The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-18
For the Seventh Day
Adventists.
THEY Do NOT WORRY
But Look theMatter Square
ly in the Face,

South Lancaster, Feb. 17.-All the
delegates with few exceptions are in
town, and the work Of the Seventh Day
Adventists of the world have mapped
out to do in this general conference
curing the next 20 days, is well under
way The greatest interest of the ses-
sions today hinged on a discussion of
resolutions coming from the commit
tee on resolutions, and offered by the
chairman of the committee, Elder
Hooper, who is also secretary of the
conference.
There was considerable difference Of
opinion among the delegates over the
first two clauses. which provided that
no person should I'LL any position on
any board in charge of any of the
such person was known to have real
Christian experience, and that no
teacher should be employed in any
school who was not known to have a
real Christian expert ence Elder w. w.
Prescott Of London. England, president
of the British conference, made a
speech that almost brought tho elders
to their feet at times. He said that the
ministers would not like 1t il the teach
ers formed code for the ministers to
live up to- and for his part he thought
1T much easier to say that certain gen
eral things should be done, than to
formulate practical methods of doing
them.
Elder pracna+f x.,op+a5 A. 30 -, =, A. So,
taught in the day school as In the Sun
day school-the truth. People too
often studied the fact, without study
Ing the truth behind the fact, the
power of Almighty God.
The district reports are all in. There
are six districts in this country. Mas
sachusetts is in district 1, which in
cludes nine organized conferences and
the mission fields of the maritime prov
inces and Newfoundland. Elder E. A.
Underwood makes the report from this
district, which is of especial interest to
the readers of The Spy, both because
Massachusetts is a part of the district
and because the report deals briefly
with the $4,000 sanitarium about to
be established in this town. Elder I'm
derwood says:
The trustees of South Lancaster
Academy have taken some steps to re-
its debt. improvements have been
made in the line of industrial work in
connection with the school, vet there
is room for much more to be done. At
the district council held Dec 9-14, 1897,
a Recommendation was passed to raise
$4,000 with which to establish a sani-
tarium at South Lancaster, and that
the new school dormitory be devoted
to that purpose. The desired sum has
been secured during the last year. and
the academy trustees have authorized
the sale Of the new home to the Inter
national Medical Missionary and Be
neVoient Association, to be used for
sanitarium purposes.
Elder Underwood added to what APP
peared in his report on this subject by
saying that the transfer would be made
IN a few days, and the sanitarium es-
taollshed by June 1. The enterprise
will be organized, said Elder Under
wood, by DR.. J. H. Kellogg of Battle
Creek, president of the international
body.
The academy known as the East
Home will be used for the sanitarium.
and the school will be re-estabiished in
the south home. 1t will be necessary to
make improvement to the amount of
$4,000 or more. Extensive baths will
have to be put in, including electric
light baths and the equipment of a
modern sanitarium throughout. 1t
will be necessary to make improve
ments and additions to the south home,
The delegates took an especial inter-
est in the report from district 8, be-
cause that is the territory where Nor
monism has it's hold.
The report of Treasurer A. C. Adams
shows that the association is strug-
Cling under heavy burden of debt.
The association is directly respon-
sible for notes amounting to $1S5, 600
not all of which draw interest however.
On the face of it this makes the con-
ference 100000 worse off than it was
two years ago. Treasurer Adams said
this was largely from the fact that the
treasurer had got down to business
and was looking matters squarely in
the face. The association was not that
much worse off.