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Report of the Ohio Conference

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 18, 1870

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 36, No. 18.

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Report of the Ohio Conference.

By Wm. Chinnock; H. Hodgson

THE eighth annual session of the Ohio Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, was held at Clyde, on the evening following the Sabbath, Sept. 24, 1870. Conference was opened with prayer, after which the following committees were chosen:
On Nominations, Eld. James White, Eld. I. D. Van Horn, and Bro. O. Mears.
On Resolutions, Elds. White and Van Horn, and Bro. John Mears.
Important and timely remarks were made by Bro. White, and after a brief session, the Conference adjourned to the call of the President.
On Sunday morning, Conference met. The Committee on Nominations reported thus:
For President, Wm. Chinnock; Treasurer, O. F. Guilford; Secretary, H. Hodgson; Conference Committee, Wm. Chinnock, George Bisel, J. Q. A. Haughey; Auditing Committee, Bro. T. F. Emmons, of Mercer Co.; H. Hodgson, Jos. Clarke, J. Q. A. Haughey, Eld. I. D. Van Horn, Wm. Chinnock.
Report of the Committee was accepted, and confirmed by the election of the persons nominated, each separately.
On Sunday afternoon, Conference met again, when calls for labor were received from Mercer, Paulding, Henry, Wood, Muskingum, and Clarke counties. Bro. White recommended that these calls be responded to as soon as possible.
On Monday afternoon, the Committee on Resolutions reported the following:
Resolved. 1. That this Conference express its thanks to the General Conference Committee for their care of the cause in Ohio, by sending us help. 2. That we express our thanks to Bro. and Sr. White, for their faithful labors at our Camp-meeting, and for their interest in the prosperity of the cause in our State; and we invite them still to remember us, and labor for us, as the providence of God may open; and we promise them our sympathy and support.
This report was accepted, and the foregoing resolutions unanimously adopted, as the sense of the Conference.
The church of Bowling Green were empowered to retain one-half of their s. B. fund, if necessary, for the purpose of repairing their meeting-house.
Calls for labor were again discussed with much interest.
During these sessions of the Conference, the following brethren received license to improve their gifts in proclaiming the truth; viz., A. A. Hutchins, Wm. Cottrell, Hiram A. St. John, Henry Hodgson.
Adjourned.
WM. CHINNOCK, President.
H. HODGSON, Secretary.
No. of members at the commencement of the year, 192 No. of members at present, Amount of s. B. fund pledged for the present year, $1,220 01

TREASURER'S REPORT.

Received during the year, $1,285 67 Paid out during the year, 610 61
Now on hand, $ 675 06
JOHN MEARS, Treasurer.
Clyde, Ohio, Sept. 26, 1870.