ONE OF THE PROHIBITIONISTS

Dr. J. H. Kellogg, the physician in charge of the big sanitarium at Battle Creek, Mich., is president of the last organization. He will be present during the conference and give one or two practical talks on hygienic subjects. Elder George I. Butler of Battle Creek will preside over the meetings of the general conference. All the meetings will be held in the Adventist church, of which A. D. Olsen, president of the Minnesota conference, is the acting pastor. That church has been built now about three years and has eighty communicants. It is the only English Adventist church in the city. There is a Scandinavian Adventist church on Sixth street, near Twenty-third avenue south. In the Minnesota conference there are something over 1,600 members, representing all nationalities. The delegates to the general conference will be mostly English, with a sprinkling of German and Scandinavians and a Frenchman or two. The general headquarters of the sect is at Battle Creek, where they have a big publishing house, a college and sanitarium.MMM 568.1

All the arrangements for the entertainment of the visiting delegates are in the hands of the Minnesota conference. Though it is not a thickly settled region up where the church is, it is thought that all can be accommodated within a radius of a few blocks. A big dining hall has been built across the street from the church and supplies have been bought in large quantities, and here the inner wants of the visitors will be cared for. The dining room has twelve long tables, capable of accommodating at one sitting over two hundred people. For sleeping quarters a number of houses in the neighborhood have been rented, and the hospitable Adventists have also thrown open their own houses. To accommodate the overflow eight or ten army tents have been pitched in the open field just across the street, and in the lack of a better place the more hardy delegates will pass their nights under this shelter.MMM 568.2