p. 16 | The British Columbia Conference by Bertha Lofstad

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 11, 1909

The British Columbia Conference

By Bertha Lofstad

THE eighth annual session of the British Columbia Conference was held at the Manson Industrial Academy, near Port Hammond, January 14-18. There was a goodly number present, thirty delegates representing twelve churches, and eight delegates at large, making thirty-eight in all. One new church was admitted. A number of our people who were not delegates were also present. Elder W. B. White, president of the North Pacific Union Conference, and Elder E. L. Stewart, president of the Western Canadian Union Conference, attended this meeting. Elder W. M. Adams was re-elected conference president, with a slight change in the conference committee, and Bertha Lofstad was elected secretary and treasurer. The following were some of the recommendations adopted:—

That a health and temperance department be created, and a secretary elected for said department.

That suitable young people be encouraged to take up the several lines of evangelical missionary work for which they are suited and prepared.

That the conference worker in his part of the field, or the local church elder in his church, assist in the organization of the Missionary Volunteer work, and foster the same.

That our conference laborers, church elders, and our people generally, make a special effort to strengthen the cause of healthful living by subscribing for Life and Health, by selling that magazine, and by securing subscriptions for it.

That an effort be put forth this coming year to establish church-schools in as many churches as possible.

That the executive committee take active steps to place religious liberty literature in the hands of all the lawmakers, the leading editors, and leading judges of our province.

That all our conference laborers and church elders agitate the principles of religious liberty among our people, and encourage them to vigorously circulate religious liberty literature among their neighbors.

That this body tender a vote of thanks to the attorney-general for his impartial position in regard to the Dominion Sunday law.

That our brethren in the different parts of this province send brief letters of thanks to him.

This was the largest conference ever held in British Columbia, and we have reasons to expect the prospering hand and the blessings of God during the year 1909. BERTHA LOFSTAD, Secretary.