NEW YORK CONFERENCE by T. E. Bowen

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 24, 1901

NEW YORK CONFERENCE.

By T. E. Bowen

The fortieth annual session of the New York Conference was held at Oswego, August 29 to September 8. The attendance of our people as well as the attendance from the city was good. An interest was awakened in the truths of the Third Angel's Message, and several workers were left to continue labor for the people. About twenty-five persons were baptized.

The officers chosen for the ensuing year are as follows: President, G. B. Thompson; Vice-President, A. O. Burrill; Secretary and Treasurer, T. E. Bowen; Secretary and Treasurer of Missionary Department, T. E. Bowen; Secretary of Sabbath-school Department, Mrs. Delia A. Thompson.

Credentials were granted to the following-named persons: G. B. Thompson, L. T. Nicola, A. O. Burrill, J. W. Raymond, F. Peabody, J. B. Stow, D. A. Ball, A. R. Hyatt, F. H. DeVinney, C. O. Taylor, P. Z. Kinne, F. Wheeler, H. H. Wilcox, S. B. Whitney. Licenses were given to Mrs. Lulu Wightman, B. E. Teffts, T. E. Bowen, B. E. Fisk, F. H. Hicks, R. F. Cottrell, E. A. Raymond, B. E. Connerly, W. J. Boynton, H. W. Carr; and Missionary licenses to Rosa F. Mead, Mary A. Millington, B. B. Noftsger, W. S. Cleveland.

The following are the resolutions fully considered and passed:—

Resolved, That a committee of fifteen be chosen by the delegates, who will act with the Conference Committee and formulate the business to bring before the Conference.

The New York Tract Society in meeting:—

Resolved, That we petition the New York Conference of Seventh-day Adventists to receive our society as a department of that body.

Resolutions were passed making the New York Tract Society and the New York Sabbath-school Association departments of the Conference.

Resolved, That the State be divided into districts, and a competent person set over each, who can and will go out with our people from house to house and interest them in circulating our literature.

Resolved, That we favor the holding of missionary and Sabbath-school institutes in the different sections of the Conference.

Resolved, That we recommend each church so far as possible to select one or more of its members for the regular canvassing work, and that the church stand back of its workers with spiritual aid, and, if necessary, with substantial support.

Resolved, That we continue the work with “Christ's Object Lessons,” and that we endeavor to raise sufficient money to pay for the material in the books sold in this Conference.

Resolved, That we recognize our faithful canvassers as Conference laborers by granting them canvassers' missionary license.

Resolved, That church schools be organized under the advice of the Conference Committee.

Resolved, That we pay a sum equal to the salary of one teacher in the Union Conference Academy at South Lancaster for the school year of 1901-2.

Resolved, That the Conference Committee seek for a suitable location, with substantial aid and support guaranteed, for a branch sanitarium in our Conference; and if such can be obtained, we invite the International Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association to establish a branch sanitarium in our Conference, the President being requested to transmit this invitation to said association.

Resolved, That our Conference pay a second tithe, the same to be used in the support of workers in the regions beyond.

Resolved, That we in Conference assembled do express our sincere thanks to the citizens of Oswego, who, through their officials, granted us the free use of Kingsford Park for holding our annual camp-meeting; also to the courtesy of the police department for its efficient service; and to the Palladium and Times for their excellent reports of our meeting.

Resolved, That we request the city papers to print the forgoing resolutions. T. E. BOWEN, Sec.