The Northern Union Conference
By R. A. Underwood
ELDER THOMPSON has already written of this important meeting, but a few additional statements may be of interest to the readers of the REVIEW. Nearly all the laborers of the Northern Union Conference, including its mission field, were present. Six delegates and laborers came from Alberta, three from Saskatchewan, and five from Manitoba. The entire force of laborers from Minnesota was in attendance, and most of the laborers in North and South Dakota were present. Elders Daniells, Thompson, Haffner, and Mortenson, and Dr. Froom were present, and took an important part in the conference. The studies upon the subject of the Holy Spirit, given by Elders Daniells and Thompson, were greatly appreciated. A most excellent spirit pervaded the entire session, and steadily increased in power till the close of the meetings. Important and far-reaching steps were taken more fully to organize and equip the union conference for aggressive work. While at first there were different opinions expressed touching the advisability of some of the steps proposed, yet after a free and full discussion of all questions, a united action was taken upon each one. In this respect the meeting was remarkable. I think no measure was adopted during the entire conference where there was a single dissenting vote. The conference was somewhat perplexed to know how to meet the demands and openings of its mission field in the great northwest of Canada. From six thousand dollars to eight thousand dollars should be expended in Alberta and Saskatchewan the coming year. It took steps to assist in starting the medical work in Manitoba. The three conferences of Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota have all acted a liberal part in sustaining and helping the work in foreign fields. Our brethren in Canada, according to their ability, have also done nobly in this respect. A little less than fifty thousand dollars during the past two years was raised for the general work. About eighty-five per cent of this amount was sent into fields and regions beyond. Among the important steps taken at the conference that will have a bearing upon the future prosperity of this great field, was the unanimous action of the conference in starting a union conference paper, to be called Northern Union Reaper. Another important step was to locate the headquarters of the union at Minneapolis. A third step in placing the union in a position to do better work was in selecting union conference secretaries to fill the various departments that had heretofore been left vacant. The Northern Union Reaper will be issued weekly from Minneapolis, beginning the first week in April. Elder C. L. Emmerson has been chosen as its editor. The price of the paper was fixed at fifty cents a year. We were sorry that circumstances made it necessary that Sister Alice H. Robinson be disconnected from the union conference work. She has acted as treasurer of the union since its organization, and filled that position in a most acceptable manner. Sister Robinson had acted as secretary and treasurer of the North Dakota Conference in connection with her work in the union conference. North Dakota thought it would not be wise for Sister Robinson to disconnect from that conference, therefore a change was made necessary in the Northern Union. The following officers were unanimously elected:— President, R. A. Underwood; Vice-President, C. A. Burman; Treasurer and Transportation Agent, C. M. Everest; Missionary and Recording Secretary, C. L. Emmerson; Educational Secretary, Otto Graf; Field Secretary, J. S. James; Religious Liberty Secretary, E. G. Hayes. All communications to the Northern Union treasurer should be directed to C. M. Everest, Box 989, Minneapolis, Minn.