p. 6 | General Conference Department Councils at the Coming Conference

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 25, 1909

General Conference Department Councils at the Coming Conference

By Arthur G. Daniells

EVERY consideration demands that the coming General Conference shall be so planned and conducted that it shall bring the greatest possible benefit to the cause. Three hundred or more delegates will be present. A large number of ministers, teachers, physicians, and workers in other departments who do not usually attend. The General Conference are planning to come. Nearly every country in the world will be represented. Every important interest of a general nature will be presented by these delegates. Plans and proposals for greatly enlarging our operations everywhere will be pressed for adoption.

In view of these considerations, and with the earnest desire that the best work shall be done in the conference, and that the greatest help possible shall come from it, those whose duty it is to prepare for this meeting are giving its interests careful study. Some of the plans agreed upon will be of interest to so many of our people that it is thought advisable to publish them. Here is one relating to departmental interests: One hour of every day, except Sabbath, is to be devoted by all the departments to what may be called convention work. Regular places of meeting will be assigned them.

The members and workers of the Sabbath-School Department will meet together in one place, while the members of the Educational Department and the instructors in the schools will meet in another place. This arrangement will make it possible for the representatives of each department of our cause to spend about twenty hours together in council regarding the interests of their particular line of work. In addition to this, each department is to have one entire day of the conference. Then at the close of the meeting, the most of the departments will remain together three or four days for convention work, to plan for the future.

From this it will be seen that every effort will be put forth to make the conference profitable and helpful to those who attend. These great departments represent all the interests of our cause. They have grown large, and have become very important. If they are all well directed, the highest interests of the cause will be advanced. Those in charge of these departments are now preparing resolutions, questions, and papers for consideration. A. G. DANIELLS.