Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-09
ADVENT|STS CLOSE
WORLD CONFERENCE
important Offices Filled at
Last Business Session
This Morning.

some OF the most important Offices in
the denomination were filed in the last
business sessions of the worlds confer
ence OF the Seventh.day Adventists. Ia
koma Park, yesterday afternoon and this
morning before IN. conference finally adj
journcd THIS morning hundreds of the
campers left their homes in various parts
of the country. and many started on
their long journeys to far-on lands. Inc
camp is being taken down b. "a corps OF
helpers made Up of clergymen and stu
dents of the Foreign Missionary Sem
mary.
One of the last actions taken by the
conference involved change in the pas
torate of the Memorial Seventh-day Ad-
ventist Church. at 18th and NJ streets
northwest. this city. This was the trans
fer of T. der A. Freed. the present pas
tor of the church. to become pastor of
one of the Philadelphia Seventh-day -ad-
ventist churches.
When the Asatic division was organ
lied some days ago. Elder r. G. Porter.
formerly the pres.dent of the South Afri-
can Union Conference was elected as its
president This left the South African
Union Conference without a presiding
officer At yesterdays session Elder W.
b. U
elected president Of the South African
Union Conference, with headquarters at
Cape Town.
Sent as Assistant.
1t was also voted to send to South
Africa as the assis ant Of Elder White,
Elder o. K Butler of st. John. n. B.. the
president of the Maritime Conference.
This left a vacancy in the office of presi-
dent of the Maritime Conference. which
was ,lso filled at yesterdays session by
he election of Elder L. Bender of Rivers
dale. Jamaica, the president OF the West
Indian Union Conference.
The vacancy thus made In the presi-
dency Of the West Indian Union Confer
ence was filled by action of the delegates
In electing Elder A. j. Haysmer of Nash
Vile. Tenn. formerly tie secretary OF the
North American Negro Department of the
General Conference, which department
was abolished at this session.
Other changes which were made in the
laboring force at the conference were:
Elder l.. s. Wheeler of New York city.
to the East Michigan Conference: Elder
IC F. Clrich of Massachusetts,. to Pitts-
burgh: Elder S. B. Horton OF Grand Rap
ids, Mich, to the Columbia Union Con err
ence: W. L. Adkins Of Frederick, Md.
to North Carolina; Miss Emma Pooh OF
| Arkansas. to do Bible work in the East
Pennsylvania Conference: Miss Gertrude
Sims of the Northern New England Con-
| ference to the Indiana Conference: PROT
George w. Casebeer OF Chile. to Chicago
Elder c. W. Wolfe Of Iowa, to the East
Pennsylvania Conference, and Elder c. A.
Armeanean of Alberta, to East Canada
to work among the French-speaking peo-
Pile; Elder r. Patterson Of the Central
California Conference. to the North Pa
lin Of the Upper Columbia Conference. to
the Central California Conference: Prof.
s. NJ. Butler. formerly president Of the
Mount Vernon College. Mount Vernon.
Ohio. to the Iowa Conference; Elder
Charles T. Everson of Northern Illinois.
to New York city. and Elder A. v. Cot
ton Of Brooklyn. to Spokane.
Vacancy Is Filled.
The election OF Elder White to the
presidency Of the South African Union
Conference left a vacancy In the Allan
tic Union Conference. which was filled
this morning In electing Elder r. D.
Quinn, the president of the Greater New
York Conference. to thepresidency Of the
Atlantic Union Conference. Elder J. L.
McElhany. president of the District OF
Columbia Conference. was elected to take
the presidency OF the Greater New York
Conference.
Elder o. o. Montgomery. the president
Of the Indiana Conference. was chosen
eastern Union Conference, with head.
quarters in Atlanta Elder w. H. Heck.
man. the president of the Florida Con
ference was transferred to the presidency
Of the Western New York Conference
and Elder H. w. Carr. the president OF
the Western New York Conference. was
transferred to the presidency Of the
| Florida Conference. Robert Joyce OF the
| Indiana Conference was transferred te
| the British Union Conference.
! communication was received yester-
day at the encampment and read to the
| delegation from the Chicago Chamber OF
Commerce inviting the conference to se-
lect Chicago as It's next meeting place
| four years from now. This communica-
| ton was referred to the general confer
ence executive committee.
| Yesterday afternoon Evangelist X. c.
Russell of Chicago delivered an address
on the subject The Sabbath-Is 1t Sat.
urday or Sunday?
| While many business affairs yet remain
| to be settled that could MT be discussed
during the session of the conference, they
will all be referred to the gen -ral con.
| ference executive committee and other
| delegates who will remain for q few days
and the encampment vii leone to an end
| today.