p. 216 | The Dime Tabernacle

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jul 18, 1878

The Dime Tabernacle.

A MEETING of the General Conference Committee was held at Battle Creek, Mich., July 3, 1878, to consider the subject of a new meeting-house. The rapidly increasing congregations, in consequence of the location of the College and Sanitarium, and other causes, demand a house of worship that will seat 2,500 persons, and on special occasions accommodate 3,000.

It was decided by the committee, that, as a tabernacle would cost only about one-half what a fashionable meeting-house would cost, in their opinion it would be more in accordance with the faith of Seventh-day Adventists to build a plain tabernacle that would seat this number of persons, than to build a fashionable house, with the same money, that would seat only about one-half this number.

And it was the decision of the committee, that the funds to build this house be raised by monthly contributions from any and all persons, men, women, and children, who shall esteem it a pleasure to contribute to such a house, and the amount of these monthly contributions be ten cents from each contributer. These contributions to be collected by the librarians of the tract and missionary societies, and forwarded to the Review and Herald, Battle Creek, Mich., or SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal.