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Business Proceedings of the General Conference

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 9, 1872

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 39, No. 4.

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Business Proceedings of the General Conference.

By James White; Uriah Smith

We gave last week the report of the proceedings up to the time that the paper went to press. We now complete the record to the day of final adjournment, on the 5th inst.
At the eighth session, Jan. 3, at nine o’clock A. M., the committee on Tract Societies reported. Their report was accepted, and it was left with them to prepare a constitution and plan of operation for such societies, for publication.
The matter of courses of instruction, for those designing to enter the ministry in the different States, was referred to the General Conference Committee.
In view of the urgent calls for labor in the East and South, the question was raised whether Bro. M. E. Cornell should not be recalled from California. The matter was referred to the General Conference Committee.
The matter of translating some of our works into the German language was taken up, and left in the hands of the General Conference Committee.
Bro. R. J. Lawrence was advised to labor inthe Missouri and Kansas Conference the coming year.
The report from Switzerland was read, whereupon it was voted and carried, 1. That we accept it with gratitude. 2. That it be published in the REVIEW. 3. That the General Conference Committee respond to it.
After a report from Bro. Bourdeau respecting the French mission, it was voted that the General Conference assume the responsibility of sustaining the Vermont Conference in supporting labor among the French Canadians.
On motion, it was voted to extend to Wm. S. Ingraham, the sympathy of the Conference in his affliction, and to recommend to the Directors of the Health Institute to invite him to spend two or three months at the Institute.
It was recommended that Eld. I. D. Van Horn spend two weeks in Mendon, Ohio, and that the Ohio Conference invite Bro. O. Mears to visit and labor for the churches in that Conference.
It was recommended that Bro. D. M. Canright spend a considerable portion of the coming year in Minnesota.
Adjourned sine die.
JAS. WHITE, Pres.
U. SMITH, Sec’y.