The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-02-05
Attending Seven Day Adventist
Conference.

ing of last week on his journey to at
tend the 9th Biennial Seventh Day
Adventist conference, now in session
at Minneapolis, MINI. Elder Starr,
who is a member of the local Seventh
Day Adventist church at Davis City,
is missionary director in church &C.
tivities in that church in thirty-one
counties of Southern Iowa. He sends
back report which reads as fol-
lows:
Minneapolis, MIMI, Jan. 30.
Attending the Biennial convention
of the Northern Union Conference OF
Seventh Day Adventists. whirh con-
tinues here lntil February 8, are
delegates from the four state con-
conferences in North ard South Da-
kota. Iowa and Minnesota. One of
the features in connection with the
convention which will be of interest
to believers in all parts of the North
ern Union conference territory was
the report given by President Charles
Thompson, which abotnds In remark
able statements concerning the sue
cess that has been attained during
the past two year.
The report in part is as follows:
1--WE live in a period of this worlds
history that is fraught with the most
momentous consequences of any per-
iod that has been since the birth of
time. The two years that. have just
passed have been of much interest to
the students of Gods Word. They
have been especially marked in
transferring prophecy to history.
Storms, floods, wrecks by land and
sea, resulting in loss of life and prop
erty have caused the hearts OF the
uninformed to fail them for fear,
for looking after those things that
are coming upon the earth. All this
to the remnant people is evidence
that soon the warfare will be ended,
the conflict over, and the home
promised by our Saviour to the faith
full of all ages, realized.
1--WE are engaged in the greatest,
the grandest, and the most sublime
religious movement that God has
ever commissioned men to carry for
ward in this world. Our commission
is to extend mercy's last note of
warning and invitation to a world
that is rushing madly and unthink-
ingly onward to it's final doom. The
lightning express running at the rate
of sixty miles an hour viewed twenty
miles distant on the western plain
can scarcely be discerned to be in
motion. But as it comes nearer and
goes laundering past the beholder,
causing the ground to tremble be-
meath his feet, though running at
the same rate of speed, it seems to
be moving much more rapidly. So
to the prophet of old, with his eyes
fixed upon our time, beholding the
maddening, crazy rush, and the
lightning rate rof speed which char
acterizes every movement in our
world, it seemed as though the
wheels of time we're moving more
swiftly, and he exclaimed, THE great
day Of the Lord is near, it is near
and hasteneth greatly" What the
prophet beheld in vision, we see
transpiring before our eyes today.
He who sees the end FROM the begin
ming prepared beforehand message
befitting such q time az this. John,
on the Isle of Patmos, foresaw peo-
pie giving such a message. He be-
held mighty angel flying in mid
heaven, proclaiming with a loud voice
the everlasting gospel. That angel
symbolizes this people, and the work
that has been carried forward by us
for more than half a century. =.
1.-THE progress of the work in all
it's departments in the Northern
Union for the biennial period just
past has had in it much to encourage
US. We have endeavored to make
our evangelistic work the most
prominent, believing it to be the most
effective way of saving souls. While
the results have not been what we
would be glad to report, yet there
have been baptized and added to our
membership 0dr:nE the two years
about coo; 3 churches have been or
sanized, and 10 meeting houses have
been dedicated.
ut is also true that many families
have moved from our territory, TAX
ing up their permanent abode else
where. Therefore our constituency
has not grown propcrtionately to our
conversions to the truth.
"Our Education and Young Peo-
pies Missionary Volunteer depart
ments have made some growth dur
ing the past two years. Our four
academies located at Maple Plains,
Mimi, Nevada, Iowa, Redf1eld, S. D.,
and Harvey, N. D., are all doing most
excellent work.
1--WE had in 1912 and 1913, 81
church schools, in 1913 and 1914, %
schools. In 1912 we had thirty-five
young peoples societies; in 1913
forty-one societies. In addition to all
the missionary effort put forth for
regions beyond, they report 200 souls
converted and added to their ranks
1t home. We briefly mention in this
connection the Danish-Norwegian
Seminary, located at Hutchinson,
MINI. The institution is now in the
fourth year of its career. From the
day Of it's opening to the present this
school has proved q success.
"Our missionary efforts through
the printed pages are worthy of more
than q passing Notice. During the
biennial period there was sold in our
territory $107;719 worth Of our de-
nominational literature. an increase
over the previous period Of $23,420.
The sales of subscription books in
1912 amounted to $31,259. In 1913
fhav ~oro 43k 67k An increase of