Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-24
TO DIVIDE ACCOUNTS
Adventist Auditors Decide
Upon New System.
PASTORS SOON TO LEAVE
Will Participate in Camp Meetings
in Different Sections of
United States.
PASTORS SOON TO LEAVE

Auditors from the different Seventh Day
States today adopted a set of resolutions
at their convention now being held in the
General Conference building at Takoma
Park, which. in short. it is declared, will
mean the keeping of separate accounts of
the legal associations. evangelical work.
tract societies. sanitariums and publish
ing houses.
Nine recommendations were submitted
by the committee composed of j. ]. Ire
land. H E Rogers and C. L. Kilgore, and
all of them were adopted.
w. H. Edwards Of South Bend. Ind,
who is treasurer of the Lake Union con-
ference, read a paper entitled What
Should Be the Duties of a Conference
Treasurer" He said that the treasurer
should visit the churches and investigate
their work periodically
Young Peoples Day.
Members Of the Adventist churches In
the United States and Canada will de-
vote the denomination's Sabbath tomor-
row to a study of the organized work for
the youth. The day will be known as
young peoples day.
In speaking Of the celebration Miss Ma
tilda Erickson, corresponding secretary of
the general conference missionary volun-
teer department, said that the volunteer
department has grown until it's influence
encircles the earth, gripping thousands of
young people. drawing them into the
church. and quickening their footsteps in
service.
An interesting program has been ar
ranged for the day, 1t is stated, which
ko OF r.
members Of the denomination in North
America to study the missionary volun-
teer work.
To Attend Camp Meetings.
Pastor A. G. Daniels and several other
leading ministers of the denomination.
whose headquarters are in the General
Conference building at Takoma Park,
soon will leave to attend various camp
meetings to be held In different parts of
this country and Canada. President Dan
Tells will attend the commencement exer-
cdses to be held at the South Lancaster.
Mass, Academy the earlyl part Of next
week, where he will deliver the graduating
address. and Will return to Takoma Park
to prepare for his spring camp-meeting
tour. which will keep him on the road
several weeks He will attend the camp
meetings Of the East Pennsylvania Con-
Southern New England Conference, to be
held at Westerly, r. l.: the Massachu-
sets Conference, to be held at Taunton
the Western New York Conference, to be
held at Dunkirk. and the Ontario Confer
ence. to be held at Whitby.
Pastor w. T. Knox. vice president of
the North American Division and treas
urer of the general conference, will at
tend the camp meetings to be held by
the Lake Union Conference, which takes
in the states of Indiana, Illinois, Michigan
and Wisconsin; Pastor George B. Thomp-
son, secretary of the Sabbath school de-
partment. will attend the meetings to De
held at Kamloops. B. c.; Strathcona, AL
berta. Winnipeg, Manitoba and Bulyea,
Saskatchewan. which are in the West
Canadian Union Conference. and those in
the Central Union Conference. Pastors
E. r. Palmer and A. j. Haysmer will go
to the camp meetings in the Columbia
Union Conference; N. z. Town, secretary
Of the publishing department, will visit
those to be held in Iowa, Minnesota and
North and South Dakota, while Prof. NJ.
E. Kern, president Of the Foreign Mis-
sion Seminary. will give addresses at the
two Dakota Conference meetings.
Pastor Haysmer, who is the secretary of
the negro department in North America,
will also attend the camp meetings to be
held in the Atlantic Union Conference.
which embraces New York and the New
England states.