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Twelfth Annual Session of the N. Y. and Pa. Conference

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 26, 1873

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 42, No. 11.

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Twelfth Annual Session of the N. Y. and Pa. Conference.

By P. Z. Kinne; S. B. Whitney

Conference convened according to appointment, at Kirkville, N. Y., Aug. 6, 1875. On a call for credentials, twenty-seven delegates presented credentials, representing twenty churches. The minutes of the last meeting were read and accepted. Reports were received from twenty-eight churches. Reports from ministers were also handed in. Adjourned.

Second Session.

Delegates were received from three more churches, without credentials, by vote of the Conference. Two new churches, from Fine and Pitcairn, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., were received with their delegates. The usual invitation was given to the brethren present to participate in the discussion of business. A special invitation was extended to the Gen. Conf. Committee to consult with, and advise, the several committees which the Conference shall appoint.
Voted, that the President appoint the business committees; whereupon the following persons were named:—
On Nominations, J. M. Lindsay, A. H. Hall, Daniel Bowe.
On Resolutions, R. F. Cottrell, S. B. Whitney, H. Hilliard.
On Credentials, &c., S. N. Walsworth, E. S. Lane, A. H. Hall.
Auditors: A. H. Hall, S. N. Walsworth, J. M. Lindsay, J. G. Lamson, Wm. Coats, E. S. Lane.
A letter was presented and read, from Bro. Jefferson Loughhead, relating to the condition of the church in Alba, Pa.; after considering which, it was
Voted, That the name be dropped from the records, and the few faithful ones there be advised to join some other church.

Third Session.

The following nominations were made by the Committee, their report accepted, and the persons named severally elected, viz:— President, P. Z. Kinne; Secretary, S. B. Whitney; Conf. Committee, B. L. Whitney, S. N. Walsworth; Camp-meeting Committee, B. L. Whitney, Wm. H. Brown, T. H. Lindsay. Opportunity was given for verbal reports from ministers, and such reports were made by Brn. Cottrell and Reynolds.
The Committee on Credentials made the following report:— For Credentials, J. N. Andrews, S. B. Whitney, F. Wheeler, C. O. Taylor, R. F. Cottrell, David Arnold, Hiram Edson. Licenses, P. Z. Kinne, B. L. Whitney. The report was accepted, and the recommendation confirmed in each case.

Fourth Session.

The report of the Auditing Committee was made and accepted, after which, lengthy and instructive remarks were made by the Gen. Conf. Committee on the subject of rewarding ministerial labor.

Last Session.

Voted, That the money remaining in the hands of the Camp-meeting Committee be applied on the Delinquent Fund. Also, to appropriate eight hundred dollars to the General Conference. The Committee on Resolutions presented the following, which were unanimously adopted:—
1. That we express anew our confidence in the work in which we as a people are engaged, as being the work of the Lord for the present time; and in the servants whom God has chosen to lead in the work.
2. That we approve of the establishment of a school at Battle Creek, in which, laborers may be fitted up for the work of the Lord, and pledge to this object our hearty support.
3. That the health reform and Health Institute are designed of God to do an important part in this work, and that we labor for its support with our prayers, our influence, and our means.
4. That the providence of God indicates that it is high time that we wake out of sleep, and make a covenant with God by sacrifice to forward the interests of the cause of the last message.
5. That we, as a Conference, heartily approve of the instruction given by the Gen. Conf. Committee in relation to ministerial labor; looking upon the action of our Auditing Committee as a matter of encouragement, in giving assurance that our financial interests are being placed in the position they should occupy.
6. That it is the mind of the Conference, that our ministers should labor in new fields exclusively, unless the Conf. Committee shall otherwise direct.
As the last session was broken in upon by a severe rain storm, the usual votes of thanks, &c., and some other matters designed to be considered, were necessarily omitted.
Adjourned without day.
P. Z. Kinne, Pres.
S. B. Whitney, Sec.