The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1913-05-15
Seventh-Day Adventlsts Meet

tend the Quadrennial meeting of the
Genera. conference Of that denomina.
ton which will BIZ held in Washing.
ton, d. c., May Is to June 8, and
which will bring together believers in
fhe faith from all parts of the world.
A delegation of fifteen members will
represent the North Pacific Union
conference, which takes in the states
OF Idaho, Oregon, Montana and Wash.
ingtOn.
Elder A. M. Dart, the president, will
represent the Southern Idaho Con
ference, which has its headquarters in
Nampa. The others will be: Elders
z. w. Flaiz, president of the Union:
r. A. Hanson. president of Upper Col
umDla Conference; w. F. Martin, Re-
lglous Liberty Secretary of the North
Pacific Union Conference; NJ. E. Ca
oy' secretary OF the Educational De
partment; j. Riffel, head of the Ger
man Department; and E. G. Kellogg
president, and F. w. Peterson. bust
ness manager, of Walla Walla COLLEGE.
II. w. Decker, president of the Mon
tana Conference; l.. johnson. presi-
dent of the West Washington Con.
ference; H. w. Cottrell, president of
the West Oregon Conference: F. s.
Bunch, president of the Southern Ore
gon Conference; and w. R. Beatty.
): F: Beatty, and c. M. Everest, Of
Portland, Oregon.
Inese persons will be among dele
gates that will represent every one
OF the rs union conferences in the
united States, Canada, Europe. Aus.
tralla, and Africa, and the mission sta
lions in Africa and Asia. While the
delegates will number between 400
and 800, the number of persons to at
tend will swell to about 1000, and
believers from all parts of North
America will flock to the scene tn
listen to the important questions con.
corning the whole denomination which
VIII come up for consideration, and
the explanation of Bible themes nv
leading ministers of the faith.
Every state in the Union will he
represented by delegates: in fact,
every country on the globe. All of
dne leading ministers in the United
States and Canada will be among
those in attendance. The leaders Of
the denomination in Europe and Aus
tralia, as well as those of the mission
stations in Africa, Asia, and the
lands OF the sea, will also come. Black
skinned and yellow-skinned men a
ana women, who have been reclaimed
10 Christ from heathenism, some of
them having been among man-eating
tribes, are expected to lend import
Shce 10 the power of the gospel by
1ne,r presence In fact, the gathering
~ilI De made up of commingling of
races such as probably has never
been seen in the past in a meetinp If
this sort. -
Over 500 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 hold
ing of the meetings. 1t is expected
that at least thirty meetings a day
will be held.
Not only will problems affecting the
entire denominations be considered
but the leaders of the different de-
partments, comprising the whole. will
hold separate meetings. Educators
from the leading academies and col
leges controlled by the denomination
in this and other countries will hold
daily conventions, as will the advo-
Gates of religious liberty, the bookmen,
and the leaders of the young peoples
societies throughout the denomination.
1t will be business from early morn
ing until night every day of the
session.
A big problem will be that of plan
ming to increase the missionary forces
in all parts of the world. With the
leaders of these fields present, the
needs of each will he laid before the
delegates; and not only will recruits
be furnished, but large sums of money
for the spreading of Sew
enth Day Adventist doctrines.
Another large question that will
come up for consideration will be
that of dividing the earth into six
divisions in order to work out the
problems that the denomination has
taken upon itself on more systema-