Earlier text: Review and Herald Publishing AssociationL. McCoy: Now it seems a little strange that just a few words thrown out by myself should cause such a response. I was just thinking of taking up the last remark made, as I will not have time to take up more. From what has been said, one would think that these institutions have been running diametrically opposed to the cause of truth all these years, and then brought us to one stupendous calamity. Now it is proposed to turn the tide some other way. You have noticed in all these remarks that they are telling us what they are going to do. We are going to build this up some place else. We are going to get away from these foolish people in Battle Creek, where this cause has been hindered and held back by these institutions. The Review and Herald has been really a hindrance to the work all these years, so much so that God has permitted it to be burned. Now that is strange, isn’t it? They say this is a judgment of God upon this institution. Now as I understand it, judgment has not very much mercy in it. What is judgment?—It is the sentence of a judge; and the sentence of a judge is generally pronounced against some wrong-doer. Consequently this fire was a judgment of God, not a permission of God. By this argument you could justify every murderer and every burglar, because God permits their evil deeds. Thus indirectly you make God the author of all confusion. Now my friends, that is heathenism. I want to get away from it. I do not believe8that these things are the judgment of God. I can not consent to say this. Now they tell us that all this work here in the past has been wrong, but that they are going to get out of here, and that they are going to do better when they get away from the wickedness of this city. What hope have I, what assurance have I, that these same men will take this institution to some other place, and manage it in any different way than it has been managed here? What hope have I that it will be any better? The Testimonies say that it was not in the providence of God that these institutions were located here. Then what providence located the Review Office in this place? Who put the institutions here, if they were not placed here in the providence of God? Who located the College here? Was not the locating of the Sanitarium here in the providence of God? If the locating of these institutions here was contrary to the providence of God, then they have all been contrary to his work, and a hindrance to it all these years, and they do not amount to anything. As has been said, this idea of removing the institution from here was hatched up many years ago. And then just after the fire some persons got the idea that it must go away. They went over to the General Conference, and this sentiment was talked up, and resolutions were passed concerning it. Now they come back here all prepared for it, and of course this thing will be done. It is a very sad thing. It almost breaks my heart. I did believe, and have believed all along, that God was with the Review and Herald. It has been the stand-by of the Adventist people all the way along. When they needed money for something, it carried them along. When some other institution got into a tight place, it paid their debts for them. It has been the banking house of this people, where they could place their money and know that it was safe. Now you are going to move it away to some other place, and where its influence will be gone. Why should you break its credit? Why say it has been a wicked thing all these years, and at last God had to burn it? I feel sad indeed. It is like a funeral for me. A motion to adjourn to Thursday, April 23, at 9 A. M., prevailed.