.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.