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CONSTITUTION OF LAKE UNION CONFERENCE

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 20, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 34.

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CONSTITUTION OF LAKE UNION CONFERENCE.

By Arthur Grosvenor Daniells; W. H. Edwards

ARTICLE I — NAME.

This organization shall be known as the Lake Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.

ARTICLE II — PURPOSE.

The purpose of this Conference shall be the economizing of our time, energy, and means for the speedy heralding of the Third Angel's Message to all within our borders, and the assisting as far as possible in the giving of the same to all the world.

ARTICLE III — BOUNDS.

This Conference shall include the Conferences of the States of Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, and the Province of Ontario, with such territory as may hereafter be added.

ARTICLE IV — REPRESENTATION.

Section 1.—Each local Conference shall be entitled to one delegate to any session of the Lake Union Conference, without reference to numbers or its ex-officio member, and one additional delegate for each one hundred members of such local Conference.
Sec. 2.—Each local Conference shall elect its delegates according to its approved methods, upon due notice of the appointed session of the Lake Union Conference.

ARTICLE V — OFFICERS.

Section 1.—The officers of the Lake Union Conference shall consist of a President, a Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, Auditor; and also an Executive Committee, as provided for in Sec. 3.
Sec. 2.—The above-named officers, except departmental secretaries and the Executive Committee, shall be elected at a regular session of the Conference, for a term of two years, or until the election of their successors.
Sec. 3.—Executive Committee: The presidents of the several local Conferences embraced in the Lake Union Conference as ex-officio members, with an authorized representative from the medical, educational, publishing, German, and Scandinavian work in the Conference, shall constitute an Executive Committee for the period of two years following the regular session of the Conference, the members representing the medical, educational, publishing, German, and Scandinavian work to be elected by the Conference at its regular session.

ARTICLE VI — TRUSTEES AND AGENTS.

Section 1.—The members of the Conference shall at each regular session elect boards of management for such incorporated institutions and enterprises as are or may be connected with this organization, in accordance with the rules governing the same, and the laws of the State wherein the same are situated.
Sec. 2.—The Executive Committee shall appoint departmental Secretaries, a Business Agent, also a General Canvassing Agent for the said Conference, who shall serve under their direction.
Sec. 3.—The Conference shall employ such ministers, missionaries, committees, agents, or other persons as are necessary to carry on its work.

ARTICLE VII — DUTIES OF OFFICERS.

Section 1. — President: The duties of the President shall be such as usually pertain to that office.
Sec. 2.—Vice-President: In the absence of the President or the vacation of the chair for any reason, the Vice-President shall fill the vacancy. Further, he shall assist the President in his work as he may be requested to do by the Executive Committee.
Sec. 3.—Secretaries: The duties of the secretaries shall be such as usually pertain to the office, and they shall also do such other work as the Executive Committee shall assign them.
Sec. 4.—Treasurer: It shall be the duty of the Treasurer to receive all moneys belonging to the Conference, to keep a faithful account thereof, to deposit and disburse the same according to the direction of the Executive Committee. He shall make a full report of receipts and disbursements at all regular sessions of the Conference, or at such time as may be required by said committee. The Treasurer shall also collect from the Conferences embraced in the Lake Union Conference such financial and statistical reports as are required, and forward copies of the same as the committee may direct.
Sec. 5.—Auditor: The Auditor shall faithfully audit the books of the Conference at such times as directed by the Executive Committee, and make a report of the same to the Conference. He may also audit the books of the several State Conferences embraced in the Lake Union Conference, upon their request.
Sec. 6.—Executive Committee: During the interval between the sessions of the Conference, the Executive Committee shall have full administrative power, and shall exercise a general watchcare over all matters pertaining to the work of the Conference, and shall fill for the current term any vacancies that may occur in the Conference, unless the same has been provided for in other sections of the Constitution or By-Laws. It shall direct the work of the employees of the Conference, and pay them for labor performed, at regular intervals, from the funds of the Lake Union Conference.
Sec. 7.—The Executive Committee may call for donations from local Conferences, churches, or individuals, when in their judgment it becomes necessary. They may also make contributions to the General Conference from the funds on hand when there is urgent need, and it seems advisable.
Sec. 8.—Trustees elected by the Conference for any corporate organization shall faithfully perform the duties incumbent upon them by the Constitution or By-Laws of the Lake Union Conference, and by the corporate laws of the State in which the same may be located, and make such reports from time to time as the law requires or the Executive Committee may ask.
Sec. 9.—Agents: The Business and Canvassing Agents shall faithfully perform the duties belonging to their respective offices, under the direction of the Executive Committee, and in harmony with the laws governing the corporate bodies they may represent. They shall make such reports and at such times to the Executive Committee or Conference as may be required by the same.

ARTICLE VIII — AUDITING COMMITTEE.

The Auditing Committee shall be composed of the President of the Lake Union Conference and the Presidents of the State Conferences, with such assistance as in their judgment may be advisable; and shall audit the accounts of the Conference laborers at least once a year.

ARTICLE IX — FUNDS.

Section 1.—The funds of the Lake Union Conference shall consist of such tithe as it shall receive from the several local Conferences within its determined bounds, with such gifts, legacies, bequests, devises, and other donations as shall otherwise be made to it.
Sec. 2.—The tithe shall be used for such purposes only as the word of the Lord directs. All other means to be used according to the best judgment of the Executive Committee and the specifications of the donors.

ARTICLE X — SESSIONS.

The Lake Union Conference shall hold regular sessions at intervals of about two years, at such time and place as its Executive Committee shall designate by a notice in the Review and Herald a reasonable time before the date of meeting.

ARTICLE XI — BY-LAWS.

The Conference may make By-Laws, and amend them or repeal them at any session. The scope of such By-Laws may embrace all subjects not inconsistent with this Constitution.

ARTICLE XII — AMENDMENTS.

This Constitution may be amended by a three-fourths vote of the members present at any regular session.
Lake Union Conference Executive Committee: A. G. Daniells, W. H. Thurston, J. D. Gowell, Wm. Covert, R. F. Andrews, I. J. Hawkins, A. G. Haughey, J. W. Collie, Dr. J. H. Kellogg, Prof. P. T. Magan, C. J. Herrmann, H. R. Johnson, W. H. Edwards.
Officers: President, A. G. Daniells; Vice-President, W. H. Thurston; Secretary, Treasurer, and Auditor, W. H. Edwards.
Secretaries and Agents: Field Secretary of the Sabbath-school and Educational Dept., H. R. Salisbury; Corresponding Secretary of the same, to be appointed; Business Agent, W. H. Thurston; Canvassing Agent, F. L. Moody.
A. G. DANIELLS, Chairman.
W. H. EDWARDS, Sec.