Twenty-Eighth General Conference
THE twenty-eighth annual session of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, which met in Battle Creek, Mich., October 18, closed November 5, having held twenty meetings. A great deal of important business was transacted, a part of which was the adoption of a new constitution, which provides that hereafter "this Conference shall hold a regular session every alternate year, reckoning from 1889." It also provides that "the Executive Committee may call extra sessions." It follows that unless this be done next year, the next General Conference will be held in 1891. The basis of representation has also been changed, the new constitution providing that each local Conference shall be entitled to one delegate in the General Conference, and one additional delegate for every four hundred church members in the Conference. The former basis was one delegate for every three hundred members. The building of a missionary ship was authorized, and C. H. Jones, C. Eldridge, and J. I. Tay were appointed a committee to carry out the will of the Conference in this particular. The Conference officers for the next two years are: President, O. A. Olsen; Recording Secretary, W. H. Edwards; Corresponding Secretary, D. T. Jones; Foreign Mission Secretary, W. C. White; Educational Secretary, W. W. Prescott; Treasurer, Harmon Lindsay; Executive Committee, O. A. Olsen, S. N. Haskell, W. C. White, D. T. Jones, R. A. Underwood, R. M. Kilgore, E. W. Farnsworth, E. H. Gates, A. T. Robinson. The following brethren constitute the Book Committee: O. A. Olsen, W. C. White, U. Smith, A. T. Jones, C. Eldridge, J. H. Kellogg, W. W. Prescott, E. W. Farnsworth, C. H. Jones, E. J. Waggoner, A. T. Robinson, F. E. Belden, L. C. Chadwick. The officers of the International Tract Society are as follows: President, L. C. Chadwick; Vice-President, D. T. Jones; Recording Secretary, T. A. Kilgore; Foreign Corresponding Secretary, M. L. Huntley; Home Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. F. H. Sisley; Assistant Secretaries, Eliza T. Palmer, Mrs. D. T. Jones, Addie S. Bowen, Anna L. Ingels, H. P. Holser, W. A. Spicer, Mary Heilesen, Mrs. N. H. Druillard, Josie L. Baker, Mrs. M. H. Tuxford; Executive Board, L. C. Chadwick, D. T. Jones, O. A. Olsen, S. N. Haskell, W. C. White, D. A. Robinson, W. C. Sisley, C. Eldridge, A. T. Robinson. The officers of the Sabbath-school Association are the same as last year, with the exception that Roderick S. Owen was chosen Vice-President.