MICHIGAN CONFERENCE

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Oct 12, 1876

MICHIGAN CONFERENCE.

The sixty-four churches of the Michigan Conference were represented by eighty-seven delegates. Hart was represented by letter, and sixteen new churches were admitted to the Conference, under the following names: Lyons, Muir, Armada, Lakeview, Saranac, Thetford, Green, Monroe Center, Mattawan, Ovid, Estella, W. Plains, Douglas, W. Liberty, Spring Harbor, and Flint. The companies of Sabbath-keepers at Adrian, Bronson, and Dimondale were, by their request, taken under the watch-care of the Conference. The officers elected for the coming year were—President, S. N. Haskell; Secretary, D. H. Lamson; Treasurer, Alice Canfield; Executive Committee, S. N. Haskell, E. H. Root, and Jerome Fargo.

Ministerial Credentials were issued to Eld. James White, Mrs. E. G. White, J. H. Waggoner, John Byington, E. B. Lane, D. H. Lamson, R. J. Lawrence, I. D. Van Horn, H. M. Kenyon, U. Smith, E. R. Jones, John Corliss, J. B. Frisbie, A. O. Burrill, E. H. Root, Orlando Soule, and C. C. Stoddard; and M. B. Miller, E. Van Deusen, and J. Fargo were recommended to receive ordination.

Licenses were granted to D. W. Milk, Wm. Potter, H. S. Guilford, Sr. E. S. Lane, Delphus Wellman, Delmer Wellman, Gardner Owen, Augustus Rasmussen, Frank Starr, R. T. Sisley, John Sisley, I. A. Olmstead, E. P. Daniels, C. C. Dorren, J. L. Edgar, John Wright, Worthy Ford.

Eld. Haskell resigned as President of the Conference, stating as chief reason that his residence being in another State, it would occasion at times a necessary absence. His resignation was accepted, and Jerome Fargo was elected President of the Conference.