General Conference Committee Actions by William Ambrose Spicer

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 3, 1913

General Conference Committee Actions

By William Ambrose Spicer

FURTHER actions were taken by the General Conference Committee in the councils following the General Conference, as follows:—

The treasurer was authorized to add the following special items to the appropriations for the current year:—

Completion of headquarters buildings at Seoul, Korea, $950.

Rooms for lady teacher, Soonan Girls’ School, Korea, $450.

For the new South African mission station, Northeast Rhodesia, $2,000.

Mission home, South China, $1,500.

Mission home, Philippine Islands, $1,500.

Philippine printing-office and equipment, $1,000.

The following officers were appointed for the Asiatic Division and its mission fields, R. C. Porter having been elected president of the Asiatic Division by the General Conference in session:—

Vice-president, F. H. De Vinney.

Secretary and treasurer, C. N. Woodward.

Superintendents: Japan, F. H. De Vinney; Korea, C. L. Butterfield; Central China, R. F. Cottrell; East China, Dr. A. C. Selmon; South China, George Harlow; Philippines, L. V. Finster; Malaysia, F. A. Detamore.

Secretaries and treasurers: Japan, C. N. Lake; Korea, Frank Mills; Central China, Dr. A. G. Larsen; East China, W. E. Gillis; South China, B. A. Meeker; Philippines and Malaysia, to be supplied by Asiatic Division officers.

General Conference departmental committees were appointed as follows:—

Young People’s Missionary Volunteer Department: M. E. Kern, secretary; Matilda Erickson, Meade MacGuire, C. I. Benson, E. Arnesen, Guy Dail, F. A. Allum, Mrs. L. Flora Plummer, Mrs. F. D. Chase, H. R. Salisbury, Mrs. Anna L. Hindson, Miss Edith Graham, Maximo Trummer, H. S. Beckner, G. W. Pettit.

Sabbath School Department: Mrs. L. Flora Plummer, secretary; G. B. Thompson, W. W. Prescott, M. C. Wilcox, W. A. Spicer, Mrs. Vesta J. Farnsworth, F. M. Wilcox, Mrs. F. D. Chase, T. E. Bowen, C. C. Lewis, W. E. Howell.

Educational Department: J. L. Shaw, secretary; W. E. Howell, C. C. Lewis, Frederick Griggs, C. W. Irwin, M. E. Kern, C. L. Benson, O. J. Graf, B. F. Machlan, Otto Luepke, E. C. Kellogg, Paul Steiner, Erik Arnesen, H. U. Stevens, C. P. Crager, H. M. Lee, H. F. Benson, R. B. Thurber, Geo. Teasdale, W. T. Bartlett.

Medical Council: W. A. Ruble, M. D., secretary; L. A. Hansen, assistant secretary; H. W. Miller, M. D., A. B. Olsen, M. D., G. H. Heald, M. D., R. H. Habenicht, M. D., V. L. Mann, M. D., W. B. Holden, M. D., Riley Russell, M. D., A. C. Selmon, M. D., H. J. Williams, M. D., W. H. James, M. D., L. M. Bowen, J. A. Burden.

Publishing Department: General members: N. Z. Town, secretary; W. W. Eastman, W. C. White, R. C. Porter, L. R. Conradi, J. C. Raft, J. T. Boettcher, F. W. Spies, J. W. Westphal, G. W. Caviness, A. J. Haysmer, J. R. Ferren, E. F. Forga. Publishing house managers: E. R. Palmer, C. H. Jones, R. Hook, F. F. Byington, B. B. Noftsger, W. C. Sisley, H. Hartkop, E. Lind, L. E. Borle, J. M. Johanson, Chas. N. Lake, C. L. Butterfield, A. Pages, G. E. Hartman, W. E. Perrin, Dr. A. C. Selmon. Managers circulating departments and branches: H. H. Hall, G. C. Hoskin, L. W. Graham, J. W. Mace, I. A. Ford, D. W. Reavis, A. J. S. Bourdeau, S. N. Curtiss, J. F. Beatty, J. M. Rowse, R. L. Pierce, L. D. Randall. General missionary agents: C. J. Tolf, J. B. Blosser, A. F. Harrison, V. O. Cole, C. G. Bellah, F. E. Painter, W. R. Beatty, J. D. Richardson, J. W. Davis, A. A. Cone, W. L. Manful, C. E. Weaks, L. D. A. Lemke, Samuel Joyce, Maximo Trummer, G. H. Clark, J. A. P. Green, H. Boex, J. L. Brown, R. N. Carter.

The South American Union Conference Committee was authorized to organize

the work in Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia as a Northwest Union Mission field of the South American Union Conference.

It was voted to approve of the plan of securing a location in Bolivia for an industrial Indian mission farm at a low altitude, thus giving a change for those engaged in the Indian work from the high altitudes round Lake Titicaca to the lower altitudes in Bolivia, in order that the health of the workers may be conserved while still engaging in continuous work among the Indians. The South American Union Committee is asked to secure more definite information and estimates as to the cost of this enterprise, reporting later to the General Conference Committee.

A physician in private practise abroad having provided the necessary funds for support, it was voted that the officers of the General Conference should secure a missionary physician for service in southern China, $500 being added to the appropriations to cover cost of transportation.

W. A. SPICER, Secretary.