THE INSTITUTE AT BATTLE CREEK

Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, February 26, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 9

THE INSTITUTE AT BATTLE CREEK.

As we write, this school for instruction in the tract and missionary work, Sabbath-school management, and church and Conference business, is in successful operation. It opened with a discourse by Sister White on the evening of the 21st. The attendance is very encouraging, there being already over two hundred enrolled as members of the class, with the prospect of a considerable increase during the coming week. Among the members are four presidents of State T. and M. societies, five State secretaries, and many directors and librarians.

The interest manifested shows that our people are awakening to the importance of these T. and M. Institutes. Classes in the College are so arranged as to accommodate the meetings of the Institute, and give all the students the privilege of attending who wish to.

Instruction is given in the tract and missionary work, the Sabbath-school work, the health and temperance work, the keeping of all accounts connected with these societies, the organization of churches, and how to keep the records and accounts connected therewith, the organization of Conferences, and drill in parliamentary practice. It is designed to devote sufficient time to each branch to make this the most complete and thorough Institute of this kind ever held. Every director in the State of Michigan should be here. It is a misfortune to them that they are not. And even yet it is not too late for those not here to secure some of the benefits of this occasion. All who can come so as to be here by the 1st or 2d of March should do so, and thus secure the advantages of the last two weeks of this Institute.