Committee Actions by William Ambrose Spicer

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 8, 1909

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 86, No. 27.

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Committee Actions

By William Ambrose Spicer

We may briefly summarize as follows some of the further recommendations of the General Conference Committee:—

F. I. Richardson, of Southern California, to the Chesapeake Conference.

H. Armstrong, of Wales, to English work in the cities of India.

A. G. Holmes, of Wisconsin and the Foreign Mission Seminary, to North Carolina.

G. H. Clark, field missionary agent of the Chesapeake Conference, to South African Union Conference.

N. Z. Town, assistant secretary of the Publishing Department, to hold a Spanish canvassers’ institute in Mexico in August, and thereafter to proceed to South America to aid for a time in the reorganization of the book work.

A. G. Daniells to visit South America in November, spending about six months, in response to the call from the South American Union Conference.

J. N. Loughborough, on arrival in Europe from South Africa, to attend the later European camp-meetings.

Members of Relief Bureau, having charge of the circulation of relief books in aid of institutions: Frederick Griggs, W. C. White, G. A. Irwin, W. A. Ruble, E. R. Palmer, J. W. Christian, O. A. Olsen, George B. Thompson, M. E. Kern.

It was voted that the educational journal recommended by the General Conference be established as a quarterly for the present, the name to be Christian Education, the editor to be the secretary of the Educational Department, F. Griggs, with an office editor supplied by the house printing the magazine.

It was voted to establish a correspondence school as soon as arrangements can be made to that end.

Additional appropriations were voted as follows: Virginia, $700; West Virginia, $500; Mexico, $600; Southern Union Conference, salary of worker in New Orleans for one year; West Indian Union Conference, $800; Southwestern Union Conference, $1,000. A conditional appropriation of $2,000 was voted the West Indian Union Conference for a power launch. Williamsdale Academy, Nova Scotia, was listed for $1,400 in the $300,000 fund.

W. A. SPICER, Secretary.