News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-05-07
Quadrennial Advent Confer
enCe

Seventh Day Adventlsts in various
parts of Vermont and New Hampshire
are looking forward with much interest
to the quadrennial meeting of the Gen
which will be held in Washington, D
@, May Is to June s., and which will
bring together believers in the faith from
all parts of the world
President f. W. Stray and other
workers in the Northern New England
Conference, which includes Vermont and
New Hampshire, will attend as part of
the delegation that will represent the
Atlantic Union Conference, which takes
! in the state conferences in New England
and New York. The officers of the At
lantic Union Conference who will
attend are: President w. B. White and
wife; DIR. w. E Bliss and wife; 9. J.
Tolf, Field Missionary Agent; j Z
Jayne, religious liberty secretary; Prof
NJ NJ Hare; G. L Kilgore treasurer;
J. K Humphrey; L. w. Grab ,m and
wife; j. G. White and Miss Pearl l..
Rees.
These persons VII he amour 1t'9-a'e.
that will represent every one of the 20
union cnnfere nces'in the United States.
Canada, Europe, Australia and Africa,
and the mission stations in Africa and
Asia. While the delegates will number
between 300 and 800. the number of per-
sons to attend will swell to about 40 O
as believers from all parts of North
America will flock to the scene to listen
to the important questions concerning
the whole denomination that will come
up for consideration, and the eXplana-
ton of Bible themes by leading ministers
of the faith.
The adherents in Hyde Park and John.
son will await with interest the return
of President Stray and the other mem
bers of the delegation who reside in
Northern New England to learn of the
things accomplished during the session.
Among those who have planned to at
tend the meeting from Hyde Park, are 3:
h. A. Clark and wife.
Every state in the Union will be rep
resented by delegates; in fact, every
country on the globe All of the lead |
ing ministers i'll the United States and I
Canada will be among those i'll attend +
ance The leaders of the denomination
in Europe and Australia, as we'll as
those Of the mission stations in Africa,
Asia, and the islands of the sea, will also .
come. Black skinned and yellow skinned I
men and women. who have been re-
claimed to Christ from heathenism. some .
of them having been among the man-eat-
ing tribes, are expected to lend import
ance to the power of the gospel by their
In la no,
made upof cUmmingling of races, such
as probably has never been seen i'll the
past in a meeting of this sort.
Over 800 tents will be pitched for the
housing of the people during their stay
at the session, and large canvas pavilions
will be pitched for the holding of the
II is expected that at least
thirty meetings day will be held.
Not only will problems affecting the
entire denomination be considered, but
the leaders of the different departments.
the whole, will hold separate
meetings Educators from the leading
academies and colleges controlled by the
denomination in this and other countries
VIII hold daily conventions, as will the
advocates of religious liberty, the book
men, and the leaders of the young
peoples societies throughout the de-
1t will be business from
early morning until night every day of
the session.
The big problem will be that of plan
nlng to increase the missionary forces
in all parts of the world With the
leaders of these fields present, the needs
Of each will be laid before the delegates;
and not only will recruits be furnished,
but large sums of money appropriated
for the spreading of the Seventh Day
Adventist doctrines.
Another large question that will come
up for consideration will be that of di-
viding the earth into six divisions in
order to work out the problems that the
denomination has taken upon itself on
more systematic lines.