Tenth Meeting by Ole Andres Olsen; William Ambrose Spicer

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · May 25, 1905

Tenth Meeting

By Ole Andres Olsen; William Ambrose Spicer

THE tenth meeting was called at 9:30 A. M., May 17, O. A. Olsen in the chair.

F. W. Field, of Japan, offered prayer, and the minutes of the previous meeting were read.

On call for delegates newly arrived, D. C. Babcock, L. H. Christian, and V. H. Cook responded.

The Chairman called for the reports of the Sabbath-school Department, which were presented by G. B. Thompson, chairman, and Mrs. Flora L. Bland, secretary. (The latter report was printed in last week's REVIEW, and we hope to present the chairman's report later.) Hearty responses were given to these reports, and the Chairman of the conference remarked upon the forceful presentation of these interests. It is noticeable in the conference that the Spirit of God has specially borne witness in the reading of departmental and field reports, as well as in Bible talks and other exercises.

The Northern Union Conference

The report from the Northern Union Conference was presented by R. A. Underwood, the president. A very brief summary of the report follows:—

The Northern Union is composed of the conferences of Minnesota, South Dakota, North Dakota, the Province of Manitoba, with the vast mission field of the Northwest Territory of Canada. The area is a vast one, about three million square miles. It is a wrong impression that the Canadian Northwest is a frozen region. Calgary, in Alberta, is south of London. Edmonton is as far south as Dublin or Hamburg. Much of this vast region is rich in fertile soil and minerals, and a constant stream of immigration is pouring into the country. They need laborers, not only in English, but in German, Russian, and the leading languages of Europe. The large Indian population is to be evangelized. We have one church of Indians.

The Sabbath-keepers of this union conference number 4,664. The increase in the two years is 538. There are eighty-two laborers on the pay-roll. There are four industrial schools, three of which opened last autumn. They are in South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota, and Manitoba. The enrolment is 150. The investment in the four schools is $35,000. Church-schools, 55; pupils, 632. Book sales in two years, $36,066. The average tithe per capita has been $9.69. The total raised for evangelistic work was $111,172, of which $39,726,

or thirty-five per cent, went to the general work outside the four organized conferences.

Hearty amens greeted the statement that the former president of the Northern Union, Elder C. W. Flaiz, was making a slow recovery from his serious illness, and hopes with another year of rest and outdoor occupation to be restored to health. A church, honest with God, living examples of the truth, liberal with means, baptized with the Holy Ghost, then the lightening of the earth with the glory of God,—for this we hope, for this we live, to this we consecrate our all.

The meeting adjourned.

O. A. OLSEN, Chairman, W. A. SPICER, Secretary.