Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-22
'ADyENT|STS TO PUSH
EvANGEL|ST|C WORK
Many Additional Thousands
Voted for the Ensuing Year.
Plea for Missionaries.

Evaugelistic endeayor now being car
ried forward under the direction of the
serenity or Iaore local Seventh-Day Ad-
ventist conferences in North America Is
20 be strengthened the coming year by al
additional appropriation of from Sle,UNo
to S22a.0tO from the North American d.
vision conference. The question OF APP
propriations was given considerable at
tcntion by the division conference conf
mittee which is now holding its fall
council at TakoIra Park. and while the
various portions Of the total have not yet
been acted upon, it is expected, that the
total will be betwee $4,000 and $2oo.00o
OF this amount it is expected that
S24. 800 will be appropriated to the foreign
department. In a stirring appeal Tor
more effort among the foreign speaking
peoples in this country. Elder o. a.
Olsen OF Chicago, secretary OF the
foreign wori., sad that in this generation
3U.CaoCtC foreigners had come to North
America He said that during the past
ten years the immigration total has
averaged 1,G0O,U5o persons n year.
Elder Olsen made a plea for an IN
creased force of missionaries among the
various nationalities, and said that while
attention should be given TO the foreign
countries. he believed it was prov.dential
to have so many millions of foreigners
in this country and SO accessible 10
reach with the gospel.
He spoke OF his denomination having
missionaries among the Hungarians,
Slavs, Bohemisns. Roumanians. Danes,
Norwegians, Italians and others in this
country. and urged that work should be
started at once among the Poles, or
whom there are 3,GC0GOO in this country.
Elder Olsen declared that about 30 per
cent OF the school children In North
America are Of foreign-born parentage.
while In some instances 1t reached - per
cont
Several offices in The North American
division headquarters, which have been
vacant or filed temporarily since It's or
ganizaticn last June were filled. Elder
W. r. Knox was elected treasurer, Prof.
!. L. Shaw, educational secretary. and
Prof ". r. Howell. assistant educa-
tional secretary. These men hold similar
positions in the general conference.
Trustees for the North american division
corporation were elected as follows: l. IL.
Evans. ". r. Knox. G. Z. Thompson.
". w. Prescott. l.. NJ Bowen. NJ e.
Kern and II. e. Rogers.
Elder Sheafe Goes to Pacific Coast.
Cpon the recommendation of the COM
mittee OH distribution Of labor, Elder L.
G. Sheafe, pastor OF the Peoples Church
in Washington, ID. c., will labor III the
Pacific union conference. Elder Sheafe
has been pastor Of the local church for
several years. He will so from here to
Los Angeles. where he VIII eeSih MS
labors III that union.
Il was also recommended that Evangc-
list X. c. Russell, nov in Chicago. go to
the Atlantic union conference to conduct
services particularly in New York city,
while Evangelist L. e. Westbrook now
T., To he
conference which Includes Chicago i'll Its
territory, i'll exchange.
Prof N. Il. Cady of College Place,
Washing ton, was recommended to the
southeastern union conference as secre-
tar,- of the educational and young peo-
ples departments. and Elder u. u
fetars Of Alabama was recommended TO
the North Carolina conference.