Other Conferences in Europe
By GUY DAIL
GUY DAIL,
Cor. Sec. European General Conference The annual meeting of the Central European Conference was held in Geneva, Switzerland, during the first five days of July. The general attendance was quite good, and crowds from the outside came on the grounds evening after evening to hear the word. In view of the difficulties attendant upon managing so large a field as that embraced in the territory of the French-Latin Union Conference, it was decided more thoroughly to organize it, and divide it into one conference and three mission fields, as follows: The French-speaking part of Switzerland will compose the French-Swiss Conference; France and the French-speaking part of Belgium, the French mission; Italy and Spain will be organized as separate mission fields, as soon as circumstances permit. To provide for the support of this field, the greater part of which is mission territory, it was recommended that the funds be drawn from the tithe of the tithe of the local conferences, the tithe of the mission fields, the Sabbath-school offerings, and all the general offerings and appropriations made by the Mission Board through the European General Conference. All these conferences and missions will pay a tithe to the European General Conference. The money to begin the work in these new missions will be drawn from the proceeds of the sale of the Basel property, of which sixty per cent will go to the French-Latin field, and forty per cent to the German Union Conference. Of the sixty per cent going to the French-Latin field, fifteen per cent will go to the French-Swiss Conference, and forty-five per cent to the Latin mission field, which is composed of Italy, France, French-speaking Belgium, Spain, Portugal, and Algeria. Arrangements were made by which Les Signes des Temps will be better adapted to the needs of the French people, as well as to the wants of French Switzerland. This will be accomplished by devoting two or three pages to local matters concerning France in the French edition, this being replaced by the same number of pages of local Swiss matters in the Swiss edition.