In a letter to Brother E. L. Richmond, of this office, Elder S. A. Wellman, of India, says of the work there:—
“With the temperature ranging around 110 degrees, it is rather trying to keep the pace that the work this year is demanding; but we are gradually getting things up to the mark, and have been fortunate enough to nearly double our output for the last three months. And there is sufficient in sight to keep us busy till well into the fall.
“Among the items planned for the office here in the north is a number of tracts in the various languages, including16Bengali, Hindi, Urdu, Marathi, Gurmukhi, and Karen, if we can make the arrangements for the preparation of the litho transfers in the latter language. We are unable to get the type work done in Burma, owing to the hostility of one of the missions, which controls all the type; but by the use of the litho process there is no reason why we shall not be able to supply the need, and eventually to develop a literature for the Karen people in common with our other language areas.
“Our special numbers of the Watchman are having a good circulation. We are now printing eight thousand of each issue, and I hope that this will increase.
“We are trying to do more and more of our printing in both English and the vernaculars, here in India, as it gives us the advantage of the local address always, and this counts in turning the people toward our organized work in this country.
“With interest we have read of the circulation of ‘The World’s Crisis’ and similar volumes in America. The present time is opportune for the presentation of the third angel’s message; and we believe that as a denomination we shall more and more turn to the popular, low-priced presentation of the truths of this message as given in these volumes. We trust that the summer influx of student canvassers may be but one more means in the hands of God of arousing the interest and spreading the message.”
The Employment of Sanitarium Physicians
Terms and Remunerations
With the consideration of the relation of the work of the medical superintendent to that of the business manager, the question of proper remuneration to physicians was raised at our medical conventions last spring. We now give the substance of some of the discussions:—
Dr. H. W. Miller presented the topic by stating that in some places, physicians were employed in sanitarium work on a commission basis. While beginning with surgery, the principle had entered other lines of medical work, and was even beginning to show in other departments of the institutional work. He said:—
“I cannot conceive of a successful superintendent who does not give his whole attention to the institution. I do not know how he can divide his time between his own interests and those of the institution. I cannot understand just how he would draw the line between personal interests and those of the institution. I should not wish to be in a position so trying as that, and offering such temptation to serve one’s own interest.
“I recognize that our doctors do not receive a high remuneration, but every worker in this denomination is paid a low wage as compared to salaries of the world. Our work is operated on a missionary basis, and as missionaries we are to sacrifice. So the question becomes one of operating our sanitariums in harmony with the spirit of our work and message.
“It is essential for any worker to live with an institution and sacrifice for it. I see no reason for the percentage basis for the superintendent or for the surgeon. A percentage should not be given to one unless it is given to all. If it is right for one, it is right for all. If it is an incentive to better work on the part of the physician, it should be the same for every other worker in the institution, and in every other line of our denominational work.”
I. H. Evans: “Very few things succeed of themselves. A thing to succeed must be managed. It will not run well if its head is engaged in outside interests. A school cannot prosper without the undivided attention of those who are directing its efforts. That holds true in sanitariums. “Sanitariums are a part of our organized work, and require the same care and attention to make them succeed as does any other part of the work. The head physician in the sanitarium is more important than any one else. He, above all persons, needs to give it full attention. The manager cannot be a substitute for the doctor. The institution cannot be expected to succeed unless it has the doctor’s undivided attention.
“The institution cannot get along well unless it has some one to suffer with it. This suffering is a necessity. There is a great difference between a sanitarium with a God-fearing head physician who suffers, toils, and prays for the institution, and one that is left entirely in the hands of the man who is working only for money. In the latter, one can expect only trouble, debts, and failure.
“The doctor who really makes a sanitarium a success is the one who is in touch with everything in it. His whole time is needed. We invite failure under any other condition. I do not believe we can ever make any of our institutions succeed unless the men who are responsible can stay right with them. The growth and strength of an institution lies in the head and leader. There has to be a great motive power put into it to make it grow. The head of the institution must give his undivided time to the development of the work.
“The relation of the medical superintendent to the business manager should be that of cooperation. These two should work in the closest sympathy. Friction between them will make success difficult. It is hard to run anything without cooperation. The business manager can strengthen the physician if he has the physician’s sympathy, and vice versa.
“The head of the institution should lead. Our medical men should be strong, spiritual, godly, genuine Seventh-day Adventists, loyal to every principle of the third angel’s message. Their whole lives should be given to the carrying out of the ideal, the attaining of the object the denomination has in operating sanitariums. It is difficult to reach perfection, but we can aim at it. Our goal should be high.
“The sanitarium should run on both medical and business principles. Medical work can be conducted on both professional and business principles. That does not mean speculation or commercialism, but simply the use of proper business methods. We cannot afford to run any of our sanitariums on a strictly worldly basis, yet we can adopt business methods. We can carry our sanitarium work on good, sensible, courteous business principles. No business manager ought to make it hard for the doctor, but should do his utmost to aid and help him. The medical men should not assume and carry on the business of a sanitarium where there is a business manager. Doctor and business manager should study courtesy, and seek for methods that will be helpful to all.”
F. M. Wilcox: “It is true that nothing militates more against the success of an institution than friction between responsible workers. To avoid misunderstanding they should keep in close touch with one another. We lack frankness. We fail to come in close relation with one another. There are no problems in sanitariums that cannot be settled by a frank understanding. We ought not to allow a day to go by with difficulties unsettled. Little misunderstandings will start great misunderstandings.
“Should our medical workers be regarded as gospel workers? Should they operate on a missionary basis or on a commercial basis? When these foundation principles are settled, these other questions will adjust themselves. They lie at the foundation of the whole thing. I fail to see how a physician can be given to commercial work and that spirit not pervade the whole institution. The very position the superintendent occupies, if he follows that principle, puts that spirit unconsciously into the hearts of all the workers in the institution.”17
W. T. Knox: “There ought not to be much trouble between the medical and business sides of the house. Where there is, it is generally due to thoughtlessness to begin with, and to oversensitiveness in keeping it alive. It is very easy for us to go over the line. If we have the right spirit, notwithstanding we make mistakes, we can avoid trouble. We may even avoid making mistakes.
“The superintendent is to be the inspiration of the institution. He is particularly responsible for the character of the institution. There is not room for a division of his service. As a minister of God’s grace, he must stand in his place, loyal to his one work and its interests.
“As touching the question of service, it seems to me we must have a clear, definite policy. We do not have to go very far nor wait very long to find clear lines of policy laid down as governing our brethren and sisters who are nurses. It is evident that they should give their whole service to God. They should not debase their talents to simply selfish motives. There is no place in this work for the service of self.
“This question of compensation seems a hard one. It has caused more discussion in the medical than in any other work. It has been settled, and it is still unsettled. I cannot but believe that the denomination has arrived at a right conclusion on the subject; but if it has not, we ought to find it out. As a result of the right position not being fully maintained by all who have connected with medical work, some sanitariums have been brought down to the level of hospitals. Today we have institutions among us where this thing is the cause of great perplexity to their constituencies.
“The General Conference at one of its recent councils adopted a series of resolutions, not especially aiming at the medical side of our work, but endeavoring to help all phases of the work. There were present at the council adopting these resolutions several physicians. The action is on the equalization of the wage scale, and I read from it the following:—
“‘We recommend, That our sanitariums do not arrange for the medical work of an institution to be done by a physician from without, having a private business of his own, but that the medical work be in the hands of a physician wholly in the employ of the sanitarium.’”
“The series of resolutions deals with the departments of our work and with various questions arising in it. This resolution was not the result of a sudden impulse, but of days of study. It sets forth our ideas of the basis on which we all work—that is, as workers together on a missionary basis. It guards against some things that experience has shown to be detrimental to the true missionary spirit.
“We cannot give place in this work to the spirit of self-serving. The cause of God will go down under that, and the cause of self will be the cause cared for. If the brethren who have studied this action and have looked at it from the other standpoint find we are wrong, we ought to be corrected.
“The Spirit of God has made plain the importance of the medical work in its relation to the closing work of God in the earth. The medical work was not established for any mercenary motive. The question of possible financial profit did not enter into the original establishment of sanitarium work. The missionary end of these institutions was the one thing in view.
“Our sanitariums have been established to assist the work of God, and are a part of his work. They should be so conducted. Every one who enters the service of God, in whatever capacity, does so for the opportunity to help build up the kingdom of God, and not for personal gain.”
G. B. Thompson: “The real question is, What is best to do in carrying on institutional work? The very best thing for one branch of the work would be good for every other branch of the work. Would it be best for the president of the General Conference to devote a portion of his time to outside work? The same question would apply to all other workers. Would such a course have the best influence on the denomination, on the individual, and on the institutions?
“If it is proper for one person to receive special privileges, it is proper for everybody else to receive them. If it is proper for the superintendent, it is proper for the business manager, the cashier, the nurse, and every other sanitarium worker. And if our sanitariums can operate that way, our schools can do the same. How could our schools then train missionaries? The thing savors too much of commercialism.”
A number of others, ministers and physicians, spoke to the question. The following resolution was adopted:—
“Resolved, That we hereby express our approval of the general wage scale adopted by the General and North American Division Conference Committee, and advise the various institutions in this field to adopt this scale as early as consistent.
“Resolved, further, That we accept the recommendation of the above committee in disapproving of employing workers on a percentage or commission basis; and that workers be employed to give their undivided time and attention to the interests of the work in which they are employed.”
Field Notes
The baptism of fifteen is reported from the Quebec, Canada, camp meeting.
Fifteen persons were baptized at the Wyoming camp meeting, which closed recently.
Elder W. H. Thurston reports the baptism of eleven persons at Ione, British Columbia.
A Sabbath school has been organized by one of our canvassers at Batavia, in the Western New York Conference.
The church at New Haven, Conn., recently received ten new members by baptism, and the Guilford church nine.
Twenty-seven persons were baptized at the close of the North Michigan camp meeting, held this year at Gladstone, Mich.
During the recent general meeting held in Camden, Maine, nine persons received baptism and united with the church.
A new church has been organized at Hartford, in the West Michigan Conference, with twenty-one charter members. The organization of a Sabbath school with a membership of twelve is reported from Decatur.
A company of fifteen was recently organized by Elder A. C. Anderson at Brunson, Mo. Five new believers have received baptism at Townley, having accepted present truth through the efforts of Elder C. G. Bellah.
Medical Missionary Department
W. A. RUBLE, M. D. · · General SecretaryL. A. HANSEN · · Assistant SecretaryH. W. MILLER, M. D. · N. Am. Div. Secretary
Medical Work Attracts Crowds
By W. L. BURGAN.
A STRIKING illustration of the effectiveness of blending the medical work with the evangelistic was given in a recent meeting held in the large canvas pavilion on the east side of Indianapolis, Ind., where an effort has been in progress for a considerable part of the summer. This campaign for the salvation of souls has been under the direction of Elder J. H. N. Tindall, who has had associated with him Dr. A. W. Truman, teacher of physiology in the College of Medical Evangelists, Loma Linda, Cal., and an able corps of Bible workers and other helpers.
One evening Dr. Truman gave a very practical and instructive lecture on “Why We Do Not Eat Flesh Foods,” aptly illustrating his remarks with stereopticon slides. At the close of the lecture an invitation was given to the audience to sample the health foods, and the five hundred or more present, with very few exceptions, partook of the different dishes. The foods had been prepared in a neatly appointed kitchen just to one side of the rostrum, by one of the chefs from the Wabash Valley Sanitarium, located at La Fayette, Ind., assisted by several nurses and by sisters of the Indianapolis church.
The wholesomeness of the foods was vouchsafed long before the time came for serving, as the scent that permeated the air while the foods were in the process of cooking was certainly appetizing. Many strangers were present, and were loud in their praise of the way the foods were prepared, and they left the tent with a very favorable impression of the methods employed to serve healthful and attractive dishes. It was encouraging to stand in the midst of the people as they filed past the serving counter—just as is done in the cafeterias—and listen to their favorable comments.
Those in charge of the effort are endeavoring to carry out the instruction given in the spirit of prophecy, which says, in “Testimonies for the Church,” Vol. VI, pages 240, 241: “Our physicians are to unite with the work of the ministers of the gospel. Through their labors, souls are to be saved, that the name of God may be magnified. Medical missionary work is in no case to be divorced from the gospel ministry. The Lord has specified that the two shall be as closely connected as the arm is with the body. Without this union neither part of the work is complete. The medical missionary work is the gospel in illustration.” It was stated that the health lecture always attracts a large and appreciative audience.
Treatment rooms had been provided in the church building, which is only about a city block from the location of the tent. Those desiring treatment are treated free of charge, but those who desire to contribute toward maintaining the work are permitted to do so. Several nurses are assisting in this work.
Elder Tindall was quite optimistic over the outlook, and expects a rich harvest of souls from the season’s effort. The medical phase of the message occupies two evenings each week, while all the other nights are given over to purely evangelistic work. The attendance has averaged from 250 to 500, and the workers are responding to scores of invitations from interested ones who desire further instruction. W. L. BURGAN.
The Spiritual Interests of the Sanitarium
By G. B. Starr
The sanitarium is God's instrumentality for the saving of souls who could not be reached through the ordinary ministry. Such an institution is a special soul-saving station, in which every employee, physician, nurse, and manager is to act a part.
The religious influence, therefore, should permeate and vitalize every department, and be first in the thought and plans and actual working of the place, so prominent that no guest or visitor could fail to be influenced by it, meeting it at every turn and in every department. Certainly God has not raised up denominational institutions to be foremost in drug methods, surgical methods, or even hydrotherapeutic methods in themselves; but to present Christ as the healer18of the body and soul, and to exalt and emphasize the laws of God, physical and spiritual, and the gospel of Jesus as the one remedy for all of man's ills.
God has given to us a treasure of information, a wealth of truth, upon the true relation of sin to sickness, and of salvation to health and happiness. If this treasure were possessed by worldly-wise men, would they not bring it to the forefront and emphasize it as a great asset?
Emphasizing the religious phase of the sanitarium work includes active co-operation on the part of physicians, manager, matron, head nurses, and graduate nurses in all the religious exercises, social services, Sabbath services, tract society meetings, and Sunday night meetings for the patients.
If the physicians absent themselves from any of these, they give a decided impression that other matters are more important, and employees and patients treat them in a similar manner.
At one sanitarium the writer visited, all the physicians attended the patients' morning worship at 8:40. The music was made attractive by having a good player always on hand at 8:30 to begin to draw the patients in by playing and singing.
One of the physicians led the worship, and he told me he spent from two to four hours each day with God and the Bible and the spirit of prophecy, in preparation. This was a great blessing to the physician in his work, as well as to the patients. At these times of study of the Word and of prayer, God can impart to the physician light and wisdom not to be found in any worldly journal or treatise on disease, and thus the God-fearing physician is placed where God can make him a leader in the science of true healing, and lead him above and out of the ranks of the world's medical profession.
And the spiritual interest of the sanitarium cannot be so well served by having a chaplain do all this. While this physician was leading the worship, another physician was out in the hallway meeting the patients as they came from the breakfast, and cheerfully inviting and advising them to spend a few moments in song and the worship of God. The business manager closed his office for these twenty minutes, and, accompanied by his assistants, took part with the patients in their worship. So also did the head bath man and bath woman, and every call boy that could be spared. At the present time this institution is enjoying the largest patronage it has ever had at this time of year.
At another of our largest sanitariums, it was decided to improve the attendance at the Sunday evening service, and so an interesting and attractive song service was arranged, consisting of solos, duets, and a gospel talk of fifteen to twenty minutes sandwiched right in between the songs. The result has been an increase in attendance from about fifteen persons to as many as sixty.
We earnestly entreat that all of God's institutions be conducted according to the pattern which he has given, that his signal blessing and approval may attend them, and that they may be the great power and assistance in the finishing of the gospel of the grace of God in all the earth for this the most important of all times in this earth's history.
Educational and Missionary Volunteer Convention for the Union College District
By Harvey A. Morrison
Friday evening, July 9, the opening address was given by Elder A. G. Daniells. The subject, “Our Message and Our Young People,” is one of vital importance, and brought to us a vision of the great work our young people are to prepare to do. Sabbath morning he addressed the convention on “The Call of the Orient.” The fact that Elder Daniells has just arrived home from the Orient gave a freshness to the tone of his message as he directed our minds to the great need of the East, and also to the many wonderful openings and opportunities that are offered us in these lands of darkness and superstition. With this vision before us, the delegates were specially prepared to take up the consideration of the work of training and directing our young people.
The convention was conducted by the Educational and Missionary Volunteer Departments of the North American Division Conference. Prof. Frederick Griggs, assisted by Prof. W. E. Howell, led in the educational work; and Prof. M. E. Kern, assisted by Elder Meade MacGuire, led in the young people's work. There were about one hundred and fifty delegates present, representing institutions and conferences in the Northern, Southwestern, and Central Union Conferences.
We feel that the results of this convention will be a great blessing to this entire Union College district. The unity which pervaded the council in such a marked manner, also manifested itself among us. Every one seemed anxious to strengthen and build up the work, not only in his particular locality, but in the entire field.
Our educational work was more thoroughly organized than ever before, and this means much for the rapid progress of our children and youth in the elementary school, academy, and college. This closer affiliation will be a blessing not only to the pupils and students, but to the institutions themselves.
The relation of the Missionary Volunteer work to education was another prominent feature brought out in the convention. All workers in these two departments received new views as to how each department could help the other. Plans for this close relationship insure rapid advancement for our young people, and the saving of many more of them to this truth. All along the line broad and effective plans were laid to help guide our young people in the home, in the school, in their social life, and in their work. Every action taken was to the one end of giving this message to the world in this generation. In order to do this, we must introduce a new and reviving spirit among our young people, and give them such a preparation that they may be ready to dedicate their lives to the work in heathen lands. The studies given on “Seek and Save,” “Saved to Serve,” “Christian Leadership,” etc., gave the keynote to the entire convention. The Lord came very near and blessed us throughout these meetings, as was evidenced at our last meeting Sabbath afternoon, when we held a consecration service led by Professor Howell. Those present at this meeting could not help being inspired to consecrate themselves unreservedly to the finishing of this work. The one determination expressed by nearly all the delegates was to go home to their work with a zeal and a spirit that would bring to Christ every child or young person in the sphere of their influence. All were led to realize more than ever before the need of preparing men and women for our evangelistic and mission work. Let every reader pray for the workers who have to do with the training and molding of these young minds, that a mighty work may be done for God's people, and that the schools in this district may greatly prosper in order that the work may rapidly be finished and we be gathered home.
HARVEY A. MORRISON.
News and Miscellany
Notes and clippings from the daily and weekly press
— A recent cablegram to the State Department at Washington from Peking stated that from 80,000 to 100,000 lives had been lost in the recent floods in the provinces of Kwang-tung and Kwang-si.
— Advocates of a reduction in letter postage from two cents to one cent are resolved to carry their fight into the next Congress, regardless of Postmaster-General Burleson’s statement that the deficit in postal revenues for the fiscal year will total approximately $10,000,000.
— The most serious slide ever known on the Panama Canal, which has been under way for several weeks, partly moved into the Culebra Cut recently, closing the cut to large vessels. The break extends back 2,000 feet from the canal, and will continue to move for some time.
— Very interesting, from a Scriptural standpoint, is the news that comes from Egypt, where the British forces are facing the Turks. The Sea of Galilee, sacred through its many associations with the earthly ministry of the Prince of Peace, is in the war zone. The hills around Nazareth, where the boy Jesus spent his early years, have been fortified by the Turks, and have become arsenals of destruction. The ruins of Capernaum are among the relics of the past endangered by mines and air bombs. Among the other sites of Bible history now become a battle ground of modern times, is the mount where we are told Moses received the ten commandments, as well as the territory over which the Israelites wandered, and Hebron, where Abraham was buried. Added to these is the place where archeologists claim was located the garden of Eden, between Annah and Hitt, on the upper Euphrates.19
— Secretary of the Navy Daniels has obtained the consent of Thomas A. Edison, the celebrated inventor, to become chairman of a new naval board of invention and development. The object of the board is the encouragement of inventors and investigation of their inventions by some of the greatest living experts. The board is expected to initiate schemes for the perfection of the defenses of the United States, particularly at sea. Inasmuch as the board was conceived since the last Congress adjourned, its members will have to serve for a time at least without pay, but all those whose names were suggested were eager to do so out of patriotism. Edison already has started work on a battery to give wider steaming radius to submarines.
— One of the most outstanding events to occur in San Francisco this year in connection with the exposition was the World’s Bible Congress held August 1-4, under the auspices of the American Bible Society, with Pres. Woodrow Wilson as the honorary president. Other organizations represented were the British and Foreign Bible Society, of England; the National Bible Society, of Scotland; the Société Biblique, de France; the Netherlands Bible Society; and the Prussian Principal Bible Society, of Berlin. The program consisted of a prologue designed to exhibit the historical character of the Book itself. After this there followed a succession of papers and addresses from scholars, missionaries, translators, men of recognized preëminence in various churches, dealing with the Bible in as many countries as it was possible to reach. The troublous condition of the world made it impossible to carry out the idea fully, but it is hoped that enough was said to stimulate thought and awaken interest in the Bible as a world-conquering book.
— The Yaqui Indians are the most brave, hardy, and industrious element in Mexico, and intermittently for thirty years they have rebelled against the oppression of the Mexican government. In western Sonora a tribe of 30,000 practiced for centuries a system of common land tenure whereby the pasture is open to all members of the tribe, with certain restrictions as to number of heads of cattle permitted to one individual. The agricultural land is subdivided and distributed in allotments to each family. Every three years these lands are redistributed, thus giving a due proportion of rich and poor soil to all. Surrounded by mountains which gave them excellent facilities for defense, they have defeated every effort to subjugate them, and their independence and the integrity of their land system remain only slightly impaired. Since 1880 they have adopted in some places a sort of private ownership in farm land, owing to changes in methods of agriculture, in which they are the most forward people in the republic. The Yaqui Valley is of unusual fertility, and cunning land speculators began to have designs on their territory with the ascent of Diaz to the dictatorship. Offers of rich land, together with the labor of hard-working peons, who are most unusual to Mexico, attracted the American settlers into the portions of the territory where the land speculators were able to gain a foothold. Now the Yaquis are unable to distinguish between innocent purchasers and usurpers of their soil.
— An army of 25,000 industrially employed perished last year in the United States by fatal accidents. Strange to relate, farm employment furnished the next to the largest number.
— The first American submarine to meet tests designed to prove that it could cross the Atlantic Ocean and return without stopping, completed its trial in Long Island Sound about two weeks ago. The propelling fuel is heavy oil, and the Swiss engine with which the vessel is equipped drives it both on the surface and under the water, replacing the double gasoline and electric engines formerly used. The boat is only 160 feet long.
— President Wilson has called for reports on the subject of national defense. These will be made to him personally by the heads of the War and Navy Departments. Without regard to present-day controversies, the President, in association with various heads of departments, has been giving consideration for some time to the preparation of a reasonable and adequate naval program which he will propose to Congress at the proper time, probably in his opening message at the coming session.
— St. Louis has undertaken the task of clearing the city of flies, all the citizens uniting in the effort. The bureau of health is back of the movement. The plan involves the erection of municipal flytraps in the principal streets, and in four weeks more than fifty-seven gallons, or on computation 3,000,000 flies, have been captured. The contrivance is a huge cylinder trap placed on the top of a barrel painted green. Common brown sugar is used in the trap to catch the flies. The city has now established twenty-four such flytraps. There is a noticeable decrease of flies in the city, and the health department will keep pushing the antifly campaign.
— The University of Pennsylvania announces the discovery of the great temple at Memphis, for ages concealed from human sight by the sand of the desert and the mud of the Nile. The temple is said to belong to the period of Ramases II. Its discovery is hoped to be but the beginning of a series of discoveries in and about the site of Memphis, which was one of the great cities of the world 3,000 years ago. The temple was unearthed as a result of the explorations carried on during the spring and summer by the Eckley B. Coxe, Jr., expedition, under the leadership of Dr. Fisher, curator of the Egyptian section of the university museum.
— According to Postmaster-General Burleson, the postal deficit for the year will be about $10,000,000. This shortage is attributed largely to the war conditions. It is said that if there had not been a most rigid application of economical methods in the management of the offices throughout the land, the deficiency would have been very much larger. The Postmaster-General rejoices that, notwithstanding an economical reduction in the expenses of administration, there has not been a single just complaint of inefficiency sent in from any section of the country. There has been a falling off in mail of every class, but the business of the parcel post has increased. The prospects are said to be much brighter for the new fiscal year.
Educational Department
F. Griggs General and N. Am. Div. Secretary
W. E. Howell N. Am. Div. Asst. Secretary
Camp Meetings
ATLANTIC UNION CONFERENCE
Northern New England, White River Junction, Vt. ........Aug. 26 to Sept. 5
Maine, Dover and Foxcroft ..Aug. 26 to Sept. 5
Eastern New York, Schenectady...Sept. 2-12
CENTRAL UNION CONFERENCE
Nebraska, Hastings ........Aug. 19-29
Kansas, Emporia ........Sept. 2-12
COLUMBIA UNION CONFERENCE
Ohio, Mount Vernon ............Aug. 12-22
West Virginia, Weston....Aug. 26 to Sept. 5
Virginia, Newport News (colored) Sept. 9-19
LAKE UNION CONFERENCE
West Michigan, Charlotte.........Aug. 12-22
Indiana, Indianapolis........Aug. 19-29
North Michigan, Mount Pleasant .......Aug. 26 to Sept. 5
Northern Illinois, Joliet....Aug. 26 to Sept. 5
Southern Illinois, Springfield.....Sept. 2-12
PACIFIC UNION CONFERENCE
Utah, Ogden ....................Aug. 17-22
Southeastern California, Huntington Beach ................Aug. 26 to Sept. 5
Arizona ........................Oct. 7-17
SOUTHEASTERN UNION CONFERENCE
North Carolina, High Point ......Aug. 12-22
Georgia, Union City......Aug. 26 to Sept. 5
Florida, St. Petersburg....Sept. 30 to Oct. 10
SOUTHWESTERN UNION CONFERENCE
North Texas, Linden (local).....Aug. 12-22
Oklahoma, Oklahoma City.....Aug. 19-29
New Mexico, Clovis ............Sept. 2-12
South Texas, Corpus Christi (local) .........................Sept. 16-26
SOUTHERN UNION CONFERENCE
Kentucky, Nicholasville ........Aug. 13-22
Alabama, Birmingham (white)....Aug. 19-29
New Mexico Conference Association
By R. B. Coberly; W. R. Goss
Notice is hereby given that a meeting of the Seventh-day Adventist Conference Association of New Mexico will be held at 9 A. M., Wednesday, Sept. 8, 1915, on the camp ground at Clovis, N. Mex., to elect officers, and to transact such other business as may come before the association.
R. B. COBERLY, President;
W. R. GOSS, Secretary.
New Mexico Conference
By R. B. Coberly; W. R. Goss
The sixth annual session of the New Mexico Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in connection with the camp meeting at Clovis, N. Mex., Sept. 2-12, 1915. The first meeting will be called at 9 A. M., September 3. Officers will be elected, and such other business transacted as may properly come before the conference.
R. B. COBERLY, President;
W. R. GOSS, Secretary.
Maine Conference
By HOMER W. CARR; MRS. HOMER W. CARR
THE forty-eighth annual session of the Maine Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in connection with the camp meeting at Foxcroft, Maine, Aug. 26 to Sept. 5, 1915. Conference officers will be elected, and such plans and recommendations adopted as the conference may deem advisable for the furtherance of its work. Each church is earnestly requested to report to the conference secretary a full list of its accredited delegates. The first meeting of the conference will be held at 9 A. M., Friday, August 27. Let all delegates be present at the roll call of the opening meeting of the conference.
HOMER W. CARR, President;
MRS. HOMER W. CARR, Secretary.
Indiana Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association
By E. A. BRISTOL; F. A. LOOP
The Indiana Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association will hold its regular annual meeting in connection with the conference at Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 19-29, 1915, to elect a board of trustees, and to transact such other business as is deemed necessary. The first meeting will be held August 20, at 10:30 A. M. All accredited delegates to the conference are delegates to this association.
E. A. BRISTOL, President;
F. A. LOOP, Secretary.
Kansas Conference Association
By W. D. MACLAY; E. HARRIS
THE next annual meeting of the Kansas Seventh-day Adventist Conference Association will be held at Emporia, Kans. The purpose of this meeting will be to elect the board of directors for the coming year, and to transact such business as may be necessary at that time. The first meeting will be held at 10 A. M., Tuesday, Sept. 7, 1915.
W. D. MACLAY, President;
E. HARRIS, Secretary.
Maine Conference Association
By HOMER W. CARR; WILLARD O. HOWE
The first meeting of the regular annual session of the Maine Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will be held on the camp ground in Foxcroft, Maine, at 10 A. M., Tuesday, Aug. 31, 1915, in connection with the Maine Seventh-day Adventist camp meeting. At this meeting the vacancies occurring on the board of trustees will be filled, and such other business transacted as may properly come before the association.
HOMER W. CARR, President;
WILLARD O. HOWE, Clerk.
West Virginia Conference
By J. W. HIRLINGER; J. S. BARROWS
THE twenty-eighth annual session of the West Virginia Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in connection with the camp meeting, Aug. 26 to Sept. 5, 1915, at Weston, W. Va. The first meeting will be called at 10:30 A. M., August 27. This meeting is for the election of officers for the ensuing year, and the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the conference. A full delegation is expected from all our churches.
J. W. HIRLINGER, President;
J. S. BARROWS, Secretary.
