Recent Actions of the General Conference Committee by W. A. Spicer

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 21, 1907

Recent Actions of the General Conference Committee

By W. A. Spicer

In recent meetings of the General Conference Committee the following actions of general interest were taken:—

SWEDISH WORK

The superintendent of the Swedish work in the United States, Elder S. Mortensen, was recommended to visit the West, looking after the interests of the work among Swedish-speaking peoples.

WEST INDIAN UNION SECRETARY AND TREASURER

In response to the call of the West Indian Union for an experienced secretary and treasurer, Brother Harold H. Cobban, assistant in the General Conference Treasury Department, volunteered for the service, and the committee arranged with him to prepare at once to go to the West Indian field.

EVANGELISTIC SONG-BOOK

The following-named persons were appointed as a committee on selection of hymns for a song-book for tent and evangelistic services:—

F. Griggs, W. A. Westworth, W. A. Colcord, C. C. Lewis, R. W. Parmele, H. R. Salisbury, H. C. Lacey, J. S. Washburn, W. W. Prescott, Wm. Simpson, L. Warren, F. E. Belden, C. H. Edwards, C. H. Jones, M. C. Wilcox, Dr. W. A. Ruble, D. E. Scoles, H. S. Shaw, J. W. Beardslee, B. F. Stureman, Mrs. W. A. Ruble, Mrs. W. H. McKee, Mrs. Rhoda Dunlap, Mrs. Vesta J. Farnsworth, Mrs. Andrew Nelson.

The following executive committee on the hymn-book matter was appointed: F. Griggs, chairman; W. A. Westworth, secretary; C. H. Edwards, Mrs. W. A. Ruble, W. A. Colcord.

It is hoped that the work of this committee will be sufficiently forward to enable the results to be laid before the General Conference Committee council, to be held in May.

SABBATH-SCHOOL AND YOUNG PEOPLE’S CONVENTION

The importance of the Sabbath-school and young people’s work, and the need of opportunity for those leading out in these lines of work to meet for counsel, led the committee to recommend the Sabbath-school and Young People’s Department of the General Conference to call for and arrange a Sabbath-school and young people’s convention, to be held in July of this year, to be attended by such representatives of these branches of the work as may be able to gather together. W. A. Spicer, Secretary.