General Conference

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 9, 1865

General Conference.

The third Annual Meeting of the S. D. A. General Conference will be held in Battle Creek, Michigan, Wednesday, May 17, 1865, at 9 o'clock A. M. This Conference is composed of delegates from the various State Conferences. Where delegates are not already appointed, the different Conference Committees will see that they are appointed in season. Brethren in those localities where there is no State Conference can also represent themselves by delegates or letter at their discretion.

Jno. Byington, J. N. Loughborough, } Gen. Conf. Committee. G. W. Amadon.

At the next meeting of the General Conference it is proposed to add to Art. V, of the Constitution two sections, as follows:

Sec. 4. The General Conference Executive Committee shall have power during the intervals between the yearly meetings, to license ministers who may be raised up in mission fields.

Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of the ministers and others in the employ of the General Conference to make a written report to each annual meeting thereof, of their labors each week during the Conference year, or such portion of the year as they may have been in the employ of the Conference.

It is also proposed to amend Article I of the Constitution, which now reads, "This Conference shall be called the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists," by adding the words, "and shall be composed of delegates from the different State Conferences;" so that the whole as amended shall read, "This Conference shall be called the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, and shall be composed of delegates from the different State Conferences."

Gen. Conf. Committee.