The Washington herald., 1913-05-20
ADVENTISTS HEAR
ELDERS REPORTS
Takoma Park Conference Re-
ceives Information About
Work Throughout World.
BUSINESS SESSION HELD
Educational Departments Show Large.
ly Increased Enrolment Of Stu
dents as Well a Resources.

Resolutions which, tf adopted. would
involve a change in the organization
of the general conference. and which
also involved the raising Of 1000 pei
year for each member Of the denomi-
nation, in addition to the regular 1.-THE
were presented yesterday to the
Worlds Conference of Seyenth-day
Adventists, which is in session at Ia
koma Park.
The resolutions effecting the organi-
zation resulted in the presentation OF
a memorial by the European members
of the general conference committee.
This memorial was presented at the
fall council of the general conferences
committee, last year, and by vote was
referred to the present session OF the
general conference.
Tn memorial directs attention to the
fact that for some time the need has
been felt by the organizations in Eu-
rope OF a connecting organization be-
tween the union conferences there and
the general conference 1t suggested
the possibility of dividing the terri
tory of the world into five or six d.
visions, which would not be presided
over. as at present. by vice presi-
dents Of the general conference, but
which would have their own constitu-
ency, would elect their own officers.
especially their president. who would.
by virtue of his office. be a vice presi-
dent of the general conference.
The memorial also suggested the
holding of a general conference every
FIVE years. instead Of every four years,
as at present.
Resolution Is Referred.
On motion of Elder W. ]. Fitzgerald.
of London, England. president of the
British Union Conference. the memo
rial and recommendations were re-
ferred to A special committee COM
posed of the members of tht general
conference committee and the stand
ing committees of the conference.
The report of the North American for
eign department of the general confer
ence was also presented to the confer
ence yesterday by its secretary, Elder o.
A. Olsen. of Chicago. This department
has charge OF the work among the for
eigners who have come to America by
Speaking of the cities. he
termed Boston an Irish city, Chicago a
German-Scandinav city, st.
Louis a German city. New York He
.Irsh-Italian Bohemian
city. "a cosm politan race
conglomeration." He said also that
through immigration, the United States
was the greatest mission field on the
globe, as all the people of the earth had
their representatives here. and that
through them the world might be
reached.
Elder J. +. Hafner. of Clinton. Mo-, the
of the West German di-
vision of the foreign department, pre-
sented his report, and Elder ]. II. Schil-
ling, OF New York. presented the report
Of the eastern division OF the foreign
department. The Swedish division of the
foreign department also reported through
Its superintendent, Elder Mortenson. of
wegIan division through its superintenc-
ent, l.. II. Christian, of Minneapolis
Jewish Division Reports.
At the afternoon business session of
the conference the reports of the Jewish
division of the foreign department. by its
F. c. Gilbert, of Boston:
Of the French division by its superin-
tendent. G. C. Roth. of South Lancaster
Mass: of the Danish-Norwegian Semi
nary, at Hutchison, Mimi, by its superin-
tendent, NJ. L. Anderson; of the Swedish
of Broadview, Ill. by its
president, Elder G. f. Nord: of the Ger
man Seminary, Of Clinton, Mo-, by its
president, Elder ]. F. Simon: OF the
Russian division of the foreign depart
nent by Elder A. o. Olsen. of Chicago,
and of the Department of Education of
he general conference by its secretary,
Prof. II. r. Salisbury. of Takoma Park,
we're presented.
In the report of the educational de-
oartment, Professor Salisbury said that
turing the last four years the enrolment
It Seventh-day Adventist academies had
increased from ssh to sos, and that in
he same period the colleges and
academies had increased their resources
rom S1,339, ,421 to Sos, ,2oS During the
four years there has also been rapid
Increase of the denominations mission
schools in foreign lands, the number of
students increasing from 2.T1 to $3.50.
rhe total enrolment of all denomina-
tionaI schools+elementary. mission. and
idvanced-was said to be 2600l.