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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Dec 13, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 47.

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The Missionary.

By Editor

General Conference.

In addition to items given last week, we condense the following matters of general interest from the report in the Review and Herald:—
It was resolved that Eld. B. L. Whitney take editorial charge of Les Signes des Temps, and all other papers that may be published at Bale, Switzerland.
A resolution was passed favoring the opening of reading-rooms in the leading cities of this country, as soon as proper persons can be found to take charge of them.
A Central Committee, consisting of Elds. U. Smith, W. C. Sisley, W. H. Littlejohn, E. B. Miller, and sister M. J. Chapman, was appointed for the newly-established Bible-reading Bureau. The conditions of membership are the payment of one dollar a year, and the furnishing of one or more original readings a month, to the committee. Such members shall receive a printed sheet monthly, containing one or more lessons for each week. Those who do not become members may receive the lessons by subscribing $5.00 a year.
A committee of ten, appointed to consider a new view of the seven trumpets of Rev. 8 and 9, reported that they "see no occasion to change from the views we have formerly entertained."
In view of the fact that thousands of earnest Christians are laboring sincerely for the enforcement of a Sunday law, who would not do so if the claims of the true Sabbath were placed before them, it was resolved to remind our people of their duty to place the light God has given them upon the question before others. And it was also resolved to publish a monthly paper in opposition to the Sunday-law movement.
A resolution was adopted recommending that men of means, who have experience in the truth, visit or locate in prominent islands of the Pacific, that they may become acquainted with the customs of the people, learn the wants of the field, maintain colporteur work, and thus prepare the way for more direct missionary effort.
Elds. Geo. I. Butler, Uriah Smith, J. H. Waggoner, S. N. Haskell, and W. C. White were selected as a committee to supervise the republication of "Testimonies to the Church."
The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, Geo. I. Butler; Secretary, U. Smith; Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. F. H. Sisley; Treasurer, A. R. Henry; Executive Committee, Geo. I. Butler, S. N. Haskell, W. C. White, J. Fargo, O. A. Olsen.