INDEFINITELY POSTPONED by James White

Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · March 11, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 11

INDEFINITELY POSTPONED.

By James White

THE KANSAS T. and M. Institute is indefinitely postponed. It is probable, however, that one will be held in that State next autumn or winter.

Those held by Eld. Whitney in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and the two in Michigan, have been very successful, and have given the T. and M. workers great courage and hope for the future. For several reasons, the Kansas Institute was postponed from March 19 to April 5, the time at which it was first appointed.

1. Eld. Sharp, President of the Kansas Conference and also of the T. and M. Society of that State, stated in two letters received at this place that the Institute, as first appointed, would come in the midst of corn-planting, the most unfavorable time that could be chosen. Therefore, to accommodate the brethren in Kansas it was postponed to a time which the Kansas brethren might appoint after corn-planting.

2. It seemed advisable to hold the General Conference immediately following the Institute at Battle Creek, and then to hold very important Institutes in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa if desired, and Kansas after corn-planting.

3. By holding the Institutes in Wisconsin and Minnesota immediately after the General Conference, they would come at a time before the more hurried season for farmers, and in order that these might be held at the proper time, it was necessary to postpone the Kansas Institute to a time that would better accommodate the brethren in that State. JAMES WHITE.