Alabama Annual Conference by S. B. Horton

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Nov 7, 1907

Alabama Annual Conference

By S. B. Horton

By direction of the president of the Southern Union Conference I had the privilege of attending the annual meeting of the Alabama Conference held in Birmingham, Ala., October 3-13. The camp was pitched in a beautiful grove on Highland Avenue, near Lake View, and was reached by two belt lines of street railway. The attendance was not so large as was expected, but it was remarked that the meeting and the experiences fully repaid every effort put forth to attend. A special feature of this meeting was the canvassers' sessions under the direction of A. F. Harrison, the general field missionary. A State agent was chosen, and the work of distributing the printed page promises to be greatly accelerated during the coming year.

Among the visiting brethren were Brethren George I. Butler, J. S. Washburn, A. F. Harrison, Profs. J. E. Tenney and W. J. Blake, Drs. A. J. Bascom and O. M. Hayward, and the writer. These, with the local laborers, contributed to make the meeting as practical and profitable as possible. On the $150,000 fund the sum of $110 was raised, and on tent and camp-meeting fund $152 was contributed.

The local press afforded opportunity for getting before the public synopses of discourses delivered from time to time; so that while the attendance from the outside was small, the people had presented before them some phase of the message nearly every day.

Elder A. J. Haysmer was re-elected president, Miss Helen McKinnon, secretary and treasurer, with an executive

committee composed of A. J. Haysmer, C. C. Webster, W. S. Cruzan, R. I. Keats, T. B. Buckner. W. S. Cruzan was chosen secretary of the Religious Liberty Department, and R. I. Keats field missionary, or State agent.

An auxiliary meeting was held on the opposite side of the city, under the direction of Elders Sydney Scott, T. B. Buckner, and W. J. Blake, which resulted in much good. On the whole, the Alabama Conference bids fair to keep pace with the progress of the message in this field, the officers enjoying the hearty co-operation of the people in general.

S. B. HORTON.