The General Conference Bulletin
By Arthur G. Daniells
It has been decided to report the coming session of the General Conference through the REVIEW AND HERALD, instead of issuing a daily Bulletin as we have done for a number of years. The announcement of this plan may cause some disappointment to our brethren and sisters. We believe, however, that when the reports of the conference have all been read, general satisfaction will be felt. The committee to whom is entrusted the perfecting of the plans for reporting the proceedings of the conference, gave the matter much study before reaching a decision. It was found that it would be very difficult to produce a General Conference Bulletin this year. Our conference will be held five miles from the city where the printing houses are located. We have no facilities of our own in Washington for getting out a daily paper. It is a heavy task under the most favorable circumstances to produce a daily paper during the session of the conference. Other denominations do not generally undertake such a task. Finally, but few of our people read all that is printed in the dailies. Under all the circumstances, it was decided to report the proceedings of the conference weekly through the REVIEW. The conference numbers (which will probably be five to eight) will be enlarged to thirty-two pages, and almost the entire paper will be devoted to conference affairs. The reports will be carefully edited, and only the cream of the proceedings will be published. Instead of printing the recommendations as they are submitted by the committees, and then reporting the discussion, printing the amendments, and finally giving them as adopted, they will be printed only once, and then as adopted by the conference. This will save much space in the paper, and much valuable time of the reader. The most painstaking and perfect arrangements we are able to suggest for preparing conference business will be followed by the various committees and Boards so that we hope to make the conference numbers of the7REVIEW AND HERALD as interesting and profitable as any number of the Bulletin which that has ever been issued. These conference numbers, taken together, will constitute the official report of the General Conference, and will be as complete as though they had been issued as a separate paper. Another great advantage that will come to our people from this is that thousands of our brethren and sisters will secure this full report of the conference without any additional cost. Every subscriber, and there are between fifteen and twenty thousand, will have these reports as a part of the regular matter supplied them through the REVIEW. We hope that all who may feel any disappointment over the announcement that no Bulletin will be issued, will take pains to examine critically the reports as they will be given, and when all is over, give us their opinion of the merits of this change. We have reason to believe that the coming conference will be an occasion of great blessing and profit to the cause of God. For this let all earnestly pray.