The Pacific Union Conference
By Alonzo T. Jones
The Pacific Union Conference was held at Portland, Ore., February 28 to March 9. The conference was appointed to meet February 27, but owing to storms and floods there was a delay of one day in opening. There were full delegations from all the Conferences, institutions, and mission fields on the Pacific Coast, and Elder A. G. Daniells, Elder W. C. White, and E. R. Palmer, of the General Conference Committee, were present. There was also a good attendance of the brethren of Portland and its vicinity. It was one of the best meetings, conference or any other, that I ever attended; and the best conference that I ever attended. The organization of the Pacific Union Conference was completed. A board was elected by the Conference, to have charge of the medical missionary work, and also a board to have charge of the educational work, in the territory of the Pacific Union Conference. There are now thirteen medical missionary institutions, three vegetarian restaurants, three health-food factories, and four health-food stores in the territory of the Pacific Union Conference; and all these departments are rapidly growing. Under the care of the Pacific Union Medical Missionary Board, all this work will be unified and made stronger. There are two colleges, one intermediate school, and nearly fifty church schools, with an attendance of about thirteen hundred in all, in the territory of the Pacific Union Conference. And under the care of the Pacific Union Educational Board all this work will be unified, strengthened, and made to grow, in the way of Christian education. The Sabbath-school and the young people's work were also put under the charge of the Educational Board, since it is all, in truth, only work of Christian education. It was recommended that the North Pacific Conference be divided into two, on the natural line of the Columbia River; and that British Columbia, Utah, and Arizona be organized into Conferences. This will all doubtless be perfected at the annual meetings soon to be held in these respective fields. Elder W. T. Knox was re-elected President of the Pacific Union Conference; J. J. Ireland, Secretary; H. H. Hall, Missionary Secretary; S. C. Osborne, General Agent; and the Executive Committee is composed of the presidents of the Conferences that make up the Pacific Union Conference.