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Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, March 4, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 10

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GENERAL CONFERENCE.

By James White

At a special meeting of ministers and brethren who are attending the Tract and Missionary Institute at Battle Creek, a council was held at the Tabernacle the 29th ult., to consider the propriety of holding a session of the General Conference. The subject was quite fully discussed, and the following reasons were presented why it should be held in the month of March, 1880:—
1. Those ministers who may labor in the Pacific coast States and Territories, during the advancing season, should be in their respective fields of labor in a few weeks, and should be present at the General Conference before going west.
2. The majority of the delegates necessary to be present are already on the ground, attending the T. and M. Institute; and a meeting soon would be a saving of time and traveling expenses to the delegates.
3. The subject of the more active and extensive circulation of our periodicals and publications will be brought before the Conference, and at no better time can this be done than at the close of the T. and M. Institute, and just before entering the season of tent and camp-meetings.
4. We are entering upon an important era in the history of our cause. Missionaries have recently taken their departure from this place for the Pacific coast, and others will follow very soon after the Conference. And in a few months, at most, missionaries will go to Europe. Also, tent and camp-meeting labor, and the publication and circulation of the present truth, will be carried forward on a larger plan than ever before.
In view of the foregoing, it was moved by Eld. B. L. Whitney, that it was the sense of the meeting that a special session of the General Conference should be held at Battle Creek, March 11-15, and longer if necessary. This motion, supported by Eld. J. O. Corliss, received a unanimous vote.
Elders Butler and Canright are requested to be present.
JAMES WHITE, Pres. of Gen. Conf.