Evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1907-1913, 1912-07-12
CONFERENCE OF SEVENTH
DAY ADVENTIST

Fairmont, w Va July 12.-PIaHs
have been completed for the holding
Of the annual camp-mceting and bust
ness sessions Of the v est Virginia
conference Of Observation-Disclosures
in this city, July IS to %. Members
Of this denomination from Parkers-
burg, Morgantown, Martinsburg, Char
lasion, Whcelins, and other places
viii attend and while here will live
in tents
The meetings will be held at South
Side or Loop Park and there Will be
very ample accommodations for the
campers at these grounds, among
which will be grand stand with a
Sealing capacity OF 1900 where tine
principal services will be held. There
viii also be used two large tents,
one for dining purposes, and The other
for young peoples and childrens
meetings. Special efforts Will be put
forth during the campmeetine' for the
conversion of the young people \
feature of the dining tent will be
that only vegetarian meals will be
served, as practically all Seyenth-da4-
Adyentists abstain from the eating Of
flesh foods
This will be the 18th annual meet
ing Of the West Virginia Conference,
and some interesting sessions are
promised Pastor Frank H. Robbins,
of Morgantown, who is the president
Of the organization, will read his an
pual report, as will Mr. J. S. Bar
lows, the secretary-trnasurer, and the
department secretaries; officers viii
be elected and plans outlined Tor lhe
advancement OF tae denomination il
West Virginia during tue coninl
year.
Delegates from the different church
g Of tie denomination in the state
VIII attend the meetings as will prac-
tiealiy all the minister's and seFersl
d The leaders from TIC General Con
florence, the governing body q the d.
nomination, whose headquarters ere
in Takoma Pdih, D. G. Among the
ministers who are planning to attend
&fa E. r. Palmer T.. NJ. Wilcox, and
A. ]. Haysmer, from the General Con
ference; Prof. S. NJ. Butler of Mount
Vernon, Ohio; r. S. Ashton, Pitts
hurgh; Pa; !. G. Bigelow, Washing
ton, D. G.; Charles Baierle, Fairmont;
jooH Y. Steele Nartinsburg; F. r
Gibaoa Charleston; |. D. Richardson.
Wheeling; r. W ThirlWeH, Paekers
pare, aud PfesiGeat Robbins of Nor.
gaatawu. Meetings for the public
VIII be held in the forenoons, after
Moons and evenings \ cordial invi-
tation is extended 10 every one to at
5end these meetings.
The movement With which Seventh
day-Adventists are connected, began
in 1S45, when Captain Joseph Bates
Of Fair Haven, Mass, began the prom
ulgation of the message now going to
the world From that humble begin
ring, the message has gone to Al
countries of the world, declare lead
ers of the denomination. In report
by the statistical secretary Of the
General Conference of the work ac-
complished up TO the close Of 1910,
he said that the denominations has
organized l06 local conferences,
which are divided into 23 union con
ferences, 81 missions, nearly 1900
evangelical workers, nearly 5000
churches, and more than los, 900 be
Gevers, The statistical secretary fur
Their declared That 1.-THE of $685.
6S9.S5 was paid in by the membership
il 1910 and that S45S,94@.70 was civ
e. in freewill offerings for the sup
port Of foreign missionaries. He
said there was Il large Increase in