Committee Actions by W. A. Spicer

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 15, 1909

Committee Actions

By W. A. Spicer

THE following additional recommendations of the General Conference Committee may be noted:—

The Atlantic Union Conference invited to release E. W. Farnsworth, the president, to take the Bible department in the Foreign Mission Seminary.

The North Pacific Union Conference invited to release W. B. White, who is recommended to the Atlantic Union Conference for the presidency.

J. L. Shaw, superintendent of India Mission, advised, on account of his health, not to return to the tropics.

M. N. Campbell, president of the Iowa Conference, to take the superintendency of the India Mission field.

R. C. Wangerin and wife, of Wisconsin, to Korea.

That the committee provided for by the General Conference on revision of the church hymn-book be as follows: Clemen Hamer, G. Gerritsen, G. I. Butler, E. W. Farnsworth, J. S. Washburn, C. H. Jones, J. E. White, B. F. Stureman, M. W. Newton, J. I. Beardsley, Albert Anderson, W. C. Sisley, S. G. Haughey, W. A. Colcord, W. W. Prescott, H. R. Salisbury, Frederick Griggs, A. G. Daniells, I. A. Ford, Geo. B. Miller, W. A. Westworth, C. N. Roberts, C. P. Whitford, Mrs. W. A. Ruble, G. W. Amadon, J. O. Corliss, G. H. Heald, C. H. Keslake, Mrs. Carrie Hickox, Mrs. W. T. Knox, H. C. Lacey.

That the executive committee of the hymn-book committee be as follows: Frederick Griggs, George I. Butler, E. W. Farnsworth, H. R. Salisbury, W. W. Prescott, W. A. Colcord, A. G. Daniells.

That our physicians and sanitariums, on application for medical examinations, by candidates under appointment to mission fields, be invited to make the examination and certificates as to physical fitness a donation to missions.

That the Religious Liberty Department be authorized to use the name Religious Liberty Association in its publications and documents.

Other recommendations and appointments will be noted later.

Members of the General Conference Committee, who receive copies of the minutes of its meetings, will please note that it will be several weeks before these can be duplicated, owing to the press of work upon the clerical staff in the office. W. A. SPICER, Secretary.