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Twenty-fourth Meeting

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 5, 1903

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 80, No. 18.

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Twenty-fourth Meeting

SUNDAY, APRIL 12, 8 A. M.
The further partial report of the Committee on Plans was taken up. The following is the report:—

Report of Committee on Plans

17. We recommend, That the General Conference Sabbath-school Department be directed to lay plans that shall foster, improve, and build up the young people's work.
18. That the ministers and other workers throughout the field be urged to give this work their hearty support and co-operation.
19. That we approve of the plan that Sabbath-school officers be elected by the church.
20. That great care be taken in arranging for the work of the State conference Sabbath-school departments.
(a) In the appointing of capable secretaries, and avoiding frequent changes whenever possible.
(b) In not placing so many other burdens upon those secretaries that the interests of the Sabbath-school and young people's work must be neglected.
Whereas, The East Indian Archipelago is within easy reach of Australia, and by geographical position naturally belongs within the jurisdiction of the Australasian Union Conference; therefore,—
21. We recommend, That this island group be made a mission field of the said union conference, and that an appropriation be made for starting a mission in Singapore as soon as possible; further,—
22. We recommend, That the missions in the Society Islands and in the Samoan Islands be advised to connect with the West-Australasian Union Conference, and that the workers in those fields receive their credentials or licenses from the said union conference.
Whereas, The Southern States have been presented to us repeatedly as a very needy and much neglected field, a field in which we should take a great interest, and with which we should become better acquainted; therefore,—
23. Resolved, That suitable men be chosen from the field to lay before our people in the older and more prosperous conferences the needs of the various struggling institutions and missionary enterprises in the South.
24. Resolved, That persons sent forth to engage in this work should bear special credentials from the managers of the enterprises which they represent, indorsed by the officers of the union conference or mission field in which said enterprise is located.
Whereas, The Southern Missionary