General Conference Bulletin, vol. 3

CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER

L. A. HOOPES

The Third Angel’s Message	105
Perilous Times	112
The Christian Record	114
The Importance of Reporting	115
Our Canvassing Work	116
Financial Reports	117
Summary of Statistics for 1899	118

The new board of directors for the Review and Herald Publishing Company consists of the following names persons: G. A. Irwin, U. Smith, G. W. Amadon, C. D. Rhodes, S. H. Lane, I. H. Evans, and C. M. Christiansen. GCB January 1, 1900, page 120.1

Important meetings of general interest have been in progress in this city the past few days. The General Conference Auditing Committee began its work March 20; the Review and Herald Publishing Company began its annual stockholders’ meeting March 26; the Sanitarium and Benevolent Association, March 28; and the College, the 29th. The regular spring session of the General Conference Committee was held at this time while the representative brethren were present. GCB January 1, 1900, page 120.2

Important recommendations relative to a movement to liquidate the debts on the various denominational enterprises; were freely discussed in the recent council meetings held in this place, and steps have been taken to relieve the already overburdened institutions of their indebtedness. Our sanitariums are taking steps to get out of debt, and then conduct their business on a self-supporting basis. Our publishing houses, in conjunction with the General Conference and State Tract Societies, are to work off the large surplus of books in their wholesale departments, and thereby release a great deal of money tied up in these publications. In this way they will be enabled to meet many of the outstanding accounts against the publishing houses. The plan proposed to relieve the college and schools will appear in full later. It is substantially this: that one of Mrs. E. G. White’s most popular books has been dedicated to this work, with the understanding that all parties concerned take hold of the matter with a will, and carry it forward in harmony with the instruction of the donor. To carry out this project, a standing committee has been appointed to take this matter in charge, with authority to carry on the necessary correspondence, and to put into execution the plans adopted. The following-named persons constitute this committee: S. N. Haskell, P. T. Magan, J. E. White, W. C. Sisley, S. H. Lane, J. H. Kellogg, L. A. Hoopes. GCB January 1, 1900, page 120.3

In all these enterprises a full and hearty cooperation is essential to the successful accomplishment of the aim and objects sought. There must be a pulling together along all lines. This is a work which concerns every one who loves the cause of truth for which the above-named institutions stand as exponents. GCB January 1, 1900, page 120.4