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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 4, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 36.

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A NEW CONFERENCE.

By W.

DURING the camp-meeting held at Los Angeles August 4-17, a new conference was organized, Pastor W. T. Knox, the president of Pacific Union Conference, presiding. This organization, called Southern California Conference, includes, generally speaking, that part of the State south of the Tehachepi range.
The officers elected are as follows: President, Clarence Santee; secretary, C. A. Pedicord; executive committee, Clarence Santee, Roderick S. Owen, William M. Healey, Dr. F. B. Moran, Dr. H. S. Whitelock, T. Sterling, and M. C. Morgan. The number of churches in the conference is 13, with a membership of 1,000. The number of ministers in the new conference is 4; the licentiates number 6 (possibly 8), and the Bible workers 3. The address of the conference headquarters is 516 South Hill Street, Los Angeles, Cal.
The camp-meeting was probably the largest ever held in Southern California, and the evening outside attendance was good. The laborers from abroad were Pastor W. T. Knox, president of the Pacific Union Conference; J. J. Ireland, the secretary; Mrs. E. G. White; Pastor N. C. McClure; E. S. Ballenger, representing the educational work; H. S. Osborne, representing the book work; A. Boker, the health-food work; and the editor of this paper. The preaching was instructive, practical, and inspiring.
A goodly number of young people were in attendance, and the meetings held with them were of interest, as souls responded to the voice of the Lord's invitation. These bright young people will be a mighty power for good in the coming years, if they are only consecrated to God. So may they be.
Many sought the Lord, some for the first time, on the last Sabbath of the meeting. Forty-one willing souls followed their Lord in baptism.
Steps will be taken soon greatly to enlarge the sanitarium and health-food work, for which there is great demand in Southern California.
The Southern California Conference starts out under favorable auspices in a most promising field. May God bless and prosper it abundantly. W.