General Conference Council

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Oct 4, 1906

General Conference Council

We go to press too early to report the proceedings of the General Conference Committee Council, which opened at Takoma Park, September 27. The meetings are being held in one of the schoolrooms of the Training College, and the brethren in attendance are cared for in the college dormitories.

After the early worship period, with the students, the program of the council fills the entire day, with several intermissions, while Elder E. W. Farnsworth has been giving a series of Bible studies in the evening. On the Sabbath members of the council spoke at the four churches in Washington. Elder H. S. Shaw spoke at Takoma Park, L. H. Christian at Eighth Street, J. S. Washburn at M Street, and W. J. Stone at V Street.

The following representatives of the union conferences had arrived last week:—

Atlantic Union: E. W. Farnsworth, W. J. Fitzgerald, R. D. Hottel, H. W. Carr, C. McVagh, H. F. Ketring, S. J. Hersum, F. H. DeVinne, J. E. Jayne, W. A. Westworth, E. J. Dryer, M. Lukens, T. E. Bowen, W. H. Zeidler, T. D. Gibson.

Southern Union: G. I. Butler, R. M. Kilgore, T. H. Jeys, S. B. Horton, W. R. Burrow, J. S. Washburn, W. A. Wilcox, J. A. Ford, A. F. Harrison.

Lake Union: Allen Moon, Wm. Covert, A. G. Haughey, W. J. Stone, E. Johnson.

Northern Union: R. A. Underwood, H. S. Shaw, E. G. Hayes, J. G. Walker, C. M. Everest.

Southwestern Union: C. N. Woodward.

Pacific Union: H. W. Cottrell.

Canadian Union: W. H. Thurston, Wm. Guthrie.

In addition, local brethren in General Conference, school, and publishing work are in attendance. Other brethren from the general field will have joined the council before this paper comes from the press. In this autumn council questions of needs in home and foreign fields will be dealt with. As the chairman, A. G. Daniells, stated in opening the session, this work is growing and expanding at so rapid a pace that our plans have continually to be readjusted to the ever-widening circle of interests. The third angel's message is going to the world.