The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-10-18
SEvENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CON.
FERENCE AND CAMP MEETING

Florida conference of Seventh-day Ad-
yentists was read Thursday at the
morning business session of the an
nual conference, which is meeting at
the encampment on Oklawaha ave-
nue., and two resolutions of local in
terest were passed.
The report of the treasurer, Mrs. K.
G. Stringer of Orlando, who was re-
elected to this office at this confer
ence, showed that the total resources
of the Florida conference amounted
to S7729.I7, and that the total liabili-
ties were $2304.39, making net pres
ent worth for the conference year
ending September q, 1912, OF
$542478.
The offerings of the conference to
foreign missions during the year were
reported as $525213. The report of
the treasurer included a comparative
report of the 1.-THE and mission re-
ceipts of the conference during the
past five years. During the confer
ence year ending in September, 1908.
the 1.-THE received from the churches
amounted to $616313, and in 1912,
$12,71641.
The comparative report of foreign
mission offerings during the same pc
Rod was as follows: In 1908, $1,242.75,
and in 1912, s5252.13.
The resolutions passed by the con-
ference were as follows:
Resolved, That we hereby express
our hearty appreciation to the Ocala
Daily Banner for its enterprise in
publishing accurate news reports dali
ly of the proceedings of this confer
ence and camp meeting"
Another resolution read:
Whereas, The citizens of Ocala, es-
pecially those in the vicinity of our
camp, and the owners of the camp
grounds, have shown us many favors;
therefore,
Resolved, That we hereby extend
to them a vote of thanks for all these
courtesies.''
The conference also passed a reso-
luton at the afternoon session eX-
tending vote of thanks to Elder r.
w Parmele and DR.. Lydia E. Par
mele, his wife, who has been on the
staff of physicians of the Florida san
itarium The resolution read:
Resolved, That we tender vote
of thanks to our retiring president,
Elder r. W. Parmele, and his wife,
DIR. Lydia E. Parmele, for their faith
full and efficient services to this con-
ference during the past five years
AT last nights preaching service
Elder Parmele delivered a sermon on
Memorials of the Bible" in which he
said:
THE mighty works that God has
wrought are not to be forgotten. God
has made them to be remembered. 1t
is for this reason that there are in the
church the great institutions of bap-
tism, the Lords supper, and the Sab
bath. They are memorials of three
EaNReat facts in the Lords dealings with
people. Of the communion ser
sfce we ere told that the bread repre-
resents the body of our Lord. The
blood is represented by the juice of
the grape And so as often as We eat
this bread and drink this cup, We do
shew the Lords death till he come
Baptism is a memorial of Christ's
burial and resurrection. Nothing else
but immersion could ever properly
represent the event to be commend
rated, and therefore nothing else but
immersion is or ever can be baptism.
Regeneration, or recreation, is an
other mighty thing that God has ac-
complished for everyone who has
been converted to Christ 1t also has
its memorial in the church When
God first exercised his creative pow
er he gave as a memorial of creation
the institution of the Sabbath. His
children are told to observe it, and
the reason given for doing so is for
in six days the Lord made heaven and
earth, and on the seventh day he rest
ed The Sabbath, the seventh-day
Sabbath, is the memorial of creative
power, and therefore becomes the me-
mortal of the use of that same pow
er in conversion The Sabbath was
not for Israel alone, but for the whole
world. 1t had been made known TO
man in Eden, and. like the other pre-
cepts of the Decalogue, it is of imper-
ishable obligation OF that law of
which the Sabbath commandment
forms a part, Christ declares, till
heaven and earth pass. one jot or
one little, shall in no wise pass from
the law So lOno &C tho haavanc on5