Manuscripts and Memories of Minneapolis

SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS

They Are Prepared to Entertain Delegates
to Their World’s Conference.

As announced in the TRIBUNE last week, the world’s convention of the Seventh Day Adventists will be held this week, beginning Wednesday, in the Seventh Day Adventist’s church, on Lake street and Fourth avenue south. Among the members of the conference who will assemble in Minneapolis will be representatives from most of the states of the United States, and from Germany, France, Australia and other foreign countries. Arrangements have been made for the reception of members, many of whom have already arrived in the city while more are expected before Wednesday. A large frame building, just erected for the Adventist school, which will convene in November, has been converted into a temporary hostelry for the reception of the members, while a large number of tents have been erected close at hand, in case the accommodations in the new building should prove inadquate [sic]. MMM 543.2

At the general conference, among prominent members, there will be present Elder Comadi [sic], who has recently returned from a prolonged missionary tour in Germany and Russia. Mr. Comadi [sic] was arrested in Russia and languished for several months in imprisonment for venturing to propogate [sic] a religion contrary to the teachings of the prevalent Greek church. He was only released after urgent solicitations of the American minister. Elder Huskell [sic], who has spent two years in establishing the system in London and England, is already here, and so is Mr. Bordeau [sic], of Italy, and others who have been doing proselyting work upon the continent. Although the seat of the Seventh Day adventist movement is in the United States, the labors of the church are world wide. Besides a printing establishment at Battle Creek, Mich., there are also large branch houses in Basil, Switzerland; Christiana, Norway, and Australia. Over 100 tons of tracts for the propogation [sic] of the faith are published at these houses. At Basil tracts are printed in four languages—German, Italian, French and Roumanian—while altogether the works of the church are printed in over 20 languages, and are distributed in nearly every country of the world. Elder S. I. Butter [sic] is president of the conference, and over 200 members will attend the session. MMM 543.3

n.a., “Seventh Day Adventists” Minneapolis Tribune, (10/17/88), p. 5. MMM 545.1