Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-30
A. r. OGDEN, OF NEVADA, RE.
ELECTED PRESIDENT OF IOWA
CONFERENCE.
ALREADY HAS SERVED FIVE
YEARS AS HEAD OF SOCIETY
Other Officers, Secretaries of Depart.
ments, and Executive Committee
Members Observation-Disclosures Stead
lily Increases-W. A. Spicer, Of Wash
inston, Addresses Conference.

At the annual meeting Of che Iowa
Conference OF Seventh Day Adventists
held this morning, officers were elected
as follows President, A. f. Ogden,
Nevada; secretary, Mrs. FS7ra V. Dor
cas-. Nevada; treasurer, A R Smouse
Nevada; tract secretary, r. E. Rowles,
Nevada: educational and missionary
volunteer secretary, S. a. Oberg, Ne
vada: assistant educational and mis-
sonary secretary, Miss Julierte king
err West Union; home missionary sec
rotary, Mrs Minnie Sype, Harlan;
field missionary secretary, Il. L. Grand
Pre-. Des Moines; religious liberty sec
rotary, William Ostrander, Des Moines
Sabbath school secretary, MIS- Flora
Y. Dorcas, Nevada
Those elected to serve on the confer
ence executive committee were a. r.
Ogden, Nevada, chairman; w K. Smith.
Burlington; William Ostrander. Des
Moines; s. 4. Oberg, Nevada; A. P.
Hanson, Extra; c. J. Robinson, VIM
terset; and John Shively. Woodburn.
The officers were elected without A
dissenting vote. President Ogden al
ready has served five years as the head
of the Iowa conference.
Attendance Increasing.
The attend dance at the camp has in
creased steadily since it opened a
week ago, and has surpassed the fond
est hopes Of the conference officers. BY
actual count there are PSI tents now
pitched in the grounds. An auto truck
was sent to Cedar Rapids Wednesday
to secure more tents, the supply Of a
Waterloo concern having already been
exhausted.
Wednesday Nights Meeting.
. Elder W. A Spicer of Washington,
Sd c., secretary Of the foreign mission
of Seventh Day Adventists, whose
coming has been looked forward to by
the campers at Rivervtew, gave the
address at the large pavilion Wednes-
day evening. Elder Spicer said in
part:
when the clock Of heaven struck
the hour, 1914, there stepped forth a
people keeping the command
ments Of God and giving the cry Fear
God and give glory to him. Tor the
hour Of his judgment is come" He
showed from the book Of Daniel that
the inyestigative judgment was to be-
gin in the year 1914. Continuing he
stated: Nowhere in the world was
there such a people keeping all the
commandments until the year 1874.
These people began to keep the fourth
or Sabbath commandment with the
rest. He emphasized the fact that the
people here mentioned should keep all
the commandments Of God as brought
out in Rev 14:12. Here are they that
keep the commandments OF Cod
"Just before the coming Of Christ
the judgment was to take place. There
must be an inyestigativs judgment
work in heaven before this time be-
cause when Christ comes We are
changed in the moment and twink
ling Of an eye. There will be no time
for the Judgment then. God announced
that judgment with message. He
sent forth a people to proclaim it.
God had prepared wonderfully for
a quick work. A few years before this
time, we were travelling Just as Abra-
ham Travelled. Suddenly the whole
history OF man was changed. The
railroad and the steamboat came into
existence. They came into existence -
this time to carry the message Of God
swiftly. Every inventive. ingenuity Is
utilized in the work VT God for quick
ly spreading the work.
i 1.-THE electric telegraph was invented
in May 1874. BY this means We can
talk TO our missionaries al the end of
the earth" Secretary Spicer illus
irated by showing how the calls for
help come TO the mission board, ard
word is sent on to those who are wait
ing for the call to go, and they are
sent almost Immediately.
The speaker continued: THE aero
plane is already being used to aid in
the proclamation Of the message" He
gave an Illustration Of some cards an
nouncing gospel meetings IN Europe
being taken from one Of their min