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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 4, 1909

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 86, No. 9.

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The East Michigan Conference

By E. I. Beebe

This meeting was held at Lansing, Mich., Jan. 25-31, 1909. There were present nearly one hundred delegates, representing sixty-five churches and companies. The report of the treasurer showed that $52,607.45 of funds had passed through his office during 1908. Of this amount, $20,603.43 was tithe, and $1,679.01 Sabbath-school offerings to missions. Many of the schools doubled and trebled their offerings of 1907. The missionary department showed a net gain for the year of nearly $800.
The following officers were chosen for the coming year: Conference president, E. K. Slade; secretary-treasurer, E. I. Beebe; tract society secretary and treasurer, Frank Hiner; field missionary secretary, A. R. Sandborn; field missionary agent, J. H. McEachern; religious liberty secretary, C. N. Sanders; educational secretary, H. A. Boylan; Sabbath-school secretary, Tillie E. Barr; medical secretary, L. G. Wagner.
Conference executive committee: E. K. Slade, E. I. Beebe, E. N. Hatt, D. P. Wood, A. R. Sandborn. Auditing committee: Daniel Hale, Wm. Brace, W. R. Fellows, C. H. Gurney, Daniel Wood, Dr. G. G. Brown. Nominees for academy board: E. K. Slade, E. I. Beebe, E. N. Hatt, D. P. Wood, A. R. Sandborn, R. B. Thurber.
The following were given recognition as conference laborers: ministerial credentials being given to E. K. Slade, E. I. Beebe, J. L. Edgar, L. G. Moore, Wm. Ostrander, A. R. Sandborn, B. F. Stureman, C. N. Sanders, E. R. Lauda, D. P. Wood, M. Shepard; ministerial licenses to H. A. Boylan, Fred Hoxie, Claude White, J. H. McEachern, R. B. Thurber, L. G. Wagner, Dr. G. G. Brown, H. S. Guilford; and missionary licenses to Nora B. Ammon, Anna L. Boehm, Tillie E. Barr, H. L. Cohoon, Catherine Dunham, Frank Hiner, Marie Harriman, Beatrice Harter, Clara Kiep, Mina Pierce, F. O. Rathbun, Mabel L. Reavis, Lucy F. Tyte, H. A. Weaver, Katherine Weaver.
Among the resolutions adopted by the conference were the following of general interest:—
“1. Resolved, That we acknowledge with grateful hearts the prospering and protecting hand of God over all our conference work during the annual period, in giving us fruit for our labors, and in keeping death and serious disease or accidents from our laborers.
“2. We recommend, That our people make a careful study of the important subject of adolescence, and that, in harmony with the action of the Mount Vernon convention, our training-school offer in its curriculum a course in this subject.
“3. We recommend, That every Seventh-day Adventist family take the Instructor, and that fathers and mothers unite with their children in the Missionary Volunteer Reading Course.
“4. We recommend, To all our young people, as well as our older members, the Morning Watch Calendar as an aid to systematic Bible study and prayer.
“5. We recommend, The holding of as many conventions and institutes as may seem practical, and that we do more definite work in encouraging our young people to attend our schools to get a preparation for the Lord’s work.
“6. We recommend, The plan suggested by the General Conference Young People’s Convention at Mount Vernon, Ohio, of the co-operation of the conferences in giving certain students who have received some preparation for young people’s work some experience in this work during vacation.
“7. We recommend, That the plan of organization of local Missionary Volunteer societies harmonize with the general plan of organization as recommended by the Missionary Volunteer Department of the General Conference.
“8. Resolved, That we approve of the Washington Foreign Mission Seminary Endowed Scholarship Fund, and that we do all we can, consistent with other funds, to raise the amount suggested for this conference.
“9. Resolved, That we encourage our brethren in the making of wills to the cause to make the conference a beneficiary, and that the East Michigan Conference Association of the Seventh-day Adventists be made the executors, and that the conference share twenty-five per cent of these legacies with the union conference.
“10. Resolved, That the Medical Missionary Department be strengthened, and that the secretary be encouraged to carry on a vigorous campaign on the principles of health and temperance, and that as conference laborers and church officers we pledge our hearty co-operation.
“11. Resolved, That, in view of the urgent calls that continue to come from the General Conference for needy fields, we again express to the General Conference our willingness to share our laborers and means with these needy fields.
“Whereas, There are many expenses necessary for the founding of the work in the union and local conferences, for which the tithe can not be used, therefore,—
“12. Resolved, That we encourage all our members to pay one per cent of their income into the conference fund, one half of the same to be forwarded by the local conference to the union conference.
“13. Resolved, That it is the mind of this conference that a church-school be established wherever there is a sufficient number of children, and that we urge our church officers to make a vigorous effort to do this; and further, that the conference committee investigate the cases of weak companies, and render such help from the general fund as seems consistent with other needs.”
E. I. BEEBE, Sec. and Treas.