Manuscripts and Memories of Minneapolis

THE ADVENTISTS

Opening of Their World’s Conference This
Morning

The Seventh Day Adventist biblical institute, which has been in session at the little church, Lake st and 14 av S, finished its labors yesterday. This morning at 9 o’clock the great world’s conference began, with some 175 delegates present. MMM 523.1

The Adventists who had slumbered peacefully all night in their little tents pitched army fashion all about the church, were up betimes this morning and took a hearty breakfast in the big dining hall. Plainly dressed but rosy-cheeked Advent girls acted as Hebes and passed the edibles about. This peculiar people believe in good food, plainly cooked and plentifully eaten, and they carry their theories into practice, as the piles of graham bread and the quantities of well cooked oatmeal testified. Dr. J. H. Kellogg, of the Battle Creek Sanitarium, is the leader of their health reform movement, which is looked upon in much the same light as a religious crusade. The Adventists are all vegetarians and refrain from eating meat, not because they think it sinful, but because they think it unhealthful. The more rigid of them use no salt, no sugar and no butter or lard. They eat largely of fruit and grain products. And the robust muscles and rosy glow of health which most of them display show how effective this regimen is. MMM 523.2

Elder S. W. [sic] Haskell was in the chair today. He is an active man whose missionary labors have taken him to all parts of the world, his present field being England. He is second in authority on the executive board which manages the church’s affairs, Elder Butler, its president, being absent on account of illness. MMM 523.3

The principal work of the morning was the appointment of the usual committees and the mapping out of a plan of campaign for the conference. MMM 523.4

n.a., “A Question of Ten Horns” Minneapolis Journal, (10/18/1888). p. 2.