-laws was camp-meeting at Friedensau, July 23-28. Not only so amended as to read: At each regular session the was this the largest meeting ever held by our people Conference shall elect, unless otherwise voted, a in Europe, but it was in every way the best. More standing committee of six delegates, who shall, with found the Lord, and were baptized at this time, than the Executive Committee, constitute a committee, for at any other similar gathering in this field. We had auditing and settling all accounts against the Con- baptism on each of the two Sabbaths during the, ference." meeting, and thirty-eight were baptized. The following delegates were seated: From the Not only was this a good meeting spiritually, but Scandinavian Union Conference, 0. A. Olsen, Dr. J. so much union and harmony prevailed that a large C. Ottosen, N. Clausen, J. C. Raft, P. A. Hansen, J. amount of business could be successfully transacted, P. Hansen, 0. Johnson, E. Lind, E. J. Ahren, 0. J. and a number of new conferences were formed. The Olsen, A. C. Christensen, D. Ostlund; from the Ger- propositions which had been suggested by the late man Union Conference, R. G. Klingbeil, John de General Conference concerning the reorganization of Heer, J. T. Boettcher, J. Erzenberger, W. Krumm, the European field, had met with general approval A. Horner, C. Weber, H. F. Schuberth, H. Hartkop, among our leading brethren throughout Europe, and Dr. A. J. Hoenes, J. Pieper, E. Frauchiger, J. F. delegates had been appointed at all the annual meet- Huenergardt, H. J. Lobsack, C. Reifschneider; from ings, so that the way seemed well prepared for effect- the Central European Conference, B. G. Wilkinson, J. ing the proposed changes. Curdy; Oriental Mission, L. R. Conradi, Basle House, M 6 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN.

J. Robert; British Conference, Dr. A. B. Olsen, W. that our health journals -he started as rapidly as W. Prescott, E. J. Waggoner, W. C. Sisley. the work demands. We further recommend that the We quote herewith a number of the resolutions European General Conference Committee be requested passed in the open sessions of this Conference:- to arrange for the giving of suitable instruction in 1. Whereas, The manifold blessings of God have health principles in connection with general meetings. so richly rested upon the work in Europe in the past (c) That such fields and Conferences as have the that it has now been found advisable to organize a proper facilities be encouraged to start health insti- European General Conference; therefore,— tutions as soon as consistent. Resolved, That we unitedly express our deep grati- 5. Whereas, The mission property at Basle is located tude to God for these blessings, and that we hereby in a German city, and by the recent division of the reconsecrate ourselves to His service. Central European Confeience, the French Sanitarium 2. Resolved, That the accounts of all the laborers and Medical Training School, conducted in that in the mission fields, including the Oriental field, be House, remain in the German-Swiss field, and this audited under the direction of the European General leaves the French field without a health institution in Conference Committee. which to educate medical workers; therefore,— 3. Whereas, Owing to the fact that the original Resolved, That we request the Executive Commit- Central European Conference had deposited with the Me to do all it can to aid in starting a health institu- Basle House (owned by the General Conference Asso- tion in the French-speaking field as soon as the way ciation) a large amount of tithe, which the Central opens. Further, that we request the General Confer- European and German-Swiss Conferences now need ence and Medical Missionary and Benevolent Asso- 1 in order to undertake an aggressive work of evan- ciation to provide us a man to lead out in the med. gelization in their respective fields, and which has ical missionary work in the French language, and been invested in the Chaux de Fonds and Pieterlen that they give him the necessary financial support buildings; therefore,— while he is gaining a preparation for and getting Resolved, That we request the Basle House to as- started in the work. sume the responsibility of carrying the Chaux de 6. Whereas, The starting or enlarging of any insti- Fonds and Pieterlen buildings, and to advance this tution, causing a greater outlay of means, concerns the tithe to these Conferences as fast as needed, and in general financial interests of the entire field; and, — case of loss, cover the same; also, in case of sale, to re- Whereas, We are plainly instructed to counsel to- fund to the Chaux de Fonds church the money that gether; therefore,— church has placed in the Chaux de Fonds building. Resolved, That ere such steps are taken by any 4. Whereas, God has revealed to his chosen peo- field, the counsel and consent of the European Gen- ple the principles of right living, and shown them eral Conference Committee be sought. that the fear of the Lord tendeth to life," phys- 7, Whereas, At the time of the erection of the ically as well as spiritually; and,— Union School at Friedensau only temporary buildings Whereas, "In the preparation of a people for the were put up, and these are not sufficient for the needs Lord's second coming a great work is to be accom- of the school; therefore,— plished through the promulgation of health princi- We request, That the European General Conference ples;" therefore,— Committee consider whether the time has not come- We recommend, (a) That suitable young men and when a suitable building should be provided. women be selected for the different European coun- 8. Resolved, That we request the General Confer- tries, and encouraged to prepare themselves for med- ence and Mission Board to place a good Bible worker ical missionary work by undergoing such training in Paris, one in Rome, and another in Iceland; and as will qualify them for medical practice, and that that these workers, for the present, be supported by funds be secured for this purpose by soliciting help the Mission Board through the General Conference of from our American brethren, and by raising means Europe. in these fields, as far as possible. 9. Whereas, On account of the constant develop- (b) And, recognizing the value and importance of ment of the European field, the number of annual health journals and literature as a means of educating camp meetings will increase, and there are calls for the people, and giving them the principles of health- local meetings during the winter; therefore,— ful living, we urge that such journals and our health Resolved, That, where advisable, these camp-meet- books be given as wide a circulation as possible, and ings may be shortened to about six days. 41 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN: 517

10. Whereas, The Testimonies " plainly advise The European. General Conference Committee had us to do our business as far as possible outside of in all, nine meetings, and the following important camp-meetings; therefore, —, matters were considered during these sessions:- We advise, That the Conferences and Missions of 1. The transfer of the Frederikshavn High School Europe, as far as practicable, close their fiscal year at property to the Scandinavian Philanthropic Society. December 31, and also do their auditing as soon there- A full and satisfactory agreement was reached in this after as possible. matter by all the parties concerned, and ',presented to The Committee on Credentials and Licenses offered the General Conference Committee of America. the following report, which was adopted : — 2. Brother David Ostlund, of Iceland, who was Ministerial Credentials: Z. G. Baharian, J. H. present, spoke of the work in that far northern field, Krum, John Hoffman, David Ostlund, and all the and gave the Committee a better understanding of its ministers who may be in the employ of the European needs. As he must do his work chiefly on Sundays, General Conference, and receive their wages from it. on account of the scattered population, it was agreed Missionary Licenses: Louis Passebois, Ida Schlegel, that he partially employ his time in printing, and that F. and S. Homer, K. Sandelin, and A. Boettcher. the money he would thus be able to save from his Next was the report of the Nominating Committee, wages, go toward supporting a colporteur in that unanimously adopted as herewith given:— island. European General Conference Committee: 0. A. Ol- 3. The situation at Christiania was carefully con- sen, E. J. Waggoner, W. C. Sisley, B. G. Wilkinson, sidered. It seemed evident to every one that, under L. R. Conradi, Dr. P. A. De Forest, R. G. Klingbeil, the present circumstances, we would be obliged to Dr. J. C. Ottosen, E. Lind, P. A. Hansen, 0. A. hold that property for some time in the future, even if Johnson, Dr. A. J. Hoenes, II. F. Schuberth. we should desire to eventually dispose of it, and it After the election of this Committee, it met and or- was thought advisable to make the best possible use ganized itself, W. W. Prescott being chosen tempo- of this place for the time being. If all should turn rary Chairman, and E. J. Waggoner temporary Sec- out well, and the house could become self-supporting, retary. A committee of four, including the chair- that would help in determining what would be best in man, was appointed to make recommendations for the the future. The way had opened to rent this property permanent organization. It was agreed that this to good advantage, and still carry on the business we Committee take upon itself the same class of work as are doing at the present time. A brother who was was done by the General Conference Committee in doing our binding and folding in rented down-town America. P. A. Hansen, J. C. Ottosen, 13, G. Wil- quarters, was glad to come in and rent from us. kinson, and W. C. Sisley were chosen to act as this Then, our medical mission in Christiania, which had Committee on Organization. They reported as fol- thus far been renting a house several blocks distant, lows :— and in a more unfavorable location, at 1,800 kroner a Chairman, L. R. Conradi; Secretary, 0. A. Olsen; year, proposed to fit up the old building for this use. Treasurer, W. C. Sisley; Auditor, E. Lind. By this arrangement, there will be an income of about That the headquarters be in London. $1,500 a year from the rental of the plant, and this Medical Department: J. C. Ottosen, Dr. A. J. amount will be received from brethren who are actu- Hoenes, P. A. De Forest, L. R. Conradi, W. C. Sisley. ally paying that sum to the world now. In carrying Sabbath-school and Educational Department : 0. A. out this plan, it is necessary to make some improve- Olsen, B. G. Wilkinson, 0. A. Johnson, E. 3. Wag- ments, especially in the heating apparatus connected goner, H. F. Schuberth. with the house; but if these improvements were not Publishing Department: L. R. Conradi, J. C. Otto- made, we could not utilize the house in the future. sen, E. J. Waggoner, W. C. Sisley, 0. A. Olsen. So it was voted: — The newly elected chairman introduced the ques- (a) That, as the old heating apparatus in the main tion of selecting a Finance Committee to study the building is worn out, a new apparatus be placed there. financial situation in each of the fields, and in the (b) That the Christiania Medical Mission be allowed various institutions and conferences in European Gen- to enter and fit up the old building as they propose, it eral Conference territory. The folloWing were chosen being understood that the total expense of all im- as members of this— provements shall not exceed 9,000 kroner (the amount Finance Department : L. R. Conradi, 0. A. Olsen, of rent to be paid for the first eighteen mouths). W. C. Sisley, E. Lind, P. A. Hansen. (c) That, until this rent be available to meet this 518 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIIV:

expense, they be allowed to use the money secured 5. Concerning the relationship existing between the from the sale of the unused property (excepting the Central European Conference, with its large unorgan- two large presses), and the collections on bad accounts, ized mission field territory, and the European Gen- the:hrethren agreeing to remain, in the house at 'least eral Conference,. it was stated that there would be in three years (preferably five), subject to sale on six operation the same principles as obtain in the rela- months' notice. tionship of the Union Conferences to the General 4. The recommendations offered by the Medical Conference. Department, and adopted by the Committee as a 6. The doings of the Finance Department, which whole, may be of interest: — were acted upon favorably by the entire Committee, (a) That S. Jespersson, of Basle, take charge of the may be summarized thus: — medical mission in Jerusalem, provided his place at (a) Every Conference and institution in the Euro- Basle be filled by another; yet we would urge that pean General Conference shall have its accounts this be done as soon as possible. audited by a thoroughly competent person at least (b) That a lady nurse go to Jerusalem to help in once a year. the work there. (b) The time and expenses of the Chairman of the (c) That the British health work be put upon the European General Conference are to be paid from the same basis as it is in America and on the Continent. European General Conference funds, as well as such (d) That the supplying of suitable medical mission- other expenses as may be incurred necessarily, in the ary help for the annual meetings be left to the Med- doing of its work. ical Department, after conferring with such conferences (c) In case of a deficit, the Finance Department as desire such help, the traveling expenses of such will be expected to call upon the different Union fields help to be reported to the European General Confer- to supply the lack, not otherwise provided for, in ence. proportion to their membership and financial strength, (e) That all the physicians of the European General that the legitimate expenses of the European General Conference, as far as consistent, meet with the next Conference may be met. session of the European General Conference. 7. Some time was given to the'consideration'of the (f) That we encourage the British Conference to preparation that ought to be made for the observance further develop the medical missionary work by open- of the week of prayer. After quite a thorough can- ing bath-rooms, with electric-light baths, in one or vass of the subject, it was voted, — more different places in their field. That we recommend that the week of prayer be (g) That the health work be opened in Russia by observed at such time as may best suit the circum- sending one or two nurses to that field as soon as they stances in each of the conferences and mission fields, can be found, and that the work be placed, as far as and that each of the Union Conference Committees possible, upon a self-supporting basis. make provision for such readings or general plan of (h) That we establish a monthly circular letter be- the meetings as may seem best. tween the different institutions and medical fields, S. It was voted that Brother A. Boettcher and giving statistics of the treatments, and an account of wife, of Hamburg, and Brother Hamar, of Sweden, such institutions, and the spiritual interests therein. connect with the depository in Helsingfors, Finland. (I) That the Battle Creek Sanitarium be requested There was also an earnest call made for more minis- to send a schedule of their laboratory work to every terial help in Sweden. one of our medical institutions, with such additions While the shortness of time allowed the brethren to as may appear from time to time. only partially solve all the questions that needed at- It might be well to refer to the situation in Jerusa- tention, yet we felt that this had indeed been a profit- lem: Brother J. I. Krum, who opened the work able meeting. The Lord ca,mehigh, and. his-Spirit of there, is an ordained minister, and-it is proposed that unity was present in our councils. Every one was he go to Constantinople to take the place of Brother fully convinced that the work in this large European Baharian, who is trying to secure government permis- field, and in the adjoining Asiatic and African terri- sion to go to Egypt. Brother Krum would then be tory, was only begun, and that even now, we ought to free to take up evangelical work, visiting among our have more time to consider its needs. All felt grate- Turkish Sabbath-keepers, who are greatly in need of ful for having enjoyed the privilege of attending this help, but whom Brother Baharian cannot visit because meeting, and many have written us that the time of government interference. spent there was of great help and encouragement to GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN: 519

them. Friedensau has indeed been, not only to the pastures, fed them with spiritual food, enlarged their people of Germany, but to delegates from all parts of minds as to the needs of his work, and prepared them Europe, what its name signifies- a "Pasture of to better surmount the obstacles which lay in their Peace," where the Chief Shepherd led them into green pathway. L. R. COratAni.

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o WORK COM SCA ME TO SAD. MISS. CHU ( I. German Union Conference July 22, 1901 I. West German Conference... July 20, 1898 193,353 22,597,023 4 4 11 19 23 868 30 898 $8,377 21 I 2. East German Conference July 19, 1901 216,797 20,940,828 5 3 6 14 31 832 39 871 5,336 67 3. South German Mission 133,092 13,043,705 2 2 3 7 9 180 10 190 1.374 37 ' 4- Holland and Flemish Mission 48,906 8,746,000 2 2 3 7 7 157 28 185 1,985 07 $2609 12 Austria- 300,170 26,116,738 1 1 1 6 6 11 00 5. Hungarian- 376,435 20,906,531 1 3 4 4 94 13 107 " 281 46 Balkan Mission.. 285,063 12,367,320 1 2 3 2 72 15 87 128 74 6. German-Swiss Conference July 9, 1901 27,616 2,327,000 2 3 5 5 207 207 1,625 73 316 06 7. North Russian Mission 1,000,000 35,000,000 1 4 5 7 176 176 900 00 170 00 S. South Russian Mission 20,689,374 93,319,677 2 4 6 25 695 225 920 1,945 32 336 93 Total 23,271,006 255,364,842201239 71 114 3,287360 3647 21,965 57 3,432 11 II. Scandinavian Union Con. July 22, 1901 1. Sweden Mar. 12, 1882 450,574 5,097,000 9 3 4 16 28 745 745 3,535 81 740 86 2. Norway June 10,1887 325,429 2,231,000 5 4 9 21 687 687 3,333 80 531 62 3. Denmark . May 30, 1880 39,780 2,460,000 6 3 1 10 17 593 18 611 3,365 98 692 93 4. Finland 373,604 2,637,000 1 2 3 2 45 15 60 436 04 35 25 5. Iceland and Greenland 192,885 81,503 L 1 1 16 16 24 00 Total 1,382,272 12,506,50322 611 39 70 2,070 492119 10,695 63 2,000 66 Ill. British Conference Aug. 3, 1898 314,667 41,660,000 9 6 8 23 962 10,014 00 800 00 IV. Central European Con May 26, 1884 French-Switzerland _ 13,808 . 1,000,000 1 4 3 8 11 324 324 2,911 76 France 536,882 38,538,000 3 1 5 9 5 72 32 194 700 00 ' French-Belgium 13,550 3,103,000 1 1 1 16 16 127 00 Italy 286,589 32,450,000 1 1 2 1 15 15 38 00 Spain and Portugal 588,688 22,660.000 Algeria and Tunis 879,370 6,385,000 Total 2,336,887 104,245,000 5 6 9 20 18 427 32 459 3,776 76 1,085 31 V. Oriental Mission Field European Turkey & Asia Minor 2,345,616 19,902,000 3 3 15 146 70 216 470 00 Greece and Crete 73,297 2,741,000 Egypt 2,958,275 19,755,000 1 2 3 10 10 60 00 Syria 543,300 4,668,000 1 2 3 10 10 100 00 Persia 1,645,000 9,000,00 0 Total 7,565,488 56,066,000 4 1 4 9 15 166 70 236 *630 00 *50 00 European Gen. Conference Grand Total July 23, 1901 34,870,326 471,842,345 6031 70 161 241 6,812 611 7423 $47,081 96 $7,368 08 * Only estimated.

EUROPEAN GENERAL CONFERENCE. with gratitude and devotion, "What hath God wrought!" Let us thank God and take courage. FOR the convenience of BULLETIN readers, our Duly appreciating the fact that under the guiding friends in Europe have prepared a statistical report, hand of God the work in Europe has been thus pros- presenting' at a glance the more important facts pered, may we not profitably inquire if our great relating to any conference or mission field within the Leader's design has been fully realized in that which territory of the European General Conference.- has been accomplished. To this there can be but one It is both interesting and instructive to reflect upon answer. His power to perform wonders in evangel- the fact that the present development of our work izing the peoples of the earth is only limited by the in Europe is the result of scarcely thirty years of unbelief and indifference of his chosen human agents. missionary effort. Twenty-seven years ago, Elder Without useless waste of time in bemoaning our past J. N. Andrews was en route to Switzerland as our unfaithfulness and inactivity, let us renew our devo- first director of the infant mission in central Europe. tion and diligence. Thus shall we know that He The believers were then a handful. Recalling the who is "excellent in working" even the ‘, Lord of obstacles encountered in prosecuting the work in this hosts," worketh in us mightily for the accomplish- I difficult field, may we not exclaim, from hearts filled ment of his own blessed purpose. DIRECTORY OF THE SEVENTIIrDAY ADVENTIST DENOMINATION. GENERAL CONFERENCE. Organized 1861. Office: 267 West Main St., Battle Creek, iells, A. T. Jones, J. N. Loughborough, Anderson, J. N., 3 Arsenal St., Hong Mich., U. S. A. David Paulson. Kong, China. OFFICERS. Finance Committee: S. H. Lane, (chair- Armitage, F. B.,Buluwayo, Rhodesia, man), J. H. Kellogg, I. H. Evans, P. T. - South Central frica. President: A. G. Daniells, 267 West Main Magan, W. H. Thurston (to act as Babcock, D. C., 287 Church St., George- St., Battle Creek, Mich. Committee on Relief of Schools). town, British Guiana, South America. Secretary: H. E. Osborne, 267 West Main Educational Department: J. H. Kellogg Baber, G. H., Casilla 1125, Valparaiso, St., Battle Greek, Mich. (chairman), P. T. Magan (secretary), Chile, South America. Treasurer: H. M. Mitchell, 267 West A. T. Jones, David Paulson, W. W. Baharian, Z. G., Samatia, Constantinople, Main St., Battle Creek, Mich. Prescott, E. A. Sutherland, Frederick ' Turkey. Griggs. Balada, Enrique, Casilla 1125, Valparaiso, EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Religious Liberty Department: Allen Chile, South America. A. G. Daniells, 267 West Main St., Battle Moon (chairman), A. T. Jones, S. H. Beckner, J. B., Ernecourt Villa, Arnold Creek, Mich. Lane, W. H. Thurston, D. W. Reavis. Road, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies. H. W. Cottrell, South Lancaster, Mass. Publication Committee: W. C. White Bourdeau, A. C., 166 Kalamazoo St., I. H. Evans, care Review and Herald, (chairman), E. R. Palmer (secretary), Battle Creek, Mich. Battle Creek, Mich. I. H. Evans, C. H. Jones, J. H. Kellogg, Bourueau, D. T., 629 South Ingalls St., C. W. Flaiz,Box 989, Minneapolis, Minn. L. R. Conradi, J. C. Ottosen, W. C. Sis- Ann Arbor, Mich. Frederick riggs, South Lancaster, Mass. ley, W. D. Salisbury, J. E. White, A. G. Brunson, John A., Berrien Springs, Mich. S. N. Haskell, 400 West Fifty-seventh Daniells, P, T. Magan, W. A. Spicer, Butler, Geo. I., Bowling Green, Fla. St., New York, N. Y. The General Canvassing Agent, and Cady, B. J., Papeete, Tahiti, Society Is- G. A. Irwin, 25 Sloane St., Summer Hill, the General Agents of the Union Con- lands, Pacific Ocean. ferences. N. S. W., Australia. Caviness, 0. W., No. 5 Calle de la Prima- A. T. Jones, 301 San Pablo Ave., Oakland, Sabbath-school Department : W. A. vera, Tacubaya, Mexico. Cal. Spicer (chairman), Estella Houser Daniells, A. 0., 267 West Main St., Battle J. H. Kellogg, care Sanitarium,-Battle (secretary), W. W. Prescott, M. C. Wil- Creek, Mich. Creek, Mich. cox, C. H. Jones, H. R. Salisbury, E. A. Sutherland, A. J. Read, G. W. Thoma- Eastman, W. W., Ernecourt Villa, Arnold R. M. Kilgore, Graysville, Tenn. Road, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies. W. T. Knox, 816 Twentieth St., Oakland, son, Adelaide Bee Cooper, Mrs. L. Flora Plummer (Cor. Sec., Room 705 Evans, I. H., care Reiew and Herald, Bat- Cal. tle Creek, Mich. D. H. Kress, 25 Sloane St., Summer Hill, Northwestern Building, Minneapolis, Minn.) Field, F. W., No. 2 Gogochi, Shiba Koyen, N. S. W., Australia. Tokio, Japan. S. H. Lane, 267 West Main St., Battle General Conference Association: S. H. Lane (chairman), H. W. Cottrell, R. M. Freeman, J. M., Kolo, Mafeteng, Basuto- Creek, Mich. land, South Africa. J. N. Loughborough, 1462 Ninth St., Oak- Kilgore, A. G. Daniells, C. W. Flaiz, land, Cal. C. McReynolds, W. T. Knox, I. H. Ev- Fulton, J. E., Suva, Fiji, Pacific Ocean. ans, C. H. Jones, J. Sutherland, W. A. Gates, E. H., Avondale School, Cooran- C. McReynolds, 821 West Fifth St., To- bong, N. S. W., Australia. peka, Kans. Wilcox, S. H. Lane, P. T. Magan (sec- retary), C. M. Christiansen, J. D. GC/W- Goodrich, H. C., Box 102, Belize, British 0. A. Olsen, 451 Holloway Road, London, Honduras, Central America. N., England. ell, G. B. Thompson, J. M. Rees, C. D. J. C. Ottosen, Margrethevej 5, Copenha- Rhodes, Wm. Covert, W. J. Stone, J. S. Graf, H. F., Caixa do Correio 768, Rio de gen, V., Denmark. Cmnins, A. G. Haughey. Janeiro, Brazil, South America. David Paulson, 28 Thirty-third Place, Auditing Committee: A. G. Daniells, H. Haskell, S. N., 400 West Fifty-seventh Chicago, El. W. Cottrell, R. M. Kilgore, C. W. Flaiz, W. W. Prescott, 81 Manchester St., Bat- C. McReynolds, W. T. Knox, I. H. Ev- ,Haysmer, A. J., 22 Crystal Gade, Char- tle Creek, Mich. ans, R. A. Underwood, W. W. Prescott, lotte Amalie, St. Thomas, Danish West H. F. Rand, care Sanitarium, Battle J. H. Kellogg, A. J. Read, E. A. Suther- Creek, Mich. land, C. H. Jones, L. R. Conradi. Hersum, S. J., Moncton, New Brunswick. A. J. Read, care Sanitarium, Battle Creek, Committee on German Work in North Hibbard, E. J., care College, Healdsburg, Mich. America: H. Shultz, F. H. Westphal, Cal. E. A. Sutherland, Berrien Springs, Mich. T. Valentiner. Hoffman, John, Mellangatan 11, Borga, E. J. Waggoner, 451 Holloway Road, Lon- Committee on Scandinavian Work in Finland. don, N., England. North America: L. Johnson, S. F. Hoopes, L. A., College View, Nebr. W. C. White, Sanitarium, Cal. Svensson, E. G. Olsen, C. A. Thorp, A. Hutchins, F. J., Bocas del Toro, Republic (Twenty-fifth member of Committee not Swedberg. of Colombia, South America. yet chosen.) Transportation Agents: H. E. Osborne, Johnson, Lewis, College l lew, Nebr. Mission Board: A. G. Daniells (chair- 267 West Main St., Battle Creek, Mich. Ketring, H. F., Casilla 1125, Valparaiso, man), J. H. Kellogg, David Paulson, A. S. N. Curtiss, 11 West Twentieth St., Chile, South America. J. Redd, E. A. Sutherland, I. H. Evans, New York, N. Y. Kneeland, W. G., Harris Promenade, San W. C. White, H. F. Rand, W. T. Knox, R. M. Kilgore, Graysville, Tenn. Fernando, Trinidad, West Indies. A. T. Jones, W. W. Prescott. W. 0. Palmer, 1025 Jefferson St., Nash- Lake, D. D., Apia, Samoa, Pacific Ocean. Corresponding Secretary of Mission ville, Tenn. Lane, S. H., 267 West Main St., Battle Board: W. A. Spicer. J. Sutherland, College View, Nebr. Creek, Mich. Field Secretary of Mission Board: W. W. C. McReynolds, 821 West Fifth St., To- Leland, J. A., Sanitarium, Guadalajara, Prescott. peka. Kans. Mexico. Trustees of Foreign Mission Board of B. R. Nordyke, 18 West Fifth St., Kan- Loughborough, J. N., 1462 Ninth St., Oak- Seventh-day Adventists (the Legal sas City, Mo. lanu, Cal. Corporation): G. B. Thompson, J. H. C. H. Jones, 1059 Castro St., Oakland, Cal. McCarthy, Juan, Casilla del Correo 481, Kellogg, David Paulson, A. J. Read, E. W. C. Sisley, 451 Holloway Road, London, Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic, A. Sutherland, L H. Evans, H. F. Rand, N., England. South America. A. T. Jones, W. W. Prescott. MINISTERS. McCoy, L., care Sanitarium, Battle Creek, Pastoral Committee: W. W. Prescott Anderson, Fred, Jagregatan 2, Helsing- Mich. (chairman), S. N. Haskell, A. G. Dan- fors, Finland. Magan, P. T., Berrien Springs, Mich. GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN. 521

Mitchell, H. M., 267 West Main St., Bat- Osborne, H. E., 267 West Main St., Bat- Fulton, Mrs. J. E., Suva, Fiji, Pacific tle Creek, Mich. tle Creek, Mich. Ocean. I Morrow, J. A., 287 Church St., George- Orrell, E. V., Ernecourt Villa, Arnold Fulton, Arthur, Casilla del Correo 481, town, British Guiana, South America. Road, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies. Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic, Munson, R. W, Padang, Sumatra, Neth- Palmer, E. It., care Review and Herald, South America. erlands East Indies. Battle Creek, Mich. Gibson, G. H., Apia, Samoa, Pacific Ocean. Ogden, A. R., Casilla 1125, Valparaiso, Reavis, D. W., care Review and Herald, Hall, Frank, Ernecourt Villa, Arnold Chile, South America. Battle Creek, Alich. Road, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies.' Ostlund, David, Reykjavik, Iceland. Robinson, Diary, 44a Free School St., Hare, Maggie, Sanitarium, Cal. • Owen, G. K., 44a Free School St., Cal- Calcutta, India. Hasegawa,S., No. 13 Nezu Nishisugacho, cutta, India. stein, Wm., Caixa do Correio 768, Rio de Tokio, apan. Piper, A. H., Avarua, Raratonga, Cook Janeiro, Brazil, South America. Hathaway, E., Suva, Fiji, Pacific Ocean. Islands, South Pacific Ocean. Tanner, W. Jay, Ernecourt Villa Arnold Haysmer, Mrs. A. J., 22 Crystal Gade, Richardson, F. I., AL S. Villa, Arnold Road, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies. Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, Danish Road, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies. Thorp, C. A., care Evangeliets Sendebud, West Indies. Saxby, W. H., 43 Howland St., Battle Battle Creek, Mich. Honeywell, Mrs. M. H., King St., Bridge- Creek, Mich. V alentiner, T., care Christlicher Haus- town, Barbados, West Indies. Schwantes, Ernesto, Caixa do Correio 768, freund, Battle Creek, Mich. Howe, Mrs. Lena, Box 291, Honolulu, Ha- waiian Territory. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, South America. MISSIONARY LICENTIATES. -Shaw, J. L., 44a Free School St., Calcutta, Humphrey, Donna, 51 Park St., Calcutta, India. Adamson, C. D., 7a Pembrook St., Port of India. Sheaf e, L. C., Academia, Ohio. Spain, Trinidad, West Indies. Hutchins, Mrs. F. J., Bocas del Toro, Re- Smith, Uriah, care Review and Herald, Allen, A. N., care CaSh and Curry, Key public of Colombia, South America. Battle Creek, Mich. West, Fla., for Bonacca. Ingersoll, K S., 51 Park St., Calcutta, Snyder, E. MT., Casilla 38, Asuncion, Para- Anderson, Mrs. W. H., Buluwayo, Rho- India. desia, South Central Africa. Ingersoll, Mrs. Olive P., 51 Park St., Cal- guay, South America. Spicer, W. A., 267 West Main St., Battle Armitage, Mrs. Mary, Buluwayo, Rho- cutta, India. Creek, Mich. desia, South Central Africa. Johnson, J. L., South Lancaster, Mass. II Spies, F. W., Caixa do Correio 768, Rio de Beck, Henry, Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana, Jones, G. F., Papeete, Tahiti, Society Janeiro, Brazil, South America. South America. Islands, Pacific Ocean. Sutherland, E. A., Berrien Springs, Mich. Beckner, George, Papeete, Tahiti, Society Jones, Mrs. G. F., Papeete, Tahiti, Society Sweaney, W. A., King St., Bridgetown, Islands, South Pacific Ocean. Islands, Pacific Ocean. Barbados. West Indies. Bishop, F. W., Casilla 1125, Valparaiso, Kelley, F. C., No. 5 Calle de la Primavera, Thurston, W. H., 267 West Main St., Bat- Chile, South America. Tacubaya, Mexico. tle Creek, Mich- Bratieht, F. E., Apia, Samoa, Pacific Kennedy, Thomas R, Ernecourt Villa, Town, N. Z., Casilla del Correo 481, Bue- Ocean. Arnold Road, Kingston, Jamaica, West nos Ayres, Argentine Republic, South Bunco-, P., Suva, Fiji, Pacific Ocean. Indies. America. Burden, W. D., No. 2 Gogochi, Shiba Ko- Knight, Annie, 51 Park St., Calcutta, Van Hansen, E., King St., Bridgetown, yen, Shiba Ku, Tokio, Japan. India. Barbados, West Indies. Burden, Mrs. W. D., No. 2 Gogochi, Shiba Kuniya, M., No. 2 Gogochi, Shiba Koyen, Van Horn, I. D., 34 Walter Ave., Battle Koyen, Shiba Ku, Tokio, Japan. Shiba Ku, Tokio, Japan. Creek, lich. Burgess, L. J., 44a Free School St., Cal- Lake, Mrs. D. D., Apia, Samoa, Pacific Wellman, D. E., St. John, Antigua, West cutta, India. Ocean. Indies. Burrus, Georgia A., 44a Free School St., La Rue, A., No. 3 Arsenal St., Hong Kong, Westphal, J. W., Casilla del Correo-481, Calcutta, India. China. Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic, Cady, Mrs. B. J., Papeete, Tahiti, Society Lipka, John, Caixa do Correio 768, Rio de South America. Islands, -Pacific Ocean. Janeiro, Brazil, South America. Westworth, W. A., 190 North Winooski Carrow, Arthur, Suva, Fiji, Pacific Ocean. McCoy, J. R., Pitcairn Island, Pacific Ave., Burlington, Vt. Caviness, Mrs. G. W., No. 5 Calle de la Ocean; care Pacific Press, Oakland, Cal. White, Mrs. E. G., Sanitarium, Cal. Primavera, Tacubaya, Mexico. MacEnterfer, Sara, Sanitarium, Cal. 11 White, W. C., Sanitarium, Cal. Chaney, J. A., Buluwayo, Rhodesia, South Mead, Mrs. F. L., Buluwayo, Rhodesia, 11, Wilcox, M. C., 1059 Castro St., Oakland, Central Africa. South Central Africa. Cal. Coates, Della, 51 Park St., Calcutta, In- Meyers, H. 13., 44a Free School St., Cal- dia. cutta, India. LICENTIATES. Crisler, C. C., Sanitarium, Cal. Morrow, Mrs. J. A., 287 Church St., Crowther, Mrs. L. M., 7a Pembrook St., Georgetown, British Guiana, South Anderson, W. H., Buluwayo, Rhodesia, Port of Spain, Trinidad, West Indies. America. South Central Africa. Davis, T. H., Casilla 1125, Valparaiso, Munson, Mrs. R. W., Padang, Sumatra, Bambridge, E., Papeete, Tahiti, Society Chile, South America. Netherlands East Indies. Islands, South Pacific Ocean. Deane, Paul J., Papeete, Tahiti, Society Ogden, Mrs. A. R., Casilla 1125, Val- Bodwell, A. G., No. 5 Calle de la Prima- Islands, Pacific Ocean. paraiso, Chile, South America. vera, Tacubaya, Mexico. Diriwaechter, R., Casilla del Correo 481, Olney, Mrs. S. J., 51 Park St., Calcutta, Brooking, L., Casilla del Correo 481, Bue- Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic, India. nos Ayres, Argentine Republic, South South America. Oppegard, 0., Casilla del Correo 481, Bue- America. Downer, W. T., 287 Church St., George- nos Ayres, Argentine Republic, South Enoch, Geo. F., Erneeourt Villa, Arnold town, British Guiana, South America. America. Road, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies. Eastman, Mrs. Ophelia, Ernecourt Villa, Orrell, Mrs. E. V., Ernecourt Villa, Ar- Fischer, A. M., San Juan, Porto Rico, Arnold Road, Kingston, Jamaica, West nold Road, Kingston, Jamaica, West West Indies. Indies. Indies. -Giddings, Phillip; New Amsterdam, Ber- Ellwanger, Phoebe, No. 5 Calle de la Pri- Owen, H. A., Tegucigalpa, Spanish Hon- bice, British Guiana, South America.' mavera, Tacubaya, Mexico. duras, Central America. Griggs, F., South Lancaster, Mass. Enoch, Mrs. Geo. F., Ernecourt Villa, Ar- Owen, Mrs. H. A., Tegucigalpa, Spanish Haskell, Mrs. H. H. 400 IA est Fifty-Sev- nold Road, Kingston, Jamaica, West Honduras, Central America. enth St., New York, N. Y. Indies. Palmquist, A., Frederiksted, St. Croix, Maas, J. V., Casilla del Correo 481, Due- Ernst, Louis, Casilla del Correo 481, Bue- Danish West Indies. nos Ayres, Argentine Republic, South nos Ayres, Argentine Republic, South Peart, A. G., Ernecourt Villa,Arnold- America. America. Road, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies. Okohira, T. H., No. 2 Gogochi, Shiba Ko- Fleming, Mrs. A. S., 44a Free School St., Peebles, Winifred, No. 5 Calle de la Pri- yen, Shiba Ku, Tokio, Japan. Calcutta, India. mavera, Tacubaya, Mexico. 522 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN.

Fletcher, Hubert, Ernecourt Villa, Arnold TRUSTEES Froom, J. E., 817 Nineteenth St., Moline, Road, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies. J. H. Kellogg, care Sanitarium, Battle Plummer, Mrs. L. Eton, 705 Northwest- Creek, Mich. Fulton, Dudley I., care Sanitarium, Bat- ern Building, Minneapolis, Wan. A. G. Daniel's, 267 West Main St, Battle tle Creek, Mich. 'Post, Lucy, Casilla del Correo 481, Buenos Creek, Mich. Gardner, W. L., 615 West Park St., Butte, Ayres, Argentine Republic, South 0. A. Olsen, 451 Holloway Road, London, Mont. America. N., England. Gardner, Mrs. Eva, 615 West Park St., "Quantock, W. W., 44a Free School St., W. T. Knox, 816 Twentieth St., Oakland, Butte, Mont. • Calcutta, India. Cal. Garvin, D. Edson, care Academy, Keene, Quantock, Mrs. May, 44a Free School St., David Paulson, 28 Thirty-third Place, Tex. Calcutta, India. Chicago, Ill. George, Arthur W., 1623 Broadway, Little Richardson, Mrs. F. I., Y. S. Villa, Arnold A. J. Read, care Sanitarium, Battle Rock, Ark. Road, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies. George, W. A., care Sanitarium, College Robinson, Mrs. Anna, 44a Free School St., Creek, Mich. H. F. Rand, care Sanitarium, Battle View, Nebr. Calcutta, India. George, Lyra Hunt, College View, Nebr. Roth, Luke, Papeete, Tahiti, Society Is- Creek Mich. J. F. Morse, care Sanitarium, Battle Gibson, G. H., Honolulu, Hawaiian Ter- lands, Pacific Ocean. ritory. Reagan Royer, Ida, 51 Park St., Calcutta, Creek, Mich. H. W. Cottrell, South Lancaster, Mass. Hat ris, Rowland Hill, care Sanitarium, India. Battle Creek, Mich.' Shaw, Mrs. J. L., 44a Free School St., Cal- PHYSICIANS. Hawke. Amy Lois, care Sanitarium, Bat- cutta. India. Anthony, R. S., care Sanitarium, Battle tle Creek, Mich. Smith, S. P., St. Andrews Island, Colom- Creek, Mich. Hayward, Otis M., care Academy, Grays- bia, South America; Via Colon. Beckner, Clara C., care Sanitarium, South ville, Tenn. Smith, Mrs. S. P., St. Andrews Island, Lancaster, Mass. Heald, G. H., Sanitarium, Cal. Colombia, South America; Via Colon. Boyer, Lillian B., care Sanitarium, Battle Heiman, Evelene, care Sanitarium, Battle Snyder, Mrs. E. W., Casilla del Correo Creek, Mich Creek, Mich 481, Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic, Bradford, Joel C., 810-816 Eighteenth St., Herr, A. W., 230 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, South America. Denver, Colo. Ohio. Stauffer, A. B., Caixa do Correio 768, Braucht, F. E., 71 Hereford St., Christ- Herr, Mrs. Ida, 230 Euclid Ave., Cleve- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, South America. church, New Zealand. land, Ohio. Stringer, R. G., Papeete,/ Tahiti, Society Brighouse, Henrietta E., care Sanitaruim, Holden, W. B., 28 Thirty-third Place, Islands, Pacific Ocean. St. Helena, Cal. Chicago, Ill. Stringer, Mrs. R. G., Papeete, Tahiti, So- Brown, Effie, care Mt. View Sanitarium, Hones, A. J., Friedensau, Post Grabow, ciety, Islands, Pacific Ocean. Spokane, Wash. Tanner, Mrs. W. J., Ernecourt Villa, Ar- Bz. Magdeburg, Germany. Bryant, Ruth 0., 150 Hicks St., Brooklyn, Hubbard, Wm. F., 415 Abington Bldg., nold Road, Kingston, Jamaica, West N. Y. Indies. Third and Washington Sts., Portland, Town, Mrs. N. Z., Casilla del Correo 481, Byington, J. F., care Sanitarium, Battle Oregon. Buenos Ares, Argentine Republic, Creek, Mich. Hughes, Mabel, care Sanitarium, Battle South America. Caldwell, J. E., 71 Hereford St., Christ- Creek, Mich. Van Deusen, Mrs. E., King St., Bridge- church, New Zealand. Hunter, Mary P., care Sanitarium, Battle town, Barbados, West Indies. Caro, E. R., care Sanitarium, Gower St., Creek, Mich. Wade, B. 0., No. 30 Oiwaki-cho, Hongo Summer Hill, N. S. W., Australia. Ingersoll, Robert, 51 Park St., Calcutta, Ku, Tokio, Japan. Cleveland, Lou C., Box 492, Honolulu, India. Wade, Mrs. Anna, No. 30 Oiwaki-cho, Hawaiian Territory. Ingersoll, Mrs. Olive P., 51 Park St., Cal- Hongo Ku, Tokio, Japan. Conway, Alice J., care Sanitarium, cata, India. Wellman, Mrs. D. E., St. John, Antigua, Boulder, Colo. Johnson, Sophie, 2619 G St., San Diego, West Indies. Coolidge, T. H., 1436 Market St., San Cal. Wellman, S. A., 22 Crystal Gade, Char- Francisco, Cal. Jones, W. H., Sanitarium, Cal. lotte Amalie, St. Thomas, Danish West Davies, J. P., care Sanitarium, Claremont, Keller, P. Martin, care Sanitarium, Gower Indies. South Africa. St., Summer Hill, N. S. W., Australia. ' Wellman, Mrs. S. A., 22 Crystal Gade, Davies, Hester W., care Sanitarium, Kellogg, J. H., care Sanitarium, Battle 4 Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, Danish Claremont, South Africa. Creek, Mich. West Indies. De Forest, P. A., Weiherweg 48, Basle, Kellogg, M. G., care Sanitarium, Gower Wellman, L. E., Ernecourt Villa, Arnold. Switzerland. St., Summer Hill, N. S. W., Australia. Road, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies. Dryden, Mary V., care Sanitarium, Bat- Kress, D. H., care Health Retreat, Wellman, Mrs. Stella, srneconrt Villa, tle Creek, Mich. Cooranbong, N. S. W., Australia. Arnold Road, Kingston, Jamaica, West Dunlap, I. A., College Place, Wash. Kress, Mrs. Lauretta, care Health—Re- Indies. Edwards, S. S., Berrien Springs, Mich. treat, Cooranbong, N. S. W., Australia. Whiteis, Samantha E., 51 Park St, Cal- Edwards, Mrs. Maria, Berrien Springs, Kynett, Lydia E., care Sanitarium, Battle cutta, India. Mich. Creek, Mich. Eggleston, Elmer L., care Sanitarium, Leadsworth, J: R., care Mount View San- Battle Creek, Mich. itarium, Spokane, Wash. INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL MIS- Erkenbeck, J. W.. No. 5 Cane de la Lemon, Alfred Ernest, care Sanitarium, Primavera, Tacubaya, Mexico. Battle Creek, Mich. SIONARY AND BENEVOLENT Eshelman, Lillian B., care Sanitarium, Lemon, Carrie Johnson, care Sanitarium, ASSOCIATION. Battle Creek, Mich. Battle Creek, Mich. (Incorporated 1893.) Evans, Newton G., care Sanitarium, Bat- Lindsay, Kate, care Sanitarium, Boulder, Office: Battle Creek, Mich. tle Creek, Mich. Colo. Farnsworth, C. P., Apartado 138, Guada- Lockwood, Sheridan L., care Sanitarium, OFFICERS. lajara, Mexico. Portland, Oregon. President, J. H. Kellogg, care Sanitarium, Farnsworth, Anna B, Guadalajara, Mex- Lockwood, Mrs. Myrtle E., care Sanita- Battle Creek, Mich. ico. rium, Portland, Oregon. Secretary, A. J. Read, care Sanitarium, Farnsworth, Harry B., 118 Monona Ave, Loper, A. N., 8anitarium, Cal. Battle Creek, Mich. Madison. Wis. Martinson, Elsie K, Graysville, Tenn. .Treasurer, H. F. Rand, care Sanitarium, Ferguson, Charles Thomas, care Sanita- Merritt, Elsie Bell, care Sanitarium, Bat- di Battle Creek, Mich. rium, Battle Creek, Mich. tle Creek, Mich. GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN. 523

Merritt, Lovina Ruth, care Sanitarium, Winegar, Abbie M., Sanitarium, Cal. Francis, Laura, 426 Trumbull Ave., Battle Creek, Mich. Worster,William W., care Sanitarium, Detroit, Mich. Moran, F. B., 312 North Third St., Los Battle Creek, Mich. French, Mrs. Alma, Keene, Tex. Angeles, Cal. Yarnell, Silas, care Sanitarium, Battle Garthofner, Mrs. H. N., 28 Thirty-third Morse, John F., care Sanitarium, Battle Creek, Mich. Place, Chicago, Ill. Creek, Mich. Giddings, P., New Amsterdam, Berbice, Mortenson, M. A., care Sanatorium, British Guiana, South America. Skodsborg, Denmark. ' MEDICAL MISSIONARIES IN THE FIELD. Giles, C. E., Juniata, Ala. Neall, J. H., 1122 Connecticut Ave., N. W., Aldrich, Bert, Apartado 138, Guadalajara, Gillis, B., care Sanitarium, 603 East, Washington, D. C. Mexico. Twelfth St., Des Moines, Iowa. Nicola, C. C., care Sanitarium, South Allen, C. G., 424 South Montana St., Gillis Mrs. J. B., care Sanitarium, 603 Lancaster, Mass. Butte, Mont. East Twelfth St., Des Moines, Iowa. Nicola, Mrs. Mary B., care Sanitarium, Allen, Mrs. C. G., 424 South Montana St., Glasby, Mary, 917 Upper Sixth St., South Lancaster, Mass. Butte, Mont. Evansville, Ind. Olsen, A. B., 451 Holloway Road, London, Anderson, Martha, care Sanatorium, Groenewald, David, care Sanitarium, N., England. Skodsborg, Denmark. Kimberley, South Africa. Otis, Elmer F., 28 Thirty-third Place, Anderson, Alma, Akersgaden 74, Chris- Groenewald, Mrs. Lucy, care Sanitarium, Chicago, Ill.. tiania, Norway. Kimberley, South Africa. Otis, Frank J., care Sanitarium, Battle Andreason, Lena, Akersgaden 74, Chris- Ground, J. M., Apartado 138, Guadalajara, Creek, Mich. tiana, Norway. Mexico. Otis, Leroy J., 1025 Jefferson St., Nash- Atwood, Julia Luccock, Gitano, Miss. Halberg, Anna, Kungsgatan 34, Stock- ville, Tenn. . Beck, Henry, Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana, holm, Sweden. Ottosen, J. C., care Sanatorium, Skods- South America. Hallin, Anna, care Sanatorium, Skods- borg, Denmark. Bjorkland, Ingrid, 910 Nineteenth Ave., borg, Denmark. Paulson, David, 28 Thirty-third Place, N. E., Minneapolis, Minn. Hansen, L. A., 717 Church St., Nashville, Chicago, Ill. Bliss, W. E., 54 Farrer St., Detroit, Mich. enn. Paulson, Mary W., 28 Thirty-third Place, Bliss, Mrs. W. E., 54 Farrer St., Detroit, Hansen, Mrs. L. A., 717 Church St., Nash- , Chicago, Ill. Mich. ville, Tenn. Perrine, Emma A., care Sanitarium, 603 Bliven, Mrs. Adelaide, 1431 Fifteenth St., Hansen, Peter, care Sanatorium, Skods- East Twelfth St., Des Moines, Iowa. Denver, Colo. borg, Denmark. Place, 0. G., Boulder, Colo. Bogue, Hattie, 1145 Main St., Wheeling, Hansen, Alma, Kungsgatan 34, Stock- Prince, Calvin 0., care Sanitarium, South W. Va. holm, Sweden. Lancaster, Mass. Boram, Harry, 508 Mound St., Cincin- Hansen, L. F., 808 Lincoln Ave., Salt Lake Rand, H. F., care Sanitarium, Battle nati, Ohio. a City, Utah. Creek„Mich. Bramhall, John, 118 Monona St., Madi- Harker, Leila, 133 Aberdeen St., West Rand, S. C., care" Turkish Baths;' Ham- son, Wis. Perth, West Australia, Australia. ilton Road, Newcastle, N. S. W., Aus- Bramhall, Minnie, 118 Monona St., Madi- Harris, Grace, 407 Houston St., Chatta- tralia. son, Wis. nooga, Tenn. Read, A. J., care Sanitarium, Battle Brandstatei, G. A., 71 Hereford St., Harris, A. J., 106 First St., Jackson, Mich. Creek, Mich. Christchurch, New Zealand. Harris, Mrs. A. J., 106 First St., Jackson, Reed, D. W., Box 1405, Colorado Springs, Braucht, Mrs. F. E., 71 - Hereford St., Mich. -Colo. Christchurch, New Zealand. Hausmann, Lelinda, Deutsche Post, Jaffa, Reed, Mrs. Eva, Box 1405, Colorado Briggs, Stella C., Rudius Lane, Port of Palestine, Syria. Springs, Colo. Spain, Trinidad, West Indies. Hermanson, Anna, Kungsgatan 34, Stock- Rice, T. H., 451 Holloway Road, London, Burlingame, C. L., Boulder, Colo. holm, Sweden. N., England. Burlingame, Mrs. C. L., Boulder, Colo. Hicks, Ruth Anna, 615 West Park St., Riley, W. H., care Sanitarium, Boulder, Brown, Elsie,- Eternal's-villa, N. Y. Butte, Mont. Colo. Carahoof, Laura, 817 Nineteenth St., Holies, Mrs. Julia Booker, Friedensau, Ross, R. 0:, 212-226 West Ohio St., Moline, Ill. Post Grabow, Bz. Magdeburg, Germany. Indianapolis, Ind. . / . Carlson, Mrs. Matilda, Kunsgatan 34, Horner,, Lelinda, Deutsche Post, Jaffa, Rossiter, F. M., care Sanitarium, Battle Stockholm, Sweden. Palestine, Syria. Creek, Mich Clark, Nellie, College View, Nebr. Humphrey, Olive, . 322 Superior St., Sanderson, A. J., Sanitarium, Cal. Coates, Della, 51 Park St., Calcutta, Toledo, Ohio. Satterlee, A. R., care Sanitarium, Battle India. Humphrey, Donna, 51 Park St., Calcutta, Creek, Mich. Combs, Anna, 1320 T St., N. W., Wash- India. Shively, J. Dow, care Sanitarium, 603 ington, D. C. Ireland, Jennie, 1430 South Main St., Los East Twelfth St., Des Moines, Iowa. Cooper, Alfred, Tacubaya, Mexico, D. F. Angeles, Cal. Shryock, A Q., 1324 Second Ave., Seattle, Cooper, Mrs. Lillie, Tacubaya, Mexico, Jensen, Laura, 817 Nineteenth St., Mo- Wash. D. F. line, Ill. Simmons, W. 'R., cor. First and Mont- Corbitt, Orie, Apartado 138, Guadalajara, Jespersson, Sven, Weiherweg 48, Basle, cautery Sts., Portland, Oregon. Mexico. Switzerland. Staines,a Carrie E., care Sanitarium, Col- Craig, R. B., 503 State St., Peoria, Ill. Johnson, Ida, 54 Farrer St., Detroit,. lege View, Nebr. Craig, Mrs. R. B., 503 State St., Peoria, Mich. Stewart, Charles E., care Sanitarium, Ill.Il Johnson, Gust, 320 Equitable Bldg., Des Battle Creek, Mich. Dayton, Lottie, 345 Orange St., Cleveland, Moines, Iowa. Thomason, Geo. W., care Sanitarium, Ohio. Johnson, Mrs. Mathilda, 320 Equitable Battle Creek, Mich. Dorsey, Jessie, Denmark, S. C. Bldg., Des Moines, Iowa. Truax, Howard E., care Sanitarium, Bat- Duiguid, Ella, 355 Twenty-third St., Johnston, M. H., 11 Starnes Ave., Ashe- tle Creek, Mich. Columbus, Ohio. ville, N. C. Vernier, Jean A., care Sanitarium, Battle Elhvanger, Mary, Greensboro, Md. Johnston, Mrs. Sallie H., 11 Starnes Ave., Creek, Mich- Erkenbeck, Eunice, No. 5 Calla de la Asheville, N. C. White, Julia A., 28 Thirty-third Place, Primavera Tacubaya, Mexico. Jones, Ruth, 71 Hereford St., Christ- Chicago, EL Everett, Belle, Iowa City, Iowa. church, New Zealand. Whitelock, T. S., 561 Fifth St., San Fattebert, U. C., Apartado 138, Guadala- Kalstrom, Chas., Karl Gustafsgatan 45, lk Diego, Cal.. jara, Mexico. Gothenburg, Sweden. 11/ Whitney, Jean H., care Sanitarium, Bat- Fitch, Dan. A., Apartado 138, Guadala- Kalstrom, Mrs. C., Karl Gustafsgatan tle Creek, Mich. jara, Mexico. 45, Gothenburg, Sweden. 524 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN.

Kirk, H. E., College View, Nebr. Newcomb, Don 0., Apartado 138, Gua- Semmens, Mrs. Emma, Victoria Square, Kirshman, A. F., cor. First and Mont- dalajara, Mexico. Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. gomery Sts., Portland, Oregon. Neilson, Laura, 118 Monona Eve., Madi- Shaman, Geo. T., care Sanitarium, Kirshman, Mrs. Mary, cor. First and son, Wis: Gower St., Summer Hill, N. S. W., Montgomery Sts., Portland, Oregon. Nye, Zoa, care Mount View Sanitarium, Australia. Knight, Anna, 51 Park St., Calcutta, Spokane, Wash. Shannan, Mrs. Elsie, care Sanitarium, India. Otis, Mrs. S. H., 1025 Jefferson St., Nash- Gower St., Summer Hill, N. S. W., Langley, Edna, 28 Thirty-third Place, ville, Tenn. Australia. Chicago, Ottosen, Mrs. J. C., care Sanatorium, Shryoek, Belle, 1324 Second Ave., Laporte, Mrs. Valeria, Place Sevigne, Skodsborg, Denmark. Seattle, Wash. maison Vincent, Vichy, Allier, France. Passebois, Augustine, Place Sevigne, Shryock, Stella T., 1324 Second Ave., Lebert, Mae, 1515 Burt St., Omaha, Nebr. maison Vincent, Vichy, Allier, France. Seattle, Wash. Light, Mrs. Minnie, Graysville, Tenn. Passebois, Mrs. Lizzie, Sekket Tawachy, Sixten, Dina, Jiigaregatan 2, Helsing- Liljestrom,,Ida, Jagaregatan 2, Helsing- Cairo, Egypt. fors, Finland. fors, Finland. Patchen, Nellie A., Juniata, Ala. Smith, Mrs. A. E., 31 Aldrich St., Battle Litchfield, H. F., 105 Railroad St., St. Paulson, Ellen B., 28 Thirty-third, Place, Creek, Mich. Johnsbury, Vt. Chicago,Ill. Smith, Fannie, care Sanitarium, South Loope, Floyd, Duke Center, Pa. Paulson,ise, ou 28 Thirty-third Place, Lancaster, Mass. Loope, Mrs. Florence, Duke Center, Pa. Chicago, Ill. Smith, Rose, Jackson, Mich. Lovell, Arthur I., 618 Tower St., West Phillips, Alice, care Sanitarium, South Smith, Wm. F., Apartado 138, Guadala- Superior, Wis. Lancaster, Mass. jara, Mexico. Lovell, Mrs. Sadie, 618 Tower St., West Plumstead, Robert, 209 Main St., Okla- Starr, A. R., care Mount View Sanita- 'Superior, Wis. homa City, Okla. T. • rium, Spokane, Wash. Maloney, Nina, 28 Thirty-third Place, Plumstead, Mrs. C. C., 209 Main St., Ok- Stilekrath, Mrs. A. G., Grindelberg 15a, Chicago, Ill. lahoma City, Okla. T. Hamburg, Germany. Mann, G. W., 31 La Salle St., Ft. Wayne, Prince, Mrs. S. L., care Sanitarium, Templeton, Cornelia, 407 Houston St., Ind. South Lancaster, Mass. Chattanooga, Tenn. Mann, Mrs. G. W., 31 La Salle St., Ft. Reinke, Otto E., 11 Zabriskie St., Jersey Tieche, L. P., Boulevard de la Repub, Wayne, Ind. City, N. J. lique 32, Nimes, Gard, France. Maxon, Orestos, 230 Euclid Ave., Cleve- Reinke, Mrs. Bina, 11 Zabriskie St., Jer- Vincent, Tillie 118 Monona Ave., Madi- land, Ohio. sey City, N. J. son, Wis. Maxon, Mrs. Carrie, 230 Euclid Ave., Replogle, G. B., 124 Rathcoole Gardens, Voth, David, care Institut Sanitaire, Cleveland, Ohio. Hornsey, London, N., England. Basle, Switzerland. Menkel, H. C., 1635 Champa St., Denver, Replogle, Mrs. Annie S., 124 Rathcoole Voth, Mrs. Albertina, care Institut Sani- Colo. Gardens, Honrsey, London, N., Eng- taire, Basle, Switzerland. Menkel, Mrs. H. C.. 1635 Champa St., land. Wahlstrom, Hedwig, Utteran, Yemtland, enver, Colo. Reveille, Mary, Weiherweg 48, Basle, Sweden. Mc Abee, L. M., 322 Superior St., Toledo. Switzerland. Walston. W. C., Cooranbong, N. S. W., Ohio. Richards, Clara, Bethel, Wis. Australia. McAbee, Mrs. L. M., 322 Superior St., Robie, Alfred, care Sanitarium, Summer Walston, Mrs. W. C., Cooranbong, N. S. Toledo, Ohio. Hill, N. S. W., Australia. W., Australia. Mc Bride, Ethel, Apartado 138, Guadala- Robie, Mrs. Carrie, care Sanitarium, Webster, Amelia D., 32 Old Main St., jara, Mexico. Summer Hill, N. S. W., Australia. Kimberley, South Afric s. McBride, May, Apartado 138, Guadala- Ross J. h., 212-226 West Ohio St., Wedin, Emma. care Sanatorium, Skods- jara, Mexico. Indianapolis, Ind. borg, Denmark. Miller, Edith, 118 Monona Ave., Madison, Ross, Mrs. Iva Hall, 212-226 West Ohio Whiteis, Samantha E., 51 Park St., Cal- Wis. St., Indianapolis, Ind. ' cutta, India. Mousing, J. L., 621 Commercial St., Rousseau, Carrie, College View, Nebr. Wilfang, Chris., Friedensau, Post Waterloo, Iowa. Rousseau, Mrs. L. J., care Sanitarium, Grabow, Bz. Madgeburg, Germany. -Moaning, Mrs. Leone, 621 Commercial South Lancaster, Mass. Williams, Jennie, .Box 414, Huntsville, St., Waterloo, Iowa. Roth, Arnold, rue Dangeau 5, Paris, Ala. Montgomery, James, 603 East Twelfth France. Wilson,- Annie, College View, Nebr. St., Des Moines, Iowa. Rylander, Ida, 1021 East Ninth St., Kan- Wilson, Howard, care Sanitarium, South Mortenson, Mrs. Jessie It., care Sanato- sas City, Mo. Lancaster Mass. rium, Skodsborg, Denmark. Sadler, Mrs. Lena, 971 Howard St., San Willson, J. V., 32 Old Main St., Kimber- Mueller, A. J., Friedensau, Post Grabow, ley, South Africa. Francisco, Cal. Bz. Magdeburg, Germany- Willson, Mrs. J.- V., 32 Old Main—St., ' Mueller, Mrs. A. J., Friedensau, Post Saxton, Clara, Box 492, Honolulu, Ha- Kimberley, South Africa. Grabow, Bz. Magdeburg, Germany. waiian Territory. Wright. Winnie, Nashville, Tenn. Nelson, Anna, Kungsgatan 34, Stock- Semmens, A. W., Victoria Square, Ade- Zahn, Carrie, Box 492, Honolulu, Ha- holm, Sweden. laide, South Australia, Australia. waiian Territory.

EASTERN UNION CONFERENCE. (Organized 1901.)

(Comprising the following Conferences OFFICERS. and the presidents of the following con- and mission fields, viz.: Maine, Ver- ferences; viz., Atlantic, Chesapeake, mont, New England, New York, Penn- President, H. W. Cottrell, South Lancas- Maine, New England, New York, Penn- sylvania, Atlantic, Chesapeake, Vir- ter, Mass. sylvania, Quebec, Virginia, Vermont, ginia, West Virginia, Quebec, Maritime Secretary, Treasurer, and Auditor, Geo. and West Virginia, and Frederick Provinces, and Newfoundldnd.) W. Palmer, South Lancaster, Mass.; Griggs, E. E. Miles, and C. C. Nicola. Office: South Lancaster, Mass. Executive Committee, H. W. Cottrell GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN. 525

ATLANTIC. Tract Society: No Tract Society organi- MINISTERS. (Greater New York, Long Island, and zation, but instead a missionary comit. Geo. E. Langdon, St. John, New Brims- New Jersey.) tee of three: 0. 0. Farnsworth, C. D. wick. Office: 472 Union Ave., Paterson, N. J. Zirkle, F. M. Bradford; Canv. Agt., S. J. Hersum, Moncton, New Brunswick. J. M. Calvert. OFFICERS. LICENTIATES. Sabbath-school Association: Pres., —; W. R. Andrews, Fredericton, New Bruns- Conference: Pres., J. E. Jayne; Sec. and Sec. andTreas., Miss Helen V. Price, wick. Treas., J. W. Rambo; Ex. Com., J. E. (Millington, Md.) Jayne, S. N. Curtiss (Office, 11 West MISSIONARY LICENTIATES. 20th St., New York, N. Y.), E F. Stoll, MINISTERS. J. It. Israel, cm. Windsor and Duncan Sts., E. H. M. Sell, M. D., Edward Nelson. 0. 0. Farnsworth, Westminster, Md. Halifax, Nova Scotia. • Conference Association: Pres., J. E. J. F. Jones, Cambridge, Md. F. A. Tracy, 6 Britain St., St. John, New Jayne; See. and Treas., J. W. Rambo; V. H. Lucas, Cambridge, Md. Brunswick. Trustees; J. E. Jayne, S. N. Curtiss, F. W. Mace, Westminster, Md. Levi Longard, Mutation, Nova, Scotia. F. F. Stoll, E. H. M. Sell, M. D., LICENTIATES. Edward Nelson, It. H. Martin, J. W. H. W. 'Terrell, New Windsor, Md. NEW ENGLAND. Rambo. C. T. Shaffer, 1431 Maryland Ave., N. E., (New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Tract Society: Sec. and Treas., Jay W. Washington, D. C. Island, Connecticut.) Rambo; Gen. Agt., W. S. Cleveland. F. H. Seeney, Cheswold, Del. Office: South Lancaster, Mass. Sabbath-school Association: Sec., Mrs. C. D. Zirkle, 903 Woodley St., Baltimore, OFFICERS. J. W. Rambo. Md. Conference: Pies., A. E. Place; Vice- Children's Industrial Home and Orphan- MISSIONARY LICENTIATES. Pres., H. D. Mattson; Sec. and Tress., age Association: (Office, 472 Union H. B. Tucker; Auditor, Geo. W. Ave., Paterson, N. J.). Pres., J. E. Mrs. M. A. Baker, 1714 West Lanvale St., Baltimore, Md. Palmer; Ex. Com., A. E. Place, M. D. Jayne; Sec. and Treas., J. W. Rambo; Mattson, D. B. Parmelee, D. It MA Trustees: J. E. Jayne, S. N. Curtiss, Miss L. M. Slocum, 46 Myrtle Ave., N. E., Washington, D. C. K. C. Russell. F. F. Stoll, E. H. M. Sell, M. D., Edward Tract Society: Same officers as for Con- Nelson, A. R. Bell, J. W. Rambo. ference, with H. C. Wilcox; Cor. Sec., MINISTERS. Miss Jennie Thayer; Canv. Agt., H. C. MAINE. J. E. Jayne, 165 Godwin St., Paterson, Wilcox. N. J. Office: 1377 Washington Ave., North Sabbath-school Association: Same offi- E. E. Franke, 250 Spring St., Trenton,. Deering. cers as for Conference, with Miss F. M. N.J. OFFICERS. Dickerson, See.; Mrs. F. C. Gilbert, C. H. Keslake, 181 Albion Ave., Paterson, Asst. Sec. Conference: Pres., H. C. Basney; Sec. MINISTERS. N. J. and Treas., Miss E. H. Morton; See. Jesse C. Stevens, 257 Fairmount Ave., A. E. Place, South Lancaster, Mass. and Treas. of Tract and Missionary M. D. Mattson, South Lancaster, Mass. Newark, N. J. Dept., Miss E. H. Morton; Sec. and 0. E. Reinke, 11 Zabriskie St., Jersey Treas. of Sabbath-school Dept., Marilla K. C. Russell, 389 Seaver St., New Dor- City, N. J. E. Manson; Ex. Corn., H. C. Basney, chester, Mass. LICENTIATES. J. B. Goodrich, It. T. Hobbs, E. C. Tay- C. H. Edwards, 52 East St., Pawtucket, R. I. A. R. Bell, Newfoundland, N. J. lor, A. It. Moody. A. H. Clark, 391 Crown St., New Haven, George A. King, 1352 Herkimer St., • MINISTERS Mass. Brooklyn, N. Y. H. C. Basney, 1377 Washington Ave., F. C. Gilbert, South Lancaster, Mass. F. F. Stoll, 373 Boulevard, Jersey City, North Deering. J. M. Erikson, South Lancaster, Mass. N. J. J. B. Goodrich, West Palmyra. Geo. B. Wheeler,South Lancaster, Mass. E. H. M. Sell, M.D., 137 West 94th St., P. B. Osborne, West Palmyra. E. E. Miles, South Lancaster, Mass. New York, N. Y. H. H. Dexter, Milltown. LICENTIATES. MISSIONARY LICENTIATES LICENTIATES. D. B. Parmelee, Centerbrook, Conn. Mrs. M. A. Neale, 257 Fairmount Ave., C. Winfield Richmond, Shawmut. Frederick Griggs, South Lancaster, Mass. Newark, N. J. H. N. Sisco, South Lancaster,Mass. J. W. Rambo, 472 Union Ave., Paterson, MISSIONARY LICENTIATES S. A. Whittier, South Lancaster, Mass. N. J. Marina E. Manson, West Palmyra. Mrs. J. W. Rambo, 472 Union Ave., Pater- MISSIONARY LICENTIATES. J. W. Davis, Cliff Island. C. E. Palmer, Box 457, Everett, Mass. son, N. J. Geo. W. Howard, Canaan. Mrs. R. Leo, 214 Grand St., Brooklyn, Mrs. M. A. Scribner, 41 Elmo St., New Maude Macomber, 1377 Washington Ave., Dorchester, Mass. N. Y. North Deering. Miss Jennie R. Bates, 17 Cottage St., Brockton, Mass. CHESAPEAKE. .Mrs. E. M. Wilber, 19 Pine St., Keene, (Delaware, Maryland [excepting three MARITIME PROVINCES. N. H. western counties belonging to the West (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince A. J. Clark, 391 Crown St., New Haven, Virginia Conference], and the District Edward Island.) Conn. of Columbia.) Address: St. John, New Brunswick. Office: 903 Woodley St., Baltimore, Md. OFFICERS. NEW YORK. OFFICERS. Director, G. E. Langdon; Sec. and Treas., (Excluding Greater New York and Long Conference: Pres., 0. 0. Farnsworth; Mrs. Carrie J. Langdon; Advisory Com., Island.) Sec. and Treas., Chas. D. Zirkle; Ex. G. E. Langdon, Levi Longard (Tantal- Office: 317 West Bloomfield St., Rome. Com., 0. 0. Farnsworth (Westminster, lon, N. S.), Jas. Hannah, Alvin Hubly, Md.), A. Kalstrom (603 A St., S. E., S. J. Hersum. Conference: Pres., G. B. Thompson; Washington. D. C.), F. M. Bradford Sabbath-school Association: Pres., F. A. Vice-Pres., A. 0. Burrill; Sea and (907 Shallcross Ave., Wilmington, Tracy; See. and Treas., Mrs. Carrie J. Treas., T. E. Bowen; Ex. Corn., G. B. Del.), Dr. J: H. Neall (222 Connecticut Langdon; ,EX'. Com., F. A. Tracy, Mrs. Thompson, A. 0. Burrill, S. B. Whit- Ave., N. W., Washington, D. C.), Will- Carrie J. Langdon, J. R. Israel, William ney, N. S. Washbond (323 West Bloom- iam Hurlock (Church Hill, Md.). Landry, Levi Longard. field St., Rome, N. Y.), Irving Whitford 526 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN.

(Adams Center, N. Y.) ; Cant Agt., B. Tract and Missionary Department: Pres., Sabbath-school Department: Field Sec., B. Noftsger (317 West Bloomfield St., R. A. Underwood; Vice-Pres., L N. J. G. White (Jamaica); Cor. Sec., C. H. Rome, N. Y.). Williams; Sec. and Treas., W. M. Lee; Drown (Barton Landing). • Tract Society: Same officers as for Con- Cor. Sec., T..D. Gibson; Canv. Agt., F. MINISTERS. ference. E. Painter. J. W. Watt, 50 Elm St., Bai re. Sabbath-school Association: Sec. and Sabbath-school Department: Sec., Mrs. T. H. Purdon, Rutland. Treas., Mrs. Delia A. Thompson (507 W. M. Lee; Treas., W. M. Lee. W. A. Westworth, 190 North Winooski William St., Rome). MINISTERS. Ave., Burlington, Vt. MINISTERS. R. A. Underwood, Mesopotamia, Ohio. LICENTIATES. G. B. Thompson, 317 West Bloomfield St., L. S. Wheeler, 1103 Fifth St., New Brigh- G. H. Clark, Rutland. Rome, N. Y. ton. C. H. Drown, Barton Landing, Vt. A. 0. Burrill, 429 William St., Buffalo, S. S. Shroek, Box 614, Williamsport, Pa. MISSIONARY LICENTIATES. N. Y. W. J. Fitzgerald, 765 North Thirty-eighth Clara Lecklider,Brattleboro. L. T. Nicola, 57 Jones St., Binghamton, St., Philadelphia. N. Y. Mintha Luce,re. ar E. H. Rees, Newberry. Lillian M. Heath, Rutland. ' J. W. Raymond, Wheeler, N. Y. I. N. Williams, Corydon. F. Peabody, West Valley, N. Y. F. M. Dana, 190 North Winooski Ave., W. H. Smith, 2146 Atlas Ave., Harris- Burlington, Vt. J. B. Stow, Falconer, N. Y. burg. D. A. Ball, Ellicottville N. Y. C. Meleen, Busti, N. Y. A. R. Hyatt, 303 Mohawk St., Rome, N. Y. VIRGINIA. C. F. McVagh, Box 614, Williamsport. Office: New Market, Va. F. H. De Vinney, 317 West Bloomfield St., C. Baierle, 765 North Thirty-eighth St., Rome, N. Y. Philadelphia. OFFICERS. C. 0. Taylor, Norfolk, N. Y. C. S. Longacre, 1510 Federal St., Alle- Conference: Pres., R. D. Hottel; Sec., F. P. Z. Kinne, Kirkville, N. Y. gheny. L. Whitehead (Arlington); Treas., F. Wheeler, West Monroe, N. Y. Morris Lukens, 720 West Eleventh St., James Gargett (Chester); Ex. Com., H. H. Wilcox, Hewittville, N. Y. Erie. R. D. Hottel, A. C. Neff (New Market), S. B. Whitney, 109 Harrison Place, Syra- J. H. Schilling, 113 Mulberry St., Easton. James Gargett, F. L. Whitehead, W. F. cuse, N. Y. Davis (Kilmarnock). LICENTIATES. LICENTIATES. Tract Society: Pres., R. D. Hottel; Sec. B. E. Tefft, Alfred, N. Y. W. F. Schwartz, Box 614, Williamsport. and Treas., James Gargett; Canv. Agt., B. E. Fisk, Richburg, N. Y. August Anderson, Box 614, Williamsport. J. M. Calvert. F. H. Hicks, Box 40, Salamanca, N. Y. Sabbath-school Association: Pres., B. F. MISSIONARY LICENTIATES. Purdham; Vice-Pres., T. H. Painter; Roy F. Cottrell, Ridgeway, N. Y. F. E. Painter, Elliott. ' Mrs. Lulu Wightman, Canandaigua, N. Y. Sec. and Treas., Mrs. A. M. Neff (New H. W. Carr, Bowen, N. Y. W. T. Hilgert, 765 North Thirty-eighth Market) ; Ex. Com., B. F. Purdham, St., Philadelphia. T. H. Painter, Mrs. A. M. Neff, A. M. B. E. Connerly, 429 William St., Buffalo, Philip Rudolph, Box 614, Williamsport. N. Y. Neff, A. J. Painter. J. W. Hirlinger, 210 North Second St., MINISTERS. William J. Boynton, 317 West Bloomfield Philadelphia. B. D. Hottel, New -sarket. St., Rome, N. Y A. C. Neff, Quicksbnrg. E. A. Raymond, Fernwood, N. Y. QUEBEC. B. F. Purdham, Stanleyton, Page Co. T. E. Bowen, 317 West Bloomfield St., T. H. Painter, Stanleyton, Page Co. Rome, N. Y. Office: South St4ely. LICEN I TATES. MISSIONARY LICENTIATES. OFFICERS. J. Painter, Stanleyton, Page Co. Mary A. Millington, 317 West Bloomfield Conference: Pres., S. A. Farnsworth; M. S. Wooding, Danville. St., Rome, N. Y. Sec. and Treas., W. H, Libby; Ex. Rose F. Mead, 109 Harrison Place, Syra- Corn., S. A. Farnsworth, H. E. Rickard WEST VIRGINIA. cuse, N. Y. (Fitch Bay), Geo. A. Cushing (Dix- (Including Garrett, Allegheny, and Wash- B. B. Noftsger, 317 West Bloomfield St., ville), Harvey McCleary (South Stuke- ington Counties of Maryland.) Rome, N.Y. ly), Henry Libby (South Stukely); Office: 812 Seventh St., Parkersburg. Auditor, H. E. Rickard. OFFICERS. NEWFOUNDLAND. Tract Society: Same officers as for Con- Conference: Pres., S. M. Cobb; Sec., W. Address: Harbor.Grace, C. B., Newfound- ference. R. Foggin; Treas., C. E. White; Ex. land. Sabbath-school Association: Sec., W. H. Corn., S. M. Cobb., Henry Neptune, OFFICERS. Libby, South Stukely. William Snyder, C. B. Rule, W. R. Fog- • Director and Treas., H. J. Farman; Ex. MINISTERS. Com., H. J. Farman, C. A. Hansen, J. Tract Society: Sec. and. Treas., C. E. S. A. Farnsworth, South Stukely. White. IL. Johnston (28 Belvidere St., St. H. E. Rickard, South Stukely. Johns, Newfoundland). W. J. Blake, South Stukely. Sabbath-school Association: Sec. and MINISTERS. Treas., Emma S. Newcomer (Hagers- LICENTIATE. H. J. Farman, Harbor Grace, C. B., New- town, A. E. Davidson, Bethel, Quebec. MINISTERS. foundland. S. M: Cobb, 812 Seventh St., Parkersburg. C. A. Hansen, Harbor Grace, C. B., New- R. G. Patterson, 812 Seventh St., Parkers- foundland. VERMONT. burg. MISSIONARY LICENTIATES. Office: 190 North Winooski Ave., Bur- LICENTIATES. Miss Clara L. Farman, Harbor Grace, C. lington. J. W. Lair, 812 Seventh St., Parkersburg. B., Newfoundland. OFFICERS. W. R. Foggin, 812 Seventh St., Parkers- Conference: Pres., J. W. Watt; Sec.,F. burg. PENNSYLVANIA. M. Dana (Burlington) ; Treas., eo. C. B. Rule. 812 Seventh St., Parkersburg. Office Adress: Box 614; or 495 Hepburn Williams (Taftsville); Ex. Com., J. W. P. W. Province, 812 Seventh St., Parkers- St., Williamsport. Watt, A. P. Needham (Vergennes); burg. Conference: Pres., R. A. Underwood; Geo. Williams, A. W. Payne (Jamaica), J. A. Traugh, 812 Seventh St., Parkers- Vice-Pres., L N. Williams; Sec. and W. E. Fortune (Morrisville). burg. Treas., W. M. Lee; Ex. Corn., R. A. Un- Tract Society: Pres., ; Sec. and MISSIONARY LICENTIATES. derwood, I. N. Williams, L. S. Wheeler, Treas., F. M. Dana; Cant Agt., A. E. F. M. Gardner, Elkins, Randolph Co. C. F. McVagh, W. L. Winner. Taylor (North Troy). Mrs. L. F. Russell, Newburg. GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN. 527

SOUTHERN UNION CONFERENCE. (Organized April 9, 1901.) Territory: The Conferences of North Yazoo City (Wilsonia), Miss.: W. D. M. H. Johnston, 11 Starnes Ave., Ashe- and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Astrop, Prin. ville, N. C. Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Ten- Columbus, Miss.: J. W. Dancer, Prin. firs. Sallie H. Johnston, 11 Starnes Ave., nessee River, and Cumberland. Asheville, N. C. • Office: Graysville, Tenn. ALABAMA. Estella Graham, Charlotte, N. C. OFFICERS. OFFICERS. W. M. Baird, Valle Cruces, N. C. Conference: Pres., R. M. Kilgore; Sec., Conference: Pres., W. L. McNeely (1121 C. L. Kilgore; Treas., A. W. Spaulding; North Seventeenth St., Birmingham, CUMBERLAND. Auditor, C. L. Kilgore; Ex. Corn., R M. Ala.); Sec.. A. C. Bird (1816 Marshall (Eastern Tennessee and Kentucky.) Kilgore, J. E. White, S. Al. Jacobs, - Ave., Birmngham, Ala.); Treas., C. E. Office: 46 Lexington Ave., Lexington, Ky. A. F. Harrison, 0. M. Hayward, and the Giles '(Attalla, Ala.) • Conf. Com., W. L. OFFICERS. Presidents 'of the State Conferences McNeely, A. C. Bird, W. r.. Bird, C. J. Conference: Pres., Smith Sharp; Sec., within the Union Conference. Dart, C. E. Giles; Sec. of Dept. of Cir- J. W. Franklin; Treas., E. W. Carey; Tract and Missionary Dept.: See., Clara culation of Literature, C. E. Giles; Ex. Com, Smith Sharp, A. F. Harri- C. Phillips; Gen. Agt., A. F. Harrison. State Agt., C. J. Dart; Supt. and Sec. son, G. W. Wells. Sabbath-school Dept.: Sec., Mrs. A. F. of Dept. of Education, W. L. Bird; Sec. Tract and Missionary Department: Sec. Harrison. of Medical Missionary Dept., C. E. and Treas., E. W. Carey; State Agt., Medical Missionary Dept.: Sec., Dr. 0. Giles. A. F. Harrison, Graysville, Tenn. M. Hayward, MINISTERS. W. L. McNeely, 1121 North Seventeenth Sabbath-school Department: See., Mrs. Southern Educational Committee: R, M. Mary Eldridge (Graysville, Term.). Kilgore, J. E. White, W. J. Stone, Ir- St., Birmingham, Ala. A. C. Bird, 1816 Marshall Ave., Birming- MINISTERS. ving Keck, Smith Sharp, S. M. Jacobs, Smith Sharp, Graysville, Tenn. A. F. Harrison, J. 0. Johnston, S. B. ham, Ala. W. L. Bird, Oxanna, Ala. Otho C. Godsmark, 2005 Magazine St., Horton, 0. M. Hayward. Louisville, Ky. Educational Department: See., Prof. N. B. E. Nicola, ,Box 414, Huntsville, Ala. W. Lawrence. LICENTIATES. LICENTIATES. Southern Conference Association of the T. B. Buckner, Montgomery, Ala. G. W. Wells, Sanford, Tenn. Seventh-day Adventists: Incorporat- C. Jr. Dart, Attalla, Ala. Hugh W. Jones, Knoxville, Tenn. ors: R. M. Kilgore, Smith Sharp, W. MISSIONARY LICENTIATES. MISSIONARY LICENTIATES. 0. Palmer, S. M. Jacobs, Cyrus Sim- C. E. Giles, Attalla, Ala. W. E. Haskell, Harriman, Tenn. mons, Irving Keck, M. H. Johnston. Mrs. Nellie Honeywell, Juniata, Ala. Mettle S. Lenker, Graysville, Tenn. Officers: Pres., R. M. Kilgore; See. and Mary McIntyre, Graysville, Tenn. J. W. Franklin, Graysville, Tenn. Treas., Smith Sharp. Jennie Williams, Box 414, Huntsville, E. W. Carey, 46 Lexington Ave., Lexing- Committee on Transportation: R. M. Ala. ton, Ky. Kilgore (Graysville, Tenn.); W. 0. Self-Supporting Bible Worker: G. C. Carrie Lawwill, Covington, Ky. Palmer (1026 Jefferson St., Nashville, Beaumont, 606 Dauphin St., Mobile, Tenn.). Ala. MINISTERS. FLORIDA. R. M. Kilgore, Graysville, Tenn. Office: Box 508, Orlando, hla. J. E. White, 1025 Jefferson St., Nashville, CAROLINAS. OFFICERS. Tenn. (North and South Carolina.) Conference: Pres., Irving Heck; Sec., J. E. Tenney, Graysville, Tenn. Office: 301 Elizabeth Ave., Charlotte, Mrs. Altana W. Keck; Treas., C. B. LICENTIATES. Stephenson (Punta Gorda, Ma.); Ex. N. W. Lawrence, Graysville, Tenn. OFFICERS. Com., Irving Keck, L. H. Crisler, J. D. W. 0. Palmer, 1025 Jefferson St., Nash- Conference: Pres., J. O. Johnston; Sec., Heacock, J. W. Clement, C. H. Rogers. C. H. Rogers; Treas., C. H. Rogers; Ex. Tract and Missionary Department: Sec. ville, Tenn. ., J. 0. Johnston, C. H. Rogers, D. 0. M. Hayward, Graysville, Tenn. Com and Treas., Mrs. L. G. Yergin, Orlando, T. Shireman, C. D. Wolf, B. F. Gowdy. Fla. MISSIONARY LICENTIATES. Tract and Missionary Department: Sec. Sabbath-school Department: Sec., Miss A. F. Harrison, Graysville, Tenn. and Treas., C. H. Rogers; State Agt., Loulie Horn, Orlando, Fla. Mrs. A. F. Harrison, Graysville, Tenn. C. D. Wolf (Hildebran, N. C.). Church Schools in Operation: Punta Clara C. Phillips. Graysville, Tenn. Sabbath-school Department: Sec., Mrs. Gorda, Fla., Mrs. C. B. Stephenson, C. L. Kilgore, .rraysville, Term. Estella Graham. Teacher; Terraceia, Fla., Mrs. Loulie Medical Department: Sec., M. H. John- Dorn (Palm View, Fla.), Teacher. ston, The " Baths," Asheville, N. C. SOUTHERN MISSIONARY SOCIETY. Educational Department: Supt. of MINISTERS. General Office Address: 1025-27 Jefferson Church Schools, Estella Graham. Irving Keck, Bowling Green, Fla. St., Nashville, Tenn. allmSTERs. L. H. Crisler, Orlando, Fla. Pres., J. E. White, 1025 Jefferson St., J. 0. Johnston, Charlotte, N. C. MISSIONARY LICENTIATES. Nashville, Tenn. D. T. Shireman, Hildebran, N. C. E. L. Sanford, Greensboro, N. C. C. P. Whitford, Orlando, Fla. Vice-Pres., E. A. Sutherland, Berrien Miss Loulie Horn, Orlando, Fla. Springs, Mich. LICENTI 4TES. Mrs. A. W. Keck. Bowling Green, Fla. Sec., B. W. Spire, 1025 Jefferson St., B. F. Gowdy, Oakwood, S. C. Nashville, Tenn. R. T. Nash, Waynesville, N. C. BIBLE WORKEk. fleas., F. W. Holladay, 1025 Jefferson' W. H. Armstrong, Winston-Salem, N. C. Mrs. John Graham, Jr., Jacksonville, Ma. St., Nashville, Tenn. W. L. Killen, Archdale, N. C. MISSION SCHOOLS. MISSIONARY LICENTIATES. GEORGIA. Hildebran, N. C.: Miss A. W. Nicholas, C. D. Wolf, Hildebran, N. C. Office: 243 South Boulevard, Atlanta, Ga. Prin. Miss Mollie R. Long, Hickory, N. C. Vicksburg, Miss.: F. R. Rogers, Prim Miss Minnie Beaman, Hickory, N. C. OFFICERS. Yazoo City (Lintonia), Miss.: F. G. Mrs. Edna Rogers, Wilmington, N. C. Conference: Pres., C. A. Hall; Sec. and Warnick, Prin. C. H. Rogers, Charlotte, N. C. Treas., Thos. McMillan; Ex. Com., a 528 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN.

A. Hall, M. C. Sturdevant, F. B. Jewell, Mrs. E. Hartsock, Shreveport, La. Sabbath-school Department: Sec., C. L. W. T. Drummond, Elbert Bowen. Miss Ida Simmons, Shreveport, La. Stone, Hazel, Ky. Tract and Missionary Department: See. Medical Department: Sec., L. A. Hansen, and Treas., Amos Everett; State Agt., Self-supporting. 717 Church St., Nashville, Tenn. F. B. Jewell, Americus, Ga. Miss Ruby Roach, Welsh, La. Educational Department: Supt. of Sabbath-school Department: See., Amos Miss Jennie Litchfield, 600 Third St., Schools, C. L. Stone, Hazel, Ky. Everett. New Orleans, La. Educational Department: Sec., Amos Mrs. H. P. Booth, S40 Julia St., New Or- MINISTERS. Everett. leans, La. W. J. Stone, Franklin, Ky. Church Schools in Operation: Alpha- Mrs. Belle Horton, 600 Third St., New Or- R. G. Garrett, Linwood, Ky. retta, Ga., Mr. and Mrs. Evart Melendy,* leans, La. W R. Burrow, Memphis,'Penn. Teachers. C. P. Bollman, 1025 Jefferson St., Nash- MINISTERS. MISSISSIPPI. ville, Tenn. C. A. Hall, 243 South Boulevard, Atlanta, Office: Hatley, Miss. J. E. White, 1025 Jefferson St., Nashville, Ga. OFFICERS. Tenn. M. C. Sturdevant, 243 South Boulevard, Conference: Pres., R. S. Owen (Batley, LICENTIATES. Atlanta, Ga. Miss.) ; Sec. and Treas., W. J. Blake; B. Hagle, Murfreesboro, Tenn. \ W. T. Drummond, Graysville, Tenn. Ex. Com., R. S. Owen, H. W. Pierce, Walter Jones, Bowling Green, Ky. MISSIONARY LICETIATES. L. V. Crawford, F. R. Rogers, J. D. C. L. Stone, Hazel, Ky. Miss M. M. Osborn, 243 South Boulevard, Hendon. W. 0. Palmer, 1025 Jefferson St., Nash- Atlanta, Ga. Tract and Missionary Department: Sec. ville, Tenn. Miss Mary Shirley, 243 South Boulevard, and Cor. Sec., Mrs. W. J. Blake (Hat- B. W. Spire, 1025 Jefferson St., Nashville, Atlanta, Ga. ley, Miss.); State Agt., H. W. Pierce. Tenn. Sabbath-school Department: Sec., F. R. Miss Eunice Rainwater, 243 South Boule- MISSIONARY LICENTIATES. vard, Atlanta, Ga. Rogers. Thos. McMillan, Macon, Ga. Educational Department: Supt. of L. A. Hansen, 717 Church St., Nashville, Amos Everett, 243 South Boulevard, At- Church Schools, F. R. Rogers. Tenn. lanta, Ga. Church and Mission Schools in Operation: F. H' Shramm, n 1025 Jefferson St., Nash- Hatley, Columbus, Yazoo, City, Vicks- ville, Tenn. burg, Gitano. H. C. Balsbaugh, 1025 Jefferson St., Nash- LOUISIANA. Address the teachers of these schools ville, Tenn. Office: 600 Third St., New Orleans, La. care F. R. Itc'gers, Vicksburg, Miss W C. Wales, 23 Dunlap St., Memphis, The list of teachers is as follows: Mr. OFFICERS. Tenn. and Mrs. J. W. Dancer, Geo. Crawford, F. T. Wales, 23 Dunlap St., Memphis, Conference: Pres., S. B. Horton; See., Minnie Rogers, Mary Mitchell, F. G. W. T. Hartsock; Treas., F. Peabody Warwick, Mrs. F. G. Warwick, W. H. Dr.LT en .J.nj Otis, Paducah, Ky. (Fenton, La.); Ex. Com., S. B. Hor- Sebastian, M. u. Strachan, Maud Strac- Mrs. W. J. Stone, Franklin, Ky. ton, C. A. Wa'tkins, E. S. Abbott, S. han. Mrs. C. L. Stone, Hazel, Ky. Broussard, J. R. Hudson. MINISTERS. Mrs. Jessie B. Sweet-Mayberry, 353 Tract and Missionary Department: See. R. S. Owen, Hatley, Miss. Johnson Ave., Memphis Tenn. and Treas., S. B. Horton, acting; State H. W. Pierce, Oxford, Miss. Miss Annie Wilson, Bowling Green, Ky. Agt., C. F. Dart. Mrs. L. A. Hansen, 717 Church St., Nash- Sabbath-school Department: Sec., Ruby MISSIONARY LICENTIATES. F. R. Rogers, Vicksburg, Miss. ville, Tenn. ' Roach. Miss Ida Dunlap, 1025 Jefferson St., Medical Department: Sec., W. T. Hart- E. P. Auger, Corinth, Miss. Mrs. H. W. Pierce, Oxford, Miss. Nashville, Tenn. sock. Miss C. L. Grant, 1025 Jefferson St.,' Educational Department • Supt. of Nashville, Tenn. Church Schools, Ruby Roach. TENNESSEE RIVER. Mrs. L. J. Otis, Paducah, Ky. Church Schools in Operation: Welsh, La., (Western Tennessee and Kentucky.) Mrs: Byron Hagle, Murfreesboro, Tenn. Miss Ruby Roach, Teacher; Martha- General Office Address: 1025 Jefferson ville, La., Mrs. Mae Dart, Teacher. St., Nashville, Tenn. BIBLE WORKER. MINISTERS. OFFICERS. .mrs. Jessie B. Sweet-Mayberry, 353 Johnson Ave., Memphis, Tenn. S. B. Horton, 600 Thira St., New Orleans, Conference: Pres., W. J. Stone; Sec. and La. Treas., B. W. Spire; Lx. Corn., W. J. MISSIONARY NURSES. C. A. Watkins, 600 Third St., New Or- Stone, W. R. Burrow, C. P. Bollman, L. A. Hansen, 717 Church St., Nashville, leans, La. C. L. Stone, L. C. Heminger (Bowling Tenn. Green, Ky.). Mrs. L. A. Hansen, 717 Church St., Nash- MISSIONARY LICENTIATES. Tract and Missionary Department: Sec. ville, Tenn. - — C. F. Dart, Marthaville, La. and Treas., Mrs. B. W. Spire, 1025 Jef- Miss Annie Wilson, Bowling Green, Ky. W. T. Hartsock, Shreveport, La. ferson St., Nashville, Tenn. Mrs. L. J. Otis, Paducah, Ky.

LAKE UNION CONFERENCE. (Organized April 8, 190L) Territory: The Conferences of Illinois, Thurston; General Canv. Agt., E. R. J. Herrmann; Scandinavian Work Rep- Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Ontario, and Palmer; Sabbath-school and Educa- resentative, H. R. Johnson; Auditor, Wisconsin. tional Field Sec., —; Sabbath- W. H. Edwards. Office: 267 West Main St., Battle Creek, school and Educational Cor. Sec., Mich. Vacant; Training-school Representa- ILLINOIS. OFFICERS. tive, P. T. Magan; Publishing Work Office: Sheridan. Conference: Pres., A. G. Daniel's; Vice- Representative, I. H. Evans; Sanita- OFFICERS. Pres., W. H. Thurston; Sec. and Treas., rium Work Representative, J. H. Kel- Conference: Pres., Allen Moon (324 W. H. Edwards; Business Agt., W. H. logg; German Work Representative, C. Dearborn St., Chicago); Vice-Pres., GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN. 529

Chas. Thompson; Sec., C. H. Castle Indiana Conference Association: Trus- J. C. Harris, 81 Bedford St., Battle Creek. (Sheridan)] Treas., G. A. Wheeler tees, I. J. Hankins, A. L. Miller, P. G. 0. Soule, Cheboygan. (Sheridan); Ex. Corn.,Allen Moon, Stanley, S. G. Huntington, A. L. Chew. L. N. Lane, 514 South Pearl St., Char- Chas. Thompson, W. D Curtis,L. H. MINISTERS. lotte. Christian,E. S. Butz, N. W.le, aub W. R. Matthews, 725 Prospect St., Ionia. I. J. Hankins, 1311 Central Ave., Indian- 0. F. Campbell, 329 Teneyck St., Jackson. E. A. Curtis. apolis. Tract Society Dept.: Sec. and Treas., G. C. N. Sanders, 228 Washington Ave., A. W. Bartlett, 1311 Central Ave., Indian. North, Battle Creek. A. Wheeler; Missionary Agt., E. S. apolis. Butz. M. C. Guild, 629 Washington Ave., North, A. L Miller, 1311 Central Ave., Indian- Alpena. Sabbath-school Dept.: Field Sec., W. D. apolis. Curtis; Cor. Sec., Mrs. Lou K. Curtis. W. C. Hebner, 191 Champion St., Battle S. G. Huntington, Cambridge City. Creek. MINISTERS. P. G. Stanley, Muncie. E. R, Williams, Sault Ste. Marie. Allen Moon, Room 770, 324 Dearborn St., F. M. Roberts, Jonesboro. W. H. falconer, Riverside. • Chicago, Ill. W. A. Young, Galt, Ontario. R. W. Munson, Padang, Sumatra, Neth- N. W. Kauble, Look Box 12, Sheridan. 0. S. Hadley, Elkhart. erlands, East Indies. E. A. Curtis, Sheridan. R. M. Harrison, Brazil. Eugene Leland, 15 Churchill Ave., To- W. D. Curtis, Sheridan. R. S. Donnell, Elnora. ronto, Ontario. R. F. Andrews, College View, Nebr. S. S. Davis, Elnora, E. K. Slade. 426 Trumbull Ave., etroit. L. D. Santee, 7115 St. Lawrence Ave., J. S. Shrock, Hagerstown. W. D. Parkhurst, 34 West St., Hillsdale. Chicago, Ill. W. A. Ebert, Dundee. A. R. Sandborn, Vermontville. C. H. Buss, Lovington. J. M. Ellis, Idaville. John Irwin, Jr., Eastport. J. P. Henderson, 1004 South Pasfield St., Luzern Thompson, Zionsville. M. B. Miller, 29 University Ave., Battle Springfield. LICENTIATES. Creek. Geo. G. Johnson, 417 Ninth St., Rockford. U. S. Anderson, Elwood. H. W. Miller, Battle Creek. C. L. Taggart, Du Quoin. I. S. Lloyd, 2110 Cushing St., Indian- F. D. Starr, Bancroft. S. Mortenson, 170 Townsend St., Chicago. apolis. S. E. Wight, Bedford. L. H. Christian, 150 North Humboldt St., L G. Biglow, 1311 Central Ave., Indian- M. W. Lewis, 606 Baker Ave., Menominee. Chicago. apolis. H. R. Johnson, Iron River. C. A. Scholl, 548 West Chicago Ave., Chi- F. L. Elliott, Michigan City. John W. Covert, Frankfort. cago. A. L. Chew, Glenwood. C. P. Haskell, Baldwin. Chas. Thompson, Willow Hill. J. E. Collins, Windfall. V. Thompson, Sheridan. J. E. Dunn, Denver. LICENTIATES. M. G. Huffman, Mt. Erie. R. H. Sparks, Connersville. E. I. Beebe, 226 Washington Ave., North, Lansing. LICENTIATES. E. C. Swartz, North Liberty. C. G. Howell, 521 North Division St., Ann J. Tabor,3256 Groveland Ave., Chicago. MISSIONARY LICENTIATES. Mrs. Ida Hadley, Elkhart. Arbor. W. S. Bel, care Room 34, Middle D., Uni- F. J. Harris, Box 827, Laurium, Hough- versity of Chicago, Chicago. Mary Huntzinger, Sullivan. Mrs. R. H. Sparks, Connersville. ton Co. Wm. Lewsadder, 357 Rosewood Ave., C. E. Leland, 819 Sufferin St., Port Kankakee, Ill. Huron. E. S. Butz, 747 North Main St., Decatur, MICHIGAN. J. G. Lamson, Cedar Lake. Ill. N. OFFICERS. M. Shepherd, Marine City. MISSIONARY LICENTIATES. Conference: Pres., J. D. Gowell (Hes- Chancy Wood, Bad Axe. Marthina J. Sorsensen, Viborg,S. Dak. peria); Sec., E. I. Beebe (226 Wash- J. G. Wilson, Sault Ste. Marie. Blanche Strader, 328 East Bradford St., ton Ave. North, Lansing); Treas., Re- C. A. Hansen, Box 33, Trufant. Decatur. view and Herald (Battle Creek); Ex. W. E. Videto, Agnew. Jean Phillips, 523 Evergreen Ave., Chi- Com., J. D. Crowell, S. M. Butler, S. E. 0. F. Butcher, 145 West Cortland St., cago. Wight, W. R. Matthews, E. K. Slade, Jackson. Clara B. Silver, Sheridan. M. J. Cornell, Dr. S. P. S. Edwards. M. D. Warfle, Sanitarium, Battle Creek. R. B. Craig, 503 State St.. Peoria. Missionary Dept.: E. I. Beebe, Sec. and C. D. Rhodes, Review and Herald, Battle Mrs. Lou K. Curtis, Sheridan. Treas.; S. E. Wight, Canv. Agt. Creek. Anna Hibben, 523 Evergreen Ave, Chi- Educational and Sabbath-school Dept.: Byron Hagle, Franklin. cago. Supt., S. M. Butler. R. E. Harter, Jackson. The Michigan Association of Seventh-day T. G. Lewis, 288 Champion St., Battle Ella Hancock, 7136 South Chicago Ave., Creek. Chicago. Adventists: Pres., J. D. Cowell; Vice- Mrs. Rosa Kimlin, 1007 East Jackson St., Pres., W. R. Matthews; Sec. and Fred Brink, Hillman. Bloomington. Treas., E. I. Beebe; Auditor, E. K. Mrs. E. R. Williams, Sault Ste. Marie. Nellie Lockwood, 3157 Indiana Ave., Chi- Slade; Trustees, J. D. Gowell, W. R. H. G. Lucas, Good Health Pub. Co., Battle Matthews, E. I. Beebe, E. K. Slade, and Creek. cago. Dr. S. P. S. Edwards, Berrien Springs. Nellie Bothwell, Sheridan. M. J Cornell. Chas. Sturdevant, Onarga. MINISTERS. MISSIONARY LICENTIATES. J. D. Gowell, Hesperia. Mrs. Mina B. Videto, Agnew. E. H. Root, Coopersville. Mrs. M. M. Faulkner, Box 827, Laurium. INDIANA. H. M. Kenyon, 426 Trumbull Ave., De- Mrs. R. W. Munson, Padang, Sumatra, ` Office: 1311 Central Ave., Indianapolis. troit. Netherlands, East Indies. Wm. Ostrander, Elmwood. Mrs. M. C. Kenyon, 426 Trumbull Ave., OFFICERS. L. G. Moore, 613 Hillsdale St., West, Lan- Detroit. Conference: Pres., I. J. Hankins; Cor. sing. Mrs. Florence Hutchinson, 712 North Sec., A. L. Chew; Missionary Sec. and T. M. Steward, 160 North Washington Third St., Marquette. Treas., W. C. McCuaig; Sabbath-school Ave., Battle Creek. Mrs. C F. Beebe, 226 "Washington Ave., and Educational Sec., Grace Amadon; R. C. Horton, 182 Hillsdale St., Hillsdale. North, Lansing. Auditor, W. H. Edwards; Canv. Agt., S. M. Butler, 627 South Ingalls St, Ann Nettie Haysmer, Fenwick. F. L. Moody; Ex. Com., I. J. Hankins, Arbor. Emily C. Campbell, 226 Washington Ave., P. a Stanley, S. G. Huntington, A. L. J. L. Edgar, 1319 Ann Arbor St., Flint. North, Lansing. Miller, P. J. Miller, F. L. Moody, A. L. B. F. Stureman, 7 Hamburg St., Muske- Belle B. Campbell, Sault Ste. Marie. I Chew. gon. Alice AL Slade, Sault Ste. Marie. 530 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN.

Clara Hildreth, 11 Buckeye St., Battle Francis M. Fairchild, Liberty Center. Conference School: Bethel Academy, Creek. Ella M. Talmage, Twenty-First St., Co- Bethel. H. A. Washburn, Prin. Mina Hildreth, 11 Buckeye St., Battle lumbus. Treatment Rooms: 118 Monona Ave., Creek. Ida M. Walter's, 400 West Fifty-Seventh Madison; H. Farnsworth, M. D., Supt.; Clara Kiep, 134 Dunbar St., Alpena. St., New York, N. Y. J. H. Bramhall, Mgr,; 1714 Winter St., Lucy Tyte, 134 Dunbar St., Alpena. Katharine E. Miller, 400 West Fifty-Sev- West Superior, A. I. Lovell, Supt. E. Jenny Lane, 514 South Pearl St., enth St., New York, N. Y. Helping Hand Mission: 163 Reed St., Charlotte. Mrs. Jessie B. Sweet—layberry, 353 John- Milwaukee,-R. T. Dowsett, Supt. Minnie E. Lay, 306 Pine St., Lansing. son Ave., Memphis, 1man MINISTERS. Mina Pierce, 306 Pine St., Lansing. Nellie Stevens, Corsica. Wm. Covert, Bethel. Emma Schilling, 426 Trumbull Ave., De- Cora Gibson, Cleveland. W. S. Shreve, Spring Green. troit. Anna E. Smith, Portsmouth. T. B. Snow, Marshfield. Maggie Banks, Greenville. Cora Petithory, Sardinia. MTS. Agnes Harris, Box S27, italIT IIIM. Mary C. Ruff aker, Canton. C. J. Herrmann, Antigo. Bertha Snyder, 426 Trumbull Ave., De- Hortense Howell, Portsmouth. J. C. Mikkelsen, Bethel. troit. Bessie E. Russell, Academia. H. W. Reed, 317 North Commercial St., Fannie Black, 426 Trumbull Ave., De- -- - Neenah. troit. ONTARIO. *J. B. Scott, Chetek. F. Stebbeds, Milton Junction. Office: 15 Churchill Ave., Toronto. C. W. Olds, Janesville. OHIO. pOFFICERS. I. Sanborn, Sparta. Office: Academia, Ohio. Conference: Pres., J. W. Collie; Sec. and S. Swinson, 514 Dixon St., Stevens Point. OFFICERS. Treas., Helen McKinnon; Ex. Com, J. N. P. Neilsen, 1714 Winter St., West Su- Conference: Pres., A. G. Haughey; Vice- W. Collie, T. H. Robinson, E. J. Dryer, perior. Pres., M. S. Babcock; Recording See., Robert Mc Cormick, Eugene Leland. Wm. Sanders, 547 Niagara St., - Eau Ontario Conference Association: Pres, J. Claire. Bessie Russell; Missionary Sec., N. S. W. Collie; Treas., T. H. Robinson. Miller; Educational See., W. H. Wake- F. F. Petersen, Baraboo. Tract Society Dept.: See: and Treas., Matt. Hill, Oneida Mission. ham; Treas., Bessie Russell; Auditor, Helen McKinnon; Canv. Agt., G. W. W. H. Edwards; State Canv. Agt., J. C. Neilsen, Neenah. Sowler. J. B. Locken, Cadott. G. P. Gaede; Ex. Com., A. G. Haughey, Sabbath-school Dept.: Sec. and Treas, MSS. Bab cockRA.. Board man, W.W EL LICENTIATES. Wakeham, G. P. Gaede, Thos. Thornton. MINISTERS. J. W. Beardslee, Merrill. R. T. Dowsett, 865 Fifth St., Milwaukee. Trustees of the Ohio Conference Associa- J. W. Collie, 15 Churchill Ave., Toronto. E. J. Dryer, Picton. A. Ritchie, 865 Fifth St., Milwaukee. tion: A. G. Haughey, M. S. Babcock, M. N. Campbell, 203 High St., Oshkosh. H. H. Burkholder, R. A. Boardman, J. Wm. Simpson, Lynden. J. F. Ballenger, Petrolia. G. Hoffmann, Trade River. B. Clymer, N. S. Miller, Clyde Mitchell; L. L. French, Rose Lawn. Officers: Pres., A. G. Haughey; See. W. H. Spear, Picton. P. M. Howe, Petrolia. B. L. Anderson, Prentice. and Treas., N. S. Miller Business Agt., F. L. Kinne, Prentice. H. H. Burkholder; Auditor, W. H. Ed- W. A. Young, Galt, LICENTIATES- S. E. Nelson, Brushville. -wards. J. Kloss, Seymour. MINISTERS. J. H. Watson, care Review and Herald, Battle Creek, Mich. G. A. Grauer, Wausau. A. G. Haughey, Academia. MISSIONARY LICENTIATES. J. Isaac, Wausau. W. H. 1Vaxeham, Academia. Chas. Wise, Lena. C. A. Smith, Academia. Helen McKinnon, 15 Churchill Ave., To- R. A. Boardman, Academia. ronto. MISSIONARY LICENTIATES. D. E. Lindsey, Clyde. Etta Baker, 15 Churchill Ave., Toronto. P. M. Hanson, Bethel. J. G. Wood, Portsmouth. Hattie Allems, 192 Clinton St., Toronto. S. D. Hartwell, 203 High St, Oshkosh. E. J. Van-Horn, Lake View. Bertha Orchard, Guelph. J. Steinel, 861 Fifth St., Milwaukee. R. R, Kennedy, Wheelersburg. G. W. Sowler, 651 Colborne St., London. L. E. Sufficool, Merrill. . H. H. Burkholder, Renville. Lulu Halloek, Granton. A. C. Shannon, Seventy-Six, Pa. WISCONSIN. Lottie E. Farrell, Bethel. M. S. Babcock, 3222 Warsaw Ave., Cin- Conference Office: 865 Fifth St., Mil- Helen D. Dowsett, 865 Fifth St., Milwau- cinnati. waukee. kee. F. W. Field, Missionary to Japan. Missionary Department Office: 203 High Tillie E. Ritchie, 865 Fifth St., Milwau- MISSIONARY LICENTIATES. St., Oshkosh. kee. J. W. Loughhead, Academia. Sabbath-school Department Office: Bethel. Edith Martin, 865 Fifth St., Milwaukee. J. B. Clymer, Academia. OFFICERS. Mimi Schaeffenberg, 865 Fifth St., Mil- Conference: Pres., Wm. Covert; Sec. and waukee. Chas. E. Welch, Academia. Ida E. Thompson, Rhinelander. M. C. Kirkendall, Academia. Treas., R. T. Dowsett; Ex. Com., Wm. .L 0. Miller, Academia. Covert, H. W. Reed, N. P. Neilsen, F. F. Mrs. Carrie S. Kloss, Seymour. N. S. Miller, Academia. Petersen, A. G. Westphal, J. H. Bram- Anna M. Jensen, Baraboo. hall, S. D. Hartwell; Auditor, G. A. Mrs. Annie Sufficool, Merrill. Fred M. Fairchild, Academia. Bessie Sufficool, Ashland. G. P. Gaede; Academia. Grauer; Sec. and Treas. Missionary W. E. Bidwell, Academia. Dept., S. D. Hartwell; Sec. and Treas. Mrs. Mary Snow, "Marshfield. Sabbath-school Dept. and Church- El-vie Mullen, 547 Niagara St., Eau Claire. Margaret Haughey, Academia. Eric Belean, Lund. Almeda Haughey, Academia. school Supt., Lottie E. Farrell; Mis- • Mrs. Mabel Welch, Academia. sionary Canv. Agt., It N. Campbell. Olive M. Olds, 1714 Winter St., West Su- State School Board: Wm. Covert, H. W. perior. , Kenneth R. Haughey, Academia. Edith Cowles, Bethel. W. W. Miller; 306 West Mulberry St., Reed, R. T. Dowsett, H. A. Washburn, Mikkelsen, P. M. Hanson, J. Mc- Mrs. S. D. Hartwell, 203 High St., Osh- Springfield. J. C.- kosh. W. H. Granger, Newton Falls. Chesney. C. C. Webster, Middlefield. Wisconsin Conference Association of•Sev- MEDICAL MISSIONARIES. Jas. H. Smith, Waterford. enth-day Adventists: Pres., Wm. Co- H. B. Farnsworth, M. D., 118 Monona C. T. Redfield, Excello. vert; Sec. and Treas., R. T. Dowsett; Ave., Madison. B. L. House, Middlefield. other members. T. B. Snow, C. J. Herr- J. H. Bramhall, 118 Monona Ave., Madi- John P. Gaede, Cleveland. mann, J. C. Mikkelsen. son. GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN. 531

Mrs. Minnie Bramhall, 118 Monona Ave., Hannah Neilsen, 1714 Winter St., W eat Irma Quimby, Wausau. Madison. Superior. H. H. Howard, Moon. Laura Neilsen, 118 Monona Ave., Madi- Mrs. H. H. Howard, Moon. son. CHURCH-SCHOOL HISSIONARIES. Mabel Starks, Hancock. Hattie Darling, 118 Monona Ave., Madi- Geo. Moon, Milton Junction. son. Jennie Snow, Marshfield. Bertha Tyler, Stanley. Edith Miller, 118 Monona Ave., Madison. Jennie Nelson, Brushville. Eunice Crawford, Elroy. A. I. Lovell, 1714 Winter St., West Su- Esther Nelson; Brushville. K. Virgie Johnson, Racine. perior. Clara Schunk, Bethel. Nettie Smith, Poy Sippi. Sadie Lovell, 1714 Winter St., West Su- Winifred Edwards, Fertile, Iowa. Martha Neilsen, Neenah. perior. Bertha Phelps, Milton Junction. Mrs. Addle Hazelton, Babcock.

NORTHWESTERN UNION CONFERENCE. (Organized April 18, 1901.) Territory; The Conferences of Minne- Bowen, N. J. Runlund, M. K. Thrall. Trustees Iowa S. D. A. Conference Asso- sota, Iowa, Manitoba, Dakota, and Ne- Sabbath- and Church-school Dept.: Field ciation: C. A. Washburn, L. F. Starr, braska. Sec. and Supt, John W. Beach; Rec. C. G. Johnson, C. W. Smouse, C. W. OFFICERS. Sea, Mrs. J. W. Beach. Larson, J. W. Dorcas, Lewis Johnson. Pres., C. W. Flair; See., John Walker MINISTERS. Sanitarium Trustees: J. H. Kellogg, J. D. (228 North Phillips Ave., Sioux Falls, N. W. Allee, 228 North Phillips Ave., Shively, Emma Perrine, L. F. Starr, S. Dak.); 'Treas., Joseph Sutherland Sioux Falls, S. Dak. N. C. Bergersen, J. W.-Dorcas. (College View, Nebr.); Ex. Coro., C. W. C. A. Burman, Milbank, S. Dak. Supt. 1/4.curcla Schools: Floyd Bralliar, Flair, N. W. Alice, N. P. Nelson, L. F. A. E. Christian, Jamestown, N. Dak. 603 East Twelfth St., Des Moines. Starr; Educational Sec., C. C. Lewis; Edward Loeppke, Sykeston, N. Dak. MINISTERS. Missionary Sec., Mrs. A. E. Ellis 0. P. Norderhus, 228 North Phillips Ave., (Dodge Center, Minn.); Auditor, M. IV. Sioux Falls, S. Dak. L. F. Starr, Stuart. Newton (College View, Nebr.); Canv. Daniel Nettleton, Watertown, S. Dak. J. W. Adams, 603 East Twelfth St., Des Agt., 0. E. Cummings (College View, Moines. Lars Neilson, Dell Rapids, S. Dak. C. T. Adams, 603 East iwelfth St., Des ' Nebr.). J. H. Rogers, 403 Broadway, Yankton, S. MINISTERS. Dak. Moines. C. W. Flair, Box 989, Minneapolis, Minn. Conrad Reiswig, Milltown, S. Dak. J. 0. Beard, 1311 First Ave., Ft. Dodge. H. J. Dirksen, Morden, Manitoba. A. J. Voth, Spring Valley, S. Dak. B. L. Dieffenbacher, 603 East Twelfth St., C. C. Lewis, College View, Nebr. LICENTIATES. Des Moines. J. H. Morrison, College View, Nebr. J. W. Beach, 228 North Phillips Ave., W. B. Everhart, 603 East Twelfth St., Andrew Nelson, 462 Selkirk Ave., Winni- Sioux Falls, S. Dak. Des Moines. peg, Manitoba. Elmer Hayes, Huron, S. Dak. W. E. Frederick, 603 East Twelfth St., fir. M. Adams, 462 Selkirk Ave., Winni- Daniel Isaac, Spring Valley, S. Dak. Des Moines., peg, Manitoba. F. L. Perry, Madison, S. Dak. B. E. Fullmer, 603 East Twelfth St., Des F. H. Westphal, College View, Nebr. William Voth, Spring Valley, S. Dak. Moines. C. J. Buhalts, 462 Selkirk Ave., Winnipeg, F. S. Speckt, Lincoln, N. Dak. E. E. Gardner, 603 East Twelfth St., Des Manitoba. John Walker, 228 North Phillips Ave., S. Moines. LICENTIATES. Dak. W m. Guthrie, Stuart. Henry Block, Leduc, Manitooa. MISSIONARY LICENTIATES. College J. F. Gravelle, Morden, Manitoba. Leona Burman, Millbank, S. Dak. R. H. Ha enicht, Casilla del Correo• 481, John Walker, 228 North Phillips Ave., J. W. Christian, Sioux Falls, S. Dak. Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic, Sioux Falls, S. Dak. Lena Frederickson,Sioux Falls, S. Dak. South America. apt -“ONPtY LICENTIATES. S. A. Hill, 228,Norh Phillips Ave., Sioux C. A. Hansen, Harbor Grace, C. B., New- Mrs. J. F. Gravelle, Morden, Manitoba. Falls, S. Dak. foundland. Belle Purdon, 482 Selkirk Ave., Winni- Dolpha Mayes, Huron, S. Dak. Henry Johnson, 603 East Twelfth St., peg, Manitoba. George Miller, Milbank, S. Dak. Des Moines. Alice H. Robinson, 462 Selkirk Ave,, Win- Ella Nesmith, Watertown, S. Dak. Thos. H. Jeys, Modale. nipeg, Manitoba. Martin Olson, Valley City, N. Dak. C. J. Kunkel, 603 East Twelfth St., Des Ella Sowler, Carberry, Manitoba. Maud Perry, Madison, S. Dak. Moines. Mrs. Jessie L. Adams, 462 Selkirk Ave., N. J. Runlund, 228 North Phillips Ave., J. H. Kraft, 603 East Twelfth St., Des Winnipeg, Manitoba. Sioux Falls, S. Dak. Moines. E. M. Strong, Hankinson, N. Dak. U. P. Long, Boulder, Colo. Maggie Wall, Spring Valley, S. Dak. J. T. Mitchell, Lisbon. DAKOTA. H. Nicola, 603 East Twelfth St., Des (North and South Dakota.) Office: 228 North Phillips Ave., Sioux IOWA. Moines. Falls, S. Dak. Office: 603 East Twelfth St., Des Moines. E. G. Olsen, Lake Mills. OFFICERS. OFFICERS. C. F. Stevens, Allege View, Nebr. Conference: N. W. Alice; Vice-Pres., Conference: Pres., L. F. Starr; Vice- L. F. Trubey, 603 East Twelfth St., Des- John Walker; Sec., George Bowen; Pres., L. F. Trubey; Ex. Com., L. F. Moines. Treas. and Trans. Agt., L. D. Randall; Starr, L. F. Trubey, C. A. Washburn, Frank Washburn, 603 East Twelfth St., Ex. Com., N. W. Allee, John Walker, N. C. Bergersen, E. G. Olsen, J. H. Des Moines. C. A. Burman, Lars Nelson, Andrew Kraft, B. E. Fullmer; Sec., Mrs. Flora C. A. Washburn, Mt. Pleasant. Christian, J. W. Beach, Henry Wall. V. Dorcas; Treas., J. W. Dorcas. LICENTIATES. Missionary- Dept.: Field See., John Missionary Dept.: Sec. and Treas., Jeslie E. H. Adams, Atalissa. Walker; Rec. Sec., L. D. Randall; Asst. V. Bosworth; Asst. Sec. and Treas.. P. P. Adams, 603 East Twelfth St., Des Rec. Sec., B. Voth; Cor. Sec., Effie Al- C. W. Larson; Cor. See., Della Wallace; Moinet. lee; Canv. Agt., John Walker. State Canv. Agt., T. H. Jeys (Modale). Floyd Bralliar, 603 East Twelfth St., Des Dakota Conference Association of the Sabbath-school Dept.: Sec., A. Helen Moines. Seventh-nay Adventists: Trustees: N. Wilcox; Field Sec., Della Wallace; C. E. Graham, Pilot Mound. W. Allee, John Walker, George W. Asst. Field Sec., Mrs. Flora V. Dorcas. P. L. Hoen, Ames. 532 _ GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN.

Chas. Heald, Fairfield. LICENTIATES. Mrs. A. Huntley, 599 Carroll St., St. Paul. G. R. Hawkins, 603 East Twelfth St., Des N. Mortenson, Moose Lake. Moines. J. F. Gravelle, 462 Selkirk Ave., Win- Ella E. Merickel, Box 989, Minneapolis. Mrs. G. It. Hawkins 603 East Twelfth nipeg, Manitoba. Lena Nichols, Modalia. St., Des Moines. Henry Block, Leduc, Alberta. J. 0. Peet, Batavia. Carl Jensen, 603 East Twelfth St., Des Neil McGill, 462 Selkirk Ave., Winnipeg, F. E. Rew, St. Louis Park. Moines. Manitoba. H. E. Shelstad, Box 989, Minneapolis. N. M. Jorgensen, 122 North Fourth St., MISSIONARY LICENTIATES. W. H. Wild, Box 989, Minneapolis. Clinton. Ella R. Sowler, 462 Selkirk Ave., Win- Wm. Johnson, Marshalltown. nipeg, Manitoba. Lewis Johnson, Ruthven. NEBRASKA. Mrs. J. F. Gravelle, 462 Selkirk Ave., (Including Wyoming, and the Black Hills G. A. Larson, Albia. Winnipeg, Manitoba. N. L. McClintock, Blencoe. of South Dakota.) Mrs. Alice H. Robinson, 462 Selkirk Ave., Office: 1505 E St., Lincoln. Arthur McClintock, Blencoe. Winnipeg, Manitoba. C. W. Neal, Osceola. Conference: Pres., N. P. Nelson; Sec. B. Purdon, 462 Selkirk Ave., Winnipeg, and Treas., J. F. Beatty; Missionary Henry Rorholm, 603 East Twelfth St., Manitoba. Des Moines. Sec. and Treas., Mary F. Beatty; Canv. H. L. Stenberg, 603 East Twelfth St., Des Agt., F. Jencks; Sabbath-school Dept. Moines. Sec. and Treas., Ida A. Nelson; Edu- MINNESOTA. cational See., Geo. M. Brown; Field J. H. Wierts, 603 East Twelfth St., Des Office Address: Box 989, Minneapolis. Moines. Sec. of the Sabbath-school and Young - MISSIONARY LICENTIATES. OFFICERS. People's1.p Work,W:Froerkisr,(el Lsouont,he0Geo r Ws. Minnie Beaman, Hickory, N. C. Conference: tree., C. W. Flaiz; Vice- Mrs. Mamie Beaman Adams, 603 East Pres., H. S. Shaw; Treas., L. M. Ever- 0. S. Ferren, G. A. Kirkle, J. Suther- land (College View, Nebr.). Twelfth St., Des Moines. est; Sec., H. F. Phelps; Ex. Com., C. Lizzie Carter, 603 East Twelfth St., Des- W. Flair, H. S. Shaw, C. M. Everest, Nebraska Conference Association of the Moines. C. L. Emmerson, F. A. Datamore. Seventh-day Adventists: N. P. Nelson, J. C. Clemens, 1305 Jennings St. Sioux Missionary Dept.: Sec., St., Lincoln, City. Canv. Agt., F. A. Detamore. Nebr.), J. Sutherland, D. W. Lapham Mrs. Lennie Clemens, 1305 Jennings St., Sabbath-school Dept.: Sec., Ella E. Mer- (Lincoln), John Christensen (Omaha). Sioux City. ickel. • MINISTERS. Mrs. Flora V. Dorcas, 603 East Twelfth Educational Dept.: Sec., E. W. Catlin. N. P. Nelson, College View. St., Des Moines. " Minnesota Conference Association of Mrs. Carl Jensen, 603 East Twelfth St., W. B. Hill, College View. Seventh-day Adventists: " Pres., H. F. G. H. Smith, 1505 E St., Lincoln. Des Moines. Phelps; Vice-Pres., H. S. Shaw; Sec., Andrew Johnson, 603 East Twelfth St., G. M. Brown, Seward. C. M. Everest; Treas., William Asp; Luther Warren, 235 South Ninth St., Lin- Des Moines. Board of Trustees, H. F. Phelps,. H. S. Bertha Jorgensen, 122 North Fourth coln. Shaw, A. J. Stone, C. M. Everest, Wm. 0. S. Ferren, Big Horn, Wyo. Clinton. Asp, N. H. Ellis, J. J. Graf. T. S. Jackson, Hawleyville. J. H. Wheeler, College VieNv. Peter Lindahl, Kelley. MINISTERS. R. F. Andrews, College View. Mollie Long, Hickory, N. C. P. P. Gaede, College View. C. W. Flair, Box 989, Minneapolis. L. E. Johnson, Lead, S. Dak. Martha Leny, 603 East Twelfth St., Des 0. 0. Bernstein, Box 989, Minneapolis. Moines. A. C. Anderson, 1301 North Twenty-first J. C. Christenson, Badger. St., Lincoln. 011ie G. Manfull, 603 East Twelfth St., C. L. Emmerson, Batavia. Des Moines. J. J. Graf, Anoka. LICENTIATES. Lloyd Manfull, 603 East Twelfth St., Des Fred Johnson, Isanti. C. R. Kite, 235 South Ninth St., Lincoln. Moines. A. W. kenhl, 216 North Williams St., 0. A. Hall, Evanston, Wyo. A. W. H. Milliard, 603 East TWelfth St., Stillwater. W. H. Campbell, Evanston, Wyo. Des Moines. Andrew Mead, Brainerd. John Miller, 1036 North Eighth St., Lin- Lizzie Neal, 102 South Ward St.. Ot- H. F. Phelps, 2900 Lyndale Ave., Minne- coln. tumwa. apolis. MISSIONARY LICENTIATES. May Chitty Shrake, Albia. J. F. Pogue, Anoka. Calvin Starr, 603 East Twelfth St., Des A. J. Stone, 835 Lawson St., St. Paul. 0. E. Jones, College View. Moines. H. Stein, 977 Greenbrier St., St. Paul. A. S. Baird, 1515 Burt St., Omaha. A. Helen Wilcox, 603 East Twelfth St., B. S. Snaw, St. Cloud. W. J. Wilson, Dunbar. Des Moines. W. W Stebbins, Mankato. C. S. Anderson, 551 West Fifth St., Fre- John Weber, Iowa City. mont.atty, Margaret Young. 122 North Fourth St., LICENTIATES. J. 1505 E St., Lincoln. Clinton. John F. Anderson, 835 Lawson St., St. C. H. Miller, Lead, S. Dak. Paul. Mrs. E. M. Peebles, 2204 North Twenty- MANITOBA MISSION. Charles Babcock, Hutchinson. seventh St., Omaha. (Manitoba, Alberta, Saskatchewan, E. W. Catlin, Anoka. Esther Smith, 1505 E St., Lincoln. Assiniboia, Northwest Territory.) F. A. Detamore, Box 989, Minneapolis. Mary F. Beatty, 1505 E St., Lincoln. General Address: 462 Selkirk Ave., Win- B. Francis, Wells. Pear West, 1505 E St., Lincoln. nipeg, Manitoba. E. H. Huntley, 599 Carroll St., St. Paul. F. Jencks, College View. OFFICERS. P. A. Hanson, Kenyon. Myrtle Ferren, 2204 North Twenty-sev- Mission Field Committee: C. W. Flaiz, Albert Kjellman, Artichoke. enth St., Omaha. Andrew Nelson, H. J. Dirksen; See. and Arthur Moon, Spring Valley. 0. A. Kirkle, Treas. of all Departments, Mrs. Alice M. B. Van Kirk, Eagle Lake. G. P. soy, 235 South Ninth St., Lincoln. II. Robinson. J. Nethery, Wolf, Wyo. MINISTERS. MISSIONARY LICENTIATES. J. B. Mourer, Aurora. Andrew Nelson, 462 Selkirk Avg., Win- Wm. Asp, Box 989, Minneapolis. Mrs. Clara Beatty, 1505 E St., Lincoln. nipeg. Manitoba. A. Batten,Medford. George Runek, Alma. H. J. Dirksen, Morden, Manitoba. Hannah arlson, Willmar. Robert Ryan, South Omaha. J. W. Boynton, Ponoka, Alberta. C. M. Everest, Box 989, Minneapolis. Stella B. Lowry, Hastings. W. M. Adams; 462 Selkirk Ave., Winni- Mrs. A. E. Ellis, Dodge Center. Ida A. Nelson, College View. peg, Manitoba. J. L. House, Anoka. Ella Hedgecock, Antioch. GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN. 533

SOUTHWESTERN UNION CONFERENCE. (Organized 1901.) General Office: 821 West Fifth St., To- COLORADO. school Dept., Mrs. Belle Emerson peica;Kans. Office: 1112 South Eleventh St., Den- (Shorey, Kans.) ; Cor. See. of Confer- - OFFICERS. ver, Colo. ence, R. W. Parmele; Supt. Church Pres., C. McReynolds; Vice-Pres., H. OFFICERS. Schools, Young People's Work, and Shultz (Stromsburg, Nebr.); Sec., R. Field Sec. of Sabbath-school Work, B. Conference: Pres., G. F. Watson; Vice- E. Huffman; State Traveling Mission- W. Parmele (821 West Fifth St., To- Pres., Watson Ziegler; Ex. Com., G. F. peka, Kans.); Treas., Kansas City ary, W. F. Surber (Cherryvale, Kans.); Branch Pacific Press Pub. Co. (18 West Watson, Watson Ziegler, F. M. Wilcox, Ex. Corn., E. T. Russell, C. A. Beeson,. Fifth St., Kansas City, Mo.); Auditor, Dr. W. W. Hills, M Mackintosh; Conf. T. J. Eagle, I. A. Crane, Geo. Becker, C. T. Cavaness (Chiles, Kans.) ; Dist. and Asst. Missionary Sec., Elva Green; A. E. Johnson, N. P. Dixon. Missionary Sec. and Treas., Mrs. Bertie Missionary, G. Phillips (18 West Fifth MINISTERS. St., Kansas City, Mo.). L. Herrell; Cor. Sec. for Missionary and Conference Committee: C. McReynolds, Sabbath-school Dept, Mrs. Flora Wat- E. T. Russell, 821 West Fifth St., To- H. Shultz, the presidents of the local son; State Miss., M. Mackintosh. peka, Kans. Conferences in the Southwestern Union MINISTERS. J. W. Westphal, Casilla del Correo 481, Conference, the president of Colorado G. F. Watson, 1112 South Eleventh St., Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic, Sanitarium, Principal of Keene (Tex.) Denver. • South America. Industrial Academy, Manager Kansas Watson Ziegler, 1112 South Eleventh St., A. E. Johnson, Clyde Kans. Denver. D. H. Oberholtzer, Thayer, Kans. City Branch Pacific Press Pub. Co., and R. H. Brock, Arkansas City, Kans. the District Missionary. J. B. Wilson,Box 34, Pueblo. H. M. J. Richards, 1112 South Eleventh R. W. Parmele, 821 West Fifth St., To- Sabbath-school Dept.: Dr. W. W. Hills, peka, Kans. Field See. St., Denver. M. Mackintosh, 1112 South Eleventh St., F. W. Hiddleson, 821 West Fifth St., To- Educational Dept.: Prof. C. C. Lewis, peka, Kans. Sec. Denver. MINISTERS. F. M. Wilcox, care Sanitarium, Boulder. C. A. Beeson, Atchison, Kans. C. McReynolds, 821 West Firth St., To- G. W. Anglebarger, 1112 South Eleventh I. A. Crane, Clay Center, Kans. peka, Kans. St., Denver. E. H. Curtis, Almena, Kans. H. Shultz, Stromsburg, Nebr. Dr. W. W. Hills, 731 East Costilla St.; J. B. Ashcraft, Preston, Kans. C. C. Lewis, College View, Nebr. Colorado Springs. H. E. Ketring, Casilla 1125, Valparaiso, R. W. Parmele, 821 ®West Fifth St., To- Matthew Larson, Hagerman, New Mexico. Chile, South America. peka, Kans. Geo. 0. States, Paonia. A. R. Ogden, Casilla 1125, Valparaiso, LICENTIATE. J. A. Leland, Guadalajara, Mexico. Chile, South America. S. S. Ryles, cafe Arkansas Tract Society, L. H. Proctor, Meeker. J. W. Norwood, Galena, Kans. Springdale, Ark. G. W. Colcord, Hygiene. W. D. McLay, 821 West Fifth St., To- peka, Kans. MISSIONARY LICENTIATES. S. F. Svensson, 1112 South Eleventh St., B. R. Nordyke, 18 West Fifth St., Kansas Denver. LICENTIATES. City, Mo. H. L. Hoover, 613 Colorado Ave., Trinidad. J. G. Hanhardt, Shaffer, Kans. G. Phillips, 18 West Fifth St., Kansas L. A. Spring, 1112 South Eleventh St., T. Godfrey, Concordia, Kans. City, Mo. Denver. B. W. Brown, Concordia, Kans. C. T. Cavaness, Chiles, Kans. LICENTIATES. W. A, Easley, 821 West Fifth St., To- - Sydney Scott, Ardmore, Ind. T. H. A. Aufderhar, Hygiene. peka,Kans. Mrs. C. C. Lewis, College View, Nebr. Wm. Kennedy, Salida. J. F. Harder, Windom, Kans. C. H. Bates, Pueblo. J. A. Rippey, Kanopolis, Kans. ARKANSAS. IVR Serna, Albuquerque, New Mexico. A. S. Bringle, Hutchinson, Kans. General Office: Springdale, Ark. J. F. Pearson, Pitkin. C. E. Peckover, Oakland, Kans. OFFICERS. MISSIONARY LICENTIATES. Jesse Jared, 821 West Fifth St., Topeka. Pres., A. E. Field; Sec. and Treas., Mrs. Q. M. French, Glenwood Springs. Kans. G. M. Alway, Leadville. 'B. E. Huffman, 821 West Fifth St., To- Etta Hardesty; State Missionary, C.W. peka, Kans. Hardesty; Educational Sec., D. E. Huff- Cush Sparks, Hygiene. W. F. Hills, Salida. A. R. Keller, Wathena, Kane man; Sabbath-school Sec., Mrs. Laura N. P. Dixon, Fortis, Kans. Field. Conf. Corn., A. E. Field, E. B. Chas. Lightner. 725 South Ninth St., Denver. E. W. Vance, Caldwell, Kans. Hopkins, G. Phillips, D. E. Huffman, J. R. Bagby, Pleasanton, Kans. C. W. Hardesty. Alice Finch, 417 South Nevada Ave., Colorado Springs. N. T. Sutton, Thayer, Kans. The Tract Society and Sabbath-school Robt. L. Bradford, Kansas City, Kans. Association have been made depart- Minnie Proctor, -Victor. partments of the Conference, and one Lida Moore, Hygiene. MISSIONARY LICENTIATES. Treasurer acts for all. Celia Green, 906 South Tenth St., Denver. Mary Doan, Clay Center, Kans. MINISTERS. Mrs. Bertie L. Herrell, 1112 South Elev- Anna On, 521 Lane St., Topeka, Hans. A. E. Field, Springdale, Ark. enth St., Denver. T. J. Eagle, 821 West Fifth St., Topeka. E. B. Hopkins, Springdale, Ark. Elva Green, 1112 South Eleventh St, Kans. H. Clay Griffin, Washburn, Mo. Denver. Laura Humphrey, Godfrey, Kans. LICENTIATES. Burt Bray, Buena Vista. H. L. Shafer, Portis, Kans. C. W. Brimer, Floyd, Ark. Mrs. Flora Watson, 1112 South Eleventh Edith Cornforth, Wellington, Kans. D. E. Huffman, Springdale, Ark. St., Denver. M. W. Neal, Moran, Kans. J. A. Oppy, Gentry, Benton Co., Ark. Lizzie Sutton, Thayer, Kane. V. B. Watts, Batesville, Ark. KANSAS. P. N. Kelley, Wakeeney, Kans. U. Bender, Batesville, Ark. General Office: 821 West Fifth St., To- Jennie Edwards, Thayer, Kans. MISSIONARY LICENTIATES. peka, Kans. J. C. Becker, 821 West Fifth St., Topeka, C. W. Hardesty, Springdale, Ark. OFFICERS. Kans. A. F. Tweed, 124 Silver St., Hot Springs, Pres., E. T. Russell; Viee-Pres., C. A. Kate T. Boggs, 821 West Fifth St.,- To- Ark. Beeson; See. and Treas., T. J. Eagle; peka, Kans. Miss 011ie Oberholtzer, Rogers, Ark. Sec. and Treas. Missionary Dept., R. W. Flora E. Herrmann, 821 West Fifth St.,, Mrs. Etta Hardesty, Springdale, Ark. , Parmele; Sec. and Treas. Sabbath- Topeka, Kann 534 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN.

Belle Emerson, Shorey, Kans. Mrs. S. Parker, 14 West Fifth St., Kan- MISSIONARY LICENTIATES. Mrs. A. R. Ogden, Casilla 1125, Valpa- sas City, Mo. W. B. Etchison, Dover,Okla. T. raiso, Chile, South America. Mrs. A. P. Heacock, 404 Grand Ave., Se- W. E. Baxter, Chickasa, Okla. T. W. F. Surber, Cherryvale, Kans. dalia, Mo. C. Schaeffier, Box 202, Oklahoma City, T. J. Weese, Fellsburg, Kans. Mrs. E..A. Merrell, 1.215 W abash, Kansas Okla. T. City, Mo. W. L. Adams, Box 202, Oklahoma City, Helen Zener, 14 West Fifth St., Kansas Okla. T. MISSOURI. City, Mo. A. S. Combs, Stillwater, Okla. T. M. E. George, 5603 Clemens St., St: Louis, S. P. Adams, Box 202, Oklahoma City, General Office: 14 West Fifth St., Kan- Mo. sas City, Mo. Okla. T. F. L. Limerick, Utica, Mo. P. J. Darner, Box 202, Oklahoma City, OFFICERS. Okla. T. Pres., J. M. Rees; Sec., Pearl L. Rees; Treas., Missouri Tract Society; Ex. OKLAHOMA. TEXAS. Com., J. M. Rees, R. C. Porter, A. P. (Oklahoma and Indian Territories.) General Office: 510 Jackson St, Dallas, Heacock, H. M. Stewart, A. A. Meyer. General Office Address: Box 202, Okla- Texas. Conf. Ascinciation: J. M. Rees, Jas. Coch- homa City, Okla. T. ran, It. C. Porter, S. H. Wharton, J. R. OFFICERS. Chappell. OFFICERS. Pres., W. A. McCutchen; Conf. Sec. and Tract Society: Pres., J. M. Rees; Sec. State Missionary, J. B. Blosser (Keene, and Treas., Jas. Cochran; Cor. Sec., Pres., G. G. Rupert; Sec., Miss Josephine Tex.); Treas. Conf., and Sec. and Treas. Pearl L. Rees; State Missionary, F. L. Rupert; Treas., R. M. Rockey; Ex. Tract and Missionary Dept., C. N. Limerick. Com., G. G. Rupert, G. H. Haffner, D. F. Woodward (510 Jackson St., Dallas, Sabbath-school Association: Pres., R. C. Sturgeon, I. G. Knight, M. H. Gregory. Tex.); Sec. and Treas. Sabbath-school Porter; Sec., Jennie Nichols; Ex. Com., Tract Society Dept.: Sec. and Treas., Dept., Sallie E. Green (Keene, Tex.) ; R. C. Porter, Jennie Nichols, J. M. R. M. Rockey; Cor. Sec., Josephine Ru- Ex. Com., W. A. McCutchen, W. S. Rees, L. M. Dunlap, A. P. Heacock. pert; State Missionary, W. B. Etchison. Greer, T. W. Field; Principal of Keene Sabbath-school Dept.: Sec. and Treas., Academy; J. Riffel, Dr. D. E. Garvin, MINISTERS. Emma Haffner. and J. B. Blesser. J. M. Rees, 14 West Fifth St., Kansas MINISTERS. MINISTERS. City, Mo. H. M. Stewart, 14 West Fifth St., Kan- G. G. Rupert, Box 202, Oklahoma City, W. A. McCutchen, Keene, Tex. sas City, Mo. Okla. T. W. S. Greer, Keene, Tex. A. P. Heacock, 404 Grand Ave., Sedalia, M. H. Gregory, Box 202, Oklahoma City, H. B. French, Keenis Tex. Mo. Okla. T. J. N. Somerville, KZ'ene, Tex. R. C. Porter, Hamilton, Mo. C. Sorenson, Box 202, Oklahoma City, D. U. Hale, Keene, Tex. H. K. Willis, Pleasant Hill, Mo. Okla. T. T. W. Fields, Keene, Tex. A. A. Meyer, Senate Grove, Mo. G. H. Haffner, Box 202, Oklahoma City, H. E. Giddings, Keene, Tex. C. H. Chaffee, Chillicothe, Mo. Okla. T. August Kunze, Keene, Tex. W. S. uruzan, Willow Springs, Mo. D. F. Sturgeon, Box 202, Oklahoma City, Henry Gellert. Keene, Tex. L. W. Terry, Rockville, Mo. Okla. T. Jacob Riff el, 510 Jackson St., Dallas, Tex. D. E. Scoles, Washburn, Mo. J. A. Sommerville, Box 202, Oklahoma LICENTIATES. E. A. Merrell, 1215 Wabash, Kansas City, City, Okla. T. 0. Glass, Keene, Tex. Mo. I. G. Knight, Box 202, Oklahoma City, W. M. Cubley, Keene, Tex. W. T. Millman, Gallatin, Mo. Okla. T. A. W. Jensen, Keene, Tex. U. B. Dake, Box 202, Oklahoma City, LICENTIATES. Conrad Miller, 510 Jackson St., Dallas, Okla. T. Tex. H. Meyer, Warrenton, Mo. J. B. Blosser, Keene, Tex. J. B. Stuyvesant, Pleasant Hill, Mo. LICENTIATES. E. L. Maxwell, Box 202, Oklahoma City, Ethridge, Roby, Tex. MISSIONARY LICENTIATES. Okla. T. Jas. Cochran, 14 West West Fifth St., J. A. Lorenz, Box 202, Oklahoma City, MISSIONARY LICENTIATES. Kansas City, Mo. Okla. T. W. W. Stoner, Keene, Tex. Nora Hough, 1813 North Second St., St. J. I Schiffner, Box 202, Oklahoma City, Thos. DeFreeze, COrsicana, Tex. Joseph, Mo. Okla. T. J. W. Johnston, Houston, Tex. Eva Hough, 1813 North Second St., St. L. C. Sommerville, Box 202, Oklahoma Berdie Crusan, Cleburne, Tex. Joseph, Mo. City, Okla, T. Jessie Hunter, Houston, Tex. Cora Rapp, 1315 Taylor St., St. Louis, Abr. Loewen, Box 202, Oklahoma City, Lottie White, Austin, Tex. Mo. Okla. T. Artie Taylor, Austin, Tex.

PACIFIC UNION CONFERENCE. (Organized 1901.) Territory: California, Oregon, Washing- Ex. Com., W. T. Knox, A. T. Jones, Mission Board: l,. a. Knox, unairman; ton, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Utah, H. W. Decker, A. J. Breed, W. B. J. J. Ireland, See.; H. H. Hall, W. C. Arizona, Alaska, British Columbia, and White, W. A. Alway, H. H. Hall, W. White, W. R. Simmons, A. J. Breed. Hawaiian Territory. L. Simmons, E. L. Stewart. Educational Committee: W. T. Knox, Office: 1059 Castro St., Oakland, Cal. Sabbath-school Department: Ex. Cora., M. E. Cady, E. L. Stewart, E. S. Bal- Chairman, H. H. Hall (1505 Brush St., lenger. OFFICERS. Oakland, Cal.) ; Sec., Mrs. Carrie R. Home Missionary Work Committee: T. Conference: Pres., W. T. Knox; Sec., King (1059 Castro St., Oakland, Cal.); H. Starbuck, W. V. Sample, T. F. J. J. Ireland; Treas., E. A. Chapman, W S Sadler (1219 Buchanan St., San Copeland, T. G. Johnson, Alfred White- (Twelfth & Castro- St., Oakland, Cal.); Francisco, Cal.); W. F. Martin (College head, T. H. Watson, J. H. Behrens, Traveling Missionary, S. C. Osborne; Place, Wash.). E. W. Webster, J. J. Ireland. GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN. 535

Medical Missionary Council: W. T. NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. F. R. Shaeffer, 1219 Buchanan St., San Knox, A. T. Jones, H. W. Decker, A. Territory: All of California north of the Francisco, Cal. J. Breed, W. B. White, W. A. Alway, Tehachapi and Santa Ynez mountains; Henry Scott, Healdsburg, Cal. W. R. Simmons (Secretary), E. L. and the State of Nevada. M. E. Cady, Healdsburg, Cal. Stewart, H. H. Hall. Office: 301 San Pablo Ave., Oakland, Cal. M. H. St. John, 1219 Buchanan St., San Francisco, Cal. MINISTERS. Conference: Pres., A. T. Jones; Sec., M. H. Brown; Treasurer, Pacific Press G. B. Douglas, 641 Commercial St., San W. T. Knox, 816 Twentieth St., Oakland, Francisco, Cal. Cal. Publishing Co., Oakland, Cal.; Ex. Com., A. T. Jones, M. H. Brown, J. 0. W. L. Sims, 301 San Pablo Ave., Oak- W. A. Alway, Provo, Utah. land, Cal. A. J. Osborne, 655 South Fourth East Corliss, M. E. Cady, C. N. Martin, W. C. White, M. C. Wilcox, T. J. A. 3. Morton, 50 Ford Ave., Watson- St., Salt Lake City, Utah. ville, Cal. A. G. Christiansen, Logan, Utah. Evans, H. G. Thurston. Department of Publication: Sec., W.V. A. L. Lingle, 301 San Pablo Ave., Oak- E. W. Webster, 31 South First Ave., land, Cal. Phoenix, Ariz. • Sample; Cor. Sec., Periodical Agent, H. G. Thurston; F. T. Lamb, 1236 Market St., San Fran- T. H. Watson, Douglas City, Alaska. cisco, Cal. A. M. Dart, Juneau, Alaska. General Agent, P. R. Albrecht. Educational Department: President P. R. Albrecht, 301 San Pablo Ave., Oak- B. L. Howe, Honolulu, H. T. land, Cal. J. H. Behrens, Honolulu, H. T. Healdsburg College, M. E. Cady; Supt. Church-school and Sabbath-school C. T. Everson, 301 San Pablo Ave., Oak- LICENTIATES. work, E. S. Ballenger; Sec. Cal. Con- land, Cal. " F. D. Gauterau, 301 San Pablo Ave., C. D. M. Williams, Box 227, Bisbee, Ariz. ference, M. H. Brown; Supt. Young W. L. Black, 605 Ninth St., Tucson, Ariz. Oakland, Cal. People's Work, W. S. Sadler; Berean J. W. McCord, 301 San Pablo Ave., Oak- M. Serna, Solomonville, Ariz. Circle Work, Evelyn M. Riley. J. E. Bond, 31 South First Ave., Phcenix, land, Cal. "California Conference Association of the J. A. L. Derby, Healdsburg, Cal. Ariz. Seventh-day Adventists: " President, C. N. Miller, 301 San Pablo Ave., Oak- MISSIONARY LICENTIATES. J. J. Ireland (1059 Castro St., Oakland, land, Cal. J. J. Ireland, 1059 Castro St., Oakland, Cal.); Sec., M. H. Brown; Directors: Cal. J. J. Ireland, M. H. Brown, E. A. MISSIONARY LICENTIATES. Chas. Nelson, Logan, Utah. Chapman, E. E. Parlin, Clarence San- tee, Wm. Saunders (1505 Brush St., A. J. Sanderson, Sanitarium, Cal. Mrs. A. J. Osborne, 655 South Fourth G. H. Heald, Healdsburg, Cal. East St., Salt Lake City, Utah. Oakland, Cal.), T. A. Kilgore (Sanita- rium, Cal.). Thos. Coolidge,1436 Market St., San Mrs. W. L. Res, Flagstaff, Ariz. Francisco, Cal. Mrs. E. W. Webster, 31 South First Ave., MINISTERS. E. E. Parlin, 517 Octavia St., San Fran- Phoenix, Ariz. A. T. Jones, 301 San Pablo Ave., Oak- cisco, Cal. W. E. Howell, Honolulu, H. T. land, Cal. Mrs. E. E. Parlin, 517 Octavio, St., San Mrs. W. E. Howell, Honolulu, H. T. M. H. Brown, 301 San Pablo Ave., Oak- Francisco, Cal. Mrs. S. B. Kinner, Honolulu, H. T. land, Cal. Evelyn M. Riley, 301 San Pablo Ave., F. S. Bond, 31 South First Ave., Phoenix, W. C. White, Sanitarium, Cal. Oakland, Cal. Ariz. M. C. Wilcox, Pacific Press, Oakland, Laura Morrison, 702 Eleventh St., Oak- S. C. Osborne, 1059 Castro St., Oakland, Cal. land, Cal. Cal. A. 0. Tait, Pacific Press, Oakland, Cat. Mrs. Myrta B. Thorn, 554 Minor Ave., Carrie V. Hanson, 542 First St.; Ogden, J. 0. Corliss, Fruitvale, Cal. San Jose, Cal. Utah. J. W. Bagby, Armona, Cal. Mary Clement, 410 Franklin St., San C. N. Martin, John Adams Post Office, Francisco, Cal. MONTANA. Cal. Helen M. Steele, 301 San Pablo Ave., A. Brorsen, Lusk Ave., Oakland, Cal. Oakland, Cal. Conference and S. S. Department Office: H. F. Courter, 301 San Pablo Ave.,Oak- Missoula. I. P. Dillon, 301 San Pablo Ave., Oak- land, Cal. land, Cal. Tract Society Office: 108 Grand St., D. T. Fero, 301 San Pablo Ave., Oak: Helena. Mrs. Edith Dillon, 301 San Pablo Ave., OFFICERS. land, Cal. 'Oakland, Cal. C. M. Gardner, Eureka, Cal. H. H. Brand, Lorin, Cal. Conference: Pres., W. B. White; Sec., J. F. Hansen, 301 San Pablo Ave., Oak- Mrs. Mina Mann, Glennville, Cal. Mrs. Nettie G. White, Missoula; Mis- land, Cal. Mrs. W. S. Sadler, 1219 Buchanan St., sionary Sec., Treas., and Canv. Agt., J. S. Harmon, Healdsburg, Cal. San Francisco, Cal. Thomas G. Johnson; Sabbath-school M. C. Israel, Red Bluff, Cal. A. Parsons, 301 San Pablo Ave., ., D. Sec., Mrs. Nettie G. White; Ex. Com A. S. Kellogg, Healdsburg, Cal. Oakland, Cal. W. B. White, J. C. Foster, Thos. G. N. C. McClure,- Healdsburg, Cal. Johnson, A. E. Parker, L. A. Gibson. S. C. Osborne, 301 San Pablo Ave., Oax- Isaac Morrison, 301 San Pablo Ave., Oak- land, Cal. MINISTERS. land, Cal. Julia A. Wheeler, Fruitvale, Cal. W. B. White, Box 667, Missoula, Mont. G. Rauleder, 1219 Buchanan St., San Walter Halliday, Lorin, Cal. J. C. Foster, Billings, Mont. Francisco, Cal. Mrs. C. N. Miller, 301 San Pablo Ave., W. S. Sadler, 1219 Buchanan St., ban Oakland, Cal. LICENTIATES. Francisco, Cal. Edna Sheffer, 301 San Pablo Ave., Oax- R. D. Quinn, Missoula, Mont. B. F. Richards, 1133 Ellis St., San Fran- land, Cal. L. A. Gibson, 108 Grand St., Helena, cisco, Cal. M. L. Guerne, Santa Rosa, -Cal. Mont. H. A. St. John, Sanitarium, Cal. Nina Case, 1219 Buchanan St., San J. H. French, Bozeman, Mont. C. L. Taylor, Sanitarium, Cal. Francisco,Cal. W. A. Gosmer, Bozeman, Mont. H. G. Thurston, 301 San Pablo Ave., Oak- Mrs. Ella Shaeffer, 1219 Buchanan St., W. D. Emery, Woodside, Mont. land, Cal. San Francisco, Cal. Stewart Kime, Red Lodge, Mont. S. Thurston, 301 San Pablo Ave., Oak- Minnie Pond, 301 San Pablo Ave, Oax- MISSIONARY LICENTIATES. land, Cal. land, Cal. J. J. Westrup, Fruitvale, Cal. P. D. Quinn, Billings, Mont. Mary Ferguson, 301 San Pablo Ave., T. G. Johnson, 108 Grand St., Helena, LICENTIATES. Oakland, Cal. Mont. E. S. Ballenger, 301 San Pablo Ave., Oak- Florence Mendenhall, 301 San Pablo Ave., Mrs. Nettie G. White, Missoula, Mont. land, Cal. Oakland, Cal. 536 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN.

Sophie Wahlberg, 301 San Pablo Ave., LICENTIATES. UPPER COLUMBIA. Oakland, Cal. W. J. Burden, 1 North Fourth St., Port - Territory: That portion of Washington W. V. Sample, 301 San Pablo Ave., Oak- land, Oregon. and Oregon east of the Cascade Moun- land, Cal. C. J. Cole, St. John's, Oregon. tains, and Idaho. T. D. Waller, 301 San Pablo Ave., Oak- G. W. Pettit, Montavilla, Oregon. Office: College Place, Wash. land, Cal. D. J. Chitwood, Chitwood, Oregon. Amos S. Manlius, Eureka, Cal. A. B. Starbuck, 508 East Everett St. OFFICERS. Mrs. A. C. Bainbridge, 622 Golden Gate, Portland, Oregon. * Conference: Pres., A. J. Breed; Sec., J. L. Ave., San Francisco, Cal. H. C. J. Wallekar, 313 Fourth Ave. Kay; Treas., Upper Columbia Tract Addle J. Morrison, 301 San Pablo Ave., North, Seattle, Wash. Society; Ex. Com., A. J. Breed, E. L. Oakland, Cal. W. B. Scott, St. John's, Oregon. Stewart, W. F. Martin, J. A. Holbrook, Church Schools: Alameda, Fresno, Geo. Squire, Shelton, Wash. J. R. Leadsworth, S. A. Anderson, A. Healdsburg, Hanford, Napa, Oakland, B. C. Tabor, Hood River, Oregon. Scblotthauer. Red Bluff, San Francisco, Santa Rosa, J. J. W. Clark, 508 East Everett St., Tract Society: Sec., Lloyd Copeland; San Jose, Watsonville; and Reno, Portland, Oregon. Cor. Sec., Claude Conard; Canv. Agt., Nevada. John Hansen, Seghers, Oregon. M. F. Hill (Goldendale, Oregon). Nathan Graves, Vancouver, Wash. Sabbath-school Department: Chairman, C. E. Shaffer, Vancouver, Wash. W. F. Martin; Sec., Daisy Afton (Boise, Idaho); Ex. Com., W. F. Martin, L C. NORTH PACIFIC. J. A. Roos, 1676 Eight St., New Whatcom, Wash. Colcord, H. E. Hoyt, a F. Knott, Daisy Territory: Oregon and Washington west Afton. of the Cascade Mountains, and Brit- MISSIONARY LICENTIATES. Upper Columbia Mission Society: Pres., ish Columbia. W. R. Simmons, M. D., First and Mont- E. L. Stewart; See., M. F. Martin; Office: 508 East Everett St., Portland, gomery Sts., Portland, Oregon. Treas., Upper Columbia Tract Society; Oregon. Miss Ida Johnson, First and Montgomery Auditor, Auditor of the Pacific Union Sts., Portland, Oregon. Conference. OFFICERS. Mrs. B. C. Tabor, Hood River, Oregon. Helping Hand Mission: Walla Walla, Mrs. Emma Shaffer, Vancouver, Wash. Wash.; Supt., J. M. Watson. Conference: Pres., H. W. Decker; Sec., Andrew Williams, 508 E. Everett St., Workingmen's Home: Boise, Idaho; Edith Starbuck; Treas., North Pao. Portland, Oregon. Supt., J. A. Casebeer. Church Extension Society; Ex. Corn., Spokane Mission: 46 Main Ave., Spokane, H. W. Decker, J. L. Wilson, S. W. Wash.; Supt., J. W. Posey. Nellis, W. R. Simmons, H. J. Schnep- SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. per, F. S. Bunch. Territory: That portion of California MISTERS. North Pacific Church Extension Soci- south of the summits of the Tehach- A. J. Breed, College Place, Wash. ety: Board of Management, H. W. api and Santa Ynez Mountains. C. E. Ford, Medical Lake, Wash. Decker, J. L. Wilson, S. W. Nellis, Office: 516 South Hill St., Los Angeles, J. A. Holbrook, College Place, Wash, W. R. Simmons, H. J. Schnepper. Cal. C. L. Ford, Newport, Wash. Tract Society: Sec., T. H. Starbuck; OFFICERS. Oscar Hill, College Place, Wash. Canvassing Agent, W. B. Scott (St. W. F. Martin, College Place, Wash. Conference: Pres., C. Santee; Sec., C. H. W. Oliver, Wallowa, Ore. Johns, Oregon). A. Pedicord (516 South Hill St., Los Sabbath-school Association:" Sec., Edith G. W. Reaser, Petermaritzburg, Natal,, Angeles); Treas., Belle P. Baker (926 South Africa. Starbuck. South Hill St., Los Angeles). Church Schools: Portland, Montavilla, E. D. Sharpe, Boise, Idaho. Tract Society: Pres., C. Santee; Sec. J. G. Smith, 46 Main Ave., Spokane, Gravel Ford, Salem, Newberg, Royal, and Treas., C. A. Pedicord. Oregon; Hoaquim, Seattle, and Van- Wash. couver, Wash. MINISTERS. W. W. Steward, College Place, Wash. E. L. Stewart, College Place, Wash. Medical Mission: 1 North Fourth St., Clarence Santee, 143 Carr St., Los An- Portland, Oregon; Manager, W, J. geles, Cal. W. C. Young, Nelson, British Columbia. Burden. J. Bartlett, Milton, Oregon. W. M. Healey, 143 Carr St., Los Angeles, L. H. Ells, Emida, Idaho. Cal. A. Sehlotthauer, Wilcox, Wash. MINISTERS. R. S. Owen, 1354 East Twenty-second LICENTIATES. H. W. Decker, 508 East Everett St., St., Los Angeles, Cal. Portland, Oregon. G. Rauleder, 143 Carr St., Los Angeles, J. A. Casebeer, Boise, Idaho. T. H. Starbuck, 508 East Everett St., Cal. J. L. Kay, College Place,Wash. Portland, Oregon. LICENTIATES. Chas. F. Knott, Lind,h. as J. E. Graham, 721 East Taylor St., T. S. Whitelock, San Diego, Cal. MISSIONARY LICENTIATES. Portland, Oregon. C. E. Knight, Ventura, Cal. S. A. Anderson, care Mt. View Sanita- J. L. Wilson, Mission City, British Col- R. W. Miller, Santa Ana, Cal. rium, Spokane, Wash. umbia. J. L. McElhaney, 143 Carr St., Los An- W. S. Holbrook, College Place, Wash. S. W. Nellis, Connie, Wash. geles, Cal. Mrs. Flora Leadsworth, Spokane Wash. J. M. Cole, St. John's, Oregon. S. T. Hare, 143 Carr St., Los Angeles, J. W. Posey, 46 Main Ave., Spokane, C. Johnson, Monitor, Oregon. Cal. Wash. . - A. J. Stover, Sara, Wash. C. A. Pedicoid, 516 South Hill St., Los E. E. Smith, Adams, Oregon. Schnepper, 114 East Tenth St., Angeles. Cal. A. R. Star, North Yakima, Wash. North, Portland, Oregon. MISSIONARY LICENTIATES. Mrs. Lillie Star, North Yakima, Wash. C. A. Wyman, Hood River, Oregon. Dr. I. A. Dunlap, College Place,Wash. J. F. Hansen, 508 East Everett St., Mrs. L. A. Parsons, 143 Carr St., Los W. 11. Smith, Nelson, British olumbia. Portland, Oregon. Angeles, Cal. Wm. Steele, College Place, Wash. H. W. Babcock, Cottage Grove, Oregon, Mrs. Deborah Knight, Ventura, Cal. C. W. Lusk, College Place, Wash. F. M. Burg, Shelton, Wash. Mrs. M. E. Hoyt, 143 Carr St., Los Dr. S. Etta Kerby, care Mt. View San- W. C. F. Ward, Puyallup, Oregon. Angeles, Cal. itarium, Spokane, Wash. R. D. Benham, Beaverton, Oregon. Wm. Yarnell, 529 Wall St., Los Angeles, W. M. Fee, College Place, Wash. E. Jorg, 852 Vancouver Ave., Portland, Cal. David Dodge, College Place, Wash. Oregon. H. L. Rawson, Oxnard, Cal. S. B. Hare, College Place, Wash. F. S. Bunch, Gravel Ford, Oregon. Otis J. Fisher, Station A, Pasadena, Oat. M. F. Hill, Goldendale, Oregon. GENERAL CONFERENCE B ULLETIN. 537

*UTAH MISSION. ALASKA MISSION. LICENTIATES. Office: Box 286, Springville, Utah. Supt: T. H. Watson, Douglas City, W. L. Black, 605 Ninth St., Tuseon, Officers: Supt., W. A. Alway; Sec. and Alaska. Arizona. Treas, Alfred Whitehead, (Box 286, MINISTERS. C. D. M. Williams, Box 227, Bisbee, Springville, Utah); Advisory Cora., W. T. H. Watson, Douglas City, Alaska. Arizona. A. Alway, A. F. Whitehead, A. G. A. M. Dart, Juneau, Alaska. M. Serna, Solomonville, Arizona. Christiansen, A. J. Osborne, Chas. J. E. Bond, 31 South First Ave., Phoe- Nelson. nix, Arizona. ARIZONA MISSION. Sabbath-school Department: Field See., MISSIONARY LICENTIATES. A. J. Osborne. Office: 31 South First Ave., Phoenix Mrs. E. W. Webster, 31 South First Tract Society: Sec., A. F. Whitehead. Arizona. OFFICERS. Ave., Phoenix, Arizona. MINISTERS. Mrs. W. L. Iles, Flagstaff, Arizona. Supt. and Treas.,, E. W. Webster; Sea, F. S. Bond, 31 South First Ave., Phoenix, W. A. Alway, Provo, Utah. E. A. Brown; Ex. Com., E. W. Web- Arizona. A. J. Osborne, 655 South Fourth East ster, W. L. Black, C. D. M. Williams, M. Serna, E. A. Brown. St., Salt Lake City, Utah. HAWAIIAN MISSION. A. G. Christiansen, Logan, Utah. Tract Society: Sec., E. A. Brown, Box 777, Phoenix, _Arizona. General Address: Honolulu, H. T. LICENTIATES. Sabbath-school and Church-school De- Supt., J. H. Behrens; See. and Treas., Chas. Nelson, Logan, Utah. partment and Youth's Work: Sec., W. E. Howell; Advisory Com., J. H. Mrs. Carrie V. Hansen, 542 First St., Mrs. W. L. Iles. Behrens, W. E. Howell, T. J. Evans. Ogden, Utah. Berean Reading Circle Work: Sec., C. Ministers: J. H. Behrens, B. L. Howe, Church School: Provo, Utah. D. M. Williams. Albert Carey. Relief Mission: 33 Commercial St., Salt MIN 1ST ERS. Missionary Licentiates: W. E. Howell,. Lake City, Utah; Manager, C. E. E. W. Webster, 31 South First Ave., Mrs. W. E. Howell, Mrs. S. B. Kinner,. Fries. Phoenix, Arizona. Lena E. Howe.

ALUSTRALASIA_N UNION CONFERENCE. (Organized 1895.) Office: 25 Sloane Street, Summer Hill, E. W. Farnsworth, 25 Sloane Sreet, Miss S. Gurner, 201 Newcastle Street, N. S. W., Australia. Summer Hill, N. S. W. West Perth, W. A. E. H. Gates, Cooranbong, N. S. W. OFFICERS. R. Hare, Echo Office, North Fitzroy, NEW SOUTH WALES. Conference: Pres., G. A. Irwin; Vice- Victoria. Office: 25 Sloane Street, Summer Hill, Pres., E. W. Farnsworth; Sec. and C. B. Hughes, Avondale School, Cooran- N. S. W., Australia. bong, N. S. W. Treas., Edith M. Graham; Ex. Cora., OFFICERS. G. A. Irwin, E. W. Farnsworth, the J. Patient, 201 Newcastle Street, West Presidents of the local Conferences, Perth, W. A. Conference: Pres., G. A. Snyder; Vice- and E. H. Gates, W. D. Salisbury, J. E. Fulton, Suva, Fiji. Pres., G. C. Tenney; See. and Treas., A. T. Robinson, D. H. Kress, E. R. B. J. Cady, Papeete, Tahiti, Society Is- J. Hindson; Ex. Corn.,G. A. Snyder, Caro, J. A. Burden, J. Johanson. lands, Pacific Ocean. G. C. Tenney, J. A. urden, J. Paap, Sabbath-school Department: Supt., Mrs. A. T. Robinson, Avondale School, J. Hindson. E. W. Farnsworth; See., Mrs. C. W. Cooranbong, N. S. W. Tract and Missionary Department: See. Irwin. D. D. Lake, Apia, Samoa, Pacific Ocean. and Treas., Miss A. S. Higgins; General Australasian Medical Missionary Council: J. A. Burden, Sanitarium Wahroonga, Agent, W. M. Crothers. D. H. Kress, E. R. Caro, J. A. Burden, N. S. W. Sabbath-school Department: Sec., Mrs. A. Irwin, A. W. Semmens, F. E. Dr. It G. Kellogg, Sanitarium, Wah- J. Hindson. G. MINISTERS Braucht, P. M. Keller. roonga, N. S. W. Tract and Missionary Department: A. LICENTIATES. G. A. Snyder, 25 Sloane Street, Summer W. Anderson, Mrs. C. L. Boyd, Miss T. H. Craddock, South Australian Tract Hill, N. S. W. H. Andre. Society, Hughes Street, North Unley, G. C. Tenney, 25 Sloane Street, Summer Book Committee: W. D. Salisbury, W. S. A. Hill, N. S. W. A. Colcord, D. H. Kress, A. W. Ander- A. H. Piper, Raratonga, Cook Islands. W. Woodford, 25 Sloane Street, Summer son, J. Johanson. C. W. Irwin, Avondale School, Cooran- Hill, N. S. W. Transportation Board: Chairman, J. A. bong, N. S. W. W. A. Colcord, 25 Sloane Street, Summer Burden; Associate members, J. Gil- L. V. Finster, 201 Newcastle Street, Hill, N. S. W. lespie, J. H. Mills, A. W. Semmens, West Perth, W. A. LICENTIATES. E. Hilliard, J. PaRant, A. Mountain, Pauliasi Bunoa, Suva, Fiji. P. W. Paap, Zadok Street, Lismore, S. H. Amyes. Paul J. Deane, Papeete, Tahiti, Society N. S. W. Religious Liberty Secretaries: The Islands, Pacific Ocean. G. W. Tadich, 25 Sloane Street, Summer' President in each Conference. J. R. McCoy, Pitcairn Island. Hill, N. S. W. Educational Council: Miss H. Andre, F. L: Chaney, Cooranbong, N. S. W. W. J. McGowan, 25 Sloane Street, Sum- Mrs. C. B. Hughes, C. W. Irwin, Dr. SISSIONARY LICENTIATES. mer Hill, N. S. W. Laurette Kress, Mrs. N. D. Faulk- Mrs. A. T. Robinson, Avondale School, MISSIONARY LICENTIATES. head. Cooranbong, N. S. W. J. Hindson, 25 Sloane Street, Summer Mission Committee: E. H. Gates, D. Mrs. B. J. Cady, Papeete, Tahiti, Society Hill, N. S. W. H. Kress, J. A. Burden, G. A. Irwin, Islands, Pacific Ocean. E. A. D. Goodhart, 25 Sloane Street, F. E. Braucht, A. W. Anderson, Miss Mrs. J. E. Fulton, Suva, Fiji. Summer Hill, N. S. W. H. Andre. Mrs. A. H. Piper, Raratonga, Cook Is- G. James, 25 Sloane Street, Summer MINISTERS. lands. Will, N. S. W. G. A. Irwin, 25 Sloane Street, Summer Mrs. T. A. Chapman, 201 Newcastle Miss A. Pearce, Club House, Bourke' Hill, N. S. W. Street, West Perth, W. A. Street, West Maitland, N. S. W. 538 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN.

NEW ZEALAND. MINISTERS. and Treas., Miss Lizzie Gregg; General Office: 37 Taranaki Street, Wellington, J. H. Woods, Hughes St., North Unley, Agent, J. Johanson. New Zealand. South Australia, Australia. Sabbath-school Department: Sec., Mrs. OFFICERS. W. Knight, Hughes St., North Unley, N. D. Faulkhead. Conference: Pres., W. L. H. Baker; Vice- South Australia, Australia. MINISTERS. Pres., G. A. Wantzlick; Sec., W. J. LICENTIATE: G. B. Starr, Oxford Chambers, Bourke Smith; Treas., A. Mountain; Busi- A. W. Semmens, Adelaide Hydropatbie St., Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ness Agent, A. Mountain; Ex. Com., Institute, Victoria Square, Adelaide, S. McCullagh, Oxford Chambers, Bourke W. L. H. Baker, G. A. Wantzlick, A. South Australia, Australia. St., Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Mountain, S. H. Amyes, F. E. Braucht. Robert Hare, 16 Best St., North Fitzroy, Tract Society Department: Mrs. W. L. MISSIONARY LICENTIATE& Victoria, Australia. H. Baker; Treas., Miss W. Green- A. H. Rogers, Hughes St., North Unley, field; General Agent, A. Mountain. South Australia, Australia. LICENTIATES. Sabbath-school Department: Sec. and J. E. Steed, Hughes St North Unley, J. Johanson, Oxford Chambers, Bourke Treas., Mrs. W. L. H. Baker. South Australia, Australia. St., Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. MINISTERS. H. Mitchell, Hughes St., North Unley, A. W. Anderson, 16 Best St., North South Australia, Australia. Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia. W. L. H. Baker, 37 Taranaki Street, N. A. Davis, Oxford Chambers, Bourke Wellington, New Zealand. Mrs. G. T. Wilson, Hughes St., North Unley, South Australia, Australia. St., Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. G. A. Wantzlick, 37 Taranaki Street, C. P. Michaels, Oxford Chambers, Bourke Wellington, New Zealand. St., Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. LICENTIATES. TASMANIA. A. Ballingall, Oxford Chambers, Bourke Charles Paap, 37 Taranaki Street, Wel- Office: 198 George Street, Launceston, St., Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. lington, New Zealand. Tasmania. N. D. Faulkhead, 16 Best St., North F. Lyndon, 37 Taranaki Street, Wel- OFFICERS. Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia. lington, New Zealand. Conference: Pres., E. Hilliard; Vice- MISSIONARY LICENTIATES. W. J. Smith, 37 Taranaki Street, Wel- Pres., C. H. Parker; Sec., T. Howse; lington, New Zealand. Treas., P. H. Pretyman; Er. Com., G. Hubbard, 16 Best St., North Fitzroy, M. Caro, Napier, New Zealand. E. Hilliard, C. H. Parker, P. H. Prety- Victoria, Australia. W. J. Pascoe, 37 Taranaki Street, Wel- man, H. B. Hurburgh, E. Brandstater. J. Wallace, 16 Best St., North Fitzroy, ington, New Zealand. Tract Society Department: Sec. and Victoria, Australia. Treas., Mrs. E. Hilliard; General A. Chelberg, 16 Best St., North Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia. QUEENSLAND. Agent, P. B. Budge. Sabbath-school Department: Sec. and Miss 34. Schowe, Oxford Chambers, Office: " Kingsdown," O'Connell Terrace, Treas., Mrs. C. H. Parker. Bourke St., Melbourne, Victoria, Aus- Bowen Hills, Brisbane, Queensland, tralia. Australia. MINISTERS. Miss Lizzie 4regg, Oxford Chambers, Sabbath-school Secretary: Miss L. Tuxen. E. Hilliard, 198 George Street, Laun- Bourke St., Melbourne, Victoria, Aus- ceston, Tasmania. tralia. C. H. Parker, 198 George Street, Laun- W. D. Salisbury, 16 Best St., North SOUTH AUSTRALIA. ceston, Tasmania. Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia. Office: Hughes St., North Unley, South Australia, Australia. OFFICERS. VICTORIA. WEST AUSTRALIA. Conference: Pres., J. H. Woods; Vice- Office: Oxford Chambers, 473-481 Bourke Office: 201 Newcastle Street, West Pres., A. W. Semmens; Sec., J. Hig- St., Melbourne, Victoria; Australia. Perth, West Australia. gins; Treas., Mrs. J. Higgins; Er. OFFICERS. Officers: Director, J. Pallant; Sec. and Com., J. IL Woods, A. W. Semmens, J. Treas., Miss S. Garner. Higgins, H. Mitchell, T, Thatcher, J. Conference: Pres., G. B. Starr; Vice- Tract and Missionary Department: See. Bowhey, W. Knight. Pres., J. Johanson; Sec. and fleas., and Treas., Miss S. Gurner. Tract and Missionary Department: Sec., J. Gillespie; Ex. Com., G. B. Starr, Minister: J. Pallant. and Treas., Mrs. J. Higgins; General J. Johanson, J. Gillespie, C. P. Licentiates: T. H. Craddock, L. V. Fin- Agent, J. H. Camp. Michaels, E. Watson, C. Hallam, W. ster. Sabbath-school Department: See. and D. Salisbury. Missionary Licentiates: Mrs. T. A. fleas., Mrs. A. W. Semmens. Tract and Missionary Department: Sec. Chapman, Miss S. Gurner.

EUROPEAN GENERAL CONFERENCE. (Organized 1901.) Headquarters: 451 Holloway Road, Lon- Hoenes, 0. A. Johnson, R. G. Klingbeil, Olsen (Chairman), B. G. Wilkinson, 0. don, N., England. E. Lind, 0. A. Olsen, J. C. Ottosen, H. F. A. Johnson, E. J. Waggoner, IL F. OFFICERS. Schuberth, W. C. Sisley, E. J. Wag- Schuberth. Chairman: L. R. Conradi, Grindelberg goner, B. G. Wilkinson. Publishing: L. R. Conradi (Chairman), 15a, Hamburg. Departments. J. C. Ottosen, E. J. Waggoner, W. C. Secretary: 0. A. Olsen, 451 Holloway Road, London, N. Finance: L. R. Conradi (Chairman),40. Ministers: Z. G. Baharian, L. R. Conradi, Treasurer: W. C. Sisley, 451 Holloway A. Olsen, W. C. Sisley, E. Lind, P. A. John Hoffman, J. H. Krum, David Ost- Road, London, N. Hansen. lund, Taminanos Hovaguvinyan. Auditor: E. Lind, Kungsgatan 34, Stock- Medical: J. C. Ottosen (Chairman), A. J. Licentiate: S. Jespersson. holm. Hoenes, P. A. De Forest, L. R. Conradi, Missionary Licentiates: A. Boettcher, Executive Committee: L. R. Conradi, P. W. C. Sisley. Friederick Hoerner, S. Hoerner, L. Pas- A. De Forest, P. A. Hansen, A. J. Sabbath-school and Educational: 0. A. sebois, K. Sandelin, Ida Schlegel.

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GERMAN UNION CONFERENCE. J. Knecht; Advisory Committee: R. G. Ex. Com., P. A. Hansen, J. C. Raft, Klingbeil, J. Knecht, P. J. Rijsdam, J. Jno. P. Hansen, P. Hansen Jens Olsen. (Organized 1901,) de Heer, J. C. van Ness. Ministers: P. A. Hansen, '3. C. Raft, (Germany, German-Switzerland, Luxem- Ministers: It. 0. Klingbeil, P. J. Itijsdam. N. Clausen, M. M. Olsen, J. C. Ottosen, burg, Russia, Holland, Flemish Bel- Licentiates: J. Knecht, J. Wintzen. C. C. Hansen. gium, Austria-Hungary, Rumania, Bul- Missionary Licentiates: J. Wibbens, M. Licentiates: Pi Christiansen, L. Muders- garia, Servia, Montenegro.) Arendse, P. Bothof. pach, N. P. Nelson. Telegraphic Address: "Conradi, Grindel- Missionary Licentiate: P. Hansen berg, Hamburg." Office Address for German Union Confer- NORTH RUSSIAN MISSION. ence, and all the German Union fields Officers: Director, D. P. Gaede; Sec., FINLAND. C. Laubhan; Advisory Committee: D. and workers, Grindelberg s0.5a, Ham- Office: Jagaregatan 2, Helsingfors, burg, Germany. P. Gaede, a J. Loebsack, F. W. Officers: Pres., L. R. Conradi; Rec. See., Boettcher. land. H. F. Schuberth; Cor. Sec., Guy Dail; Minister: D. P. Gaede. Officers: Director, John Hoffman; Ad- Sec. of Missionary and Sabbath-school Missionary Licentiates: 0. Wildgrube, visory Board: John Hoffman, A. Department of German Union Confer- J. Jurickson, R. Voss, J. Sprhge. Boettcher, K. Sandelin; Canvassing ence, and all the German Union fields, Agent, Z. Sherrig. C. Laubhan; Treas. of the German Ministers: John Hoffman, Fred Anderson. ' Union Conference and -all the German SOUTH GERMAN MISSION FIELD. Missionary Licentiates: K. Sandelin, A. Union fields, B. Severin; Gen. Canv. Officers: Director, E. Frauchiger; Sec., R. Boettcher. Agt., A. Doerner; Ex. Com., L. R. Con- Schillinger; Advisory Committee: E. Frauchiger, C. W. Weber, 0. Linder- radi, R. G. Klingbeil, J. T. Boettcher, ICELAND. H. F. Sehuberth, J. Pieper, E Frauchi- meyer, E. Delosea. ger, H. J. Loebsack, D. P. Gaede, J. F. Ministers: E. Frauchiger, C. W. Weber. Address: Reykjavik, Iceland. Huenergardt, A. Doerner, W. Krumm, Licentiates: L. Scharf, R. Gruber. Director and Minister, David Ostlund. , A. J. Hoenes, H. Hartkop. Missionary Licentiates: R. Schillinger, C. Dangschat, Feuer. NORWAY. AUSTRIA-HUNGARY AND BALKAN STATES MISSION FIELD. SOUTH RUSSIAN MISSION. (Organized 1887.) Officers: Director, J. F. Huenergardt; Ad- Officers: Director, H. J. Loebsack; Sec., Office: Akersgaden 74, Christiania, Nor. visory Committee: J. E. Huenergardt, C. Laubban; Advisory Committee: way. A. Seefried, Matthaus Borsi, Simeon H. J. Loebsack, D. P. Gaede, G. Tetz, Officers: Pres., 0. A. Johnson; Sec.,' Bodirnya, Gottlieb Krueger. M. Fischer, J. Schuerer. Chas. B. Jensen; Treas., A. C. Chris- Ministers: J. F. Huenergardt, J. P. Ministers: H. J. Loebsack, G. Tetz. tensen; Sec. of Sabbath-school and Lorenz, Missionary Licentiates! J. Perk, K. Tract and Missionary Department, Licentiate: A. Seefried. Reif schneider, H. K. Loebsack, J. Ebel. Johanne Christensen; Canvassing Missionary Licentiates: A. Biletzky, W. Agent, Z. Sherrig; E. Com., 0. A. Tentesch, F. Adomeit, N. Konstanti- Johnson, H. M. Hansen, Z. Sherrig, noff, Anna Nagy. WEST GERMAN CONFERENCE. N. P. Nelson, 0. J. Olsen, H. J. Hansen, (Organized 1898.) Chas. B. Jensen. EAST GERMAN CONFERENCE. Officers: Pres., H. F. Schuberth; Sec., 0. Ministers: 0. A. Johnson, N. P. Nelson, Luepke; Ex. Com., H. F. Sehuberth, 0. A. Sewaldsen, H. M. Hansen, 0. J. (Organized 1901.) Luepke, W. Krumm, A. Doerner, G. Olsen. Officers: Pres.; J. Pieper; Sec., W. Prill- Schubert. Missionary Licentiates: Z. Sherrig, Ed- witz; Ex. Com., J. Pieper, G. Wagner, Ministers: H. F. Sehuberth, G. Schubert, ward Iversen, Lina Lind, Johanne G. Perk, L. Mathe, W. Prillwitz. 0. Luepke, M. Stueckrath. Bjorkelund. Ministers: J. Pieper, G. Wagner, L. Licentiates: K. Kueller, H. Baumann, 0. Maths, G. Perk, G. Oblaender. Madsen, J. Wolfgarten. Licentiates: E. Enseleit, K. Sinz, F. Missionary Licentiates: C. N. Zimmer- SWEDEN. Rhone. mann, G. Loebsack, J. Christiansen, H. (Organized. 1882.) Missionary Licentiates: R. Cunitz, F. Behr, A. Sommer, C. von Fintel, W. Leplatoni, 0. Kretschmar, 0. Schwen- Staubert, F. Ott, W. Schwenecke, J. Office: Kungsgatan 34, Stockholm, ecke, W. Schulz; F. Uldokat. Jorgensen, C. Gronert. Sweden. Officers: Pres., O. Johnson; Vice-Pres., K. A. Farnstrom; Sec. and Treas., GERMAN-SWISS CONFERENCE. F. C. W. Wallenkampf; Sec. Sabbath- (Organized 1901.) • SCANDINAVIAN UNION CONFER- school and Missionary Department, Address: Weiherweg 48, Basle, Switzer- Erika Alut; Canvassing Agent, E. land. ENCE. Lind; Executive Committee: 0. John- (All workers in German-Swiss Conference (Organized 1901.) son, K. A. FarnstrOm, F. C. W. Wallen- may be addressed as above.) kampf, E. Lind, E. J. Ahren. Officers: Pres., J. T. Boettcher; Sec., W. Officers: Chairman, P. A. Hansen; Sec., Conference Association: " Sallskapet Kury; Treas., Imprimerie Polyglotte; O. A. Johnson; Treas., E. Lind; Sanningens Harold." Pres., F. C. W. Tract and Missionary Department, T. Advisory Committee: P. A. Hansen, Wallenkampf; Vice-Pres., J. Berg- Kestenholz; Sabbath-school Depart- 0. A. Johnson, 0. Johnson, E. Lind, strom, Sec., E. J. Ahren; Treas., E. ment, Louise Aufrane; Ex. Com., J. T. J. C. Ottosen, Z. Sherrig, John Hoff- Lind; other members, 0. Johnson, K. Boettcher, W. Kury, 3. Erzenberger, P. man. A. Farnstrffin, B. J. Karlson. A. De Forest, A. Sulser. Ministers: 0. Johnson, K. A. Parnatrdm, Ministers: J. T. Boettcher, J. Erzen- . DENMARK. 'E. J. Ahr6n, L. Karlson, G. Sunden, berger. (Organized 1880.) F. C. W. Wallenkampf, F. R. Oberg, Missionary Licentiates: A. Weidmann, Office: Margrethevej .5, Copenhagen, V., C. Kshlstrona, A. J. Settergren. J. Oberli, Lina Steiner. Denmark. Licentiates: Birger Anderson, B. J. Officers: Pres., P. A. Hansen; Sec. and Karlson, K. Sandberg. HOLLAND MISSION FIELD Treas., Jens • Olsen; Sabbath-school Missionary Licentiates: A. Lundgren, (Including Flemish Belgium.) and Missionary Department, Jens Nils Anderson, Mathilda Olsen, Anna Officers: Director, R. Q. Klingbeil; Sec., Olsen; Canvasing Agent, Z. Sherrig; Hallberg. 540 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN.

BRITISH. rlISSIONARY LICENTIATES. Ellen I. Burrill, Kenilworth, near Cape (England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales.) L. Passebois, Sekket Tawachy, Cairo, Town, South Africa. (Organized 1898.) Egypt. W. A. Ruble, Kenilworth, near Cape Office: 451 Holloway Road, London, N., Ida Schlegel, care L. Passebois, Sekket Town, South Africa. England. Tawachy, Cairo, Egypt. Mrs. W. A. Ruble, Kenilworth, near Cape (All persons named below may be ad- F. Horner, Deutsche poste, Jaffa, Pales- Town, South Africa. dressed as above.) tine, Syria. C. H. Hayton, Kenilworth, near Cape Officers: Pres., 0. A. Olsen; Sec. and S. Horner, Deutsche poste, Jaffa, Pales- Town, South Africa. Treas., and Sec. of Sabbath-school tine, Syria. Mrs. Ruth H. Hayton, Kenilworth; near Department, Mary Jacques; Ex. Com., (End of European Gen. Cott Directory./ Cape Town, South Africa. 0. A. Olsen, H. W. Armstrong, A. R. Leask, H. Champness, E. J. Wag- goner, E. E. Andross, S. Joyce. Ministers: 0. A. Olsen, E. J. Waggoner, SOUTH AFRICA.* MISSION FIELDS OUTSIDE OF E. E. Andress, A. F. Ballenger, H. *As the report for this year was not re- UNION CONFERENCES. Champness, W. Hutchinson, M. A. Alt- ceived, we reprint last year's directory man, J. S. Washburn, H. Armstrong. with slight corrections. Licentiates: S. Joyce, J. McAvoy, M. Office: 28a Roeland St., Cape Town. ARGENTINE REPUBLIC. E. Olsen, A. R. Leask, W. H. Mere- OFFICERS. General Address: Casilla del Correo 481, dith, G. R. Drew. Conference: Pres., W. S. Hyatt, Sec. and Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic, Missionary Licentiates: F. B. Cude, A. Treas., 0. 0. Fortner; Ex. Com., W. S. South America. L. Thomas, M. Lamle, J. Bacon, C. San- Hyatt, H. W. Lindsay, H. J. Earned, Director: N. Z. Town; See. and Treas., ders, Laura Whitgrove, S. Aris, W. W. C. Walston, A. H. van Eeden. Rod. Diriwaechter. Robinson. Tract Society: Sec. and Treas., 0. 0. Ministers: N. Z. Town. Juan McCarthy, Fortner. E. W. Snyder. CENTRAL EUROPEAN. Sabbath-School Association: Sec. and Licentiate: J. V. Maas. (France and Algeria, French-Switzerland; Treas., 0. 0. Fortner. Missionary Licentiates: L. Brooking, 0. Oppegard, R. Diriwaechter, Arthur Ful- French-Belgium, Italy, Spain, and MINISTERS. Portugal.) ton, Lucy Post, Mrs. N. Z. Town, Louis (Organized 1884.) W. S. Hyatt, 28s. Roeland St., Cape Town, Ernst, Mrs. E. W. Snyder. Address: Weiherweg 48, Basle, Switzer- South Atrica. land. H. J. Edmed, Ilitenhage, Cape Colony, BASUTOLAND.' Officers: Pres., B. G. Wilkinson; Sec., South Africa. D. F. Tarr, Cambridge, near East London, General Address: -Kola, Mafeteng, Basu- J. Vuilleumier; Treas., Librairie Poly- toland, South Africa. glOtte; Sabbath-school Department, South Africa. J. M. Freeman, Kolo, Mafeteng, Basuto- Minister: J. M. Freeman. U. Augsbourger; Tract and Mission- Missionary Licentiate: D. Kalaka. ary Department, Melina Evard; Can land, South Africa. vassing Agent, Tell Nussbaum; Ex. LICENTIATES. BRAZIL. Com., B. G. Wilkinson, G. Roth, A. A. H. van Eeden, 28a Roeland St., Cape Guenin, P. Schild, J. Curdy. Town, South Africa. General Address: Caixa do Correio 768, Ministers: B. G. Wilkinson, Jean Vuil- D. H. Groenewald, 28a Roeland St., Cape Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, South America. leumier, J. Curdy, L. P. Tieche, G. Town, South Africa. Director: F. W. Spies; Sec. and Treas., Roth. P. Smails, 28a Roeland St., Cape Town, A. B. Stauffer; Advisory Com., F. W. Licentiates: T. Nussbaum, A. Hirschy, South Africa. Spies, H. F. Graf, A. B..Stauffer. C. Augsbourger, C. Grin, D. Lecoultre, F. C. Ernst, Keiskama Hoek, Cape Col- Ministers: F. W. Spies, H. F. Graf, Er- J. Badaut. ony, South Africa. nesto Schwantes. Missionary Licentiates: A. Roth, H. Licentiate:. Wm. Stein. Provin, A. Guyot, F. Blanzat, F. von MISSIONARY LICENTIATES. Missionary Licentiates: John Lipke, A. Gunten, Mrs. G. Laporte, H. Passebois, E. B. Gaskill, 28a Roeland St., Cape Town, B. Stauffer. Miss Louise Hirschy, H. Roth. • South Africa. R. Moko, 28a Roeland St., Cape Town, BRITISH GUIANA. South Africa. ORIENTAL MISSION FIELD. D. Kalaka, Kolo. Mafeteng, Basutoland, General Adaress: 287 Church St., George- (Greece, Turkey, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, ' South Africa. town, British Guiana, South America. Asia Minor, Persia, the Soudan.) G. W. Shone, 34 Elizabeth St., North End, Director and Treas.: D. C. Babcock. Office: Grindelberg 15a, Hamburg, Ger- Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Ministers: D. C. Babcock, J. A. Morrow. many. Mrs. 0. W. Shone, 34 Elizabeth St., North Licentiate: Phillip Giddings. Officers: Director, L. R. Conradi; See., End, Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Missionar' Licentiates: W. T. Downer, G. Dail; Treas., B. Severin; Advisory 0. 0. Fortner, 28a Roeland St., Cape Mrs. J. A. Morrow. Committee: L. It. Conradi, H. Krum, Town, South Africa. Z. G. Baharian, S. Jespersson, L. Pas- D. C. Theunissen 28a Roeland St., Cape CENTRAL AMERICA. Town, South Africa. sebois. Address; Box 102, Belize, British Hon- • MINISTERS. Mary E. Robertson, Rosmead Ave., Kenil- duras, Central America. L. R. Conradi, Grindelberg 15a, Ham- worth, near Cape Town, South Africa. Mrs. D. F. Tarr, Cambridge, near East Director and Treas.: H. C. Goodrich. burg, Germany. Minister: H. C. Goodrich. Z. G. Baharian, English Poste restante, London, South Africa. Mrs. M. Ernst, Keiskama Hoek, Cape Col- Missionary Licentiates: A. N. Allen, Galata, Constantinople, Turkey, via Mrs. A. N. Allen, H. A. Owen, Mrs. H. London, England. ony, South Africa. J. V. Willson, 32 Old Main St. ,Kimberley, A. Owen; Self-supporting, Wm. Evans, J. H. Krum, Deutsche poste (via Ger- Miss Ada Evans. many), Jerusalem, Palestine. South Africa. Mrs. J. V. Willson, 32 Old Main St., Kim- Taminanos Hovaguvinyan, Erzijan, Ar- CENTRAL AMERICA (SOUTH). menia, Turkey. bereley, South Africa. Chas. Haupt, Simondium, via Pant, Address: Bocas del Toro, Republic of LICENTIATE. South Africa. Colombia, South America. S. Jespersson, Jerusalem, Palestine. Mrs. H. J. Edmed, Uiteenhage, Cape Col- Director and Treas.: F. J. Hutchins. Deutsche poste, via Germany- ony, South Africa. Minister: F. J. Hutchins. GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN. 541

Missionary Licentiates: S. P. Smith, Director: F. W. Field; Advisory Commit- SOUTH AMERICA (GENERAL)., Mrs. S. P. Smith, Mrs. F. J. Hutchins; tee, F. W. Field, W. D. Burden, B. 0. Director: J. W. Westphal. Self-supporting, Dr. John Eccles, Mrs. Wade, T. H. Okohira, S. Hasegawa. Minister: J. W. Westphal. John Eccles. Minister: F. W. Field. Licentiate: T. H. Okohma. Missionary Licentiates: W. D. Burden, SUMATRA. CHILE. Mrs. W. D. Burden, S. Hasegawa, B. 0. Address: Padang, Sumatra, Netherlands For directory, see " West Coast (South Wade, Mrs Anna M. Wade, H. Kuniya. East Indies. America) Mission Field." Director and Treas.: R. W. Munson. Minister: R. W. Munson.. LESSER ANTILLES. Missionary Licentiate: Mrs. R. W. Mun- CHINA. son. Address: No. 3 Arsenal St., Hong Kong, General Address: King St., Bridgetown, Baroadoa, West Indies. China. TRINIDAD. Missionary Licentiate: A. LaRue. Director and Treas.: E. Van Deusen. Ministers: E. Van Deusen, D. E. Well- General Address: 7a Pembrook St., Port man, W. A. Sweeney. of Spain, Trinidad, West Indies. COOK ISLANDS. Missionary Licentiates: A. Palmquist, Minister: W. G. Kneeland. Address: Avarua, Raratonga, Cook Is- Mrs. E. Van Denson, S. A. Wellman Missionary Licentiates: Mrs. L. M. Crow- lands, South Pacific Ocean. Mrs. S. A. Wellman, Mrs. M. H. Honey- ther, Mrs. W. G. Kneeland, C. D. Adam- Director: A. H. Piper. well. son. Minister; A. H. Piper. Missionary Licentiate: Mrs. A. H. Piper. MATABELELAND. WEST COAST (SOUTH AMERICA) General Address: Buluwayo, Rhodesia, MISSION FIELD. DUTCH GUIANA. South Central Africa. (Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, and Peru.) General Address: 287 Church St., George- Director and Treas.: General Address: Casilla 1125, Valpa- town, British Guiana, South America. Minister: F. B. Armitage. raiso, Chile, South America. Director and Treas.: D. C. Babcock. Licentiate: W. H. Anderson. Director and Treas.: G. H. Baber. Missionary Licentiate: Henry Beck. Missionary Licentiates: Mrs. F. L. Mead, Ministers: G. H. Baber, A. R. Ogden, H. Mrs. W. H. Anderson, Mrs. Mary Ar- F. Ketring. ' mitage, J. A. Chaney, Walter Mead. Missionary Licentiates: F. W. Bishop, FIJI ISLANDS. Enrique Balada, Mrs. A. R. Ogden, T. Address: Suva, Fiji, Pacific Ocean. D. Davis. Director and Treas.: J. E. Fulton. MEXICO. Minister: J. E. Fulton. General Address: No. 5 Calle de la Prima- WEST INDIAN MISSION FIELD. Missionary Licentiates: E. Hathaway, P. vera, Tacubaya, Mexico. (Including all the islands in the Carib- Bunoa, Mrs. J. E. Fulton, Arthur Car- Director and Treas.: G. W. Caviness. bean Sea; also Central America, and row. Ministers: G. W. Caviness, J. A. Leland. the northern coast of South America to Licentiate: A. G. Bodwell. southern boundary of French Guiana.) Missionary Licentiates: Mrs. G. W. Cavi- General Superintendent: A. J. Haysmer; INDIA. ness, F. C. Kelley, Mrs. F. C. Kelley, Advisory Committee, A. J. Haysmer, General Address: 44a Free School St., Mrs. A. G. Bodwell, Phoebe Ellwanger, F. I. Richardson, F. J. Hutchins, E. Van Calcutta, India. Winifred Peebles. Deusen, D. C. Babcock. Director: J. L. Shaw; Advisory Commit- Minister: A. J. Haysmer. tee, J. L. Shaw, Ellery Robinson, R. S. Missionary Licentiate: Mrs. A. J. Hays- Ingersoll. PITCAIRN ISLAND. mer. Ministers: J. L. Shaw, G. K. Owen. Address: Pitcairn Island, Pacific Ocean, Licentiate: Ellery Robinson. care Pacific Press, Oakland, California. Missionary Licentiates: L. J. Burgess, W. Missionary Licentiate: J. R. McCoy. EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS. W. Quantock, Mrs. W. W. Quantock, R. S. Ingersoll, Mrs. Olive P. Ingersoll, EMMANUEL MISSIONARY COLLEGE. ' PORTO RICO. Mrs. J. L. Shaw, Mrs. Ellery Robinson, (Successor to Battle Creek College.) Samantha Whiteis, Mrs. S. J. Olney, Address: San Juan, Porto Rico, West Berrien Springs, Mich. Georgia Burrus, Della Coates, Donna Indies. Established in Battle Creek, Mich., 1874. Humphrey, Annie Knight, Ida Royer- Missionary Licentiates: A. M. Fischer, Re-established in Berrien Springs, Reagan, Mrs. A. S. Fleming, H. B. Mrs. A. M. Fischer. Mich., 1901. Meyers, Mrs. Anna Robinson. Board of Trustees: W. W. Prescott, A. SAMOA. G. Daniel's, J. IL Kellogg, M. D., S. H. JAMAICA. Address: Apia, Upola, Samoa, Pacific Lane, Wm. Covert, W. A" Spicer, J. D. Cowell, Allen Moon, E. A. Sutherland, General Address: Ernecourt Villa, Arnold Ocean. Minister: D. D. Lake. P. T. Magan, C. M. Christiansen, H. R. Road, Kingston, Jamaica, West Inches. Salisbury. Director and Treas.: F. L Richardson. Missionary Licentiates: G. H. Gibson, F. Ministers: F. I. Richardson, W. W. East- -E. Braucht, Mrs. D. D. Lake, Mrs. F. Officers: Pres., W. W. Prescott; Sec. P. T. E. Braucht. .51(i-an; Treas., C. M. Christiansen. man, J. B. Beckner. Faculty: Pres., E. A. Sutherland, Eng- Licentiates: Geo. F. Enoch, W. Jay Tan- lish Bible, History, and Philosophy of ner, E. V. Orrell. SOCIETY ISLANDS. Missionary Licentiates: Mrs. F. I. Rich- Education; Dean, P. T. Magan, Busi- ardson, Mrs. Geo. F. Enoch, Mrs. W. J. Address: Papeete, Tahiti, Society Is- ness Ethics and History; J. A. Brun- Tanner, A. G. Peart, Hubert Fletcher, lands, Pacific Ocean. son, English Language; E. D. Kirby, Frank Hall, Mrs. E. V. Orrell, Mrs. Director and Treas.: B. J. Cady. Latin and New Testament Greek; J. H. Ophelia Eastman, Thomas R. Kennedy. Minister: B. J. Cady. Haughey, Mathematics and Science of Licentiates: A. Drollet, E. Bambridge. Agriculture; , History and Missionary Licentiates: Geo. Beckner, G. Hebrew; S. P. S. Edwards. M. D., JAPAN. F. Jones, Luke Roth, Mrs. B. J. Cady, Natural Sciences; Mrs. Maria. L. General Address: No. 2 Gogochi, Shiba Paul J. Deane, R. G. Stringer, Mrs. R. Edwards, M. D., Physiology and Hy- Koyen, Shiba Ku, Tokio, Japan. G. Stringer, Anna Nelson, giene: 542 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN.

Modern Languages; E. E. Gardner, Dressmaking; to be supplied, Broom SOUTH LANCASTER ACADEMY. Bookkeeping and Phonography; Sec., Making; William Elliot, Painting. South Lancaster, Mass. Miss Bessie DeGraw, Pedagogy; Mrs. Special Counselors and Instrectors. (Established 1882; Incorporated Dec. E. B. Miller, Assistant in English Lan- 12, 1883.) guage; 0. A. Morse, Instrumental and Horticulture: Noah Hodges, Peter Lenker, Board of Trustees: W. L. Payne, R. A. Vocal Music; Mrs. S. V. Sutherland, G. W. Shaver. Drawing and Painting; C. M. Chris- Underwood, G. B. Thompson, A. E. Bee Keeping and General Agriculture: Place, 0. 0. Farnsworth, H. C. Basney, tiansen, Industrial Department; F. M. Wm. DymOnd, G. Mathiesen, Noah Wilson, Manager of Printing Depart- J. W. Watt, Solon A. Farnsworth, Hodges. D. B. Parmelee ment; Mary E. Cook, Librarian. Scientific Lectures on Agriculture and Non-Resident Instructors: J. H. Kellogg, Physiological Chemistry: Dr. A. W. Officers of the Board: Pres., W. L. Payne; M. D., Medical Missionary Work; Sec., Frederick Griggs: Treas., Fred Kelley, Dr. W. A. George, Dr. A. N. E. Pierce; Auditor, Geo. W. Palmer. David Paulson, M. D., City Missions; Loper. A. G. Daniells, Field Work for Minis- Faculty: Frederick Griggs, Pedagogics; ters; W. W. Prescott, Bible; W. A. M. D. Mattson, Bible and History; Pre- Spicer, Missions; S. N. Haskell, Bible HEALDSBURG COLLEGE. ceptor, Henry N. Sisco, Matheniatics and City Missions; Mrs. S. N. Haskell, and Language; Preceptress, Miss Fan- Bible Readings; Judge Jesse Arthur, Healdsburg, Cal. nie M. Dickerson, Science; Mrs. Sara Bible as a Basis of Jurisprudence. (Established 1882; incorporated Oct. 2, J. Hall, English Language; B. F. Yeo- 1882.) man, Music; Paul a Mason, Commer- Board of Trustees: M. E. Cady, M. H. cial Department; C. L. Johnson, UNION COLLEGE. Brown, W. C. White, N. C. McClure, Agricultural Department; Miss Alice C. Sisley, Intermediate Department; College View, Nebr. C. Santee, J. A. Peoples, A. T. Jones. Officers of the Board: Pres., A. T. Jones; Miss Jeannette Haskell, Primary Established 1891. Sec., J. A. Peoples; Business Manager, Department; Matron, Mrs. M. D. Board of Managers: N. P. NeThon, Pres- F. A. Lashier. Mattson, Culinary Department; Fred ident• L A Hoopes. Secretary; C. W. College Department. E. Pierce, Steward. Flaiz, J. M. Rees, N. W. Allee, J. W. Faculty: M. E. Cady, Pres.; E. J. Hib- Westphal, J. Sutherland, Geo. F. Wat- bard, Bible; J. S. Osborne, Natural MOUNT VERNON ACADEMY. son, A.• N. Loper, M. E. Kern, L. F. Science; G. W. Rine, English; Jessie Academia, Ohio. Starr. 0. Barber, Mathematics; L. A. Phip- (Established 1893.) Executive Committee: N. P. Nelson. L. A. peny, Commercial; L. T. Curtis, Pho- Officers: Pres., R. R. Kennedy; Auditor, Hoopes, J. Sutherland, C. W. Plain, nography; Mrs. A. F. Grant, Voice A. N. Loper, M. E. Kern. Culture; Geo. B. Miller, Instrumental H. M. Mitchell; Treas. and Business Faculty: President, L. A. Hoopes, Special Music; Mrs. M. E. Cady, Preceptress Manager, J. W. Loughhead; Sec., Chas. Bible; N. W. Newton, Higher Mathe- and Matron; John poison, Preceptor. E. Welch. matics and Physical Science; David D. Preparatory Department: Mrs. Alma Executive Committee: H. H. Burkholder, Rees, English Language and Litera- McKibben, Interinediate Grades; Fran- C. A. Smith, H. M. Mitchell, R. R. ture; W. A. George, M. D., Natural Kennedy, A. G. Haughey. ces L. Case, Primary Grades. Faculty: Science, Hydrotheraphy and Practical Industrial Department: Ogden Lewis, Prin. James W. Loughhead, Sanitation; Julius Cogniaux, Ancient Broommaking; Henry Kristal, Tent- History; Elder William H. Wakeham, and Modern Languages; M. E. Kern, making; Henry N. Tolton, Printing; Bible and Hygiene; William L. Secore, Bible and History; P. E. Berthelsen, A. F. Gaster, Cookery; Mrs. A. F. Natural Sciences and Greek; 'Jeremiah Danish-Norwegian, John Wallenkampf, Caster, Dressmaking. B. Clymer, Mathematics and Latin; Swedish; H. A. Morrison, Advanced Preceptor, Charles E. Welch, Instru- Mathematics; E. C. Kellogg, Pedagogy mental Music; Preceptress, Mrs. Mary and General Normal Work; Miss Clare L. Maxson, German; Almeda Haughey, Shepherd, Greek and Latin; Miss WALLA WALLA COLLEGE. English Language and Literature; Maude Morrison, Drawing and English; College Place, Wash. Mabel Welch, Common Branches. Mrs. .B. E. Crawford, Instrumental (Established 1892.) Music; S. E. McNeill, Penmanship and Board of Managers: A. J. Breed, H. W. KEENE INDUSTRIAL ACADEMY. Bookkeeping; C, D. Lude, Assistant in Decker, E. L. Stewart, J. A. Holbrook, Keene, Johnson Co., Tex. German; B. L. Morse, Assistant in T. L. Ragsdale, S. A. Miller, C. D. (Established 1894.) History; B. E. Crawford, Secretary, Hobbs. Stenography and Typewriting; Miss Officers: Pres., A. J. Breed; Sec., E. L. Board of Managers: C. McReynolds, G. Edith Shively, Librarian; R. W. Stewart; Treas., C. D. Hobbs. G. Rupert, W. S. Greer, W, A. McCut- Brown, Preceptor, Vocal Music; Mrs. Faculty: Pres., E. L. Stewart; W. W. ichen, B. F. Woods, A. E. Field, T. T. A. E. Shepherd, Preceptress, Instru- Steward, Ministerial Department, Stevenson. J. D. Matthieus, J. C. mental Music; Mrs. R. W. Brown, Bible; I. A. Dunlap, M. D., Medical Mosley, C. C. Lewis. Matron; Joseph Sutherland, Business Missionary Department, Nursing; J. Officers: Pres., C. McReynolds; Sec., T. Manager. L. Kay (Preceptor), Mathematics and T. Stevenson. Lecturers: J. H.. Kellogg, M. D., J. H. Languages; Luther J. Hughes, Science, Faculty: Prin., Charles C. Lewis, In- Morrison, C. W. Flaiz, C. McReynolds, Normal Department; M. Frances Ire- structor in Mental Science and Eng- C. C. Lewis. land, English Language; Mrs. Helen lish Language; August Kunze, Industrial Department: J. Sutherland, C:, Conard (Preceptress) History; Instructor in Bible and General His- Manager; D. K. Nicola, Book Store Horace E. Hoyt, Commercial Depart- tory, and Ancient and Modern Lan- and Bookkeeper; M. W. Newton, Phys- ment; J. W. Beardslee, Department guages; Homer E. Giddings, Instructor ical Science Applied in Mechanics; of Music; Clara E. Rogers, Art Depart- in Bible Doctrines, Denominational E. C. Kellogg, Carpentry and General ment; Mrs. J. L. Kay, Preparatory History and Literature, and Mathe- Repairing; Ensley Strite, Engineer; Department; Nellie Clark, Matron; C. matics; D. E. Garvin, M. D., Instructor E. A. Jenkins, Farmer; M. T. All- D. Hobbs, Business Manager; William in Anatomy and Physiology, Nursing quist, Blacksmithing and General Iron Reith, Bookkeeper; Rose Ginther, and Treatment, and Natural Sciences; Work; D. D. Rees, Printing; J. Wal- Secretary. J. L. Jones, Common Branches, lenkampf, Book Binding; Mrs. R. W. Commercial Branches; Mrs. Flora H. Brown, Hygienic Cooking; J. F. Nel- Church School Department. Williams, Principal of Model School, son, Tailoring; Miss Cora Blodgett, Principal, Myra E. Camp. and Instructor in Theory and Practice GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN. 543

of Teaching; Mrs. W. L. Young, Miss therapy; Physical Cul- Kauble, L. H. Christian. Cora Taylor, Assistants in Model ture; Mrs. H. N. Garthofner, Matron. Councilmen: Geo. A. Wheeler, W. T. Church School; , Instrumental Hibben. and Vocal Music; J. B. Fitch, Spanish SOUTHERN TRAINING SCHOOL. Faculty: N. W. Kauble, Mrs. N. W. Language and Literature. Kauble, Clarence J. Boyd: Industrial Dept.: Business Manager, T. Graysville, Tenn. T. Stevenson; Foreman of Farm, Elmer (Established 1896.) BETHEL INDUSTRIAL ACADEMY. ' Woodruff; Foreman of Broom Shop, Board of Managers: R. M. Kilgore (Pres- Bethel, Wis. , Foreman of Printing Office, J. ident), J. E. Tenney (Secretary), (Established 1899.) B. Fitch; Foreman of Blacksmith Shop, Smith Sharp, A. F. Harrison, N. W. Educational Board: Wm. Covert (Presi- W. E. Lohman; Manager of Store, Lawrence. Geo. A. Sutherland; Preeeptress and dent), H. A. Washburn (Secretary), Faculty: J. Ellis Tenney (Principal), R. T. Dowsett (Business Manager), Matron, Mrs. Elizabeth A. Lewis; Bible and Christian Education; Thomas Steward and Cook, Eugene Couch. H. W. Reed, J. C. Mikkelsen, J. C. Rowe (Preceptor), Language and His- McChesney, P.M. Hansen. tory;,Otis M. Hayward, M D., Natural Faculty: Principal, H. A. Washburn, AMERICAN MEDICAL MISSIONARY Sciences; Arthur W. Spaulding, Com- Bible and History; Arthur W. Hal- mercial Department; Mrs. Mettie lock, Industrial Science, Carpentry; COLLEGE. Sharp Lenker (Preeeptress), Sewing Chicago, Ill., and Battle Creek, Mich. Preceptor, Paul Sheppler, Preparatory; and Dressmaking; Mrs. E. E. Mitchell, Preceptress, Miss Rosma M. Whalen, (Incorporated July 3, 1895, under the Instrumental Music; Euphemia A. Preparatory; Mrs. Emma B. Wash- laws of the State of Illinois.) Winkler,Cooking and Domestic Work; burn, Intermediate; Miss Clara Schunk, Board of Trustees: John H. Kellogg, J. H. Dortch, Business Manager; A. F. Primary; Matron, Miss Clara L. Howard F. Rand, David Paulson, Chas. Harrison,Canvassing; Mrs. Mettle Richards, Sewing and Cooking; Howard Stewart, Jesse Arthur. Sharp Lnker, Preceptress. A. Peebles, Music; Melvin L. Wood, Officers and Board: Pres., John H. Kel- Horticulture, Bee Culture; Chas. H. logg; Sec. and Treas. Chas. Stewart. AVONDALE SCHOOL FOR CHRISTIAN Mikkelsen, Farming. Faculty: John H. Kellogg, M. D., Presi- WORKERS. dent, Surgery, Therapeutics, Principles BIBLE TRAINING-SCHOOL. of Rational Medicine; Bayard Holmes, Cooranbong, N. S. W., Australia. Board of Management: E. W. Farns- 40o West Fifty-seventh St., New York, B. S, M. D., Clinical Surgery; W. H. N. Y. Riley, M. S., M. D., Nervous and Men- worth, E. C. Chapman, C. B. Hughes, tal Diseases; Howard F. Rand, M. D., C. W. Irwin, M. Hare, E. H. Gates, Superintendents: S. N. Haskell, Mrs. Surgical Anatomy; David Paulson, M. Dr. Laurette Kress. S. N. Haskell. D., General Therapeutics; Elmer L. Missionary Licentiates: Ida Walters, Theresa Thompson, Ammy Welsh. Eggleston, M. D., Secretary, Organic, OAKWOOD INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL. Inorganic, and Physiological Chemistry and Materia Medics.; Abbie M. Wine- Huntsville, Ala. SPRINGDALE SCHOOL. gar, M. D., Diseases of Women; Board of Managers: R. M. Kilgore Springdale, Ark. Charles E. Stewart, M. D., Physiology (Chairman), B. E. Nicola (Sec.), J. D. E. Huffman, Prin.; Miss Sadie Wilson, and Embryology; Frederick M. Hos- E. White, S. M. Jacobs, W. J. Stone. Primary Dept. alter, B. S., M. D., Descriptive Anatomy Faculty: B. E. Nicola Principal; S. M. SWEDISH INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL. and Practice of Medicine; William B. Jacobs, Bus. Mgr. and Supt. of Indus- Jernboas, Sweden. Holden, B. S., M. D., Surgery and trial Dept.; Mrs. S. M. Jacobs, Matron; Board of Managers: Chairman, K. A. Practical Anatomy; John F. Byington, Miss Clara Jacobs, Ass't Teacher; Miss Fernstrom; Treas., J. Bergstrom; Sec., A. B., M. D., Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Jennie Williams, Nursing. B. J. Karlson; Matron, Mathilda Olson. Nose, and Throat; Judge Jesse Arthur, Teachers: B. J. Karlson, Mathilda Olson. Medical Jurisprudence; Mary Wild CEDAR LAKE INDUSTRIAL ACAD- Paulson, M. D., Obstetrics; John F. FRIEDENSAU INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL. Morse, M. D., Biology and Physiology; EMY. Teachers: 0. Luepke, A. J. Hoenes, M. Frank J. Otis, M. D., Bacteriology; Cedar Lake, Mich. D.; Matron, Mrs. L. Luepke; Treas., N. A. J. Read, M. D., Medical Physics (Established 1899.) Schlatterer; Business Manager, W. and Electrotherapeutics; Newton G. Krumm. Evans, B. S., M. D., Histology and Educational Board: S. M. Butler, Dr. Pathology; Dudley Fulton, M. D., S. P. S. Edwards, M. J. Cornell, J. Assistant in Nervous Diseases; Mary D. Cowell, J. G. Lamson, E. K. Slade, CLAREMONT UNION COLLEGE. V. Dryden, M. D., Diseases of Children; U. S. Struble, W. R. Matthews, S. E. _Kenilworth, near Cape Town, South Sarah Hackett Stevenson, M. D., Oper- Wight. Africa. ative Midwifery; Frank X. Walls, M. Officers: Pres., S. M. Butler; See., J. Trustees: W. S. Hyatt, J. H. Conimin, D., Physical Diagnosis; George Thoma- G. Lamson. F. Visser, W. C. Walston, J. H. Tarr, son, M. D., Hygiene. Faculty: J. Grant Lamson (Principal), H. W. Lindsay. Bible, Mathematics, and Science; Mrs. Officers; Chairman, R. W. Lindsay; Sec., J. G. Lamson (Preceptress), Shorthand, J. E. Commin. CHICAGO MEDICAL MISSIONARY Typewriting, Music; Joel C. Rogers, Faculty: Prin., W. A. Ruble; Mrs. Mae TRAINING-SCHOOL. Natural Science and Agriculture; Mrs. Ruble, C. H. Hayton, Mrs. Ruth H. 2-4 Thirty-third Place, Chicago, IlL Jessie E. Rogers, Language, History, Hayton, Edith Commin, Ellen I. Bur- and Geography; U. S. Struble, Busi- ril. (Established 1897.) ness Manager, Carpentry, and Mason- Instructors: J. H. Kellogg, M. D., Super- ry; S. E. Wight, Tentmaking. intendent; , Bible and Prin- HONOLULU ANGLO-CHINESE ciples and Methods of Christian Work; ACADEMY. David Paulson, M. D-, Bible Hygiene SHERIDAN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL. Box 29; Honolulu, Hawaiian Territory. (Established 1897.) and Rational Remedies; Mamie A. Sheridan, HL Paulson, M. D., Treatment of Diseases; Faculty: Prin., W. E. Howell; Flora Julia A. White, M. D., Physiology and (Established 1900.) E. Rice, Mrs. S. B. Kinner, C. P. Moon, Hygiene; , Practical Anat- Educational Board: Allen Moon (Pres.), I. C. Colcord, Mrs. I. C. Colcord, Mrs. omy; Elmer F. Otis, Practical Hydro- W. D. Curtis, EL R Salisbury, N. W. C. P. Moon. 544 GENSWAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN.

ARGENTINE SCHOOL. Editors: The Advent Review and Sab- Akersgaden 74, Christiania, Norway. Diamante, Entre Rio; Argentine Repub- bath Herald: Editor, Uriah Smith; Editors: Evangeliets Sendebud, N. Clau- lic, South America. Assistant Editors, L. A. Smith, A. J. sen, 0. A. Johnson; Sundhedsbladet, Bourdeau;The Youth's Instructor, Miss J. C. Ottosen, M. D. I Teachers: N. Z. Town, Mrs. N. Z. Town. Adelaide Bee Cooper; Sions Vaktare, CURITYBA SCHOOL. A. Swedberg; Evangelists Sendebud, STOCKHOLM PUBLISHING HOUSE. C. A. Thorp; Christlicher Hausfreund, Corporate Name: Skandinaviska Forlags- Collegio International, Curityba, Bra- T. Valentiner. zil, South America. expeditionen. Kungsgatan 34, Stockholm, Sweden. Teachers: Paul Kramer, Mrs. P. PACIFIC PRESS PUBLISHING Sec. and Treas., F. C. Wallenkampf. Kramer, W. Ehlers. COMPANY. Editors: Tidens Teken, E. J. Ahren; Main Office: Twelfth, and Castro Sts., Missionaren, E. J. Ahren; Ljus i Hem- BRUSQUE SCHOOL. Oakland, Cal. met, E. J.ren. h Mission Industrial, Brusque, Brazil, Branch Offices: 16 Crocker Bldg., San South America. Francisco, Cal.; 11 West Twentieth DENMARK PUBLISHING HOUSE. Teacher: John Lipke. St., New York, N. Y.; 14-18 West Fifth St., Kansas City, Mo. C. C. Hansen & Co., Margrethevej 5, Copenhagen V., Denmark. SUMATRA SCHOOL. Directors: C. H. Jones, Wm. Saunders, M. C. Wilcox, E. A. Chapman, C. E. Secretary and Treasurer, Jens Olsen. Padang, Sumatra, Netherlands East Frisbie, H. H. Hall, W H. B. Miller. Indies. Officers: Pres. and Gen. Mgr., a H. INTERNATIONAL TRACT SOCIETY. Teachers. R. W. Munson, Mrs. R. W. Jones; Vice-Pres., Wm. Saunders; Sec., Address: Jagaregatan 2, Helsingfors, Munson. Treas., E. A. Chapman; Finland. Manager New York Branch, S. N. Cur- Secretary and Treasurer, Mrs. M. BONACCA SCHOOL, tiss; Manager Kansas City Branch, Boettcher. Bonacca, Bay Islands, Central America. B. R. Nordyke. Editors: Aikain Vartija, K. Sandelin, Teacher: Mrs. A. N. Allen. Publishing Committee: C. H. Jones, M. Jno. Hoffman. H. Brown, 111. C. Wilcox, W. N. Glenn, UTILLA SCHOOL. A.• O. Tait, H. H. Hall, C. M. Snow. LONDON PUBLISHING HOUSE. Utilla, Bay Islands, Central America. Editors: Signs of the Times: Editor, International Tract Society, Limited. M. C. Wilcox; Assistant Editors, A. Teacher: L. 0. Corwin. Office: 451 Holloway Road, London, N., 0. Tait, C. M. Snow; Our Little Friend, England. Editorial Committee M. C. Wilcox, C. MEXICO SCHOOL. Publishing Board: Chairman, W. C. Sis- M. Snow, Miss E. J. Burnham; Sab- ley; Sec. and Manager, A. Bacon; No. 5 Calle de la Primavera, Tacubaya, bath-school Worker, Editor, M. H. Directors: W. C. Sisley, A. Bacon, W. Mexico. Brown; Asst. Editor, Mrs. Carrie R. T. Bartlett, E. J. Waggoner, A. R. Teachers: Mrs. G. W. Caviness, Phebe King; Editorial Com., Bible Students' Leask. Ellwanger. and Apples of Gold Library, M. C. Editors: Present Truth, E. J. Wag- Wilcox, 4. 0. Tait, M. H. Brown. goner; Assistant Editor, Edith E. COUVA SCHOOL. Adams; The Missionary Worker, Con- Couva, Trinidad, West Indies. GOOD HEALTH PUBLISHING ference Committee. Teacher: Rachel Peters. COMPANY. Battle Creek, Mich. HAMBURG PUBLISHING HOUSE. MATABELE SCHOOL. (Organized 1866. Incorporated 1898.) Trustees: Chairman, L. R. Conrad; H. Directors: J. H. Kellogg, M. D.; David Hartkop, A. Doerner, H. F. Schuberth, S. D. A. Mission, Buluwayo, Rhodesia, Paulson, M. D.; Geo. H. Murphy, Geo. South Central Africa. W. Krumm, A. Pages, 0. Hurshmann. Thomason, M. D. Internationale Trak-tat-Gesellschaft, Teachers: J. A. Chaney, W. H. Ander- Officers: Pres., J. H. Kellogg; Vice-Pres., son, Mrs. L. Mead. Grindelberg 15a, Hamburg, Germany. F. W. K. Kellogg; Treas., G. H. Mtirphy; Publishing Board: L. R. Conradi (Chair- See, Geo. Thomason. man), H. Hartkop, A. Doerner, H. F. Editors: Good Health, J. H. Kellogg, Schuberth, R. G. Klingbeil, W, Krumm, 1 M. D.; Modern Medicine, J. H. Kellogg, M. Rohde. PUBLISHING HOUSES. M. D.; Assistant Editor, C. E. Stewart, Editors: Herold der Wahrheit, L. R. M. D.; Bulletin of the American Medi- Conradi, H. F. Schuberth; Gute Ge- REVIEW AND HERALD. cal Temperance Association, Editorial .. A. J. Hoenes, M. D., P. A. Committee, N. S. Davis, A. M., M. D., Corporate name Seventh-day Adventist De Forest, M.--D., II. F. Schuberth; L. L. D.; T. D. Crothers, M. D.; J. LI. Zions Wachter (Holland), L. R. Con- Publishing Associatibn, Established Kellogg, M. D. 1850. Incorporated May, 1S61. Rein- radi, J. Knecht; Unser kleiner Freund, - corporated 1891. A. Plass; Zionswlehter, edited by Ger- Main Office: Battle Creek, Mich. AUSTRALASIAN PUBLISHING man Union Conference Committee. •Branch Office: 571 Yonge St., Toronto, HOUSE, Ontario. Corporate Name: Echo Publishing Com- BASLE PUBLISHING HOUSE. Directors: I. H. Evans, C. M. Christian- pany, Limited. 16 Best Street, North Weiherweg 48, Basle, Switzerland. sen, U. Smith, G. W. Amadon, S. H. Fitzroy, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Advisory Committee: L. R. Conradi, Lane, C. D. Rhodes (One vacancy). Directors: W. D. Salisbury, N. D. Faulk- Chairman; J. Roberts, Secretary; B. Officers: Pres. and Mgr., I. H. Evans; head, G. Hubbard, A. W. Anderson, G. Wilkinson, T. Nussbaum, J. Curdy. Vice-Pres., U. Smith; Sec. and Treas., G. W. Morse, C. P. Michaels. Editors: Les Signes des Temps, B. G. C. D. Rhodes; Auditor, C. M. Christian- Officers: Pres., W. D. Salisbury; Vice- Wilkinson, T. Vuilleumier; Le Vulgar- sen; Manager Toronto Branch, I. A. Pres., N. D. Faulkhead; Sec., F. J. isateur, P. A. De Forest, M. D. Ford. Brainerd; Treas., N. D. Faulkhead. Publishing Committee: L H. Evans Editor: Bible Echo, Robert Hare. AVONDALE PRESS. (chairman), G. W. Amadon (secre- Cooranbong, N. S. W., Australia. tary), U. Smith, S. H. Lane, H. E. CHRISTIANIA PUBLISHING HOUSE. Board of Management: E. C. Chapman, , Osborne, Adelaide Bee Cooper, A. J. Corporate Name: Scandinaviske Forlags- C. B. Hughes, J. H. Paap, E. H. Gates, Bourdeau, IV. Goff. og-Trykkeriforening, Mrs. E. W. Farnsworth. , GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN: 545

SANITARIUMS. ST. HELENA SANITARIUM FOOD CO. NEBRASKA SANITARIUM. Sanitarium, Cal. College View, Nebr. Local Board: Manager, A. Boeker, Z. Board of Managers: A. N. Loper, J. J. BATTLE CREEK SANITARIUM. Thorp, L. M. Bowen, H. H. Haynes, Allen, L. A. Hoopes, M. W. Newton, Battle Creek, Mich. W. C. White. Bert Glasscock. (Corporate name: Michigan Sanitarium Officers: Pres., A. N. Loper; Sec., Bert and Benevolent Association. Incor- SAN FRANCISCO BRANCH ST. Glasscock; Treas. and Business Man- porated 1866. Reincorporated 1897.) HELENA SANITARIUM. ager, D. R. Caffihan. Medical Faculty: Med. Supt., A. N. Directors: J. H. Kellogg, L. Mc Coy, G. 1436 Market St., San Francisco, Cal. H. Murphy, W. H. Hall, C. M. Chris- Loper, M. D.; Medical and Surgical Superintendent, Thos. Coolidge, M. D., Counselor, J. H. Kellogg, M. D.; Carrie tiansen, David Paulson, H. F. Rand, R. A. Buchanan, M. D., E. E. Parlin. Chas. E. Stewart, G. W. Thomason. E. Staines, M. D.; W. A. George, M. D.; Officers: Pres., J. H. Kellogg; Sec., G. Lyra Hunt George, M. D. W. Thomason; Treas., G. H. Murphy; LOS ANGELES, SANITARIUM AND Chaplain, L. Mc Coy; Matron, Mrs. RESTAURANT. L. M. Hall; Locating Matron, Abbie 315-319 West Third St., Los Angeles, COLORADO SANITARIUM. Aldrich. Cal. Boulder, Colo. Medical Faculty: Surgeon and Physician Superintendent, F. B. Moran, M. D., Directors: W. H. Riley, F. M. Wilcox, in Chief, J. H. Kellogg, M. D.; Physi- R. S. Owen, Lee Moran, Clarence San- W. L. Hoover, Mrs. Lydia McCamley, cians, Miss Abbie M. Winegar, M. D.; tee, S. S. Merrill, G. B. Hemphill. C. L. Burlingame, C. McReynolds. Howard F. Rand, M. D.; F. M. Rossi- Officers: Pres., W. H. Riley; Sec. and ter, K D.; Jean H. Whitney, M. D.; SACRAMENTO BRANCH ST. HELENA Treas., F. 31 Wilcox; Steward and Ac- Mary P. Hunter, M. D.; Chas. E. SANITARIUM. countant, W. L. Hoover; Matron, Mrs. Stewart, M. D.; J. F. Byington, M. D.; 719 K St., Sacramento, Cal. C. L. Burlingame. Miss Mary V. Dryden, M. D.; Dudley Medical Staff: W. H. Riley, M. D.; 0. G. L Fulton, M. D.; George W. Thomason, Superintendent, G. A. Droll, M. D., L. D. Crane. Place, M. D.; Kate Lindsay, M. D.; M. D.; Evelene Helman, M. D.; Lillian Alice J. Conway, M. D. B. Boyer, M. D.; A. J. Read, M. D.; F. J. Otis, K D.; Elmer L. Eggleston, EUREKA BRANCH ST. HELENA M. D.; John F. Morse, M. D.; Lil- SANITARIUM. CHICAGO BRANCH SANITARIUM. lian B. Eshelman, M. D.; Lydia E. Cor. Third and J Sts., Eureka, Cal. 28 Thirty-third Place, Chicago, IR. Kynett, M. D.; Jean A. Vernier, M. Superintendent, C. F. Dail, M. D., C. M. Physicians: David Paulson, M. D.; Mary D.; Newton G. Evans, M. D.; Charles Gardner, G. H. Gibson. Wilde Paulson, M. D. T. Ferguson, M. D.; Rowland H. Har- ris, M. D.; Amy L. Hawke, M. D.; HONOLULU BRANCH ST. HELENA Carrie Janson Lemon, M. D.; Alfred SANITARIUM. - NEW ENGLAND SANITARIUM. Ernest Lemon, M. D.; Elsie Bell Box 492, Honolulu, H. T. South Lancaster, Mass. Merritt, M. D.; Lovina Ruth Merritt, (Established 1899. Corporate name: M. D.; Albert R. Satterlee, M. D.; Superintendent, Lou C. Cleveland, M. D.; G. H. Gibson, M. D. New England Sanitarium and Benevolent Howard E. Truex, M. D.; William W. Association.) Worster, M. D.; Silas Yarnell, M. D. Board of Trustees: H. W. Cottrell, J. H. SAN FRANCISCO VEGETARIAN CAFE. Kellogg, C. C. Nicola, W. A. Wilcox, 755 Market St., San Francisco, Cal. H. B. Tucker, W. L. Payne, D. M. Hull, Manager, E. G. Fulton, H. L. Spencer, A. E. Place. CALIFORNIA MEDICAL MISSIONARY H. H. Haynes, B. F. Richards. Officers: Pres., H. W. Cottrell; Sec. and AND BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION. Treas., W. A. Wilcox; Matron, Mrs. 5r7 Octavia St., San Francisco, Cal. HELPING HAND AND MEDICAL E. L. Rousseau; Chaplain, Geo. B. Board of Directors: Pres., A. T. Jones; MISSION. Wheeler. Sec., E. E. Parlin; Business Manager, Medical Faculty: Supt., C. C. Nicola, F. Z. Moran, 315 West Third St., 641 Commercial St., San Francisco, Cal. M. D.; Mary B. Nicola, M. D.; C. 0. Los Angeles, Cal.; A. J. Sanderson, Superintendent, J. A. Dolson, W. S. Prince, M. D.; Clara L. Beckner, M. D. M. D.; Thomas Coolidge, M. D.; W. C. Sadler, E. E. Perlin. White, B. F. Richards, C. H. Jones. SAN FRANCISCO UNION HOME. PORTLAND SANITARIUM. DEPARTMENTAL ENTERPRISES. 971 Howard St., San Francisco, Cal. • (Established 1896) E. G. Fulton, J. 0. Corliss, W. S. Sadler. First and Montgomery St., Portland, Ore- ST. HELENA SANITARIUM. gon. Portland Sanitarium and Benevolent Sanitarium, Napa Co., Cal. SAN FRANCISCO TRAINING SCHOOL. Board of Management: T. A. Kilgore, Association: Pres., W. R. Simmons; Sec., . L. M. Bowen, A. J. Sanderson, G. H. Committee: J. 0. Corliss, W. S. Sadler, L. I. Stiles; Treas., W. W. Sharp. Heald, A. Boeker, A. Druillard, Mrs. E. G. Fulton, R. A. Buchanan, Thos. Board of Managers: W. R. Simmons, A. Druillard. Coolidge. L. I. Stiles, W. W. Sharp, H. W. Decker, Medical Supt., A. N. Loper, M. D.; Treas., Myrtle E. Spencer-Lockwood. Medical Faculty: W. R. Simmons, M. D.; T. A. Kilgore; Matron, Mrs. J L. Lugs; SAN FRANCISCO HEALTH FOOD Medical Matron, Mrs. H. Gruettner; S. A. Lockwood, M. D.; M. E. Spencer- Steward, E. G. Fulton. STORE. Lockwood, M. D. Medical Faculty: A. N. Loper, M. D.; W. 1432 Market St., San Francisco, Cal. Training-school Faculty: W. R. Simmons, H. Jones, M. D.; H. E. Brighouse, M. W. W. Sharp, S. A. Lockwood, M. E. D.; Abbie M. Winegar, M. D.; F. 11, OAKLAND HEALTH FOOD STORE. Spencer-Lockwood. Tacoma Branch of Portland Sanitarium: Zelinsky, M. D. 46 San Pablo Ave., Oakland, Cal. Teaching Faculty: A. J. Sanderson, W. Manager, F. B. Kemp. H. Jones, IL E. Brighouse, F. E Seattle Branch Portland Sanitarium: Zelinsky. C. L. Taylor, Peter Rosenfeld, SAN JOSE HEALTH FOOD STORE. 1324 Second St., Manager, A. Q. Marie Warne. San Jose, Cal. Shryock.

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IOWA SANITARIUM. FRIEDENSAU SANITARIUM. SANITARIUM HEALTH FOOD COM- Des Moines, Iowa. Address: Friedensau, Post Grabow, Bez. PANY. (Established 1899. Corporate name: Magdeburg, Germany. Board: J. A. Burden, W. C. Walston, Dr. Iowa Medical and Surgical Sanita- Medical Superintendent: A. J. Hones, D. H. Kress, C. W. Irwin, E. A. D. rium.) M. D.; Matron, Mrs. M. A. Creeper; Goodhart. Board of Trustees: J. D. Shively, M. D.; Treas., N. Schlatterer; Business Ma,: J. H. Kellogg, M. IX; L. F. Starr; C. H. ager, W. Krumm. NEW ZEALAND MEDICAL AND SUR- Parsons; J. W. Dorcas; N. C. Berger- Nurses: A. J. Mueller, Charlotte Creeper, GICAL SANITARIUM. sen; Emma A. Perrin, M. D. Mrs. A. J. Mueller, Nellie Dhont. Christchurch Sanitarium, Papanui, Officers: Supt., J. D. Shively, M. D..; " Deutscher Verein f dr Gesundheits- Christchurch, New Zealand. Treas., C. W. Larson; Sec. and Stew- pfiege." Board of Management: W. L. H. Baker, ard, J. W. Dorcas; Matron, Mrs. Eva (Legal organization for holding the Frie- F. E. Braucht, S. H. Amyes, G. A. Shively. densau property.) Brandstater, W. J. Smith. Medical Faculty: J. D. Shively, M. D.; Friedensau, Post Grabow, Bez. Magde- Officers: Supt., Dr. F. E. Braucht; Sec., Emma A. Perrine, M. D. burg, Germany. W. J. Smith; Business Manager and Consulting Physicians: J. H. Kellogg, M. Trustees: L. R. Conradi, A. J. Mines, Treas., S. H. Amyes. D.; W. B. Holden, M. D. Otto Luepke, Aug. Doerner, H. F. Sehuberth, W. Krumm, H. Hartkop. AVONDALE HEALTH RETREAT. CLEVELAND. SANITARIUM. INSTITUT SANITAIRE. Cooranbong, N. S. W., Australia. 230 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio. Board of Management: E. W. Earns- Medical Superintendent: A. W. Herr, Weiherweg 48, Basle, Switzerland. worth, D. H. Kress, C. W. Irwin, M. M. D.; Ida Shively Herr, M. D. Trustees: L. R. Conradi, P. A. De Forest, Hare, H. E. Minchin, J. H. W. Geiss, J. Erzenberger, S. Jespersson, W. Kiiry, Lauretta Kress; Supt., Dr. Lauretta A. Jaccard, P. Schild, P. Roth, J. Kress, Treas., H. E. Minchin. SPOKANE SANITARIUM. Roberts, C. Grin, J. Curdy, J. P. Mount View, Spokane, Wash. Badaut. (Established 1899. Incorporated 1900. Managing Board: L. R. Conradi, P. A. De NEWCASTLE TREATMENT ROOMS. Under the auspices of the Upper Colum- Forest, J. Roberts, W. Kiiry. Turkish. Baths, Hamilton Road, bia Medical Missionary and Benevolent Medical Superintendent: P. A. De Forest, Newcastle, N. S. W. Association.) M. D.; Matron, Mrs. J. Robert. Superintendent: Dr. S. C. Rand. Directors: A. J. Breed, J. R. Leads- worth, S. A. Anderson, Greenville Hol- GUADALAJARA SANITARIUM. ROCKHAMPTON TREATMENT brook, J. W. Posey, W. M. Fee, W. C. Guadalajara, Mexico. ROOMS. Young. Board of Trustees: J. H. Kellogg, A. William St., Rockhampton, Queens- Officers: Pres., A. J. Breed; Sec. and J. Read, A. G. Daniells, J. W. Erken- land, Australia. Treas., J. W. Posey; Business Manager, beck, C. P. Farnsworth, T. S. Dock. Superintendent: A. A. Robie. S. A. Anderson; Matron, Mrs. F. J. Officers: Pres. and Treas., Morrison; Stewarddss, Mrs. D. R. Physicians: C. P. Farnsworth, M. D., Leadsworth. Anna B. Farnsworth, M. D. GRAYSVILLE SANITARIUM. Medical Faculty: Supt., J. R. Leads- Graysville, Tenn. worth, M. D.; Effle Brown, M. D.; J. H. SAMOA SANITARIUM. Medical Superintendent: 0. M. Hay- ward, M. D. Kellogg, Apia, Samoa. Branch Treatment Rooms: 11 South Director: D. Delos Lake. Stevens St., Spokane. Medical Superintendent: F. E. Braucht, LONE STAR SANITARIUM. M. D. Keene, Tex. NASHVILLE SANITARIUM • Medical Superintendent: D. Edson Gar- inn,M. ASSOCIATION. INTERNATIONAL HEALTH ASSOCIA- D. (Auxiliary to the Southern Missionary TION,Ltd. Society.) Address: 70-74 Legge Street, Birming- 1025 Jefferson St., Nashville, Tenn. ham, England. 51 Park St., Calcutta, India. Pres., C. P. Bollman; Sec., W. 0. Palmer. Officers: Pres., W. C. Sisley; See. and Medical Superintendent: R. Ingersoll, Treas., W. 1'. Bartlett; Board of Di- M. D. rectors: W. C. Sisley, W. T. Bartlett, SKODSBORG SANATORIUM. A. B. Olsen, M. D.; Manager, H. G. KIMBERLEY SANITARIUM. (Scandinavian Philanthropic Society.) Butler Skodsborg, Denmark. Superintendent, Lou C. Cleveland, M. —.; 32 OM. Main St., Kimberley, South Africa. Office in Copenhagen, Gothersgade 49, T. J. Evans, M. D.; Mrs. T. J. Evans, Manager: J. V. Willson. 1 Sal. M. D. Officers: Director, Dr. J. C. Ottosen; TREATMENT ROOMS. Business Manager and Treas., C. C. NEW SOUTH WALES MEDICAL AND Cairo, Egypt: Sekket Tawaehv, Louis Hansen; Matron, Martha Anderson; SURGICAL SANITARIUM. Passebois in ^harps Inspector, R. J. Aagaard. " Lindo," Gower Street, Summer Hill, Columbus, Ohio: 1391/2 High St., U. Medical Faculty: J. C. Ottosen, M. D.; N. S. W., Australia. E. Whiteis, in charge. M. A. Mortenson, M. D. Board of Management: F. L. Sharp, E. Denver, Colo.: 810 Eighteenth St., Den- R. Caro, J. Hindson, W. M. Crothers, ver, Colo., J. C. Bradford, M. D., in FRYDENSTRANDS SANITARIUM. J. A. Burden, G. C. Tenney, E. A. D. charge. Frederikshavn, Denmark. Goodhart. Detroit, Mich.: 154 Farrer St., W. E. Officers: Director, Dr. J. C. Ottosen; Officers: Chairman, 3. A. Burden; Sec., Bliss in charge. General Manager, C. C. Hansen. W. M. Crothers. Ft. Wayne, Ind.: 31 LaSalle St., G. W. Mann in charge. NEW SANITARIUM. Graysville, Tenn.: 0. M. Hayward, M. CHRISTIANIA HEALTH HOME. Board: J. A. Burden, Dr. D. H. Kress, D., in charge. Akersgaden 74, Christiania, Norway. G. A. Irwin, E. W. Farnsworth, Dr. Indianapolis, Ind.: 209 Massachusetts Superintendent: 0. J. Olsen. M. G. Kellogg. Ave., R. 0. Ross, M. D., in charge. GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN. 547

Jackson, Mich.: A. J. Harris in charge. Montana: Butte, Star of Hope Mission, 2.50; rate for America $1.00; Akersga- Jaffa, Palestine, Syria; F. Horner, Deut- 235 South Ninth St.; G. P. Loy, Supt. den 74, Christiania, Norway; editor,N. sche poste, Jaffa, Palestine. New Zealand: Napier, Bethany Home Clausen; assistant editor, 0. A. Jon- Jerusalem, Palestine, Syria; J. H. Krum, for Prisoners; Matron, Miss A. Parr. son. Deutsche poste (via Germany), Jeru- Oregon: Portland, Medical Mission, 1 Tidens Tecken (Swedish); biweekly; salem. North Fourth St.; Warren J. Burden, eight pages; annual subscription kr. 2; Little Rock, Ark.: 1623 Broadway, .Ar*- Supt. rate for America 80 cents; Kungsgatan thur W. George, M. D., in charge. Pennsylvania: Philadelphia, Gospel Help 34, Stockholm, Sweden; editor, E. J. Madison, Wis.: 118 Monona Ave., H. B. Mission, 210 North Second St.; W. J. Ahren. Bramhall, 1V1. D., in charge. Fitzgerald, Supt. Harold der Wahrheit and Propretischer Moline, EL: 817 Nineteenth St., J. E. Sweden: Gothenburg, Bethesda Mission, Erklarer (German); semimonthly; Froom, M. D., in charge. Karl Gustafgatan 45. eight pages; annual subscription Mk. _Nashville, Tenn.: 717 Church St., L. A. Utah: Salt Lake City, Medical Mission, 2 (60 cents for America); Grindelberg Hansen in charge. 33 Commercial St. 15a, Hamburg, Germany; editors, L. R. Seattle, Wash: 1324 Second Ave., A. Q. Washington: Spokane, Workingmen's Conradi, a F. Schubertb. Shryock in charge. Home, 46 Main Ave. Walla Walla, Les Signes des Temps, Messager de la South Haven, Mich.: Quaker St., P. S. Helping Hand Mission, 18 Second St. Prophetie (French); semimonthly; Staines in charge. Wisconsin: Milwaukee, Helping Hand eight pages; annual subscription fr. Toledo, Ohio: 322 Superior St., L. M. Mission, 163 Reed St.; R. T. Dowsett, 3.50 (70 cents); Weiherweg 48, Basle, McAbee in charge. Supt. Switzerland; editors, B. G. Wilkinson, Waterloo, Iowa: 621 Commercial St.; J. Vuilleumier. J. L. Moaning in charge. - Christlicher Hausfreund (German); Wheeling, W. Va.: 1145-1147 Main St., weekly; eight pages; annual subscrip- F. G. Haynes in charge. LIST OF PERIODICALS tion $1; Battle Creek, Mich.; editor, T.' Issued under the Auspices of the Seventh- Valentiner. day Adventist Denomination. Der Deutsche Arbeiter; eight pages; monthly; 25 cents; Battle Creek, Mich. The Advent Review and Sabbath Herald Evangeliets Sendebud og Sandhedens BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIONS. ,ii (leading church paper); weekly six- Tidende (Danish-Norwegian); weekly; teen pages; annual subscription $1.50; sixteen pages; annual subscription $1; published at Battle Creek, Mich.; edi- HASKELL MEMORIAL HOME. Battle Creek, Mich.; editor, C. A. tor, U. Smith; assistants, L. A. Smith, Thorp. (Established 1894.) A. J. Bourdeau. Sions Vaktare och Sanningens Harold Hubbard St., Battle Creek, Mich. The Signs of the Times (leading mission- (Swedish); weekly; sivteen pages; an- Board of Trustees: J. H. Kellogg, (Pres.), ary paper and prophetic expositor); nual subscription $1; Battle Creek, L. Mc Coy (Sec.), C. M. Christiansen illustrated weekly; sixteen pages; an- Mich.; editor, A. Swedberg. (Tteas.), H. F. Rand, J. S. Comins. nual subscription $1.50; to foreign The Oriental Watchman; monthly; six- Board of Lady Managers: Pres., Mrs. countries, $1.75; published by Pacific teen pages; annual, subscription 1% E. H. Whitney; Mrs. E. R Kellogg, Press Publishing Co., Oakland, Cal.; (1-8) rupees (75 cents); International Mrs. M. M. Morse, Mrs Jessie Arthur. editor, M. C. Wilcox; assistant editors, Tract Society, 44a Free School St., Cal- Mrs. A. G. Daniels, Mrs. S A t ane; A. 0. Tait, C. M. Snow. cutta, India; editor, J. L. Shaw. Se., Lena T. Steinel. The Present Truth (devoted ,to a presen- The Missionary Magazine (with which is tation of the doctrine of the second combined the Medical Missionary); de- coming of Christ, and general Bible voted to a presentation of practical JAMES WHITE MEMORIAL HOME. truth); weekly; sixteen pages; annual missionary methods; organ of the Mis- (Established 1893.) subscription 6s 6d ($1.60); 451 Hollo- sion Board; monthly; forty pages; an- 31 Aldrich St., Battle Creek, Mich. way noad, London, N., England; edi- nual subscription 50 cents (75 cents to tor, E. J. Waggoner; assistant editor, foreign countries); published by the (Trustees and Board of Managers same Miss Edith B. Adams. Mission Board, 267 W. Main St., Battle as for the Haskell Memorial Home.) The Bible Echo (devoted to an exposition Creek, Mich.; editors, W. W. Prescott,' Matron: Mrs. A. E. Baker-Smith. of Bible truth and signs of the times); W. A. Spicer, Mrs. E. H. Whitney. weekly; sixteen pages; annual sub- The General Conference Bulletin (de- scription 6s 6d; to countries outside of voted to denominational statistics, offi- DIRECTORY OF CITY MISSIONS. Australia, and in the postal union, 8s cial directories, etc.); quarterly; thir- - ($1.95); 16 Best St., North Fitzroy, ty-two, pages; biennial subscription Alabama: Montgomery, Charity Mission, Victoria, Australia; editor, R. Hare; (including daily issues) 75 cents; daily T. B. Buckner, Supt. associate editors, G. A. Irwin, W. A. issues during General Conference ses- Australia: Melbourne, Helping Hand Colcord. sion, 50 cents; Battle Creek, Mich.; edi- Mission for Men, Latrobe St., Business The Sentinel of Liberty (a monthly mag- tor,H. E. Osborne. Manager, J. C. Diverall. Adelaide, azine devoted to the interests of reli- The Pacific Health Journal (devoted to Helping Hand Mission for Women, gious liberty); sixty-four pages; an- health in the home and general sani- Matron, Miss Semple. Sydney, Home nual subscription $1; Pacific Press Pub- tary topics); monthly; sixteen pages for Orphans, Managed by the Sani- lishing Company, 11 West Twentieth (magazine form); annual subscription tarium. St., New York, N. Y.; John D. Bradley, 50 cents; Room 5, 1436 Market St., San California: San Francisco, Helping Hand editor. Francisco,Cal.; G. H. Heald, editor; and Medical Mission, 641 to 647 Com- The Youth's Instructor (a journal for J. 0. Coriss, managing editor; E. E. mercial St.; J. A. Dolson, Supt. Oak- youth and children); weekly; eight Parlin, business manager; T. A. Kil- land Home for the Friendless pages; annual subscription 75 cents; gore, W. S. Sadler. (Orphanage), Fruitvale. Battle Creek, Mich.; editor, Miss Ade- The Gospel Herald; monthly; eight District of Columbia: Washington, 431 laide Bee Cooper. pages; annual subscription 20 cents; Four and One-half St., S. W. The Good Health (devoted ;to sanitary Southern Publishing Assn., 1025-27 Jef- Jilinios: Chicago, Workingmen's Home, science and domestic hygiene); month- ferson , St., Nashville, Tenn.; editor, 1341 State St.; Life Boat Mission, 436 ly; eighty pages (magazine form); an- J. E. White. State St.; The Good Health Hotel, nual subscription $1; Battle Creek, Le Vulgarisateur et Messager de l'Hy- 1351 State St.; The Dispensary, 2-4 Mich.; editor, J. H. Kellogg, M. D. giene (French); monthly; sixteen Thirty-third Place. Evangeliets Sendebud (Danish-Norwegian pages; fr. 2.50 (50 cents); Weiherweg Michigan: Jackson, The Jackson Mis- religious journal); semimonthly; six- 48, Basle, Switzerland; editor, P. A. De- sion, 245 East Main' St. teen pages; annual subscription kr. Forest. 548 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN.

Herald of Health; monthly; sixteen subscription $1; Apartado 138, Guada- tion 25 cents; Arkansas Tract Society, pages; annual subscription 2s 6c1; 25 lajara, Mexico; editor, J. E. Kellogg. Springdale, Ark.; editor, Mrs. Etta Sloane St., Summer Hill, N. S. W., El Faro (Spanish); monthly; twelve Hardesty. Australia; editor, Mrs. V. J. Farns- pages; annual subscription 50 cents; Atlantic: The Atlantic News; semi- worth; contributors, J. H. Kellogg, D. Argentina Tract Society; Casale del monthly; four pages; annual subscrip- H. Kress, Mrs. Laurette Kress, E. R. Correo 481, Buenos Ayres, Argentine tion 25 cents; published by the Atlantic Caro, F. E. Braucht, S. C. Rand, P. M. Republic, South America. 'Conference, 472 Union Ave., Paterson, Keller, A. W. Semmens; send subscrip- Unser kleiner Freund (German child's pa- N. J.; editor, Jay W. Rambo. tions to Manager "Herald of Health," per); monthly; eight pages; annual Children's Home: editor, J. W. Ram- Cooranbong, N. S. W., Australia. subscription 80 Pfg. (for America 30 bo; monthly; 25 cents per year; ad- Sabbath-school Quarterly; forty-eight cents); Grindelberg 15a, Hamburg, Ger- dress, 472 Union Ave., Paterson, N. J. pages; containing the S. D. A. Inter- many; editor, A. Plass. Australia: Children's Friend; editor, R. national Sabbath-school lessons; an- Ljus i Hemmet (Swedish child's paper); Hare; 14 Best St., North Fitzroy, Vic- nual subscription 20 cents; Pacific semimonthly; annual subscription kr. toria, Australia. Press Pub. Co., Oakland, Cal. 1; rate for America, 50 cents; Kungs- California: Pacific Union Recorder; pub- Bible Students' Library; quarterly; an- gatan 34, Stockholm, Sweden. lished biweekly by the Pacific Union nual subscription 25 cents; Pacific Gute Gesundheit (German health paper); Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Press Pub. Co., Oakland, Cal., editorial monthly; sixteen pages; annual sub- 1059 Castro St., Oakland, Cal.;. sub- committee, M. C. Wilcox, A. 0. Tait, scription Mk. 1.60 (for America 50 scription price, 50 cents a year; edi- M. H. Brown. cents); Grindelberg 15a, Hamburg, Ger- torial committee, J. J. Ireland, M. H. Apples of Gold Library; quarterly; an- many; editors, A. J. Hones, P. A. De- Brown, Mrs. Carrie R. King. nual subscription, five copies 25 cents; Forest, H. F. Schuberth. The Helping Hand: monthly; six- twelve copies 50 cents; Pacific Press Union Conference Record; monthly; six- teen pages; annual subscription 25 Pub. Co., Oakland, Cal.; editorial com- teen pages; annual subscription 2s 6d; cents; published by the Helping Hand mittee, M. C. Wilcox, A. 0. Tait, M. in countries outside of Australia, and in and Medical Mission, San Francisco, H. Brown. the Postal Union, 75 cents; published Cal., under the auspices of the Califor- Words of Truth Series; quarterly; an- by the Australasian Union Conference, nia medical Missionary and Benevolent nual, subscription 10 cents; Review and 25 Sloane St., Summer Hill, N. S. W., Association; literary committee, J. A. Herald, Battle Creek, Mich. Australia; editor, G. A. Irwin; assist- Dolson, Dr. IL H. Buchanan, E. E. Per- Our Little Friend (a child's paper); illus- ant editor, Mrs. V. J. Farnsworth. lin, and C. T. Everson. trated weekly; eight pages; annual Owari No Fukuin (Japanese); monthly; True Education (published in the in- subscription 50 cents; Pacific Press eight pages — seven Japanese, one Eng- terests of Healdsburg College); month- Pub Co., Oakland, Cal.; editorial com- lish; annual subscription 25 cents; No. ly; twenty-four pages; annual sub- mittee, M. C. Wilcox, C. M. Snow, Miss 2 Gogochi, Shiba Koyen, Shiba Ku, To- scription 50 cents; Healdsburg College, E. J. Burnham. kio, Japan; editor, T. H. Okohira. Healdsburg, Cal.: editor. M. E. Cady. The Life Boat; illustrated monthly; Senales de los Tiempos (Spanish); Central European: Le Messager; month- twenty-eight pages; annual subscrip- monthly; eight pages; $1.00 a year; ly; four pages; 75 centimes (15 cents); tion 25 cents; (Chicago and foreign published by the International Tract Weiherweg 48, Basle, Switzerland; edi- countries, 50 cents) ; published by the Society, Casilla 1125, Valparaiso, Chile, tors, is. G. Wilkinson, J. Vuilleumier. International Medical Missionary and South America; editor, G. H. Baber. Colorado: Echoes from the Field; semi- Benevolent Association, 2-4 Thirty- The Christian Record (a paper for the monthly; four pages; annual subscrip- third Place, Chicago, Ill.; editors, W. S. blind, printed in Improved Braille and tion 25 cents; Colorado Tract Society, Sadler, David Paulson. in iNew York point); monthly; twenty 1112 South Eleventh St., Denver, Colo.; Sundhedsbladet (Danish-Nor w egian pages; subscription 81.50 a year; pub- editor, Miss Elva Green. health journal); monthly; twenty-four lished by the Mission Board, at 271 The Helping Hand (devoted to the pages; annual subscription kr. 2.50; West Main St., Battle creek, Mich.; interests of the Colorado Sanitarium); rate for America, 80 cents; Akersgaden editor, A. 0. Wilson. quarterly; eight pages; annual sub- 74, Christiania, Norway; editor, J. C. 0 Arauto da Verdade (Portuguese); monthly; sixteen pages; annual sub- scription 25 cents; published by Col- Ottosen. orado Medical Missionary and Benevo- (South African Sentinel; monthly; sixteen scription 65 cents; in clubs of 5 or more lent Association, Boulder, Colo.; editor, pages; annual subscription 2s 6d (60 copies, 50 cents each; Caixa do Correio F. M. Wilcox. cents); 28a Roeland St., Cape Town, 768, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, South America. Dakota: Dakota Worker; semimonthly; South Africa; editor, W. A. Ruble. four pages; annual subscription 20 South African Journal of Health; month- Era e k orn (Icelandic); semimonthly; eight pages; annual subscription 60 cents; Dakota Tract Society, 228 North ly; sixteen pages; annual subscription Phillips Ave., Sioux Falls, S. Dak.; Is 6d (36 cents); published by the cents; Reykjavik, Iceland; editor, Da- vid Ostlund. editor, John Walker. South African Medical Missionary and England: The Missionary Worker; Benevolent Association, 28a Roeland Rarama (Fijian); quarterly; Suva Vou, Fiji, Pacific Ocean; editor, J. E. Fulton. monthly; eight_ pages; Is per year; St.,- Cape- Town, South Africa. postpaid Is 6c1; International Tract So- Aikain Vartija (Finnish); monthly; eight Joyful Tidings (evangelical missionary paper for gratuitous distribution); ciety, Ltd., 451 Holloway Road, Lon- pages; annual subscription, 30 cents; don, N.,- England. Jagaregatan 2, Helsingfors, Finland; monthly; eight pages; The Avondale Press, Cooranbong, N. S. W., Australia. Germany : Zions-Wfichter; monthly /editorial committee, K. Sandelin, J. eight pages; annual subscription 40 Hoffman. Good Health; monthly, sixteen pages; yearly subscription is 6d; 451 Hollo- cents; International Tract Society, Zions-Wachter (Holland); monthly; Grindelberg 15a, rlamburg,Germany. eight pages; annual subscription .75 way Road, London, N., England; editor, A. B. Olsen. Illinois: The Illinois Recorder; weekly; franco, to foreign countries 1 franco four pages; 40 cents; Illinois Tract (20 cents); International Tract Soci- Society, Lock Box 16, Sheridan, Ill. ety, Grindelberg 15a, Hamburg, Ger- CONFERENCE AND LOCAL PAPERS. Indiana: The Indiana Reporter; semi- many; editors, L. R. Conradi, J. Knecht. Argentina: La Carta Mensual; and Der monthly; four pages; 25 cents; Indi- El Mensajero de la Verdad (Spanish); Monatliche Brief (Spanish and German ana Tract Society, 1311 Central Ave., monthly; sixteen pages; annual sub- editions of same paper); monthly; four Indianapolis, Ind.; editor, W. C. Mc- scription 50 centavos (35 cents); Apar- pages; Argentina Tract Society, Ca- Cuaig. tado 2229, Mexico City, Mexico; editor, silla del Correo 481, Buenos Ares, Ar- Iowa: The Workers' Bulletin; weekly; G. W. Caviness. gentine Republic, South America. four pages; 25 cents; Missionary De- La Salud (Spanish health journal); Arkansas: The Arkansas Reporter; semi- partment of Iowa Conference, 603 East monthly;' twenty-four pages; annual monthly; four pages; annual subscrip- Twelfth St., Des Moines, Iowa; editor, GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN. 549

Jessie V. Bosworth; assistant editor, Academia, Ohio; editor, Miss Margaret CABLE ADDRESSES W. E. Perrin. Haughey. Of Some of the Principal Offices of Kansas: The Kansas Worker; semi- Oklahoma: The Oklahoma Gleaner; semi- monthly; lour pages; 25 cents; Kan- monthly; four pages; 25 cents; Okla- the Denomination. sas Tract Society, 821 West Fifth St., homa Tract Society, Box 202, Okla- General Conference or General Conference Topeka, Kam.; editor, R. W. Parmele. home, City, Okla. T.; editor, R. M. Association, Battle Creek, Mich.: Ad- Maine: The Vineyard; semimonthly; Hockey. ventist, Battle Creek, Mich. four pages; 25 cents; Maine Tract So- 0 nt a ri o: The Ontario Messenger; South African Conference, 28a Roeland eiety, 1377 Washington Ave., North monthly; 25 cents; 15 Churchill Ave., St., Cape Town, South Africa: Druil- Deering, Me.; editor, Eliza H. Morton. Toronto Ontario. lard, Cape Town. Manitoba; Mission Field Worker of Man- Penns yi vani a: Keystone Gleaner; Echo Publishing Company, 16 Best St., itoba and the Northwest Territories; weekly; four pages; 25 cents; Penn- North Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia: monthly; four pages; 15 cents; Mani- sylvania Tract Society, Box 614, Wil- Echo, Melbourne. toba Tract Society, 462 Selkirk Ave., liamsport, Pa.; editor, T. D. Gibson. New Zealand Conference, " Beulah Hall," Winnipeg, Manitoba; editor, Mrs. Alice Queensland: he Welcome Visitor; 37 Taranaki St, Wellington, New Zea- H. Robinson. " Kingsdown," O'Connell Terrace, land: Mastery, Wellington. Michigan: Training-School Advocate (de- Bowen Hills, Brisbane, Queensland, Australasian Union Conference, 25 Sloane voted to the interests of Emmanuel Australia. St., Summer Hill, Sydney, N. S. W., Missionary College); monthly; thirty- South Africa: The Fortnightly Visitor; Australia; Union, Sydney. two pages; 50 cents; published by semimonthly; two pages; annual sub- Review and Herald Publishing Company, Training-school Publishing Ass'n., Ltd., scription is 6d (36 cents); published by Battle Creek, Mich • Review, Battle. Berrien Springs, Mich.; editor, E. A. the South African Conference, 28a Roe- Creek, Mich. Sutherland; assistant editor, M. Bessie land St., Cape Town, South Africa. Pacific Press Publishing Company, 1059 De Graw. Sweden: Missionkren; monthly; eight Castro St., Oakland, Cal.: Uprising, The Haskell Home Appeal (published pages; kr. 1 (50 cents for America); Oakland, Cal. in the interests of Haskell Memorial Scandinavian Publishing Association, Pacific Press Publishing Company, 11 Home); quarterly; four pages; 25 Kungsgatan 34, Stockholm, Sweden; West Twentieth St, New York, N. Y.: cents; International Medical Mission- editor, E. J. Ahren. Musketry, New cork. ary and Benevolent Association, Battle Tennessee: The Southern Watchman London Publishing House or the British Creek, Mich.; editor, Mrs. E. H. (continuing the Southern Review); Conference, 451 Holloway Road, Lon- Whitney. weekly; four pages; 35 cents; The don, N. England: Uprising, London. Field Echoes; weekly; four pages; Southern Publishing Association, 1025- Christiania Publishing House or the Nor- 40 cents; Cedar Lake, Mich. 27 Jefferson St., Nashville, Tenn.; C. P. wegian Conference, Akersgaden 74, The Missionary Acre; (in the inter- Bollman, editor. Christiania, Norway: Sundhedsbladet, ests of missionary farming) four pages; Texas: The Texas Reporter; semi- Christiania. ten cents a year; International Medical monthly; four pages; 25 cents; Texas The Sanitarium, Battle Creek, Mich.: Missionary and Benevolent Association, Tract Society, 510 Jackson St., Dallas, Health, Battle Creek, Mich. Battle Creek, Mich. Tex.; editor, C. N. Woodward. Hamburg Publishing House or the Ger- Minnesota: The Minnesota Worker; The Industrial Educator (published in man Union Conference, Grindelberg weekly; four pages;- 35 cents; Min- the interests of Keene Industrial Aca- 15a, Hamburg, Germany: Conradi, nesota Tract Society, Box 989, Minne- demy); weekly; eight pages; 50 cents; Grindelberg, Hamburg. apolis, "Minn.; editorial committee, C. The Industrial Educator, Keene, Tex.; Basle Publishing House and the Institut M. Everest, Wm. Asp, Ella Merickel. editor, John B. Fitch. Sanitaire, Weiherweg 48, Basle, Swit- Missouri: The Workers' Record; semi- zerland: Polyglotte,B 1 monthly; four pages; 25 cents; Mis- Upper Columbia: The Reaper; semi- Jamaica Mission or Depository, Erne- souri Tract Society, 14 West Fifth St., monthly; four pages; 25 cents; Upper court Villa, Arnold Road, Kingston, Ja- Kansas City, Mo.; editor, Jas. Cochran. Columbia Tract Society, College Place, maica, West Indies: Adventist, Kings- Montana: The Montana Bivouac; semi- ton, Jamaica. montnly; four pages; 25 cents; Mon- The Workers' Educator (published in India Mission, 44a Free School St., Cal- tana Tract Society, 108 Grand St., the interests of Walla Walla College); eutta, India: Adventist, Calcutta, Helena, Mont.; editor, T. G. Johnson. monthly; eight pages; 25 cents; Walla India. Nebraska: The Nebraska Reporter; Walla College, College Place, Wash.; semimonthly; four pages; 25 cents; editorial committee, Mrs. Helen C. Nebraska Conference, 1505 E St., Lin- Conard, J. L. Kay, M. Frances Ireland. coln, Nebr.; editors, Mary F. Beatty Vermont: Green Mountain Reporter; semimonthly; four pages; 25 cents; and J. F. Batty. MORTUARY. The Practical Educator (published in Montpelier, Vt. the interests of Union College); Virginia: The Messenger; monthly; four Elder L. M. Crowther, August 26, 1901. monthly; 25 cents; College View, pages; 25 cents; Virginia Conference; Field of labor and place of death, Trial- - Nebr.; editorial committee, L. A. 1819 East Main St., Richmond, Va.; dad, West Indies. Hoopes, D. D. Rees. editor, R. D. Hottel. Elder Dan. T. Jones, September 24, 1901. New England: The New England Gleaner; West Australia: The Messenger • Field of labor, Guadalajara, Mexico; weekly; four pages; 25 cents; New monthly; 20 cents; West Australia place of death, Kingsville. Mo. England Tract Society, South Lances- Tract Society, 263 Newcastle St., West Elder H P Holser, September 11, 1901. ter, Mass.; editor, Miss Jennie Thayer. Perth, West Australia, Australia; edi- Field, Europe; place of death, Cafion City, Cob. New York: The Indicator; weekly; four tor, Jesse Pallant. Elder F. L. Mead, October, 1901. Field of pages; 25 cents; New York Tract So- West Virginia: The West Virginia Mon- labor, Buluwayo, Rhodesia, South Cen- clety, 317 West Bloomfield St., Rome, itor; semimonthly; four pages; 25 tral Africa. N. Y.; editor, T. E. Bowen. cents; West Virginia Tract Society, Mrs. D. C. Babcock, June 20, 1901, at North Pacific: The Missionary Visitor; 812 Seventh St., Parkersburg, W. Va.; editor, C. E. White. Georgetown, British Guiana, South weekly; four pages; 35 cents; North America. Pacific Tract Society, 508 East Everett Wisconsin: The Wisconsin Reporter; Elder H. D. Day, September 9, 1901; at St., Portland, Oregon; editor, T. H. weekly; four pages; 25 cents; Wiscon- Fairgrove, Mich. Starbuck. sin Tract Society, 203 High St., Osh- Elder H. Grant, at Missoula, Mont. Ohio: The Welconie Visitor; four pages; kosh; editor, S. D. Hartwell. Thos. E. Ward, September 1, 1901; acci- weekly; 25 cents; Ohio Conference, Total number of papers 97 dental death, at Nashville, Tenn. 550 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN.

CONFERENCE AND MISSION FIELD OFFICERS. PRESIDENTS AND DIRECTORS. Illinois: Allen Moon, Room 770, 324 St., Parkersburg, W. Va. Dearborn St., Chicago, Ill. GENERAL. Wisconsin: Win. Covert, Bethel, Wis. Indiana: L J. Hankins, 1311 Central West Virginia: S. M. Cobb, 812 Seventh General Conference: A. G. Daniells, 267 Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. West Main St., Battle Creek, Mich. Iowa: L. F. Starr, Stuart, Iowa. CONFERENCE AND MISSION Eastern Union Conference: H. W. Cot- Kansas: E. T. Russell, 821 West Fifth trell, South Lancaster, Mass. St., Topeka, Kans. FIELD SECRETARIES. Southern Union Conference: R. M. Kil- Louisiana: S. B. Horton, 600 Third St., GENERAL. gore, Graysville, Tenn. New Orleans, La. General Conference: H. E. Osborne, 267 Lake Union Conference: A. G. Daniells, Maine: H. C. Basney, 1377 Washington West Main St., Battle Creek, Mich. 267 West Main St., Battle Creek, Mich. Ave., North Deering, Me. Eastern Union Conference: G. W. Pal- 'Northwestern Union Conference: C. W. Manitoba Mission: Andrew Nelson, 462 mer, South Lancaster, Mass. Flaiz, BoX 989, Minneapolis, Minn. Selkirk Ave., Winnipeg, Manitoba. Southern Union Conference: C. L. Nil- Southwestern Union Conference: C. Me- Maritime Provinces: G. E. Langdon, St. gore, Graysville, Tenn. Reynolds, 821 West Fifth St., Topeka, John, New Brunswick. Lake Union Conference: W. H. Edwards, Kans. Michigan: J. D. Gowen, Hesperia,Mich. 267 West Main St., Battle Creek, Mich. Pacific Union Conference: W. T. Knox, Minnesota: C. W. Flair, Box 989,ne- in Northwestern Union Conference: John 816 Twentieth St., Oakland, Cal. apolis, Minn. , Walker, 228 North Phillips Ave., Sioux Australasian Union Conference: G. A. Missouri: J. M. Rees, 14 West Fifth St., Falls, S. Dak. Irwin, 25 Sloane St., Summer Hill, N. Kansas City, Mo. Southwestern Union Conference: R. W. S. W., Australia. , Mississippi: R. S. Owen,Hatley, Miss. Parmele, 821 West Fifth St.; Topeka, European General Conference: L. R. Montana: W. B. White,soula, is Mont. Kans. Conradi, Grindelberg 15a, Hamburg, Nebraska: N. P. Nelson, College View, Pacific Union Conference: J. 3. Ireland, Germany. Nebr. 1059 Castro St., Oakland, Cal. German Union Conference: L. R. Con- New England: A. E. Place, South Lan- Australasian Union Conference: Edith radi, Grindelberg 15a, Hamburg, Ger- caster, Mass. M. Graham, 25 Sloane St, Summer , many. New South Wales: G. A. Snyder, 25 Hill, N. S. W:, Australia. Scandinavian Union Conference: P. A. Sloane St., Summer Hill, N. S. W., European General Conference: 0. A. Hansen, Margrethevej 5, Copenhagen, Australia. Olsen, 451 Holloway Road, London, N., 'V., Denmark. New York: G. B. Thompson, 317 West England. General Conference Association: S. H. Bloomfield St., Rome, N. Y. German Union Conference: Rec. Sec., Lane, 267 West Main St., Battle Creek, New Zealand; W. L. H. Baker, 37 H. F. Schuberth; Cor Sec., G. L. Dail; Mich. Taranaki St., Wellington, New Zea- Grindelberg 15a, Hamburg, Germany. Sabbath-school Department: W. A. land. Scandinavian Union Conference: 0. A. Spicer, 267 West Main St., Battle North Pacific: H. W. Decker, 508 East Johnson, Akersgaden 74, Christiania, Creek, Mich. Everett St., Portland, Ore. Norway. Mission Board: A. G. Daniells, 267 West Northern California: A. T. Jones, 301 General Conferelice Association: P. T. Main St., Battle Creek, Mich San Pablo Ave., Oakland, Cal. Magan, Berrien Springs, Mich. LOCAL. Norway: O. A. Johnson, Akersgaden 74, Sabbath-school Department: Rec. Sec., Christiania, Norway. Estella Houser, 267 West Main St., Alabama: W. L. Mc Neely, 1121 North Ohio: A. G. Haughey, Academia, Ohio. Battle Creek, Mieh.; Cor. Sec., Mrs. Seventeenth St., Birmingham, Ala. Oklahoma: G. G. Rupert, Box 202, Ok- L. Flora Plummer, oom 705, North- Arizona Mission: E. W. Webster, 31 lahoma City, Okla. T. western Building, Minneapolis, Minn. South First Ave., Phoenix, Ariz. Ontario: J. W. Collie, 15 Churchill Ave., Mission Board: W. A. Spicer, 267 West Arkansas: A. E. Field, Springdale, Ark. Toronto, Ontario. Main St., Battle Creek, Mich. Atlantic: J. E. Jayne, 165 Godwin St., Pennsylvania: R. A. Underwood, Mese- LOCAL. Paterson, N. J. potamia, Ohio. Alabama: A. C. Bird, 1816 Marshall Austria-Hungary Mission: J. F. Huener- Queensland. Ave., Birmingham, Ala. gardt, Grindelberg 15a, Hamburg, Ger- Quebec: S. A. Farnsworth, South Arizona Mission: A. E. Brown, Box 777, many. Stukely, Quebec. Phoenix, Ariz. British: 0. A. Olsen, 451 Holloway Road, South Africa: W. S. Hyatt, 28a Roe- Arkansas:, Mrs. Etta Hardesty, Spring- London, N., England. land St., Cape Town, South Africa. dale- Carolinas: J. 0. Johnston, 301 Elizabeth South Australia: J. H. Woods, Hughes Atlantic: J. W. Rambo, 472 Union Ave., Ave , Charlotte, N. C. St., North Tinley, South Australia, Paterson, N. J. Central European: B. G. Wilkinson, Australia. British: Mary Jacques, 451 Holloway Weiherweg 48, Basle, Switzerland. Southern California: C. Santee, 143 Carr Road, London, N., England. Chesapeake: 0. 0. Farnsworth, West- St., Los Angeles, Cal. Carolinas: C. 11. Rogers, 301 Elizabeth minster, Md. Sweden: 0. Johnson, Kungsgatan 34, Ave., Charlotte, N. C. Colorado: G. F. Watson, 1112 South Stockholut Sweden. Central European: J. Vuilleumier, Wei- Eleventh St., Denver, Colo. Tennessee River: W. J. Stone, Franklin, herweg 48, Basle, Switzerland. Cumberland: Smith Sharp, Graysville, Ky. Chesapeake: C. D. Zirkle, 903 Woodley Tenn. Texas: W. A. Mc Cutchen, Keene, Texas. St., Baltimore, Md. Dakota: N. W. Allee, 228 North Phillips Upper Columbia: A. J. Breed, College Colorado: Elva Green, 1112 South Ave., Sioux Falls, S. Dak. Place, Wash. Eleventh St., Denver, Colo. Denmark: P. A. Hansen, Margrethevej 5, Utah Mission: W. A. Alway, Provo, Cumberland: J. W. Franklin, Grays- Copenhagen, V., Denmark. Utah. ville, Tenn. East German: J. Pieper, Grindelberg 15a, Vermont: J. W. Watt, 50 Elm St., Bane, Dakota: George Bowen, 228 North Phil- Hamburg, Germany. Vt. lips Ave., Sioux Falls, S. Dak. Florida: Irving Keck, Bowling Green, Victoria: G. B. Starr, Oxford Chambers, Denmark: Jens Olsen, Margrethevej 5, Fla. 473-481 Bourke St., Melbourne, Vic- Copenhagen, V., Denmark. Georgia: C. A. Hall, 243 South Boule- toria, Australia. East German: W. Prillwitz, Grindel- vard, Atlanta, Ga. Virginia: R. D. Hottel, New Market, Va. berg 15a, Hamburg, Germany. German-Swiss:, J. T. Boettcher, Weiher- West German: EL F. Schuberth, Grindel- Florida: Mrs. Altana W. Keck, Bowling weg 48, Basle, Switzerland. berg 15a, Hamburg, Germany. Green, Ma. GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN. 551

Georgia: Thos. McMillan, Macon, Ga. West German: 0. Luepke, Grindelberg Nebraska: Mary F. Beatty, 1505 E St., German-Swiss: W. Kury, Weiherweg 48, 15a, Hamburg, Germany. Lincoln, Nebr. Basle, Switzerland. West Virginia: 'IV. R. Noggin, 812 New England: Jennie Thayer, South . Illinois: C. H. Castle, Sheridan, Ill. Seventh St., Parkersburg, W. Va. Lancaster, Mass. Indiana• A L Chew, Glenwood, Ind. Wisconsin: R. T. Dowsett, 865 Fifth St., New South Wales: Miss A. S. Higgins, Iowa; Mrs. Flora V. Dorcas, 603 East Milwaukee, Wis. 25 Sloane St., Summer Hill, N. S. W., Twelfth St., Des Moines, Iowa. Australia. Kansas: T. J. Eagle, 821 West Fifth St., New York: T. E. Bowen, 317 West Topeka, Kans. Bloomfield St., Rome, N. Y. New Zealand: Mrs. W. L, H. Baker, 37 Louisiana: W. T. Hartsock, Shreveport, TRACT SOCIETY OR MISSIONARY La. Taranaki St., Wellington, New Zea- Maine: Miss E. H. Morton, 1377 Wash- SECRETARIES. land. ington Ave., North Deering, Me. GENERAL North Pacific: T. H. Starbuck, 508 East Manitoba Mission: Mrs. Alice H. Robin- Everett St., Portland, Oregon. son, 462 Selkirk Ave., Winnipeg, Mani- Southern. Union Conference: Mrs. Clara Northern California: W. V. Sample, 301 toba. C. Phillips, Graysville, Tenn. San Pablo Ave., Oakland, Cal. Maritime Provinces: Mrs. Carrie J. Lang- German Union Conference: C. Laubhan, Norway: Johanne Christensen, Akers- Grindelberg 15a, Hamburg, Germany. don, St. John, New Brunswick. gaden 74, Christiania,. Norway. . Michigan: E. I. Beebe, 226 Washington LOCAL. Ohio: N. S. - Academia, Ave., North, Lansing, Mich. Oklahoma: R. M. Rockey, Box 202, Ok- Minnesota: H. F. Phelps, 2900 Lyndale Alabama: C. E. Giles, Attalla,Ala. lahoma City, Olda. T. Ave., Minneapolis; Minn. Arizona Mission: E. A. BrownBox 777, 'Ontario: Helen McKinnon, 15 Church- Missouri: Pearl L. Rees, 14 West Fifth Phoenix, Ariz. ill Ave., Toronto, Ontario. St., Kansas City, Mo. Arkansas: Mrs. Etta Hardesty, Spring- Pennsylvania: W. M. Lee, Box 614, Wil- Mississippi: W. J. Blake, Hatley, Miss. dale, Ark. liamsport, Pa. Montana: Mrs, Nettie G. White, Mis- Atlantic: J. W. Rambo, 472 Union Ave., Queensland: soula, Mont. Paterson, N. J. Quebec: W. H. Libby, South Stukely, Nebraska: J. F. Beatty, 1505 E St., British: Mary Jacques, 451 Holloway Quebec. Lincoln, Nebr. Road, London, N.,England. South Africa: 0. 0. Fortner, 28a Roeland New England: H. Tucker, South Lan- Carolinas: C. H. ogers, 301 Elizabeth St., Cape Town, South Africa. caster, Mass. Ave., Charlotte, N. C. South Australia: Mrs. J. Higgins„ New South Wales: J. Hindson, 25 Sloane Central European: Melina Evard, Wei- Hughes St., North Unley, South Aus- St, Summer Hill, N. S. W., Australia. herweg 48, Basle, Switzerland. tralia, Australia. New York: T. E. Bowen, 317 West Chesapeake: C. D. Zirkle, 903 3Voodle9 Southern California: C. A. Pedicord, 516 Bloomfield St., Rome, N. Y. St., Baltimore, Md. South Hill St., Los Angeles, Cal New Zealand: W. J. Smith, 37 Taranaki Colorado: Mrs. Bertie L. Herren, 1112 Sweden: Erika Ahren, Kungsgatan 34, St., Wellington, New Zealand. South Eleventh St., Denver, Colo. Stockholm, Sweden. North Pacific: Edith Starbuck, 508 East Cumberland: E. W. Carey, 46 Lexington Tennessee River: Mrs. B. W. Spire, 1025 Everett St., Portland, Oregon. Ave., Lexington, Ky. : Jefferson St., Nashville, Tenn. Northern California: M. H. Brown, 301 Dakota: L. D. Randall, 228 North Phil- Texas: C. N. Woodward, 510 Jackson St., San Pablo Ave., Oakland, Cal. lips Ave, Sioux Palls, S. Dak. Dallas, Tex. "; Norway: Chas. B. Jensen, Akersgaden Denmark: Jens Olsen, Margrethevej 5' Upper Columbia: Lloyd Copeland, College 74,, Christiania, Norway. Copenhagen, V., Denmark. Place, Wash. Ohio: Bessie Russell, Academia, Ohio. East German: W. Prillwitz, Grindelberg Utah Mission: A. F. Whitehead, Box Oklahoma: Josephine Rupert, Box 202, 15a, Hamburg, Germany. 286, Springfield, Utah. Oklahoma City, Okla. T. Florida: Mrs. L. G. Yergin, Box 508, Vermont: F. M. Dana, 190 North Ontario: Helen McKinnon, 15 Church- Orlando, Fla. Winooski Ave., Burlington, Vt. ill Ave., Toronto, Ontario. Georgia: Amos Everett, 243 South Victoria: Miss Lizzie Gregg, ' Oxford C Pennsylvania: W. M. Lee, Box 614, Boulevard, Atlanta, Ga. Chambers, 473-481 Bourke -St., Mel- Williamsport, Pa. German-Swiss: T. Kestenholz, Weiher- bourne, Australia. Queensland: weg 48, Basle, Switzerland. Virginia: Jas, Gargett, Chester, Va. Quebec: W. H. Libby, South Stukely, Illinois: G. A. Wheeler, Sheridan, Ill. West German: 0. Luepke, Grindelberg Quebec. Indiana• W C. McCuaig, 1311 Central 15a, Hamburg, Germany. South Africa: 0. 0. Fortner, 28a Roe- Ave., Indianapolis, Ind,. West Virginia: C. E. White, 812 Seventh land St., Cape Town, South Africa. Iowa: Jessie V. Bosworth, 603 East St., Parkersburg, W. Va. South Australia: J. Higgins, Hughes St., Twelfth St., Des Moines, Iowa. Wisconsin: S. D. Hartwell, 203 High St, North Unley, South Australia, Aus- Kansas: R. W. Parmele, 821 West Fifth Oshkosh, Wis. tralia. St., Topeka, Kans. Southern California: C. A. Pedicord, 516 Louisiana: S. B. Horton, 600 Third St., South Hill St., Los Angeles, Cal. New Orleans, La. SABBATH-SCHOOL DEPARTMENT Maine: Miss H H. Morton, 1377 Wash- SECRETARIES. Sweden: F. O. W. Wallenkampf, Kungs- ington Ave., North Deering, Me. gatan 34, Stockholm, Sweden. GENERAL. Tennessee River: B. W. Spire, 1025 Jef- Manitoba Mission: Mrs. Alice H. Robin- son, 462 Selkirk Ave., Winnipeg, Man- Sabbath-school Department of the ferson St., Nashville, Tenn. Texas: J. B. Blosser, Keene, Tex. itoba. General Conference: Rec. Sec., Estella Maritime Provinces: Mrs. Carrie J. Lang- Houser, 267 West Main St.,\ Battle Upper Columbia: J. L. Kay, College don, St. John, New Brunswick. Creek, Mich.; Cor. Sec., Mrs. L. Flora Place, Wash. Michigan: E. I. Beebe, 226 Washing- Plummer, Room 705, Northwestern Utah Mission: Alfred Whitehead, Box ton Ave., North, Lansing, Mich. Building, Minneapolis, Minn. 286, Springville, Utah. Minnesota: C. M. Everest, Box 989, Eastern Union Conference: Vermont: F. M. Dana, 190 North Minneapolis, Minn. Southern Union Conference: Mrs. A. F. Winooski Ave., Burlington, Vt. Missouri: Jas. Cochran, 14 West Fifth Harrison, Graysville, Tenn. Victoria: J. Gillespie, Oxford Chambers, - St., Kansas City, Mo. , Lake Union Conference: 473-481 Bourke St., Melbourne, Aus- Mississippi: Mrs, W. J. Blake, Halley, Northwestern Union Conference: C. C. tralia. Miss. Lewis, College View, Nebr. Virginia: F. L. Whitehead, Arlington, Montana: Thos. G. Johnson, 108 Grand Southwestern Union Conference: C. C. Va. St., Helena, Mont. Lewis, College View, Nebr. 552 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETI1V.

Pacific Union Conference: Mrs. Carrie New Zealand: Mrs. W. L. H. Baker, 37 Atlantic: W. S. Cleveland, 472 Union R. King, 1059 Castro St., Oakland, Cal. Taranaki St., Wellington, New Zea- Ave., Paterson, N. J. Australasian Union Conference: Mrs. C. land. British. — W. Irwin, Cooranbong, N. S. W., Aus- North Pacific: Edith Starbuck, 508 East Carolinas: C. D. Wolf, Hildebran, N. C. tralia. Everett St., Portland, Oregon. Central European: Tell Nussbaum, Wei- European General Conference: (Chair- Northern California: E. S. Ballenger, 301 herweg 48, Basle, Switzerland. man) 0. A. Olsen, 451 Holloway Road, San Pablo Ave., Oakland, Cal. Chesapeake: J. M. Calvert, 903 Woodley London, N., England. Norway: Johanne Christensen, Akers- St., Baltimore, Md. German Union Conference: C. Laubhan, gaden 74, Christiania, Norway. Colorado: M. Mackintosh, 1112 South Grindelberg 15a, Hamburg, Germany. Ohio: W. H. Wakeham, Academia, Ohio. Eleventh St., Denver, Colo. Scandinavian Union Conference: Oklahoma: Emma Haffner, Box 202, Ok- Cumberland: A. F. Harrison, Graysville, lahoma City, Okla, T. LOCAL. Tenn. Ontario: Dakota: John Walker, 228 North Phil- Alabama: W. L._ Bird, Ozanne, Ala. Pennsylvania: Mrs. W. M. Lee, Box 614, lips Ave., Sioux Falls, S. Dak. Arizona Mission: Mrs. W. L. Iles, Flag- -Williamsport, Pa. Denmark: Z. Sherrig, Margrethevej 5, staff, Ariz. Queensland: Copenhagen, V., Denmark. Arkansas: Mrs. Laura Field, Springdale, Quebec: W. H. Libby, South Stukely, Georgia: P. B. Jewell, Americus, Ga. Ark. Quebec. Illinois: E. S. Butz, 747 North Main St., Atlantic: Mrs. J. W. Rambo, 472 Union South Africa: 0. 0. Fortner, 28a Roe- Decatur, Ill. Ave., Paterson, N. J. land St., Cape Town, South Africa. Indiana: F. L. Moody, 1311 Central Ave., British: Mary Jacques, 451 Holloway South Australia: Mrs. A. W. Semmens, Indianapolis, Ind. Road, London, N., England. Victoria Square, Adelaide, South Aus- Iowa: Thos. H. Jeys, Modale, Iowa. Carolinas: Mrs. Estella Graham, 301 tralia, Australia, Kansas: W. F. Surber, Cherryvale, Kans. Elizabeth Ave., Charlotte, N. C. Southern California: — Louisiana: C. F. Dart, Marthaville, La. Central European: U. Augsbourger, Wei- Sweden: Erika Abren, Kungsgatan 34, Michigan: S. E. Wight, Bedford, Mich. herweg 48, Basle, Switzerland. Stockholm, Sweden. Minnesota: F. A. Detamore, Box 989, Chesapeake: Miss Helen V. Price, Mill- Tennessee River: C. L. Stone, TR vel, Ky. Minneapolis, Minn. ington, Md. Texas: Sallie E. Green, Keene, Tex. Missouri: F. L. Limerick, Utica, Mo. Colorado: Mrs. Flora Watson, 1112 South Upper Columbia: Daisy Afton, Boise, Mississippi: H. W. Pierce, Oxford, Miss. Eleventh St., Denver, Colo. Idaho. Montana: Thos. G. Johnson, 108 Grand Cumberland: Mrs. Mary Eldridge, Grays- Vermot: C. H. Drown, Barton Landing, St., Helena, Mont. ville, Tenn. Vt. Nebraska: F. Jencks, College View, Nebr. Dakota: Mrs. J. W. Beach, 228 North Victoria: Mrs. N. D. Faulkhead, 16 Best New England: H. C. Wilcox, South Lan- Phillips Ave., Sioux Falls, S. Dak. St., North Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia. caster, Mass. Denmark: Jens Olsen, Margrethevej 5, Virginia: Mrs. A. M. Neff, New Market, New South Wales: W. M. Crothers, 25 Copenhagen, V., Denmark. Va. Sloane St., Summer Hill, N. S. W., East German: W. Prillwitz, Grindelberg West German: 0. Luepke, Grindelberg Australia. 15a, Hamburg, Germany. 15a, Hamburg, Germany. New York: B. B. Noftsger, 317 West Florida: Loulie Horn, Orlanda, Fla. West Virginia: Emma S. Newcomer, Bloomfield St., Rome, N. Y. Georgia: Amos Everett, 243 South Hagerstown, Md. New Zealand: A. Mountain, 37 Taranaki Boulevard, Atlanta, Ga. Wisconsin: Lottie E. Farrell, Bethel, St., Wellington, New Zealand. German-Swiss: Louise Aufrane, Weiher- Wis. North Pacific: W. B. Scott, St. Johns, weg 48, Basle, Switzerland. Oregon. Illinois: Mrs. Lou K. Curtis, Sheridan, CANVASSING OR MISSIONARY -- Northern California: Periodical Agent, El. AGENTS. H. G. Thurston; General Agent, P. R. Indiana: Grace Amadon, 1311 Central Albrecht, 301 San Pablo Ave., Oakland, Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. GENIMAL. Cal. Iowa: A. Helen Wilcox, 603 East General Agent: E. R. Palmer, care Re- view and Herald, Battle Creek, Mieh. Norway: Z. Sherrig, Akersgaden 74, Twelfth St., Des Moines, Iowa. Christiania, Norway. Kansas: Mrs. Belle Emerson, Shorey, Eastern Uniori Conference: E. E. Miles, Ohio: G. P. Gaede, Academia, Ohio. Kans. South Lancaster, Mass. Oklahoma: W.B. Etchison, Dover, Okla. T. Louisiana: Rubie Roach, Welsh, La. Southern Union Conference: A. F. Har- Ontario: G. W. Sowler, 651 Colborne, Maine: Melilla Manson, West Palmyra, rison, Graysville, Tenn. Lake Union Conference: E. R. Palmer, London, Ontario. Me. Pennsylvania: F. E. Painter, Elliott, Pa. Manitoba Mission: Mrs. Alice H. Robin- care Review and Herald, Battle Creek, Mich. Queensland: F. W. Reekie, The Arcade, son, 462 Selkirk Ave., Winnipeg, Mani- Elwood St., Brisbane, Queensland, Aus- toba. Northwestern Union Conference: O. E. Cummings, College View, Nebr. tralia. Maritime Provinces: Mrs. Carrie J. South Australia: J. H. Camp, Hughes Langdon, St. John, New Brunswick. Southwestern Ihnon Conference: G. Phillips, 14 West Fifth St., Kansas St., North Unley, South Australia, Michigan: S. M. Butler, 627 South In- Australia. galls St., Ann Arbor, Mich. City, Mo. Pacific Union Conference: S. C. Osborne, Southern California: — Minnesota: Ella R Merickel, Box 989, Sweden: E. Lind., Kungsgatan 34, Stock- Minneapolis, Minn. 1059 Castro St., Oakland, Cal. Australasian Union Conference: J. Johan- holm, Sweden. Missouri: Jennie Nichols, Pleasant Hill, Tennessee River: Southern Publishing Mo. son, 14 Best St., North Fitzroy, Vic- toria, Australia. Assn., 1025 Jefferson St., Nashville, Mississippi: F. R. Rogers, Vicksburg, Tenn. Miss. European General Conference: German Union Conference: A. Doerner, Texas: J. B. Blosser, Keene, Tex. Montana: Mrs. Nettie G. White, Mis- Upper Columbia: M. F. Hill, Golden- soula, Mont. Grindelberg 15a, Hamburg, Germany. Scandinavian Union Conference: dale, Oregon. Nebraska: Ida A. Nelson, College View, Vermont: A. E. Taylor, North Troy, Vt. Nebr. Manager of Department of Circulation for Review ana Herald Pub. Co.: D. Victoria: J. Johanson, Oxford Chambers, New England: Fannie M. Dickerson, 473-481 Bourke St., Melbourne, Vic- South Lancaster, Mass. W. Reavis, care Review and Herald,- Battle Creek, Mich. toria, Australia. New South Wales: Mrs. J. Hindson, 25 Virginia: J. M. Calvert, 903 Woodley St., Sloane St., Summer Hill, N. S. W., "Nifiniore, Md. Australia. Alabama: C. J. Dart, Attalla, Ala. West Virginia: New York: Mrs. Delia A. Thompson, 507 Arkansas: C. W. Hardesty, Springdale, Wisconsin: M. N. Campbell, 203 High William St., Rome, N. Y. Ark. St., Oshkosh, Wis. 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MINISTERIAL DIRECTORY.

Only the names of ordained and licensed Badaut, J., Weiberweg 48, Basle, Switzer- Bourdeau, D. T., 629 South Ingalls St., ministers appear in this list. To deter- land. Ann Arbor, Mich. mine the nature of any person's ap- Bagby, J. R., Pleasanton, Kans. Bowen, T. E., 317 West Bloomfield St., pointment, reference should be made to Bagby, J. W., Armona, Cal. Rome, N. Y. the directory of the Conference operat- Bahler, J. F., Keene, Tex. Boynton, William J., 317 West Bloomfield ing in the field where the worker is Baharian; Z./ G., English Poste restante, St., Rome, N. Y. located. This applies to the workers Galata, Constantinople, Turkey, via Boynton, J. W., Ponoka, Alberta. named above, as well as all other London, England. Bradford, Robt. L., Kansas City, Kans. classes. ' Baierle, C., 765 North Thirty-eighth St., Bralliar, Floyd, 603 East Twelfth St., Des Philadelphia, Pa. Moines, Iowa. Baker, W. L. H., 37 Taranaki St., Wel- Breed, A. J., College Place, Wash. Adams, E. H., Atalissa, Iowa. lington, New Zealand. Brimer, C. W., Floyd, Ark. Adams, P. P., 603 East Twelfth St., I5es Balada, Enrique,Casilla 1125. Valparaiso, Bringle, A. S., Hutchinson, Kans. Moines, Iowa. Chile, South .merica. ' Brink, Fred, Hillman, Mich. Adams, J. W., 603 East Twelfth St., Des Ball, D. A , Ellicottville, N. Y. Brock, R. H., Arkansas City, Kans. Moines, Iowa. Ballingall; A., Oxford Chambers, Bourke Brooking, L., Casilla del Correo 481, Bue- Adams, C. T., 603 EaSt Twelfth St., Des St., Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. nos Ayres, Argentine Republic, South Moines, Iowa. Ballenger, J. F., Petrolia, Ontario. America. Adams, W. M., 462 Selkirk Ave., Winni- Ballenger, A. F.,-451 Holloway Road, Lon- Brorsen, A., Lusk Ave., Oakland, Cal. M lit b don, ., Eng an . Brown, M. H., 301 San Pablo Ave., Oak- Ahren, E. J., Kungsgatan 34, Stockholm, Ballenger, E. S., 301 San Pablo Ave., Oak- land, Cal. Sweden. land, Cal. Brown, G. M., Seward, Nebr. Albrecht, 301 San Pablo Ave, Oakland, Bambridge, E., Papeete, Tahiti, Society Brown, B. W., Concordia, Kans. Cal. Islands, Pacific Ocean. Brunson, John A., Berrien Springs, Mich. Allee, N. W., 228 North Phillips Ave, Bartlett, J., Milton, Oregon. Buckner, T. B., Montgomery, Ala. Sioux Falls, S. Dak. Bartlett, A. W., 1311 %Jena-al Ave., Indian- Buhalts, C. J., 462 Selkirk Ave., Winni- Altman, M. A., 451 Holloway Road, Lon- apolis, Ind. peg, Manitoba. don, N., England. ' Basney, H. C., 1377 Washington Ave., Bunch, F. S., Gravel Ford, Oregon. Alway, W. A., Provo, Utah. North Deering, Me. Bunoa, Pairliasi, Suva, Fiji, Pacific Ocean. Anderson, B. L., Prentice, Wis. Bates, C. H., Pueblo, C01.0. Burden, W. J., 1 North Fourth St., Port- Anderson, A. W., 16 Best St., North Fitz- Baumann, H., Grindelberg I5a, Hamburg, land, Oregon. roy, ViCtoria, Australia. Germany. Burden, J. A., Sanitarium, Wahroonga, Anderson, A. C., 1301 North Twenty-first Beach, J. W., 228 North Phillips Ave., N. S. W., Australia. St., Lincoln, Nebr. Sioux Falls, S. Dak. Burg, F. M., Shelton, Wash. Anderson, August, Box 614, Williamsport, Beard, J. 0., 1311 First Ave., Ft. Dodge, Burkholder, H H., Bellville, Ohio. Pa. Iowa. Burman, C. A., Millbank, S. Dak. Anderson, Fred, Jagregatan 2, Helsing- Beardslee, J. W., Merrill, Wis. Burrill, A. 0., 429 William St., Buffalo, fors, Finland. Beckner, J. B., Ernecourt Villa, Arnold N. Y. Anderson, J. N., 3 Arsenal St., Hong Road, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies. Burrow, W. R., Memphis, Tenn. Kong, China. Beebe, E. I.:226 Washington Ave., North, Butcher, 0. F., 145 West Cortland St., Anderson, W. H., Bulawayo, Rhodesia, Lansing, Mich. Jackson, Mich. South Central Africa. Beeson, C. A., Atchison, Kans. Butler, S. M., 627 South Ingalls St., Ann Anderson, Birger, Kungsgatan 34, Stock- Behrens, J. H., Honolulu, Hawaiian Ter- Arbor, Mich. holm, Sweden. ritory. Butler, Geo. I., Bowling Green, Fla. Anderson, John F., 835 Lawson St., St. Bell, W. S., care Room 34, Middle D., Uni- Butz, E. S., 747 North Main St., Decatur, Paul, Minn. versity of Chicago, Chicago, Ill. Ill. Andrews, W. R., Fredericton, New Bruns- Bell, A. R., Newfoundland, N. J. wick. Bender, U., Batesville, Ark. Andrews, R. F., College View, Nebr. Benham, R. D., Beaverton, Oregon. Cady, B. J., Papeete, 'Tahiti, Society Is- Andross, E. E., 451 Holloway Road, Lon- Bernstein, 0. 0., Box 989, Minneapolis, lands, Pacific Ocean. don, N., England. Cady, M. E., Healdsburg, Anglebarger, 1112 South Eleventh St.,Biglow, Minn. I. G., 1311 Central Ave., Indian- Campbell, W. H., Evanston, Wyo. Denver, Colo. apolis, Ind. Campbell, 0. F., 329 Teneyek St., Jackson, .Armitage, F. B.. Bulawayo, Rhodesia, Bird, W. L., Oxanna, Ala. Mich. South Central Africa. Bird, A. C., 1816 Marshall Ave., Birming- Campbell, M. N., 203 High St., Oshkosh, Armstrong, W. H.. Winston-Salem. N. C. ham, Ala. Wis. Armstrong, H., 451 Holloway Road, Lon- Black, W. L., 605 Ninth St., Tucson, Ariz, Caro, M., Napier, New Zealand. don, N., England. Blake, W. J., Batley, Miss. Carr, H. W., Bowen, N. I. Ashcraft, J. B., Preston, Kans. Bliss, C. H., Lovington, Ill. Casebeer, J. A., Boise, Idaho. Aufderhar, H. A., Hygiene, Colo. Block, Henry, Leduc, Manitoba. Catlin, E. W., Anoka, Minn. Augsbourger, C., Weiherweg 48, Basle, Blosser, J. B., Keene, Tex. Caviness, G. W., No. 5 Calle de la Prima- Switzerland. Boardman, R. A., Academia, Ohio. vera, Tucubaya, Mexico. Bodwell, A. G., No. 5 Calle de la Prima- Chaffee, C. H., Chillicothe, Mo. vera, Tucubaya, Mexico. Champness, H., 451 Holloway Road, Lon- Babcock, D. C., 287 Church St., George- Boettcher, J. T., Weiherweg 48, Basle, don, N., England. town, British Guiana, South America. Switzerland. Chaney, F. L., Cooranbong, N. S. W., Babcock, H. W., Cottage Grove, Oregon. Bollman, C. P., 1025 Jefferson St., Nash- Australia. Babcock, M. S., 3222 Warsaw Ave., Cin- ville, Tenn. Chew, A. L., Glenwood, Ind. cinnati, Ohio. Bond, J. E., 31 South First Ave., Phoenix, Christian, L. H., 150 North Humboldt-St., Babcock. Charles, Hutchinson, Minn. Ariz. Chicago, RI. Daher, G. H., Casilla 1125, Valparaiso, Bourdeau, A. C., 166 Kalamazoo St., Christian, A. E., Jamestown, N. Dak. Chile, South America. Battle Ci'eek, Mich. Christiansen, A. G., Logan, Utah. 554 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN:

Christiansen, P., Margrethevej 5, Copen- Dunn, J. E., Denver, Ind. French, H. B., Keene, Tex. hagen, V., Denmark. French, J. H., Bozetnan, Mont. , Christenson, J. C., Badger, Minn. French, L. L., Rose Lawn, Wis. Easley, W. A., 821 West Fifth St., To- Fullmer, B. E., 603 East Twelfth St., Chitwood, D. J., Chitwood, Oregon. peka, Kans. Clark, J. J. W., 508 East Everett St., Des Moines, Iowa. Eastman, W. W., Ernecourt Villa, Arnold Fulton, J. E., Suva, Fiji, Pacific Ocean. Portland, Oregon. Road, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies. Clark, G. H., Rutland, Vt. Ebert, W. A., Dundee, Ind. Clark, A. H., 39, Crown St., New Haven, Edgar, J. L., 1319 Ann Arbor St., Flint, Mass. Gaede, P. P., College View, Nebr. Mich. Gaede, D. P., Grindelberg 15a, Hamburg, Clausen, N., Margrethevej 5, Copenhagen, Edmed, H. J., Uitenhage, Cape Colony, V., Denmark. Germany. South Africa. Gardner, E. E., 603 East Twelfth St., Cobb, S. M., 812 seventa St., Parkers- Edwards, C. H., 52 East St., Pawtucket, burg, W. Va. Des Moines, Iowa. Colcord, G. W., Hygiene, Colo. R. I. Gardner, C. M., Eureka, Cal. Edwards, Dr. S. P. S., Berrien Springs, Garrett, R. G., Linwood, Ky. Colcord, W. A., 25 Sloane St., Summer Mich. Hill, N. S. W., Australia. Gates, E. H., Cooranbong, N. S. W., Aus- Elliott, F. L., Michigan City, Ind. tralia. Cole, C. J., St. John's, Oregon. Ellis, J. M., Idaville, Ind. Cole, J. M.,- St. John's, Oregon. Gauterau, F. D., 301 San Pablo Ave., Ells, L. H., Emida, Idaho. Oakland, Cal. -Collie, J. W., 15 Churchill Ave., Toronto, Emery, W. D., Woodside, Mont. Ontario. Gellert, Henry, Keene, Tex. Emmerson, C. L., Batavia, Minn Gibson, L. A., 108 Grand St., Helena, Collins, J. E., Windfall, Ind. Enoch, Geo. F., Ernecourt Villa, Arnold Connerly, B. E., 429 William St., Buffalo, Mont. Road, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies. Giddings, H. E., Keene, Tex. N. Y. Enseleit, E., Grindelberg 15a, Hamburg, Conra4i, L, R., Grindelberg 15a, Ham- Giddings, Phillip, New Amsterdam, Ber- Germany. bice, British Guiana, South America. burg, Germany. Erikson, J. M., South Lancaster, Mass. Corliss, J. 0., Fruitvale, Cal. Gilbert, F. C., South Lancaster, Mass. Ernst, F. C., Keiskama Hoek, Cape Col- Glass, 0., Keene, Tex. Cottrell, Roy F., Ridgeway, N. Y. ony, South Africa. Ccairter, H. F., 301 San Pablo Ave., Oak- Godfrey, T., Concordia, Kans. Erzenberger, J., Weiherweg 48, Basle, Godsmark, Otho C., 2005 Magazine St., land, Cal. Switzerland. Covert, John W., Frankfort, Mich. Louisville, Ky. Covert, Wm., Bethel, Wis. Ethridge, N. J.. Roby, Tex. Goodrich, H. C., Box 102, Belize, British Everhart, W. B., 603 East Twelfth St., Honduras, Central America. Craddock, T. H., South Australian Tract Des Moines, Iowa. Society, Hughes St., North -Maley, Goodrich, J. West Palmyra, Me. Everson, C. T., 301 San Pablo Ave., Oak- Gosmer, W. A., Bozeman, Mont. South Australia. land, Cal. , Crane, L A., Clay Center, Kan's. Gowdy, B. F., Oakwood, S. C. Crisler, L. H., Orlando, Fla. Evans, I. H., care Review and Herald, Gowell, J. D, Hesperia, Mich. Cruzan, W. S., Willow Springs, Mo. Battle Creek, Mich. Graf, J. J, Anoka, Minn. Cubley, W. M., Keene, Tex. Graf, H. F., Caixa do Correio 768, Rio Curdy, J., Weiherweg 48, Basle, Switzer- Falconer, W. H., Riverside, Mich. de Janeiro Brazil, South America. land. . Farman, H. J., Harbor Grace, C. B., New- Graham, J. E., 721 East-Taylor St., Port- Curtis, E. A., Sheridan, Dl. foundland. ' land, Oregon. Curtis, E. H., Almena, Kans. Farnstrom, K. A., Kungsgatan 34, Stock- Graham, C. E., Pilot Mound, Iowa. Curtis, W. D., Sheridan, Dl. holm, Sweden. Grauer, G. A., Wausau,, Wis. Farnsworth, E. W., 25 Sloane St., Sum- Graves, Natnan, Vancouver, Wash. mer Hill, N. S. W., Australia. Gravelle, J. F., 462 Selkirk Ave., Win- Bake, U. B., Box 202, Oklahoma City, Farnsworth, S. A., South Stukely, Quebec. nipeg, Manitoba. Okla. T. Farnsworth, 0. 0., Westminster, Md. Greer, W. S., Keene, Tex. Daniel's, A. G., 267 West Main St., Battle Faulkhead, N. D., 16 Best St., North Gregory, M. H., Box 202, Oklahoma City, - Creek, Mieh. Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia. Okla. T. Dart, C. J., Attalla, Ala. Fero, D. T., 301 San Pablo Ave., Oak- Griffin, H. Clay, Washburn, Mo. Dart, A. M., Juneau, Alaska. land, Cal. Griggs, Frederick, South Lancaster, Mass. Davidson, A. E., Bethel, Quebec. Ferren, 0. S., Big Horn, Wyo. Grin, C., Weiherweg 48, Basle, SWitzer- Davis, N. A., Oxford Chambers, Bourke Field, A. E., Springdale, Ark. land. St., Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Field, F. W., No. 2 Gogochi, Shiba Koyen, Groenewald, D. H., 28a Roeland St., Davis, S. S., Elnora, Ind. Shiba Ku, Tokio, Japan. Cape Town, South Africa. Deane, Paul J., Papeete, Tahiti, Society Fields, T. W., Keene, Tex. Gruber, H., Grindelberg 15a, Hamburg, Islands, Pacific Islands. Finster, L. V., 201 Newcastle St , West Germany. Decker, H. W., 508 East Everett St., Perth, West Australia, Australia. Guild, M. C., 629 Washington Ave., North, ' Portland, Oregon. Fischer, A. M., San Juan, Porto Rico, Alpena, Mich. Derby, J. A. L., Healdsburg, Cal. West Indies. Guthrie, Wm., Stuart, Iowa. Detamore, F. A., Box 989, Minneapolis, Fisk, B. E., Richburg, N. Y. Minn. Fitzgerald, W. J,, 765 North This ty-eighth De Vinney, F. H., 317 West Bloomfield St., Philadelphia, Pa. Habenicht, R. H., Casilla del Correo 481, St., Rome, N. Y. Flaiz, C. W., Box 989, Minneapolis, Minn. Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic, Dexter, H. H. Milltown, Me. Noggin, W. R., 812 Seventh St., Parkers- South America. Dieffenbacher, B. L., 603 East Twelfth burg, W. Va. Hadley, 0. S., Elkhart, Ind. St., Des Moines, Iowa. Ford, C. E., Medical Lake, Wash. Haffner, G. H., Box 202, Oklahoma City, Dirksen, H. J., Morden, Manitoba. Ford, C. L., Newport, Wash. Okla. T. Dixon, N. P., Fortis, Fans. Foster, J. C., Billings, Mont. ' Hagle, B., Murfreesboro, Tenn. Donnell, R. S., Elnora, Ind. Francis, B., Wells, Minn. Hale, D. U., Keene, Tex. Douglas, G. B., 641 Commercial St., San Franke, E. E., 250 Spring St., Trenton, Hall, C. A., 243 South Boulevard, Atlanta, Francisco, Cal. N. J. Ga. Dowsett, R. T., 865 Fifth St., Milwaukee, Frauchiger, E., Grindelberg 15a, Ham- Hall, 0. A., Evanston, Wyo. Wis. burg, Germany. Hanhardt, J. G., Shaffer, Kans. Drew, Geo. R., 451- Holloway Road, Lon- Frederick, W. E., 603 East Twelfth St., Hankins, I. J., 1311 Central Ave., Indian- don, N., England. Des Moines, Iowa. apolis, Ind. Drown, C. H., Barton Landing, Vt. Freeman, J. K, Kola, Mafeteng, Basuto- Hansen, J. F., 508 East Everett St., Drummond, W. T., Graysville,Tenn. land, South Africa. Portland, Oregon. GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN. 555

Hansen, H. M., Akersgaden 74, Chris- Hopkins, E. B., Springdale, Ark. Jorg, E., 852 Vancouver Ave., Portland, , tiania, Sweden. Horton; R. C., 182 Hillsdale St., Hillsdale, Oregon. Hansen, P. A., Margrethevej 5, Copen- Mich. Jorgensen, N. AL, 122 North Fourth St., hagen, V., Denmark. Horton, S. B., 600 Third St., New Orleans, Clinton, Iowa. Hansen, C. C., Margrethevej 5, Copen- La. Joyce, S., 451 Holloway Road, London, hagen, V., Denmark. Hottel, R. D., New Market, Va. N., England. Hansen, Mrs. Carrie V., 542 First St., Hovaguvinyan,Taminanos, Erzijan, Ar- Ogden, Utah. menia, Turky. Hansen, J. F., 301 San Pablo Ave., Oak- Howe, B. L., Honolulu, Hawaiian Ter- Kahletrom, C., Kungsgatan 34, Stock- land, Cal. ritory. holm, Sweden. Hansen, John, Seghers, Oregon. Howe, P. M., Petrolia; Ontario. Karlson, L., Kungsgatan 34, Stockholm, Hansen, C. A., Box 33, Truf ant, Mich. Howell, C. G., 521 North Division St , AIM Sweden. Hanson, P. A., Kenyon, Minn. Arbor, Mich. Karlson, B. J., Kungsgatan 34, Stock- Hanson, C. A., Harbor Grace, C. B., New- Huenergardt, J. F., Grindelberg 15a, holm, Sweden. ' foundland. Hamburg, Germany. Bauble, N. W., Lock Box 12, Sheridan, Harder, J. F., Windom, Kans. Huffman, B. E., 821 West Fifth St., To- 111. Hare, Robert, 16 Best St., North Fitz- peka, Kans. Kay, J. L., College Place, Wash. roy, Victoria, Australia. Huffman, D. E., Springdale, Ark. Keck, Irving, Bowling Green, Fla. Hare, S. T., 143 Carr St., Los Angeles, Huffman M. G., Mt. Erie, Ill. Keller, A. R., Wathena, Hans. • Cal. Hughes, 'C. B., Avondale School, Cooran- Kellogg, Dr. M. G., Sanitarium, Wah- Harmon. J. S., Healdsburg, Cal. bong, N. S. W., Australia. roonga, N. S. W., Australia. Harris, F. J., Box 827, Laurium, Hough- Huntington, S. G., Cambridge City, Ind. Kellogg, A. S., Healdsburg, Cal. ton Co., Mieh. Huntley, E. H., 599 Carroll St., St. Paul Kennedy, Wm., Salida, Colo. Harris, J. 0., 81 Bedford St., Battle Creek, Minn. Kennedy, R. R., Wheelersburg, Ohio. Mich, Hutchins, F. J., Bocas del Toro, Republic Kenyon, H. M., 426 Trumbull Ave., De- Harrison, R M., Brazil, Ind. of Colombia, South America. troit, Mich. Hart, J. S., College View, Nebr. Hutchinson, W., 451 Holloway Road, Lon- Keslake, C. H., 181:Albion Ave., Paterson, Harter, R. K, Jackson, Mich. don, N., England. N. J. Haskell, S. N., 400 West Fifty-seventh Hyatt, A. R., 303 Mohawk St., Rome, Ketring, H. F., Casilla 1125, Valparaiso, St., New York, N. Y. N. Y. Chile, South America. Haskell, Mrs. H. H., 400 West kifty-sev- Hyatt, W. S., 28a Roeland St., Cape Keuhl, A. W., 216 North Williams St., enth St., New York, N. Y. Town, South Africa. Stillwater, Minn. Haskell, C. P., Baldwin, Mich. Kilgore, R. M., Graysville, Tenn. Haughey, A. G., Academia, Ohio. Killen, W. L., Archdale, N. C. Hawkins, G. R., 603 East Twelfth St., Kime, Stewart, Red Lodge, Mont. Des Moines, Iowa. Irwin, G. A., 25 Sloane St., Summer Hill, King, George A., 1352 Herkimer St., Hawkins, Mrs. G. R., 603 East Twelfth N.S. W., Australia. Brooklyn, N. Y. St., Des Moines. Iowa, Irwin, C. W., Avondale School, Cooran- Kinne, P. Z., Kirkville, N. Y. Hayes, Elmer, Huron, S. Dak. bong, N. S. W., Australia. Kinne, F. L., Prentice, Wis. Hayes, Elmer, Huron, S. Dak. Irwin, John; Jr., Eastport, Mich. Kite, C. R., 235 South Ninth St., Lincoln, Haysmer, A. J., 22 Crystal Gade, Char- Isaac, J.,Wausau, Nebr. lotte Amalie, St. Thomas, Danish West Isaac, Daniel, Spring Valley, S. Dak. Kjellman, Albert, Artichoke, Minn. - Israel, M. C., Red Bluff, Cal. Indies. Klingbeil, R. G., Grindelberg 15a, Ham- Hayward, 0. M., Graysville, Tenn. burg, Germany Heacock, A. P., 404 Grand Ave., Sedalia, Kloss, J., Seymour, Wis. Mo. Jared, Jesse, 821 West Fifth St., Topeka, Knecht, J., Grindelberg 15a, Hamburg, Heald, Chas., Fairfield, Iowa. Germany Healey, W. M., 143 Carr St., Los Angeles, Jayne, J. E., 165 Godwin St., Paterson, Kneeland, W. G., Harris Promenade, San Cal. N. J. Fernando, Trinidad, West Indies. Hebner, W. C., 191 Champion St., Battle Jensen, A. W., Keene, Tex. Knight, W., Hughes St., North Unley, Creek, Mich. Jensen, Carl, 603 East Twelfth St., Des South Australia, Australia. Henderson, J. P., 1004 South Pasfield St., Moines, Iowa. Knight, I. G., Box 202, Oklahoma City, Springfield, Ill. Jespersson, S., Jerusalem, Palestine, Okla. T. Herren H. W., New Windsor, Md. Deutsche poste, via Germany. Knight, C. E., Ventura, Cal. Herrmann, C. J., Antigo, Jeys, Thos. H., Modale, Iowa. Knott, Chas. F., Lind, Wash. Hersum, S. J., Moncton, New Brunswick. Johanson, J., Oxford Chambers, Bourke Knox, W. T., 816 Twentieth St., Oakland, Hibbard, E. j., care College, Healdsburg, St., Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Cal. Cal, Johnson, Lewis, College View, Nebr. Kraft, J. H., 603 East Twelfth St., Des Hicks, F. H., Box 40, Salamanca, N. Y. Johnson, Fred, Isanti, Minn. Moines Iowa. Hiddleson, F. W., 821 West Fifth St., Johnson, A. E., Clyde, Kans. Krum, J. H., Deutsche poste (via Ger- Topeka, Kans. Johnson, C., Monitor, Oregon. many), Jerusalem, Palestine. Hill, IV. B., College View, Nebr. Johnson, Geo. G., 417 Ninth St., Rock- Kueller, K., Grindelberg 15a, Hamburg, Hill, Oscar, College Place, Wash. ford, Ill. Germany. Hill, Matt., Oneida Mission, Wis. Johnson, H. R., Iron River, Mich. Kunkel, C. J., 603 East Twelfth St., Des Hills, Dr. W. W., 731 East Costilla St., Johnson, Henry, 603 East Twelfth St., Moines, Iowa. Colorado Springs,Colo. Des Moines, Iowa. Kunze, August, Keene, Texas. Hilliard, E., 198 Gorge St., Launceston, Johnson. Wm., Marshalltown, Iowa. Tasmania. Johnson, Lewis, Ruthven, Iowa. Hirschy A., Weiherweg 48, Basle, Switzer- Johnson, L. E., Lead, S. Dak. Lair, J. W., 812 Seventh St., Parkersburg, land. Johnson, 0., Kungsgatan 34, Stockholm, W. Va. Hoen, P. L., Ames, Iowa. Sweden. Lake, D. D., Apia, Samoa, Pacific Ocean. , Hoffmann, G., Trade River, Wis. Johnson, 0. A., Akersgaden 74, Chris- Lamb, F. T., 1236 Market St., San Fran- Hoffman, John, Mellangatan 11, Borga, tiania, Norway. cisco, Cal. Finland. Johnston, J. 0., Charlotte, N. C. Lamson, J. G., Cedar Lake, Mich. Holbrook, J. A., College Place, Wash. Jones, A. T., 301 San Pablo Ave., Oak- Lane, S. H., 267 West Main St., Battle Hoopes, L. A., College View, Nebr. land, Cal. Creek, Mich. Hoover, H. L., 613 Colorado Ave., Trin- Jones, Walter, Bowling Green, Ky. Lane, L. N., 514 South Pearl St., Char- idad, Colo. Jones, J. F„ Cambridge, Md. lotte, Mich. 556 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN.

Langdon, Geo. E., St. John, New Bruns- Me Clintock, N. L., Blencoe, Iowa. Neff, A. C., Quicksburg, Va. wick. Me Clintock, Arthur, Blencoe, Iowa. Neilsen, J. C., Neenah, Wis. Larson, Matthew, Hagerman, Ne4v Mex- Mc Clure. N. C., Healdsburg, Cal. Neilsen, N P., 1714 Winter St., West Su- ico. Mc Coy, L., care Sanitarium, Battle Creek, perior, Wis. • . Larson, G. A., Albia, Iowa. Mich. Neilson, Lars, Dell Rapids, S. Dak. Lawrence, N. W., Graysville, Tenn. Mc Coy, J. R., Pitcairn Island, Pacific Nelson, S. E., Brushville, Wis. Leask, A. R., 451 Holloway Road, London, Ocean. Nelson, Andrew, 462 Selkirk Ave., Win- N., England. Mc Cord, J. W., 301 San Pablo Ave., Oak- nipeg, Manitoba. Lecoultre, D., Weiherweg 48, Basle, Swit- land, Cal. Nelson, Chas., Logan, Utah. zerland. Mc Cullagh, S., Oxford Chambers, Bourke Nelson, N. P., College View,Nebr. Leland, Eugene, 15 Churchill Ave., To- St., Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Nelson, N. P., Akersgaden 7, Christiania, ronto, Ontario. Mc Cutchen, W. A., Keene, Tex. Norway. Leland, C. E., 819 Sufferin St., Port Mc Elhanei, J. L., 143 Carr St., Los An- Nelson, N. P., Margrethevej 5, Copen- mon, c ge es, a . hagen, V., Denmark. Leland. J. A., Sanitarium, Guadalajara, McGill, Neill, 462 Selkirk Ave., Winni- Mills, S. W., Connie, Wash. Mexico. peg, Manitoba. Nettleton, Daniel, Watertown, S. Dak. Lewis, C. C., College View, Nebr. Mc Gowan, J. W., 25 Sloane St., Summer Nicola, H., 603 East Twelfth St., Des Lewis, T. G., 288 Champion St., Battle Hill, N. S. W., Australia. Moines, Iowa. Creek, Mich. Mc Lay, W. D., 821 West Fifth St., To- Nicola, L. T., 57 Jones St., Binghamton, Lewis, M. W., 606 Baker Ave., Menomine peka, Kans. N. Y. Mich. Mc Neely, W. L., 1121 North Seventeenth Nicola, B. E., Box 414, Huntsville, Ala. Lewsadder, Wm., 357 Rosewood Ave., St; Birmingham, Ala. Norderhus, 0. P., 228 North Phillips Ave., Kankakee, Ill. Mc Reynolds, C., 821 West Fifth St., To- Sioux Falls, S. Dak. Lindsey, D. E., Clyde, Ohio. peka, Kans. Nonvood, J. W., Galena, Kans. Lingle, A. L., 301 San Pablo Ave., Oak- Mc Vagh, C. F., Box 614, Williamsport, Nussbaum, Tell, Weiherweg 48, Basle, land, Cal. Pa. Switzerland. Lloyd, I. S. 2110 Cushing St., Indian- Mead, Andrew, Brainerd, Minn. • apolis, Ind. Meleen, C., Busti, N. Y. Locken, J. B., Cadott, Wis. Meredith, W. H., 451 Holloway Road, Oberg, F. R., Kungsgatan 34, Stockholm, I Loebsack, H. J., Grindelberg 15a, Ham- London, N., England. Sweden. burg, Germany. Merrell, E. A., 1215 Wabash, Kansas City, Oberholtzer, D. H., Thayer, Kans. Loeppke, Edward, Sykeston, N. Dak. Mo. Oberli, J., Weiherweg 48, Basle, Snit- Loewen, Abr., Box 202, Oklahoma City, Meyer, H., Warrenton, Mo. zerland. Okla. T. Meyer, A. A., Senate Grove, Mo. Oblaender, G., Grindelberg 15a, Hamburg, Long, U. P., Boulder, Colo. Michaels, C. P., Oxford Chambers, Bo-take Germany. Longaere, C. S., 1510 Federal St., Alle- St., Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Ogden, A. R., Casilla 1125, Valparaiso, gheny, Pa. Mikkelsen, J. C., Bethel, Wis. Chile, South America. Lorenz', J. A., Box 202, Oklahoma City, Miles, E. E., South Lancaster, Mass. Okohira, T. H., No. 2 Gogoehi, Shiba Ko- Okla. T. Miller, John, 1036 North Eighth St., Lin- yen, Shiba Ku, Tokio, Japan. Lorenz, J. P., Grindelberg 15a, Hamburg, coln, Nebr. Oliver, H. W., vv allowa, Oregon. Germany. Miller, H. W., Battle Creek, Mich. Olsen, 0. J., Akersgaden 74, Christiania, Loughborough, J. N., 1462 Ninth St., Oak- Miller, M. B., 29 University Ave., Battle Norway. land, Cal. Creek, Mich. Olsen, M. M., Margrethevej 5, Copen- Lucas, V. H., Cambridge, Md. Mitchell, J. T., Lisbon, Iowa. hagen, V., Denmark. Lucas, H. G., Good Health Pub. Co., Bat- Mitchell, R. M., 267 West Main St., Bat- Olsen, 0. A., 451 Holloway Road, London, tle Creek, Mich. tle Creek, Mich. N., England. Luepke, 0., Grindelberg 15a, Hamburg, Millman, W. T., Gallatin. Mo. Olsen, M. E., 451 Holloway Road, London, Germany. Miller, C. N., 301 San Pablo Ave., Oak- N., England. Lukens, Morris, 720 West Eleventh St., land, Cal. Olsen, E. O., Lake Mills, Iowa. Erie, Pa. Miller, Conrad 510 Jackson St., Dallas, Oppy, J. A., Gentry, Benton Co., Ark. Lyndon. F., 37 Taranaki St., Wellington, Tex. Orrel, E. V., Erneeourt Villa, Arnold New Zealand. Miller, R. W., Santa Ana, Cal. Road, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies. Miller, A. L., 1311 Central Ave., Indian- Osborne, A. J., Sanitarium, Cal. apolis, Ind. Osborne, H. E. 267 West Main St., Battle Maas, J. V., Casilla del Correo 481, Bue- Moon, Allen, Room 770, 324 Dearborn St., Creek, Mich: nos Ayres, Argentine Republic, South Chicago, Ill. Osborne, P. B., West Palmyra, Me. America. Moon, Arthur, Spring Valley, Minn. Ostlund, David, Reykjavik, Iceland. Mace, F. W., Westminster. Md. Moore, L. G., 613 Hillsdale St., West,- Lan- Ostrander, Wm:, Elmwood. Mich. Mackintosh, M., 1112 South Eleventh St., sing, Mich. Ottosen, J. C., Margrethevej 5, Copen- Denver, Colo. MorroW, J. A., 287 Church St., George- hagen, V., Norway. Madsen, 0, Grindelberg 15a, Hamburg, town, British Guiana, South America. Owen, R. S., 1354 East Twenty-second Germany. Morse, G. W., 267 West Main St., Battle St., Los Angeles, Cal. Mogan, P. T., Berrien Springs, Mich. Creek, Mich. Owen, R. S., Hatley, Miss. Martin. W. F., College Place, Wash. Morrison, Isaac, 301 San Pablo Ave., Oak- Owen, G. K., 44a Free School St., Cal- Martin, C. N., John Adams Post Office, land, Cal. cutta, India. Cal. Morrison, J. H., College View. Nebr. fit ' 771 Mathe, L., Grindelberg 15a, Hamburg, Mortenson, S., 170 Townsend St., Chicago, Germany. Hi Matthews, W. It., 725 Prospect St., Ionia, Morton, A. J., 50 Ford Ave., Watson- Paap, F. W., Zadok St., Lismore, N. S W., Mich. ville, Cal. Australia. Mattson, M. D., South Lancaster. Mass. Muderspach, L., Margrethevej 5, Copen- Paap, Charles, 37 Taranaki St., Welling- Maxwell, E. L., Box 202, Oklahoma City, hagen, V., Denmark. ton, New Zealand. Okla. T. Munson, R. W., Padang, Sumatra, Neth- Painter, T. H., Stanleyton, Page Co., Va. Mc Avoy, J., 451 Holloway Road, London, erlands East Indies. Painter, A. J.. Stanleyton, Page Co.. Va. N., England. Pallant, J., 201 Newcastle St., West McCarthy, Juan, Casilla del Correo 481, Perth, West Australia, Australia. Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic, Nash, R. T., Waynesville, N. C, Palmer, E. R., care Review and Herald, South America. Neal, C. W., Osceola, Iowa. Battle Creek, Mich. GENERAL CONFERENCE B ULLETIIY. 557

Palmer, W. 0., 1025 Jefferson St., Nash- Ritchie, A., 865 Fifth St., Milwaukee, Sewaldsen, A., Akersgaden 74, Chris- ville, Tenn. Wis. tiania, Norway. k Parker, C. 11., 198 George St., Launceston, Roberts, F. M., Jonesboro, Ind. _ Shaeffer, F. R., 1219 Buchanan St., San Tasmania. Robinson, Ellery, 44a Free School St., Francisco, Cal. Parkhurst, W. D., 34 West St., Hillsdale, Calcutta, India. Shaffer, C. E., Vancouver, Wash. Mich. Robinson, A. T., Avondale School, Cooran- Shaffer, C. T., 1431 Maryland Ave., N. E., Parmele, R. W., 821 West Fifth St., To- bong, N. S. W., Australia. Washington, D. C. , peka, Kans. Rogers, J. H., 403 Broadway, Yankton, Shannon, A. C., Seventy-Six, Pa. Parmelee, D. B., Centerbrook, Conn. S. Dak. Sharp, Smith, Graysville, Tman., , Pascoe, W. J., 37, Taranaki St., Welling- Roos, J. A., 1676 Eighth St., New What- Sharpe, E. D., Boise, Idaho. ton, New Zealand. eom, Wash. Shaw, J. L., 44a Free School St., Calcutta, Patterson, R. G., 812 Seventh St., Par- Root, E. H., Coopersville, Mich. Shaw, H. S., St. Cloud, Minn. kersburg. Rorholm, Henry, 603 East Twelfth St., Sheafe, L. C., Academia, Ohio. Peabody, F., West Valley, N.Y. Des Moines, Iowa. Shepherd, M., Marine City, Mich. Pearson, J. F., Pitkin, Colo. Roth, G., Weihenveg 48, Bask, Switzer- Shireman, D. T., Hildebran, N. C. Peckover, C. E., Oakland, Kans. land. Shreve, W. S., Spring Green, Wis. Pedicord, C. A., 516 South Hill St., Los Rule, C. B., 812 Seventh St., Parkersburg, Shrock, S. S., Box 614, Williamsport, Pa. Angeles, Cal. W. Va. Shrock, J. S., Hagerstown, Ind. Perk, G., Grindelberg 15a, Hamburg, Ger- Rupert, G. G., Box 202, Oklahoma City, Shultz, H., Stromburg, Nebr. many. Okla. T. Simpson, Wm., Lynden, Ontario. Perry, F. L., Madison, S. Dak. Russell, K. C., 389 Seaver St., New Dor- India. Petersen, F. F., Baraboo, Wis. chester, Mass. Sims,W. L., 301 San Pablo Ave., Oak- Pettit, G. W. Montavilla, Oregon. Russell, E. 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Manitoba Mission Field 532 INDEX OF THIS NUMBER. Maritime Provinces Mission Field 525 Medical Missionaries, List of 523 Michigan Conference 529 GENERAL ARTICLES. Ministerial Directory 553 Minnesota Conference 532 A Brief Glance at the Work of Reorganization 513 Mission Board 520 European General Conference ...... 519 Mission Fields Outside of Union Conferences 540-541 Doings of the European General Conference 515 Mississippi Conference...... . 528 Statistical Report Relating to the European General Missouri Conference 534 Conference 519 Montana Conference 535 Mbrtuary 549 DIRECTORY MATTER. Nebraska Conference 532 Alabama Conference 527 New England Conference 525 Alaska Mission Field 537 New South Wales Conference 537 Arizona Mission Field 537 New York Conference 525 Arkansas Conference 533 New Zealand Conference 538 Atlantic Conference 525 Newfoundland Mission Field 526 Auditing Committee of the General Conference 520 Northern California Conference 535 Australasian Union Conference ...... 537 North Pacific Conference 536 Austria-Hungary and Balkan States Mission!Field 539 North Russian Mission Field 539 Benevolent nstitutions 547 Norway Conference 539 British Conference 540 Northwestern Union Conference 531 Cable Addresses 549 Nurses, List of 523-524 Canvassing Agents, Summary of 552 Ohio Conference 530 Carolinas onference 537 Oklahoma Conference 533 Central Eurojcean Conference 540 Ontario Conference ...... 530 ChesapeakeConference 525 Oriental Mission Field ' 540 City Missions, Directory of 547 Pacific Union Conference Colorado Conference 533 Pennsylvania Conference Conference Papers, List of 548, 549 Periodicals, List of Denominational 547-549 534526 Conference Presidents, Summary of 550 Physicians, List of 522 Conference Secretaries, Summary of 550, 551 Presidents of Conferences, Summary of 550 Cumberland Conference 527 Publication Committee of the General Conference 530 Dakota Conference 531 Publishing Houses 544 Deaths of Laborers in Recent Past 549 Quebec Conference 526 Denmark Conference 539 Queensland Conference.. 538 Denominational Papers, List of .... 547-549 Religious Liberty Department 520 Eastore, of. 522 Sabbath-school Department 520 East German Conference 539 Sabbath-school Secretaries, Summary of 551 Eastern Union Conference Scandinavian Union Conference 539 Educational Department of the General Conference ...... 520 Sanitariums ...... 545, 546 Educational Institutions 511-544 Secretaries of Conferences,ences, Sabbath-schools, Tract So- European General Conference. 520 cieties, Summaries of ' 559-51. Finance Committee of the General Conference 520 Southern California Conference Finland Mission Field 539 Southern Union Conference 527 Florida Conference 527 Southern Missionary Society 527 General Conference, Officers of 520 . State Papers, List of . . . 548,549 Ministers of 520 South African Conference 540 Licentiates of 521 South Australian Conference 538 Missionary Licentiates of 521 South German Mission Field ...... . 539 General Conference Association 520 South Russian Mission Field 539 General Conference Committee 520 Southwestern Union Conference 533 Georgia Conference 527 Swedish Conference 539 German-Swiss Conference . 539 Summary of Conference and Mission Field Officers. 550-692 German Union Conference 539 Tasmania Conference Hawaiian Mission Field 537 Tennessee River Conference 528 Holland Mission Field. 539 Texas Conference. 534 Iceland Mission Field 539 Transportation Agents 520 Illinois 529 Tract Society Secretaries, Summary of 551 Indiana Conference 529 Treatment Rooms 546 International Medical Missionary and Benevolent Associa- Upper Columbia Conference 536 tion, Officers andTrustees Utah Mission Field 537 Physicians under Auspices of 522 Vermont Conference 526 Medical Missionaries under Auspices of 523 Victoria Conference . ...... . .. • , 538 Iowa Conference. 531 Virginia Conference 526 Kansas Conference 533 West Australian Conference 538 Lake Union Conference 528 West German Conference 539 Louisiana Conference 528 West Virginia Conference 526 Maine Conference 525 Wisconsin Conference 530 SOLID THROUGH TRAINS of WIDE VESTIBULE COACHES AND PULLMAN - SLEEPING CARS BETWEEN

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VOL. IV. BATTLE CREEK; MICH., FOURTH QUARTER, 1901. No. 4

WEEK OF PRAYER READINGS

INTRODUCTORY

(To be read just before the Reading for Sabbath, December 21.)

Ar the last session of the General Conference a change. There ought to be a great religious awaken- I decided testimony was borne, calling for a change and ing. This week of prayer should be a season of genu- a complete reorganization. Acting upon this instruc- ine spiritual' refreshing. Has this annual occasion tion, some marked changes were made in the outward degenerated into a mere custom, and its observance form of the organization and the general policy. Since into a mere formality? If so, it may be only one more the time of the General Conference the large general hindrance, one more cause of self-righteous Pharisee- meetings and conferences have been held in the differ- ism, instead of a means of much-needed blessing. " But, ent parts of the field, and an effort has been made to beloved, we are persuaded better things of you. extend to the local conferences the work of reform and things that accompany salvation, though we thus which was inaugurated at the General Conference. At speak." the autumn council of the General Conference Com- The Lcrd has shown his tender regard for his mittee, held October 23 to November 3, a general re- people and his work by revealing the true situation, and view of the situation in America and Europe was given, calling for a return to right principles. And there 'is from which it appeared that in the most of the local more than an ordinary significance in this call. The conferences the plans for a new order of things had failure to respond to the messages of light and truth been cordially welcomed, and a hearty spirit of co- in the past has hindered the progress of this message, operation had been manifested. So far as the outward and delayed the coming of the Lord. The very people forms of organization and the general policy of making who were intended to be the channel of light to the a more earnest effort to extend the message 'in the whole world, missionaries of truth, have so far lost regions beyond are concerned, it is evident that encour- their peculiar character as the representatives of the aging progress has been made during the last few heavenly principles that a reproach has been brought months. 'For this we ought all to be thankful, and upon the Lord's work. It is indeed time for a change. press the battle with increased assurance, Shall not the central thought in this week of prayer But beyond this whole question of outward organi- be "Power for service and consecration to service"? zation and general policy, and more important than Let all the stumblingblocks be taken out of the way. all else, is the matter of individual reorganization and Let all differences be healed. Let all seek to be of personal experience. The real change which was one heart and one soul, and let all continue "with called for will not be accomplished until each individual one accord in prayer and supplication." "Lift up has learned to recognize and depend upon the power the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees." of an indwelling life rather than upon the forms through Gather in those who have strayed away, and reach out which that life ought to be manifested. This is the after those who may be helped. "Therefore also, now, real issue in this whole movement for reform. Changes saith the Lord, turn ye even to me with all your heart, in the forms of administration may remove hindrances, and with fasting, and with weeping and with mourning: and open the way for progress in the right direction, and rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn but the real work is in the transformation of the heart unto the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merci- p and life of individual believers. ful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth This annual time of prayer is the opportunity of him of the evil. Who knoweth if he will return and the whole people to respond to the Lord's call for a repent, and leave a blessing behind him?" 562 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN.

OUR' TIME, AND ITS MEANING. Now according to the sure word of prophecy we have come to the last days of human history. We Reading for Sabbath, December 21. have reached the link in every line of gospel proph- ecy that connects time with eternity. That is to say, JESUS, our glorious King, is coming. He is that every event, save the very last one, in every coming soon. He is coming in this generation. line of prophecy is in the past, or is being fulfilled, To all who are living he says, " Behold I come and we are now witnessing the last acts of this quickly." Thank God for this blessed assurance! world's terrible history. It cheers the hearts of true believers, and inspires In the prophecy of Daniel two, the setting up of them with 'divine courage and zeal. It leads them Christ's kingdom follows the division of the Roman to put away sin, that they may be prepared to meet empire. That division was completed fourteen him who is of " purer eyes than to behold evil, and centuries ago. [who] canst not look on iniquity." In the prophecy of chapter seven, the giving of The second coming of Christ will be the great- the kingdom under the whole heaven to the saints est event of all time. It will bring the grand climax of the Most High is the next event to occur after of the everlasting gospel. It will bring the glorious the fall of papal supremacy. The papacy lost its consummation of the hope of the church in all ages. supremacy in 1798. It will bring to an end the cruel reign of sin. It The last act of the prophecy of chapters eight and will make to cease forever all the afflictions of this nine is the cleansing of the sanctuary. This act groaning creation. connects with the end. When this work closes, The second coming- of Christ will be an event Christ will come. This work began in 1844. of supreme interest to the entire universe. In that By the long line of prophecy of chapter eleven event are centered the interests of every human we are brought to the fall of the Turkish empire being. In it is involved the existence of Satan in Europe, and the removal of its capital from Con- and his angels; and by it will be affected the well- stantinople to Jerusalem. That event has not taken being of the angels of heaven and the inhabitants place, but for years it has been looked for almost of unfallen worlds ! daily by the great nations of the world. This is Surely an event of such inexpressible meaning a living issue with which the whole civilized world to the universe ought to arrest the attention of men. is very familiar, yet they do not know its meaning. It should certainly receive the heartiest and most But all might know it, for the Scripture says . — enthusiastic devotion Christ's believers could pos- "And at that time shall Michael [Christ] stand sibly give it. Every heart should rejoice in the up [begin his reign], the great prince which stand- blessed prospect of soon meeting him who is the eth for the children of thy people; and there shall " chiefest among ten thousand." The whole life of be a time of trouble, such as never was since there every believer should clearly and earnestly pro- was a nation even to that same time: and at that claim to the world that Jesus is coming, and that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that he is coming soon. shall be found written in the book." But in order for Christ's followers to proclaim Passing to the prophetic lines in the book of such a blessed truth to the, world' they must know Revelation, we find the last events in each to take it and believe it themselves. It must be to them a place before Jesus comes, in process of fulfillment. certainty, a divine reality. They must be as sure And to prepare the world for the end, the last mes- of it as of their own existence. sage of warning, as presented in chapter fourteen, But is such certainty, such assurance, possible? is now being given. When this is finished, Jesus It surely is; for Jesus, when giving the signs that will come to reap the harvest of the earth. were to be to his followers an evidence that he was In addition to the evidences furnished by the long about to return, said, " When ye' shall see all these lines of prophecy showing where we are living, things, know that he [margin] is near, even at Jesus pointed to certain events which he said would the doors." And in the epistle of Peter, the Lord be signs of his coming. These began to appear teaches us that the " word of, prophecy " by which one hundred and fifty years ago: the great earth- the second advent, is so fully set forth, is " more quake occurred in 1755, the darkening of the sun sure," more to be relied upon, than even our sight and moon occurred in 178o, and the falling of the and hearing. 2 Peter I : 16-20. stars took place in 1833. Then began that con- GENERAL CONFEREECE BULLETIN. 563 dition upon the earth described by our Lord as for its accomplishment; but his own people have " distress of nations, with perplexity, " " men's •stood in the way, and have thus delayed his coming. hearts failing them for fear." And now, to-day, A recent Testimony says:— men behold everywheredn our world the very con- " Had the purpose of God been carried out by ditions the Lord tells us will exist prior to, and up his people in giving the message of mercy to the to, the day of his coming. world, Christ would have come to the earth, and In '798 there began, by the termination of the the saints of God would ere this have received their twelve hundred and sixty years which marked the welcome in the city of God." close of papal supremacy, that wonderful and most This is the evil thing that Jesus points out by his eventful period of all history, " the \time of the reference to that evil servant that says in his heart, end." The time of the end is a specific period " My Lord delayeth his coming." While it is true marked off by prophecy, which is to lead up to, and that the coming of, the Lord is delayed, it is also usher in, the end itself. It is the day of God's prep- true that it is the course God's people have taken aration. Nahum 3 : 3. It is the time during that has caused the delay. which the angel having the seventh trumpet is to The situation as it stands to-day is graphically begin to sound. That trumpet began to sound in set forth in Eze. 12: 22-28: - 1844. In the tenth chapter and seventh verse of " Son of man, what is that proverb that ye have Revelation, it is declared that when this trumpet in the land of Israel, saying, The days are pro- begins to sound, the mystery of God, which is the longed, and every vision faileth? . . . Thus saith gospel, shall be finished. That trumpet is to con- the Lord God, I will make this proverb to cease, tinue its sounding until after the second resurrec- and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; tion. That will cover more than a thousand years. but say unto them, The days are at hand, and the Therefore, although it has been sounding fifty-seven effect of every vision. . . . I will speak, and the years, we are still in the first days of its sounding. word that I shall speak shall come to pass; it shall Thus we are brought plainly and definitely to be no more prolonged (delayed] : for in your days, the time when, the Lord " will finish the work, and O rebellious house, will I say the word, and will cut it short in righteousness: because a short work perform it, saith the Lord God. . . . Behold, they will the Lord make upon the earth." Rom. 9: 28. of the house of Israel say, The vision that he seeth For a hundred years the Lord by his providences is for many days to come, and he prophesieth of the has been shaping everything for this mighty change. times that are afar off. . . . Thus saith the Lord He has been using men in all parts of the world God; there shall none of my words be., prolonged to prepare and provide the facilities which he will any more, but the word which I have spoken shall use to give the " last call " to the whole world in be done, saith the Lord God." this generation. Other men have labored, and The tenth chapter of Revelation presents some God's people to-day are to enter into their labors. stirring features of the first angel's message. The John 4: 38. Explorers have pitshed their work with angel to whom is given the charge of that message brave hearts to all parts of the world, thus bringing swears by the Lord God of heaven that there shall every nation, kindred. tongue, and people to light. be "delay no longer" (R. V.) ; for "in the days Inventors have toiled without ceasing to provide of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall facilities for the rapid and universal transit of man begin to sound," the Mystery of God (the gospel) and his thoughts to all places where explorers have shall be finished. led the way. Christian missionaries have followed Thank God for these cheering promises. They hard after explorers and inventors, devoting their renew our hearts with hope and courage. We re - lives to the great task of giving the Scriptures to all joice that God has set his hand to deliver his people the peoples of the world, that all may read in their Israel. This blessed work will be done; for who can own tongue the blessed story of redemption. stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou? God's providences all declare that " all things are Oh, brethren, knowing the time, do we not lmow now ready " for the gospel of the kingdom to be that now it is surely high time to awake out of sleep, preached in all the world for a witness unto all for now is our salvation nearer than when we first nations, and thus bring the end. Ah, yes, this believed? Yes, the night is far spent, and the day might have been done years ago, and the people is at hand. Let us then arise, and give to all the of God might have been in heaven now. The Lord world the glorious light which God has so graciously willed it so, and made everything ready on his part given to us. A. G. DANIELLS. 564 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN.

OUR MESSAGE. loving-kindnesses, which thou swarest unto David in truth? Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy Reading for Sunday, December 22. servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people ; wherewith thine enemies THE whole gospel is summed up in the one ex- have reproached, 0 Lord; wherewith they have pression, The revelation of Jesus Christ. In the reproached the footsteps of thine anointed." Ps. unfolding of this gospel, from the time when it was 89:.50, 5r. "He delays so long, they say he never first preached in the garden of Eden (Gen. 3:15) will come." the hope of salvation from sin has been made to rest But though it was long delayed because of the upon the manifestation of God in the flesh in the unbelief of the people, yet nothing could turn aside person of his Son. It was the seed of the woman " the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ who should bruise the -serpent's head. It was " to Jesus our Lord," the result of which would be " to Abraham and his seed" (Christ) that the promises reunite for himself under one head the all things were made. It was " a Prophet from the midst in the Christ." And so with the word of the angel of thee, of thy brethren" (Deut. 18 : 15), whom to Mary that she had " found favor with God," Moses foretold. The whole book of Ruth sets forth and there should be born of her one who should the fact that the Redeemer would be a near kins- "be called the Son of God," and with the announce- man according to the flesh. Isaiah gave his name ment of " good tidings of great joy," and the as Immanuel (Isa. 7:14), or "God with us," and angelic host singing, " Glory to God in the highest, taught that this. Wonderful One would be united and on earth peace, good will toward men," the to the human family by birth. Isa. 9 : 0. To hope of the ages was consummated, and "the Word David it was revealed that through the coming seed became flesh and tabernacled among us."_ But be- his house and his kingdom should be established fore his public appearance as " the Messiah the forever. 2 Sam. 7:12-16. The prophet Daniel Prince," the anointed One, " the word of God came was divinely instructed as to the exact time when unto John the son Of Zacharias in the wilderness. " the Messiah the Prince " should appear among And he came into all the country about Jordan men. Dan. 9: 24, 25. And so " all the prophets preaching the baptism of repentance for the remis- from Samuel and those that follow after" made this sion of sins; as it is written in the book of the their theme. and " showed before of the coming of words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of the Just One." Acts 3 : 24; 7: 52. one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way " When the fullness of time was come, God sent of the Lord, make his paths straight. Every valley forth his Son," and " the Word became flesh and shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be dwelt among us." Then " the people which sat in brought low; and the crooked shall be made darkness saw great light," for " in him was life, straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth; and the life was the light of men," and " the life and all flesh shall see the salvation of God." Luke was manifested." And thus all those intimations 3 :2-6. The burden of his work was to call men of the coming Messiah, whether they were expressed from their own self-exaltation and forgetfulness of in verbal prophecies or in fact prophecies, found their God to a recognition of the weakness of the flesh fulfillment in the appearance of the Son of God and the eternal power of God, and to turn their upon the earth as the Son of man. This was the thoughts to the coming of the Lord. "All flesh is coming of the Lord, an event which had been the grass . . . surely the people is grass. The grass center of hope and glad anticipation for devout withereth, . . . but the word of our God shall stand men during many centuries. From Abraham, who forever. . . . Behold your God! Behold, the Lord rejoiced to see Christ's day, and "saw it.and was God will come." Isa. 4o: 6—ro. Thus the mes- glad," to Simeon, " just and devout," who was sage of the coming of the Lord was given, the peo- " waiting for the consolation of Israel," all faithful ple were urged to repentance in view of the fact that believers had looked for and waited for the coming the kingdom of heaven was at hand, and the way of the Lord. From the first 'disappointment, when of the Lord was prepared. And when Jesus came Cain proved to be " of that wicked one," instead of forth among men as the fulfillment of these prophe- the expected Deliverer, there had been a long-con- cies, John said : " Behold the Lamb of God, which tinued delay in the realization of their hopes, until beareth the sin of the world." the cry went up, " Lord, where are thy former When " God was manifested in the flesh " in the GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN. 565

person of his Son at the first advent, Jesus identi- 9, to. Thus it appears that the advent message fied himself with the human family, veiling his which has been sounding through the world during glory in the flesh, that he might bear the burden of the past three quarters of a century is simply the sin and its consequences, and bring " life and im- final step in the work entered upon by John the mortality to light through the gospel." So " it be- Baptist to prepare the way of the Lord. It should hooved him to be made in all things like unto his therefore be a message given " in the spirit and brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful power of Elias, to turn the hearth of the fathers high priest in things pertaining to God, to make to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom reconciliation for the sins of the people." Heb. of the just; to make ready a people prepared for 2: 17. But this is only a partial fulfillment of the the Lord." Luke I : 17. It should call to repent- promise of,his coming. The fullness of the promise ance in view of the nearness of the kingdom of will be realized when he comes with unveiled glory, heaven. It should point out Jesus as " the Lamb of that as many of the human family as have confessed God, which beareth the sin of the world." It " Jesus Christ as in flesh having come " may be iden- should lift up a voice with strength, saying, " Behold tified with him in all that he has and is. " Him who your God! Behold, the Lord God will come." It . knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; that should bring to a focus all the prophetic utterances we might become the righteousness of God in him." upon this great subject, setting forth in clear light " Father, I will that they also whom thou hast the complete fulfillment of God's revealed purpose in given me, be with me where I am, that they may the death, resurrection, ascension, and priesthood behold my glory which thou hast given me." With of his Son; and should take up again the very his mind upon this glorious result, Jesus said to words of the Great Teacher, "The time is fulfilled, his disciples, just before his departure from them, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and " I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go believe the gospel." Mark x is. And in all this and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and it should minister the power and glory of the com- receive you unto myself ; that where I am there* ye ing of the Lord as a present experience for com- may be also." John 14: 2. 3. From the time of plete deliverance from the dominion of sin, and such his ascension into heaven, when it was said, " This a revelation of the gospel of the kingdom, the king- same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, ship of Christ in the hearts of men, in" every nation, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him and kindred, and tongue, and people," as will com- go into heaven," the hope of all true believers has pel the whole world to make its final decision for or been built upon "the promise of his coming" and against " the hope of the promise made of God the setting up of his everlasting kingdom. In that unto our fathers." This is the crisis of the ages, long period during which saints, times, and the law and we have now come to the crisis of that crisis ; were given into the hand of " the man of sin," the for after more than five decades of the judgment- light of this truth was almost extinguished, but hour period have passed by, and the vision still soon after the close of this definite time prophecy, seems to tarry, some are saying in their hearts, " My and as " the time of the promise drew nigh," the Lord delayeth his coming; " but just now the cry minds of men were stirred to study the prophecies, must be taken up with renewed power, " Behold and the message of the Lord's soon coming was he cometh," and the single purpose must be to give revived. the advent message to the world in this genera- The work of John the Baptist was to prepare the tion." " THERE SHALL BE DELAY NO LONGER." way of the Lord, and his message was found " in But what is the real essence of this advent mes- the book of the words of the prophet Esaias;" but sage? What is the definite result to be accom- on looking there, we see that his work would not plished by it? The work is to proclaim the coming be really finished until the way of the Lord is pre- of the Lord and to prepare the way of the Lord. pared for his return to this earth to give reward But sin is the only thing which hinders the Lord to his servants the prophets, and to them that fear from having his way in the hearts of men, and his name, small and great. This is clear from the therefore sin must be taken away in order that the closing words of his. message. " Behold your God! way of the Lord may be prepared. " Sin, when Behold, the Lord God will come with strong hand, it is finished, bringeth forth death," and life is the and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward only 'salvation from death. " We shall be saved is with him, and his work before him." Isa. 4o: by his life." And " the life was manifested " in b66 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN.

the flesh, in the person of Jesus of Nazareth, Son life. Thus there is to be a revelation of Jesus Christ of man, Son of God, that he might bring human in the flesh, and such an outshining of the Light nature " into a personal relation with his own divin- of life as will lighten the world with his glory, and ity," and establish a definite basis for actual fel- so judge the world, as the preparation for the revela- lowship with his life, " that the life also of Jesus tion of Jesus Christ in the clouds of heaven. might be made manifest in our mortal flesh." And Having now seen something of the fullness of the this fellowship means cleansing from sin. For " in meaning of this advent message, we may briefly -him was life; and the life was the light of men." consider what it means to give this message to the And " this then is the message which we have heard world. Our commission is not to preach a theory of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and about Christ, or to establish a creed, but to reveal in him is no darkness at all." And " if we walk Christ in human conduct, and to minister the gospel in the light, as he is in the light, we [God and man] of life to others. This should be the one aim of have fellowship one with another, and the blood all classes of workers, ministers, teachers, can- [life] of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from vassers, physicians, nurses, and in fact of every all sin." i John 1: 5, 7. " For the law of the Spirit believer in the message. We shall all let our light of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from so shine before men that they will see our good the law of sin and death. For what the law could works, and glorify our Father which is in heaven. not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God We shall go about doing good, as Jesus did. We sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, shall minister to the hungry, the thirsty, the stran- and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh; that the ger, the naked, the sick, and those in prison. We righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, shall proclaim the signs of the Lord's soon coming, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. " signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the . . . So then they that are [have their being] in stars; and upon the earth distress of nations with the flesh cannot please God. But ye are not [do perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; men's not have your being] in the fleshy but in the Spirit, hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you." Rom. those things which are* coming on the earth;" but 8:2-9. It is thus clear that cleansing from sin at the same time the very people who are proclaim- through fellowship with his life, ministered to us ing these truths will themselves be the chief est sign by the indwelling of his Spirit, is the message which that the coming of the Lord is near. " Behold, I must become a real experience in those who are and the children whom the Lord hath given me are prepared for the coming of the Lord. But this is for signs and for wonders in Israel from the Lord wholly of faith,— faith in a personal, indwelling of hosts, which dwelleth in Mount Zion." A church Saviour; faith in the manifestation of his life in the with Christ as its living Head, doing the works flesh; faith in the realization of the promise,." I will of Christ and fully translating his word into human not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. Yet conduct, will in itself be the revelation of Jesus a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but Christ, and will speedily prepare the way for his. ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also; " faith revelation in the clouds of heaven. The fact that in the personal coming of the Lord to the heart Christ has come in the flesh to save from sin will' of each believer, in the coming of his representative, be declared with a loud voice, and this in itself will the Holy Spirit, to convict of sin, of righteousness, be the message of his coming " the second time with- and of judgment. This was the most complete pro- out sin unto salvation." vision which could be made for deliverance from And this message of the revelation of Christ in sin. `; Evil had been accumulating for centuries, the flesh is the Lord's own message of the everlast- and could only be restrained and resisted by the ing gospel to the whole world in this time when mighty power of the Holy Spirit, the third person God's provision to save men from sin has been so of the Godhead, who would tome with no modified largely perverted into an excuse for continuing in energy, but in the fullness of divine power." This sin. This is " the mystery of godliness " which is the actual experience of " the righteousness of alone is able to deliver from the " mystery of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and iniquity." This gives to God in Christ his right- upon all them that believe." This is the simple ful place as the everlasting King, and to man the experience of living by faith, freely receiving- and highest place which he' is capable of occupying, freely giving out in service and praise the abundant that of servant to such a Master. This will call GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN. 567

those who have " worshiped and served the OVIE FIELD. creature rather than, the Creator" to the worship and service of " him that made beaven and earth, Reading for Monday, December 23. and the sea, and the fountains of waters." While the " man of sin," in fulfillment of the prophecy, THE urgency of the time and the crisis that opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is presses upon us, the message for the time and the called God, or that is worshiped; so that he as power by which it is to be proclaimed, have been God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself set before us. What now of the field of our work? that he is God," this message replies, " But the " The field is the world," said Jesus. The old, ,Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep old commission to Christ's church, so many cen- silence before him." When the tittle comes again turies unfulfilled, is now to be loyally accepted and that all the world wonders after the beast, and all. carried out in the power of the Spirit in this gen- ' shall worship him, whose names are not written eration. The commission sets the boundary of the in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the harvest field. foundation of the world." and life is given to the " Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations." image of the beast, "that the image of the beast " Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel should both speak and cause that as many as would to every creature." a not worship the image of the beast should be " And this gospel of the kingdom shall be F killed," then this message of the true worship and preached in all the world for a witness unto all service sounds with a loud voice, saying, " If any nations; and then shall the end come." man worship the beast and his image, and receive Stretching from pole to pole, wherever human his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, the same habitations are found, is the field. It is the world shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which that God so loved that he gave his only begotten is poured out without mixture into the cup of his Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not indignation." perish, but have everlasting life. Jesus loved it ,And so the great controversy between Christ so much that he could not remain at home in heaven and Satan, which was begun in heaven, and after- while his brethren were sinking under the burden ward transferred to the earth, will be brought to a of sin. He came to the place of need, bringing triumphant close by " the glorious appearing of the glad message of release, and taking upon him- the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; who self the burden. Into this world that Jesus ,loves gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from we are to go with the same message. The witness all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar to this great salvation, that saves to the uttermost, people, zealous of good works." "Then theonoon is now to be borne in fervent haste unto the utter- IV shall be confounded, and the sun shall be ashamed, most parts of the earth. when the Lord of hosts shall reign in Mount Zion, Describing the motive power in the work of and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously." witnessing in apostolic days, Paul says, " For the Shall there not be a genuine revival of the true love of Christ constraineth us." That love which advent message? Shall there not be a complete brought Jesus to earth, sent those who received consecration of heart and life, of talents and means, it into all the known earth, even in Paul's day. of time and opportunity, to the giving of this mes- The same love now must send this people out into sage to the world? Shall not " the voice of one all the world, in this our day. Who that knows crying in the wilderness " be heard again " in the the love of God which is in Christ Jesus, can help spirit and power of Elias," saying, " Behold your loving the world that he loves? and who that knows God! Behold, the Lord Gad will come." So in the joy of his service and the solemn crisis that a few short years " this gospel of the kingdom shall %faces us, can live for any other purpose whatever, be preached in all the world for a witness unto all than to join in sending this message to every crea- nations; and then shall the end come." So shall ture in all the world now, and at once? We have the mystery of God be speedily finished, and the talked a long, time about going to every nation great voices in heaven shall say, "The kingdom and kindred and tongue and people. Much has b, of the world is become the kingdom of our Lord, been done, it is true, by God's blessing upon the and of his Christ: and he shall reign forever and little effort we have made. But we can see the ever." W. W. PRESCOTT. sword coming upon all lands. As watchmen, God. 56S GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN. sets us upon the coasts of the whole earth to warn dwellings." So now, when darkness covers the the people. If we keep silent, or sound but feeble earth and gross darkness the people, every believing 1 warning, we shall be guilty of blood. Already home circle is to be a glowing torch, and every be- blood-guiltiness is marked against us for the delay liever a jet of light growing brighter and brighter, in entering vast fields. While praying God to for- and shining forth from the east and the west, and give the negligence, we must assuredly let his Spirit from the north and the south, lighting the whole lay upon our hearts the burden of this world-wide world. harvest time. Out in the darkness, men and women God has wonderfully opened the way for us to this day are everywhere waiting for us who have plant the jets of light in every darkened corner of the light. the earth. At Pentecost, with the gift of tongues, " Can we, whose souls are lighted the disciples spoke the Word to representatives of With wisdom from on high,— a score or two of languages. Now the Word of Can we, to men benighted, God, in whole or in part, speaks in over four hun- The lamp of life deny?" dred tongues. A century ago, the, number of God forbid! His light has arisen upon his peo- languages in which the Bible was translated was ple, and his glory shall now be seen upon them in only about threescore. But the time of the end was every part of this dark earth. There is a beautiful come. The Lord sent down the great missionary paragraph in " Gospel Workers," suggesting -the revival, which has led earnest men into the ends view that the angels of heaven have of this world of the earth, there to give to the people the Scrip- and our work in it tures in their own tongue, and prepare the way for Would that every one of you could have a the dosing work of the gospel. God's providence view that was presented to me years ago. In my has swung wide, open the gateway of the world, very girlhood the Lord saw fit to open before me and his Word now calls upon us to enter every land the glories of heaven. I was in vision taken to and nation with the message of his coming. heaven, and the angel said to me, 'Look!" I looked to " Go through, go through the, gates; prepare ye the world, and it was in dense darkness. The agony the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; that came over me was indescribable as I saw the gather out the stones ; lift up a standard for the darkness. Again. the word came, ' Look ye.' And people. Behold, the Lord hath proclaimed unto again I looked intensely over the world, and I began the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of to sec jets of light like stars dotted all through this Zion, Behold thy salvation cometh." darkness; and then I saw another and another added The work can .quickly be done. We are to go _light, and so all through this moral darkness the through the world as heralds, and when the circuit star-like lights were increasing. And the angel said, of the nations is made, the end will come. When `These are they that believe on the Lord Jesus the cry is sounded and the standard lifted up, the Christ, and are obeying the words of Christ. These Holy Spirit will bring the issue before every hon- are the light of the world:- and if it were not for est soul, and the decision for God and eternity will these lights, the judgments of God would imme- be made. Already, we know, hearts are being pre- diately fall upon the transgressors of God's law.' -pared for the reception of the truth in all parts. I saw then these little jets of light growing Away beyond the human missionary's influence brighter, shining forth from the east and the west, God's Spirit is at work. In old colonial days, David from the north and the south, and lighting the Brainerd found among the Indians of the American whole world. Occasionally one of these lights forests one whose heart had been touched by the would begin to grow dim, and others would go out, Great Spirit, and whose life had been changed, so and every time this occurred there was sadness that he loved all men and sought to teach his tribes- and weeping in heaven. And some of the light! men the way of love. Down in the wilds of the would grow brighter and brighter, and their bright- Guianas, the early Moravian missionaries to South ness was far-reaching, and many more lights were America one day found a man who unmistakably added to it. Then there was rejoicing in heaven. had been taught of the Spirit the way of seeking I saw that the rays of light came directly from Jesus, God. When he first heard the name of Jesus, he to form these precious jets of light in the world." exclaimed at once that this was the Way of salva- When darkness that might be felt hung over tion of which he had learned in his solitude before Egypt, " all the children of Israel had light in their ever a missionary had penetrated to his land. He GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN. 569 eagerly drank in the truth in its fullness, and became In Japan, India, and the East Indies, another himself a teacher. The world is large, but God four hundred millions of people are sitting in dark- is sending breath moment by moment to every ness and the shadow of death. Light has sprung soul in it. He is speaking by his Spirit to every up in a few places. Enough has been done in heart. The life of Christ is lighting every man Japan and India, and down in the Malay Straits to that cometh into the world. There are no distant show that God and the good angels are there before lands with God. All alike are close to his heart us, so that wherever we plant the jets of light other of love. lights spring up and multiply. So, too, is it in Definitely and perseveringly, we are to pray the Jaffa and Jerusalem, and in Galatia and Bithynia, Lord of the harvest to send forth laborers into his and the regions round about, where the feet of the harvest. apostolic missionaries sped swiftly with the gospel Pray for more laborers in Europe, the mother of message long ago. If only twenty years ago we modern nations. Four hundred millions of souls, had sent a score of true and tried workers into these representing mighty empires, face the little band of populous eastern lands, to occupy strategic centers, our workers now in that field. The ground of men and women with the languages might now have Europe shakes with the tread of armed men. Mil- been ready to lead a host of recruits into the fields. lions are drilled for battle, waiting only for the sig- How different would the outlook be to-day, if this nal. The winds of -strife have been held these many had been done! But now let us do the work. In years in order that this message might be carried South and Central America, Mexico, and the islands by an army of workers through these waithig coun- of the sea, our missionaries look out upon vast tries. Oh, the pity of it! that we have done so little regions beyond the influence of their present efforts. in all, and have left great nations like France, Spain, We are only beginning, but the end is in sight. Italy, and Portugal almost, if not quite, untouched. The whole harvest field is within our reach. The It is, in truth, high time to awake out of sleep. world, big as it is, is only a little, wandering, shad- Pray also for Africa. Now -lot a long time in owed planet in God's bright universe. Heaven the South, the believers in Africa have been expe- has come down to lead it once again back to the riencing the full meaning of the fact that work fold. We must go and tell the whole world about not done in times of peace is done at great disad- it, for the time, even the set time, is come. One vantage amidst the alarms and the horrors of war. may get to almost any point on earth in six or And beyond the colonial borders, nearly two hun- eight weeks from London or New York. The dred millions of souls in the Dark Continent are world is open before us. Nothing need hinder fill- groping in blindness. Jets of light are shining ing the whole earth with the sound of this message out in lone spots, along the southern, western, and, within a few years of glorious missionary service. northern borders. Shall not many more be added? Few as our stations now are, they surround the Populous Asia, with its eight hundred and fifty world, as Gideon's little band, widely extended, millions of wandering hearts, lays heavy claims surrounded the camp of Midian. Strong re-enf orce- upon out prayerful sympathies. China's four hun- ments at each station and a world-wide, united move- dred millions have had little of our effort — one ment forward, and steadily forward, and the battle worker, thus far, in a seaport town. Think of it! is won. " The Lord hath made bare his holy arm A little band of pioneer missionaries is soon to go in the eyes.of all the nations; and all the ends of out to represent us in beginning at this late day a the earth shall see the salvation of our God." It really serious campaign in that great land through is the same arm that in the days of old made a way which the message must be sounded : — through the sea where there was no way. God's " And ye who cannot go, oh ! help command is itself the way of performance. Again With the wondrous weapon, prayer; While ye uplift your hands at home, his command rings out from heaven to his march- The cross shall triumph there. ing hosts on earth, " Speak unto the children of And give ye freely from your store Israel that they go forward!" A restless sea of To the warriors in the field; ' The more you give, to you the more humanity lies between us and a finished work. Barrel and cruise shall yield. Right forward into its opened pathway, we are to So only can you cleanse your hands march in faith. From the guiltiness of blood! For a million a month in China The world is so needy that even though the Are dying without God !" world-crisis before us did not urge us on, no one 570 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN. having a sense of the need could help but hasten to remember that our neighbor is the one who most out to its relief. needs our sympathy and help. Our neighbor is Read the whole of that stirring missionary psalm, every soul who is wounded and bruised by the ad- the ninety-sixth, calling us now to sing unto the Lord versary. Our neighbor is every one who is the a new song, to declare his glory among the nations, property of God. In Christ the distinctions made his wonders among all people; to say among the by the Jews as to who was their neighbor are swept nations that the Lord reigneth. The very fields, away. There are no territorial lines, no artificial dedicated to God, rejoice to preach the message distinctions, no caste, no aristocracy. among all nations, " for he cometh, for he cometh Think it not lowering to your dignity to min- to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with ister to suffering humanity. Look not with indif- righteousness and the people with his truth." ference and contempt upon those who have laid the This is the call to go to all nations. temple of the soul in ruins. These are objects of Then read the ninety-eighth psalm as the song divine compassion. He who created all, cares for of victory, when the work of witnessing is done. all. Even those who have fallen the lowest are " 0 sing unto the Lord a new song; for he hath not beyond the reach of his love and pity. If we done marvelous things: his right hand, and his are truly his disciples, we shall manifest the same holy arm, hath gotten him the victory. spirit. The love that is inspired by our love for " The Lord hath made known his salvation : his Jesus will see in every soul, rich or poor, a value righteousness hath he openly showed in the sight that cannot be measured by human- estimate. Let of the nations. your life reveal a love that is higher than you can " He hath, remembered his mercy and his truth possibly express in words. toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth Often the hearts of men will harden under re- have seen the salvation of our God." buke, but they cannot withstand the love expressed Let us take up the song of missionary service toward them in Christ. We should bid the shiner given in the ninety-sixth psalm, and the joy of not to feel himself an outcast from God. Bid the singing the triumphant ninety-eighth will soon be sinner look to Christ, who alone can heal the soul ours. leprous with sin. Reveal to the desperate, dis- The call to-day is for one thouSand missionaries. couraged sufferer that he is a prisoner of hope. Let They are wanted now at the front. Pray God to your message be, " Behold the Lamb of God, which send them forth speedily. W. A. SPICER. taketh away the sin of the world." I have been instructed that the medical mis- sionary work will discover, in the very depths of OUR DUTY. degradation, men who, though they have given themselves up to intemperate, dissolute habits, will Reading for Tuesday, December 24. respond to the right kind of labor. But they need to be recognized and encouraged. Firm, patient, In the invitation to the gospel supper, the Lord earnest effort will be required in order to lift them Jesus has specified the work to be done —the up. They cannot restore themselves. They may work that the churches in every locality, north, hear Christ's call, but their ears are too dull to take south, east, and west, should do. in its meaning; their eyes are too blind to see any- The churches need to have their eyes anointed thing good in store for them. They are dead in with the heavenly eyesalve, that they may see the trespasses and sins. Yet even these are not to be many opportunities all about them to minister for excluded from the gospel feast. They are to re- God. Repeatedly God has called upon his people ceive the invitation, " Come." Though they may to go out into the highways and hedges, and compel feel unworthy, the Lord says, " Compel them to men to come, in, that his house may be full; yet come in." Listen to no excuse. By lhve and kind- even within the shadow of our own doors are fam- ness lay right hold of them. " Ye, beloved, building ilies in which we have not shown sufficient interest up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in to lead them to think that we cared for their souls. the Holy Ghost, keep yourselves in the love of It is this work lying nearest us that the Lord now God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus calls upon the church to undertake. We are not to Christ unto eternal life. And of some have com- stand, saying, "Who is my neighbor ? " We are passion, making a ,difference; and others save with

GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN. 571 fear, pulling them out of the fire." Jude 20-23. cated and trained to do the work required in selling Press home upon the conscience the terrible results the books upon present truth which the people need. of the transgression of God's law. Show that it is There is need of men of deep Christian experience, not God who causes pain and suffering, but that men of well-balanced minds, strong, well-educated man through his own ignorance and sin has brought men to engage in this work. The Lord desires this condition upon himself. those to take hold of the canvassing work who are This work, properly conducted, will save many capable of educating others, who can awaken in a poor sinner who has been neglected by the promising young men and women an interest in churches. Many not of our faith are longing for this line, leading them to take up the book-work the very help that Christians are in duty bound to and ,handle it successfully. Some have the talent, give. If God's people would show a genuine inter- education, and experience which would enable them est in their neighbors, many would be reached by to educate the youth for the canvassing work in the special truths for this time. Nothing will or such a way that much more would be accomplished ever can give character to the work like helping the than is now being done. people just where they are. Thousands might to- Those who have gained an experience in this day be rejoicing in the message, if those who claim work have a special duty to perform in teaching to love God and keep his commandments would others. Educate, educate, educate young men and work as Christ worked. women to sell the books which the Lord by his When the medical missionary work thus wins Holy Spirit has stirred his servants to write. God men and women to a saving knowledge of Christ desires us to be faithful in educating those who and his truth, money and earnest labor may safely accept the truth, that they may believe to a purpose, be invested in it for it is a work that will endure. and work intelligently in the Lord's way. Let Every church member should feel it his special inexperienced persons be connected with experi- duty to labor for those living in his neighborhood. enced workers, that they may learn how to work. Study how you can best help those who take no Let them seek God most earnestly. These may do interest in religious things. As you visit your a good work in canvassing if they will obey the .friends and neighbors, show an interest in their words, " Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doc- spiritual as well as in their temporal welfare. Pre- trine." I Tim. 4: 16. Those who give evidence sent Christ as a sin-pardoning Saviour. Invite your that they are truly converted, and who take up the neighbors to your home, and read with them from canvassing work, will see that it is the best prepa- the precious Bible and from books that explain its ration for other lines of missionary labor. truths. This, united with simple songs and fervent There is no higher work than evangelistic can- prayers, will touch their hearts. Let 'church mem- vassing; for it involves the performance of the bers educate themselves to do this work. This highest moral duties. Those who engage in this is just as essential as to save the benighted souls work need always to be under the control of the in foreign countries. While some feel the burden Spirit of God. There must be no exalting of self. of souls afar off, let the many who are at home feel What have any of us that we did not receive the burden of precious souls around them, and work from Christ? We must love as brethren, revealing just as diligently for their salvation. our love by helping one another. We must be piti- We are to be channels of light to the world, ful and courteous. We must press together, draw- imparting to others the light we receive from the ing in even cords. Only those who live the prayer great Light-Bearer. The words and works of all of Christ, working it out in practical life, will stand men are to be tried. Let us not be backward now. the test that is to come upon all the world. Those That which is to be done in warning the world must who exalt self place themselves in Satan's power, be done without delay. Let not the canvassing preparing to receive his deceptions. The word of work be left to languish. Let the books containing the Lord to his people is that we lift the standard the light on present truth be placed before as many higher and still higher. If we obey his voice, he as possible. will work with us, and our efforts will be crowned The presidents of our conferences and Others with success. In our work we shall receive rich in responsible positions have a duty to do in this blessing from on high, and shall Iay up treasure matter,, that the different branches of our work may 'beside the throne of God. - receive equal attention. Canvassers are to be edu- A great and important work is before us. The

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enemy of souls realizes this, and he is using every The vineyard includes the whole world, and means in his power to lead the canvasser to take every part of it is to be worked. There are places up some other line of work. This order of things which are now a moral wilderness, and these are to should be changed. God calls the canvassers back become as the garden of the Lord. The waste to their work. He calls for volunteers who will places of the earth are to be cultivated, that they put all their energies and enlightenment into the may bud and blossom as the rose. New territories work, helping wherever there is opportunity. The are to be worked by men inspired by the Holy Ghost. Master calls for every one to do the part given him New churches must be established, new congrega- according to his ability. Who will respond to the tions organized. At this time there should be repre- call? Who will go forth to labor in wisdom 'and sentatives of present truth in every city, and in grace and the love of Christ for those nigh and the remote parts of the earth. The whole earth afar off? Who will sacrifice ease and pleasure, is to be illuminated with the glory of God's truth. And enter the places of error, superstition, and dark- The light is to shine to all lands and all peoples. ness, working earnestly and perseveringly, speak- And it is from those who have received the light ing the truth in simplicity, praying in faith, doing that it is to shine forth. The day-star has risen house-to-house labor? Who at this time will go upon us, and we are to flash its flight upon the forth without the camp, imbued with the power of pathway of those in darkness. the Holy Spirit, bearing reproach for Christ's sake, Certain countries have advantages that mark opening the Scriptures to the people, and calling them as centers of education and influence. In them to repentance? the English-speaking nations and the Protestant God has his workmen in every age. The call of nations of Europe it is comparatively easy to find the hour is answered by the coming of the man. access to the people, and there are many advantages Thus when the divine voice cries, " Whom shall I for establishing institutions and carrying forward send, and who will go for us?" the response will our work. In some ,other lands, such as India and come, " Here am I ; send me." Isa. 6: 8. Let all China, the workers must go through a long course who labor effectually in the canvassing field feel in of education before the people can understand them, their hearts that they are doing the work of the or they the people. And at every step there are Lord in ministering to souls who know not the great difficulties to be encountered in the work. truth for this time. They are sounding the note In America, Australia, England, and some other of warning in the highways and byways to pre- European countries, many of these impediments pare a people for the great day of the Lord, which do not exist. America has many institutions to is so soon to break upon the world. We have no give character to the work. Similar facilities time to lose. We must encourage this work. should be furnished for England, Australia, Ger- Who will go forth now with our publications? The many, and Scandinavia, and other continental coun- Lord imparts a fitness for the work to every man tries as the work advances. In these countries the and woman who will co-operate with divine power. Lord has able workmen, laborers of experience. All the requisite talent, courage, perseverance, faith, These can lead out in the establishment of institu- and tact will come as they put the armor on. A tions, the training of workers, and the carrying great work is to be done in our world, and human forward of the work in its different lines. God agencies will surely respond to the demand. The designs that they shall be furnished with means world must hear the warning. When the call and facilities. The institutions established would comes, " Whom shall I send, and who will go for give character to the work in these countries, and us? " send back the answer clear and distinct, " Here would give opportunity for the training of work- am I; send me." ers for the darker heathen nations. In this way God's people have a mighty work before them, the efficiency of our experienced workers would be a work that must continually rise to greater prom- multiplied a hundredfold. inence. Our efforts in missionary lines must be- There is a great work to be done in England. come far more extensive. A more decided work The light radiating from London should beam than has been done must be done prior to the second forth in clear, distinct rays to regions beyond. God appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ. God's people has wrought in England, but this English-speaking are not to cease their labors until they shall-encircle world has been terribly neglected. England has the world. needed many more laborers and much more means. GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN. 573

London has been scarcely touched. My heart is extended; as souls are brought to the truth, and deeply moved as the situation in that great city churches are established, there will be increasing is presented before me. It pains me to think that financial strength. Soon these churches will be greater facilities are not provided for the work able not only to carry on the work in their own throughout Europe. I have sore heartache as I borders, but to impart to other fields. Thus the think of the work in Switzerland, Germany, Nor- burden resting on the home churches will be shared. way, and Sweden. Where there are one or two The home-missionary work will be farther ad- men struggling to carry forward the different vanced in every way when a more liberal, self- branches of the cause, there should be hundreds at denying, self-sacrificing spirit is manifested for the work. In the city of London alone no fewer than prosperity of foreign missions; for the prosperity one hundred men should be engaged. The Lord of the home work depends largely, under God, upon marks the neglect of his work, and there will be a the reflex influence of the evangelical Work done in heavy account to settle by and by. countries afar off. It, is in working actively to If the workers in America will impart to others supply the necessities of the cause of God that we of their great mercies, they will see prosperity in bring our souls in touch with the Source of, all England. They will sympathize with the workers power. who are struggling with difficulties there, and will An American business man, who was an earnest have the heart to say, not only in word but in action, Christian, in conversation with a fellow worker, re- " All ye are brethren." Matt, 23 : 8. They will marked that he himself worked for Christ twenty- see a great work done in London, all through the four hours of the day. " In all my business rela- cities of England, and throughout the different tions," he said, " I try to represent my Master. As I European countries. have opportunity, I try to win others to Him. All God calls upon us to push the triumphs of the day I am working for Christ. And at night, while cross in Australia. New fields are opening. For., I sleep, I have a man working for Him in China." want of workers and money the work has been Why should not the members of a church, or hindered; but it must be hindered no longer. Of of several small churches, unite to sustain a mis- all countries, Australia most resembles America. sionary in foreign fields? If they will deny them- All classes of people are there. And the warning selves of selfish indulgences, dispense with needless message has not been presented and rejected. There and hurtful things, they can do this. Brethren and are thousands of honest souls praying for light. sisters, will you not help in this work? I beseech God's watchmen are to stand on the walls of Zion, you to do something for Christ, and to do it now. and to give the warning, " The morning cometh, Through the teacher whom your money shall sus- and also the night,"— the night wherein no man can tain in the field, souls may be saved from ruin, to work. While the angels are holding the four winds, shine as stars in the Redeemer's crown. the message is to enter every field in Australia as Let us rejoice that the work which God can ap- fast as possible. prove has been done in these fields. In the name The strengthening of the work in these Eng- of the Lord, let us lift up our voices in praise and lish-speaking countries will give our laborers a thanksgiving for the results of the work abroad. hundredfold more influence than they have had to And still our General, who never makes a mis- plant the standard of truth in many lands. take, says to us, " Advance. Enter new territory. While we are trying to work these destitute Lift up the standard in every land. 'Arise, shine; fields, the cry comes from far-off countries, " Come for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is over and help us." These are not so easily reached, risen upon thee." and not so ready for the harvest, as are the fields Our watchword is to be, Onward, ever onward. more nearly within our sight; but they must not be The angels of God will go before us to prepare the neglected. way. Our burden for the " regions beyond " can Our brethren have not discerned that in helping never be laid down until the whole earth shall be to advance the work in foreign fields, they would lightened with the glory of the Lord. be helping the work at home. That which is given MRS. E. G. WHITE. to start the work in one field, will result in strength- ening the work in other places. As the laborers are Read Luke 10: 25-37; 14 : 12-24; Matt: 28: freed from embarrassment, their efforts can be 18-20; 14; Isa. 6o: 1-3. 574 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN.

OUR DANGER. velous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of Reading for Wednesday, December as. their prudent men shall be hid." Now when was this prophecy given? and what HISTORY repeats itself. The same tendency to events were facing God's people when Isaiah the depart from God's word; the same slowness to prophet came to them with this message? It was heed his message; the same stubbornness of heart about 712 B. c. when this prophecy was given, and rising up against God, bring about, over and over this was a little over a century before the people again, the same experiences in this history of the were carried into Babylonish captivity, in the time great controversy between Christ and Satan. When of Daniel; and the causes which led to that Baby- we can see in the light of God's word these repeated lonish captivity were working then. The people cycles of history, see what led to these experiences, had departed from the true worship of God, al- and what delivered God's people from these expe- though keeping up-with great tenacity all the forms riences, we may learn lessons for the present. and ceremonies. But God rebuked them through We shall now consider three occasions when the this same prophet, and said that their sacrifices, same set of circumstances have led to the same ex- and oblations, and prayers, and services were a , periences, and we shall, note what has been the burden to him, and he was weary with bearing nature of the message that has been delivered in them, and would have no more of them. And every case. why ?— Because while clinging to the outward The three occasions are these:— ceremonies, they had left out of those ceremonies I. That period in the history of God's people and the only thing \ that made them of any value in God's work just previous to the time when his people were sight. carried down into Babylonish captivity. What did the sacrifices mean if they were not the 2. That period of time just before the destruction sacrifices of a broken and contrite heart? What of Jerusalem. did the oblations mean if they were not giving them- 3. The present hour. selves? God has not changed. The heart is what In the thirteenth chapter of the book of Acts, we he seeks for. He will be king, and will rule even have, at least, a brief outline of a talk which Paul, the thoughts of the heart. When the heart is far the apostle, gave at Antioch in Pisidia, on the first from him, outward forms, motions of the body missionary tour. He began with the experience of •merely, are a mockery in his sight. the children of Israel in being called out of Egypt, This is why he began these messages. And in called attention briefly to some points in history, this first message through Isaiah more than a cen- then brought them down to the first coming and tury before the captivity of Babylon, he simply the teaching, the death and resurrection of Christ; said, " I will work a work; and it will be a mar- and he closed with these words (vs. 38-41) : "Be velous work; and the reason of it will be because it known unto you, therefore, men and brethren, this people's heart has departed from me." And that through this man is preached unto you the yet the people went on in the same way, and heeded forgiveness of sins: and by him all that believe are not these messages of warning and reproof. And justified from all things, from which ye could not nearly a century later, about twenty years before be justified by the law of Moses. Beware therefore, the overthrow of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the and the carrying away of the people into captivity, prophets; Behold, ye despisers, And wonder, and Habakkuk, the prophet, takes up the same strain. perish; for I work a work in your days, a work After the prophet has inquired of the Lord why which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man it is that he brings before him scenes of violence declare it unto you." and strife, and keeps these pictures before his mind, By what prophets was this spoken? First by the Lord replies : " Behold ye among the heathen, the prophet Isaiah (29:13, : " Wherefore the and regard, and wonder marvelously; for I ,wilt Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me work a work in your days." with their mouth, and with their lips do honor Now the message is that it will come in the days me, but have removed their heart far from me, and of the very people to whom he is speaking. their fear toward me is taught by the precept of " Behold, . . . I will work a work in your days, men. therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a mar- which ye will not believe, though it be told you." GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN. 575

What does he say that work is ? — " For, lo, I raise the service went on again, and a new cycle of his- up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which tory began; and now we have come to the time of shall march through the breadth of the land, to the first advent; and what are the circumstances? possess the dwelling places that are not theirs." — The very same thing over again. Forms and : 5, 6. ceremonies, the outward temple beautifully / dec- Only twenty years from the time of this prophecy, orated, the service very elaborate, the people like Jerusalem was taken captive, and part of the vessels whited sepulchers. of the house of God were carried down to Babylon; And when Christ came to teach the people the some of the princes also, Daniel and his companions truth, when he swept aside their traditions, their among them. human inventions, they looked upon him with Then Nebuchadnezzar took control of the affairs horror, and they thought he was overthrowing all in Jerusalem; and that was speedily followed by a religion; but he was doing nothing of the kind. further steady downfall, until in the time of Zede- They had lost religion out of their hearts, out of ' kiah, when the city was destroyed, the temple was their experiences. They were trusting in forms burned, and the vessels were taken away from the and ceremonies, saying, This is God's temple. Had house of God, and the people were carried off to a he not wrought for its rebuilding? Had he not strange land. And why? — Just for one simple prophesied concerning it? And so right in the very reason: They had lost their religion; they had lost courts of the temple, they practiced robbery, and the message God had given them; that message of deceit, and fraud, and built themselves up* in it, heart working, that message of life working within; because it was done within the precincts of the and they had come to look upon Jerusalem, the city temple. and the temple and its outward services, as religion. Christ came to do his work of teaching the truth, Then they multiplied forms and ceremonies; then sweeping aside these things that were of no account they prided themselves on the tenacity with which whatever, to bring men back to the one simple thing, they held to those forms, while the life, the power, — faith in a personal Saviour from sin ; that no the religion, had all gone out of them. form, no ceremony, no kind of ritual, no building And in order that their eyes and their experience — nothing — could take the place of the personal, might be turned from the outward and the visible, individual faith in the forgiving grace of Jesus in which there is no power to save, to the inward Christ. life, the power within, God let a train of circum- Now see how their rejection of his message is stances follow that resulted in the overthrow of stated in this thirteenth chapter of the book of Acts, the city and the temple, and put a stop to all the twenty-eighth verse and onward: " And though' outward service, and allowed the enemies of God's they found no cause of death in him, yet desired people to carry off the very vessels consecrated to they Pilate that he should be slain. And when divine service in God's temple; and the people they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they themselves were carried away as captives, because took him down from the tree, and laid, him in a they had lost the freedom of the gospel of salvation, sepulcher. But God raised him from th,e dead: and because they had been for a long time captives and he was seen many days of them which came of sin. up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his And what is the message that was to deliver witnesses unto the people. And we declare unto them? — The same message that Paul preached in you glad tidings, how that the promise which was his day, and the same message that is to be preached made unto the fathers, God has fulfilled the same in this day. Let us look at the next step. unto' us their children, in that he hath raised' up After Jerusalem was destroyed, the temple Jesus again; as it is also written in the second burned, the vessels carried away, the people made psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten captives by that visitation, because of their sins, thee. they returned unto God with repentance and con- "And as concerning that he raised him up frorn fession. And Daniel's prayer in the ninth chapter the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he of Daniel is the breathing out of the confession of said on this 'wise, I will give you the sure mercies. , the people in captivity. And God sent them a of David. Wherefore he saith also in another message of deliverance, and they were delivered. psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to The city was rebuilt, the temple was restored, see corruption. For David, after he had served his 576 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN.

own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, dared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption: to take out of them a people for his name. And to hut he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption. this agree the words of the prophets; as it is writ- " Be it known unto you therefore, men and breth- ten, After this I will return, and will build again ren, that through this man is preached unto you the the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and forgiveness of sins: and by him all that believe are I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set justified from all things, from which ye could not it up; that the residue of men might seek after the be justified by the law of Moses." Lord, . . who doeth all these things." Acts 15: And upon what does it all turn? — Upon the 14-17. power of the endless life to deliver from corruption; The building up of ancient Jerusalem was simply so that he saw no corruption, in that he was raised the object-lesson of history. The building up of from the dead. And so he said, Because of this,— the temple again was simply the object-lesson of because of this power of the endless life revealed in history, to teach us the truth, the reality, of these this man Christ Jesus, there is justification to every things. one who believes in his power to justify from all What built up Jerusalem at the first? What things from which he could not be justified by the delivered them from Babylon, and brought them law of Moses. there to carry out God's instruction and to rebuild Then what was the warning? — " Beware, there- the city? — It was that message which was given fore, lest that come upon you which was spoken of to Habakkuk the prophet. And what was the-mes- in the prophets,"— lest that same experience be re- sage? "And the Lord answered me, and said, Write peated. When was this spoken? — About A. D. 40. the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he What was looming up then before the history of may run that readeth it. For the vision is yet for that people? — It was the overthrow of Jerusalem an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, again. And the nation, as a nation, as a people, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it: because heeded not the warning, did not take to heart the it will surely come, it will not tarry. Behold, Ins - lesson of this history, and A. D. 7p Titus came with soul which is filled up is not upright in •him : but the Roman army, and Jerusalem was again de- the just shall live by his faith." stroyed, the temple was again burned; everything And that was the message that was to be made outward and visible was taken away from that peo- so plain, engraved upon tables, that the object-lesson ple, and that nation was scattered abroad. might stand out before the people. The one thing That same cycle of history has been repeated. to be taught was this life, life; not place, not cere- Now we are dealing with Jerusalem just the same, mony, not creed, but life, and that life through a and we are dealing with Babylon just the same. personal faith in the Life-giver, and in him who is But to make the distinction, we are dealing with the life. And that was the message which was to the Jerusalem of which ancient Jerusalem was the call them up out of -Babylon, and bring them into type, and we are dealing with modern Babylon, of their own land again, that they might build the which ancient Babylon was the type; and to-day city, and they did it. we stand in the same place; this third time now, After the centuries of falling away, and of and the last time, God's people are brought face to darkness, and of the losing of that message,—this face again with these same set of circumstances, period of the dark ages through which this world and he has preserved this warning for us, and he has passed,— there began to shine out, in the six- sends it to us now: "Beware, lest that come upon teenth century, a light that would lead the people you which was spoken of in the prophets: Behold, out of darkness. And what was the keynote of ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a that movement? —" The just shall live by faith." work in your days, a work which ye shall in no This was the inspiration and the power of that wise believe, though a man declare it unto you." movement. If that one simple truth had been al- The building up of Jerusalem, and the building lowed to hold its place, the Reformation which of the temple, is simply the gathering of the people. began then could have gone on with unstemmed "The Lord doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth tide, until the earth would have been lightened together the outcasts of Israel." Ps. 147:2. The with its glory, and the kingdom of God would have same truth is more fully stated in the record of the come. But it went backward after a little. And first conference at Jerusalem. " Simeon hath de- why? — For the very sathe reason as of old. In- GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN. 577 stead of facing forward, and- walking in the light all people, to save them from sin, to save them from -the time, they became fearful, turned backward, Babylon, to prepare them for the coming of the inquired for the fathers, began to accept tradition, Lord, if we ourselves do not know the message? and lost the power of their message. God forbid it. The message is so simple. " The But God does not forget his people. And now, just shall live by faith." " Be it known unto you in this century, in fulfillment of the prophecies, therefore, men and brethren, that through this man this movement has been revived. What is the is preached unto you forgiveness of sins; and by principle that is in it? — It is that we should dis- him all that believe are justified from all things, card creed, tradition, human invention, man-made from which ye could not be justified by the law of teachers, the commandments of men, and should Moses." That is the message now. That is the turn simply to the Word of the living God. That message which came to this people thirteen years is the foundation of this work. ago, and it has been held off, and held off, as if it And the moment we slip from that platform, that were not the message; but it is the message, even we are to stand squarely upon, both feet planted though some who have been shutting their eyes to firmly upon the simple Word of God,— when we it, lo, these many years, may never see it clearly. slip from that, we have nothing. How then can this work, and this people be led out So this reform movement, this third angel's mes- of its present confused and discouraged condition? sage, came in to accomplish this work and build God must work. He must put the power on some up Jerusalem — to gather together the outcasts of one who is willing to receive it, who will stand forth Israel, to build up the ruins that are fallen down. and give the message with clearness and lead the The message to do this is just this one simple mes- way out of the confusion and darloiess. sage, The just shall live by faith." Life, truth, Do not think that it will come by a mere change reality, as opposed to any form. Power from on of plan, by change of administration, by a new way high ruling in these mortal bodies, that the life also of doing things. The change that is needed is a of Jesus might be made manifest in this mortal complete change of heart. flesh. When we leave that simple truth out of our Is it not, time for us to take God's message to teaching and experience, we have gone back to our own selves, and to know that he is speaking to where they were in Isaiah's and 'Habakkuk's time us, and means us, and is waiting for a response and in Christ's time; and the same message be- from us? May God give us grace to respond to longs to us which came to them. his message, that he may permit us to accomplish Every one who knows the beginning of this what he desires to accomplish with this people, and movement, knows that there was wondrous power save us from this trouble into which we have fallen, in it, not because they had all the truth which God and lead us out by a strong arm, conquering and proposed to reveal to his people before he came to conquer, that the day of his coming may be has- visibly in the clouds of heaven, but because they tened, and that we may see him as he is, and rest walked in all the light he gave them, rejecting with him in his eternal kingdom. * * * nothing he sent them. Therefore he gave the wit- ness to their message; and souls were converted, OUR PRIVILEGE IN GIVING. not by the power of eloquence, but by the power of the Spirit of God. Reading for Thursday, December 26. That experience will come again by facing toward him who is the Light, and opening the windows of "AND behold, I come quickly; and my reward the soul toward heaven, closing them toward earth, is with me, to give every man according as his listening no more to man and putting the com- work shall be." Rev. 22: 12. mandments of man in the place of the command- The second coming of Christ is one of the most ments of God. precious messages of the gospel. To it the heart There must come one of two things,— a heart clings with longing desires, and once having tasted conversion, a new experience in this message, or no the sweetness of full assurance. " earth's joys grow further attempt merely in form and outward ap- dim, its pleasures pass' away.." pearance to give a message that is not known in the The advent of our Lord has been the hope of soul. God's people since the reign of sin began. Sin How shall we attempt to give a message to a defrauded our first parents of their dominion, and 578 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN.

Satan usurped the throne as earth's sovereign lord. of his Father with his angels; and then he shalt With the knowledge of evil, the heart's cry of reward every man according to his works." Hasten,. God's people has ever been, " Come, Lord Jesus, q glad day, when we shall receive from our come and reign." Earth's long, dark night of woe Saviour's own hands the priceless crown of humor- and bondage in sin pleads most pitifully for the tality! when we can hear from his own lips those kingdom to be restored. Crime and lawlessness, joyful words, -" Well done, good and faithful serv- broken hearts and blighted lives, poverty and pain, ant; . . . enter thou into the joy of thy Lord!' all are petitions for " him to come whose right it when " we shall be as angels are," and the universe is to reign." The vast citadels of the dead in every of God shall be our sphere! when time shall be land and every clime, holding the untold millions eternity, and space shall be no, more. Hasten,. who have fallen before, cry for him to come who hasten, 0 glad day! said, " I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, As we gaze into the vaulted skies on a clear,. behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have dark night, and behold the myriads of worlds above, the keys of hell and of death." and know that they are God's, we can but fancy that Prophet and seer, with the eye of vision, look- in the eternity of the past, Jesus' feet have trod their ing down the ages, have seen the saints in glory shores. We look into the eternity of the future, and Satan's reign forever ended. They have heard and there we behold the saints of God winging the exultant cry, " Lo, this is our God; we have their flights from sphere to sphere. The Captain waited for him, and he will save us: this is the of our salvation leads the way. As he introduces Lord; we have waited for him, we will be glad and the blood-washed throng to the holy, sinless beings, rejoice in his salvation." he says, " These are they which came out of great Isaiah's eye, in seraphic vision, caught a pano- tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made ramie view of the earth made new, and he cried, them white in the blood of the Lamb?! " The wilderness and the solitary place shall be Do you ever pause to think that that great day glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and of rewards is near at hand? Permit me to ask, blossom as the rose. It shall blossom abundantly, How near? Look not at your own needy heart, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory but just take God's Word to settle that question. of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency Where are we now in the fulfillment of the great of Cannel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of lines of the prophecy of Daniel? — Their fulfill- the Lord, and the excellency of our God." ment is nearly completed. Daniel two is waiting What heart has not been thrilled with the prom- only for the great stone to smite the image on the ised inheritance — life, full and complete? " And feet, and to become the great mountain that fills there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor the whole earth. Daniel seven has come and gone, crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for and now we are waiting for the glorious promise, the former things are passed away." " Then the " And the kingdom and dominion, and the great- eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of ness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame be given to the people of the saints of the most man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,. sing : . . And the ransomed of the Lord shall and all dominions shall serve and obey him." The return, and come to Zion with songs and ever- long prophetic period of Daniel eight is all but lasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy past; and we are waiting in the expectation that any and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee year may add the finishing touch to Daniel eleven, away." And he who wrote these promises, when when the next event is the standing up of Michael, he could add no more, cried out, " Men have not and the time of trouble such as never was. heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the Christ's own prophecies leave scarcely anything eye seen, 0 God, beside thee, what he hath pre- to be fulfilled but his own advent. The signs in the pared for him that waiteth for him." sun, and moon, and stars are long since past. Upon All the promised rewards hinge upon our Lord's the earth is distress of nations with perplexity, and return. Death is not the gateway to our inheritance.. the hearts of men failing them for fear and for look- The advent of the Messiah brings the reward. ing after those things which are coming on the earth. " Behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with Only two things in all of Christ's prophecies of his me." " For the-Son of man shall come in the glory advent can yet be future—the shaking' of the GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN. 579 powers of heaveri and " the Son of man coming of us that if we receive from the Lord a reward in the clouds of heaven with power and great for our services, there must be something done. glory." The great question arises then, What can we do Where remains an unfulfilled prediction in all in the Lord's work, so that when he comes he may the writings of the apostles? Is Second Timothy, bring our reward with him? with its long catalogue of sins, ready to be closed? We cannot all go to foreign fields to preach. We Answer for thyself. Does James five demand still are not all qualified for this; nor, if we were, is there more to meet its fulfillment? Is there not enough a sufficiently large fund in the treasury with which heaping together of treasures for the last days? to sustain every Seventh-day Adventist. Some of Revelation comes and goes as quickly and as us must be producers. We can give the earnings surely as the rest. Where are we in these great of our hands, and of our brains, to sustain those chains of prophecy?— Down in the close of chap- who 'have been called of God to labor in a more ters thirteen and fourteen, just between verses thir- public way. teen and fourteen of chapter six. The third angel's There are tremendous demands made upon this message is yet to go with a loud cry, and its warn- people for advanced movements to aggressive work ing notes are yet to sound forth the message against in every field. As surely as the Lord's coming is -worshiping the beast and his image and receiving to be in this generation, just so surely there must 'his mark in the forehead or in the hand, when, lo! be an intense activity on our part such as has never the prophet cries: " And I looked, and behold a characterized the people of God before. There white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto must be an awakening in every church, in every the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, heart, to these great and solemn truths,, and the and in his hand a sharp sickle. . And he that importance of giving this message to the world. sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on ,the earth; Instead, therefore, of enlarging and increasing our and the earth was reaped." borders, adding to our homes, we should study to Thus every chain of prophecy lands us in the economize so that we may have funds with which time of waiting for the advent of our coming Lord. to give to the cause of God. In this last tinie, with There is but one thing yet to be fulfilled, and that this great message, there is an imperative demand is the warning message of Rev. 14: 9-12. This upon every one of us to give all beyond our living is the message which we as a people are to give to sustain this work; to take from this cause the to the world. Every man, woman, and child has smallest amount possible with which to support our- a part in it; and those who go through with the selves and our families, and to give the rest, that people of God must be active workers in rescuing other workers may go into the field and be sus- and saving souls. The whole world is lying in dark- tained. ness, not knowing that the end is upon them. There should be definite planning on the part Busied with the cares of life, drunken with its of every Seventh-day Adventist, both to, produce pleasures, and lured on by sin, they are plunging money and to economize, that he may be able to down into the awful cataract of eternal ruin. God give more for the Lord. One's work is not done has flashed his light into our hearts; he has opened in simply being good, and refraining from evil in to warn the' world concerning his second advent. these last days; but he must be a positive factor in Every Seventh-day Adventist must have a part doing good. He must be a producer in the cause in this great work. How can he receive the reward of God; one who adds strength and energy, hope - from his coming Lord, if there is no service for and confidence, in order that the work of God may which to be rewarded? Says the Master: " Behold, succeed. I come quickly; and my reward is with me." A Sometimes we hear it said, " It is always an reward to come implies a service gone before. True, appeal for money ; " that there are continual calls Cod gives us eternal life; but still, the Lord speaks coming for more funds, and more funds. This is again and again of the reward of his servants for literally true. Calls are continually coming for their faithful performance of duty. If one has more funds, and we suppose that there will be more never sacrificed for God,— has never spent his life and more calls from this time forward until the for others, has never done anything but to live work of the gospel is closed triumphantly. This for himself and his family,— what reward can he has been the case in nearly every generation of expect from the Master? It appeals to every one men. It is impossible for God's work in the earth 580 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN.

to go forward without men and without funds. rendered to the Master that will entitle you to this. Instead of the total annual contributions being but reward? Were you,the judge, and God should say 1 the paltry sum of one hundred thousand dollars to you, " Look at the life of Christ; look at what with which to operate, there should be at least three I have done for you, with all his sufferings, his. hundred thousand dollars this coming year. This want, his poverty, his self-denial, giving up of self; would be but a trifle for every one, if every Seventh- and all for others. Compare your life with his;:. day Adventist would take hold and give liberally to think of all the good, and all the just and righteous. the cause of God. With seventy thousand Sabbath- acts that you have done, and you decide yourself keepers scattered throughout the world, there would upon the reward, the real reward that you should have to be but five dollars per capita to raise three have at the hand of my Son as he appears in the hundred and fifty thousand dollars for mission work. clouds of heaven,"— what would you say? Could Surely, if we believe the Lord's coming is at you say with an honest heart, " I consecrated all, hand, and that we shall not live many more years I gave my life, I gave my children,, I gave what upon this earth in its present condition, we would little I had, whether it were thousands or the all be willing to give, and give more liberally than widow's mite — I freely gave it all, 'as Christ gave- ever before. If we believe the Master's coming his life for me, that others may be saved "? Surely, is at hand, I cannot fancy that we will weary of if we can say this, we can claim a reward at our hearing of calls for funds with which to meet Master's hand. Not that we deserve anything,. openings in which to erect the standard of truth. because when we have done all, we have but done Suppose God should tire of hearing our continual our duty; but because he has promised to reward prayers and petitions for help. Every day we have the one who is faithful to him. to come to him asking him for more —More of My brother, my sister, let us press, the question his grace and loving-kindness, begging his forgive- home to our hearts to-day: " What have I sacri- ness, and confessing our mistakes to him. Should ficed for Christ?" Some, perhaps, can say, " the Master weary of our continual coming and our have sacrificed friendship; I have sacrificed earthly repeated requests, we would all be lost, and there position, social standing." Some can say, " I have- would be no hope for our salvation. But he opens sacrificed of my means ; " and some can say one wide his loving heart, and welcomes us, and re- thing, and some another, undoubtedly; but even ceives every petition, granting us those things that if w e have sacrificed everything that we have ever are, best for us. Seeing that the Lord, in his mercy, had since we came into the world, all that we are, is so good to us, and wearies not with our frequent all that we ever hope to be in this world what is• petitions, when he calls in return for us to sacrifice our sacrifice compared with the Master's? Let us, for our fellow-men, can it be that we shall not my brethren and sisters, during this week of prayer, respond with liberal and joyous hearts? make a sacrifice to God that will bring to us a keen Christ gave himself for us — life, riches, honor, appreciation of the want, the poverty, and the self- and glory. Paul says he beggared himself to en- denial of our blessed Master. Could this people. rich us. Though he was in the form of God, " he but once realize what Christ endured for them, thought it not robbery, or a thing to be eagerly and endeavor to show their love and appreciation held to, to be equal with God, but made himself of this great sacrifice by returning to the Lord a of no reputation, and tasted death for every man." liberal donation, such as will be a real sacrifice, So it seems that in these last days, when the work it would bring to them one of the richest blessings' of God is closing up, with .new fields opening up in their experience. on every side, And a thousand petitions coming Can anything be done to awaken us from our from every land, we as a people ought to bind sleep? What can be said to arouse us from our about us our wants, and liberally sustain the cause lethargy to real, earnest, intense activity in God's of God. Surely, it is the man who sacrifices for work? Surely the dying cries of lost millions ought God here that will receive his reward, if he be faith- to stir our hearts ; surely, the warning message ful to the end. Christ is going to bring his reward which God has committed to us ought to burn in with him, and then he will reward every man ac- our souls; surely, an intrusted message, such as the cording to his work. third angel's, to give to the world ought to lie I would ask this question, and would make a heavily upon our hearts until every soul of us has . personal application of it: What service have you sacrificed his all for Christ. Should we but oncie GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN. 581 realize our great obligation in view of the times in on the farm? Let it be a year of labor for God, which we live, the mission treasury would be liber- making Christ your partner and brother, and God ally supplied; and the work of God in foreign fields your counselor and friend. could be doubled. If we all could only lay hold by faith upon the Let us consecrate, consecrate, consecrate, until promises of God,—that he loves us, and cares for we know that we have consecrated all our powers, us, and will help us,— we certainly would have all our facilities, to God; and let us not fail, at the more wisdom in planning for the advancement .of same time, to consecrate our means to God, and his work. And surely, when we think of the prom- then let us give liberally, as we know will be well ised rewards, the soon coming of the Saviour; pleasing in the sight of our Maker and our Re- that soon this earth, upon which we now tread, will deemer. Not only let us give, but let us sacrifice be a seething mass of molten lava, we can only say in our giving; and, having given as liberally as God that it will pay us well to spend our days in the would have us„— every one of us, individually.— service of God. let us not stop with that, but let us follow our gifts Can we not sing from the 'depths of our inmost with earnest prayers and pleadings with God, that being: — he will accompany the gift with his Spirit and his " When I survey the wondrous cross richest blessings. Let us seek our God earnestly On which the Prince of glory died, My richest gain I count but loss, that he will give blessing and wisdom to those And pour contempt on all my pride. whom he has chosen to distribute of the means given to the needy fields, that it may be used only " See, from his head, his hands, his feet, to the glory of God; let us pray earnestly that the Sorrow and love flow mingled down; Did e'er such love and sorrow meet? schemes of Satan to divert the funds into wrong Or thorns 'compose so rich a crown? channels and to wrong uses may be thwarted, and that as a result there may be an abundant harvest " Since I, who was undone and lost, Have pardon, through his name and word; of souls redeemed from sin and the curse, to the Forbid it, then' that I should boast, eternal praise and glory of God the Father, and Save in the cross of Christ, my Lord. our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. " Were the whole realm of nature mine, Let us consecrate ourselves to the service of God. That were a tribute far too small; It cannot be but that there are some in nearly every Love so amazing, so divine, church who-will be able, by God's help, to go into Demands my life, my soul, my all." some field, there to labor for the salvation of souls. ,[Hymn Book, No 315.] I. H. EVANS. If those in middle life, or more advanced years, cannot go, there are young men and children who are growing up into the cause of God, who must OUR OPPORTUNITY FOR SERVICE. be educated and qualified to take upon themselves service for the Master. Reading for Friday, December 27. This day should be a consecration day — a 'day when we give our hearts anew to God by covenant, BEYOND a shadow of a. doubt the Lord expected by a rededication, by taking hold upon God and his this people to become a medical missionary denom- precious promises, and giving our lives completely ination. The dire necessities of the world about to his service as never before. us constitute our special opportunities. We have We ask, What has come in between you and God? terribly failed in doing what we might have done Has your soul lost its interest in prayer, in the toward beating back the great tide of misery study of God's Word, in the furtherance of his cause that is threatening to engulf the world, for the in the earth? Have you become cold and listless? "whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain Have you thought of binding in your gifts and together until now." Rom. 8: 22. donations, thinking that the cause of God. can get We have had committed to us the knowledge as along well enough without you and your means? to what causes a large share of this pain. Provi- Why not, to-day, come to the Lord with fullness dence has placed within our reach the appropriate of heart, and give him your heart and life and soul, remedies to relieve much of this distress; but thus and make this coming year a year of service for far we have scarcely made ourselves felt in the God, whether it be in the shop, in the ministry, or world, because we have not been awake to our .582 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN.

opportunities. We have compelled the Lord to humanity to continue to drift upon the rocks as move on others outside our people to encourage they are doing at present without a reasonable warn- reforms for humanity in which we ought to have ing. Already, the daily press is loaded with truths been the leaders. There are some reformatory of the same character as those intrusted to us more movements that we have scarcely touched with the than a quarter of a century ago, and the people are ends of our fingers. We are not simply in this being educated; but we might have had an oppor- world to give the people the correct theory of truth, tunity to write these very articles. but also actually to repeat the Master's work when Our health journals are filled with the very truths be walked among men, and went about doing good. that the people need to save them from making We are to accomplish enough goad so that we may physical shipwreck; yet, on this very day, they do add to the sum total of human happiness in the not enter one in twenty of the homes of our people, community where we live. We must get that spirit and the little that is being done for others in each of helpfulness toward humanity which a mother community testifies only too plainly that it is not feels toward her child, and then we shall be will- because this instruction is not needed, but because ing to help others, even if they are not as a result we have not yet become thoroughly aroused upon especially drawn toward the truth. this subject. There ,were twenty-seven million cases of sick- In almost every neighborhood little companies ness in this country last year, many of them fatal. could be gathered together to study the truths that For how many of these deaths has God held us are contained in our health literature, and to ex, responsible? This is a question that we shall soon change ideas as to what each had learned in regard have to face at the bar of God. " To him that to the preservation of health; which is so readily knoweth to do good and doeth it not, to him it is squandered, but so difficult to regain when lost. sin." James 4: 17. It is not difficult to become in- The world is organizing century clubs, health clubs, telligent in regard to what caused the majority of physical culture clubs, but to a large extent they these diseases, for most of them were due to such miss the very principles that we could have given simple everyday things as errors in eating, drink- their' if we had been prepared to lead out in these ing, dressing, and a disturbed state of mind. If very movements. we are really alive upon these questions, then some The gospel command is just as imperative " to one in the community will catch our spirit of en- heal the sick " as it is to proclaim that " the king- thusiasm, and the Lord will put it into his heart dom'of God is at hand; " and there is more genuine to avoid these evils; and as a consequence there healing in preserving a man's health than- there will be fewer funerals in each of our respective is in healing him after he is sick, and it does not neighborhoods in the future than there have been begin to require the same amount of skill. Shall in the past. Is it not better to prevent a man from we not arouse, as one man, and seek to restore dying, than to have the power to raise the same the years which the cankerworm of neglect and man from the grave after he is dead? Yet, Dr. indifference upon this subject has eaten away from Gould, one of the leading physicians in America, us? If we do not, we may rest assured that deliver- recently stated that fully one half the deaths that ance will come from another source; but we will took place last year were wholly preventable. go down in the very destruction from which we If fifty thousand of our people were as brimful have failed to try to save our neighbor. of information as to the preservation of health as Every Seventh-day Adventist family should be it is their privilege to be, there might have been a health school, from which rays of light can reach thousands of men and women alive, and enjoying out to the hearts of all who are willing to receive the opportunities that a life brings in this won- light. Every one of our homes should be a hos- derful age, who to-day are sleeping in the dust. pital, where the sick for whom nobody else will Whether we shall compel the Lord to continue do anything, could be taken, and cared for tenderly to raise up other people to do our missionary until Cod restores them or death claims them. work for us or not, the future alone will reveal. One Every one of our homes should be a community thing is certain, unless we become aroused on this " poorhouse " in the fullest sense of the word; and subject as we have not been in the past, the stones it will be so when Isa. 58:7 is acted out, where will " immediately cry out," and others will do our the people who are especially shedding light on missionary work for us. God will not permit the Sabbath question are exhorted to " bring the GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN. 583 poor that are cast out,"—that is, the undesirable During the last generation the Lord has sent a poor—to their homes. We are to be God's help- flood of light to this people on the subject of proper ing hand. God has no other hand with which to training of children. This was to fit us to fulfill reach suffering humanity, only as he gets an oppor- the prophecy pointed out in Mal. 4: 6, in reference tunity to work through the hands of his children. to the turning of " the, heart of the fathers to the Shall we lock our arms so closely together that children, and the heart of the children to their we shall not have an opportunity to carry out his fathers." The Lord has shown to us that he intended purpose, or shall we begin to do the very things our sisters to gather up this light to prepare them that humanity needs to have done? When we do to attend mothers' meetings, and to take part in this, then we may rest assured that we shall dis- them, or even to organize the same in the com- cover for the first time the exact reason why the munity where they live. But we have let other missionary spirit has been languishing among us as people do this work, and we have not yet become it has, and why God has not been giving us souls recognized as a people who are leading out in the for our hire as in former years. God is bidding us very line that prophecy outlined for us. We never to do our " first work," and he never can trust us can make up for the neglect of the past, but may with the experience in the last half of Isaiah 58 until God help us to become aroused as to the future. we have acted out the first half. Thousands of our We are to "break every yoke," and that includes people are expecting a harvest of blessings for which such galling yokes as the liquor habit, tobacco habit, they have never sown. drug habit, tea and coffee habit, as well as the ter- We are exhorted to deal our bread to the hun- rible bondage of immorality tliat is' settling down gry, and that does not mean merely the tramp and upon the earth like a pall of death. Others about the beggar, but also the rich man who is trying to us have been organizing temperance societies, and satisfy his hunger with unwholesome food that is attempting in a feeble way to accomplish some- not bread. How many of our people might, with thing in the social purity work; while the Spirit of a little careful study and experimentation, prepare God has been exhorting us to lead out in these wholesome and tasty health-food dinners, and then very directions, thus making a way for those not invite some of their business acquaintances to par- of our faith who are interested in these movements take of the good things that God has given to us to stand shoulder to shoulder with us. But, as in this direction. Who can measure the God-given a matter of fact, hundreds of even our largest opportunities that might come to us through this churches are doing nothing in these directions that one channel. Of course it will cost effort and would in' any way suggest to others that we have trouble to do these things; but there will also be received a special God-given commission on this trouble for us in the day of God when we meet subject. If we do not propose to enter into this those whom we have allowed to go down to their field ourselves, we must at least bid, those God- graves without doing anything for them, simply speed who are attempting in imperfect ways to because they were not interested in our literature, accomplish that which we have failed to do. when God expected us to devise other ways of reach- As we labor for the drunkard and the harlot, ing them. even though our efforts do not seem to be crowned We are to clothe the naked, and that is not simply with success, it will result in fitting us to bear a the man or woman who comes to us in tattered real God-given message to those who have not yet garments; for often their sufferings are not com- sunk so low. There are wonderful opportunities parable to the pain and agony that thousands of- which Gad will intrust to us just as soon as he others are enduring from unsuitable clothing. Life sees that we are willing to enter the openings he is an almost unendurable burden to tens of thou- already has provided. sands of women in our land, because of the physical The prisoners are groaning in some of the very disaster that unsuitable clothing has brought to cells that perhaps a little later some of us will oc- them. Does this matter concern us or not? Shall cupy for the truth's sake. What a satisfaction it God continually have to raise up agencies outside will be to us then to know that our hearts reached our denomination to respond to this wail of woe out with an earnest desire to help the prisoner that is coming up from multitudes of invalids who when we had an opportunity. " I was in prison have no idea as to why they are suffering as they and ye visited me," are significant 'words that a are? divine hand would never have traced if they were 584 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN. not to mean something to his children. God has to store for himself. And the virtue and value of a work for our people to do for the prisoners that our stewardship is demonstrated only by our dili- has not yet been done. We may do it, or he will gence in ministering that which we -have received. raise up others to do it. There is a certain class God is the only proprietor; for " all things are of literature that we can send to them. There are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus other places where opportunities can be secured Christ, and hath committed unto us the ministry for holding gospel meetings. The Lord has won- of reconciliation." 2 Cor. 5: 18. Whosoever re- derfully blessed the Life Boat wherever it has gone ceives the reconciliation which, for all, God has in our great prisons; but for lack of the necessary accomplished in Jesus Christ, also in that and at funds it is only now reaching a small number when the same time receives the ministry of that same it might as well reach tens of thousands. Prison reconciliation: "To wit, that God was in Christ wardens and people have written us that the pris- reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing oners sometimes continue to pass this paper from their trespasses unto them; and hath committed cell to cell until it is worn out, and, we know that unto us the word of reconciliation." God has used it for the conversion of many a man Accordingly, it is everlastingly true that every one behind the bars. who has received God's reconciliation is thereby It is to the people who are heeding the admo- made a minister of God, and we are so to exercise nition contained in Isaiah sixtieth chapter and first that ministry that men themselves shall call us the verse, " Arise, shine; for thy light is come," who ministers of our God. And this ministry is to be so will have fulfilled for them the precious promise personal and direct that it shall seem as though contained in the last verse of the same chapter: God himself is present and is making himself " A little one shall become a thousand, and a small known. For is it not written, " Now then we are one a strong nation : I the Lord will hasten it in ambassadors for Christ (personal representatives his time." We have reached the time of which it of the Master), as though God did beseech you by is said, " There shall be delay no longer." Has us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled not the day come when " the Lord shall defend the to God?" inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble In Christ's bodily absence from the world, we among them at that day shall be as David; and the are in Christ's stead, we are in his place, in the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of world, between God and men; so that by us God the Lord before them ; " and, "though ye have lain shall reach men, as, when Jesus was bodily present; among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a by him he reached men. So that literally we are to dove covered with silver, and her feathers with minister God to men, as did Jesus : in us God is to yellow gold "? DAVID PAULSON. meet and to save men, as he did in Jesus in our flesh. In us God is to dwell, to walk, to work, to speak, • OUR PERSONAL SERVICE. as He did in Jesus in our flesh. This is the very certainty of Christian truth ; as it is written : " As Reading ,for Sabbath, December 28. my Father hath sent me, even so send I you." "And we have seen, and do testify that the Father sent " YE shall be named the priests of the Lord: men the Son to be the Saviour of the world." "As he is shall call you the ministers of our God." Isa. 6r : 6. so are we in this world." Such is the only basis Every Christian is called to be a priest of the of our ministry; such is the only material of our Lord, a minister of our God. The life of every ministry; and such only is our ministry in the true Christian is a life of ministry: ministering to world: if our ministry is not that, it is nothing; mankind that which he has received of God. and if our ministry is nothing, then our Christianity " As every man hath received the gift, even so is nothing. minister the same, one to another, as good stewards And so, again, it is written : " The Son of man of the manifold grace of God." I Peter 4: to. The came not to be ministered unto, but to minister." gift of the grace of God, with every particular gift As certainly therefore as we are here " in Christ's of that grace, is given only to be passed on, to be stead," so certainly we are here "not to be min- administered, by the one who has received it. Thus, istered unto, but to minister." As certainly as each one who receives the gift is but a steward, Christ sends us even as the Father sent him, so cer- never a proprietor: he is to dispense to others, never tainly we are here "not to be ministered unto, but GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN. 586

-.to minister." As certainly as it is true that " as he God and Christ. For we are " ministers of God," is, so are we in this world," so certainly we are here and are " ministers of Christ." And this is not "not to be ministered unto, but to minister." And merely ministers sent by God, to minister this, that so certainly therefore we are here only to minister: or the other thing, as we might choose. No: it is ministry is our only work, our only service, our only that we are ministers of God and of Christ, in calling in the world. truth. It is that we are to minister God himself Yet this is only to say that to be true Christians to man. We are so to make God manifest to men is our only work, our only service, our only calling that they shall see him as the loving, pitying Father, in the world. For it is written: " Brethren, ye have merciful, gracious, long-suffering, and abundant been called unto liberty; only use not liberty as an in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another." forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, that That is to say: Christian liberty is Christian service: they shall believe on him and receive him: that we Christian liberty is the liberty to serve one another. shall make them acquainted with him, and join them Not so with the world: there the ambition is to to him in that blessed " perpetual covenant that shall rule, to domineer, to boss, to cause others to serve. not be forgotten." It is that we shall minister " The princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over Christ himself to men: we are so to make Christ them, and they that are great exercise authority manifest to men that they shall recognize him as the upon them. But it shall not be so among you: but tender, sympathizing Saviour, who "bath borne our whosoever will be great among you, let him be your griefs and carried our sorrows," who has taken all minister; and whosoever will be chief among you, our sins and given us all his righteousness; that let him be ybyr servant: even as the Son of man they shall believe on him, and receive him: that we -came not to be ministered unto, but to minister and shall make them acquainted with him, and join them to give his life a ransom for many." to him as that blessed Friend who sticketh closer Thus Christianity is ministry; and there is no than a brother, and who will never leave them nor other. Christian liberty is the liberty to serve; and forsake them. there is no other true liberty. There is no other, These are the elements of our ministry; for we for this itself is a fulfilling of the law: as it is are to minister the gospel, and the gospel is "Christ -written, "Brethren, ye have been called unto liberty: in you the hope of glory : " it is " God with us," only use not your liberty as an occasion to the flesh, " God manifest in the flesh." but by love serve one another. For all the law And in being thus ministers of God and of Christ, [of love] is fulfilled in this one word, Thou shalt we are, in the nature of things, ministers of all that love thy neighbor as thyself." That is to say, Chris- is in them,— the grace, the power, peace, the joy, tianity is ministry: Christian liberty is service: it is the righteousnes's, the glory, oh, even "all the full- the liberty by love to serve one another. And the ness," of God; all of which is summed up in the exercise of that liberty is the fulfillment of that one word Life, eternal life, the life of God, royal law, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. through Jesus Christ our Lord. For mankind are And that is a fulfilling of all of the law of God, alienated [estranged, separated] from the life of " in one word." And thus, in this blessed Christian God." But in his love and in his pity, God gave to liberty of ministry and service, there is attained mankind his own life, even eternal life, through the purpose and the pinnacle of, the third angel's Christ. message,—" Here are they that keep the command- These are the elements of our ministry. And in ments of God, and the faith of Jesus." order to minister these, we must have them: we must That is our calling. have God manifest in our individual flesh; we must And now to fulfill that calling, to make our calling have Christ in our individual selves, the hope of effective, we must have the elements of that Chris- glory to us; we must have in our own individual tian ministry, of that liberty of service. We are to hearts and lives the grace of God, the power of minister something to persons. We are to put into God, the peace of God, the joy of the Lord, the their lives something that was not there before. righteousness of God, the glory of God,— oh, even We cannot minister what we do not have. There- " all the fullness of God: " all summed up in one fore, it is first of all essential that we have the ele- word Life,— eternal life, the life of God. We are ments of this ministry. to be so connected with the Fountain of life, the What then are the elements of our ministry? — life of God, that we shall stand between the living 586 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN.

God and dead men to minister to men the life of is only thus that we can be a peculiar, a separated Gad, eternal life: holding forth the word of life: people. And ye are a peculiar, a separated people: being ourselves means of connecting dead men with so separated, so made peculiar, expressly that ye the life of God. should show forth, that ye should minister, the vir- These being the elements of our ministry, and tues, the character, the attributes, and thus the it being all-essential that these elements shall be in praises of him who has separated you by calling you, our own individual lives, there must of necessity be out of darkness into his marvelous light; there to an efficient means of this ministry. Ah! this also dwell, as he is in the light, in divine fellowship one is-fully supplied: "As my Father hath sent me, even with another, the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, so send I you. Receive ye the Holy Ghost." cleansing us from all sin. " Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and This is our priesthood, our ministry. peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope In old time, when men were inducted into the through the power of the Holy Ghost." And " the priesthood, there were three steps in the process, fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, each in its order, each essential to the next, and all gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance," essential to the ministry: without any one of these — Oh ; it is all the fullness of God, for the divinely no man could, exercise the office and ministry of the recorded prayer is that ye be " strengthened with priesthood. might by his Spirit in the inner man, that Christ First, there must be a change of raiment: the may dwell in your hearts by faith . . . that ye common garments of daily life must all be laid aside, might be filled with all the fullness of God." and " holy garments "— garments made at the ex- And so, " ye are a chosen generation, a royal press direction of the Lord, and under the guidance priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people, that of the Spirit of Wisdom—" for gtlory and for ye should show forth the praises [virtues, margin] beauty " must be put upon each one who was to be of him who hath called you out of darkness into his a priest. marvelous light." Secondly, they must be anointed with oil; the Ye are a chosen generation chosen to show forth holy anointing oil was put upon them,—" the pre- the virtues, the character, the attributes, and thus cious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the praises, of him who hath called you out of dark- the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to ness into his marvelous light. the skirts of his garments." Ye are a royal, a kingly, priesthood, anointed to Thirdly, they must be consecrated: that is, their show forth, to minister, the virtues, the character, hands must be filled with the elements of their- the attributes, and thus the praises of him who hath priesthood and ministry; for to consecrate is to called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. fill the hand. Ye are a holy nation: a nation in whom God We are now in the time when God is making his dwells, a nation who are partakers of the divine na- people a royal priesthood, indeed, when he is actually ture,— partakers of the divine virtues, the divine inducting us into that divine priesthood and its character, the divine attributes,— ye are thus made ministry. a holy nation, expressly to show forth, to minister, He first sent to all his people in all the world the the holy virtues, the holy character, of the divine blessed message of the righteousness of God which nature of him who hatli called you out of darkness is by faith of Jesus Christ — the changing of rai- into his marvelous light. ment, from the filthy rags of our own works, our Ye are a peculiar people: a peculiar, a separated, iniquity, our own righteousness, to the beautiful people, because of the abiding presence of him garments of the royal priesthood, the garments of whose presence makes holy, and so separates from salvation, the white robes of his own pure and per- all the other people that are upon the face of the fect righteousness: teaching every one to say with. earth. As it is written: " Wherein shall it be known glad; free heart: " I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, here, that I and thy people have found grace in thy and my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath sight? Is it not in that thou goest with us? So clothed me with the garments of salvation, he haat [in this way] shall we be separated, I and thy peo- covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a ple, from all the people that are upon the face of bridegroom decketh himself as a priest with orna- the earth." It is God with us, God going with us, ments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her God abiding with us, God manifest in our flesh—it jewels." GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN. 587

He next sent to all his people in all the world the " The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; twice blessed message, " Receive ye the Holy Because the Lord hath anointed me to preach Ghost "— receive the holy anointing unto the royal good tidings unto the meek; priesthood, the holy anointing poured abundantly, He hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted; even without measure, upon every one who is To proclaim liberty to the captives, and the open- clothed with the holy garments of the salvation and ing of the prison to them that are bound; righteousness of God, poured upon the head and To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and going down to the very border of the holy garments. the day of vengeance of our God; And now, to-day, while it is called to-day, he To comfort all that mourn; sends to all his people in all the world the thrice To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give blessed message, "Fill the hand:" fill the hands them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, full and quickly with the elements of the ministry the garments of praise for the spirit of heaviness; of God in your royal priesthood. Consecrate your That they might be called trees of righteousness, service this day unto the Lord. Fill the hand, even the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified." with " all the fullness of God," and, as priests of And in this blessed course, " ye shall be named the Lord and ministers of God, go out iguickly and the priests of the Lord: men shall call you the min- everywhere in all the world, showing forth, min- isters of our God ; " and " for your shame you shall istering, the virtues, the character, the attributes of have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in p God: ministering the grace of God, the power of their portion: therefore in their land they shall Cod, the peace of God, the joy of the Lord, the possess the double: everlasting joy shall be upon - righteousness, the glory of God — oh, ministering them. And their seed shall be known among the all the fullness of God to every creature—going Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all about doing good, as did he who came not to be min- that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are istered unto, but to minister, and who, sending us as the seed which the Lord hath blessed." the Father sent him, says to every on; " Change your Thus in all the world shall be the glad word, " I garments "— receive the righteousness of God; re- will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be ceive the holy anointing, " receive ye the Holy joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the Ghost : " " fill the hand," consecrate your service garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the .this day, in the ministry of God in your royal priest- robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh him- hood. self as a priest, and as a bride adorneth herself with The message of God to-day, " Fill the hand," her jewels." " consecrate your service " to this divine ministry to And therefore, " As the earth bringeth forth her men, is as certainly and as distinctly the message of bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are God, as was, each in its place, the message of the sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord God will righteousness of God, and the message, " Receive cause righteousness and praise' to spring forth be- ye the Holy Ghost." Those two messages were fore all the nations." preliminary and preparatory to this: they were the And let all the people say, Amen. first two steps of induction into the royal priest- AtoNzo T. Joists& hood, of which this third is the last, the culminating step. And as this is the culmination of the induc- tion into the ministry of our royal priesthood, there CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. will be no other message to follow. This is the last: the three now go otr together in the mighty Week of Prayer Readings, December 21-28, roar. power of God to lighten the earth with the glory of the Lord and bring the end and the glorious ap- INTRODUCTORY . 561 pearing of our glorious Lord, unto which we have OUR TIME, AND ITS MEANING 562 toiled, for which we have watched and waited, which OUR MESSAGE 564 OUR FIELD 567 has -been delayed ; but of which now God declares, OUR DUTY "There shall be delay no longer." Bless the Lord! 570 OUR DANGER 574 And now, here is our divine commission and the OUR PRIVILEGE IN GIVING 577 divine means unto our divine priesthood, to-day OUR OPPORTUNITY FOR SERVICE 581 and henceforth : — OUR PERSONAL SERVICE 584 588 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN.

reading for the day, and then another opportunity for THE GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN united prayer, after which a brief Bible study upon the ' PUBLISHED QUARTERLY BY topic of the day, closing the meeting with testimony _The Seventh-day Adventist General Conference and prayer; such a program might meet the needs. of most cases. The real object is the quickening of the spiritual life, and this demands a 'spiritual experience on the part of the leaders in order to awaken the For the Deus ButLETIN during General Conference session 50c Far the biennial term, including daily and truarterly issues 75c people. Each one who has accepted the position of a Subscriptions at the 75-cent rate, for the current volume, will leader and teacher ought to feel that a deep responsi- include all issues during 1901 and 1902. bility rests upon him to make this occasion one of special blessing. Let the church officers begin early to EDITOR H. E. OSBORNE. pray and counsel together that every proper means may be used to gather in the people, and to minister Entered at the Post Office in Battle Creek, Michigan. to them the very help which they need. Good readers should be selected and they should be SUGGESTIONS FOR THE WEEK OF PRAYER. asked to study the matter beforehand, so that they shall be full of the spirit of the subject, and shall be able to Tins annual season of special religious services has read with Bile Spirit and with the understanding. If been appointed to begin Sabbath, December 21, and to several good readers can be secured, then it night, continue over Sabbath, December 28. The readings, be well to employ a variety of talent. Give some which are printed in this number of the BULLETIN, thought to the selection of the hymns, so that they •haVe been prepared with the definite purpose of point- may be in harmony with the theme of the reading and ing out in the light of the Scriptures the crisis to which at the same time full of gospel power. A number of we have come in our work, the grave peril which now brief, earnest prayers, the real cry of the soul for help confronts us, and the real deliverance which there is borne upward upon the wings of praise, is an infinitely for us and all others who will accept as a personal better opening for a service than one or two formal experience the truth of the message which the Lord prayers. Oh for the living presence of him who is sending to all the world. We believe that the in- " breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye struction here given will prove to be a blessing to all the Holy Ghost." Then song and prayer and reading those who are looking for light and help, and are and testimony would be only a means of receiving and willing to place themselves in the channel of blessing. imparting the heavenly light and power. Shall not Let there be much prayer for the enlightenment of the this be the experience of all? • Holy Spirit. It is recommended that the annual offerings be re- In order that all may be making their plans to attend ceived on Sabbath, December 28, unless special cir- regularly these appointed services, attention should be cumstances suggest some other time as more favorable. called to them in advance by the church officers, and Suitable envelopes have been sent out by the Mission their importance should be urged upon all. There is Board, and these should be distributed the first Sab- usually a lull in the business world during this holiday bath. If any are unable to be present at that time, season, and in most cases it is not so difficult to they should be visited as early in the week as possible, arrange for a short respite from the pressure of the and envelopes furnished to them. All should be re- daily toil. If due importance is attached to this season minded of the offering during the week, so that this of spiritual revival, plans can be made for regular important part of the week's service may not be attendance upon the meetings, and for giving some overlooked. From those whose hearts have been additional time in visiting and helping those who need touched with a sense of the surpassing love of God special encouragement. The benefit will be mutual. and of the privilege of being trusted as stewards of There ought to be at least one public meeting each his bounties there should come liberal offerings for day. This may be held at such time as will best suit the hastening of the coming of his kingdom. Let the the circumstances of each church'or company, although blessing of giving be plainly presented to all the people, in Most cases the -evening will probably be the most and may the Lord inspire them to do liberal things for suitable time. Each leader will bf course feel free to the benefit of the fields which are waiting for the conduct the services in such a way as seems to him message. Tligar contributions should be forwarded to be best' adapted to the needs- of the people, but a promptly to the State treasurer, that they may reach the suggestive order of exercises may do no harm. It Mission Board with as little delay as possible. We shall would be well to bear in mind that it is a week of wait with interest to hear of souls filled with all the prayer, and provision should be made for special sea- fullness of God, and of a treasury abundantly supplied sons of public prayer each day. A season of song,and with means, as the result of this week of prayer. prayer at the opening of the service, followed by the GENERAL CONFERENCE COMMITTEE.