Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1912-09-24
ADvENTISTS ASKED TO
MEET IN THIS STATE
Governor Extends Invitation to
Officers Of Council.
OTHER CITIES WANT IT.
Atlanta Ga. Among Those That Would
Entertain Delegates to Conference
of Order.

Governor Goldsborough has sent an
invitation to the General Conference
of Seventh.day Adventists, the gov
erning body of the denomination, 70
hold its next quadrennial session,
which will bring a crowd of between
1000 and 5000 in this State
Mountain Lake Park, on the Balti.
more and Ohio railroad. near Cum
berland, has been suggested as the
place of holding the meeting, which
will continue three weeks and attract
delegates and other believers from
every county in the world where
Adventist missionaries are operating.
Several other places have extended
invitations for the session, among
them being Nashville, Atlanta, Indi-
annapolis, Dayton and Springfield.
There has been considerable discus
sion over the selection of place for
the meeting at sthe annual council
of the General Conference now be-
ing held at the Washington Foreign
Mission Seminary. at Takoma Park.
A committee composed of President
A. G. Daniels, L. r. Conradi, of
Hamburg. Germany, vice-president
of the European Division; w. T.
Knox, vice-president of the North
American Division, and w. A. Spicer,
secretary of the Foreign Mission
Board, has been appointed to elect
place for the meating and submit the
report to the council.
Nearly one third million of dollars
WnnasvaH sr4fO fh., af h.
General Conference during the past
eight months, for the furtherance of
the gospel in foreign lands, accord
ing to the report given by Elder w.
7. Knox, the treasurer. Over $780,
600 of this amount has been donated
in freewill offerings from what is
known as the fifteen-cent-a-we elk
fund, which has been set aside exclu-
sively for missionary effort in other
countries than the United States and
Canada. The money has been given
through various sources, and amounts
to 1928, 1872.
The total was swelled to 1929,
520.2S from the surplus tithe in
different conferences the union con-
ference tithe and miscellaneous
sources Treasurer Knox giving a
very comprehensive report of the
way this vast amount was disbursed.
Among the countries that have bene-
fitted from the distribution of this
fund are the Bahamas the Canary Is
land, China, India, Japan, Korea, the
Malay Settlements, Mexico, the Philip
pine Islands, South Africa. West
Africa, the West Indies, Brazil and
other countries of South America.
Considerable has been done for the
spreading of the gospel among the
negroes in this country, especially in
the Southern section. Approximately
sci. 900 has been given to this depart
ment of work during the same period
of time. The money has been dis
tributed through the Southeast srn,
Southern, Southwestern and Columbia
Unions, and good share of it has
been given for the building of the
0akwood school at Huntsville, Ala,
which is exclusively for the training
of colored men and women.
A question which was given much
attention at the Council as that con.
cerning campmeetings, held every
| spring and summer in practically
every State in the Union. The spirit
ual side of the campmeeting was
dwelt upon principally it being the
opinion of the speakers, in general,
that more attention should be given
to the spiritual uplift of those at
tending. President Daniels empha-
sized the fact that the revival spirit
begun on the Sabbath should be
continued the remaining days of
the campmeeting, and spoke of the
thousands of young people who are
in various schools of the denomina-
tion training for active missionary
service.