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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 12, 1870

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 36, No. 4.

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The New Building.

By James White

In our article relative to a new Office building, referred to by several brethren, we did not design to call out means at present. Several, however, have responded with their money. Our object was to call the attention of our people to the subject, and obtain an expression from many. The responses have been prompt and hearty. Some of them have been given in the REVIEW.
Bro. M. E. Cornell writes that we may depend upon $2500 from the new friends in the vicinity of Boston. And here we wish to state that there can be no failure in point of means. Our people are ready to do anything that duty seems to demand. The only question to be settled is, whether the state of things in the Office, and in the church at Battle Creek, justify immediate action, so as to complete the building before cold weather. We have serious doubts. Great improvements have been made during the past year in things in general in Battle Creek, and in the Office in particular. But much remains to be done. Whether the present congregation, as a whole, will ever come out of the state of spiritual lethargy into which they had fallen, to enjoy freedom, remains doubtful. It is our opinion that those who have acted so unworthy a part in managing the general interests of the cause, and those who persistently sympathized with them when the errors of their course became apparent, have disqualified themselves to fill the responsible positions which the members of that church should, and must, fill, in whose midst our institutions are planted.
Many have moved to Battle Creek who have no duty here. The General Conference Committee are fully decided to do all in their power to induce those persons to move to other places, who cannot work to advantage in Battle Creek, and to induce worthy persons to move to Battle Creek, who are suitable persons to keep this fort, and to hold up the hands of the servants of God. The most we shall do at present will be to call for pledges for means to commence building next spring, if decided so to do at the next annual meeting of the S. D. A. Publishing Association.
JAMES WHITE.