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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, August 20, 1867

FromReview and Herald, Vol. XXX, No. 10

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THE OHIO CONFERENCE.

By I. N. VAN GORDER; JOS. CLARKE

Fifth Annual Session.

PURSUANT to the call of the Committee through the Review, this Conference assembled in session at Lovett's Grove, Wood Co., Ohio, on Thursday, August 1, 1867, at 6 P. M. Prayer by Eld. J. N. Loughborough.
The delegates to the Conference were then called for, and their credentials examined. Number of delegates present, nine, representing eight churches. Two churches were represented by letter.
As recommended by General Conference, the following resolution was adopted as Sec. 3, Art. vii, of our State Conference constitution.
This Conference may at its discretion invite all persons present who are members of our churches in good standing to take part in the discussion of business, but not to participate in voting.
On motion, all members present in good standing, were invited to take part in the deliberations of this Conference.
Minutes of previous meeting called for, read and accepted.
The following committees were appointed.
On Resolutions. Elders J. H. Waggoner, J. N. Loughborough, and I. D. Van Horn.
On Nominations. Eld. I. D. Van Horn, and Brn. Geo. Smith, and Levi Gregory.
To audit and settle accounts with ministers. Brn. M. Kittle, Jno. Clarke, R. Humphries, Geo. Smith, Wm. Crous, and Jos. Clarke.
Adjourned to Friday morning, at 9 A. M.
Second Session. Met according to adjournment. On motion, it was resolved to add the resolution on page 15 of General Conference minutes, that a committee of six be appointed to assist in settling accounts with ministers, to page 4 of the Ohio Conference minutes.
Also it was resolved to add to Art. iv, page 5, two resolutions respecting the expulsion of members, calling them Secs. 3 and 4. See report of Mich. Conference.
The Treasurer's report was then called for, read and approved as follows:
Amount of funds on hand at the time of last report, $ 666.43. Amount received during the year, 885.82. Total, $1552.25. Expenditures during the year, $1100.00. Balance in the Treasury Aug. 1, 1867, 452.25. Total, $1552.25.
JOHN MEARS, Treasurer.
By request, the name of Lovett's Grove church, was changed to Bowling Green, Wood Co., O., as the Lovett's Grove post office has been discontinued.
By request, the church in Jackson is hereafter to be called the church in Fremont, and the churches of Green Springs and West Townsend are by their desire, united and named the church in Clyde.
Credentials were granted to Bro. Waggoner for the ensuing year, the General Conference committee having decided that he be located in Ohio.
Report of the committee on resolutions called for, read, and separately considered, and unanimously adopted (see report of General Conference), viz., 1. Instructing church clerks, not to give letters of commendation without the voice of the church. 2. A resolution discouraging the removal of members of churches for trivial reasons, or without consent of the church. 3. A resolution stating to whom the ordinances belong. 4. A caution against the dealing in patent rights. 5. Protest against S. D. Adventists going about the country peddling, and at the same time presenting points of present truth; the church deeming such a mingling of sacred and common things irreverent and wholly improper. 6. A resolution expressing our confidence in Spiritual Gifts. 7. A resolution calling the attention of all to the work entitled Appeal to Mothers. 8. Health Reform an important feature of “present truth.” 9. A resolution recognizing the hand of God in the establishment of the Health Institute. 10. Dress, recommending Judson's Letter, and the pamphlet containing this and Conference resolutions on the same subject. 11. A resolution recommending the reform dress as worn at the Health Institute. 12. A resolution deprecating war as a violation of the teachings of Christ. 13. A resolution of humility, in view of general self-laudation at the time of the close of the war of the great rebellion.
Committee on nominations reported, naming the following persons for officers for the ensuing year:
For President, Eld. J. H. Waggoner, Bowling Green, Wood Co., O. Secretary, Jno. Clarke, Portage, Wood Co., O. Treasurer, John Mears, Bowling Green. Executive committee, J. H. Waggoner, O. Mears, Geo. Smith.
On motion, the report of the committee was accepted and the nominations acted upon as a whole, and they were thus unanimously elected.
Distribution of labor came next in order. Calls from various parts of Ohio were made and considered. Adjourned till 3 P. M.
Afternoon. Third session. Opened by prayer by Eld. Waggoner. The following resolutions were adopted:
1. That we recommend to the brethren and sisters in Ohio to unite in daily prayer to the Lord of the harvest, to send forth laborers; and to set apart the tenth day of September next, as a day of fasting and prayer for that object.
2. That the churches in Ohio be requested to pay into the State Treasury, all moneys received into their church funds.
3. That the church in Orwell be permitted to retain 10 per cent of their funds, for a charitable object.
4. That we appropriate $50.00 of our Conference funds to the Gen. Conf. Missionary Fund.
5. That we appropriate $50.00 of our Conference funds to the S. D. A. P. Association.
6. That we appropriate $50.00 of our Conference funds to the charitable fund of the Health Institute.
7. That we tender our thanks to the church of Bowling Green for entertaining this Conference.
8. That the minutes of this Conference be published in the Advent Review.
Adjourned to the call of the committee.
I. N. VAN GORDER, President.
JOS. CLARKE, Secretary.