The French Conference by Guy Dail

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 10, 1910

The French Conference

By Guy Dail

The third annual meeting of the French Conference was held in the south of France, at Moussac (Gard), August 17-22. There are eighteen churches and companies in the field. About one hundred believers were present. The ten local workers, and Elders L. P. Tieche, Walter Bond, C. E. Rentfro, U. Augsbourger, and Paul Steiner presented the word to the people. The outside attendance was very good.

During the year about twenty have been received into the conference. Heretofore, the present district of Paris belonged to this field. An organized company of six at Grenoble, another company of nine at Lyons, and a church of twenty-four at Valentigney were accepted at this meeting. Twelve hundred francs were given in cash and pledges toward the $10,000 supplementary fund, which Europe is raising to supplement the $300,000 Fund. Because of the late harvest, our faithful church at Tarn could send only one brother and two sisters; yet they were not at all forgetful of the financial calls they expected would be made at this time, forwarding hundreds of francs to represent them.

Sabbath forenoon, following the sermon by Elder Tieche, about forty remained at the consecration service. One was baptized. Five or six made their first start to serve God.

In this field there are about twenty millions of people. It is here that so many of the Huguenots lived, suffered, and died. It is here that the strong courage of that child of God revealed itself by her constancy in the Tower, where she inscribed upon the stone floor of her prison, during the thirty years of her confinement there, the simple but magnificent word “Persevere.” We believe that in this grand field that has seen so much suffering for the name of Christ, there is also in these days to be gathered together a small company of faithful believers in his soon coming, who will greet him with joy when he appears in the clouds of heaven, to reward every man according as his work shall be.

Our membership in the French Conference is 228. In the union district of Paris, and in the North French Mission, there are enough to bring up the membership in all France to 307. Elder T. Nussbaum, who was rechosen president of the French Conference, with his two ordained ministers, three licentiates, three Bible workers, and one missionary nurse, earnestly request that they be remembered by their brethren at the throne of God. GUY DAIL.