Evening star., 1928-09-22
ADVENT|STS NAME
81 AS DELEGATES
General Conference Will Be
: Held in Springfield Septem-
ber rs to October d.

Fifty-seven delegates from the Wash
ington area will attend the biennial con-
vention Of the general conference of
the Seventh-day Adventists that will be
held in Springfield. Mass, from Sep
tember 25 to October 4. Practically all
OF the officers and departmental secre-
tarieS of the general conference will at
tend this session and take prominent
parts in the daily proceedings.
Three preliminary conventions will
precede it. The convention of the edu-
cational department. of which Prof
W. E. Howell is the secretary, began
last night and will continue until Sep
tember 25 The publishing department
convention will begin tomorrow. with
Rev. N. z. Town as chairman. and Rev.
w w Eastman and Rev. H. H. Hall as
associate chairmen. The union con-
ference presidents of North America
will meet Monday with President J. L.
McElhany of the North American di-
vision as chairman.
In addition to the leaders going from
Takoma Park, there will be present the
presidents Of seven Of the division con-
ferenceS in foreign countries, u union
conference presidents in North America
65 local conference presidents. the de-
partmental secretaries of the unions and
many of the local conferences. the de-
nominational college presidents in
North America, medical superintend-
entS and business managers of Sani-
tarlunls and officials of publishing
houses operated by the church in North
America. Many pastors of churches in
different sections of North America will
also attend.
three of the division conference pres
idents who will attend are former resi-
dents of Takoma Park, they being Revs.
T. H Evans of Shanghai. China: E. E,
AndroSs of Balboa, Canal Zone, and
C. B. Haynes of Buenos Aires, Argen-
tina.
Rev. w. A. Spicer. president of the
general conference, will be the chair
man Of the main convention. He will
have as associate chairmen the preSi-
dents Of the foreign division confer
ences, and Revs. o. Montgomery, the
general vice president of the denomi-
nation, and j. L. McElhany, president
Of the North American Division con-
ference.
Others going from the general con-
ference headquarters include 9. S. Long
acre and H. H. Votaw of the religious
liberty department; NJ. N. Campbell and
J. T. Boettcher of the bureau of home
missions: C. K. Meyers, B. E. Beddoe
and E. Kotz of the Secretarial depart
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the treasury department; ]. ]. Ireland
and Claude Conard of the auditing de-
partment; Mrs. L. Flora Plummer, S. A.
Wellman, and j. C. Thompson of the
Sabbath School department; j. A.
Stevens and E. F. Hackman Of the home
missionary department: l.. E. Froom OF
the ministerial department; H. E.
Rogers, statistical secretary; L. A, Han
sen; C. E. Rice and Miss Kathryn Jen-
sen of the medical department; M. E.
Kern, H. T. Elliott and G, L. Bond OF
the young peoples department; A. w.
Spalding of the home commission;
w. L. Burgan of the press bureau; Miss
Stella Fleisher, Miss Elizabeth Zeidler,
Miss Ava Covington, Miss Marcella
Miller, Miss Katie Farney and Chester
L. Rogers.
Those going from the Review and
Herald Publishing Association will in
clude F. NJ. Wilcox, E. r. Palmer, F. D.
Nichol. E. L. Richmond, L. w. Gra-
ham, j. w. Mace and Miss Lora E.
Clement.
Prof. H. H. Hamilton, president of |
washington Missionary College, will |
attend, as will Dr. A. W. Truman, c. G. 4
Psilver and j. G. Shull of the WaShing- |
ton Sanitarium Rev. F. H. Robbins, |
A j. Clark, E. j. Stipek, Prof. j. P.
Neff, E. NJ. Fishell and E. r. Many
will go from the Columbia Union con-
ference office and Rev. w. F. Martin
from the Potomac conference Office.