To Church-Members in the Columbia Union Conference by B. G. Wilkinson

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 18, 1909

To Church-Members in the Columbia Union Conference

By B. G. Wilkinson

PREPARATIONS are being made to have the next session of the Columbia Union Conference a most important meeting. This conference will be held at Baltimore, Md., Dec. 2-12, 1909. A full delegation from each conference within the Columbia Union Conference, as well as those interested in the progress of our message, is expected to be present. The conferences comprising this union conference are Ohio, West Pennsylvania, Eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Chesapeake, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia.

The General Conference has assured us that we shall have efficient help from our general men, who are in active touch with the world-wide progress of the message. The union conference also will be well represented by a large body of its working force. As an excellent place of assembling, we have secured the Mizpah Meeting-house, located at the corner of Oliver and Regester streets. The upper auditorium of this building has a seating capacity of nine hundred, while the lower auditorium offers excellent space for departmental meetings, in addition to other rooms convenient for committee work. What better facilities could be offered for profitable counsel and for giving the third angel's message to the public?

It is the plan of the Chesapeake Conference to arrange for places where those who attend the meeting may sleep. A dining-hall, furnishing meals at reasonable rates, will be conducted by the Chesapeake Conference in, or near to, the Mizpah Meeting-house. All those who expect to attend will please send in their names at once to Emma S. Newcomer, 2 Loudon Ave., Baltimore, Md.

One of the important features of this conference will be the special Bible studies conducted by our leading men. We wish this meeting to be of spiritual help to all who come. One topic which will receive careful attention is, how to reach our large cities. This conference will offer unusually good opportunities for considering the pressing problems of our organized departments. Also we intend not to let this occasion pass without studying how to get the individual church-member interested in giving this message to the world. All effort possible has been put forth to adapt this conference to the pressing needs of the hour. The call now from the spirit of prophecy, is, The third angel's message to the cities of the East; and when we consider that in this union conference are some of America's most important cities, such as Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland, Toledo, Richmond, Newark, and Harrisburg, it is our present duty to plan for their needs.

B. G. WILKINSON,

President Columbia Union Conference.