p. 24 | Review and Herald, Vol. 86, No. 24. (6/17/1909)

Southern Idaho Conference

By T. L. COPELAND

The annual camp-meeting of the Southern Idaho Conference will be held at Payette, Idaho, June 18-27. This will be an interesting meeting, and we urge that all our people in this conference lay every plan to attend. The new pavilion will be pitched having seating capacity for all, as well as the many visitors from the city. In connection with this camp-meeting will be the annual session of the conference.

At this meeting, following so closely the General Conference, it is expected we will have good help from the foreign missionaries and other general men, so that the meeting will be a spiritual feast, and all who can should attend. Pray that God will richly bless this gathering, and that the Spirit of God may be poured out for service and deeper consecration.

Application for one and one-third rates has been filed with railroad companies on certificate plan.

For particulars pertaining to tents or otherwise, address the writer, Box 43, Boise, Idaho.

T. L. COPELAND, Secretary.

Camp-Meetings for 1909

ATLANTIC UNION CONFERENCE

Central New England, Nashua Junction, N. H. .......... June 24 to July 4

CENTRAL UNION CONFERENCE

Wyoming, Crawford, Neb. ...... June 17-27 North Missouri, Chillicothe ...... Aug. 5-15 South Missouri, Springfield ...... Aug. 12-22 Kansas, Council Grove ...... Aug. 19-29 Nebraska, Hastings ...... Sept. 2-12 West Colorado, Grand Junction ...... Sept. 16-26

LAKE UNION CONFERENCE

West Michigan, Grand Rapids ...... July 28 to Aug. 8 Northern Illinois, Dwight ...... July 8-18 Northern Illinois, De Kalb ...... July 28 to Aug. 8 Indiana, Newcastle ...... Aug. 5-15 Southern Illinois, Centralia ...... Aug. 12-22 East Michigan ...... Aug. 19-29 North Michigan, Petoskey, Aug. 26 to Sept. 5 Wisconsin ...... Sept. 2-12

NORTHERN UNION CONFERENCE

Minnesota, St. Paul .......... June 17-27 North Dakota, Jamestown ...... June 21-27 South Dakota, Sioux Falls, June 24 to July 4 Iowa, Nevada ................ Aug. 19-29

SOUTHERN UNION CONFERENCE

Louisiana, Alexandria .... July 22 to Aug. 1

WESTERN CANADIAN UNION CONFERENCE

Manitoba, Portage la Prairie, June 24 to July 4 Saskatchewan (South), Qu'Appelle, July 6-12 Saskatchewan (North), Rosthern ...... July 20-25 Alberta, Olds ...... July 8-18 British Columbia, near Vancouver ................ July 27 to Aug. 2

General Conference Committee in Council

By W. A. Spicer

FOLLOWING the General Conference, the Committee has held day and evening sessions, and still much business remains to be considered. Some of the actions, of general interest, may be given here. It has been voted:—

ASIATIC DIVISION

That the territory of the Asiatic Division be as follows: The Chinese empire, Japan, Korea, Straits Settlements, and Malay Peninsula, India, and the Philippine Islands.

CANADIAN UNION BOUNDARIES

That, on request of the delegates of the two Canadian union conferences, the boundary line between them be extended eastward to the eighty-ninth meridian, giving Port Arthur and all territory west of Lake Nepigon to the Western Canadian Union Conference.

THE BAHAMA ISLANDS

That the Bahama Islands be transferred from the West Indian Union Conference to the Southeastern Union Conference.

FORMOSA

That the island of Formosa, which belongs to Japan, be made a part of our China Mission territory.

NEW SPANISH PAPERS

That a Spanish child's paper be published in Mexico, and a Spanish health journal in Argentina.

NORTH AMERICAN FOREIGN DEPARTMENT

That the appointments of this department, of which O. A. Olsen was elected secretary by the Conference, be as follows:—

German superintendent; G. F. Haffner; Swedish superintendent, S. Mortenson; Danish-Norwegian superintendent, L. H. Christian; corresponding secretary, A. Boettcher.

Advisory committee: G. A. Irwin, E. W. Farnsworth, E. R. Palmer, B. F. Kneeland, M. L. Andreasen, W. A. Spicer, E. T. Russell, R. A. Underwood, A. Moon, Wm. Covert, A. T. Robinson, W. B. White.

German advisory committee: G. F. Haffner, Henry Shultz, C. J. Kunkel, G. A. Grauer, and the director of the German work in the Eastern States.

Swedish advisory committee: S. Mortenson, August Anderson, G. E. Nord, J. F. Anderson, A. J. Stone.

Danish-Norwegian advisory committee: L. H. Christian, L. Johnson, M. L. Andreasen, M. S. Reppe, Lars Nielson.

NORTH AMERICAN NEGRO DEPARTMENT

That the members of the department shall be the departmental secretary, the presidents of those union conferences having the organized missions, a certain number of men appointed by the General Conference Committee, a representative to be appointed by each union conference in the North and Canada, and two representatives of the missions in the Southern union conferences having missions.

The members thus far appointed are as follows:—

Secretary of department: John W. Christian.

Presidents of union conferences having missions: C. F. McVagh, W. A. Westworth, Clarence Sautee.

Appointed by General Conference Committee: C. P. Bollman, J. E. White, F. R. Rogers, W. H. Green, D. E. Blake, M. C. Strachan, T. H. Branch, J. K. Humphrey.

Representatives, one from each union conference in the North and Canada, not yet appointed by those unions.

For Southeastern Union Mission: Sydney Scott, Page Shepherd.

For Southern Union Mission: Thomas Murphy, S. A. Jordan.

For Southwestern Union Mission: To be nominated by that union.

DISTRIBUTION OF LABOR

Not many of these recommendations can as yet be published. Following are a few:—

W. J. Blake, of Alabama, to Canadian Union Conference.

B. E. Manuel, of the Foreign Mission Seminary, to Ontario.

I. M. Martin, of Eastern Pennsylvania, to Southeastern Union Conference.

C. B. Haynes, of the Chesapeake Conference, to Georgia.

A. Grundset, of New York, to Abyssinian Mission.

V. E. Toppenberg, to Abyssinia.

B. Berglund, to the Northland Mission, Scandinavia.

H. Toppenberg, of Nebraska, to Denmark.

C. Juhl, of Iowa, to Denmark.

F. Hinter, of the German Union Conference, to the Russian Union Conference.

D. P. Gaede, of the Russian Union Conference, to the German Union Conference.

Edgar Hartman, of the German Union Conference, to Syrian-Egyptian Mission.

J. Seefried and F. Scior, of the German Union Conference, to Turkey.

O. Reinke, of New York, to the German Union Conference.

H. A. Kristal, of California, to Russia.

H. Tonjes, of New York, to Brazil.

J. P. Novak, of Mexico, to Argentina.

Max Trummer, of Union College, to Argentina.

G. E. Hartman, of Philadelphia, to Buenos Aires, Argentina.

W. R. Pohle, of the Chesapeake Conference, to Peru.

E. T. Wilson, of the Foreign Mission Seminary, to Peru.

F. A. Stahl, of Ohio, to Bolivia.

Otto Schulz, of the Foreign Mission Seminary, to Bolivia.

Dr. Vasenius, of the Washington (D. C.) Sanitarium, to Abyssinia.

F. Oster, of Walla Walla College, to the Levant Mission.

Henry Dirksen, of Walla Walla College, to the German Union Conference.

O. H. Maxson, of the Washington Sanitarium and the Foreign Mission Seminary, to Peru.

G. B. Starr, of Australia, to New York City.

Miss Ella Burrows, of British Guiana, to West Africa.

W. H. Lewis, of Takoma Park, to West Africa.

W. W. Fletcher, of Singapore, to China.

Important Action

An action that means much to the mission fields and that should lay a burden upon every believing heart, was that by which the Committee recorded its inability to send out any further workers—not even those mentioned above—until larger gifts flow into the mission treasury. A halt must be called and workers held back from the needy fields. It is a situation that ought to appeal to Seventh-day Adventists to do something unusual. The opportunity is afforded in the coming July offering, concerning which the Conference adopted the following:—

“Whereas, The midsummer offering, of Sabbath, July 3, is right upon us, at a time when the mission treasury is in great need and unable to provide the means to send to the fields many consecrated workers who are ready to go in response to the Macedonian cry; therefore,—

“Resolved, That we urge all our people to pray and work with special earnestness at this time to make the midsummer offering the largest we have ever received at the midsummer season, in order that laborers may be hastened forth to fields white for the harvest.”

The gifts of fives and tens and hundreds and thousands must surely flow in to meet the call. There is no money to send the messengers of hope to the perishing, and nearly a hundred thousand Seventh-day Adventists believe that the Lord is at the door, and that we have committed to us the last message to give to the world. The call will surely be answered, and these workers, some of whom must temporarily take up the first thing at hand while waiting, will be sent on to the fields. No other course can be conceived. But the time for action has come.

W. A. SPICER, Secretary.

Midsummer Offering to Missions

THE Mission Board has appointed the first Sabbath in July—July 3—for the usual midsummer offering to missions. Readings will be sent out in time for this important occasion. Church elders are requested to announce this meeting on the previous Sabbath, in all the churches.

July Life and Health Issue

By Editor

ALL unfilled orders for the June number of Life and Health must now be filled with the July issue, which is ready for delivery to-day. Our entire edition of 60,000 copies of the June number was exhausted June 10, leaving orders for several thousand copies unfilled. We are printing 60,000 as the first edition of the July issue.

The Signs of the Times Circulation

By Editor

From the office of the Signs of the Times we learn that up to the first day of June, twenty-three thousand six hundred copies of the June number of the monthly magazine had been sent out from the office of publication. We are glad to note that this magazine has already established a good circulation, and hope it will be largely increased.

Editorial

Truth's Final Triumph — God's Victors

— Hope Thou in God — Authority

Against Authority ............................ 3, 4

The General Conference

Departmental Reports ......................... 5, 6

General Conference Proceedings ........ 6-22

Miscellaneous ................................ 23

Photograph taken on the front steps of the Foreign Mission Seminary, Takoma Park, Washington, D. C., Sunday afternoon, June 6, 1909, the last day of the General Conference. These forty-seven agents, hastily called together by the manager of our periodical department, have now scattered to various parts of the United States. Their efforts during the next few weeks will doubtless result in the sale of hundreds of thousands of our ten-cent magazines. For further information see explanatory item on this page.