The Washington herald., 1913-06-06
'ADVENTISTS CALL
At White HOUSE
ThIty-6ve Clergymen Present
the President with a Hand
some Memorial.
FUNDS ARE TRANSFERRED
Elder L. M. Bowen Dies in Far-off
Mission in Southern
Rhodesia.
FUNDS ARE TRANSFERRED

Resolutions were adopted yesterday at
the world conference of Seventh-day Ad-
ventists involving the transfer of hun
dreds of thousands of dollars worth OF
institutions and OF funds from the Gen.
eral Conference to the newly formed
North American Division Conference.
cable message was received at the
conference yesterday morning from South
Africa, announcing the death of Elder
L. NJ. Bowen, of the Tsungwesi Mission.
in Mashonaland, in Southern Rhodesia.
Elder Bowen took the place at the mis-
sion station of Elder NJ. e. Sturdevant,
who is a delegate to the conference.
Numerous reports of missions in the
Bahamas. Bermudas. Porto Rico, and
Syria were submitted to the conference
at yesterdays session.
A resolution of sympathy also was
adopted at the conference for the death
OF Elder George A. Irwin, a former
president of the General Conference
As a result OF the formation at this
session of the general conference of the
North American Division Conference. II
has been found necessary to transfer the
supervision of all the UNCONVENTIONAL in
situations in North America to the North
American Division Conference. This in
wolves numerous sanitariums. colleges,
aUlOIE the IN
situations transferred by yesterdays &C
ton were the Washington Foreign Mis-
sion Seminary. and the Washington San
itarium. at Takoma Park: Mount Vernon
College, at Mount Vernon. Ohio; South
Lancaster Academy, at South Lancaster.
Mass: Emmanuel Missionary College, at
Berrien Springs. Mich; Pacific Union
College. at st. Helena, Cal: Keene
Academy. at Heene, Texas: Union Col
l.
cal EVangelists, at Iona Linda. Cal. {;
New England Sanitarium. at Meirose,
Mass. and the various sanltariums oper-
ated by the denomination in California.
Appropriate Working Capital.
S working capital to begin at once
the payment of its appropriations. the
general conference voted to place in, the
treasury of the North American Division
Conference the sum of $1,000.
BY vote, the General Conference re-
quested that the North American Divi-
sion Conference maintain the following
departments: Publishing educational,
Sabbath school, missionary volunteer,
medical. religious liberty. general for
eign. German, Danish-Norwegian, Swed-
ish. and negro. and that it also maintain
the press bureau
The commission appointed was DR.. w.
A. huple, OF Iona Llnda, Cal, the pres
ident of the College of Medical Evan
gelists: DR.. H. w. Miller, of Takoma
Park, the secretary Of the medical mis-
sionary department of the North Ameri-
can Division Conference; l. NJ. Bowen.
of Takoma Park; l. A. Hansen, of Ia
koma Park, and Prof. II X. Salisbury,
Of Takoma Park, secretary of the edu-
cational department of the General Con-
ference
The report OF the mission work of the
denomination in the Bahama Islands
was submitted to the conference by its
director, Elder W. A. Sweany. OF Nassau,
and showed that the total tithes for the
last four years OF the small company Of
Sabbath keepers on the island amounted
TO A,245.26. and that they had given for
missions during the same period 1884. IS
Reports also were presented to the con-
ference from mission work in Syria, COW
ering medical missionary operations of
the denomination in the city of Jerusa-
lem. and from the islands of Porto Rico
San Domingo, and the Bermudas.
Thirty-five of the clergymen OF the de-