The General Conference Committee.
By Uriah Smith
It will be seen from the Conference minutes that the Conference Committee are chosen from widely distant localities. This seems to be very appropriate. The message which S. D. Adventists are giving is a world-wide message; and the General Conference Committee have the oversight of the work the world over. How fitting, then, to the nature and extent of the work, that they should be stationed in different fields in different parts of the world. One in Europe, one on the Pacific Coast, and the other vibrating in all sections of the field between them, looks to us like a most appropriate arrangement. We can think of but one step more in the way of improvement on this matter, and that would be to add a fourth member to the Committee, and locate him in Australia. This links all parts of the work together, and by means of the steam and telegraph lines of this rapid age, they can easily confer with one another in regard to the wants of the wide harvest field, of which personal labor and supervision will enable them more correctly to judge. Pray for the Committee that they may have wisdom and strength to properly manage this now rapidly advancing cause during the important year next before us. U. S.