The Utah Conference by H. W. Cottrell

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 5, 1908

The Utah Conference

By H. W. Cottrell

The fourth annual session of the Utah Conference was held at Salt Lake City, October 2-6. The churches were well represented by chosen delegates.

It was encouraging to see the growth the conference has made in the last few years. Their reports show an increase of forty-seven to the church membership for the past conference year, not including the children of our own people. This is an excellent showing for that small conference, and especially among that people.

The Sabbath-school donations have increased about twenty per cent the last year. There has been a falling off in tithe receipts during the year, due, doubtless, to the financial stringency that has been so generally felt over the United States.

We have had in contemplation for some months past the plan of establishing a sanitarium in or near Salt Lake City; so the brethren have gone forward and raised in cash and pledges the sum of fifteen hundred dollars for this proposed enterprise.

The brethren at the conference, in responding to an appeal made in behalf of the colored people in the Southern States, gave an offering to God for that work, which averaged about one dollar each for all present. I think this act was indeed commendable for that poor people. God blessed them for it, as was evidenced from the joy they received in giving.

The meetings were excellent throughout. Brother Charles Nelson was ordained to the work of the gospel ministry. Brethren W. T. Knox and J. J. Ireland and the writer were the workers from abroad. Elder S. G. Huntington was re-elected president of the conference. If the workers will all be humble, the Lord will do a great work through them for that people, to the glory of his own name.

H. W. Cottrell.