Actions Taken by the General Conference Committee by William Ambrose Spicer

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Jun 15, 1905

Actions Taken by the General Conference Committee

By William Ambrose Spicer

FOLLOWING the General Conference the General Conference Committee held numerous sessions to deal with matters of detail coming before it. Delegates from the mission fields had many questions to lay before the members. Actions taken by the committee which will be of general interest, are here summarized.

Departmental committees were appointed as follows:—

Departmental Committees

Educational Department: Frederick Griggs (chairman), C. C. Lewis (secretary), L. A. Hoopes, C. W. Irwin, F. W. Field, C. H. Hayton, Arthur Fulton, H. R. Salisbury, O. Loepke, O. A. Johnson, Jean Vuilleumier, M. E. Cady, Fannie M. Dickerson, L. Flora Plummer, B. E. Huffman, Orin A. Hall, C. B. Hughes, E. A. Sutherland, J. E. Tenney, J. W. Lawhead, W. W. Prescott, W. A. Spicer, W. E. Howell, M. E. Kern, J. G. Lamson.

Sabbath-school and Young People's Department: G. B. Thompson (chairman), Mrs. L. F. Plummer (secretary), W. W. Prescott, M. C. Wilcox, Fannie M. Dickerson, E. Houser, J. A. L. Derby, M. E. Kern, W. A. Colcord, C. P. Bollman.

Religious Liberty Bureau: K. C. Russell (chairman), W. A. Colcord (secretary), Allen Moon, L. A. Smith, G. B. Thompson, D. W. Reavis, J. S. Washburn, R. C. Porter, S. B. Horton, H. W. Reed.

Medical Council: W. A. George (chairman), J. E. Froom (secretary), C. P. Farnsworth, C. C. Nicola, F. M. Wilcox, E. P. Hawkins, W. C. Green, G. H. Heald, Jno. A. Burden, G. A. Hare, O. M. Hayward, P. F. Haskell, W. M. Adams, S. P. S. Edwards, W. R. Simmons, W. H. White, D. H. Kress, A. B. Olsen, J. C. Ottosen, A. J. Hoenes, E. A. DeForest, G. W. Thomason, R. H. Habenicht.

Publishing Department: W. C. White (chairman), E. R. Palmer (secretary), H. H. Hall (assistant secretary), a representative of each of the following houses: Pacific Press, Oakland; Review and Herald, Washington; Southern Publishing Association, Nashville; International Publishing Association, College View; Kansas City Branch; Fort Worth Branch; Battle Creek Branch; Canadian Depository; and F. E. Painter, A. F. Harrison, I. B. Blosser, J. S. James, George Phillips, W. L. Manful, I. H. Evans, W. A. Spicer, J. E. Froom, M. E. Cady.

North American Foreign Department: G. A. Irwin (chairman), I. H. Evans (secretary), N. P. Nelson, G. F. Haffner, S. Mortenson, B. G. Wilkinson, and the manager of the New York City Foreign Literature Depository.

Relief Bureau: W. C. White (chairman), E. R. Palmer (secretary), G. A. Irwin, J. E. Froom, H. H. Hall.

Assistants appointed: H. E. Rogers (statistical secretary), E. Houser (home secretary).

It was voted,—

That the Echo Publishing Company, of Melbourne, be allowed to pay the royalty on the Australasian Sabbath-school Lesson Quarterly to the Australasian Sabbath-school Department for use in island mission work.

That A. G. Daniells be invited to attend the later European general meetings.

That three hundred dollars be appropriated for a French worker in Quebec, this amount, with receipts from literature and otherwise, to cover a year's labor.

That we accept the offer of the Central Union Conference to share equally in sending and establishing a self-supporting worker in the Philippine Islands.

That the Brazil depository, in connection with the Hamburg Tract Society, publish such literature in the Portuguese language as the means will permit and the requirements demand.

That the week of prayer for 1905 be held from December 9 to 16.

That the offering recommended by the General Conference for the colored work in the South be taken the first Sabbath in October.

That the offering recommended by the General Conference for orphans of the Haskell Home and similar institutions be taken the first Sabbath in April.

That we approve of the suggestion of the Educational Department that the chairman attend such of the union conference teachers' conventions as it may be consistent for him to attend.

That we favor the suggestion of a general educational council in the summer of 1906.

That we encourage the friends of the Huntsville school for colored workers to raise a fund of five thousand dollars for the enlargement of the buildings and the improvement of the facilities of the school.

That we encourage the Nashville church to purchase the Baptist meeting-house now offered to them for five thousand dollars, and that calls be issued in the REVIEW, Watchman, and Signs for gifts to assist in payment of same.

That we ask Elder G. A. Irwin and Dr. J. E. Froom to join our brethren in the South in arranging plans for the Nashville sanitarium work, and when these plans are developed, that we assist in securing the means that will be required.

That our brethren of the Cumberland Conference be encouraged to place the Graysville Sanitarium in good working order.

That our brethren throughout the Southern Union Conference be encouraged to unite in putting the Atlanta Sanitarium in good working condition.

That the managers of the Southern Publishing Association be encouraged,—

(a) To study the plan so successfully followed in England, Europe, and Australasia, by which a small constituency place a large number of papers in their field; and to put the Watchman upon an efficient paying basis.

(b) To enter judiciously into the publication of books for the magnificent book field assigned them.

(c) That friends of the cause be encouraged to loan money to the Southern Publishing Association with which to take up current obligations.

That ministerial credentials be granted as follows: D. C. Babcock, J. J. Westrup, C. A. Hansen, E. W. Farnsworth.

That ministerial license be granted to W. A. Barlow.

That missionary license be granted as follows: Mrs. J. J. Westrup, Dr. Law Keem, Mrs. Law Keem, Dr. Emma Perrine, Amanda Van Scoy, Mrs. E. E. Prescott, Mrs. C. A. Hansen, Mrs. D. C. Babcock, Mrs. V. J. Farnsworth, Mrs. B. G. Wilkinson, J. B. Stuyvesant, H. L. Mignott.

That we advise the publication of the manuscript, “Outline of Our Missions,” prepared in the Mission Board office.

That the building of the General Conference offices in Takoma Park, Washington, be proceeded with at once.

W. A. SPICER, Secretary.