Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-13
TO HOLD INSTITUTES
Seventh Day Adventists Gather
at Takoma Park.
PAPERS WILL BE READ
Church Is Now Supporting Nearly
$500 Workers in Forty-Seven
Foreign Countries.

Seventh Day Adventist evangelists
from the middle Atlantic and New Eng
land states will attend an evangelistic
institute which will begin in Takoma
Park, the headquarters of the denomi-
nation. tonight and continue tomorrow
and Wednesday. simultaneously with
the evangelistic institute Will be held
religious liberty institute, to which
have been invited the religious liberty
secretaries and presidents Of the fifteen
local conferences in the middle Atlantic
and New England states.
The evangelistic institute will be pre-
sided over by Pastor A. G. Daniels OF
Takoma Park, president of the general
conference while Prof. w. w. Prescott.
secretary of the international Religious
Liberty Association. will preside at the
religious liberty institute.
Papers dealing with the best methods to
be pursued by the denomination in its ef
forts to spread the gospel In the large
cities of this section Of the country Will
be read and discussed. There also Will
be round table talk in connection with
the meetings, in which 1t Is expected that
many questions dealing with the work OF
the ministry will be asked.
Going to Japan.
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin F. Hoffman OF
Seattle. Wash, left Takoma Park today
for their home to spend short time, art
er which they will sail from San Fran
cisco for Japan, where they will work as
missionaries for the Seventh Day Ad-
ventist denomination.
They spent the last year at the For
eign Mission Seminary, Seventh Day
Adventist institution at Takoma PARK.
where they made their final preparations
10 oir They being sent
to Japan by the foreign mission board
of the Seventh Day Adventist denomina-
ton.
Conference Of seventh-Day Adventists
today condemned a provtso In the post
office appropriation bill providing Tor the
Sunday closing Of post ofhces on the
ground that by the recognition OF sun
day as the general Sabbath day Congress
would violate the principles OF the Con-
stitution, which opposes union OF
church and state. Sanford B. Horton,
assistant secretary Of the Religious LIB
duced the resolution at the meeting.
which was held in the Memorial Church
of the denomination, and It was unani-
mously adopted.
Officers Are Elected.
Officers were elected at yesterdays
meeting of the conference as follows:
President. j. ]. McElhany; secretary
treasurer. A j. Bristol; members OF the
executive committee, NJ. E. Kern. L. A.
Hanson, A. J. Breed, I. A. Ford and T.
E. Bowen.
Credentials were given to the following:
MinisteIial-J. L. McE1hany, w. II.
Green, G. A. Stevens, A. ]. Breed.
Missionary-Misses Ella Leach, Edna
Cockrell, Mildred Smith. Isabella Camp
bell and A. ]. Bristol.
Honorary missionary licenses-Miss L.
NJ. Socum and Mrs. NJ. A. Baker.
A number of the leading ministers
of the denomination were in attend
ance, among them being Pastors w.
T. Knox, treasurer Of the general con-
ference. the governing body OF the de-
nomination; G. B. Thompson. secretary
the general conference: N. z. Town.
secretary Of the publishing depart
'ment; F. NJ Wilcox. editor Of the Re-
view and Herald: Prof. B. G. Wilkin-
son, president Of the Columbia Union
Conference; Prof. NJ. e. Kern. presi-
dent of the Foreign Missionary Semi
nary at Takoma Park. and /. G. Bige-
low, field missionary agent.
A plan was adopted by the delegates
to raise Is cents per week per MEM
Der for the advancement of the gospel
in foreign countries. Pastor w. T.
Knox, treasurer, estimated that this
amount would aggregate $480,000 this
year. The Adventists are now sup
porting nearly $500 workers in forty
seven countries. In 1910 the Advent
lists OF the United States paid $6.58 per
capita. total of $420,37o.