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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 15, 1913

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 90, No. 20.

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Just Before the Opening

THIS paper goes to press just before the opening of the General Conference. While it is on the press the delegates and visitors will be arriving, and Takoma Park will be a scene of busy activity. The construction work at the camp is well forward, and all will be in readiness for the opening of the meeting at the appointed hour, 10 A. M., Thursday morning. The construction committee, led by Elders S. E. Wight, Chas. Thompson, and H. S. Shaw, assisted by students, early missionary arrivals, and others, have had earnest work to prepare for the meeting. Just over six hundred small tents have been pitched and floored for the accommodation of the vast majority of those attending the three weeks' Conference session. To these tents and to the rooms available in the buildings of the Foreign Seminary and Sanitarium, 2,400 people have been assigned. Others will be accommodated in the village of Takoma Park, and possibly some will have to go into the city, if the attendance should continue to increase.
The new large pavilion, lent by the Southern California Conference, is pitched on the same spot used four years ago, a few more trees having to be cut out for the larger tent. Three smaller meeting-tents will be used for department meetings, departments also having the use of assembly-rooms in the Seminary. The Medical Department will hold its sessions in the Sanitarium gymnasium. The departments will doubtless hold their sessions simultaneously, from 4:30 to 6 P. M. Some of the departments have prepared exhibits to illustrate progress and methods of work. While not a part of the official Conference proceedings, these councils of workers in all the various lines of work will be a most profitable feature of the gathering.
It is practically decided that the Bible study hour will come about nine o'clock in the morning, and that the regular Conference sessions will follow in the morning and afternoon, with preaching and missionary addresses in the evening.