Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-30
ADVENTISTS' MEETINGS
GENERAL CONFERENCE WILL
CLOSE THIS EVENING.
Much Work Accomplished During the
Sessions-Missionary Discussion
This Morning.

The general conference of the Seventh
Day Adventsts. which has been in session
since May II, will adjourn this evening" to
convene in England in 1909 The session
about to close is the thirty-sixth regular
session of the general conference and was
the most successful and largest attended
conference in the history of the denomina-
ton The delegates present included repre-
sentatives from every country in the world
and from every state in. the Union.
AT the early morning session today mis-
sionary meeting was held, at which the
missionaries from all the foreign lands pre-
sented a symposium setting forth the
needs and conditions of their respective
countries and their appeals for assistance
The presentation was made to the general
conference at which all of the officers of
the conference and the delegates were pres
eht Inc remainder of the day was devoted
to the reading of reports.
The report of Superintendent J. b. Beck
ner on the Jamaica conference proved an
interesting paper, in which he spoke of the
evidences OF progress in the work in that
section. The tithes for 1903" he said
were 81 4G2 rs, and for 1904 81 .427 o3. Of
ferings for 1913 were $S42. %. and for 1894
S553.SS. This decrease was in consequence
OF the destructive storm in the latter part
of 1903 and the general depression that fol-
lowed
There are twenty organized churches
with a membership of 7S4 and twenty-nine
companies. with baptized membership of
80. These, with sixteen isolated and 257
unbaptized Sabbath keepers, make a total
or 1857. There are twenty-five church
buildings dedicated. Five have been built
during the past two years. Eight are now
in process of building
The work of the Adventists in Mexico was
the subject of a report by G. NJ. Brown,
superintendent of the Mexican mission field
After relating briefly the early settlement
in that country, he spoke of the medical
work and institutions and of the sanitariun1
at Guadalajara which has prospered since
the last meeting of the conference two
years ago There are now he continued
two churches in our mission field with a
combined membership of fifty There are
about fifty Sabbath-keepers in the republic
in addition to the members of churches
The 1.-THE and offerings have amounted
to about $1,000 during the last two years
In addition to this, 81 ,737. % has been raised
In the field for the establishment of the
printing office
The 1.-THE from the field during 1903-04
was 50, $50 Mexican, which is equivalent to
about S261S12 in United States money
The annual offerings and other dona-
tons, including those made to the literature
fund, amounted to $5S7.22 Mexican, or
SE'2,6l United States money"
Distribution of Labor.
One of the most important reports sub
mtted during the session was that of the
committee on distribution of labor which
was adopted at the meeting last night. The
designations as announced are as follows:
Elder F. III. Conway and wife of Okla
homa' labor In the Canadian northwest;
Elder w. A. Colcord, hold himself In read
mess 10 assist in the religious liberty work
IN England as occasion may demand; Elder
Z. McReynods, take the presidency of the
Wisconsin conference made vacant bv the
action the Lake Trpip1
mittee in calling Elder Covert to take the
presidency of the Northern Illinois confer
ence; Elder A. ]. Haysmer, make Alabama
his field of labor; Iowa send two Bible
workers to England; Elder Clarence S9ntee
take the presidency of the Texas confer
ence; Elder F. NJ Burg of western Oregon
make Great Britain his field of labor. un-
der the support of his home conference
while there, until the mission board or
the local field shall assume such support;
DR.. Emma Perrine, labor in Japan; Elder
W. W. Steward of the Upper Columbia con-
ference labor IN Georgia, under pay of his
home conference until recalled OF. other ar
rangements shall be made: Elder S. G.
Huntington, spend some time in southern
California, doing manual labor with view of
regaining his health; Brother ]. s. James
or West Virginia, take the position of gen
eral field missionary secretary. under the
direction of the executive committee of the
Northern Union conference; the Oklahoma
conference send Brother Bernard Voth to
labor in Greater New York under the
direction of the executive committee of
that conference; Elder W. A. Westworth.
make the Southern New England confer
ence his field of labor; Amanda Van Scoy
labor In China, under pay of the Nebraska
conference while there, or until other ar
rangements shall be made by the mission
board; Brother A. j. Kennedy of Ohio, join
DR.. Miller in China; George Casebeer, labor
In South America. under pay of the Upper
Columbia conference: Brother John Isaac,
make the Northern Illinois conference his
field of labor; Brother c. ]. Hermann of
Wisconsin, labor in New Jersey, under pay
of the Wisconsin conference until other
satisfactory arrangements shall be made
for his support, or until he shall be made
ferred to some other field; Elder William
Cunfey of Texas, take the presidency OF
the Mississippi conference; Elder H ].
Farmer, make North Carolina his field of
labor; Elder G. E Langdon, make northern
California his field of labor; Elder John
Holbrook, make Great Britain his field of
labor; Sister A. L. Prescott, be accepted
a self-supporting worker in India; Jacob
Hofstra of West Michigan, make Holland
his field of labor; o. A. Olson to take the
presidency of the Australian Union con-
ference; G. F. Haffner Of Oklahoma, elected
on general conference committee leader
in the German work in America n. p. Mel
son of Texas, member of the general con-
ference committee and leader of the Scan
dinavian work in America.