North Pacific Union Conference by W. B. White

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 16, 1908

_North Pacific Union Conference_

By W. B. White

The work in this part of the Lord’s vineyard is onward, and we have very many reasons for which to praise God. The last year has been a good one for our field and decided advance has been made in all departments of the work. During the year now closing there has been a real revival of the book work in our union, and our sales of subscription books during the year 1907 we trust will amount to twenty thousand dollars, an increase of eight thousand dollars over 1906. We are very glad for all this good literature that has gone out into the field, and we trust that God may bless it to the salvation of many souls.

There never has been such an interest in the educational work in this field as at present. A great desire has taken hold of the parents of our children that their young should receive a Christian education, and as a result of this, our college at Walla Walla, Wash., and the seven intermediate schools in different parts of the union are full to overflowing. Another intermediate school will be built next summer in the new conference of southern Idaho, and improvements made and facilities added to all these institutions. We greatly hope that from these schools there may go forth in due time many earnest laborers into the wide harvest-field.

The present debt of Walla Walla College is about twenty-four thousand dollars, and during the last year and a half a plan has been in operation to remove this cloud which so long has been hanging over our college. Quietly subscriptions have been taken among the people, and at this writing, December 23, nearly enough has been subscribed to liquidate this indebtedness, and there has been received into our Union Conference treasury, which is the custodian of the funds, the sum of $12,609.75 to apply on these notes. We hope by the time this article is read by the readers of the REVIEW, that at least fifteen thousand dollars of notes of Walla Walla College will have been paid, and the entire debt will be removed a little later on. We are glad also to report that on the $150,000 fund, our field has, according to the REVIEW of December 19, a credit of $9,307.07 on our apportionment of $12,181.68. Our conferences are working hard at the balance due from their fields, and we hope that our portion of this fund will soon be remitted to the General Conference treasurer. The raising of both of these funds practically in one year amounting in all to about thirty-seven thousand dollars has been quite a hard lift, but it has done us good, and brought to us a rich blessing. It is not likely that

the money will ever be missed by any who have given.

Our sanitariums at Portland, Port Townsend, College Place, North Yakima, Salem, and Cottage Grove, Ore., are all enjoying a fair patronage, as are also the treatment rooms at Seattle and Spokane. Dr. J. E. Froom has also recently established treatment rooms in the city of Boise, Idaho, and reports that the outlook is good for work in that part of the field.

In consequence of the organization of the West Canadian Union Conference in October, the British Columbia Conference has been separated from our field and now forms a part of that organization. The Hawaiian Islands, also, which have formed a part of our Union since its organization, but which were never naturally connected with our field, by an action of the General Conference Committee at Gland, Switzerland, last spring, will be taken under the watch-care of the General Conference Committee after Jan. 1, 1908. Our Union Conference will still retain Alaska as a mission field, and trusts to do more in that hard and difficult field in the future than in the past.

Our first biennial session since our organization as a union will be held in College Place, Wash., January 31 to February 9. We expect a very encouraging meeting and a large measure of God’s blessing. Our laborers are having fair success in the field, people are accepting the truth, and our hearts are filled with courage for the future. Love, harmony, and union are in our midst, and for this we are profoundly grateful. The future looks bright to us, and our only desire is that our eyes may be single to the glory of God. W. B. WHITE.