p. 19 | The Northern Illinois Conference by Allen Moon

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 12, 1908

The Northern Illinois Conference

By Allen Moon

The annual conference for Northern Illinois was held in Chicago, February 6-10, with a fair representation of the churches in that field.

There were evidences of advancement in all lines of work. The gain in membership during the year, over and above the losses by removal, etc., was one hundred. The tithe receipts during the year 1907 were $21,507; the Sabbath-school offerings for missions, $1,461; annual offerings, $2,912. For all purposes, the people had contributed $36,087.75, which had had been distributed to the various interests for which the donors designed it. All this was by a membership of less than thirteen hundred.

The Northern Illinois Academy was reported to be in a fairly prosperous condition, having a good patronage the present season, and a class of students rather above the average. The medical work of the conference is in a prosperous and promising condition. The little sanitarium at Moline, which is under the care of the conference, shows a net gain for 1907 of $2,200, notwithstanding the physical disability, and consequent temporary retirement of the medical superintendent, Dr. S. P. S. Edwards.

The officers of the conference, with Elder Wm. Covert as president, have everything to encourage them to persevere in the work. Plans were entered into by the delegates, for the liquidation of the indebtedness of the conference and tract society during the year 1908. The unity, courage, and zeal manifest on the part of all present, give promise of the success of the above undertaking,

in addition to greatly increased tithes and offerings for the regular work. The cause is onward in Northern Illinois, for the people have a mind to work. Faith in this message seems intensified by the tests the people have endured in recent years.

ALLEN MOON.