The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1915-09-24
IMPORTANT MOVEMENT
BY SEVENTH DAY
ADVENT|STS

H.
enth Day Adventists church of this
CITY, informs The Tribune that the
local church is in receipt
of word that a movement is on foot
in the church toward organizing all
the far eastern lands into one divis-
ion conference similar to those in
North America. Mr.. Shaffer and other
members of the Caldwell denomina-
ton heartily approve and endorse the
movement. They feel that this step
will solidif y the church in those lands
and do much toward spreading the
gospel, promoting the welfare of the
church and enhancing its usefulness
among mankind generally.
The letter received by the Caldwell
denomination and referred to above
by Mr.. Shaffer follows:
Members of the Seventh-day Ad-
ventist denomination in this city have
been apprised of movement that
has been started toward organizing
all the far eastern lands into one div
ision conference similar to those in
North America and Europe, which
would mean the cooperation of the
local constituency in increasing mis-
Sionary purposes to between 100000
and 100000 year. The believers have
cheerfully contributed toward raising
about 100000 for foreign mission en-
deavor last year, and they will gladly
add their proportionate increase in or
der to see the advent movement pene-
trate further into the dark corners of
the earth.
The local followers have been no.
tilted that petition has just recent
ly been received at the worlds head
quarters of the denomination in Wash
ington, D. c., from Shanghai, China,
asking that Japan, Korea, Manchuria,
China, Mongolia, India, the Philip
pines, the Malay Peninsula, Siam,
Australia, East Indies, and other
countries in the Orient be set off into
what would be known as the Asiatic
division, and that the constituency in
North America be asked to give fin
ancial support to the plan to extend
the denomination in all these places
in a more organized way than ever
before.
The plan, if adopted, would require
the sending out of large number of
ministers, bible workers, school teach
ers, and other gospel laborers, as
we'll as an increase in the missionary
appropriations of 100000 a year over
what it was last year.
The petition asking that these plans
be made at the coming fall council of
the General Conference was signed by
Elder A. G. Daniels, president of the
General Conference, who has been on
tour among the mission stations Of
the far east for the past year; R. c.
Porter, superintendent of the Chinese,
japanese, and Philippine Island field;
J. E. Fulton, president of the Aus
tralian Union Conference, and H. R.
Salisbury, superintendent of the In
dia Union Mission.
Nearly all of these teeming mil
lions are heathen," says the petition.
They are intensely religious, but they
grope in the darkness of superstition
and idolatry. In many respects this
is unquestionably the most difficult
field in the world to evangelize. But
this work, as great and as difficult as
it is, must be done, and Seventh-day
Adventists have put their hands to the
task
In mentioning the pressing de-
mands, the petition urged that suit
able places of worship where the min
listers and other gospel workers could
be brought together for instruction.
encouragement, and organization, be
erected; that more training schools
be established and teachers sent out
for the training of young men and
women who have accepted Christianity
and are anxious to carry the good
news" to their own people, that the
printing plants be provided where Ii
terature in the native languages may
be prepared for distribution.
The field now known as the Asiatic
division, which includes China. Man
churia, Japan, Korea, the Philippines,
the India Union Mission, and Aus
tralasia are operated separately. In
asking that all be united in one divi-
sion, the petition states there will be
more efficiency in administrative work
If such were the case.
The petitioners believe that by unit
ing these fields in one division the
leaders can be united in one admins
trative body, which would enable
them to hold regular meetings for
counsel regarding their most difficult
and perplexing questions, and so have
the decisions of larger and more ex-
perienced body to guide them in max
ing requests to the home mission
board and in formulating policies for
local fields.