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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 4, 1907

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 14.

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GENERAL CONFERENCE OFFICERS

Important

NEARLY six months ago the General Conference Committee and council of conference presidents took action placing the care of dependent orphans and aged under union conference supervision. The proposition was then made to the managers of the Haskell Home and the James White Memorial Home that Seventh-day Adventist inmates would, if desired, be provided for under the new plan. After a delay of five months the managers have at last supplied a list of such persons in the Homes, saying that the General Conference Committee is at liberty to provide for the support of these persons in the Homes or elsewhere.
The General Conference Committee took action immediately and appointed a local committee to visit and confer with inmates and managers, and to give counsel as to what arrangements will be most satisfactory in providing for the care of every Seventh-day Adventist under the union conference plan.
The offering of April 6 is to provide for this work. Now comes the word that the managers of these Homes are, at the last moment, circularizing our churches in the effort to divert the offering from the channels recommended by the General Conference, and endeavoring to get persons or churches to send their offering direct to the managers, thus frustrating the plans of the General Conference. No better illustration could be furnished as to the necessity of having the care of the denomination's needy ones under denominational supervision.
Our people should not be misled by misrepresentation of the situation, but should send their offerings of April 6 for orphans and aged to the conference and union treasuries, according to the plans agreed upon, and the unions, the General Conference acting with them, will see that these aged persons and children shall receive the assistance they need. We have not abandoned our aged brethren and sisters and orphaned children in these Homes.

GENERAL CONFERENCE OFFICERS