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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 10, 1913

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 90, No. 28.

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The Welsh Conference

By Guy Dail

FROM our good meeting at Bristol, south England, we were privileged to accompany Brethren W. J. Fitzgerald, S. G. Haughey, A. A. Carscallen, S. Joyce, and H. D. Clarke to the fifth annual session of the Welsh Conference, held at Cory Hall, Cardiff, April 3-6.
We found Brother H. E. Armstrong, president of the conference, in the midst of a very promising public effort, which we hope will result in a rich harvest of souls when the series of lectures is brought to a close.
The spirit of enthusiasm was quite in evidence, and we were glad to see many bright, promising young people in our meetings. They have been doing good work in their efforts to win others for Christ, and secure a personal experience that will fit them for a worthy place in the Stanborough Park College, where they may be still further trained for acceptable service in the home and foreign fields.
The liberality of the Welsh brethren manifested itself in their subscribing over eight pounds ($38.88) toward the endowed bed at the Stanborough Park Sanitarium, and giving over five pounds ($24.30) as a Sabbath-school donation, in addition to what they raised toward covering the expenses connected with the conference.
One of the best-attended meetings was the Sunday evening lecture, when more than five hundred persons listened to Elder Carscallen's illustrated talk on British East Africa.
Last year thirty-four members were added in Wales, and the net growth was thirty-three. There was a decrease in the tithe, and in the Sabbath-school and miscellaneous offerings to missions, but the annual offering was so large that the total amount given to the foreign work was larger than in 1911.
The outlook for the future of the work in the Welsh Conference is good. Difficulties there are, as everywhere, but they are not of such a nature that they cannot be overcome. May the Lord be with the seven conference workers and the fifteen to twenty canvassers, who will do all they can to fulfil their commission in bringing the last message of warning to the more than two million inhabitants of their territory, and may they have a very successful year.
GUY DAIL.