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THE NEW ENGLAND CONFERENCE

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Michigan · Jul 23, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 30.

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THE NEW ENGLAND CONFERENCE.

By A. E. Place; H. B. Tucker

The thirty-first annual session of the New England Conference was held in connection with the camp-meeting at Springfield, Mass., June 20–30, at which time the following-named officers were elected, and resolutions passed:—
President, A. E. Place; Vice-President, M. D. Mattson; other members of the Executive Committee, D. B. Parmelee, D. M. Hull, K. C. Russell; Secretary and Treasurer, H. B. Tucker; Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. E. T. Palmer; Auditor, G. W. Palmer; Canvassing Agent, H. C. Wilcox; Secretary and Treasurer of the Sabbath-school Department, Miss Fannie Dickerson, with Mrs. F. C. Gilbert as assistant.

RESOLUTIONS.

1. Resolved; That in harmony with the instruction given by the Spirit of Prophecy, we pay the South Lancaster Academy from the tithe a sum of money equal to the salary of the principal.
2. That we encourage the spirit which is coming among us of returning to the old-time missionary methods of selling, loaning, and giving away tracts, pamphlets, periodicals, and books, and especially the selling of “Christ’s Object Lessons.”
3. That each church be requested to enlist one or more of its members to enter the regular canvassing field, under the direction of the State Agent and Conference Committee, and that the church stand back of its workers with its prayers, and so far as practicable, with substantial aid.
4. That we continue our support of the endowed bed at the New England Sanitarium, and that, to meet this expense, two hundred and fifty dollars be raised by contributions at this meeting.
5. That our Conference and church workers make special effort to see that the REVIEW AND HERALD, Signs of the Times, Good Health, Missionary Magazine, Berean Library, and New England Gleaner are placed in the home of every Seventh-day Adventist family in this Conference.
6. That it is the sense of this body that the Sabbath-school Association hereafter be a department of the Conference.
7. That we request our ministers and workers, when visiting our churches, to hold, if consistent, at least one service for the children.
8. That we furnish a Bible worker to assist in New York City, under pay of this Conference.
9. That this Conference obligate itself by vote to become responsible for the sale of its quota of “Christ’s Object Lessons,” at an average of six books to the entire church-membership, and that it see to the securing of its proportion of the Material Fund, which is seventeen cents per book for the number brought into the Conference.
10. That we continue to hold Sabbath-school conventions, under the direction of the secretary of the department and Conference Committee.
11. That we still urge upon our churches the necessity of establishing church schools wherever practicable, under the counsel of the Conference Committee.
12. That in accordance with the action of the recent General Conference to pay a second tithe for mission purposes, we pay this tithe to the foreign mission treasury.
13. That in harmony with the wish of the General Conference, we send one laborer to the Maritime Provinces, under pay of this Conference, and under the direction of the Eastern Union Conference.
14. That we recommend the holding of missionary, or gospel workers’ conventions, something after the order of Sabbath-school conventions held in this Conference during the past few years.
Credentials were granted to A. E. Place, M. D. Mattson, G. B. Wheeler, J. M. Eriksson, A. H. Clark, C. H. Edwards, F. C. Gilbert, K. C. Russell, E. E. Miles, and F. W. Mace; ministerial licenses to D. B. Parmelee, F. Griggs, W. R. Andrews, H. N. Sisco, and S. A. Whittier; missionary licenses to C. E. Palmer, Mrs. M. A. Scribner, Miss Jennie Bates, Mrs. E. M. Wilber, and A. J. Clark.
Cash and pledges were taken at the meeting as follows: Tent and Camp-meeting Fund, $190.50; work in New York City, $227; work in Boston, $134.16; endowed bed, $149.
A. E. PLACE, Pres.,
H. B. TUCKER, Sec.