MICHIGAN CONFERENCE

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 28, 1880

MICHIGAN CONFERENCE.

In connection with the camp-meeting and General Conference at Battle Creek, Sept. 28 to Oct. 11, 1880, the Michigan Conference held its twentieth annual session.

The following-named churches were admitted into the Conference: Clyde, Allegan Co., 20 members; Fentonville, Genesee Co., 25 members; Mason, Ingham Co., 19 members; Westphulia, Clinton Co., 10 members; Fremont Center, Newago Co., 17 members; Allendale, Ottawa Co., 8 members. The partially organized company of 14 members at Blaine, St. Clair Co., was taken under the watchcare of the Conference.

Among other resolutions passed were the following of general interest:—

Resolved, That the local elders and deacons in our churches should be elected annually, such election to occur in each church at the time of the January quarterly meeting, except in churches where dissatisfaction with the incumbent has been expressed by at least a respectable minority of the church. In such cases it shall be the duty of the church clerk to notify the Conference Committee of such fact; and elections in such churches shall be deferred till proper help is provided by the committee.

Resolved, That in the judgment of this body it is inexpedient for our churches to allow ministers of other denominations who are addicted to the use of tobacco, or who are avowedly hostile to important features of our faith, to minister to them in the capacity of preachers of the gospel.

Credentials for the coming year were granted to the following persons: James White, Mrs E. G. White, J. H. Waggoner, J. Byington, R. J. Lawrence, U. Smith, J. Fargo, E. H. Root, W. H. Littlejohn, E. B. Lane, J. O. Corliss, D. H. Lamson, H. M. Kenyon, M. B. Miller, A. O. Burrill, E. R. Jones, E. Van Deusen, J. Sisley, D. A. Wellman, G. K. Owen, and J. L. Edgar.

Licenses to preach were also granted to: W. C. Gage, J. E. White, W. C. White, H. S. Guilford, M. S. Burnam, Frank Starr, L. A. Kellogg, Mrs. E. S. Lane, Mrs. G. K. Owen, A. Weeks, H. N. Rounds, Day Conkling, Geo. A. King, Richard Conradi, R. C. Horton, A. W. Bather, and Alph Wood.

Wm. Ostrander, E. P. Daniels, and G. H. Gilbert were recommended to receive ordination.

The Conference officers for the coming year are as follows: President, Eld. J. Fargo; Secretary, Eld. U. Smith; Treasurer, W. H. Edwards; Executive Committee, J. Fargo, E. H. Root, and H. W. Kellogg. The Camp-meeting Committee is J. F. Carman, Leander Graves, and J. S. Day. Elder E. H. Root was appointed trustee of the Educational fund in place of H. S. King whose term has now expired.