Bible Society Address at General Conference

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 6, 1913

Bible Society Address at General Conference

At the session of the General Conference last spring, Dr. Fox, a representative of the American Bible Society, gave an address to the delegates. On his visit to the Conference, a recent number of the Bible Society Record makes the following editorial note: “The General Conference of the Seventh-day Adventists has been in session recently for its thirty-eighth session, at Takoma Park, a suburb of Washington, D. C. By special invitation, Dr. Fox stopped at Takoma Park on his way home from the general assemblies, and presented the cause of the society. The session was held in a large tent in a grove, and there were from 2,500 to 3,000 persons present. Dr. Fox spoke for nearly an hour on the work of the society. The audience contained representatives of the mission body from many countries. At the close of the service a collection was taken amounting to nearly $150, and this was supplemented by the formal voting of a grant of $500 from the mission treasury of the Seventh-day Adventists for the work of the society. So large and so prompt a response to an appeal to such an audience on behalf of the society has never been surpassed and probably never equaled, in the knowledge of the officers of the Bible Society.”