p. 24 | Review and Herald, Vol. 87, No. 16. (4/21/1910)

Earlier text: Another Sunday Bill for the District of Columbia

General Conference Committee Council

The Council, appointed for April 5-15, was pressed full of work, days and evenings, up to Friday, the fifteenth. Most of the members from outside Washington were compelled to leave toward the close, but a number remained till the close, and spent the Sabbath here. On Sabbath afternoon a special meeting was held to give further prayer and study to the question of the campaign for the cities, the call being given to throw the strength of the conferences into working the cities.

It has been a very profitable Council. The morning sessions were generally devoted to a study of the calls from the mission fields for appropriations, the locations of the workers being pointed out on the maps, and rate of wages, expenses, plans for additional effort, and other information being spread before the Council. The making up of the total of the budget is not yet quite completed; but from the study given, the Council was aware that the largest appropriation in our history will be called for this year, after cutting down the calls to the utmost.

Many recommendations were made relating to transfers and appointments of laborers. We do not publish these, save as those concerned have been consulted. The following recommendations may be mentioned here:—

A. C. Williman, of the Foreign Mission Seminary, to India.

E. N. Sargent, of Walla Walla College, to Japan.

G. M. Brown, formerly of Mexico, to

Anderson’s Trip to Africa

NEAR the close of the Council, Elder W. H. Anderson, of South Africa, left for Tennessee, where he will visit friends for a few days. He plans to sail for Africa early in May.

Mission to the Abyssinians

LAST Thursday evening Elder L. R. Conradi gave, in the Seminary chapel, an interesting stereopticon talk on our mission to the Abyssinians. He has lately visited our station at Asmara, near the border of Abyssinia proper.

General Conference Committee Council

THE General Conference Committee Council, just closed, was an occasion of much blessing. It was good to hear the note of courage and confidence and consecration in the testimonies and reports of the brethren gathered, representing the whole North American field and other parts.

Visit to Nyassaland

By letter from South Africa, we learn that Elder R. C. Porter, president of that union conference, was to start April 21 on a trip to Nyassaland, to visit the stations there for the first time. The school work is growing rapidly in that country, nearly a thousand students being under instruction in the schools.

Attendance at Theaters

By Editor

The article on theaters, in our Home department, copied from the Western Recorder, a Baptist journal, presents some excellent remarks on this subject. We commend it to the consideration of all who are inclined to view with unconcern the practise of attendance on such amusements.

El Amigo de los Niños

A MONTHLY, illustrated paper in the Spanish language, entitled El Amigo de los Niños (The Friend of the Children), is now being published by our workers in Tacubaya, Mexico. Prices: 1 subscription, 40 cents; 5 to 10 subscriptions, 36 cents; 11 to 50 subscriptions, 32 cents; 51 to 100 subscriptions, 28 cents; 101 and over, 25 cents. Address Imprenta de la Verdad, 1420 Avenida 20, Tacubaya, D. F., Mexico.

The Sanctuary

By Editor

This number marks the close of the excellent series of articles on the “Sanctuary,” by Elder J. O. Corliss. These have taken up some of the historical phases of this subject, and have been greatly appreciated by our readers.

Praise for the Temperance Number

REV. WILLIAM P. PEARCE, a Baptist clergyman, and author of that popular book, “A Lover’s Love,” writes as follows, with reference to the Temperance number of the Youth’s Instructor:—

“The Temperance number, of last week, is the most attractive, pungent, and helpful periodical I ever saw. No denominational paper that comes to my table has ever equaled this issue. I wish it could be placed in the hands of a million young men of the country. The drink curse is the octopus which holds the majority of States by its mighty tentacles. One by one we are chopping them off. I hope to see the day when this monster will be decapitated. Hurrah to the church of the Seventh-day Adventists for its stand against liquor, tobacco, questionable amusements, and many of the wicked devices which are so popular to-day!”