Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-27
CHURCH CREATES
NEW CONFERENCE
Action Taken by the Seventh
Day Adventists' Meeting
at Takoma Park.
Committee TO REPORT
SELECTION OF OFFICERS
Reports Received Today From Rep.
resentatives Of Foreign Field Work.
Special Announcements.


Another divisional conference vac
created today at the world conference
OF Seventh-day Adventists at rakon.s
Park. including eighty-four local and
union conference organizations. and CONS
prisng the entire territory OF North
America. This is the second organization
Of its kind created at the conference.
the flrst being the European conferences
The formation OF such divisional con.
ferences is a new departure in the form
of organization OF the denomination. such
extension Of the plan OF organization be.
ing adopted at this conference session.
An enabling clause was passed by the
general conference this morning authorlz-
ing the delegates present from the terri.
tory out OF which the new conference
will be formed to meet and effect the orr
ganixation and elect officers. The gem
eral conference also recommended a con-
stitution to the new conference at the
time OF its organization, providing that
the new conference shall hold its sessions
Quadrennially. the first to be held in lel.
The term Of its Officers is TO be four
years.
Committee on Committees Named.
At special meeting OF the delegates
present from the territory which will
comprise the new divisional conference
q committee on committees was appointed
to bring in nominations for the stand
ing committees OF the conference. This
committee was made up OF Elder w. Il.
White Of Boston. Elder NJ. n. Camp
bell Of Ontario. Elder c. B. Stevenson OF
Atlanta, Elder e. T. Russell OF Lincoln.
af
der F. N. Burk Of Los Angeles. Eader
III. o. Hartwell of Boston. Elder J. W.
Christian OF Lincoln. Elder ]. T. Taylor
Of Austin. Tex; Elder Q. X; Butler OF
st Johns. New Brunswick: Elder w. A.
Ruble Of Iona Linda. CAL: J. b: Bios
ser Of Berrien SPRINGS. Mich: Prof o. J.
Graf Of Berr.en Springs. Elder A. j.
Clark OF Battle Creek. Mich. and Elder
J. H. Christian of Minneapolis.
1t is expected that this committee will
report on the standing committees this
afternoon.
Much discussion was aroused con-
officers and departments between the
general conference and the new di-
visional conference. Heretofore the
general conference treasury has been
now comprise the new conference. SIC
900 1.-THE. $158.00O as surplus tithe from
the eighty-four organizations in tho
North American division. $4,000 for
the Su9tentaIlOn Iund, winch IL lot ms
support Of aged and disabled ministers.
and $4,000 as offerings to missions.
Change in Apportionment.
Under the new arrangement the sie.-
90 1.-THE. the sI5syOO0 surplus tithe and
$65 900 sustentation fund will go TO
the treasury Of the North American
Division Conference, but 1t has been
arranged that the s416.0O0 to missions
shall go direct to the general confer
ence treasury, and that the mission
fields shall be cared for by the general
conference.
The general conference has been oper-
ating nine departments. the publishing.
educational. medical missionary, Sabbath
school, missionary volunteer. religious
liberty North American negro. North
American foreign and press bureau. In
the readjustment necessary because OF
the formation Of the new divisional con-
ference IL has been arranged for the
general conference to continue operating
the publishing. educational. medical mis-
sionary. Sabbath school and missionary
volunteer departments. while the relig-
ious liberty. North American negro
North American foreign and press bureau
will be given over to the direction OF tn.
new American divisional conference.
Additional reports were also rece we'd
by the conference from it's conferences
and missionary operations i'm the Austria
lasian field. The report Of the Australia
sian union conference, consisting Of Aus
tralia. New Zealand and the mission
Polynesia. was submitted by it's presi-
dent. Elder j. f. Fulton Of Sydney, Aus
tralia.
This report showed that in this terri
tory there were seven vegetarian cafes.
five sanitariums. four training schools,
one nurses training school. one cam
vassers training school. one publishing
house, three health food factories: that
the New Hebrides had been opened
that the tithe for the four-year period
had amounted to %321. S:'6Sf. an in
crease over the preceding period OF
Sl04. 34I0: that the offerings for mis-
sions had amounted to 81. 7:;4.36. an in
crease OF $2O.l44.O4 over the preceding
period. and that the total gifts for that
purpose had amounted to Si26.!"il.a4: that
the book sales had amounted TO $50
317sI. an increase OF $685.. There
are seventy-five evangeli al workers In
that field.
South Pacific Report.
The report of the South Pacific con-
ference was submitted by Elder p. X.
Piper Of Arorangi. Rarotonga, Cook
Island, which showed that there were
fourteen missions in this field. that there
were two evangelical workers on Pit
cairn Island four i'm the society group,
four in the Cook Island. one On Savage
Island. three in the Samoan Islands,
and I43 Sabbath keepers. twenty In New
Zealand, four In the New Hebrides, two
at Norfolk Island. with sixty Sabbath
keepers. two on Lord Howe Island ana
six In British New Guinea.
This afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. Elder j.
E. Fulton of Sydney. Australia. Is to
tell something of his experiences in the
mission stations of the East Indies.
Elder J. w. McCord OF Los Angeles,
Cal. is to deliver the sermon tonight at
7:45 O clock.