Missouri Conference Proceedings
By W. S. Cruzan
THE twenty-ninth annual session of the Missouri Conference of Seventh-day Adventists convened at Liberty Park, Sedalia, Mo., August 3-13. Seventy-five delegates were present, representing twenty-eight churches. Two new churches were admitted into the conference. The resolutions passed by this conference covered the following points:— 1. Praise to God for his abundant mercies during the past year. 2. Recommending that churches choose for officers only those who are in harmony with all points of truth. 3. Inviting the bookmen’s convention and the Central Union Conference to hold their sessions in Kansas City, Mo. 4. Indorsing the action of the General Conference in recommending a continuance of the great missionary campaign begun last year. 5. Asking the churches to place at least one canvasser in the field from each church. 6. Recommending the granting of a canvasser’s missionary license to regular canvassers. 7. Favoring the sale of the North Hall of Union College to the Nebraska Sanitarium Association. The following-named officers were elected: President, R. C. Porter; Vice-President, H. M. Stewart; Secretary, Mrs. R. C. Porter; Treasurer, Pacific Press Publishing Company; Educational Superintendent, to be supplied by the conference committee; Sabbath-school Secretary, Mrs. James Cochran; State Agent, G. Phillips; Conference Committee, R. C. Porter, H. M. Stewart, W. T. Millman, W. F. H. Schroeder, James Cochran; District Superintendents, (No. 1) W. T. Millman, (No. 2) H. M. Stewart, (No. 3) E. A. Merrell, (No. 4) L. W. Terry, (No. 5) D. E. Scoles; Missouri Conference Association Trustees, R. C. Porter, W. T. Millman, T. M. Clark, H. K. Willis, W. A. Johnson. Ministerial credentials were granted to R. C. Porter, H. M. Stewart, W. S. Cruzan, W. T. Millman, E. A. Merrell, L. W. Terry, H. K. Willis, D. E. Scoles, A. P. Heacock, C. H. Chaffee, Henry Meyer; ministerial licenses to D. P. Zeigler, W. F. H. Schroeder; missionary licenses to M. E. George, Eva Hough, Ella M. Merrell, Birdie Cruzan, G. Phillips, T. L. Limerick, A. F. French, W. A. Theo. Miller, James Cochran, L. W. Graham, Mrs. James Cochran, Mrs. R. C. Porter, Mrs. A. P. Heacock, Mrs. M. E. George, T. M. Clark, Harvey17Steele, H. C. Tarr, Mrs. H. C. Tarr, Mrs. A. E. Daniels, J. L. Burgess, Mrs. H. Meyer; church-school teacher’s licenses to Mary Wilbur, L. Belle Mathews, Annie Nordlind, Vita Morrow, Bessie Barnhart, Vita Tindall, Sadie Tindall, Florence Burgess, Edna Ingalls, Abbie St. John, Annie Didrickson, Jennie Metcalf, Grace Chilson, Gulah Brown, Nora Hough, Mary E. Allen. The city papers gave quite an extended report of the meetings. The work of the conference passed off harmoniously. W. S. CRUZAN, Secretary pro tem.